Native people

1. About what percentage of the Native Indian population lives on reservations? Where are the majority of these reservations located?

Half of the native Indians live on reservation, the majority of the reservations is located west of mississipi river.

2. What are some of the social challenges faced by Native Americans? List what you believe can be the possible causes of these challenges.

They have a problems with unemployment, poverty, alcholism, and drug abuse.

3. Over which matters do tribal governments have power?

They have the rights to enforce laws.

4. How does the sovereignty of Native Americans fall short?

Native Americans rights point out that the US Federal Government's claim to recognize the "sovereignty" of Native American peoples falls short.

5. What does the BIA claim to be its responsibility when it comes to Indian lands?

The BIA states that its responsibility is the "administration and management of 55 700 000 acres of land held in trust by the united states for American Indians.

Aboriginals, and the stolen generation!

Stolen Generation

The first group of people to settle down in Australia, aka aboriginals, they came from Asia with boats.

The reason half of the aboriginals was killed when the European came, was that they had diseases with them, the aboriginals were not immune to them.

They say that a total of 100 000 children was taken from their parents, because the European thougth they saved them from child abuse and protect them from neglect, they were called the stolen Generation.

The first Maoris came from Polynesia around 1250 and 1300 CE, they made an unique culture that became known as the "Mãori" with their own language, a rich mythology, distinctive crafts and performing arts.

Today they are still on the island, and many of them became celebreties.

Both tribes came from asia, but the tribes in Australia is sort of extinct, but the Maoris is still alive.

New zealand consists of many islands and high mountain which makes it more difficult to survive there. Australia is a big island that is very flat compared  to New Zealand.

Exercise 1 - Style and Function

1. He wrote about a man in his mid-50's that was desperate for love, and was looking for a woman in the 45-50's, but found a woman in her 60's.
2. The purpose of the text is to tell that a man was looking to get in a long term relationship with a woman in the 40's but got a woman in her 60's.
   so age does not matter.
3. I will call this text a fact text and a shortstory.
4. He or She used old and "classy" words, like classy, beautiful and slender, she is independent. etc.

Words that are easily confused

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Which
                              
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Jack Frag is a man from England, he was born the 19 of February and speaks only English and a little bit Spanish. He belived in Jesus and was a Christian. Jack was a Democrat. His girlfriend Shannon is from Italy, and could speak Italian, Russian and English.
Together they make videos at home and make money by people watching the videos.

Viewpoints

1.       Rural is relating to, or characteristic of the country or country life and urban  of, relating to, or constituting a city or town.

2.       The differences between rural landscape and urban landscape is not that big, because people living in a rural landscape does not need to be a farmer, they can live like a person from the urban environment. In India, the differences between this two environments are huge, the rural people are usually poor and have to work for food, but the people living in the urban environment got cars and food and usually a stable job.

3.       This statement means if everyone on earth ate as much as us and had cars and etc. it would take a planet eight times bigger than earth to store and make all of this to all the humans.

4.       People want to move back to the rural environment because they are tired of the urban environment, they want to be one with nature again, and make their own food.

5.       Simple living is that you do not need that much, you do not need certain types of food, and they do not need technology. Simple living is just to have a house, get food, and live.

6.       My top three priorities in life is survive, food, and water

Alan Turing

Alan Turing is the man who have probably shortened the Second World War II by two years. He was a smart man, but work best when working alone. He broke the Enigma code, with his great machine called Christoffer. In the making of Christoffer Alan did not sleep very well, he never gave up on his goal, and he was certain that it would work. He was headstrong. He was not a good person to other people and the people working with him disliked him. One problem with Alan was that he was gay, and gay people was unacceptable in the society back then.

 

Modern digital technology is a blessing and the only way forward?

We are supposed to discuss this statement: “Modern digital technology is a blessing and the only way forward” Is this statement true, is this the only way forward?  In the bible, blessing’s definition is gifts that God gives, whether material or spiritual, as blessings. So is technology a gift from God or is technology destroying God as a blessing to himself? What god are we blessed by, the Christian God or the Greek Hephaestus, the God of fire? Now we are going to talk about this, and declare what this statement want to say.

Technology is a new thing to the world, and it have been around us for a few years. Technology is evolving every year, and new things comes to life. Technology is a good thing for us, in one hand it can make us healthier and can help us be able to survive for longer and explore more of the world we were born in, but in the other hand, it can destroy humanity in different ways. If technology ever conquer our intelligent, it can defeat us, like in one of those cyborg movies.

Different type of diseases like “Black Death” almost wiped us out, but with the help of technology, we can fight different diseases. That way we can survive for longer, without getting wiped out, like the “Black Death” where only 1/3 of the population survived. However if the diseases spreads before a cure is made, it can turn out really badly, but with the help of technology the cure can be found much faster.

In one of the paragraphs above, I said that technology can destroy humanity, this is what is about to happened, everybody is addicted to their phones. This is what Einstein feared would happen, this is supported by this quote “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiot“. This generation he talked about is being born now, they will grow up beside technology, and hopefully not turn in to idiots, but if they do, technology is the only way forward.

In conclusion without technology we can be wiped out, with the recent Ebola outbreak we never know when our extinct is here. Apple have turned in to a bigger religion then any outer religion, like I said in the introduction “technology is a blessing to god himself”, more and more people stop believing in god. What do you believe, is god slowly dying out?