Election in the UK - almost over

We´re gettin close to the end of the UK election. Brown has resigned and the Labour paty ha to get a new leader. Now it´s down to Cameron and Clegg. Who is going to be Britain´s next prime minister?

Now that Labour has a new leader, Clegg has to decide if ha want´s to cooporate with The Conservatives or The Labour Party.

The Blind Side

The film "The Blind Side" is based upon the true story about how Michael Oher went from being a poor, homeless boy to become a the first-round pick of the Baltimore Ravens in the 2009 NFL draft.

Michael Oher is an african-american boy from the ghetto. He don´t know who his father is and his mother is a crackhead. He´s been in foster care almost his whole life, but now he has no place to go. He has little formal education and his learning abilities are low. Against all odds, he get´s exepted in to a good chritian school. At school he get´s knowtised by different members of the Tuohy-family. One rainy night, when The Tuohy family are out driving, they see Michael walking along the road in shorts and a t-shirt. Leigh Anne Tuohy tell´s him to get in the car, and they all drive back to the house.

Michael end´s up staying with the Tuohy. He get´s his own room and they hire a private tutor to help him with his studies. He become´s a part of the family and The Tuohy´s become his legal gardien´s. Michael has a special body contruction that are pefect for american football and after a while of had work to get his grades up, he get´s a spot on the team. At first he doesn´t understand a lot of the game, but after Leigh Anne gives the coach some pointers, they are able to get a star player out of Michael. The film ends with a football scholarship to Old Miss(University of Mississippi).

The election in the UK - the first debate

We have just seen the first election debate ever sent on television in England. The Conservatives with David Cameron, The Liberales With Gordon Brown and The LiberalDemocrates with Nick Klegg were gathered to answer questions from the audiens and to defend themselvs against each other. All three were asked tough questions, but i think David Cameron had a little more trouble defending himselves. Both Klegg and Gordon attacked his manifesto. Klegg, who is the one with the least amount of power in UK politics did really well. It might have somthing to do with the fact that he weren´t asked to defend himselves as much as the other two. They have never been in power and therefore the people have not much to say against their manifesto. All three manifestos are quite simmilar. It seems like they all want to achieve some of the same goals, but they have different ideas about how to get there. I think Nick Klegg won this debtate because he had the easier task to just explain his manifesto instead of defending it.

United Kingdom

Our task from today's class was to make a Power Point, Glogster or Photostory about The Devolution in the United Kingdom. Birgitte and I chose to make a Glogster together, and this is how it turned out:

Question time

In question time Wednesday February 24, Gordon Brown had to answer though questions. He appeared engaged, interested and sincerely concerned with the issues that were presented. His body language projected that he was restless and at the same time very focused on answering the questions in the best way. Any how, the Prime Minister did not answer all the questions as correctly as others, maybe because he did not have a good enough answer prepared for those questions. The debate started calmly, but after a while the temperature was raised to a higher level. It’s not hard to see that the MP’s are involved in the topics that they are presenting.

The ongoing election that takes place in Britain gives the politicians the opportunity to have TV-debates with question time. This occurs when MP’s ask questions of Government Ministers which they are obliged to answer. The questions that are asked in these TV-debates are usually pre-arranged by the organizers of each party and are intended to allow the Minister to discuss the virtues of government policy, or to attack the opposition. Skilled Ministers will often attempt to turn around the opposition’s question, but there is not allowed to lie or providing misleading answers to Parliament.

In the USA they do not have Question Time for the President, but he shall from time to time give the Congress information of the State of Union.

Senior project

The second semester have just started and we are going to begin working with our senior project. We´ve talked about it a lot and found different subjects to write about. We´re trying to write about different subjects so we´re not all writing about the same thing, this way it will be more interesting for the teacher to read all our projects in a few weeks.
I still don´t know what I´m going to write about, but this is one of my choices:
Segregation - in the past vs. Today - why is there such a difference between the north and the south(also in different places in the south, cities) are they afraid? Racism?

I still don´t know how to go about this or how to gather the right information to write a good paper. The next three weeks are going to be used at the internet and the libarary so I can gather information from multiple sources.