Visit to Maycomb in the 30´s

"Maycomb is a little and beutiful old town located in the southern state Alabama. In this town theres all types of weathers, from sunny days to storms and tornados. When I arrived to Maycomb the first thing that called my attention where the house, the old victorian houses remembered me my days in England, but there where few people in town. The people in the 1930´s dressed very fancy and formal, in my opnion, i was like "who wll wear a suit in middle of the summer, in a day as hot as a oven. Most of men used suits called the American summer suit with hats and with silk hankercheifs in their jacket pockets.Also most of the boys used shirts and short pants with overalls when playing and long socks, And the girls used mostly fancy or normal dresses and adult women also weared dresses but they were more fancy. There were a few houses becose of the few population . They all use Victorian Style as i said in the beginning but i have to highlight it becose of the beutiful architecture. Only rich people had cars. The cars where so beutiful also they give the air of the old times. The car i could see the most in town in the 1930's was the Cadillac Twelve and the Rolls royce , two beutiful cars very expensive in those times.Also the nature in the city was in every corner or sidewalk of the street.Yesterday in my daily morning walk i could see how the black people where segregated of the white people like there where some shops for white people and sme stores for black people, also i didnt saw a black and white couple, nothing,and when i bought a newspaper the headlines where "Black raper defended by white lawyer".
After my walki was so hungry but i could only get a sandwich from a store and the next day left town thinking how is this town goin to be in the future.

What cultural elements called your attention? What is similar to and what is different from our Chilean culture?               

The New Zealanders, or Kiwis as they like to call themselves, are really obsessed with Rugby. Much the same as Football in our country, possibly even more so, Rugby is everywhere; the players appear on TV, in advertisments, they do interviews on the radio, on chat shows, the players are idolized. All everybody talks about is Rugby, they are obsessed.

Something i found quite suprising was everybody´s trust in other people. In our country you couldnt walk around with anything valuable visible unless you wanted them to get stolen, or raxed as some people call it here. In New Zealand you can quite happily, and without any worries walk around alone and very late at night with valuables, you can even leave windows to your house open with out worries of anything getting stolen.

In New Zealand everybody is quite open to talking to strangers, in Chile you can not walk up to somebody on the street that you didnt know and have a conversation, especially if you are alone. I was quite surprised when in a mall a stranger started up a harmless conversation with me. Everybody seems nice.

New Zealand and Chile have many similarities and differences. It was interesting being able to experience a new culture that was so different to the one we have in Chile.  

                                                       New Zealand Task

The New Zealanders, or Kiwis, love their physical activities. These activities always include sports; the preffered sport is Rugby. Rugby is everywhere in New Zealand, everyone is talking about it, its on TV, its on the radio, the advertising companies even use the players to make a bit of money. Wherever you go the Rugby supporting atmoshere follows.

 Almost every child in New Zealand has played in a Rugby team at some point in their lives. To start off with the kids catch on to the rugby atmosphere and try to enter a team, the parents have no problem with that, of course they were in a team when they were younger too. Its not uncommon to find female rugby teams as well, this is very unlike any other country where it is mostly a male sport.

Another typically Kiwi obsession is one with the outdoors. New Zealand has a lot of plant and animal life and New Zealanders have learned to apreciate this. New Zealand is known for its very clean green and pollution free image.

New Zealanders are proud of their culture and will have a lot to say about rugby and the outdoors given the chance to do so. Its the Kiwi way.

 
         

Animal Farm Questions

Animal Farm Questions

1)What is your reaction to the animals revolution? Explain.
I thought that the revolution was a good thing because the animals were being treated badly by the humans and it was time for that to stop.


2) Do you sympathize with the animals complaints and goals? Why? Why not?
Yes i do because the animals were being treated badly by the humans and they didnt deserve it.

3) Describe how the rebellion takes place? How does the animals behavior during the rebellion suggest human characteristics?
The rebelliontakes place when the animals attack the human farmers and start to controlthe farm themselves. the animals start to show human characteristics when they start to do distinctly human things such as build things, sleep in beds and read books.


4) How do the pigs gain the rights to the cows milk? Why do the other animals allow this? What does this event suggest about power hierarchy on the farm?
the pigs gained rights to the milk by convincing the other animals that it was a benifit to them. the pigs use the claiming of the milk as an example to the other animals that they are at the top of the hierarchy on the farm


5) What was your reaction to Snowball´s expulsion from Animal farm? Explain.
I was shocked because snowball wanted to help and he was a good leader but because of Napolean he died even though  he didnt deserve it.

6) Identify three ways that Napoleon tries to solidify his leadership position on the farm. How does the process of decision making on the farm change under Napoleon´s leadership?
Napoleon used several ways to solidify his leadership position including, the execution, the claiming of the milk and by threats. The decision making process changed under Napleon´s leadership, it changed from a democracy to a dictatorship where Napoleon makes all the decisions.


7)Why do the executions take place? What message do these events send to animals about their role in a future society?
The executions take place to get rid of snowball even though another reason is given  by Napoleon. This shows the other animals that if they do something that Napoleon doesnt like you might getkilled.

8) Do you think it´s fair that those who are more educated or more skilled - like the pigs in animal farm- have more influence in the decision making? Who makes the decisions in your family, community and nation?
I think its fair for the more educated and more skilled to have more influence in the decision making because they are more likely to make a good decision. in my family my parents make the decisions because they are older and more experienced, in my community the headmaster makes the decisions because he has had to work hard to get theposition so he must be experienced, in my nation the president makes the decisons.


9) By the end of the film it can be suggested that the pigs and human political leaders are interchangeable. How might power change those who have it?
Power might bring out things in people that wouldnt be shown if they didnt have power.


10)In your opinion are the pigs in Animal Farm more intelligent than all the other animals? What qualities enabled them to lead the others? Provide examples that support your answer.
I think that the pigs are more intelligent than the other animals because they know how to lead in an organised way and are manipulative. An example of this is when they start to create laws and rules to keep the animals in order.

Old major's speech

Old major's speech

 Select at least 20 phrases where the idea of language and power are present, or that represent an appropiate to appeal the audience. Explain 5 of them. Explain how the ideas help motivate the rest of the animals,  make reference to the films when necessary. Add a picture related.

1) No animal in England is free.
In this quote from the old majors speech we can see how he tries to express his feeling making reference to all the animals in England.

2) I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom.

3) No animal in Englad knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old.

Here the old major (maybe becose of self experience) says the sad truth about the animals in the farm.

4)Our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
Also in this quote he briefly explains how is the life in the farm, a miserable life.

5) Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours?

6) We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength.

7) The soil of England is fertile, its climate is good, its is capable of affording food in abundance to an enormously greater number of animal that now inhabit it.

8) Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own.

9) You cows that I see before me, how many thousands of gallons of milk have you given during this last year? ... Every drop of it has gone down the throats of our enemies

10) All animals are comrades.

Here he tries to explain that the animals should live in peace and not to fight with other animals, but fight his common enemy the humans.

11) All men are enemies.

Here using the power of the language he express his feelings towards the humans making the other animals feel the same.

12) Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle.

13) This single farm of ours would supper a donzer horses, twenty cows, hundereds of sheep and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining.

14) Why then do we continue in this miserable condition?

15) Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits.

16) The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

17) And you hens, how many eggs have you laid in this last year, and how many of those eggs ever hatched into chickens? The rest have all gone to market to bring in money for Jones and his men.

18) That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion!

19) Almost overnight we could become rich and free. What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race!

20) Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.