OneNote

I have been using OneNote for a couple of months now. The product is easy to understand and easy to organize. I wish we had started using OneNote 2 years ago when we started high school. It took a little time to organize all my documents, but once it was done everything is easy to find

I LOVE IT
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Important dates in black American history

Let my people go; Black America

In my blog assignment I have decided to write about some of the important dates in black history. I think this is good because then I can learn about the big moments

What happened when?
1619 – The first slave ship came to Jamestown. From 1691 to 1808 when the slave trade was outlawed, 10 to 15 million Africans were kidnapped and forces into slavery in the English colonies of North America. The slavery in America begins

1787 – Abolitionism started in the North America. It was an idealistic movement developed in the North where they wished to abolish the slavery.

1861 – The civil war breaks out between the North and the South in 1861. The North stated wanted to free the slaves. The south states people needed the slaves to work in farms, and they were strongly against letting them go. Many Northerners believed in the humanity of black people, few believed in their equality.

1865 – Freedmen’s Bureau was established. It was established to guide the newly freed blacks to self-sufficiency.

1877 – By this time the north had grown tired of trying to reform the South. The government was handed back to the local authorities. This was bad for the earlier slaves because many of the civil rights the African Americans had gained where taken away by the local authorities. New laws where called Jim Crow laws. They laws said that blacks could not vote, marry whites or mix with whites in public places. It they protested they risked being lynched by the Ku Klux Klan.

1896 – Separate but equal was accepted by the Supreme Court. The African American were forced to accept second class citizenship for another century.

1909 – W.E.B Du Bois, a black Harward professor, disagreed with Washington.
Without legal and political rights, he argued, equality was not possible.
He helped found: NAACP = Nationl Association for the Advanced of Colored People.

1948 – Segregation ended in the armed forces. This was a great step forward.

1954 – The Supreme Court struck down on their earlier decision that separate but equal was unconstitutional.

1964 – The Civil rights Act was passe. This law finally gave all blacks legal and political equality, ending segregation forever.

1968 – The assassination of Martin Luther King. This marked the end of the non-violent movement that had begun in the 1950s.

Obama talks to a new audience

This week we got a homework assignment.

Watch this extract of the interview with Jay Leno. Look at this link and add these topics to your blog:
What are the advantages for the president to be on this show
what are the downsides
How are these students using the media to get their points across; who is listening?

I think the advantages for Obama being on the show is that people get to see a more private side off him, and not only the serious part. When he enters he makes a joke, and people like him. He makes the audience laugh. It also makes different viewers watch him, and he can get more people involved in politics.
As the reporters are saying, we are in a new media age. People expect him to appear to the public. Personaly i feel like I get a better impression off Obama after watching the show.

The downside is that people may not take him as a serious person. With the economic crises that America is dealing with, people want a president who is serious and this show may make him look less presidential. While people are suffering he is "having fun".

In the third video we saw reportage about teenagers making a youtube video about how the financial crisis affects them. The video is touching and they want to make people know how serious this crise is. The video is watches by a lot of people and at last is even reached the president. He held a speech to Yvonne and her class and he told them. “I am listening”. “We are listening”. I think that this is a great approach from the student’s side. They used the media to get their points and they got a lot of attention. It is amazing how the world can connect over the internet, and us here in Norway can understand how the crises affect the people in the town.

"This is England"

The patriotism we recognized from England during the Falkland war, is the same that we could see in the movie "This is England". The movie is about a boy in 1983 living in England. He gets bullied with in school, and is struggling with the loss of his father, whom died in the Falkland war. One day he meets a gang of skinheads, and he starts hanging out with them, and they become friends. The movie shows how racism was a big issue in England, when we follow Combo in the movie, trying to promote his white nationalist views.

English Project in class

Senior project

This semester is out last months in high school. In our English class we are going to have a senior project. We have to write about three pages, and present it to the class.
Since I have lived a year in the States, I thought it might be fun to compare the school systems. I am going to find out the things that might be better in the states, and what may be worse. I am also going to see how the politics in the states interfere with the school system.
I think i am going to describe a typical day in the school in the US, then explain how the school system works. I will only talk about high school mainly.

A movie we should watch in class!

The Freedom Writes

This week end I watched one of my favorite movies, “The Freedom Writers”. The movie is based on the book, “The freedom writes diary” by the teacher Erin Gruwell. The title is inspired by the name “The freedom ride” which was a bus from south to North America, with people who where fighting against racism.

Erin Gruwell was a teacher at Wilson Classical High School In Long Beach, California from 94-98. The students at the school did not treat her with respect when she tried to teach them. They all come from different back grounds and they all experience things that 15year old children never should see. Every day is a struggle for the children just to survive. A lot of them are gang members, and they have all seen someone get shot. Erin Gruwell wants the children to open up, and she decides to give them each I diary. They can choose if they want to write in it or not. When she opens them up, she find to her surprise that all off the children wants to tell their story.
As she reads the diary’s we get a view off all the children’s individual life and see what they have to deal with. She wants to listen to their stories, and she wants to show them that she listened, and she respectet their stories enough to fint out how she could teach them.
My favourite sceene in the movie, is when the “latino gang” draws a picture of one of the black boys in the class. They make a drawing of him with really big lips, and a big nose. Erin grabs the picture and it reminds her of the pictures that where made of the jews by the Nazis. The tells the class that there pictures where made by the most famous gang in the world. She tells them how they didn’t just take over cities, they took over countries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz-gv6af-tw&feature=related

The movie shows up a complete change in all the students in Mrs. Gruwell’s class. We see her stryggle to connect with the student, and she wants to see their side of the story. She gets protests from the other teachers, she has to take extra jobs to that she can get money to but the children books. It even effects her marriage. Erin Gruwell gave all she have so tha there student could be heard. She told them that someone wanted to head their story. She managed to change their lifes, and many off them became the first in their family to go to college, or even graduate high school.

I think this is an amazing move, because it shows me that we judge people too fast. It reminds us that no matter where you are from, which family, neighborhood, country, we are all just people. Where you grew up, or how you where raised doesn’t have to effect how you are going to end up, or what you can be.

The Falkland war

The Falkland war

The Falkland’s is located east of Argentina in South America. The islands consist of two large and many small islands. The Falklands are self-governed islands, owned by the United Kingdom . In 1982 Argentina and United Kingdom fought over the disputed Falkland Islands. The people that lived there were British, Scandinavian and Chilean. The main language is Britain, and their overhead is the Queen of England. Argentina wanted the Falkland Islands back, because they claimed it was their territory.


The war started on 2 April 1982. The Argentine incision and occupation of the Islands is marked as the start. The reason for the war was a result of an expanded diplomatic confrontation. They where regarding the sovereignty of the islands. Argentina considered the innovation as re-claiming their own territory. The UK on the other hand considered it as an invasion of a British overseas territory.
The occupations and the war between the countries cost 258 British, and 649 Argentine lives. It was important for The UK to win the war. Both of the countries fighting had a wave of patriotic sentiment for the Islands. The UK and the Prime Minister Margaret Thatches was bolstered.

After the war, there had been made a lot of books and movies about the actions that went down in the Falkland Islands. The outcome of the war made Argentina lose their regime. The British people look at the war as a great victory for the UK. Margaret Thatcher and her party was re elected.