Task 5

The pie charts below show the results of an airline survey in 2002 of economy class and business class travelers. The numbers given in percentage of male or female passengers.

For starters, the number of females who rated movies were 9% whereas on the other hand it was 7% of the males who rated movies. Then, females took 21% of food and drinks the most popular flight featur while males took only 19% of food/drinks from most popular features. In the same class in the airline the number of females who rated service was 45 percent compared by males the percentage was 20% less than females. Finally, females got quarter of the economy class features while males got almost half the percentage of the features.

Turning to the business class, we can see that space and movies took 50% of popular fligh features in female survey while males took 2% less than females. With respect to the other features they also took 50% in both surverys.

In conclusion, the percentage of features in both business and economy wasn't the same with just slight differences.

task 4

There are several kinds of things that might influence us such as media, including TVs, radio and newspapers also there are the family, books, friends, etc. in the following, I will present both sides of the statement before concluding with my opinion as to which is best.

Let’s first write why we agree with mass media. One point to take into consideration is that movies can affect our behavior by copying. Learning habits from other people. Another factor that comes to mind is the news about the world. For example, we can know about world issues and the other countries from TVs. A final advantage is learning new information about geography, history and new technologies.

Let’s now consider the other side of the statement. For starter, one point of why I disagree with the mass media is there are other alternatives that might help us to shape our ideas. To clarify, we can learn from books and newspaper new words, ideas that might help us in our life. Yet another point which may shape people’s character is making their parents their role model. To illustrate, most children copy their parents act. So, sometime the influence of parent is greater than mass media.

To sum up, mass media is not the only way of learning and shaping people’s ideas there are several alternative ways that could affect us.

portfolio 3

The graph and table show the number of fishermen in terms of millions for different regions between 1970, 1980 and 2000, and the world’s top ten exporters of fish in 2000.

For starters, the number of fishermen increased rapidly from about 11 million to 26 million between 1970 and 2000 whereas on the other hand in Africa the number of fishermen decreased slightly from approximately 12 million to about 3 million. In the same period of time the numbers in South America leveled off at 8 million while in North America in 1970 the number of fishermen was 5 million then it rose to 15 million in the following years. Finally, the graph shows that the numbers of fishermen in Europe fluctuated in the same period of time.

Most exports came from Thailand in Asia while Norway in Europe took the second place of top ten exporters of fish. With respect to the last numbers of top ten exporters Indonesia in Asia took the ninth place whereas South Korea in Asia took the last place.

In conclusion, the number of fishermen between 1970 and 2000 in this regions wasn’t stable.

portfoilo task2

The graph and table show the number and the rank of visitors who visit the theme parks between 1995 and 2005 in terms of millions and nationality.

For starters, the number of visitors in Disneyland increased rapidly from 27 to 42 million between 1995 and 2005 while on the other hand in Euro Disney the numbers peaked from 11 to 10 million in the same period of time. Between 1995 and 2005 the figures rose slightly from almost 2.5 to 6 million. Also the number of visitors increased dramatically from 5 to 21 million during the same period of time. Finally, the graph shows that Disneyland is the most popular and most visited in the last ten years.

 Most visitors came from North America while European took the second rank of number of visitors. With respect to the least number of visitors’ nationality Oceania and Africa took the least number of visitors rank.

In conclusion, the number of visitors went up in all theme parks except for Eurodisney.

Portfolio task 1

The first graph shows the percentage of the films shown in Britain and Australia by origin in 2000. The other graph shows the number of people who attended the cinema in Britain and Australia.

Graph 1 shows the percentage of type of movie shown in Britain and Australia in 2000. The US films were the highest percentage for both countries. it was about 80% for Britain and 68% for Australia in 2000. Turning to British and Australia films, the percentage dropped to 20% and 0% in Britain while in Australia 5% and 10% only.

Graph 2 shows the attendance in Britain and Australia during the period from 1980 to 2000. To clarify, between 1980 and 1988 the number of people who attended in Britain fluctuated. Then, the number increased dramatically for the following 12 years. Turning to Australia, the first three years the number was fluctuated. Then, it leveled off until 1990. Finally, it grew slightly from 1990 to 2000.

In conclusion, we can see that the US films is the most popular in both countries.