Slave Labour

Dear Sir

Hello my name is Clint. I have read your article about how a shop is selling cheap clothes made in Bangladesh and I will share my opinion on the matter.

It’s true that because the clothes are cheap, the store has an incredible profit. Everyone wants to spend as least money possible, so they buy which ever one is the cheapest and they don’t stop to think where those clothes were made or how.

For me it is important to understand where they were made and the conditions in which the workers did them, because as many wont know slavery is still a thing in some parts of the world. There are more slaves now a days than when slavery was legal, that is just incredible.

Many salves work for these clothing lines, whom get good work for nothing in return and the workers or slaves get treated badly, because the producers care more about money than human lives. They think of slaves as disposable, therefore they do everything they can to build their brand on the lowest budget possible so that they can sell it for cheap but still make a lot of money out of it.

The sad part is that many of the people who are slaves don’t even realize they are, this happens because they are used to it form birth or they think they are getting a fair deal but they have nothing to compare it to.

But the saddest part is that many people do know that the prices are probably as cheap as they are because of the usage of slavery but if they can spare a few bucks they are happy to look the other way and just buy it.

Yours faithfully,

Clint Kattwinkel

Blog entry 2

Governments all around the world are certainly faced with a wide range of problems; one of them is the balance between how they treat people with different ages and/or sickness. This is a problem because you cannot treat children the same as adults because they haven’t reached the level of maturity necessary to coexist with society, and you can’t treat a sick person the same as a healthy one because it would deteriorate their condition.

For example, governments need to build ramps for handicapped people because it isn’t their fault they got injured or sick, but not all of the governments treat every class equally or with the same benefits, it is as if they would just do what is easier and what has the lowest cost until a rule appears by which they have to do something.

That’s when the moral comes in, when you put a group before another and you choose to ignore an issue hence causing many protests and complains.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic"

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic"

-Arthur C. Clarke

First of all to understand and have a wider view of the statement of the quote by Arthur C. Clarke we have to explain the main concepts in the quote, which are magic and technology.

Magic is, according to oxford living dictionaries, “The power of apparently influencing events by using mysterious or supernatural forces”. Therefore used to explain things we can’t explain or that are so advanced that we don’t understand how they work.

On the other side, technology means: the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry. Hence a natural difference between both of them, one mysterious and another scientific knowledge.

The quote states that if a technology is sufficiently advanced to the extent in which we no longer understand how it works or how it is built (this might be different for every person) we assume it to be magic because as the definition states it, magic is mysterious and can’t be explained; making any extremely advanced technology, magic to a lot of people. This happens because they can’t explain it. (176 words)

FICTITIOUS CONVERSATION WITH PROBLEM RESOLUTION (INTRODUCTION - PROBLEM SOLVING WITH DIFFERENT ALTERNATIVES (discussion)- CONCLUSION.

Instruccions: Play the roles of a teacher and a parent/caregiver discussing their concerns about how much time their child is spending on their laptops/iPads between use of technology in school and at home.

* the following dialogue is in order of the text.

Parent
(Intro): 

My child has been spending a lot of time on his electronic devices which really bothers me. I don't want him to miss out on what our world has to offer because of him "living" in a virtual world and I think that if he spends this much time on his devices for a long time his sight will deteriorate.

Teacher
(Paragraph 1):

Now a days kids spend much of their time on electronic devices, such as laptops or ipads, and that has a lot o parents concerned, not just you. We are in a new era, new generation, new century and we have to learn to adapt to our new opportunities, like electronic devices which help us in our daily tasks. But, they can also be a concern.


(Paragraph 2):

These electronic devices can be really helpful and there for many schools have kids do works on them, because of the many gadgets they have and offer and because it helps in a way reduce the use of paper and work materials used before they were developed.

(Paragraph 3):

A healthy way to use them is to always know our restrictions. We need to know when it's reached a point on which it is damaging for us to used them and then stop, because as long as we use them in a correct way they will always be helpful. That's when the restrictions come, we have to be at a point were we are not totally reliable on them because that is unhealthy and could cost us dearly if they disappear one day.

(Conclusion):

So, if you are worried about the time your son spends on electronic devices, first of all check if he is using them for something productive or for just entertainment, if he is using them for something productive, let him use them as much as he likes. If however he is using them for entertainment just put down some rules, and have a maximum time limit on them so that he can't spend that much time on them.

Parent

(Conclusion):

Thank you, I will start to check on how my son is using these devices and once I know how and for what he uses them I will implement a time limit on counterproductive use. I will try to find the right balance between these two aspects so that I feel that he is not wasting his time.

Text types

LINKS: 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/opinion/a-coup-against-the-supreme-court.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/opinion/not-so-divided-after-all-on-foreign-policy.html?ref=opinion 

TASK 1: 

1. WHAT TYPE OF TEXTS HAVE YOU JUST READ? 

Political and informative texts 

1. STATE 3 SIMILARITIES AND 3 DIFFERENCES COMPARING BOTH TEXTS

similarities: 

They both talk about politics

they are narrative texts 

the have back up to their info.

Diferences:

one focuses more on the present

one has statistics with precise numbers

one has more quotes than the other

1. IDENTIFY AND POINT OUT WITH A CHECK MARK OR A CROSS WHETHER THE TEXTS HAVE THE FOLLOWING ELEMENTS OR NOT:

(don't know how to put a check mark or a cross in blogger)

• Introduction, body and conclusion YES
• An objective explanation of the issue YES
• A timely news angle NO
• Opinions from the opposing viewpoint that refute directly the same issues the writer addresses NO
• The opinions of the writer delivered in a professional manner YES
• Alternative solutions to the problem or issue being criticized YES
• A solid and concise conclusion that powerfully summarizes the writer's opinion YES

TASK 2:

WHAT KIND OF TEXT DID YOU IDENTIFIED?

A statistical and influential political text 

Pseudoscience tobacco advertising from the bad old days

this has a great impact because they are all from the same company and they use claims that aren't certain in some of the posters, because for example everyone is different and the experience of tabac is different in every organism, so you can not say that it has no unpleasant taste at the end.

They all claim to have done scientific research and that it has been proven, with the intensions of convincing the audience, and they all have facts to back them. 

Undocumented immigration

4.1.1

• should they stop accepting immigrants even though they are in need? 

4.1.2

• why do people hate helping other people in need and judge them based on their lifestyle?

4.1.3

• is it fair to discriminate just because they don't share the same lifestyle or opportunities?