How does culture influence one’s belief systems and how can getting to know different cultures change your own belief system? Use the film and your own experiences in your answer. ¨ A culture can be referred to the values, beliefs, and norms a specific group of people share with each other. And culture can influence…
Trinidad
Trinidad How Trinidadian folk speech differs from Standard English As we know, the English-speaking world is huge, and there are many countries that use English as their first and official language, or Creole as a Lingua Franca. Trinidad is an island located outside the northeastern coast of Venezuela. The country uses English as its official…
Technology – a necessary tool
Technology can be the solution to many questions, and I believe it is an important object to create a sustainable, modern and better world. In this blog post, I will compose why I think technology can help develop and be a helpful tool in our daily lives. Technology is in constant development and with its…
Spotlight
An aspect of the film, Spotlight, that showed me something I had not thought of thoroughly before, was how priests have been molesting young children for decades. Thinking of the Catholic church, your first thought is not to compare the church and molested children. However, it taught me a new part of the story and…
The Kite Runner – comparison
In this blog post I am going to compare the book and the movie with the same name, The Kite Runner, and reflect a little upon my thoughts of the book and the movie. Both the movie and the book, The Kite Runner, almost follow the same storyline from the start to the end. However,…
The Kite Runner – characters
In “The Kite runner”, there are several characters central for the story. Amir, the main character is a big part of the plot. He is the story’s narrator and is an important part of all the events happening in the book. Amir is quite privileged, both because his father is wealthy and because of his…
Killed for telling the truth
In the past year, 2018, there were 53 journalists announced dead while carrying out their jobs. The Guardian wrote about these happenings in an article titled “’Killed for speaking the truth’: tributes to nine journalists murdered in 2018”. One of the victims mentioned were Leslie Ann Pamela Montenegro del Real, or ´Nana Pelucas` as she…
Brick Lane – A multicultural society
I can imagine in a neighborhood like Brick Lane, there will be people facing challenges because of the multicultural society. When different religions, countries and cultures meet in the same society, not everyone will have the same beliefs or opinions. The movie, Brick lane,is portraying this for us among other things, through religion. Nasneen is…
OD 2018
One of the things I really like about the international day at Fagerlia is all the different aspects we get from stories. People telling about something that stands very close to themselves. It opens up our eyes when we hear about the world’s problems from people with a closer connection to these different situations. The lecture…
“One girl with courage is a revolution”
This is my thoughts and meanings about the movie Girl Rising. It is a film about the benefit of educating girls. The story that made the greatest impression on me during this film was Amina’s story. Amina lives in Afghanistan and was forced to encounter in child marriage in an age of 13-14. She said…
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