onsdag 13. mai 2015

Summary - human trafficking

Human trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery involving the illegal trade of people for exploiation or commercial gain. The elements of human trafficking is "the act", "the means" and "the purpose". Trafficking humans is a voilation of human rights and a serious crime, however every year thousends of woman and children is taken or persuaded by traffickers in their one countries and abroad. There are people and organisations who use their recourses to help the victims and to stop those who commit the crime. UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) is a global leader in the fight against illicit drugs and international crime. UNODC as guardian of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and the Protocols thereto, assists States in their efforts to implement the Protocol to Prevent, Supress and Punish Trafficking in Persons (Trafficking in Persons Protocol).


Recruitment – verving
Transport – transport   
Transfer – overføre
 Harbouring – oppbevaring
Receipt of person – mottak av person
Threat or use of force – Trusler eller bruk av makt
Coercion – press/tvang
Abduction – bortføring
Fraud – svindel
Deception – villedelse
Abuse of power or vulnerability – misbruk av makt eller sårbarhet
Giving payments or benefits – gir betaling eller fordeler
Exploitation, including – utnytting,
Prostitution of others – tvangsprostituering
Sexual exploitation – seksuell utnytting
Forced labour – tvangsarbeid
Slavery or similar practices – slaveri eller lignende
Removal of organs – fjerning av organer
Other types of exploitation – andre typer av utnytting

onsdag 25. mars 2015

Page 221

Task 2b
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of having a large number of foreign workers in a country.

Some of the disadvantages can be that many foreign workers, work in conditions that native workers would not accept and by law cannot accept. They may even work for less pay and become part of the “black economy”. Another problem is that work migration van put pressure on welfare system.
When a large number of migrant workers come from the same country, the customs and culinary specialities that they bring with them can be welcome addition to the local culture. It is positive to mix cultures and learn about the different ways of living.

Task 2c
Globalization will continue. Discuss what vision you see of the future when it comes to global education and work possibilities.

I think it will be more workers in the future.

Task 5
Contact a local company and ask them if they need to use English in their line of business. If so, for what purposes?

Lid Jarnindustri was the company my group called and talked with. They said that they have to use English to communicate with other countries when they are doing business. It is positive for the company to maintain a relationship with other foreign countries, so that the profit will be bigger.

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Task 3b
The global economy has changed relationships inside the Mehta family. Explain why the father is confused and suspicious, the daughter angry and the mother worried.

The father is confused and suspicious because his daughter had an outbreak and that is not suitable for a girl. She raised her voice and told her parents that she hated them; this had an effect on her father. The daughter, Priti, is angry because her parents does not appreciate all the hard work she has done to get a good job. Her parents only criticise her job when she tell them about it. She is also angry because her brother just got a job as well, and he gets all the attention. The mother is worried because she fears her daughter is turning into one of these cosmopolitan girls, and she wants to find a boy for her as soon as possible.  

Task 3c
“The internet has destroyed distance.” Discuss this statement and what it will mean for working life in the future.

I think it will bring the world closer. When it comes to working life, it will be easier to corporate with other companies and other countries. The technology has come so far that we can easy sit on different offices in different countries, talking to another via skype or something like that.  

Task 3d
Priti has got a job that has been outsourced from Australia to India. Who wins and who loses from outsourcing?

The new workers from India wins from outsourcing and those who leads the company. Those who loses is the ones in Australia without much education. 

mandag 23. mars 2015

20th Century Fox


20th Century Fox is a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck founded it May 31, 1935. The headquarters is located in Fox Plaza, Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills. They produce motion pictures and television films and holds ten subsidiaries; among them are TSG Entertainment, Fox Studio Australia, FNM Films and Blue Sky Studios. (Wikipedia, 2015)

Fox plaza

Fox plaza was a complete building in February 1987. It holds the headquarters of 20th Century Fox. The building is 492 feet high (150m) and holds 34 floors. The Irvine Company owns it and the architects were Scott Johnson, Bill Fain and William L. Pereira. Another name for the plaza is the Nakatomi Plaza, and it is the place of Bruce Wills’ first outing as John McLane in Die Hard. (theStudiotour, 2015) (theStudioTour, 2015)



Subsidiaries

As mentioned 20th Century Fox has ten subsidiaries. Which means they own ten small corporation. All ten are; Fox Digital Entertainment, Blue Sky Studios, Fox Star Studios, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Fox Television Studios, 20th Television, 20th Century Fox Television, 20th Century Fox Japan, Fox Studios Australia, TSG Entertainment and FNM Films. (Wikipedia, 2015) 20th Television, Fox Television Studios and 20th Century Fox Television is Fox’ televisions syndication divisions. Fox hoped that they would broaden sponsorship and help distribution of network programs.

History

It all started when Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck left United Artists over a stock dispute. They began merger talks with the management of financially struggling Fox Film, then owned by Sidney Kent. Zanuck and Schenck got support from Spyros Skouras, then the manager of the Fox West Coast Theatres, who later became president of the new company. Even though the company was much smaller than Fox, they were senior partners in the merge. The Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation began trading on May 31, 1935. After the merge was complete, the Vice President in Charge of Production, Zanuck, started to sign young actors who would carry the corporation for many years. Among them were Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Henry Fonda and Don Ameche. After World War 2, Fox overtook RKO and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Hollywood’s biggest studios, and became the third most profitable film studio. After the war, the corporation went through a “dark period”. However, in 1953, they made a movie called The Robe, and it was a success.

Fox Film Entertainment

Fox Film Entertainment is the “parent” of 20th Century Fox. (Wikipedia, 2015) The corporation is named after the creator of the original Fox Film Corporation, William Fox, born Wilhelm Fuchs. Jim Gianopulos is the chairman of Fox Entertainment Group. Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos shared this position until 2012 when Tom resigned. Fox Film Entertainment is divided into four sections; filmed entertainment, television broadcast networks, television stations and cable network programming. (Wikipedia, 2015)

21st Century Fox


21st Century Fox, also called Fox, is an American multinational mass media corporation. Rupert Murdoch founded Fox in 1979. 21st Century Fox deals in the film and television industries. The corporation holds another corporation; the Fox Entertainment Group that are the owners of 20th Century Fox and Fox Television network. (Wikipedia, 2015)

Films through the years

In 1942, the Presidents, Kent and Zanuck, intended to make Fox’s production more serious-minded. The next few years they made movies like The Razor’s Edge, Wilson, The Snake Pit and Leave Her to Heaven. The former was a best-selling book by Ben Ames Williams, the movie came out in 1945 starring Gene Tierney and was the highest-grossing Fox film of the 1940s. 
20th Century Fox made 21 movies in 2014. Among them were The Maze Runner, Gone Girl, Taken 3, The Fault in Our Stars and Rio 2. The most popular movie, as you can see in the table, which they earned 760,507,625 American dollars on, was Avatar, which was made in 2009. (Wikipedia, 2015)

Actors

Some famous actors who have been acting in movies produced by 20th Century Fox are Henry Fonda (1905-1982) and Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962). They are not alive today, but are well remembered. (Wikipedia, 2015) (Wikipedia, 2015) Some actors who are alive and well are Dylan O’Brien, Ansel Elgort, Meryl Streep, Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock. They are only few out of many. (Foxmovies, 2015)

Conclusion

The Fox-family is a big one with a lot of history behind its development. 20th Century Fox is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills. 20th Century Fox is a corporation that produces movies. They made 21 movies in 2014. The company who holds 20th Century Fox is Fox Filmed Entertainment and 20th Century Fox holds ten subsidiaries.

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tirsdag 10. februar 2015

Global challenges
“In your course you have studied global challenges through English-language literature and films. Write a text in which you reflect on how effective a literary text and a film have been in raising your awareness about one or two global challenges. Use examples from each work.”

We learn every day, at school or at work. However, there is other ways to learn, for example to read a book or watch a movie. As we grow, our knowledge about the world grows too. The famous philosopher Francis Bacon said, “Knowledge is power”, and that is very correct. Think about all the things we can do and everything we can change, if we have much knowledge. I have always been intrigued by the different global challenges, and I think it is fascinating when you read a book, a text or watch a movie, etc. where there is a conflict about global challenges.

There is many types of global challenges, like the nature, and the resources in the nature are being used, or how humans are being treated. These two are the ones I have been noticing lately, and I remembered a movie I watched six years ago, called Avatar, and I watched it again only to realise how much I did not understand the first time I saw it. This movie really opened my mind.

Avatar is a sci-fi/action movie from 2009, directed by James Cameron. James Cameron takes us on a journey to another planet called Pandora. The humans has set out to explore the planet and there they found resources they could take back to earth. The problem was that to get the unobtanium, which is a type of mineral, they had to go through the native people, the Na’vi. The humans, wants to exploit their resources and if they did not get it by cooperation, they would take it by force. This movie also has a sub message about finding ourselves and find out what we are willing to fight for and what we call home. The main character in the movie, Jake Sully finds himself protecting the native people because he sees that taking their resources, and leaving them with nothing, is inhuman.

Even though the action happens on a different planet, the same is happening on our planet. Cameron took a serious theme and made it into a thrilling movie. Anyhow, forcing humans away from their homes, only to take advantages of natural resources, happens here on earth. There has been many occasions where the “white man” takes over the land of native people, only to build more plants or to recover natural resources.
When I saw this movie, and other movies, about global challenges and how important the nature is, I started to realise how many places this is happening.

Another global challenge is shown in the text Robert and the Dog by Ken Saro-Wiwa, where Robert helps at a hospital and gets a new boss. The boss brings along his wife as the story goes on, and she has a dog whose name is Bingo, and Robert noticed how well the wife treated the dog. This was unnatural to him, the dogs where he is from is not well fed or does not get much attention. This dog on the other hand, was very well fed and was given much love. Robert, who is a good man, only wants the best for his wife and their six children. He has an inner conflict with himself because of the dog. One day, his boss and the boss’s wife is going on a trip, so they ask Robert to take care of Bingo. Robert, as the fine man he is, says of course yes, this gives him the perfect opportunity to handle the dog. The two first days he feeds the dog but then he decides that he would rather feed his children then the dog, so he takes the food, who was meant to the dog, and gives it to the children. The story ends with four words that goes like this: “then the dog died.”

At first I was I was a bit shocked and felt sorry for the dog, but then I sat things in perspective, Robert was a poor man who felt how unfair the world is. Imagine a dog being treated better than you are, that does not seem right. We should treat the animals well, but should we not treat the humans well too, is it not our right to live a good life? This text really made me think, not everyone has the same living situation as we in Norway do.


Both the movie and the text made me think. Think about what we can do and how to help. Global challenges is not easy, that is why they are called challenges. Nevertheless, we have to give our best, and fight for the good of the people. 

tirsdag 3. februar 2015

Spot check


Page 266
a) What are the three main genres of literature?

There are three genres: fiction, drama and poetry.

b)  Are fictional stories always untrue?


The word “fictional” is often used in the sense of “made-up”, and most of the stories are indeed made-up. However, the fiction stories may be partly true.

c)   What are the differences in the way fiction and drama relate to stories?


Drama is about showing the story, and fiction is more about telling the story. However, drama is usually written, so it does not become drama until it is performed.

d)  What is meant by “prose”?


“Prose” means writing that follows the pattern of ordinary speech, without regular rhythm or rhyme.

e) What is meant by “free verse”?


“Free verse” is poetry lacking regular metre or rhyme.

f)  How does literature differ from a user manual?


A manual is supposed to be as clear as possible. The priority is not to be funny, entertaining or personal. Therefore, you cannot use the same type of writing.

g)  How is interpreting literature different from interpreting a real life?


In real life, interpretation happens through the lens of each individual, but in literature, you are also viewing through the writer's lens.


Page 281
a) What are the four main types of point of view?

Third-person objective point of view, third-person limited point of view, third-person omniscient point of view and first-person point of view.

b) Explain in your own words the difference between the third-person limited and the third-person omniscient point of view.


When the author uses third-person limited point of view he or she has only limited access to the thoughts of all the characters. Like in the text “Robert and the Dog”, the author has only access to Roberts’s thoughts, and not the other characters. When the author uses third-person omniscient point of view, he or she has access to the thoughts of every characters in the book.   

c)  What is meant by a “reliable” narrator?


A reliable narrator is often an author who use third-person omniscient point of view and is someone you can rely on. The author gives you access to a lot of information and feelings.

Page 288

a) Where is Jerome at the beginning of the story, and how old was he?


At the beginning of the story Jerome was at school and he was nine years old.


b) Describe the school he attends.

It is a privat school for kids ho has a lot of money.

c) Why does he not live at home?


He does not live at home because his father travels a lot, to many different places. So he is only doing it because of his dad's job.


d) What kind of picture does Jerome have of his father?


Jerome has postcards of his father sent to him from around the world with pictures on them.


e) What difficulties does the housemaster have when telling Jerome what has happened to his father?


The housemaster thinks its difficult because he thinks its funny that a pig fell on him, and thats the reason Jerome's father is dead. He has problem keeping a straight face when telling the story.


f) What is told in the story about the father? for example, his professions. Jerome’s attitude to him, etc.?


In the story he says that he traveled a lot, and his son did not now what his father did, he thought that he was a mysterious adventure who travels to far places. then later on he thought he’s father either "ran guns" or was a member of the British Secret Service. Jerome worshiped his father.



g) What happens when Jerome tells his best friend in public school about the accident?


He probably started laughing (it dosent say in the text) and then Jerome realize what how the stories affects others.


h) Why does Jerome not want to talk to his fiancé about his father’s death?


Beacuse hes afraid she’s going to laugh, because of the embarrassing death and the love for his father had grown stronger.



Page 296
a)  What is the difference between direct and indirect characterisation?

Direct characterisation is the quickest way to establish a character. Provided that we are dealing with a reliable narrator, we believe what we are told and expect the character to behave accordingly. However, another character can describe the character. When the author use indirect characterisation, we learn about the character when he/she says something or the way they act.

b) What is required for a character to be experienced as “round”?

A round character is close to the complexity of real life. Round characters are able to changes and their motives are not always clear.

c)  Why is a “flat” character usually also static?

Because flat characters does not have the ability to develop.

d) Why can only a dynamic character experience an epiphany?

Because dynamic characters are often protagonists.

onsdag 21. januar 2015

Monday 19.01.15 and Wednesday 21.01.15

On Monday and the beginning of Wednesday we read a short story called Robert and the dog and analysed the plot and theme (page 274-277). We discussed the text about Robert and the dog, and we found out that the theme could be the difference between poor and rich or maybe jealousy. After that, we learned a bit about exposition, climax and resolution.


In the last lesson on Wednesday, we read the text A Shocking Accident by Graham Greene (1904-1991). Some of us were supposed to find irony in the text and others explained irony, sarcasm, first person point of view, third person objective point of view, third person omniscient point of view and third person limited point of view. 

onsdag 14. januar 2015

Task 3b page 159

I think that John’s method is the best, because he dedicates his life to help other people who needs it. He puts others life over his own, and that is admirable. Not everyone would do that. He is actually fighting the disability itself. What I mean about that is that when he help people, he helps the community and give people a chance to have a life. Though Jenny’s method is a good one, it is important to stand up to the things we believe in. Maybe someday they will listen to her protest. Personally, I would have done the same as John, we cannot rely on that the government will listen to us, so we have to take the matter in our own hands and help each other the best we can. 

Sources: 
Page 159, Access (14.01.15)