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Prejudice and stereotyping are very similar to each other, although there are some minor differences.

Prejudice is more of an opinion towards someone and how they live and its often negative thoughts. Stereoptypes are more an image as how u see a certain group of people, such as for example people living in Africa or South Africa. If you ask people what kind of people the think live there most people would say dark skinned people, but in South Africa there is actually a mix between dark skinned people and white skinned people as of now.

I think having negative thoughts about someone and spreading it creates stereotypes, if enough people start to use it and spread it eventually everybody will start to talk the same and talk the same about different people.

In the TED Talk about Tui Raven she talks about how someone told her she was “pretty for an aboriginal person” quoting that aboriginal people arent usually nice to look at, this guy had then followed a stereotype that aboriginal people are usually ugly looking. Stereotypes are basically made up false stories which sometimes makes fun of people, sometimes talks bad about about people and they might also be some nice stereotypes.

The poem is about the wildfires in Australia, hes writing about how horrible it is,

The peom really catches you off guard with how real it it.

Ben is Australian or as they call it, hes an Auzzie and because he was born there he would also have alot of connection with the country. Its is like a part of his identity.

What makes this a poem, poems are usually built around rimes and langos that match and rime

He has ryhmes in every sentence.

He mentions multiple australian stereotypes such as: Aussie and g’day.

I think the poem was nice, he put alot of thought into it as he was on the edge og crying halfway trough, it was quite long which in i think poems should be in the shorter side but overall good.

I think he has very strong opinions about the wildfires and that he is very much affected by all the killed animals and plants.

Hey, Noor

I can tell by your text that you are frustrated with your school, I think writing and e-mail to them is very smart of you if you want change, but I think you should change up your writing style just a little bit.

First of all, I think you should write with more respect, your school might want to give you school trips and fun activities but are unable to because of money trouble or something else.

Would you go up to someone you knew had trouble with money and beg them to buy stuff for you? 

I do think schools should have school’s trips and they might be boring, but they are educational which is the main point of going to these trips.

You also use way to many exclamation marks which looks childish and they might just not look at your email because of childish looking behavior. If you clean up your writing and stop writing with slang and talk with more formal words they might take your application serious and take you to more trips!

-Marius 

Veslemøy hasn’t read a book voluntarily since elementary school but after she started reading in hightschool she got back into it. Veslemøy’s favourite book is called “tante ulrikkes vei” by Zeshan Shakar. it is about 2 second generation boys who grows up in “grorudahl”, Veslemøy thought the book was ok and she doesn’t have any special thoughts about it, she likes the drama genres the best.

James Baldwin was an American playwright, author, poet, essayist and an active activist for the civil rights movement most of Baldwins work is about racism and sexual problems during the mid-1900’s. He is know for his personal style of writing romans on how people were stressing about being a different skin colour or being attracted to the same gender. Baldwin was one of many afroamerican atheists in Harlem, New York City.

He is Born the 2nd og August, 1924 in Harlem, New York, when Baldwin was an infants he and his mother (Emma Berdin Joynes) moved to Harlem, they then met a preacher (David Baldwin) who she later married and adopted James Baldwin as his own.

Their family was quite poor and Baldwin later got his degree from the prestigious DeWitt Clinton High School in Bronx, where he worked for the school news paper. During Baldwins teen years he started to recognise his sexuality, in 1948 he became disillusioned of black and gay people and left America so he could move to Paris, France. He did this not just as a wish but also to distance himself from prejudices as the council of American society.

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