Tasks page 145

4. gaze – to gaze

Advice – to advice

Migrant – to migrate

Development – to develop

Relation – to relate

Sojourner – to sojourn

Disapproval – to disapprove

Labour – to labour

5.  

a)  no, the largest group, Australians, make up less than 50% of the population, thus, there is no single majority ancestry in Australia.

b) Australians are the largest group, Indians are the smallest group of the top 10.

c+) it most closely resembles the UK one, due to the disproportion between the top ethnicities, and the lower ones, with the two top, English and Australian, making up approximately 70% of the Australian population, with the other 8 ethnicities sharing the remaining 30%

where as in the UK, it is not divided by ethnicity as accurately, and all white people are combined into one category, which makes up 87% of the population, with all the other ones sharing the remaining 12.5%

(If we were to combine all white nationalities in Australia, we would end up with a very similar statistic for Australia, as all the top 6 ethnicities of Australia are considered white.)

d+) the ancestry of Australia is mainly European, with non-Europeans making up as little as 5% of the population.

It is hard to compare Australia to other nations, due to its history, but it is within reason, considering it is a former European colony.

It is also worth noting that most of the non-Europeans in Australia, are from nations that have been either wholly, or partially, under British rule in the past.

Infotainment

it is a term that combines entertainment and information, and it can be a positive force, making people that normally would not be paying attention to what happens in the world, informed about what happens around them.

it can however also be a negative force.
a bad trend we see in infotainment, is that instead of making the information entertaining, they try to find entertaining information.
what this leads to, is that a lot of serious issues go unnoticed, while unimportant issues are brought forth, simply because they are amusing.
it can also lead to misinformation, as the standards of integrity for infotainment, are far lower than those for actual information.

tasks 18/11/2016
p 32

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a)      Zimbabwe is a land-locked country in Southern Africa that used to be known as Southern Rhodesia.

b)     It was named after the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, who claimed the area for the Crown in 1889, with the interest of the area’s rich mineral and metal resources in mind.

c)      White settlers made up only 1% of the population, but they owned 70% of the country’s farming land.

d)     Whites were afraid of the consequences of majority rule, they therefore declared independence from Britain in 1965, though it was only recognized by South Africa.

e)     There were years of civil war between Africans and the white minority, until the African majority took power in 1980, when it was named Zimbabwe.

f)       The present president is called Robert Mugabe; he was elected in 1980, though he is widely criticised for his autocratic rule and economic policies.

g)      Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth in 2002, as it was accused of civil rights abuses.

h)     Zimbabwe is suffering from a serious food shortage, the Aids epidemic has hit the country hard, although it has the highest literacy rate in Africa.

p34

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a)      I was having a bath when the telephone rang. The subject was currently performing the action at the time of the event.

b)     The novel describes the dangerous journey of three children across post-war Europe. The novel is not sentient; thus, it cannot currently be performing an action.

c)      In the wild, lions usually hunt in packs. It is a statement of a fact, rather than of an event.

d)     The poem has three stanzas and each stanza consists of four lines. Again, it is the statement of a fact, rather than of an event.

e)     Last night when you called, I was watching television. You are describing something you were doing, rather than something that happened.

f)       When I asked him what he did, he said he was a writer. To ask what you do, is to ask one’s profession. To ask what you are doing, is to ask about their current actions.

g)      I usually go to Spain on my holidays. You are describing a habit, rather than an action.

interview with Edwin Canilang

1. how has life been after you escaped from the traffickers?
"much better. I have a home and a job, and things are looking up."

2. do you ever think back to the people you were there with? do you keep in contact?
"we have not stayed in contact, as we all went our separate ways after we were freed. I do however worry about the people still caught in the web of slave labour"

3. what are your plans for the future?
"I want to continue working here in Canada, hopefully start a family and settle permanently."

4. what would be your advice to others to avoid being sold by human traffickers?
"never give away your passport or identification papers, and if someone tells you something that sounds too good to be true, it probably is."

Tasks page 189

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    a. The woman was persuaded with the promise of her children attending boarding school, and that she would be allowed to visit them regularly.

    b. Her duties was to take care of a 2-year old and a baby, and prepare all of the family's meals. She had to do all of the cooking, cleaning and gardening.

    c. She had to work around 100 hours a week, with a pay of 70$ a month.

    d. She got away by escaping and contacting an immigration attorney.

    e. Edwin Caniland is from the Philippines.

    f. He came to the Canada because he was promised a steady job as a welder with good wages.

    g. He ended up doing factory work and heavy manual labour.

    i. More than 800 people are trafficked to Canada each year, and around a 1,000 through Canada to the US.

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Forpliktelser/plikter - duty/responsibility
Advokat - lawyer/attorney
Forlatt/forlate - leave
Kroppsarbeid - menial/manual labour
Årlig - yearly
Påskudd - pretenses
Rykte - reputation

Presentation on the 14th of september.

Today we had our presentation on terrorism, and while I was not fully prepared, as I had not rehearsed my subject enough to know it by heart, I feel like the presentation was satisfactory. I froze up for a bit in the middle of it, due to my social anxiety, but I managed to resume.My specific subject was the terror organization IS, and the conflict surrounding it.
The subject we talked about was terrorism, which is always intriguing to discuss, due to the constantly changing nature of the subject. For example, there was a thwarted attempted terrorist attack just a couple of days before our presentation, and while we did not have time to include it in the presentation, our teacher mentioned it after we were done.

if you wish to read more about the IS conflict, you can do so on these sites:

the tense situation between Syria and Turkey: http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/syria-condemns-turkey-aggression-after-jet-downed-554905

one of the most important events of the civil war:  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/world/middleeast/syria-russia-aleppo-assad.html?_r=0

some info regarding the founding of IS: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-25053525