This movie takes up a lot of issues like racism and the Falklands War. The Falklands War was between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lasted from April 2. 1982 to June 14. 1982. “This is England” deals with the effects of the war on the Skinhead culture in England. It is set in July 1983, and we meet 12-year old Shaun who becomes friends with a group of skinheads. His father died in the Falklands War, and we see how this influences him.
A few weeks ago we got the program OneNote, which is a part of the Microsoft Office Package. I am very pleased with it. It is easy to keep my documents in order, and I can easily copy and paste pictures and articles from the internet into OneNote. Another fantastic thing about OneNote is that you never have to save. It is a program that is always running, and you don’t have to search through your document map to find what you are looking for. I highly recommend it to everyone!
I started working with the In Depth project today, and i found out that is was really hard to find enough information about how the Vietnam War was presented in the media and how it really was. Therefore, I decided to write about the book The Secret Life of Bees instead. I will write about how the black people where treated in the book, "The Secret Life of Bees", and connect it to the situation in the southern states in America in the 1960s and what caused this situation.
Today, we have been working with our In depth project. I am going to write about the Vietnam War. It lasted from 1959 until 1975. I am going to write about how the media presented the war, and how it really was. I haven't come up with a thesis yet, but i will soon let you know! Looking forward to work more with this project!
A news report informs readers of recent or current events. The journalists, who write news reportages, should not express their personal opinions but stay neutral. See example here.
Advertisement
The purpose of advertisements is to make the readers, watchers or listeners change their mind about something, buy products or join campaigns etc. Advertisements are often informal and personal, and words such as “you” and “I” are much used. They do this to make you interested in what they are promoting. See example under:
Instructions
An instruction is something that tells you how to do something. It can be a cooking recipe, safety instructions, manuals etc. See example here.
Argumentative writing
In argumentative writing the writer argues for or against an issue or a question. The writer tries to convince the reader what he thinks is correct. See example here.
Report
A report is a text that is based on facts and not on value judgments, but in many cases it does contain he reporter’s own opinion. This influences whatever decision is to me made on the basis of the report. A report is often presented in simple language. See example here.
Creative writing – fiction
Fiction is an imaginary text. The main types of fictional writing are novels and short stories. Fiction often consists of characterization, setting, plot and a point of view. See example here.
This is a timeline of mostly happenings between The First World War to the Present where Britain was involved. There are also some facts from american history after the Revolutionary War. I will put more on the timeline later!
Well, today we got the assignment to write something about our hometown on our blog. First of all, I don’t live in a town. I live about 20 minutes from Norway’s capital Oslo, in a remote place called Rykkinn. For those who haven’t been here think that there are only apartment buildings close together all over the place, and lots of criminality and foreign people. Well yes you could say so, but that would be an exaggeration because I find it a great (but as mentioned remote) place to live in. Rykkinn again lies in a county called Bærum. Bærum is known in Norway to be a place where the rich people live, and a lot of people call Rykkinn for Bærum’s ghetto. So when people ask me where I come from I really have a problem. If I say Rykkinn the ghetto and poor people thing always comes up, if I say Bærum people look at me as the biggest snob… so my answer is always “about 20 minutes outside Oslo”. It works great until someone wants me to be more specific.
But anyway: for those who haven’t been here, don’t be afraid. Not everyone are either dangerous or snobby.
