Voice of the people.

The banking system of Iceland collapsed in October 2008 and the currency, the krona, has lost half its value in the past to years. Iceland's government was forced to take over three of its biggest banks in October 2008 when they could not keep up with billions of dollars of debt taken on to finance overseas expansion. This is something that every Icelander knows. Now efter seeing the goverment of 2008 moved a way after a protest that lasted for several days Icelanders have a new goverment a left green, middle class goverment how faces a sharply contracting economy over the financial collapse. The Financeal ministor that took over in 2008 is Steingrímur J Sigfússon and he told BBC,

            Priminester Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir and Financeal ministor Steingrímur J Sigfússon.


"We are going to try to take care of the families, the households and businesses as well as we can in the short period that we are going to be operating in "

Now it is 2010 and people are not seeing any changes, in fact the goverment has a new problem that they can‘t or don‘t want to face and that is the housing crises in Iceland. People by the hundreds are missing there homes every month. There has been a series of protests in Reykjavik these days calling for the government to resign over its handling of the economy and housing problems and for not kepping ther promisses of taking care of the familys. Thes protest came to ther highest on the 1.st and 3.rd of November 2010 when some 8,000 people by some counts gathered in front of the Icelandic parliament protesting the Left-wing, middle class government handling of Icelands econimy situation. Still many households face mounting debts and foreclosures and a common feeling is that Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir Icelands Priminester has not done enough to help the problems the country has and have been facing. Many people now are calling for new elections or something to changes so that the people and familys of Iceland have a desent change of living.

In recent years Iceland enjoyed a standard of living that was among the highest in the world. Iceland has gone through several phases since the crash of October 2008. First there was total astonishment that such things could happen here, then came a period of anger, now people are starting to realize that putting the current government in place wasn’t such a magic solution for their problems.

Here below I have a video from YouTube of the protests on the 3.rd of November 2010 whith shows a scared nation not to hopefull for the future.

Protests - find your voice.

My article is going to be about the protests here in Iceland. The peacefull nation of Iceland is al of a sudden going out on the streets, down to the purlament and sending the people in charge a messages. You failed, get out. Is Iceland waking up, or just fedd up? I will try to find that out.

Short stories - Is that the easy way to whrite?

Short stories, never thought mush about it, i have no idea what it is in a way, i google it and found some websites.

This one is is ok, you will find a lot of short stories, but not many of them interest me.
And of course wikipedia comes up- like always when you google something.
Here is one I like - the website has a lot of short stories and folktale, and they are interesting, I have to put this one here for you, it has a good meaning. 

The Purse of Gold

A Jewish Folktale
A beggar found a leather purse that someone had dropped in the marketplace. Opening it, he discovered that it contained 100 pieces of gold. Then he heard a merchant shout, "A reward! A reward to the one who finds my leather purse!"
Being an honest man, the beggar came forward and handed the purse to the merchant saying, "Here is your purse. May I have the reward now?"
"Reward?" scoffed the merchant, greedily counting his gold. "Why the purse I dropped had 200 pieces of gold in it. You've already stolen more than the reward! Go away or I'll tell the police."
"I'm an honest man," said the beggar defiantly. "Let us take this matter to the court."
In court the judge patiently listened to both sides of the story and said, "I believe you both. Justice is possible! Merchant, you stated that the purse you lost contained 200 pieces of gold. Well, that's a considerable cost. But, the purse this beggar found had only 100 pieces of gold. Therefore, it couldn't be the one you lost."
And, with that, the judge gave the purse and all the gold to the beggar.

Another Interesting site to look at http://www.naute.com/stories/ and they have pictures, take a look at the story Criminal Lawyers Award its a good one hehehe.  


 Well that's all for now, hope you have a good one today :)

How to write a good essay.

                   Here is a good starting place to look at how to write an essay.

http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/
http://www.howtowriteanessay.com/
 To write an essay originally meant to explore or try out ideas.
A true essay is a try, a journey of discovery for reader and writer.

Begin by brainstorming. Brainstorming doesn't involve writing complete sentences or paragraphs. Brainstorming involves coming up with ideas in words or short phrases.

• Main idea for your essay
  Write down the main idea of your essay. To express your main idea, write only a few words.
  
  
• Brainstorming “for” your main idea
  Write a word or a phrase that relates to your main idea. This should be something about your main idea that you agree with.

An essay is a short piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author.

We read two artikles in english 503 about the internet genaration of today. These are the artikles.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,710139,00.html
http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2009/pr-lunsford-writing-101209.html

These artikles are both about the internet genaration of today and they are trying to give an inside to how and what the internet is doing to our minds, is it slowing us down, taking to mush of our time, is it making us stupit?
These qustions are good to give us an understanding of many other critics of the internet and with out a doudt these artikles show us that we are writing far more than our parents and grandparens.