A good new!, now all Int II can post with theirs owns accounts.
Our next project is a Photo Album of Int II classroom and also from the Hurlingham's Liceo.
jueves, 26 de abril de 2007
jueves, 12 de abril de 2007
Info about hidden things in the song
This song is completly crowded with metaphors and euphemisms. I´ll mention some of them.
-When it mentions that the people in high un places turn their heads to the city sun, it refers to a city called like that which is very luxurious and is near Johannesburg. So, it means that the important people who lived in Johannesburg didn´t listen to black people´s problems and turn their heads to the important and luxurious City sun.
-Another thing about Soweto that wasn´t mentioned before, is that in that place the black people was drawn to work on the gold mines near there. And that job is very dangerous, so many inocent black people died because of the apartheid.
-In the last paragraph, it mentions: "The freedom fighters will overcome very strong, I wanna know[...] if you wanna hear the sound of drums, Can´t you see that the tide is turning, Oh, don´t make me wait till the morning come", it means that the black people(the freedom fighters) was trying to get their rights back, they wanted Jo´anna to listen them(the sound of drums), because things were changing(the tide is turning), and they didn´t want to wait anymore.
*Maga!
-When it mentions that the people in high un places turn their heads to the city sun, it refers to a city called like that which is very luxurious and is near Johannesburg. So, it means that the important people who lived in Johannesburg didn´t listen to black people´s problems and turn their heads to the important and luxurious City sun.
-Another thing about Soweto that wasn´t mentioned before, is that in that place the black people was drawn to work on the gold mines near there. And that job is very dangerous, so many inocent black people died because of the apartheid.
-In the last paragraph, it mentions: "The freedom fighters will overcome very strong, I wanna know[...] if you wanna hear the sound of drums, Can´t you see that the tide is turning, Oh, don´t make me wait till the morning come", it means that the black people(the freedom fighters) was trying to get their rights back, they wanted Jo´anna to listen them(the sound of drums), because things were changing(the tide is turning), and they didn´t want to wait anymore.
*Maga!
viernes, 6 de abril de 2007
More information about the song
This is some information I found on the Wikipedia about the background of this beautiful song, I hope all my Intermediate II students can find something relevant and add it to make this site a great success!!!
I really love you all and am already proud of you!!!
Marina
Apartheid (meaning separateness in Afrikaans cognate to English apart and -hood) was a system of racial segregation that was enforced in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. Apartheid was designed to form a legal framework for continued economic and political dominance by people of European descent.
Under apartheid, people were legally classified into a racial group — the main ones being Black, White, Coloured and Indian — and were geographically, and forcibly, separated from each other on the basis of the legal classification. The Black majority, in particular, legally became citizens of particular "homelands" that were nominally sovereign nations but operated more akin to United States Indian Reservations and Australian/Canadian Aboriginal Reserves. In reality however, a majority of Black South Africans never resided in these "homelands."
In practice, this prevented non-white people — even if actually resident in white South Africa — from having a vote or influence, restricting their rights to faraway homelands that they may never have visited. Education, medical care, and other public services were segregated, and those available to black people were generally inferior.
Soweto is an urban area in the City of Johannesburg, in Gauteng, South Africa. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation, short for South Western Townships, subsequently referred to by relocating residents and other South Africans as "So Where To".
I really love you all and am already proud of you!!!
Marina
Apartheid (meaning separateness in Afrikaans cognate to English apart and -hood) was a system of racial segregation that was enforced in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. Apartheid was designed to form a legal framework for continued economic and political dominance by people of European descent.
Under apartheid, people were legally classified into a racial group — the main ones being Black, White, Coloured and Indian — and were geographically, and forcibly, separated from each other on the basis of the legal classification. The Black majority, in particular, legally became citizens of particular "homelands" that were nominally sovereign nations but operated more akin to United States Indian Reservations and Australian/Canadian Aboriginal Reserves. In reality however, a majority of Black South Africans never resided in these "homelands."
In practice, this prevented non-white people — even if actually resident in white South Africa — from having a vote or influence, restricting their rights to faraway homelands that they may never have visited. Education, medical care, and other public services were segregated, and those available to black people were generally inferior.
Soweto is an urban area in the City of Johannesburg, in Gauteng, South Africa. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation, short for South Western Townships, subsequently referred to by relocating residents and other South Africans as "So Where To".
jueves, 5 de abril de 2007
Gimme Hope Jo'anna
This is the fist song we have listened in this year,
Artist : Eddy Grant
Tittle : Gimme Hope Jo'anna
Well Jo'anna she runs a country
She runs in Durban and the Transvaal
She makes a few of her people happy, oh
She don't care about the rest at all
She's got a system they call apartheid
It keeps a brother in a subjection
But maybe pressure can make Jo'anna see
How everybody could a live as one
(Chorus:)
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
'Fore the morning come
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Hope before the morning come...
If you want to see the complete lyrics, Click Here
Something about Eddy Grant and the song:
Eddy Grant was born in Plaisane, Guyana.
When he was still very young his parents emigrated to the UK,When he was in London he started to listen Rock and other styles of music (When he lived in Plaisane he only listened Indocaribean music).
When he was 17 he make his first band "The Equals"
His later single, "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" (1990),was a song about Apartheid in that country, the song was made during the apartheid regime ("joannaa" stands for Johannesburg, South Africa)
Saantii
Artist : Eddy Grant
Tittle : Gimme Hope Jo'anna
Well Jo'anna she runs a country
She runs in Durban and the Transvaal
She makes a few of her people happy, oh
She don't care about the rest at all
She's got a system they call apartheid
It keeps a brother in a subjection
But maybe pressure can make Jo'anna see
How everybody could a live as one
(Chorus:)
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
'Fore the morning come
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Hope before the morning come...
If you want to see the complete lyrics, Click Here
Something about Eddy Grant and the song:
Eddy Grant was born in Plaisane, Guyana.
When he was still very young his parents emigrated to the UK,When he was in London he started to listen Rock and other styles of music (When he lived in Plaisane he only listened Indocaribean music).
When he was 17 he make his first band "The Equals"
His later single, "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" (1990),was a song about Apartheid in that country, the song was made during the apartheid regime ("joannaa" stands for Johannesburg, South Africa)
Saantii
Welcome to the Int II Blog
Welcome to the new int2 blog!!! This project is created by the people of the mondays and wednesdays int 2 class.
We decided to make this blog to let you know what we do in our classes.
Our first projet will be a southafrican song.
We hope you enjoy it...
Juli
We decided to make this blog to let you know what we do in our classes.
Our first projet will be a southafrican song.
We hope you enjoy it...
Juli
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