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Týsdagur 26. august 2014
kl. 09.30-12.30
Loyvdir hjálparmiðlar: orðabøkur og mállærur.
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FRAMSETING
Tú skalt velja eitt av hesum evnunum og skriva um tað:
A. You and your Country......................................................................... s.3-5
Answer 1 or 2:
1. Reflect on John F. Kennedy’s famous quote on patriotism.
Compare his statement with two of the other quotes and
discuss the pros and cons of the term “patriotism.”
Essay title: Me and my Country
2. Read the proclamation of the borderless imaginary country Nutopia and compare
it’s promised freedom for the individual with the bonds that might be laid on the
individual in a society run by patriotism as it is defined in the quotes and Wikipedia
definitions above.
Essay title: Patriotism and the Individual
B. Pictures................................................................................................. s.6-7
Answer 1 or 2 or 3:
1. Analyze the lyrics of the song. Why do you think the song
ends with the plea: “Don’t show me no more, please?”
Essay title: The Song
2. Write the story of the boy in the picture.
Essay title: The Boy
3. Write an essay about modern day picture-taking in general, including selfies and Snapchat habits and compare it with the “old fashioned way” of photographing.
Essay title: People take Pictures
C. A Friend in Need.................................................................................. s.8
Answer 1 or 2:
1. Write a story about your most memorable schooldays.
Essay title: My Schooldays
2. Write about the statement: “School is the preparation for the world of work”.
Criticize and discuss the statement.
Use som good arguments.
Essay title: School and Work
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You and your Country
Patriotism is, generally speaking, cultural attachment to one’s homeland or devotion to
one’s country, although interpretations of the term vary with context, geography and political
ideology. It is a set of concepts closely related to those of nationalism.
The English term patriot is first attested in the Elizabethan era, via Middle French from
Late Latin (6th century) patriota “countryman”, ultimately from Greek πατριώτης (patriōtēs)
“countryman”, from πατρίς (patris), “fatherland”.[4] The abstract noun patriotism appears in
the early 18th century.
[Definition from Wikipedia]
Nationalism is a belief, creed or political ideology that involves an individual identifying
with, or becoming attached to, one’s nation. Nationalism involves national identity, by
contrast with the related construct of patriotism, which involves the social conditioning and
personal behaviors that support a state’s decisions and actions.
[Definition from Wikipedia]
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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do
for your country.
John F. Kennedy, the 35th American president – in office 1961-1963 (born 1917 – died
1963)
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde, Irish author (born 1854 – died 1900)
You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is
wrong, no matter who says it.
Malcolm X, black American Activist (born 1925 – died 1965)
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were
born in it.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish author and philosopher (born 1856 – died 1950)
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly,
viciously.
Julian Barnes, English author (born 1946)
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in
modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for
no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway, American author (born 1899 – died 1961)
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Howard Zinn, American author (born 1922 – died 2010)
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism,
since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically
the same.
George Orwell, English author (born 1903 – died 1950)
Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
Mick Jagger, English singer/songwriter and founder member of The Rolling Stones (born
1943)
The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals, Catalan (Spanish) musician and conductor (born 1876 – died 1973)
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when
men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke, English author and Science writer (born 1817 – died 2008)
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We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NUTOPIA.
Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NUTOPIA.
NUTOPIA has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people.
NUTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic.
All people of NUTOPIA are ambassadors of the country.
As two ambassadors of NUTOPIA, we ask for diplomatic immunity and recognition in
the United Nations of our country and its people.
John Ono Lennon, English singer/songwriter and founder member of The Beatles, born
1940 – died 1980
& Yoko Ono Lennon, Japanese avant-garde artist, born 1933)
What you have to write:
Answer 1 or 2:
1. Reflect on John F. Kennedy’s famous quote on patriotism.
Compare his statement with two of the other quotes and
discuss the pros and cons of the term “patriotism.”
Essay title: Me and my Country
2.
Read the proclamation of the borderless imaginary country
Nutopia and compare it’s promised freedom for the individual
with the bonds that might be laid on the individual in a society
run by patriotism as it is defined in the quotes and Wikipedia
definitions above.
Essay title: Patriotism and the Individual
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B
Pictures
People take Pictures of each other
(Ray Davis)
People take pictures of the Summer,
Just in case someone thought they had missed it,
And to prove that it really existed.
Fathers take pictures of the mothers,
And the sisters take pictures of brothers,
Just to show that they love one another.
You can’t picture love that you took from me,
When we were young and the world was free.
Pictures of things as they used to be,
Don’t show me no more, please.
People take pictures of each other,
Just to prove that they really existed,
Just to prove that they really existed.
People take pictures of each other,
And a moment could last them forever,
Of the time when they mattered to someone.
People take pictures of the Summer,
Just in case someone thought they had missed it,
Just to prove that it really existed.
People take pictures of each other,
And the moment to last them forever,
Of the time when they mattered to someone.
Picture of me when I was just three,
Sat with my ma by the old oak tree.
Oh how I love things as they used to be,
Don’t show me no more, please.
Talgilt tilfar
People take Pictures of each other, was written by Ray Davies from the
group the Kinks and was included on the group’s 1968 album ”The Kinks
are the Village Green Preservation Society”
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What you have to write:
Answer 1 or 2 or 3:
1. Analyze the lyrics of the song. Why do you think the song
ends with the plea: “Don’t show me no more, please?”
Essay title: The Song
2. Write the story of the boy in the picture.
Essay title: The Boy - (My uploaded childhood)
3. Write an essay about modern day picture-taking in general, including selfies and Snapchat habits and compare it with the “old fashioned way”
of photographing.
Essay title: People take Pictures
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Schooldays
What you have to write:
Answer 1 or 2:
1. Write a story about your most memorable schooldays.
Essay title: My Schooldays
2. Write about the statement: “School is the preparation for
the world of work”. Criticize and discuss the statement.
Use some good arguments.
Essay title: School and Work
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