American dream

What is the American dream for the average person today?

Note: These numbers are from 2009 and may not show exactly how things are today.

One could think that the American dream is something that doesn’t fit with reality, different articles and examinations has shown something quite different: About 45% of Americans say they have achieved their dream, 31% think they are going to achieve it within their lifetime and 20% has given up on their dream. This is actually an increase from 4 years earlier (2005), where fewer thought they were going to achieve it.

It is said that in hard times, people tend to cling harder to their dreams; often those dreams also turn into more abstract goals rather than material.

Therefore, if anyone wonders if people still believe in the American dream, the answer is yes. Even though the definition of what the dream is has changed greatly.

Quotes by Oscar Wilde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Qyt2KXTnE

A quote by Oscar Wilde

I chose the quote "The truth is rarely pure and never simple", because I find it somewhat true. I get this feeling that we lie to eachother to cover up what we dont want to come out, and we to keep it uncovered we lie even more. But we all know that one day a lie will come to light and when it dose we will get another lie

A letter from Nazneen’s sister Hasina ( the book brick lane)

Creative stunts

Task 1

A letter from Nazneen’s sister Hasina.

Dear Nazneen, our mother is down with fever. This leaves a lot of work for me. There are food to be cooked and dishes to wash, tables to clean. I was eavesdropping on a conversation where our dad said something about another wedding.  I am worried what happened to you may happened to me. You know having a forced marriage. I do not know what to do. I know that I cannot get married until I am 18 years old, but the thought of being given away. Well it’s not something I look forward to.

The food prices is getting sky high, and dad has to work twice as hard. More than once he hasn’t come home. What he have told me he began to work in the mines again. We had quite an argument, you see there have been quite recently a few bombs near the roads, so naturally I was worried.  I even said I was willing to go work in the carpet factory, but our father denied me to do so.

You are probably worried sick, that may be a reason to write you this letter to stop you from doing something stupide. I am doing fine, I hope mom soon gets better it would get a lot easier and I would go back to work and our economy would be better. There are all sort of things to do before it gets to cold (the winter). But you know all this, all the time you helped mom harvesting and tending to the animals.

I hope we keep in touch, but if you can do anything to maybe talk our parents out of giving me away, it would mean a lot to me. I wish you all the luck in the world and I hope we will see each other again.

What shaped English

3000 BC: didnt have any specific language, but they raised Stonehenge

700 BC: the celts arrived to the Great Britan

43 AD: the romans invaded

409 AD: the romans left

793 AD: the vikings attacked the Lindisfarne monastery

1171 AD: henry the 2. secures Ireland

1337 AD: the 100 year war with france

1485 AD: henry the 8. is crowned

1564 AD: Shakespeare

1783 AD: american colonies independens

1914-1918: WW1

1939-1945: WW2

English as a global language.

The English language began with the romans leaving britan, making it possible for other tribes to come to britian taking with them everyday words. The vikings came with the words kill, die, rape and rob. The vikings came with around 2000 words, Sheakspeare also came with aruond 2000 words. Then the English traveled all around the world taking there language with them. When peolpe began to go to these new land they tok words the natives used on plants, and animals. The internet came and along the English language spred. 

The road not taken

We went for a walk, and the task was to describe your suroundings, what you smell, hear and se.
I walked down a road. the road felt like any other road. I walked by many roads that day, many roads not taken.

A trip to hell

Tuesday

Tuesday last week, we went on a trip to a place in norway called Helvete or Hell in english. it wasnt a fun trip to Helvete, it was a long drive with one stop at Lillehammer, were we had one hour, to get somthing to eat, and some food for the next few days. Arriving in helvete, which is a pothole. The pothole is made by water. Going back to the buss wet to the bones, we went to a campsite where we slept in tents.

Wednesday

 

We stopped in a place called Lom where we had a littel brake. After that we went to a museum about mountains and then under a snowdrift to look at som ice that is 6000 years old.

we came out of the snowdrift and drove down from the mountains to the place that we whould be staying for to nights.

 

Thursday 

 

We climbed a mountain, it tok six hours up and down. Down at camp som of us eat bad food the

threw up.

 

Friday

We tok the buss home, and stopped to times. We where home around five a clock.

 

 

 

 

Relationships

The song "I am a rock" (by Paul Simon) is about standing alone, and don't let people get to closse to you and your life. The song " You'll never stand alone" (by Rogers and Hammerstein, written for the musical Carousel) is the opposite. Whatever you do we will support you, and we are by your side. The poem " No man is an island" (byJohn Domne) is about the same thing as the song you'll never stand alone.
I liked "I am a rock" it explains why you shouldn't have friends, and that it's painfull to let someone into your life and then get left behind.