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A respond to the challenge from Carina Jurs

The Falkland War

1. European settlers and explorers were the people who lived on the Falkland Islands. They were not inhabited before the European nations started their colonization.
2. It was important for the UK to maintain control over the Islands because they wanted to protect their territory and not let Argentina reoccupy the islands after they had already managed to take control. Nationalism and patriotism were key factors as well. They already had British settlers on the islands which they wanted to “protect” and keep the islands under British rule.
3. Because it’s located right next to their country, and they did not want the British people that close to them.
4. General Menéndez ignoring orders from Buenos Aires to gather all the remaining forces and go into a suicidal counter-attack, surrendered unconditionally to Major General Moore, bringing the conflict to an end.
5. About 800 people died in the war
6. The Falklands campaign was considered a great victory for the United Kingdom. The Tory government of Margaret Thatcher was reelected the following year by a landslide. Even though the national economy was by then starting to recover from the recession, this change in the public opinion became known as the Falklands factor.

Welcome to the best place in the entire world.

Hello my fellow bloggers, I am going to tell you about the place I live. I live in eastern norway in a "village" known as Pocket Valley. This is a place where everybody knows everybody, kind of like the state Minnesota in the US. We have an absolutely EXTREME ski-resort with a huge terrain park. You should also check out rema 1000 which is located in the very center of this neat little village. We don't have mountain dew in our village, which isn't pimp. But we do have solo! Here are some things you should check out if you ever come to Norway:

1. Our fjords

2. Our girls

3. Our boys

4. Our mountains

5. And my friend Philip

Into the Wild

The book ”into the wild” is about a young man named McCandless who decides to do something really weird with his life. Right after he graduates from college he leaves for Alaska to walk around in the wild, with nothing with him at all. He burned his wallet and gave away lots of money to charity before he left for his adventure. His reason for this journey is that he wanted to die, but not a normal boring death. He left his mom, dad and sister at home, and they never heard from him after he left. The book describes how McCandles struggles for over 3 months in the tough Alaskan wilderness. He eats berries to stay alive, but he ends up dying because he eats some poisonous potato roots. Jon Krakauer is a very good writer, and he got my attention for most of the time, I thought the book was cool but not too exciting; it should have had some more interesting twists and surprises. I would recommend this book to people who likes a story that could have happened in any person’s life, and that’s what is so good about this book.

15 min presentation not prepared!

Today in my Norwegian class, we were supposed to hold a pretty long presentation about a chosen topic. We did this in groups of 3 or more, and my group held a 15 minute long presentation about the famous author: Roald Dahl. It was me, Philip and Caspar. We agreed late last night that we were going to talk about this guy, instead of Jostein Gaarder, and none of us regret it now. We figured out pretty quick that he was much more fun to read about, and that his books are quite interesting and special. Our teacher videotaped us while we had our presentation, probably so he could evaluate us more fairly, and see how we connected to both him and the audience. I thought it was pretty fun, much because we didn’t have any notes or papers in front of us that we could look at; we basically improvised and carried on talking when one of us stopped. The main topic for this presentation was: Norwegian literature after the war. Some people were talking about cartoons, others politicians and so on. At the end of the hour, Ansdreas Veiersted who is our teacher, made a short quiz for us, the quiz was about literature of course, but it was pretty cool, and a nice way to end the first semester of school for that class. Philip, Caspar and me didn’t do very well on it, but we didn’t really care that much. I have been sick for about 4 days now, so my voice is really messed up, and my nose is driving me crazy. I don’t really feel like going to school because of this, but I have to because of my attendance. I just hope I will get better before I leave for the US.

The Valley of Elah

This movie shows how the war can change a young soldier, and his family’s life. It gives us a view of what can happen when a body is found chopped up into several pieces, and the police don't have a lot of clues, or evidence. This movie is about a soldier that was brutally murdered and the killer is on the loose, and how his family deals with it. Valley of Elah shows us how a life of an American soldier varies from when he’s serving, after he served and from the family’s point of view, the father in particular. We can easily see that his son changed pretty quickly when he went to Iraq to try to help establishing a democracy there. The short video clips the father gets makes him think that it was something weird in this case, and he was right. The friendship between the soldiers is very strong, but it includes drugs, alcohol and some messed up minds.