Thursday, April 14, 2011

Unit 1 Blog Entry

Part A: Reflection

In this unit I learned that Bill 101 was created to preserve the linguistic identity of Canadian Francophones.
I really found it interesting that French Canadians are at risk of assimalation.
I can connect what I learned with Science because the Metis where half French half English, in Science you can have chemical compounds that are half one chemical and half another.
What suprised me this unit was that countrys all over the world listen to Amarican musice and watch their television shows.
One concept I am still having difficulty with is the idea of Bill 101 and how it preserves their linguistic identint if its only in Quebec.
One question I still have is how did the Metis attain ther own cultural identity?
One learning stratergy I found helpfull was the word wheel. If i where to teach someone how to use this I would first tell them to make nine circles on their page, then ask them how they relate to each other, finnaly I would tell them to wright the words in the bubbles and how they relate to each other between them.

Part B: Economic Globalization

Outsourcing is where one company gets another company to do its jobs for them. For example the picture above shows someone calling tech support and differnt locations are answering. Anothe rexample of out sourcing is Apple and there tech support in India. Companys do this so they get cheep labour and lotsa of workers, but there are disadvantages too, such as low wages and hazardous working conditions.

 Part C: Globalization and Identity
This source shows that Bill 101 was a negitive thing. The source reads "not government's role to create an identity" and that "don't need Bill 101 to protect the French language." This shows that the speaker does not think that Bill 101 was a possitive thing.


The source says that Bill 101 was a negitive thing, I stronly disagree with the source. Bill 101 was a positive thing that is indeed preventing assimalation of the French Canadians. If Bill 101 was not created Quebec would become a English speaking province and Canada would lose their Bilingualism. The French Would also lose their linguistic and part of their cultural identitys.


If the government didnt get invloved Canada would be a English speaking Country and Anglophones would be superior to Francophones.The French would be marginalized like the Metis where before they became their own culture. French are already the minority group in Canada so they are already at risk of Assimalation.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Introduction To Globalization-Part III

                         
This picture to me means that that everyone has a say with what goes on in the world. The countries of the world are striving for greater interconectedness thats why their all standing on the earth togeather.The doller signs in the sky represent the financial globalization of all the worlds countries and it alos shows how we are all interdependant. If one of the world countries stop suppling the rest of the system crashes becaise if Canada and the U.S stop suppling oil the rest of the world is going to struggle and be forced to raise their oil prices substancially thusfore putting them in a bad place economicaly.

Introduction To Globalization-Part II

I have compleated all my assignments, and took all my notes. I'm understanding all aspects of globalization, thusfore im not having difficulty with anything.

My Goals
  1. To study more on tests
  2. To take better notes

Introduction To Globalization- Part I

Globalization - Trend towards greater interconectedness and interdependance of the world.
Interdependance- Refers to all aspects of life that are connected.
Global Village- The thought of everyone in the world living in one big community

Globalization refers to:
  • Close relationships between countrys
  • Connections between economic, political, and social systems across the globe
  • Blurring of geographical boarders
  • Instant exchange of goods and services
The eight types of globalization:
  • Geographical
  • Ecological
  • Culteral
  • Finantial
  • Economical
  • Technological
  • Political
  • Socialogical
Everybody in the world is conected through
  • Food
  • Travel
  • Borders
  • Internete
  • Books
Social- The process by witch peoples lifestyles spread over the global networks.
Economic- The process of exploring the worlds thrading networks.
Political- The process by which political decisions and actions are becoming increasingly international government.

The most interesting thing I learned was about the Beothuks and the other first nations colonies

I ate food at the international company called McDonalds recently...

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Welcome To My Blog!

The purpose of this blog is to reflect upon my learning in social 10-2.