Living in hell indonesia mentally ill people gained and confined human rights

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/21/living-in-hell-indonesia-mentally-ill-people-chained-confined-human-rights-watch-report This article is about mentally ill people an air treatment in indonesia, this article caught my attention by the shocking headline saying Living hell, which is sure to grab an audience's attention, The guardian wrote this article which fits with their left wing view

Oxfam says UK's top 1% took quarter of all new wealth over past 15 years

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/14/oxfam-uk-1-percent-quarter-new-wealth-15-years This article is about reporting how 1% of people in the UK, which is about 600,000, has taken up a quarter of the wealth for 15 years. Which has resulted in about 3.7 million each over 15 years. The article uses many quotes from people who are a part of Oxfam and understand the situation, such as the chief executive, who show a very clear opinion that this is not a good situation, this shows clearly how the Guardian feels, this aligns with their left wing view, where they are going to be more inclusive and think about everyone, they also put emphasis on the low 10% too, showing how much lower their standards of money are, its clear they want you to sympathize with them, such as saying things like "More people than ever are relying on food banks" The title of the article makes it clear to a reader why they should read it, saying the source of this information along with the shocking statistic. In my opinion I think the statistics they show prove how bad of a situation this is, and something should be done about it.

Regional identity representation

There are many different ways the representation of regional identity can be shown. Regional identity is the way people are connected to where they are from, this can range from many things from different foods, to dialect, and even down to basic locations you'll see in the associated region. In Made In Chelsea we see many ways that the region is represented, one thing the vast majority of characters have a distinct accent that accompanies them, this allows people who are not in Chelsea to be able to see that it is a different part of the UK. There are many connotations towards wealth and a rich life style as well, from the foods and the areas they state they buy clothes in the first few minutes of the opening. An important aspect to note about the way Made in Chelsea represents their region is that they feel very enclosed, they characters distinctly make note that its their rich lifestyle. This is important to note because it contrasts with the Only way is Essex's much more different approach, Essex in the Only Way is Essex is represented as an equally rich and wealthy lifestyle, with the houses they live in and the foods and drinks they have, The Only Way is Essex acts more inviting to this lifestyle. This could potentially make it a more positive representation of Region than MIC. MIC only seems to show itself as very exclusive lifestyle, and that the rich life style they have is the only one that exists in Chelsea, this would not represent the full class range in Chelsea, as it is much broader than just having people of upper class. TOWIE manages to not do this by making itself more inviting to its audience, who are not all going to be of the same class. This allows itself to show itself as not just being this rich lifestyle that is shown in the show. Both of these shows however suffer from poor race representation, as most of the characters are white, and there appear to be few minority characters, this ties in with race, but it poorly represents the population found in both respective represented regions.

Woman found dead in elevator 30 days after power cut off by building workers

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/06/woman-found-dead-in-elevator-30-days-after-power-cut-off-by-building-workers This article is about the quiet death of a 43 year old woman who was trapped inside an Elevator for 31 days. The elevator was cut off from power after Maintenance workers were told to check for a glitch. The Chinese government identified this as a Manslaughter and fault of the workers, the Woman was deduced to not die from malicious intent, but was filed as Manslaughter. There is relevance in this article because of China's previous history of poor workplace safety. The article lists another incident last year where a woman was swallowed by a Mall escalator. This article while not at all being relevant to the Guardian's British focus and political views, was most likely created for because of the shock value this article gives, people are more inclined to read it. The article clearly states the affair in its title, making people more likely to read it. Because of the Guardian's outsider stance, there is little clear bias to be seen within the article.

Forms of representation in Untouchable

Untouchable is a French film created in 2011. The film's story focuses around a low class man named Driss who finds himself working as a caretaker for a paralyzed rich Aristocrat named Philippe, which allows them to bond a strong friendship with each other despite coming from exact opposites of life. Because of the many themes this film touches on, there are a lot of aspects of society and types of people that are seen represented. One of the most noticeable aspects that the film represents is the look into of class. Driss comes from a very low class background, moments before he is hired he was without a home, and he had very little even before then, as we see the home containing his family is very small, and run down, such as their bath not working properly when the faucet runs, when he is hired and gets his home commodities, we see a contrast scene to the scene where his bath stops working, where we see him in a much more expensive, larger and more high quality bath. There is a somewhat positive look on the representation of class. As despite Driss' background, they hire him anyway, they even portray a difference in class realistically in that there are some characters that come up to Philippe and suggest how Driss is not the kind of person that should be taking care of Phillipe. Another form of representation that actually connects greatly to the representation of class is the representation of race. An obvious fact you can see in the film is that all of the characters who are upper are not black, and the vast majority are white, and likewise, all of the lower class characters, and characters who are flat out homeless are either black or a minority. Driss himself is a character that actually has a lot of negative stereotypes that relate to his race, such as him and his family living in the hood, he regularly steals things (Seen when he first goes to job application) and he also acts very aggressive and impulsive. The film uses these stereotypes of black people against itself however, as despite all these qualities, we see him accept the job and gladly be accepted by his co workers, like they would with any other person. So despite the predominantly white, upper class work space that Driss is working in, he is still treated as an equal, and the people Driss works with actually ends up improving some aspects of their life, such as Driss' adamant nature encourages Philippe to meet the woman he spoke to but never met before, and also encourages him to stand up against his daughter. There might be a subtext message here saying that the two vastly different walks of life interacting and meeting with each other allows them to improve each other and become better people. This is also true for Driss' case, there is a contrasting scene at the beginning and the end of the film where we see Driss ask two different people to park the car out of the drive way, in the first scene we see him aggressively pick up the person out of his car and pushes him against the wall to threaten him, but in the second scene which is near the very end of the film, we see him politely ask the person to drive out of the way. Representation of the disabled is also a very major part of the film. The film appears to have very positive representation of the disabled. The disabled man Philippe is a very normal acting character despite his complete paralysis of the body, we see that there are of course limitations to Philippe due to his circumstances, as he constantly needs someone to take care of him. However he is not completely dependant on his caretakers all the time. The film also gives a very positive representation on the disabled in the ending of the film, where we see that Philippe gets to finally meet the woman she likes, this sends a message to viewers that disabled people are not limited by their disability to make relationships. The same sort of idea comes from the friendship Driss and Philippe create, Philippe's disability has very little to do with why their friendship forms, and that shows how much of a normal person Philippe is despite his disability.

EU's ban on inefficient toasters delayed to avoid pro-Brexit press attack

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/28/eu-inefficient-toasters-ban-delayed-avoid-pro-brexit-press-attack This article is about the EU's Regulation on inefficient products such as Toasters. Officials and staff were asked to delay this ban on the equipment without any direct reason why, however an official note stated that this was linked to The British referendum. More specifically the negative press that they would get from this from supporters of the referendum. The delay did not completely stop this, such as Tweets from David Coburn. This article is relevant for the Guardian to post because it is a British Newspaper, making anything to do with the soon to be referendum important. As Readers would be interested. This article caught me interested due to the bizarre title, which due to its literal statement, made me want to know what it really meant. The guardian is a left wing news paper, this is relevant due to most left wing political parties agree against the referendum, this is related to their words on the actions of pro-referendum parties, such as calling it "negative" press, making it seem like they are giving very antagonizing responses.

National and regional identity and representation.

National identity is one's connection with their own country, and this identity to their country can be shrown through many ways such as the accent they have, and the potential culture that comes from that nation that they bring with them, the way a nation can be represented can also be used to fuel stereotypes, we get stereotypes of whole nations such as the French being cowards and the Americans being all obese. The Media can represent this sort of identification with countries in many possitive or negative ways. The first episode of Mind your language (1977) is a very good example of poor national representation. In mind your language you see an English teacher teaching their language to a people from a variety of different Nations and cultures. Mind your language plays on many of the stereotypes that can come with the represented nationallities, such as an elder Japanese man who is the head of an electronics company, and two Asian men who argue about their opposing religion, which the show suggests they could start a race war about. We see also that in this episode a joke constantly used is the lack of the foreign speaker's knowledge of English, which is another representation of every other foreign nation, that they don't know anything about english or they could be just stupid. Another example of National identity is commonly found in sports, in the 2009 Rugby World cup Sevens we see a lot of iconography in the first opening sequence, these iconographies are mainly flags that are distinct and associated with specific countries, we are familiar with these common types of representation, but it also shows more abstract things, that we are still familiar with representing specific coutries, such as a lion represents wales. Regional identity is very similar to the idea of national identity in that it is about how people are connected to where they live, but it is more focused on the different regions of a single country, and their closed culture within their own country. Such as In Barcelona using a variation of the spanish language called Catalan. We can see regional representations in specific regions in two examples, one of these examples is the only way is essex, this has somewhat poor representation of the people within the eastern region. As the characters represented are somewhat stupid and do not show a lot of intelligence, the show often shows a lot of negative traits of people such as a lot of the characters being materialistic. Another example of regional representation in the media is Geordie shore, Geordie shore represents people within the Tyneside area of the UK. Like TOWIE Geordie shore has poor representations of the region, and focuses on a stereotype that people of Newcastle are party obsessed and materialisitc.