Writing task 1:

The women who is sitting at the sidewalk, may think she is unlucky that she doesn't have a job or house like the women who is walking past them. She may think about the future of the boy laying next to her, that she is sad that he may not get an education or a good life. That richer people are walking past them without doing anything, when they see them sitting there at the sidewalk.

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1)
Anupam's home is a tre rom house, they got barely water, and the electricity is more off the on.

2)
The subject Anupam is good at math.

3)
He thinks it is necessary to explore other planets because this planet is coming to polluted.
4)
His mother got an 6th grade education and his father made it trough 10th grade.
5)
The school Anupam wants to get into is IIT also called Indian institute of technology.
6)
His mother makes him wash his hair with henna because the constant stress makes his hair grey. 
7)
There are over half of Indians population 1,1 billion that are under 25 years old.
8)
Being average mean being left behind because it is such a big contest about the school places an work in India. So very few gets to study in University or something like that because it is so many people fighting to get in.
9)
In 2004 Anupam failed the IIT entrence exam. He took the exam again an made it.

10)
Anupam's father wanted to teach, but his 3 children's came fast and Anupams mother tolled him that his children would do something big.
11)
Some of the goals Anupam has for himself and his family is to install a proper roof and dig a big hole so water could drawn right at home, and he would like his father to stop driving.

Writing task week 7 

Amund Elnan, 1STA.   

Values in the movie ''Pursuit of happyness'' 

The film I have chosen as my main focus, is ‘’pursuit of happyness’’. In this text, I will reflect on the values in the movie. The movie is about a family, who goes through a hard economic time, where they have to work overtime nearly every day. 

The importance of values, appears in many aspects of our society, for instance take care of the people you love. When people gives compliments to each other, it shows that you appreciate them, and makes them a value. A value can also be something that means something for you, or makes your life easier like a god job. 

In the film ‘’pursuit of happyness’’ the values are different from people to people. For Chris Gardner the values is his son Christopher, his wife and his new work. The concept value appears in the movie when Gardner wants his son to stay with him, even though he does not have money. This show that Chris Gardner's son is a value for him, because he did not want Linda to take care of him, because it makes Chris believing. Chris is also emphasizes that it is very important that you never give up, even if someone tells you, that you can’t do it.  

I think that values are important, because it makes you a better person and it makes you happier. Chris Gardner took care of his son Christopher, and tried to get a good job, so they could make more money and have a better life together. Chris Gardner’s wife Linda leaves him when it is darkest, and his job doesn’t goes so well. Chris keeps believing and doesn’t give up to easy. He even stayed over the night on the toilet, because he and his son didn’t have anywhere to sleep. Chris works hard and gets his ‘’dream job’’ to the end. This shows that Chris has a good value in himself, which is that he is a hardworking man, and then reaches to success. Therefore, he can also make other people happier that is a value for him, like his son Christopher, because he then can afford things he could not before.  

To conclude, values are very important. A value can be many different things, but it have to mean something for you. Values is also shaping the world we live in, because people have different values, some of these values is to take care of people who don’t have anywhere to stay. In the movie, Chris Gardner and his son could sleep in a room with a bed, because someone had this like a value, to take care of other people. Values is a big thing in our society, people helps people in need. They makes organizations that helps other people free, like food stations in America.   

Checkpoints 'Events that made American History'

Questions:

Revolution:

1)

There were 13 colonies by the time of the French and Indian War.

2)

The slogan of the protesters in Boston was ''taxation without representation.

3)

The Revolutionary War began in Lexington.

4) The colonies declared their independence Philadelphia and it happend on July 4th, in year 1776.

5)

Slavery and the Civil War:

1)

The first African slaves arrived in the New World as early as 1619.

2)

The importation of new slaves was made illegal in the year 1807.

3)

Abraham Lincoln became president in 1860.

4)

His victory lead to that South Carolina left the Union and was followed by 10 other states.

5)

The role the Emancipation Proclamation played was to free the slaves.

The USA in WW 1 and WW 2

1)

We call Woodrow Wilsons policy in the first part of WW 1 isolationism.

2)

The US entered the war because one of their boats got attacked in 1917.

3)

The purpose of the League of Nations was to secure peace.

4)

The US entered WW 2 in year 1941.

5) Harry S. Truman was the president that was responsible for the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

6)

The wars changed life for American women with that American women entered the workplace to play their part in the war effort. They started to work.

The cold War

1)

It was a surprise that the US and the USSR did not work together after WW 2 because because they had been working toghter under WW 1 and had fellow enemies.

2) 

Soviets was the first country in the space in 1957.

3)

Neil Armstrong said: ''A small step for man, but a giant leap for mankind''.

4)

The two men that was central in the process of ending the Cold War was Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. 

Viewpoints

1)
No, these values are not uniquely American, because they apply to other countries as well because it is not just American that has justice, freedom or democracy. Norway does also have these values in the country.

3)
I view America as a large country with a lot of people everywhere, many different people and cultures everywhere in the country.
The Norwegian media present Americans as a large country with many differences in the society, where many immigrants travels to America with a hope on a new start in their life.
5)
The values I find important are justice, freedom and democracy. Justice is important because everyone should be treated equally, so all people are treated the same for example in a court of law. Freedom is also very important because if you are not getting freedom you are going to get less motivated at work, you gets tired and maybe mad. Democracy is important because it is the people who lives in the society and they have to rule together, and not only a few people who decides what to do.