Indigenous population

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/nov/25/indigenous-peoples-benefit-development-tribal

Some of the points that I get from this link:
1)  Development turned most of the survivors into dispossessed paupers
  -this is because of high income, rate of employment and imprisonment

2) In North America and Australia, the colonists are trying to steal tribal lands without thinking about the tribes superiority.
-they are using the land for economic purpose
-the natives used to pay no taxes,using no money, but now, it is all "backward". They could have lived their old happy live without those problem.

3)Development takes away something that is already good for them.
-two main things are education and housing.
-Traditional housing has many benefit-not least the fact that it is free.
-In Papua, tribes people put their pigs in the new houses and live in the old one. This shows that they are more comfortable with their old houses.
-In Australia, the children were forced to enter boarding school which educate them to be workers. This situation turned them into an underclass which would not be if they live their old life.

4) Infrastructure development
-Dams and mines -enrich the elites while impoverishing the locals.

Chomsky - Foucault debate

From the debate, Chomsky tries to defend his opinion which the fundamental element of human nature is the need for creativity. He says that there is no arbitrary limiting effect. Human should maximize the possibilities to realize this fundamental human characteristic. Basically, he says that a free society without any limitation would be an ideal society.

On the other hand, Foucault states his thesis that the society is limited and controlled by a power. The power could be the government,police and etc. He disagree with Chomsky and says that the organizations that we live in looks like it is independent but the fact is they are controlled by a power of social class.

There are some good qualities from both of them in the debate:
- They do not disagree much about each other, instead, they say that they would rather emphasize this instead of that.
- They really listen to each other opinion and try to counter them with their points which well supported by facts and etc.

Good and bad things of a presentation

I have watched a TED video from Chris Jordan. Here are the good and bad things about his presentation:-

Good
- He organized his power point slides very well. The way he arranged the sequence of the pictures makes his presentation more effective.

-He used good phase of speaking. He knew when to speak slowly and the other way round.

-He did silent in his presentation. Silence is good after throwing a bunch of information to the audience and let them digest it. He silent quite a few times at the end of his presentation which is at the right time.

-He used an appropriate tone in his presentation. He used high tone when he wanted to stress out his opinion.

Bad

-Maybe he could walk a bit instead of just stay stationary at one spot.

Favorite Ad

I could not forget about this ad since the first time I watched it. This ad is telling that beauty is nothing without brain. It was made actually to sell a car. Although we could not get the message at the beginning of the ad, but at the end, it is perfectly delivered. It is really funny and maybe that makes this ad as one of the most popular ad. Take a look!

Assignment 2 feedback

I have got back my assignment 2 grade and it was not that good and certainly there is something I should work on. Generally, I have problem in determining the thesis and the main points of the essay and unfortunately that is the main thing in writing a summary. Mr. Victor gave feedback for my essay and he explained what I did wrong. From his feedback, I notice that my weaknesses are organization and context. I definitely should work more on organizing an essay as well as the context. I hope I could write a better essay next time.

First 2 weeks of classes !

After two weeks of Engl250 classes, I think, it went pretty well. I'm in a cross culture class, so I got to know more people from other countries. The lecturer was really friendly and one thing that he did in class was playing music before the class started. It creates a good mood for everybody and it makes the class more interesting. The materials for the course so far are good as we haven't started any assignment yet =). But I have learned new things such as creating a blog and this is my 4th post. It is quite a good start for me writing a blog. After all, I really enjoyed the classes and can't wait for the upcoming classes!

BLOG EXERCISE 1

I am quite sure everybody knows Mr. Bean, because of his silent comedy.  Here is a very good silent comedy from Gamarjobat. Take a look ! =)