The Voices of Immigration in America

Jason Berry, Kevin Lee, Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship, Diana Colins and Randy W. Schekman talks about immigration. They all express their opinion about immigration. They need people with a good educaction so  the economy and the system will get better in America. They mean the people who immigrate is important, and some of them have been in America for a long while. 

Richard Nixon (September 26, 1972):

“America is a rich mosaic of many cultures and traditions, strong in its diversity. Each new immigrant has added another piece to the mosaic of American life — a fresh perspective and a fresh appreciation of what it means to be an American.”




I choose this quote because I think Nixon got a point. To be brief I will only say that if everyone read this quote, sat down and actually tought about this, maybe more people would understand how important immigration really is.

Sources:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/immigration/immigration-action

Task 4a page 157

Has the global economic recession ended?

The Great Recession is a term used to describe the general economic decline observed in world markets around the end of the first decade of the 21st century.

According to The Economist, the American recession ended in the end of 2009.  Most economists agree about all of this. Prominent voices like North-western University's Robert Gordon, Harvard's Jeffrey Frankel, and Stanford's Robert Hall have declared the recession dead and gone.

The Forbes writes that the recovery is what most people care about at this point, and it has been lacklustre at best. Since May 2009, unemployment has fluctuated between 9.4% and 10.1%. Federal Reserve officials have said in recent months that consumer demand, the housing sector and bank lending all remain weak. Therefore, the recession might be over, but in real terms, it is not.

This is only a few opinions, but in the end, they all mean the same; the recession has ended. However, it does not mean that everything is better.

Sources:

 http://www.forbes.com/sites/brianwingfield/2010/09/20/the-end-of-the-great-recession-hardly/

http://www.economist.com/node/15911334

President Obama Announces New Steps to Fix Our Broken Immigration System

a) What is he going to do?

 First, he is going to build on their progress at the border with additional resources for their law enforcement personnel. So that they can stem the flow of illegal crossings, and speed the return of those who do cross over. Second, he will make it easier and faster for high-skilled immigrants, graduates and entrepreneurs to stay and contribute to their economy, as so many business leaders have proposed. Third, they will take steps to deal responsibly with the millions of undocumented immigrants who already live in their country.

b) How can he do this without Congress's blessing?

He can do this because in some cases the president can do things without the Congress’s blessing.

 c) What is an American according to Obama?

What makes you an American is the shared commitment to an ideal. That all of them is created equal, and all of them have the chance to make of their lives how they want to. Being an American is about more than what you look like, what you last names are, or what you worship.

d) What does Obama urge the House of Representatives to do?

He wants them to pass a bill. He wants to work with both parties to pass a more permanent legislative solution. And the day he sign that bill into law, the actions he takes will no longer be necessary.

 e) What is your stand to the issue; do you think Congress will pass the bill soon? Give reasons for your opinion.

I am not sure if the Congress will pass the bill, but I hope so. Because I support what Obama said and I think it will work out fine, even though it will be expensive. It sounds like a good system, that will help America.  

Can terrorism ever be justified?

Before I start to discuss terrorism, I should define it: terrorism is the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.

Some people would say that as long as you are doing it for a good cause it does not matter what you do. I disagree. For example, if I would want something, and you were in my way, is it fair that I terrorise you? You, an innocent person, who lives a very different life, who might have a family, should die so I get what I want. That is not fair.

How can you justify terrorism? How can you say that it is okay to murder people because you want to send a message? Some organizations bomb places or murder innocent people because the country they live in is in turmoil and they blame others, like USA. USA have been involved in many wars on foreign soil, and the terrorist thinks that it is fair to murder civilian because of American involvement. The call it holy war, Jihad, and justify terror by saying it is the will of god. I strongly disagree.

The organization called IS, they are beheading good people who try to help the poor and innocent people in Syria. Last month the IS beheaded a journalist named James Foley. The only reason they murdered him was that he was American and they wanted to send a message to USA, so they would stop fighting against them.

I feel so sorry for the people who feel like they have to murder people to get what they want. I cannot possible imagine what went wrong when those human beings grew up. How can a man take someone else life and when did he decide to play god whit others life? Every man and woman on this earth should be allowed to live a full life, and some terrorist should not take that away from him or her.

My question to you is; how can you achieve peace when you terrorise and murder innocent people? Is it not much better to communicate with each other? 

What we did on Monday the 27th of Ocotber:

We started the lesson with reading a poem called "Global Village" by a Nigerian author called Yusufu M. Adamu. Then we discussed what the meaning of the poem was. In my opinion, the message in the poem is that we are all the same, even though we look different on the outside and live in different countries. Every person should have the right to be respected.

We walked around in the classroom and read the poem aloud, it was actually fun.

Then there was a poem called "The Right Word" by Pakistan/British writer named Imtiaz Dharker. We read it to ourselves and then we discussed it a bit. The poem was about terrorism, and asking who the terrorists are. That turns out to be a difficult question, because it can be anyone and not just the person who has the “scary looks”. Everyone in the class got one stanza each, except the readers, and made a little play.

At the end of the class, we discussed terrorism.

When we talked about the poems we analysed them and used questions from Gro's blog.

http://oystesegymnasenglish.blogspot.no/p/poetry.html

Task 2 page 178
Look back on the list on page 175 ("Seven ways to be heard"). Which of these methods does Malin use in her role as Amnesty activist?

Malin used method 7: Influence the authorities.
She was one of many Amnesty activist who sendt letters to Ethiopian authorities, because they wanted to release an Ethopian woman. She was a judge, who became unpopular with the government. She was thrown into prison for expressing her opinion.

Amnesty International uses method 2: Use social media.

Wednesday 5th of November

We started the day with finding information about a business. My group was given the task to find information about Dalen. Lars Henrik, Bennetta and I worked together and gathered interesting facts about Dalen. The other groups was finding facts about Esso, Fjellstrand and Bjølvefossen.

After gathering information, we made a PowerPoint and presented it in front of the class. The others had also informative presentation.

We ate lunch and then watched a movie called The Woolf of Wall Street. It was an interesting movie about economy and stock market. 

It was a fun day!