Davide, Elena, Nicola (Pozzato, Sottil, Kanton)

 

Activity 1

 

 

• We should focus on how to choose the right tense and verb.

   

• We should focus more on punctuation, in particular on the use of semicolons and commas.

   

• In order to avoid misunderstandings, terms and new words are to be carefully, deeply, constantly…ly checked.

   

•  As far as the structure of a text is concerned, every paragraph should deal with just one topic. This is for the sake of coherence and cohesion.

   

• A careful check of the text is to be carried out a little time later one has completed their paper.

 

Activity 2

 

 

 

• The most difficult aspect about completing the YOGA form is its language that sometimes tends to be philosophical and complicated. (e.g. - my owm values that affect my approach to dilemmas and their resolution). As a matter of fact, one should be fully aware of their social values before considering them as a frame of reference.  
• It is not quite clear when one is supposed to go further into the questionnaire: is it when one gets the top score on a level or when one simply thinks that they can go on?
• We could not complete those parts which described higher levels.
• We have never thought about  the importance of being aware of our and others' role in cross-cultural relationships.
• We need to improve the use of technology, (skype, messenger, etc.), be curious, keep in contact with foreign people we met abroad, teach Italian to foreign people, acting in other languages, get information about foreing countries' situation. Moreover we should have as less prejudice as possible.
• Intercultural competence is all those abilities which allow you to interact dialectically with people from other cultures.
• YES WE CAN!

 

 

 

 

Activity 3

 

Right parties

 

a kind of irritating tone while speaking

aggressive approach

ear-cathing words (children family, democracy, army, endurance freedom, war on terrorism, and other Tory-like words)

 

The unnmentionable man is very popular among the poeple: big smiles, shining teeth, a perfect tan, maybe a perfect maquillage and greased hair. He's a good speaker, self-confident able to arouse people's deepest fears about the future and the problems always coming with a leftist government. 

McCain is not so able to speak: he doesn't establish a sort of feeling with his audience. He's a bit rough and clumsy in informal situation.

 

 

Activity 4

As an alternative to the primaries, in which poeple just go to the polls and vote, in the caucus system people gather for a political meeting where they listen to parties’ supporters and candidates and then vote. Every Federal State decides which system to use.

 

 

Electoral System  (Yo!)

 

 

 

In Italy the candidates for the Parliament are chosen directly by the main party representatives. This, in accordance to the latest electoral law. It is just like this. People do not like this system because the possibility to express their opinion about candidates is completely precluded. As a matter of facts, only a party has his candidates chosen through the primaries. In the USA, apart from the independent candidates, the electoral system is based on primaries. Each party’s candidates are chosen through primaries or the so called caucus. On primaries, people go to the polls and just vote for the candidate they like. On caucus, voters attend political meetings where the candidates are promoted by their supporters. After these speeches, people should have decided who to vote for.

 

 As regards the elections, in the USA people's vote is called popular vote. But, although one candidate gets the majority of the people's votes, they need another vote majority: the electoral vote. 'It is a mechanism for the indirect election of public officials. For the purpose of electing the President and Vice President of the United States a 538-member Electoral College is created with each state having as many 'electors' as it has representatives and senators in the national legislature, plus 3 for the District of Columbia' (Answer.com). Indeed, if you vote for the Democratic candidate, you are actually voting for an elector who will be asked to vote for the Democratic candidate. 

 

The candidate who wins the popular vote in a state wins all the pledged votes of the state's electors. That is why political campaigns are held in the "Big States" (those states with more assigned electors such as Texas and California). To be elected, a candidate must obtain an absolute majority in the Electoral College, currently 270. If no candidate gains an absolute majority the US House of Representatives makes the choice, with the delegation from each state having one vote. Most of these arrangements were devised in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 as a compromise between those who proposed a direct popular election of the President and those who preferred to make him subject to election.

1. Answer.com. Definition retrived on March 19, 2008 from http://www.answers.com/electoral%20college

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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