Here you have some more projects about the secondary and the tertiary sectors. These students have researched on different activities: telecommunications and electrical installations, industry, carprentry, transport and retail trade. We hope you like these projects and learn a lot of things about these activities. Please, leave your comments.
Showing posts with label industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label industry. Show all posts
Friday, March 18, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Some films about industrial reconversion / deindustrialization
Here you have the trailers of some good films that reflect the hard reality of deindustrialization in the United Kingdom and Spain:
THE FULL MONTY
This film shows the story of a group of unemployed who lost their job in a steel factory of Sheffield, in the north of England. They look for different options, trying to survive. One of them has the idea of preparing a stript tease and he tries to convince his mates to join him.
BRASSED OFF
This film tells the story of a colliery brass band that will disappear after the closure of the coal mine where its members have been working for many years. The miners prepare their participation in a music band contest at the same time they have to face the reality of unemployment, depression and the loss of their normal life. The film was inspired in the real story of the struggle of the Grimethorpe miners against the closure of their mine.
BILLY ELLIOT
The background of the story of this dancing boy is also reconversion: the 1984-1985 miners´ strike in the United Kingdom. Margaret Thatcher´s government defeated the miners, many mines were closed and the unions lost the main part of their power.
LOS LUNES AL SOL
This Spanish film tells the story of a group of unemployed who were fired during the shipyard reconversion of the 80's and 90´s in Spain. The film shows the different ways of facing unemployment.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Challenge number 6
This week´s questions will be focused on industry and some of the concepts we´ll study next week.
Question 1
Taking into account world industrial output, what are the three largest industrial manufacturers (countries)? What have been the recent changes in this list? What is the expected evolution of this list?
Question 2
What are maquiladoras? What´s the origin of this word? Where are they located? What do they produce? What are their main problems?
Come on, participate!
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Planned obsolescence
Have you ever heard your parents or grandparents say that things lasted more in the past? They might be right. This is a very interesting documentary broadcasted on La 2 a few weeks ago. It explains one of the pillars of industrialized societies: planned obsolescence. This is a strategy many companies develop to oblige consumers to buy new products, by limiting their duration. Many products have been designed to have a short useful life, so that consumers have to buy new models. It is cheaper to buy a new product than trying to get it fixed. Some experts try to justify planned obsolescence, like a way of preserving employments: if products lasted for ages, less workers would be needed and unemployment rates would be higher. However, other experts explain that this strategy has led to consumerism, the exhaustion of many resources and high pollution and waste levels. The documentary is in Spanish, but many of the people who appear in it speak in different languages.
More about planned obsolescence:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/planned_obsolescence.asp
Monday, January 31, 2011
A famous assembly line
This is a famous scene of Modern Times, a 1936 Charles Chaplin comedy film. The character Chaplin plays, a tramp, works on an assembly line and has problems to follow the rhythm of the machines. On this film Chaplin wanted to criticize the dehumanizing effects of machines in the Industrial Age and he also reflected the hard conditions many unemployed people had to face during the Great Depression era.
I strongly recommend you the whole film. This was the first time the audience could listen Charles Chaplin´s voice.
More information about the film:
Presentation about industry
Here you have the small presentation we have used today to learn some new concepts about industry. Please, review it. Next day we´ll learn about horizontal and vertical concentrations.
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