Reflection Task 3

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE - the man of the year

 I choose Justin Timberlake because he is really a nice, kind and helpful man. He makes a lot of donations. He has been active in several charitable pursuits. Firstly when he was in the band 'N Sync's, he was involved in “Challenge for the Children" activity. In 2001, he founded the "Justin Timberlake Foundation". The foundation initially funded music education programs in schools. However, now it has a much broader agenda.

 In October 2005, the Grammy Association presented Timberlake with an award for his humanitarian efforts in Tennessee.

In November 2007, he donated $100,000 from takings from his Australian tour to Wildlife Warriors founded by Steve Irwin.

On March 23, 2008, he donated $100,000 to the Memphis Rock N' Soul Museum and another $100,000 to the Memphis Music Foundation.

On November 12, 2007, Timberlake became the host of the tour's Las Vegas tournament which will start in 2008. With Timberlake's agreement to host the tournament, its name was changed to the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. 

 

He played in the celebrity pro-am on the day before the competitive tournament and hosted a charity concert during the week of the tournament. The activity was a success, and was repeated in 2009. According to a survey, Justin Timberlake's s estimated worth to Shriners Hospital for Children, reaped $9,262,381 for 2009 -which sets the world record for the Biggest support for charity.

Justin donated an item to watchmaker Nixon to be made into a watch, the sale of which benefitted the MusiCares MAP Fund — a pool of resources set aside to address addiction and recovery needs of members of the music community.

Timberlake teamed up with REM’s Michael Stipe for a charity single to continue aid for Hurricane Katrina victims. The CD, In the Sun, is available for purchase on iTunes.

Timberlake was awarded the Big Help award for his charity work at the 2011 Kids’ Choice Awards held at the USC Galen Center in Los Angeles. 

 

The charities he Justin Timberlake has supported :

   Childwatch

    Habitat For Humanity

    Kids Wish Network

    Make The Difference Network

    Mercy Corps

    Mission Australia

    Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation

    MusiCares

    Music for Relief

    National Kidney Foundation

    Oxfam

    PlayPumps

    RADD

    Shriners Hospitals for Children

    Soles4Souls

    Stand Up To Cancer

    Sweet Relief Musicians Fund

    The Justin Timberlake Foundation                                            

    THORN

    UNHCR

    Wildlife Warriors Worldwide

Reflection Task 2b

The video is about Durian fruit. It gives us information about the fruit. Durian fruit is a green, spiky fruit. The inside color is yellow. If we want to eat one, we should peel it off. However, I'm not sure if you can dare to taste it! Many people are put off by its smell. Because of its bad smell, it is banned from public transportation, hotels. There is a really huge bill for those carrying a durian in subway. . I think it is really weird! I really wonder how it smells like. How bad could it be??  I searched it on the internet, and I found a comment saying it smells at first like rotten onions. I have never smelt rotten onion. So, I still don’t know it..

Apart from its smell, I guess its taste is not very good as well. The speaker says many tourists don't like it much.  On the other hand, South Asian people really like it. They even call it ‘the king of the fruits’. Maybe that’s because the Europeans have only known it for about 600 years while southeastern Asia people have known and consumed it since prehistoric times. In 2222, maybe Europeans would love it so much! We don’t know…

  

I’m surprised at its varieties. There are 30 types of durian. The orchard where the speaker goes is really big. The speaker says these durian trees’ seeds were from the trashes of the rich. According to that, I understand durian is an expensive and rare fruit in the past. However, I have never seen durian in Turkey. I think there are not many people knowing about durian. But, I want to try it one day. 

 From Mc Donald's in Singapore !

 

 Durian Cake!!

 

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