The story "The Phoenix" by Sylvia Townsend Warner features Lord Strawberry, who acquires a phoenix from Arabia. He sells the phoenix to Mr. Poldero, who exploits the phoenix for his carnival sideshow. The phoenix represents beauty and renewal, but is mistreated. At the end of its life, the phoenix immolates itself and those who had wronged it, including Mr. Poldero, bringing a sense of poetic justice.
This document provides context and summaries about George Orwell's allegorical novel Animal Farm. It begins with biographical information about Orwell, discussing his background and political beliefs. It then summarizes the plot of Animal Farm, describing how the animals revolt against their human farmer but eventually come to resemble the humans they overthrew. The rest of the document analyzes the novel as an allegory for the Russian Revolution and rise of Stalin, making comparisons between characters and events in the story and figures/events from Russian history.
Geoffrey Chaucer was born in the early 1340s to a well-educated family in London. He wrote several works including The Canterbury Tales, a framed narrative in which a group of pilgrims tell stories to each other on a journey. The unfinished work includes tales from the Knight, Miller, Reeve, Cook, Man of Law, Wife of Bath and others. It explores themes of love, faith, deceit and morality through short stories of varying genres. Chaucer helped establish English as a literary language and is considered one of the greatest English poets.
George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 in India, was an English novelist and journalist best known for his dystopian novels Animal Farm and 1984. He attended private schools in England but disliked some of his teachers. After college, he could not afford further education and joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, an experience that led him to hate imperialism. He later worked odd jobs and fought for the republicans in the Spanish Civil War where he was shot. During World War II, he worked for the BBC but resigned over concerns about propaganda. His novels Animal Farm and 1984 were published in 1945 and 1949 respectively and gained great success and popularity. Orwell died of tuberculosis at age 46.
The story "The Phoenix" by Sylvia Townsend Warner features Lord Strawberry, who acquires a phoenix from Arabia. He sells the phoenix to Mr. Poldero, who exploits the phoenix for his carnival sideshow. The phoenix represents beauty and renewal, but is mistreated. At the end of its life, the phoenix immolates itself and those who had wronged it, including Mr. Poldero, bringing a sense of poetic justice.
This document provides context and summaries about George Orwell's allegorical novel Animal Farm. It begins with biographical information about Orwell, discussing his background and political beliefs. It then summarizes the plot of Animal Farm, describing how the animals revolt against their human farmer but eventually come to resemble the humans they overthrew. The rest of the document analyzes the novel as an allegory for the Russian Revolution and rise of Stalin, making comparisons between characters and events in the story and figures/events from Russian history.
Geoffrey Chaucer was born in the early 1340s to a well-educated family in London. He wrote several works including The Canterbury Tales, a framed narrative in which a group of pilgrims tell stories to each other on a journey. The unfinished work includes tales from the Knight, Miller, Reeve, Cook, Man of Law, Wife of Bath and others. It explores themes of love, faith, deceit and morality through short stories of varying genres. Chaucer helped establish English as a literary language and is considered one of the greatest English poets.
George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 in India, was an English novelist and journalist best known for his dystopian novels Animal Farm and 1984. He attended private schools in England but disliked some of his teachers. After college, he could not afford further education and joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, an experience that led him to hate imperialism. He later worked odd jobs and fought for the republicans in the Spanish Civil War where he was shot. During World War II, he worked for the BBC but resigned over concerns about propaganda. His novels Animal Farm and 1984 were published in 1945 and 1949 respectively and gained great success and popularity. Orwell died of tuberculosis at age 46.
2. Vi och globaliseringen
Ta fram ett papper och anteckna länder:
● Varifrån kommer dina kläder?
● Var har du/din familj varit på semester?
● Varifrån kommer olika varor i våra
mataffärer?
● Var är våra vanliga elektronikprylar gjorda?
● Varifrån kommer den kultur (film, TV,
musik, böcker) vi konsumerar?
3. Vad betyder globalisering?
Ett nytt fenomen eller bara ett nytt ord?
- Vår nya värld där ekonomi, politik och kultur
sammanlänkas?
- Ett nytt ord för de gamla koloniala
strukturerna som funnits i århundraden
4. Vad kännetecknar en
globaliserad värld?
Ömsesidigt beroende (interdependens)
Sammanlänkning - hela världen är tillgänglig
Minskade avstånd
Högt tempo: Pengar, nyheter, tankar och
information
Förutsätter teknik
Ekonomiska drivkrafter
5. Högt tempo
Från post till telegraf till satellitlänk
Från häst och vagn till ångbåtar till jetflygplan
Från 28.8k-modem till 100 mbit bredband
7. Världshandeln
Frihandel → ökade vinster → investeringar
Kritiker: de flesta investeringar sker mellan de
etablerade regionerna och vidmakthåller klyftor
Frihandelsavtal
Frihandelszoner: EPZ/FTZ
Världshandeln 2002 under en dag =
världshandeln under hela 1948
8. Vilka varor finns bakom varumärkena?
I vilket land hör dessa varumärken hemma?
9. Företagen
Världens största efter
omsättning, mrd $:
1. Wal-Mart 469
2. Shell 467
3. ExxonMobil 453
4. China National 425
5. Sinopec 411
Coca-cola co 48
McDonalds 27
BNP i ett urval av
länder, mrd $:
Norge 499 (23)
Danmark 314 (33)
Irland 210 (45)
Bangladesh 127 (57)
Lettland 28 (93)
Mali 10 (129)
Somalia 1,3 (172)
10. “Lättfotade” giganter
Ex. klädföretag bygger inte egna fabriker, utan
anlitar lokala företag för tillverkning…
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