Assignment 4

Assignment 4 (Respond on Andreas´ Ass. 3)
My favorite television-show

I just adore the American TV-show Friends. The show is about a couple of young people living in NY and all their pleasure and struggles in life. There are six completely different characters that are having the leading parts of the show and they are best friends whatever happens.
The best thing about the show is how it always makes me feel good. When I am in a bad mood, I put the show on and am feeling great again.
Me and my friends, who also love this show, used to meet every Wednesday when the show ran for the first time. We joined for a simple dinner, watched the show and went home, always with a smile on our lips. When I watch the show these days I´m not sure if the good feeling is because of the show itself or because of all the pleasure connected to it. I think it´s both.
I recently heard somebody describing a funny TV-show or movie as a good feeling in your stomach, not necessarily big laughs all the time, and that´s how I experience Friends. I think it´s hard to describe a TV-show as better or worse comparing to any other, it´s all about taste and personality. I have a friend that meets his friends now and then to watch 2 and ½ men. They join for a beer or two and walk home with the similar smile on their lips that I used to have.

Assignment 3

You just got your first job as teacher, a post as a substitute at short notice, and think it is important to introduce yourself, your aims and pedagogical examples in a letter to the pupils´ and their families before your first meeting.

- Remember that being personal isn´t the same as being private.

- Have the schools curricula in mind as well as your personal aims.

- I would like you to mention at least one pedagogical prototype that your own pedagogy is based on, or influenced by.

Approximately 200 words

Good luck!

Assignment 2

Electoral pledge

"The question about young people`s unemployment should be the most important election issue 2010".

The political opposition complains a lot about the government`s lack of creating work opportunities for young people. Over and over again they talk about how the government has failed at this point and how something just has to be done.

I wonder what that something is. I would like concrete suggestions from all the political parties about this issue in order to inform the voters of what to expect from them after the election, not just empty promises that sounds nice, but concrete strategies to solve the problems, or at least reduce them. It´s easy to point out other mistakes and to give promises, but it´s time to make things happen. It´s time for a big change. It´s time for taking care of our future while being realistic and honest.

I´m anxious to know what the different blocks´strategies will be in the next election concerning this hot and important question. I have tried to figure that out while reading the different parties home sites, but I have to admit that it has not made me any wiser. I think it´s sad that the government, no matter what political parties it includes,only gets this very short time 0f four years to make their changes, hopefully improvements. It´s not easy to make big changes and build a system that works in every point in only four years. When some things in our society changes something else will probably suffer, at least for a while, and I think we need to give the government more time to both develop and also confirm the changes they already have begun. The dissatisfaction the government have to deal with today would not have to be this big if they did not promised that much in order to win the election. I guess that is a priority they have to make.

I think it´s time to face the fact that it´s no use to win an election if the parties don´t keep their promises and thereby loose peoples´ confidence.To win an election without keeping the promises will never let a government rule for more than four years and The Swedish people have to stand the lack of stability that this system brings. I hope it will be different next time, I hope the politicians realize that young voters are tired of being disappointed and demand big changes, real changes!