Edublog Award Nomination

Here are the people i want to nominate for the Edublog Awards:

For the Student Blog Award i nominate: http://kamelose.blogspot.no/

For the Teacher Blog Award i nominate: http://annmic.wordpress.com/

For the Librarian Blog Award i nominate: http://metaingrid.blogspot.no/

Novel and Film Comparison

Recently in class, we have watched the movie Gran Torino and we have read the novel When Rich came to Sunday Dinner. These pieces have a lot in common, especially their theme which is cultural struggles, and their message; to embrace immigration with mutual acknowledgement and understanding. However, they convey their messages from the opposite perspectives, whereas the movie displays an American's point of view, and the novel describes an immigrant's situation.

Watching and reading from both perspectives was to me, very interesting. Among the problems I saw, I learned that the biggest one was probably prejudice. Delusional thoughts of the other side's culture, leading into mutual fear to interact and understand eachother, making an infinite evil circle of misunderstandings. The pieces bring this problem up from both sides' perspectives, and they showed me that the only way to end the circle is by accepting and adapting to eachother. Only then one can make constructive conversation, learn from eachother, and prevent future misunderstandnings.