VERSION 2

Mr. Conner: "I Don't feel intimidated" 

Since many years, a little and calm town called Maycomb has had it's own beadle, who's name has never been revealed, but everyone knows him as "Mr Conner". One week has passed since the day he was involved, due to his work and duty in an incident. After being the one who was trying arrest the vandals, Mr. Conner finished arrested and locked. Also the case ended up in tribunals, with the vandals being judged with numerous charges.

Good morning Mr. Conner, how are you feeling today?

Good morning, actually I am feeling really good, I would like to say that I feel really thankful for the opportunity that you gave me to do this interview and to express my point of view and feelings towards this situation.

A situation that was really weird, wasn't it? tell us what happened that night and how it ended up the way it did.

Well, indeed it was a really weird situation (laughs). It all started around 10:30 pm, I was already one or half an hour on my turn of security as a beadle, when I started listening to all this disorder that was being caused by some group of boys on a car, that I can ensure it was a borrowed fliver. They were screaming like crazy and shouting cuss words in a way that I am sure everyone in the town could listen to. I came closer to the car and the group of boys, because that's what they are, just a group of badly educated boys, and tried to be reasonable and tell them to stop doing that massive disorder, but they didn't do anything about it, so I had to start applying my authority as a beadle in charge to maintain the order, so I proceed to arrest them all, but they resisted and turned aggressive, they took me to the courthouse outhouse and locked me inside.

Do you know who were the "boys" that were causing all that disorder and locked you?

Of course I know them, O knew who each one of them was even from before, they had a lot of background issues that involved all kind of public disorder and bad attitude towards the calm of the town. They are probably the closest thing to a gang that has ever existed in Maycomb.

How did you "escape" from the courthouse outhouse where you were locked and how did the case end up in tribunals?

Well after being locked for some hours listening to all the disorder that they kept making I tried not to desperate until they left. Some minutes after they left someone passed close to the outhouse and i asked for help, he helped me and I had to explain all the story, making myself look like the worst beadle in history (laughs). The next day I went and talked to authorities of the town (the real authorities), they obviously decided that something had to be done, and because I knew them all, it wasn't difficult to make them come before the judge with charges of: Disturbing the peace, assault and battery, and the last but most important one in my opinion: the use of abusive and profane language in the presence and hearing of females.

Why did you include that last charge and what was the judge's final decision? how do you feel after all of this?

The judge asked me the same question (laughs) I included that one because because I am sure every lady in Maycomb heared them, they were screaming like beasts. The judge decided to send the vandals to the state industrial school, but as far as I know there's one that didn't go, Arthur Radley, because his father talked personally to the judge. After all this situation I feel good but I am not really happy with the decision of the judge, still, I don't feel intimidated, but groups of little vandals like this one, that make disorder, take advantages of a calm town like Maycomb, because they won't receive really tough penalties.

One last question Mr. Conner, do you know what happened with that boy that didn't go to the state industrial school? 

As i said before, the father of this boy had a personal talk with the judge he was able to change the dictamination for his son, but he took a decision that I find more solid and correct for this situation, he had his son locked inside his house forever or for a long time. This is correct because he got in problems for locking me, and ended up locked inside his own house, that is a good and responsible father with conscience for the community and society.  

rationale

 My written task consisted in writing a text of personal choice, after reading the book "To Kill A Mockingbird". I decided to make an interview to Mr Conner because I found it appropiate for the situation that I wanted to tackle, which is when Mr Conner was locked by Arthur Radley and his friends in the courthouse outhouse.

Because it being an interview I imagined it being published on a newspapaer or magazine so the audience that I wanted to target are all the possible readers of it. When talking about the register that I used it was always a formal one because of the context that my text was in.

In general the interview has a serious tone in it’s overall structure but sometimes, for example, the answers by Mr Conner included laughs which created a relaxed atmosphere.

The main purpose that I have with this interview is to express a point of view of a not so important character in a wider way because I realized all the potential that this situation and particular character had to make an interesting interview.  

To conclude, I think that this written task has a lot of learning outcomes for this course of language and literature, because it was about reading a book, understanding the ideas of it and finally writing a text in which you had to adapt your thoughts to an specific structure.  

To kill a Mockingbird: Style

To kill a mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee. The novel talks about a lot of controversial topics regarding the background of where and when it is set. As it is narrated by a little girl, the language of the novel  is very simple and it also evolves with the main character/narrator. The place where the novel is set is Alabama, US in the 1950's  so the girls language is like the one the southern people use and the author changes the spelling of the words so the accent its noticed. Despite being her first and until this year only novel Lee's hand is poetic and truthful a thing that not all authors get to do. Along the novel there are a lot of quotes and passages that made us think and reflect. The most famous quotes come from the narrators father who is an intellectual lawyer who appears to be a hero to his daughter. Other famous quotes come from Scout, the narrator,as she learns what is right and whats wrong.

The passage here is first said by Atticus, Scout's father. Harper Lee is able to use in a very good way the figurative language creating an emotional effect in the reader.

Written Task

Rationale.

In this written task I am going to develop an article related to the mass media topic, that my class and I have been studying, specifically about wikileaks.

Throughout this article the leak that I will aboard is called "Syria Files" it is about some e-mails of syrian and international authorities, all of this, while syria is under civil war, thats the main reason why I chose this topic, because it is super relevant what the authorities say to each other personally while war is going on in this country.

Now referring more to the article structure, it is a newspaper article, it doesn't really have many differences with a normal article but it includes features like headline, by line, introduction, body, quotes and a conclusion. I chose this format because it gives me the opportunity to write write a lot about my personal research of objective info, while also being able to put my thoughts in the conclusion, so I feel confortable with this type of text. I also think that the topic can perfectly be put into an article because of how relevant it is and because it is a big leak I could write it like a journalist, i find this really interesting to aboard.

In terms of the audience that this article is aiming is an audience that knows the context of Syria at the time this happened so they can really understand and link the leaked info with the current Syrian situation, my purpose with this article is to inform this audience with important and relevant personal leaked information about economy, interests, affairs, and even reactions from people that have read the e-mails.

Article (Newspaper Article)

   Syria Has been leaked


The 5th of july 2012 the technical team of wikileaks finished the researching and recompilation of important and private e-mails from authorities, political figures, ministers, and even companies from Syria, while it is under civil war, also other nations personalities would be involucrated in this.

All the e-mails date from august 2006 to march 2012, these include more than 680 important names from syria, all related to their interests and political affairs, and, more importantly this information could potentially become viral and everyone that understands the context around the world could have access to these e-mails via wikileaks, and in 2 months, according to wikileaks experts the information will start to be published in sites like Al Akhbar from lebanon, Al Masrry Al young, from Egypt, ARD from germany, Associated Press from The united states, L espresso from Italy, Owi from france and Publico.es from Sapin, they also expet other sites to start publishing the files as the time goes one and this topic makes more popular.

The violent internal conflict that Syria is having right now and the context in which this happened creates a lot of different opinions, for example, wikileaks founder Julian Assange said: "The material is embarrassing to Syria, but it is also embarrassing to to Syria`s opponents. It helps us not to merely criticize one group or another, but to understand their interests, actions and thoughts. It is only through understanding this conflict that we can hope to resolve it" and Sarah Harrison ( WikiLeaks Journalist) said "The Sirya files shine a light on the inner workings of the syrian government and economy but they also reveal how the west and western companies say one thing and do another".

The technical team of wikileaks says tha the database is composed of 2.434.899 e-mails, 678.752 addresses and more than 1 million recipients, this amount of information plus the fact that some of these emails were infected with viruses, took wikileaks to build a system that allowed them to handle these types of massive information sources, to understand how much this information is the wikileaks post on internet says that we can found personal and intimate interest of senior the baath party to economic transfers of ministers to other nations and even financial and politic interests of big and dominant companies and a number of different languages including, 400.000 e-mails in arabic and more than 60.000 in Russian, the posts also compares the "size" of the info with the "cablegate" saying that the info is 8 times bigger in terms of number of documents and 100 times bigger in terms of data.

In Conclusion, we are in front of one of the most important leaks in the last 10 years, being able to have acces to full personal information about political figures is something that can really affect the government of any country in the world, but this specific case is special because of how fast people can get the information, with internet and because of the context in which it happened a civil war, that is the main reason of why this leak is important, also the massive amount of information that was leaked is impressive and because it has personal interests from both sides of the conflict it can change a to of thoughts, decisions and actions that could potentially be done by the people and companies involved in this conflict, it has already created opinions even from the wikileaks founder julian Assange, that says the material is embarrassing to Syria. It is also possibly to notice that because of the effort that wikileaks technical team has done so fat, for example the creation of a general purpose, multi language political data minig system to handle the massive amount of info, the information is super valuable and might be classify, this leak by wikileaks may have a next level purpose, in terms of directly affecting the syrian conflict by showing the classified information to each side of the war scenario parties, a war that seems to be very fraudulent since it started until nowadays.

Vicente González V.


Online References:

https://wikileaks.org/syria-files/