mandag 21. november 2011

bildeanalyse- "Stabilitet"


Beskrivelse

Dette bildet er et fotografi, som er fotografert i fugleperspektivet. Det som fotografiet viser, er et tre som har form som en balanserende trekant, to personer som sitter på en benk mellom treet, små rektangulære steiner som brukes til å dekke bakken, og større rektangulære, og forholdvis smale steiner som danner to parallelle linjer som går på skrå gjennom øvre del av bildet. I tillegg til dette, ligger det store natursteinplater helt nederst på bildet, og det ligger gule og brune blader fra trærne på bakken.    

Bildet er et portrett. Motivet på bildet består av to personer som sitter med ryggen til kamera.
Personene sitter på en benk mellom to trestammer i mellomgrunnen av bildet.
Trestammene har en mørk brun-grå farge, med noen hvite flekker på innsiden av venstre stamme, og brunsvarte flekker på innsiden av høyre stamme. Begge stammene har den samme brunsvarte fargen ved røttene, men fargen minker gradvis lengre opp på stammen som står til venstre.
Benken er laget av ved og stål, og er forankret ned i stein-bakken. Mellom de to parallelle "steinlinjene" befinner det seg grønn-gult gress som delvis er dekket med løv.

På dette fotografiet er treet og steinplatene på nedre del av bildet, forgrunnen. Personene og den gråe bakken danner tilsammen mellomgrunnen, og de to parallelle stein - linjene øverst på bildet, fremstår som bakgrunnen.

Fargene på bildet er for det meste høstlige farger, som grå, brun osv. På bildet ser det ut som om det nettopp har regnet og det gjør at bakken og landskapet rundt får en mørkere farge. Samtidig faller lyset inn fra det venstre hjørnet, slik at fargene på bildet blir lysere. Utsnittet i bildet er et totalbilde; personene er på bildet i sin helhet, og det er med litt landskap og miljø.  

Tolkning

Vårt førsteinntrykk av bildet er at det viser et par i en kald verden. De står sammen mot den kaotiske, og ustødige verden, mens de ser mot den muntrere delen av bildet.

Når vi ser på bildet, assosierer vi det med høst, samhold og kjærlighet. Det er de varme klærne, de kalde fargene og løvet på bakken som får oss til å forstå at det er høst. Stillingene som motivene sitter i blir universalt gjenkjent som et symbol på kjærlighet, vennskap eller sterke relasjoner.

Rødfargen i jakken på det ene motivet trekker fokuset mot motivene, og skaper en kontrast både mellom motivene og trærne, og mellom motivene. Dette viser at motivene er individuelle individer som har kommet sammen. De horisontale linjene i bildet, hjelper til å holde bildet i balanse, mens de vertikale formene til trærne, sammen med deres sterke fargekontrast til resten av bildet, gjør at trærne, og det i mellom dem, blir sentralt.

Bildets tema er samhold og lengsel i en urolig verden, og har som formål å få folk til å tenke over og verdsette de umaterialistiske tingene i livene deres. Hovedfunksjonen i bildet er poetisk, vi har lekt oss med former og symboler.

Av Sina, Sigrid og Emilie




onsdag 16. november 2011

Looting in London- tasks



What is the difference between looting and rioting?
I think the difference between looting and rioting is that looting is based on steeling from stores. Rioting involves different kind of riots like destroying- or burning down buildings for example.

Social exclusion: To have been excluded or “fallen out” of the society. You may not have the rights you are supposed to, for instance.
Disregard social norms: To not respect and not follow the rules a society and a population find appropriate.
High-unemployment: High unemployment means many people that does not a job nor have had it for a while.
Criminologist: A criminologist works with understanding criminal behavior and the connection between crime and society.
Opportunism: Opportunism means to use circumstances egocentrically often without thinking of what is morally right and not taking other people into consideration.  
Lack of intervention: If the police, for instance, has a lack of intervention in stopping riots that would mean that the police has not done something about it. Lack of actions for the police.
Consumerism: Consumerism means everything you buy and use.
Catalyst of unrest: Hard to define, but it could mean something like “something that leads to unrest”. If unemployment is a catalyst of unrest, catalyst would be the process between unemployment and unrest.

Could this happen in Trondheim? In Oslo? Why/why not?
This could also have happened in Norway. I feel like this can happen in almost every city if you’re many enough. I don’t think it would have been as big of a thing like it has been in London, though. Trondheim and Oslo are not close to being as big as London and therefore every attempt at things like looting in Norwegian cities would have happened in a smaller tense. But I definitely think riots of some kind have happened in Norway because many people disagree with the government and each other here as well as other places. I think It would have been more likely to happen in Oslo than Trondheim simply because Oslo is bigger.
What can this say about the social conditions in England? How may this be connected to the traditional class system?
This can say a lot about the social conditions in England today. It states in the article that the young, poor youth that is mostly behind the looting has got nothing to loose. This says a lot about the poorest people in the society of England and that they maybe still have got some of the traditional class system left. The poorest ones in the society maybe treated differently and have different rights than “upper classes” of the society.

lørdag 22. oktober 2011

Last day


Saturday 14/10-2011

NB! This is a fictional blog. I have not been to Kenya, and everything I write are based on facts I have read. The pictures are also not mine, but borrowed from the internet. (source under every picture) I also have a list of sources I have used at the bottom of this entry.
Hello!
This is going to be my last entry here from Kenya. My flight leaves tomorrow. I do NOT want to go home! To distract myself from packing (once again) I decided that I would write and update you about my last days here in Kenya. I am, as you may remember, in Mombasa at the moment. Mombasa is Kenya`s second largest city with a population of almost one million people.
 

These last few days of my trip I have basically been around sightseeing and just relaxed on the beach you can see in the picture above. The other picture is from something called Moi avenue. There is not really much more to share from my stay here other that it is a very beautiful place which I recommend travelers to visit. I figured since this is my last day and the last words I am going to write from Kenya I will write some history from Kenya and also a bit about Mombasa.

When the first Europeans (Portuguese people) arrived in Kenya, Mombasa was one of the first cities they came to. They controlled the coastline from Mombasa to another Kenyan city by the coast, Malindi, but were not able to control the inner part of Kenya.
In 1895 the whole country of Kenya became a British colony and belonged to something called the British East Africa which roughly covers the area of Kenya today.
In 1952 there was a protest against the British government. This was called the Mau Mau uprising and lasted until 1956. This eventually ended in Kenya`s independence in 1963 even though the Mau Mau group (which was the Kenyan group) actually lost the conflict.  


Here are two maps of Kenya so you can actually see where I have been. As you can see Kenya is a country at the east coast of Africa. Kenya has a total population of around 40 million people if anybody wondered. At the maps above you can see where Nairobi and Mombasa is located. For your information Masai Mara is located south-west of Nairobi by the boarder of Tanzania.
I think I will wrap the whole thing up with an explanation of the flag of Kenya.


This flag was adopted at the same year that Kenya declared its independence in 1963. The black colour symbolizes that the majority of the population is black. The green colour symbolizes land. The small white stripes symbolizes freedom and the red colour symbolizes the blood lost in the struggle for it. The shield symbolizes defense of all the other things the flag symbolizes.

This has been a really inspiring trip! I really do not want to go home to cold Norway, but I guess I have to. So long readers!

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fredag 21. oktober 2011

Safari!


Wednesday 12/10-2011
NB! This is a fictional blog. I have not been to Kenya, and everything I write are based on facts I have read. The pictures are also not mine, but borrowed from the internet. (source under every picture) I also have a list of sources I have used at the bottom of this entry.

Hi there!

Right now I am relaxing in my own personal tent here in Masai Mara. It is great here!
This is where I live at the moment. Quite a paradise right? There are luxury-tents like these everywhere in the camp.There are tents in all sizes. Huge tents where you could probably fit several families into, but there are also one-man tents like the one I had.

First I will share some basic facts with you: Masai Mara is located in southwest Kenya and is known Africa´s greatest wildlife reserve. (I believe that statement). Masai Mara was first founded in 1948 and today it covers an area of over 1500 square kilometres. It is also, like Nairobi, located around a few thousand meters over the sea. This means that the temperature is not unbearable here either. The Masai Mara reserve has over 95 species of mammals. Lions, cheetahs, elephants, zebras, rhinos, giraffes, hyenas, antelopes and much, much more.
I will live here for three days all together. I feel like I could live there for the rest of my life. I have been out in the open every day with a guide who has driven me (and some other tourists) around in a jeep. I have seen so many beautiful animals. Everything out here is just so completely untouched and beautiful. I have taken a lot of pictures, but I felt that I kind of had to hold myself back a little so that I did not just look in the lens, but watched them in real life.. Here are two more of my pictures:

At Masai Mara, they also offered this airballoon-ride in the morning and well, I just had to use this opportunity. For one and a half hour I was flooding over the camp watching the animals and clearing my head of all my thoughts.
This is a picture I took of two other balloons just before I got on mine. Beautiful.

Now I have to get packing (again, ahh). I am spending my last few days in the coast in what I heard is a very beautiful place, Mombasa.


Sources:

tirsdag 18. oktober 2011

Goodbye, Wangari!



Sunday 9/10-2011
NB! This is (still) a fictional blog. I have not been to Kenya, and everything I write are based on facts I have read. (The funeral I am going to write about is a real event that happened though, I just was not attending it).The incidents that i refer to at towards the end has also happened. The pictures are also not mine, but borrowed from the internet. (Source under every picture). I also have a list of sources I have used to find my information at the bottom of this entry.
Hello again!
I am still here in my flat in Nairobbery (just love the nickname) although I have to start packing soon. I am leaving Nairobi today to go to Masai Mara to watch animals in their real surroundings (popularly called safari). You remember right?
Anyway, I did not write anything yesterday so I figured I could keep everybody updated before I leave the city. I promised you I would attend a funeral and I did. I have never been to a funeral of a person I did not know before (I have hardly been to any funerals at all for that matter) but I figured I would attend this one.  The woman who was buried this Saturday was called Wangari Maathai. She is a strong and very admirable person and when I heard that she was to be buried in Nairobi while I was here, I wanted to farewell to her.
DØD: Nobles fredsprisvinner Wangari Maathai tapte kampen mot kreften. Her er Maathai utenfor Grand Hotel i Oslo før utdelingen av Nobels fredspris i 2004. Foto: Helge Mikalsen

The picture above shows Maathai in Oslo just before she recieved the peace prize in 2004.
It turns out Maathai was actually the first African woman to ever achieve the Nobel Peace prize. She got it in 2004 for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace”. Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940 and she died here in Nairobi the 25th of September this year of complications from cancer. Maathai was a very strong woman with many opinions.  She stood up against what was considered as the oppressive regime of Kenya under Daniel arap Moi, Kenya’s former president. Maathai has also achieved a lot of other prices for her work.

In addition to fighting for democracy in Kenya, she also fought for the environment. In 1977 she formed something called “the Green Belt movement”, an environmental organization. It focuses on Kenya (and especially women). It encourages them to, among other things, plant trees, stop soil erosion and also fight deforestation. This organization has alone planted around 45 million trees! That is impressive! Actually the whole woman is impressive and apparently I am not the only one who thinks that. There were thousands of people who had come to say goodbye to her. I did not actually go into the church, it was full long before I got there. I watched from the street as they drove her coffin in the car and buried her in a park she had fought to save. I am going to post some video-footage from BBC in case you want to watch some of the funeral and maybe learn some more about Maathai.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15228649

After the funeral I took a taxi to the Norwegian embassy in Kenya which you can see on the picture under (bad quality, sorry about that). I visited a friend of my mum who works there. When someone you know is in a place like Nairobi at the same time as you, you kind of feel like you have to meet up with that person, right? It was really cool meeting a fellow Norwegian again! Nairobi and Kenya is not exactly the type of destination where there are Norwegians and Sweeds lurking around every corner so I had not really heard the Norwegian language in a while.

Just one more thing before I have to start packing for safari (have delayed it for over an hour now). You should know that while I am being here in Kenya, I am being extremely careful where I go and always have somebody with me. Recently there have been several incidents where people have been kidnapped here in Kenya and I have to keep that in mind. I mean, when they are capable of taking a French elderly woman in a wheelchair, you cannot really feel sure that they will spare you. I too have to take the famine in Somalia, a country which is neighboring Kenya, into consideration. There are a lot of people traveling over the board. I just thought I should let you know that I am being really careful.

But anyway, stay tuned! My next entry will be written from Masai Mara, the safari-camp!

Sources:

onsdag 12. oktober 2011

Nairobi-love


Friday 7/10-2011

Hello everybody!

NB! This is (still) a fictional blog. I have not been to Kenya, and everything I write are based on facts I have read. The pictures are also not mine, but borrowed from the internet. (source under every picture) I also have a list of sources I have used at the bottom of this entry
Right now I am chilling in my flat after my first day here in Kenya and I love Nairobi already. Nairobi is the largest city in Kenya with approximately 3 million people. Nairobi has no coastline; it is located in the middle of the country. 

This first day of my trip I have spent beeing a tipical tourist. I have been driven (notice; not walking) around in Nairobi and looked at the city. You may wonder why I did not walk and there is a simple answer to that question. Crime. Nairobi is actually nicknamed Nairobbery and for good reason. It is clearified as one of the most dangerous cities in the world and around one third of the population in Nairobi has experienced crime in one way or another. Therefore, I took no chances. I had a very nice and kind taxidriver, Udo, who gladly drove me around and showed me the city. He spoke this very cool type of English (English is actually one of the official languages here) and I had to try really hard not to laugh at times. But he was very nice and we talked a lot while I took idiotical (and some very beautiful) photos. For lunch I ate Kenyan food at a little, cute restaurant Udo recommended. I ate Kenya’s national dish which is called Ugali and looks somewhat like this:

Ugali is some sort of a porrigde made of cornmeal, hot water and cold water. (The white thing on the picture above). I got it served with some vegetables and meat. Does not seem very complicated right? Well the taste was not very complicated either. It did not taste bad just, I don`t know, I think I will just say that it did not taste very much.

After I had eaten, I had a very strong experience. You see, I went to visit Kibera. (I had somebody with me now as well). Kibera is the largest slum-area in Kenya, the second largest in Africa and it is third on the list of biggest slums in the world. It is located 5 km from the Nairobi city centre.

I, who live in Norway, am used to having everything I need and I take it for granted. Enough food, clean water, access to a doctor, love and care from the people around me. The population in Kibera had restricted access to water and food and no access to healthcare. Every day is a struggle just to get enough food for so many people. One thing they did not lack however, was love for eachother. In lack of all those other things, they stuck together, loved eachother and it was fascinating to watch. It shows that people can love even though they are living under such bad conditions. I would recommend everyone who visit Kenya to go to Kibera, not because it is funny, but because it is a strong experience and it might open your eyes for how good of a life you are actually living.

Kibera was a huge contrast from the city of Nairobi. There were huge differences in the way people lived their lives. When Udo had driven me around in Nairobi, we had looked at neighboorhoods with beautiful houses and gardens. Everything is not always like it seems. To me, it seemed like they wanted to show only the clean, wealthy part of the society and tried to kind of hide away the poor part of the population. I understand that they want to give the nicest impression possible, but when about 25% of the population in Nairobi live in Kibera, you can`t just exclude them. All people all worth the same.
I only took two pictures while I was in Kibera. I did not want to show off my camera in front of the people. I felt that it could have been kind of disrespectful.

The picture under is a picture from the city centre of Nairobi. Quite a contrast from Kibera don’t you think?
 

 Tomorrow I am attending a funeral. Are you curious about who it is? You have to stay tuned to find out!

tirsdag 11. oktober 2011

Finally here!


Thursday 6/10-2011

NB! This is a fictional blog. I have not been to Kenya, and everything I write are based on facts I have read. The pictures are also not mine, but borrowed from the internet. (source under every picture) I also have a list of sources I have used at the bottom of this entry.

It was a long and exhausting trip. The trip from Trondheim to Schiphol, Amsterdam, took about two and half hours and went fine. But then I had to wait for FOUR whole hours at Schiphol because my flight was delayed. This was pretty boring, especially since I am travelling alone and had nobody to talk to. Thinking back now, however, I think it was for the best that I was alone because my mood was absolute crap. At last, when I finally got on the plane to Nairobi and thought the pain was over, I got a seat next to a big, old man who talked constantly to himself and farted the whole trip. When those annoying, crying babies, who ALWAYS have to be present, started their thing, I thought I had died and gone to hell.  But I got through it. This is what the capital of Kenya, Nairobi, looked like when I arrived. Really beautiful:
File:Nairobi NIGHT.jpg

The temperature was perfect when i arrived as well. Something that is really great about Nairobi compared to many other African cities is the climate. You would think that a big African city like Nairobi would get up in extremely high temperatures and would be impossible to exist in, but the thing is, Nairobi is located 1800 meters above the sea and the highest average temperature is hardly over 25C! This is great because you can walk around in a liveable temperature and still get a very nice tan. It is perfect!

I am going to stay in Kenya for a about a week. My plan is to stay in Nairobi for another three days to see the city. In two days, for instance, I will attend the funeral of a very well-known person here in Kenya, you will have to stay tuned to find out who it is. Then, I am going to pack my things and go to Masai Mara, which is one of Africa’s most famous places to go to Safari. Cannot wait! I will end my vacation in Mombasa, a city by the coast. I am not going to update every day, but check out my blog later for more Kenya-fun!
I think I better get to bed now, I am really exhausted. Good night!

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairobi about climate.

fredag 30. september 2011



iPod touch


iPod touch er designet i California, men produsert I Kina. Minnekapasiteten er 32 GB, noe som gjør den meget godt egnet for både musikk og video. I tillegg kan man laste ned tusenvis av underholdende spill og andre applikasjoner etter behov fra Appstore. 

Jeg gikk lystig ned trappa til første etasje og satte meg ned på min faste plass ved frokostbordet. Jeg helte cornflakes i skålen min på autopilot. Jeg skulle akkurat til å komplimentere de sprø flakene med litt kald, økologisk melk fra Tine, da mor kom stormende inn. «Stopp!» utbrøt hun. Det var da jeg la merke til en plitter ny iPod som lå i skålen min, begravd under oransje flak. Tenk om jeg hadde helt melk på den, det hadde tatt seg ut!

fredag 23. september 2011

norsktime 23/09

Mislykket kommunikasjon i "Få meg på, for faen"

Jeg synes det var mange eksempler på mislykket kommunikasjon mellom karakterene i "Få meg på for faen". For eksempel er det ikke direkte god kommunikasjon å stikke penis bortpå låret til en jente. Det var en merkelig måte for Artur å kommunisere på og det er en veldig vanskelig handling å tolke. Hva skal det liksom bety? Det er ikke rart at Alma ikke helt forstå hva hun skulle gjøre.
Måten Alma fortalte det videre var kanskje heller ikke den beste måten å formidle et budskap på. Man må jo innrømme at det høres dumt og lite troverdig ut når man sier: «også var han borti med pikken, sånn her». Også var hun kanskje ikke varsom nok med valg av personer hun sa det til. Da var kanskje ikke Ingrid den riktige personen å ha til stedet når hun fortalte det. Man så jo hvor store konsekvenser det fikk for henne.

Måten moren kommuniserte med datteren sin på var heller ikke direkte god kommunikasjon. Hun klarte jo til slutt ikke å snakke med datteren sin lenger. Hun uttrykte seg på en måte som var vanskelig å tolke synes jeg.

 Hvordan argumentere for en god sak
Når du skal argumentere for en god sak er det viktig å bruke gode argumenter som er formulert på en god måte. Man bør vise tydelig hva man står for, ikke la noen være usikre på meningene dine. Ikke bruk begrep som ikke alle du skal formidle budskapet til, forstår. Man bør tenke igjennom hvilke argumenter motparten eventuelt kan komme til å bruke mot din sak og forberede deg på å argumentere mot disse argumentene igjen. Men argumenter mot motparten på en respekterende måte. Ikke angrip personer direkte.
Hold deg til saken, bruk forståelige og gode argumenter og du kommer langt.