The Hollywood body

http://www.anabolicdietblog.com/

This blog is about an average caucasian male, blogging about his progress in a diet called the "Anabolic diet". He has been blogging for over three years, so this post will be mainly be about the recent posts. The language is fairly informal, and sentences and paragraphs are short. The blog was originally made for updating the authors progress in the anabolic diet, but it has exceeded that. For three years he has tried out different ways of getting into shape, but his goal was always the same. He wants a hollywood movie star body, and is trying to figure out the ideal diet for obtaining such a body as fast as possible. He updates it daily, and it is a personal blog where his opinions and thoughts are very present. It is an easy way to gain readers, because many dream of reaching that same goal, and seeing the diet in progress is exciting.

Different genders, different expectations

During the decades laws have changed and conditions have been arranged for lesser differences between men and women. However, our attitudes and expectations towards the genders have remained the same in a bigger degree, no doubt. Some people claim they don´t let their gender expectations affect their decisions, for example in work situations. Sadly, the truth is that they are affected quite a bit. We can also observe how boys and girls choose different paths of education and work.

Boys and girls are forced to make decisive choices from early on in their lives. When choosing what high school you want to apply for, you in a way limit your possibilities for later in life. It is not very typical for girls to educate themselves as contractors, and this is much due to the expectations that are dwelling over our heads.

The work towards gender equality has come far in Norway, but there are for example several scenarios of promotions, where women have been systematically turned down. Statistics show that men dominate the leader positions the industry of commerce, and this illustrates the different expectations between men and women. If a man was to choose between hiring a man and a woman with similar records and merits, it is still more likely that he would hire the man.

“I agree to these terms”

The internet offers an immense amount of information and possibilities for you. What many people have failed to realize is that their activity on the internet leaves them very vulnerable to exploit. When you upload something to the internet, it is likely to be copied into several other sites within minutes, so you can never be sure of where your digital footprints are.

It is becoming more and more common for websites to force you to plot in your personal information to gain access to their sites. It seems like such an insignificant detail, that we don’t care to consider how it may affect us. Surely we expect from most websites to not exploit our personal information, but there are some that will take benefit from it, and they know exactly how to get away with it. By deliberately making you agree to endlessly long “Terms of service” they can easily fool you into letting them use your personal details.

Another risk when signing up for an internet service or community lies within the presence of the information itself. There are those who know how to gain access to whatever it may be that is on the internet, and if your personal details are spread all over the place, there really isn’t too much you can do about it. “Hackers” as they are popularly called, have caused massive breaches in confidential internet sources, and some of these incidents have had very serious consequences. In 2011 Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple ind. was in hospital due to cancer. A group of hackers gained access to Apples facebook account, and announced that Steve Jobs had passed. Steve Jobs was in fact still alive, though he died not long after, but the false rumors that he had died, caused the Apple stock to drop considerably.

Even though a lot of what is mentioned seems like natural precautions, people, and especially youth, waive their private details around in ignorance. The most probable reason to this is that we are not well enough aware of the dangers that are masked behind the vast amount of compelling proposals floating around the internet.

The Pursuit of Happyness

Year: 2006

Director: Gabriele Muccino

Writer: Steve Conrad

Actors: Will Smith, Thandie Newton and Jaden Smith

Genre: Biography, Drama

Based on a true story of a man named Christopher Gardner. The film describes the troublesome everyday of Chris Gardner in San Francisco in the 80s, we see the shadow side of a country lacking the luxurious welfare state we have in Norway. The Pursuit of Happyness displays the American dream, and how it is a motivation for people to work towards it. It is a truly inspiring story of a man who is left with nothing, and tries to rise from the ashes with marginal opportunities. Constantly being set back, it seems impossible for Chris Gardner to reach his goal. The plot we find in the movie isn´t what typically applies for the average Norwegian, and thusly it is a real eye opener to the far different lifestyle in little Norway.

Internet manners

Many youth today spend the majority of their day in front of a computer screen, or in some other way browsing the interwebs. The increased amount of anonymity we find on the internet makes for a whole lot of opinions being shared, the one more ignorant than the other. People argue in a very different manner when they are protected by anonymity, thusly making the internet a hard place to have a proper debate. 

Of the comments we typically see below your average youtube video there are rarely any objective, and even more seldomly, comments worth reading. Simple exclaims like ”crap”, ”shit” and ”gay” are surprisingely enough the most common comments on all of youtube. These are nor objective or noteworthy, and still they are as frequent as the raindrops in Bergen.

I myself think it is a shame that the great opportunities the internet offer, are ”trolled” to death by the reckless 12-year-oldes that roam the endless streets of the World Wide Web. Im sick and tired of it. 

Bullying

Since the day of dawn, people have been different. It is in our nature to compete, and we are always reaching. This urge to be stronger and better than everyone else, causes inferiority and superiority, making an equal society very improbable. People will always pick on each other, and the weaker will be suppressed. When groups of people gather to mock on one sorry person, we commonly call it bullying.

There is a multitude of reasons to counteract bullying. The childhood of many a man or woman has been jeopardized by the cruel act of bullying. There are several examples of bullying in the adult world as well, but it is a much bigger issue amongst the younger generations. Solving the disagreements between "bully" and victim might not always be too easy, and this is a very controversial topic. Some people think it lies in our very nature to mock on our inferiors, making the potential eradication of the activity a tremendously hard task.

Speculations have been made, that unifying and equalizing people will create less distinct differences amongst people. School uniforms create equality, and is one effort that has been made in battle against bullying. The idea of the school uniform is to make differences within the student society less apparent, so the social and economic of each pupil will not be exposed through there way of dressing.

For the last decade or two, bullying or mobbing, has been a hot topic in both Norway, but also the rest of the Scandinavia. I personally think it is sad that we have not picked up on the use of, for example school uniforms. Some might say it will not have any positive outcome, but I beg to differ.

Wolves in Norway

For a long time this has been hot topic in Norway. One opinion being that wolves are of no use to us, and the counter argument being that they have just as much right to live here as we do. The situation at this point, is not in favor of a strong wolf tribe. In all of Norway there are between 8-15 wolves, making a positive development iwithin their species, a difficult task. These wolves might not find each other, and therefore mating is a challenge.

Theres is no good reason for why we should not have wolves in Norway. They have just as much right, as a part of our eco-system, to be in Norway. So they might take a lamb every once in a while, but is that a reason for extinction? I say no!
Canada is a good example of a place where wolves are commonly accepted, and where the tribe is strong.

While many may think wolves are worthless, they should still be able to co-exist with humans.