onsdag 17. februar 2016

Values

In this text I will reflect on values and the importance of them. The film I have chosen as my main focus is Drone, and I will use this film as a reference for some of the points in this writing task. 

Values are what people deem as important. They’re not a necessity, but counted as important or desirable. For instance, some values for me are honesty, respect, happiness and stability. In the Declaration of Independence and the film Pursuit of Happyness, the right to be able to pursuit happiness is an important value. 

In the film Drone, the values of safety and peace are strongly violated. While the drone pilots are safely in a home base in the US, people in Pakistan can’t go to work, school or even play outside in fear of being attacked by drones, which flies by them a couple of times a day on days with a clear sky. 

I think that values are important, because they show what people want in life and how they view it. A person who has independence as a main value are almost guaranteed to see things differently than a person who thinks cooperation is important. Values are different to everyone. 

To conclude, values can be the same as what a person view as ethically right and wrong. Everybody deserves to have values and to have them respected, no matter what they are or where they live.

mandag 1. februar 2016

The USA - American History

Revolution
  • How many colonies were there by the time of the French and Indian War?
    • 13
  • What was the slogan of the protesters in Boston?
    • They would not stand for taxation without representation
  • Where did the Revolutionary War begin?
    • Lexington in April 1775
  • Where did the colonies declare their independence and when did it happen?
    • 4th of July 1776 at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia

Slavery and the Civil War
  • When did the first African slaves arrive in the New World?
    • 1619
  • When was the importation of new slaves made illegal?
    • 1807
  • When did Abraham Lincoln become president?
    • 1860
  • What did his victory lead to?
    • South Carolina left the union and was followed by 10 other states
  • Which role did the Emancipation Proclamation play?
    • It freed the slaves

The USA in WW I and WW II
  • What do we call Woodrow Wilsons policy in the first part of WWI?
    • Isolationism, which meant that USA would not participate in the first part
  • What made the US enter the war?
    • Germany attacked an American boat
  • What was the purpose of the League of Nations?
    • It was formed to secure peace
  • When did the US enter WW II?
    • 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor
  • Which president was responsible for the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
    • Harry S. Truman
  • How did the wars change life for American women?
    • They entered the workplace to fill in the parts while the men were at war

The Cold War
  • Why was it a surprise that the US and the USSR did not work together after WW II?
    • They became locked in an international power struggle after Germany was defeated - power vacuum
  • There was a constant race between the US and the USSR to be in front technologically. Which country was the first country in space?
    • The Soviets in 1957
  • Who said: “A small step for man, but a giant leap for mankind”?
    • Neil Armstrong
  • Two men were central in the process of ending the Cold War. Who were they?
    • Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev