What I think about America

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My personal opinion is that America is the best continent in the world. But only if you got money, to support yourself. 

It's a totally different culture then in Europe, and maybe that's why we like it so much? The people are so polite, everyone greets and complements each other. For me, it seems like such a great place.

There are also some negative things about America. The overweight-rate is going up. The fast-food is so cheap, that many people choose this over a healthy home-cooked meal. The standard american diet consists of mostly Rice, potato, bread and pasta. This is not a healthy lifestyle, but it the Americans wallow in offerings of fast food and chains and cheap "junk food", so it is hard to avoid it. 

Americas has very limited social benefits, because of their low taxes. This results that few people can afford health insurance, pension and other personal insurances. 

One of the biggest downsides are unemployment, in addition to high crime rates.The tourist places in Mexico is being isolated from the local population because of the high crime rate. 

When it comes to politics, USA especially has great power over the rest of the world. For instance; the headquarter for NATO is located in USA. An other example is Barack Obama, he is probably the most influenced person in the world, and inspire many countries and people. 

Picture sources:

http://dcclothesline.com/2013/04/13/america/

http://www.rawfamily.com/green-smoothie

http://www.thesandspur.org/tag/obama/

England

England is a part of Great Britain.It is probably the most well known land in Britain. The capitol is London, and that is a city with a lot of important history and it is a popular city to visit for tourists. London has a lot of well known buildings as Buckingham Palace, where the king and queen lives. But it also has Big Ben, madame Tussaud, London eye and, very good shopping possibilities.
In England it lives a lot of people. With its 53+ million inhabitants, it is the far most popular country in the United Kingdom. England is also political engaged. Since England is the most popular country in United Kingdom, it forms the the major part of the wider politics of the United Kingdom.
The education system in England is divided into different parts, nursery (ages 3-4), primary school (ages 4-11), secondary education (11-18), tertiary education (18+). The education while the child is in an age between 5 and 16 years is compulsory. It does not matter where this education takes place, whether it is at school or at home, as long as it is happening. State rules schools and colleges and financed by taxation, and take pupils in the age of 3-18 free of charge. In England most schools use an uniform. This uniform represents the school, and is compulsory. When uniforms first was introduced in England, they called it "bluecoats". They consisted  of long trench coats dyed blue. The government today are encourages pupils to wear uniforms, as it is representing the school spirit and pride.


In England, the language that is used is English. English is a West-German language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the most widely spoken language in the world. The language English is spoken by over 360 million people all over the world. English was introduced in to United Kingdom in year 1700. But in all of Britain they speak a different dialect of English. The dialect they speak in England we call British.

England is the head leader in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors, and also in technical industries such as aerospace, the arms industry and and manufacturing software industry.
This is some of the major industries in England. Tourism is also one of Englands major industries. Without toursim, Englands economy would not work on the same way as today, they are very dependent on tourism.




I have been to London two times, it really love the city. I think, as many others, that the city is a closer and a very good alternative instead of going over the "pond" to New York. And than I think of the shopping possibilities. But it also has a lot of interesting buildings. I had to visit every known place in London. I was really blown away over Buckingham palace and London Eye. They are both really big and look very expensive  In London Eye you can see all over London witch is very interesting and you can even count all the bridges that are crossing the well known river Thames.


Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_uniforms_in_England
http://www.aspexdesign.co.uk/england.htm
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_some_major_industries_in_England

The Help

Film facts:
Title: The Help
Year the film was produced: 2011
Natiolality: American
Names of the actors:
Viola Davis (Aibileen Clark)
Octavia Spencer (Minny Jackson)
Emma Stone (Eugenia “Skeeter” Phenlan)
Cicely Tyson (Constantine Bates)
Bryce Dallas Howard (Hilly Holbrook)
Ahna O`Riley (Elizabeth Leefolt)
Jessica Chastain (Celia Foote)
Mary Steenburgen (Elaine Stein)
Allison Janey (Charlotte Phelan)
Name of director: Tate Taylor

Genre:
“The help” goes under the genre drama, beause in apartheid it was a lot of dramatic happenings, and this movie put much emphasis on the drama in the country like the maids that were used, and that they were used so badly. But as the director of the movie said “I think of it as a drama. Well life is frama, and the most dramatic parts of my life and the most painful parts of my life have had tons of humor in them, just for survival. The humos in The Help is the same, to get balance” - Tate Tylor, December 15th


Theme:

Setting:
The film takes place in Jackson, Mississippi. The film is supposed to be in the early 1960`s during apartheid.


Plot:
Aibileen was a middel-aged maid in the home of Elizabeth. She was black and treated with no respect. She had spendt all her life raising white children, cooking and cleaning someones other home for a small salary while her own children were at home in very bad conditions. Minny was an other maid, who was helping in Hilly Holbrook`s house. She was beeing treated very badly by Hilly, but Hilly`s mom wanted her to feel comfortable and beeing able to use the toilet indoors if she want to. One day it was pooring rain outside, she was allowed to use the toilet indoors. But Hilly was very against this, and fired Minny as their maid. Hilly warned all families against Minny, so it made it impossible for her to get a new job. Later she gets offered a job as Celia Foot`s help. She was beeing outcasted by the social group, because Hilly belived that she had stolen her man. No other maid would work for her so Minny was her only hope. Minny was beeing treated with respect and Celia looked at her as a equal, unlike Hilly.
Eugina Phelan, also named “Skeeter”, was strongly againt racism. Ever since her maid Constantine, who had raised her even mor than her own mother had, was fired by her mom, she wanted to make a change. It was againt the social moral to support the whites. But she collected courage and started to write the draft to a book with the stories of Minny and Abilieen`s treatment as a maid.



Charateristics:
In this movie, the it was tree different kinds of persons. There was the whites, who were shallow, shelfish and accepted racism. The black ones, were used as helps, and did not have much to say in the socciety. And the last type was Skeeter, she was the only one who actually stood up for herselv and supportes the black ones, she wanted to make a change, and she did.

The blacks could not use a foul laguage, and had to call the whites for ma’am. But the whites could say anything they wanted to the blacks


My opinin:
I think this movie is made to make us get a better view of aparthied, and make us think about how it was then

The Western US

The Western United States, the "American west"

13 states:
Alaska
Arizona
California
Colorado
Hawaii
Idaho
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
Oregon
Utah 
Washington
Wyoming 

Climate

Midwest in the country is it generally dry and it has delightful summers, California has nice weather all year round, and experiences very few times snow. But the parts of this region that are more north, has cooler weather. But all the states has tolerable winters. 

Northwest are perhaps the wettest part of the country. They are scattered in rain all year round. The temperatures is mild and the summers are pleasantly worm, but never to worm.

Southwest is the hottest and high rainfall region of the US. You must be prepared to face heavy rain accompanied with thunder storms, dangerous lightening and occasional tornadoes. The winter is generally short but some freezing rains do occur. The spring and fall seasons are quite long and temperatures are generally excellent. The summers are very hot with temperatures up to 40 degrees Celsius. 

Approximate population


Alaska: 710,231 Washington: 6,724,540 Oregon: 3,831,074 California: 37,253,956 Idaho: 1,567,582 Nevada: 2,700,551 Montana: 989,415 Utah: 2,763,885 Arizona: 6,392,017 Wyoming: 563,626 Colorado: 5,029,196 New Mexico: 2,059,179 Hawaii: 1,360,301for a total of: 71,945,553

Important industry

Fish and sporting goods are good industries. California is in the western US, and a few years ago would have been the 5th worlds largest economy if it had been a country. The key industries are Wine growing, electronics, computing and technology. 

Seattle in the Pacific Northwest state of Washington is home to Microsoft and Boeing, so computing hardware and software and Aerospace. 

Culture

In the Pacific Coast states, the wide areas filled with small towns, farms, and forests are supplemented by a few big port cities which has evolved into a world centers for the media and technology industries. Now the second largest city in the Nation, Los Angeles is best known as the home of Hollywood film industry. California has become the most populous state. Oregon and Washington have also seen rapid growth with the rise of Boeing and Microsoft along with agriculture and resource-based industries. 

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