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Без заголовка 15-05-2009 18:54


Summary: Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 film written by Simon Beaufoy and directed by Danny Boyle. The movie is about a young boy, Jamal Malik, who grew up in the slums and currently has a job serving tea to workers of a local call center. The whole movie takes place during an Indian version of the television game show of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’. To everyone’s surprise, Malik does extremely well, answering each and every question until he finally hits the one million dollar jackpot question, his final one. The show then stops there, and is announced to be continued as police interrogate young Jamal due to suspicions of cheating. It seems it was too hard for them to believe that a ‘street boy’, as they called it, like Jamal could have so much knowledge and be able to answer every question correctly. According to the television host, who taunted Jamal while the camera wasn’t on, doctors, lawyers and such professionals were the only people who would have the amount of knowledge to answer the questions, not someone from the streets who was living in poverty. The police continue to interrogate Jamal, and are convinced that he is lying. This causes them to act inhumanely towards Jamal as they begin to torture him by things such as electrocuting him with wires, beating him, until he “tells the truth”. Jamal has nothing to hide and he simply tells the truth, but the truth doesn’t seem to be what they want to hear. A police officer then brings out a recording of Jamals appearance on the television show, and pauses after every question, asking the young boy how he knew the answer to each question. Being the highly honest and forward person he is, he explains to them in full detail, each memory of his life that had caused him to know the answer to each question. He basically ends up telling the police officer his life story, about living in poverty, the death of his mother, never having a stable family, or even a place to live. Struggling to be safe, healthy and sustain himself and his brother, and later even a poor young girl in the same situation as them, Latika. Each scene shows the many struggles Jamal faced in his life being born into poverty, and he vividly explains each one and includes how it lead him to know the answer. He tells the story of how each day was different from the one before, each a new struggle and obstacle to face. He explains how the three of them were living on piles of garbage when an unfamiliar man comes, gives them each bottles of pop and tells them to come with him to his orphanage. Being young and naïve, they assumed he was a very good man, but it turns out he ran the orphanage to use these young children so they can beg and bring him back money. One day Jamals’ brother Salim decides to pull a quick one and grab his brother and Latika and run as he had scene the leader of the orphanage torture a young girl to make her blind, and was moving on to Jamal. They jump up on a train and as Jamal reaches out for Latika, unfortunately she doesn’t make it with them and is left behind. From then on Jamal lives a crazy life, based solely on pick pocketing, selling goods and faking to be tour guides for people at the Taj Mahal. Despite all that had changed he had always kept Latika in mind and never forgotten her. He tried his best to find her and when he finally did, she was being used as a prostitute who’s virginity was going to make her owner lots of money. Unfortunately, it didn’t last because they were separated again until years later when he ended up having to work serving tea at the call center. Jamal still never forgets Latika and finds her for the second time, this time only to find out she is married to the rich man, nearly 3 times her age who once owned her as a prostitute. At this time he is older and tells Latika to come be with him but she insists that he leave or else her husband might kill them both. He noticed though on the day he reunited with her she was watching the television game show which he learns that she watches a lot, so one day after losing touch with her again he appears on the show, hoping she would be watching, and that is when he does surprisingly well. He is stuck on the last question and decides to go through with it using his last lifeline and calling his brother, when to his surprise Latika answers…
She does not end up giving him an answer but he decides to guess and he guesses right. He then reunites with Latifa for the final time and end the movie with a kiss.

The topic I have chosen for my making connection project is poverty. The work I will be comparing it to is well know movie “ Slum dog millioner’. Before we start this essay we need to ask this question: what is poverty? Poverty is the state of being poor, not being able to provide you with basic needs such as food, water, housing, and education. In this movie, there were a lot of instances where we find connection to the poverty.
Jamal and his older brother both
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Без заголовка 15-05-2009 15:08


Families take precedence over
individuals and expect to be self-reliant.
However, individual achievement or
responsibility is not valued. Parents are
Protective of children and teach them to
conform toexpectations. Further, social skills
are given a high priority.
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webbb 15-05-2009 15:06


Erosion web quest
1. 1) Running water: streams possess both potential energy and kinetic energy. As water moves downstream, potential energy is converted into kinetic energy. Most of the kinetic energy is released as frictional heat, but a small amount remains to do the work of erosion and transportation.
2) Human activities: soil erosion by water cause of landscape degradation in semi-humid to semi-arid Mediterranean environments.
3) Wind: wind erosion is the detachment, transportation and redeposition of soil particles by wind and. The most familiar result of wind erosion is the loss of topsoil and nutrients which reduces the soil’s ability to produce crops.
4) Glaciers: glaciers not only transport material as they move, but the landscape. The ice erode the land surface and carries the broken rocks and soil debris far from their original places, resulting in some interesting glacial landforms.
5) Mass wasting: mass-wasting processes such as creep, landslides, and debris flows are distinguished from each other in part by weather they occur rapidly or slowly. Landslides are capable of transporting massive amounts of rock and soil down slope for miles in very short periods.

2. Weathering: includes two processes that often work, both of them occurs in place. And both of them with no movement and they are chemical weathering and mechanical weathering. Erosion: as soon of the rock particles which means loosened by one of the weathering processes moved, it called mass wasting or erosion.

3. The development of soil crust on sandy land may affect the surface hydrological process. The advanced biotic crust could increase evaporation and dew deposition compared to the primitive biotic crust and bare sand although the differences between them were not significant.

4. Alluvial fans are fan-shaped deposits of water-transported material ( alluvium) . They typically form the base of topographic features where there is a marked break in slope. Consequently, alluvial fans tend to be coarse-grained , especially at the their mouths. At their edges ,however, they can be relative fine –grained.

5. –waves-tides-ice

6. Where waves approach the coastline at an angle, when they break their swash pushes beach material up the beach at the same angle.
8. 1) living breakwater
2) bulkhead
3) groins
4) beach
5) more land
9. I think that it’s a problem because when people build a small house beside a lake or sea or beach here there is an erosion problem, after many years the house will be underwater because of the waves and the land moving from area to another then they need to change their building and move it to another place. And there is some reason that building houses are not allowed, because they know that because the erosion, the water moves in a big distance every year.
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Без заголовка 12-03-2009 14:52


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ggg 10-03-2009 15:05


Globalization Essay
Name: Jade Last


Globalization can be looked at in many different areas. You can look at how globalization affects the economy, politics, culture and even the law because globalization is the integration of economic, political, and cultural systems across the world.

The advances in communication and transportation technology, combined with free market ideology, have upgraded globalization. Many countries want to open world markets for their resources and take advantage of cheep labor markets in poor countries where their economies are not strong. However, even though this has created profits for the investors, it’s created angry labors that feel they have been ripped off.
In politics, National governments have been responsible for maintaining the security and welfare of their citizens, as well as the protection of human rights and the environment. With global changes, and a more diverse global economy, political activity is definitely increasing.

In my opinion, globalization and culture is the most recognized, and could possibly be the most important attribute to globalization. Globalization and culture is a day to day occurrence. When you wake up in the morning and watch television, or even see what’s on the news, it’s most likely happening somewhere else in the world. When you’re on the internet or your computer, and come across ad’s, or chat lines, it usually has something to do with globalization. Globalization is something that always keeps you connected with the world, and world occurrences.

Globalization and culture also has a lot in common with immigration. When people immigrate to different countries they become familiar to the way of life in that country. When people come to Canada or even the United states they become Americanized. Being Americanized means you change your way of life in some cases and become more aware of how life is lived in a different country. This happens a lot here in Canada where people from foreign countries come here all the time. These people also bring different religions, and ethnic backgrounds. This also helps people in Canada to be more aware of different cultures and ways of life.


Globalization isn’t always positive, even though I think in most cases it should be. Globalization can cause countries to loose money and can cause poverty. People in countries such as Mexico, India and Sri lanka for example, have no other means of living besides working in sweat shops. These people make clothes that people in more developed countries wear. Even though there has been debates and protects against this, little progress has been made. Sometimes, it’s the case of working in sweat shops to support their families or not working at all, to receive no income. Countries such as the United States and Canada benefit largely from overseas trading. Because the USA is so powerful and wealthier then most or all countries it has the upper hand on most or all things. Therefore when it comes to trading, the benefits usually vary dramatically with USA and their trading partners, and the same usually goes for Canada as well.

I think globalization is a good thing when it comes to being aware of politics, and news around the world. For example. If I were to want to take a vacation to Iraq, without news, television and the internet I wouldn’t know there was a current war going on.

Neverhtheless, I think globalization can be looked at in many different ways. The subject has many pros and cons, some of which I have stated. In ones opinion globalization can be positive, and negative to another. Globalization is a topic of debates and discussion.
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Заголовок 16-02-2009 14:54


Being a person with an extremely diverse background has shaped the person I am today.

Armenian, Russian and Canadian culture are the three main cultures that i carry as i was born in

Armenia, grew up in Russia and then moved to Canada in 2003.

In my family there are five people, I am the oldest child. Growing up my mom was the one

who was always working and supporting our family. My dad had a job but half of his pay would do

towards alcohol. After couple years my mom got tired of that, and when I turned six my parents got

divorced. When my mom was only sixteen years old she lost both of her parents on Earthquake in

Armenia. Loosing her parents impacted her life a lot, she lived alone with her fifteen years old

sister, because of lack of love my mom had she end up marrying when she was only nineteen

years old. My dad had a big family , parents and 5 brothers. My dad’s father past away before I

was born. So I have never had a grandfather and only have one grandmother till present day. My

aunt Sofia moved to capital of Russia, to go to university to be a fashion designer. My mom , my

younger sister Liana and I moved to Central Asia, in hopes to find better life and also be away

from my dad. We lived there for few years, my mom got married . We were one happy family . In

2003 my step dad and my mom decide to move to Canada . We got a new member to your family

brother David. That’s where my life was complete.

My dad and his family were born in Armenia, same with my mom’s family. I was also born

and Armenia but raised in Russian. I am a pure Armenian girl.

I am a student at Halifax West High School, I will graduate in June 2009. My plans for my

future is to go to university study international business for my major and for my minor to study

sociology.

I have been very healthy person till age of fifteen. Since then I have been sick very often, I

had surgery, chicken pox, and been sick every winter none stop. But other than that I still consider

my self a healthy person. I eat healthy, trying to follow Canada’s food guide.

I come from middle class family, my dad is a business man. He sells BNW cars all over Russia,

and also owns shoe company and convenience stores. My mom for now she is a stay

home mom, but she went to cooking school we used to own a restaurant back home, my step dad

is a doctor, and I also as many teenagers have part time job at Bentley luggage store.

I was born in Armenia , but raised in Russia since I was few month old. My dad’s family

are very traditional his family lived in Russia for many year but yet they speak Armenian at home

and with each other. In my house I speak Russian and also understand Armenian language, my

third language would be English.

I live in a very friendly and quit neighbourhood . Everything very close to my house such

as bus stops, mall, grocery stores, wal-mart, schools , gas station etc. There are also a lot of parks

around where my little brother can play and so and many other kids.

Being a girl of Armenian Christian descent has played a big role on making up the person

I am today. After moving to Russia, I also adapted to the culture there a bit as well. Generally, an

Armenian girl is expected to be more conservative and in Russia it was the opposite, therefore I

had found a happy medium. After moving to Canada, I still carried the same values with me. I have

adapted to Canadian culture as well and being a girl in Canada I think gives you much more

freedom than a lot of other countries so I am thankful for that. For example, in Canada I can spend

time with as many of my male friends as I want and I know I won’t have to worry about people

judging and known families immediately talking to my parents about it as if it were an issue. All in

all, from experience, I think that your status as a certain gender, varies depending on the society

you are surrounded by.

Even thought my family does not go to church very Sunday , but yet I think we are

religions family . In my opinion religion is not a big deal, its just a label there is only one God. My

step dad is from Afghanistan he is Muslim and so is my brother. My mom, sister and I are Christian

Orthodox. We do follow every religions holidays and know do pray sometimes.

I consider my self very athletic. I used to play Basketball, Badminton in Junior High and

Soccer first year of High School. I also love to read on my free time. I love working with numbers

as well.

As I mention already my status is I am a grade twelve student at Halifax West High School

and also have part time job at Bentley , I have been working there for almost a year. My first job

was at Fairweather.

I come from traditional family and want one day to have husband and kids. At age twelve

first time I believe I got
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Без заголовка 13-06-2008 16:10


I am Doaa Hamid, proud student of Halifax West High School. Three years
that i have been at Halifax West High school, taught me alot.
I am a person from a different country, thats speaks different language.
Coming to high school i was very scared but yet I was very excited because
i was forward
meeting new people.
High school taught me different things such as everyone are equal,
everyone have their own opinions .
I am very happy thats this the school i went too because being
away from my mother land and my family was very hard,
at some point i was home sick but this school change it.
I met many people who has exact same interests as I do.
Halifax West High school has many people from different
parts of the world.
I am very glad to be at this stage where i am now..
With a hard work and hard times . I would like to take my time
and thank all my teachers who had to deal with
me in my bad and good moments.
i would also like to thank my guidance for helping me to choose
the courses, with their help I got the right education that I am
looking forward learning about it.
But the Importand person i would like to thank is Miss Carmen,
she is the person that helped many students in this school, with
different topics: school related, family problems ..etc
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Без заголовка 18-03-2008 21:54


http://www.wordtravels.com/Travelguide/Countries/Jordan/Climate/
climate
July and August are the hottest and driest months of the year, especially in Amman (capital city of Jordan) and the Jordan Valley, and in the desert areas, with temperatures 36°C. Spring and autumn are the most pleasant times to visit with clear, sunny days and moderate temperatures. The winter months from November to April can be very cold, particularly in Amman, with snow, rain and wind, but there is little rainfall in the desert regions and in Aqaba.
CULTURAL FEATURES
http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Asia-and-Oceania/Jordan-LANGUAGES.html
Languages: Arabic (official), English widely understood among upper and middle classes
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Без заголовка 13-06-2007 20:17


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halifax west high school 09-09-2006 05:56


за эти 3 дня в школе так много чего случилось ...............

1. это школа моей мечты ............
2. постречала одного парня .......
3. на всех остальных забила .............
4. мне неповёзло с 2м классами
5. о сём расскажу потом .........
6.я рада

pictures of my school
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