tirsdag 22. november 2011

  • I bildet kan vi se personer, løv og asfalt.
     
  •  Bildet vårt er et stilleben der vi har to oppstilte objekter som symboliserer at livet går videre.
  • Bildet er tatt i høydeformat fra et fugleperspektiv. De to objektene går hver sin vei.
  • Bildet er et totalbilde med to personer og en bakgrunn.
  • Vi har et diagonalt skille i bildet som viser forskjellen på retningen de begge går i. På den ene siden har
    vi farger og varme, mens på den andre er det tomt og kjølig. Bildet er på denne måten oppmerksomhetsvekkende i form av sterke farger og kontraster
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  • Bildet representerer avskjed. Det viser at selv om vi en gang står nært vil vi forlate hverandre. Som vi kan se så er den ene personen på veg inn mot høsten og det gråe, men den andre er på veg ut av løvet og på veg inn i noe nytt. Så uansett hvor mye man vil holde sammen, vil noen gå videre og noen ikke. I dette bildet er det representanter. To personer som begge går videre, men de går videre i forskjellige retninger, noe som kan bety at livet går videre, men det er opptil hver enkelt person hvilken veg de vil ta.

    Av Jesper, Kristian & Einar

onsdag 16. november 2011

TASKS
What is the difference between looting and rioting?

Looting doesn’t involve physical violence.
Riots make people do that they wouldn’t normally do, like vandalism, stealing and so on.



Define the underlined (blue) words and phrases. Also note down other words you find difficult, and find out what they mean.

Social exclusion:
Someone is being left outside special groups, or an entire society.

Disregard social norms: When you don’t pay attention, or ignore norms in the society.


High- unemployed:
People who don’t have a job.


Criminologist:
A person who analyzes crime, and criminal behaviors, and tries to find an explanation why.


Opportunism:
The conscious policy of taking selfish advantage of circumstances with little regards for principles.


Lack of intervention: The police didn’t strike immediately as they should


Consumerism: A social and economic order based on the systematic creation and fostering of a desire to purchase goods and services in great amounts.

Catalyst of unrest: The thing which were essential for these actions.



·         Could this happen in Trondheim? In Oslo? Why/why not? 

I don’t think this could happen here in Trondheim. In Norway there isn’t such high unemployment as in England. And people live under much better conditions here. So I think that Norwegians actually don’t have reasons to do that kind of things.

What can this say about the social conditions in England? How may this be connected to the traditional class system?
      It was mostly people from the working class who stole from shops, and breaking windows. I would say that this shows us that people from the working class are desperate. When so many people do things like these, it must have a reason.

There is almost an entire generation, who don’t have a job in England. So the riots were a kind of response to that. But of course, it is absolutely not ok to go this far.