Homework 4 Tuesday

Commentary on 'the meeting'

homework 4 next class

pgs 37-67

pay close attention to language use by The Nurse, Harding, McMurphy

newspaper specific work

Analyse your articles and consider them against what you have learned from the paper links

http://mediadepths.blogspot.com/2010/03/newspapers-in-uk-introduction.html


http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/

Consider structure, language (syntax & diction) in service of your paper's audience


Mel & Nic - The Times

Gus CaCa Max - Independent

Ika Seb - Guardian

AAAAs - Telegraph

Mich S - Sun

Syl Sar -FT

Ali Vinnie - Daily Mail

Mix - Daily Express

News analysis

read and annotate. then rewrite your Mcleod piece to 600 words, broadsheet style


Departing U.N. Envoy Urges Political Solution in Afghanistan
By ABDUL WAHEED WAFA
Published: March 4, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan — The departing head of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan, Kai Eide, warned Thursday that if negative trends were not reversed, there would be little that could restore peace in the country, and he called for balancing the military strategy with political efforts.
Speaking at his final news conference as the United Nations special representative in Afghanistan, Mr. Eide also cautioned against excessive militarization of international efforts here, a longstanding concern that has taken on greater significance as the American-led military operation grows and includes more nation-building.
He also warned that military operations against insurgents needed to be waged in a manner that did not impede efforts to negotiate a peaceful solution with them.
Mr. Eide’s comments came as thousands of troops from the United States, Britain and Afghanistan began to work to restore civilian services after finishing the huge combat phase of its effort to retake the Taliban stronghold of Marja, in the southern province of Helmand.
Mr. Eide, a Norwegian diplomat, announced late last year that he would step down from his post in Afghanistan when his contract expired.
His one-and-a-half-year tenure was marked by rising bloodshed and criticism of his handling of the fraud-plagued presidential elections in August.
His former deputy, the American diplomat Peter W. Galbraith, accused Mr. Eide of covering up fraud that helped President Hamid Karzai. Mr. Eide vehemently denied the allegations and said he had followed Afghan law. Mr. Galbraith was dismissed last autumn.
On Thursday, Mr. Eide said he would spend his few remaining days in Afghanistan pressing Mr. Karzai over recent moves that gave the president more control over the electoral process. Mr. Karzai recently gave himself the authority to name the five members of a purportedly independent electoral monitoring commission that reviews citizen complaints, and he has refused, so far, to make changes in the country’s other major electoral body, the independent election commission. Its members oversee election procedures and many Afghans view them as biased in favor of the president, who appoints them.
Mr. Karzai’s move to appoint the election complaint commission himself, removing the requirement that it have United Nations-appointed members, would reduce international oversight of future elections, and could undermine their credibility in the eyes of Afghans as well as foreign countries.
Mr. Eide said he had made “some progress” with Mr. Karzai in negotiations over the complaint commission’s panel, but offered no details. Previously, the United Nations had included foreigners on three of the seats of the commission, with the other two posts held by Afghans.
Mr. Eide, who is set to leave Afghanistan on Sunday, said 2010 would be the “most challenging” year since the American-led invasion toppled the Taliban in 2001, and it would be a critical period for the international community’s efforts in Afghanistan.
“It is a year where negative trends have to be reversed or they will become irreversible,” he said, but added that the world needed to have realistic expectations: “Decisive success within a year or two in a country marred by conflict is unachievable.”
Last year was the deadliest since 2001 for members of the NATO-led military coalition and Afghan civilians. Saying that “clocks in foreign countries tick faster” than change can occur in Afghanistan, Mr. Eide called for international patience with the slow pace of progress. He said that any resolution to the conflict needed to balance military and political approaches.
“I believe that a political process is indispensable for finding a solution to this conflict,” he said. “I believe the focus is too much on military side and too little on political side and civilian side, and our strategy has unfortunately been too much military-driven.”

that meeting

Write it up for a tabloid

Headline 3-6 words

Paragraph 1 20-25 words

Paragraph 2 15-20 words

post on your blog

openers

choose the top stories from two newspapers

1 Tabloid
Sun
Star
Daily Mail
Express
Times
Independent

1 Broadsheet
Telegraph
Financial Times
Guardian

discuss and analyse the headline, deck(if there is one) and first two paragraphs of the story

Homework 4 Mon

presentations ready, with illustrations in classworks as necessary

headlines written and posted on blogs

penguins
computer theft
bathingsuit day
battle of bands
ika snow day
swine flu @ middle school
basketball

Commentary reflection

Write and post a brief response to your commentary experience...

• what went well
  


• where you struggled

Have a great break! :)

HHGG paper 1

connections in HHGG (themes, motifs, literary elements)

choose any half page from the first three chapters

Write a "paper"

full introduction

outlines of body paragraphs

• key idea
• examples (2)

full conclusion

due friday

Your Articles on Copenhagen

post articles, annotations and your precis

one post each for your two articles,


so...... two posts in total

example below


Microsoft and antitrust

The end, sort of

Dec 16th 2009
From Economist.com


Microsoft settles a long-running antitrust case with Europe's competition commissioner




“TO HECK with Janet Reno”, said Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft’s boss, after America’s attorney-general dared to go after the software firm in 1997 for abusing its Windows monopoly to smother Netscape, a now defunct browser firm. These words marked the beginning of what was to become probably the most spectacular antitrust case in the computer industry so far. The dispute later spread to Europe.

On Wednesday December 16th the case at last came to an end. Neelie Kroes, Europe’s competition commissioner, announced that she had reached a settlement with the software giant. Starting next March, in Europe at least, all versions of Windows will come with a “choice screen” rather than just an already-installed version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. This will list 12 web browsers, including Microsoft’s and those provided by competitors. Computer users will be able to pick their favourite.

This settlement goes much further than an inconsequential deal that Microsoft struck in America in the early part of this decade. But it still invites questions over whether Europe’s case was worth the trouble.

Predictably, Microsoft executives do not believe it was. Even without antitrust action the browser market would now be competitive, they argue, pointing to the increasing market share of Firefox, an open-source browser. It is also no surprise that Microsoft’s critics are happy, although they argue that the firm still needs close scrutiny to ensure that the settlement is implemented effectively.

Yet the real value of the case does not lie in the specific remedies. Without the legal action, Microsoft may have resorted to dirty tricks to block Firefox’s progress. The firm probably would also have taken longer to ditch its aggressive corporate unilateralism. But the case has firmly established antitrust as a competitive weapon in the “platform wars” between big technology companies. Without extensive lobbying by rivals, the case would never gone as far as it has.

Microsoft, too, has learned to play this game. It is said that it was one of the driving forces behind encouraging the European Commission to look closely at the takeover of Sun, a hardware-maker, by Oracle, another software giant. Despite the antitrust scrutiny the Commission now seems inclined to approve the merger after concessions from Oracle. A decision is expected early next year.

Microsoft will certainly also try to torpedo another merger. In November Google announced that it would buy AdMob, a mobile advertising start-up, for a whopping $750m—apparently outbidding Apple at the last moment. Microsoft wants to stop Google, which already rules much of online advertising, from dominating mobile advertising too. Microsoft, after being on the receiving end of antitrust action for a long time, has now taken up the weapon to use against its rivals.

The antitrust suit in Europe against Microsoft for bundling it's browser in its office software is finally over. Begun in the US in 1997 because of the impending death of Netscape, it was wrapped up in Europe with Microsoft agreeing to bundle all browsers in its new software packages. The suit seems to have been important for what has changed, not for its specific outcome. Other browsers have flourished, ie. Firefox. Microssft also uses this antitrust approach to try to stop Google, most recently with its proposed purchase of another company which would increase its controlling position of online advertising.

Oral paper sources

Your bibliography must be completed by Friday (you will have time in class to ask a few questions)

10 quality sources please


Outlines will be due on Tuesday of next week

Class paper on ELIC

Your group's two paragraphs must be completed and posted before class begins on Wednesday.
In addition, your best/most important sentence from your explanations must be copied and pasted below your two paragraphs.

we will complete the paper from there

oral pres cont

oral pres cont

Oral presentation notes

Irony in ELIC

4 Wed.

5 examples with explanation for each

posted on your blog

also please make sure final revisions of you digital arguments are up

ELIC

please post your three paragraph outline of the theme 'The Past Traps Me Within Myself,
on your blog

Digital papers completion

please post your final papers in your respective folders in classworks on Wed. October 28th.

digital essay

for wed.

attempt to have your digital elements inserted


for Friday

full outline complete

for next wed

digital argument finished

globalization essay prep

bring your non-linear and linear outlines to class