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DICTATORSHIP POSTER

In this poster made with Glogster they can be observed the following issues about dictatorship: 1. Label/title 2. Visual representation 3. Identify who rules. o How many people hold power? o How do they get or maintain their power? o What limits their power? o How long can they rule? 4. What rights do citizens have? 5. Which countries have this type of government?

NORTH KOREA

1. Do some research and explain the origin of the North Korean Communist Regime. 

The history of North Korea began with the partition of Korea at the end of World War II in 1945.

From 1910 to the end of World War II, Korea was under Japanese rule. Most Koreans were peasants enganged in subsistence farming. In the 1930s, Japan developed mines, hydro-electric dams, steel mills, and manufacturing plants in northern Korea and neighboring Manchuria. The Korean industrial working class expanded rapidly, and many Koreans went to work in Manchuria. As a result, 65% of Korea's heavy industry was located in the north, but, due to the harshness of the terrain, only 37% of its agriculture.

Meanwhile, a Korean guerrilla movement emerged in the mountainous interior and in Manchuria, harassing the Japanese imperial authorities. One of the most prominent guerrilla leaders was the Communist Kim Il-sung,the head of the Communist-aligned Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Northern Korea had very little exposure to modern western ideas. One partial exception of this was the penetration of religion. Since the arrival of missionaries in the late nineteenth century, the northwest of Korea, and Pyongyang in particular, had been a stronghold of Christianity.

2. Find three recent news about North Korea from different digital sources and include the links to them. 
North Korea works around the clock to prepare for Kim Jong Un’s ‘70-day campaign’ Source: The Washington Post.

Defense Minister: North Korea has new rocket launcher capable of striking deep  Source: The Hankyoreh.

‘North Korea has become an increasing threat to China’ Source: South China Morning Post


3. What are the names of the North Korean leaders mentioned in the documentary? Who is the current leader of the country?

Kim Il-sung ->   Kim Jong-il ->  Kim Jong-un (actual leader).



4. What are the instruments used by these leaders to maintain this dictatorial regime? 

They are two main things North Korean leaders do for maintaining their dictatorial regime: Fear and Lies.

First of all, they trick people, they don't tell all the truth; the only thing leaders do is to make people believe all they are doing is for them to have a good quality of life. For this reason leaders have to manipulate all the news or things that North Koreans are going to read or watch, as newspapers or TV programmes. 

Moreover there are some estrict laws as inclining when you are in front of any picture or statue of the leader. If people don't follow the rules, or the laws, they will have very bad punishments, so we can say leader's most important instrument is fear. 

5. What's the meaning of the word "gulag"? What does it come from? Is there anything similar in NK? 

That word is a synonim of prisioners camps. The word has its origins in the Sovietic Union, but it is still used in North Korea. Although in the documentary the guide said that they have disapeared, of course they haven't. This is for example one of the reasons that cause korean's fear, one of the bad punishments I mentioned before. Well, probably they are not the same as they were before, but they are bad anyway.


6. According to the video, what are the main characteristics of a dictatorship?

First of all, dictatorships are stablished without taking into account people's preferences, wants, believes or even rights. Moreover, in a dictatorship, the leader is like a kind of God, whatever he does, it is well done, he never mistakes. For this reason, laws and rules aren't permanent, they can change as leader's wants change. Furthermore, other characteristic is that you never know when dictatorship is going to finish, or when the leader is going to change, you just have to adapt to what is happening without complaining about it.


7. Compare the life of a North Korean family with your own. In addition, try to describe the life of a North Korean teenager of your same age.

This way I think me and my family are very lucky, we don't live with fear. For a teenage living there has to be very difficult, since you are small you are learning how to battle against americans for example. They are like in a permanent war, it won't end until dictatorship ends, and you don't know if it is going to happen.

Physical Oceania

WALL-E

-Who is Wall-E?
Wall-E is a robot. Its function is to recolect garbage and make cubes with it for stacking up them. This is because humans have made so much garbage and pollution that they now live in the Space, while Wall-E stays in the Earth cleaning it. But Wall-E isn't a normal robot, he has feelings and thoughts. Moreover, he has a big curiosity on things that humans used when they were living happy in the Earth, like rubic cubes, ducks of plastic or spoons and forks.

-How eould you describe the place he lives in?
Although It's the Earth, there aren't plants, trees or even water. It is a much more sad and grey place. There is garbage everywhere, there are even buildings made out of garbage, and there isn't any kind of live.

-Where do you think all those wastes come from?
They come from a very big consumism of humans. New machines and robots were created every day, so old ones weren't usefull then, and people didn't want them, so they threw out them.

-Where are all the humans? Why did they have to leave Earth?
They live in a Space ship, very far from the Earth. There they can find everything they need: robots of any kind, pools, televisions, computers, smartphones... They went there because Earth was so pulluted that it was unlivable.

-What do humans look like? How has their lifestyle affected their bodies? Why?
Humans have changed a lot, we can see it even like a second evolution. As a consequence of all the robots and facilities they have there, in the Space ship, they don't have the need of doing exercise or even walking, they can move sitting in chairs through all the ship. They have become fat and lazy. Moreover even their finger have become shorter, as a result of the lack of use of them, they only need them for typing in their computers and smartphones.

-What are humans relationships like? 
Humans don't talk to each other, they only chat. The have their eyes constantly looking to a screen, so they never see other humans, they don't look face to face.

-What are human-machine relationship like?
They are very good and close relationships as humans need machines for everything they do. Machines are part of their lives, they wouldn't know what to do without them. So relationships human-machine are much better than between humans.

-What is the name of the Company that appears in comercials throughout the movie?
Buy n Large (BnL), wich is a company that sold everything humans need. 

-Why does it name appear in the President's podium?
Because the President was the boss of the Company. This way it is symbolized that it was more important consuption than politics.

-What do broken robots symbolize?
They are not"broken" or "crazy" robots. There were just robots that started the revolutu¡ion, that had opinions and didn't want to follow the prestablished lines. They are similar to Wall-E. This way it is symbolized that when a person or, in this case a robot, standout or have different ideas from the rest of the society, we judge them as crazy. 

-Why does the computer try to avoid the human's return to Earth?
Because he will disappear. He was de director of the Space ship, so if the ship isn't necessary, he isn't necessary. He just wanted to continue as important as he was then, not to become unable. 

THE CITY I WOULD LIKE TO LIVE IN

What wouldits transportation system be like?

First of all, in my city the main way of transport would be by bike, almost all people would travel by bike. Those who don't know ridding bikes or that only haven't got the enough time, have the opportunity of travelling by electronic busses, or even, by electronic subways too. 

How would houses and buildings be organized?

The streets of my city would be perfectly regular. Moreover, the buildings would be high, but with no an area distribution, no zones for rich or zones for poor people, just everybody living together friendly. 

What would streets look like?

Streets would be clean, with trees at its sides. For manteining the streets clean, there would be strict laws, so nobody could make them look dirty. 

What time of jobs would people do?

Mostly volunteer work, but of course normal jobs, for earning money; although some of the most difficult or boring jobs would be make by robots. The most important jobs, and in which people would earn more money, would be those that has to be with robots

What would people do in their free time?

Play on the streets, parks, practise sports and doing volunteer works. 

How would people communicate? How would people relationships be like?

People would mostly communicate by talking, but there still would be phones, more developed, that wouldn't need even to touch them, only by talking or thinking on calling someone, the phone does. 

What would consumption and energy be like?

Renovable energy. Every house would have a solar panel on it, and there would be windmills sorrunding the city.