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324523 Catersclown
Nov. 28 2008

Hi Kelly,
How are you? I’m not well. There has been a huge fight in my family. Nobody can get along with each other. You know my brother, right? He was on a party a few days ago and he took some drugs and slept with two girls. I know about that, because he told me, but he didn’t want me to tell our parents. But I thought it would be the best for him. When I first told my father, he was very angry and yelled at Jack. My mother wanted to calm him down, but it didn’t work and suddenly all of them were quarrelling, When Jack got the information that he has got an STD, he was afraid that the girls might have it too. He called them and both girls stopped talking to him, because one girl hadn’t even slept with him and the other one was embarrassed. The conflict between Jack and my father is worse then ever. I think that’s why their relationship is not well. I could suggest that we should see a family therapist so that something horrible like this can never happen again.

Yours, Zoe

Virgins character map

I want present to you the result of our group work. The person I want to talk about is Jack. First of all I want to talk about the looking of the character, then I will move on to his acting and finally I will explain you the relationship to the other characters. In the story you don’t get any idea of the appearance of Jack. That’s why my group had to imagine him. I think he looks like a skater. That means, he wears baggy pants, a medium-sized t-shirt with a brand name on it and he wears Globe skater shoes. I also think that he has medium length brown hair and he is a very sporty person. We chose this, because we think nearly every teenager looks like a skater nowadays.
Now I will continue with his behaviour.
In our opinion he acts like a pubertal teenager that means he doesn’t want to listen to his parents and wants to go to as many parties as possible. He is ashamed of the STD, because he had sex for the first time with the one girl he loves and she might got a STD too. We think he is very sarcastic because his father tells him all his faults and he answers like “Oh Really!”, but that’s not the worst he yells a lot and has problems with his anger. To the end of the story he accepts what he has done and blames Ben for all his faults.
My last point is the relationship to the other characters in the play. The first relationship I want to talk about is Jack’s and Nick’s. Well this relationship is very complicated, because Nick and Jack don’t really understand each other. Jack thinks that his dad should understand him, because he was a teenager once, too.
The next relationship is about Jack and Suzy. I think this relationship is very solid because Suzy always protects him and helps him if he has a fight with his dad and I think he really appreciates it, because he is not able to stand up against his father alone. The relationship between Jack and Zoe is very strong, because they tell each other secrets and talk about serious topics like sex.

© Markus Lampert

Main Character

Melinda suffers of living alone, because she is the most unpopular pupil at the high-school. She doesn’t fit in any group or clan. She needs a lot of time to trust Rachel and tell her about what happened at the party, she might does it to save Rachel from Andy. Even though Rachel doesn’t believe her she has now more self esteem. She is very good at defending herself that’s why she holds a sharp shard at Andy’s neck.

Melinda has only two friends who are David and Heather. She likes David because he is very brilliant and because he is a kind of “rebel”. David also likes her which could be seen when he helped Melinda with her Presentation.
Heather likes her because Melinda was the only person who was nice to her and talked to her. But after a few weeks she tells her to go away because she thinks that they are too different.

Her mom and her dad aren’t too caring. They just don’t talk enough with their child. My impression is that she feels disregarded. She’s only a few people left who she could call friends. There’s Heather, who cancels the friendship, and there’s her lab partner, who was named David Pertaki and last but not least her art teacher Mister Freeman. Mister Freeman is a very sensitive man, she feels kind of secure when she’s close to him. Her connection to the other teachers isn’t that good. In fact she hates her history teacher. He’s making a problem out of everything. Her English teacher, who’s called hair-woman by Melinda, is weird.

Also the teachers do not notice Melinda. They are not friendly especially Mr. Neck is very hostile to her. Except Mr. Freeman likes and speaks with her because he notices very soon what is up with her. That is reason why Melinda’s best mark is in art and in all other subjects she gets very bad marks.

© Markus Lampert

Speak

1.Book review

Laurie Halse Anderson won one of four award-winning novels with “Speak”, which was published by penguin group in 1999. She lives together with her famliy in New York. Speak is a book about a 14 years old girl called Melinda who was raped at a summer ending party and the author wrote about this because Melinda came to her in a nightmare.

Melinda become an outcast at her high-school and she’s very lonely because she called the police at this party since she was raped. Everybody exept for Melinda was in a group of friends or a clan. They are only mad at her because they don’t know what happened. Nobody talks to her until she meets Heather, who is new at school. Mr. Freeman is her art teacher who believes in Melinda.

She really needs help but doesn’t get it becauseshe doesn’t speak about her problems. She falls in a lot of trouble when she starts to skip school. Rachel is a ex-friend of her, doesn’t believe her because her boyfriend was the one who raped her. But finally she asks her boyfriend and he doesn’t give an answer so she ends their relationship at thr prom. Andy, the ex-boyfriend, force Melinda into a closet where he wants torape her again.

I didn’t really like the because I am not interested in such lame books, but the whole class wanted to read. Whatever here is my book review.

© Markus Lampert

Globalization

1. Globalization affects employment of Austria:

A few people say, that the globalization reduces the Inflation, because the Inflation got smaller. But for Austria the textile industry is nearly dead. Almost all concerns closed because other counties are able to produce cheaper than Austria.

2. Austrian multinationals

• Doppelmayr: The Group has production facilities and sales and service locations in over 33 countries of the world and to date has built more than 13.700 installations in over 78 countries.
• Liebherr: The company exist since 1949 and was founded by Hans Liebherr. The turnover of the group in the year 2006 was 6.473 million €. The investment was 410 € and it has about 26.000 emlpoyees.
• Rauch: Rauch is an international company, which delivers juices to all parts of the world.

3. Groups against globalization

Anti-globalization is a social movement that understands economic development as the expansion of markets for the interests of ruling elites. Activists in this subject have various concerns with the growing power and influence of this global marketplace.

Anti-globalization is a grassroots movement to counter the trend of globalization and its harmful effects, and to reform unbridled capitalism.

4. How can we support Fair Trade?

We can support it when we buy things with the Fair Trade sign, even though they’re very expensive. If we support Fair Trade we help 3^rd world countries against child labour.

5. Opinion about globalization

I think globalization is good because the whole world gets connected through the internet, which means that the countries don’t have these problems with connecting between them. It’s also good because of the internet so you don’t have to drive to a library to search in a book.

© Markus Lampert

Correction of the 2nd exam

Part 3: Writing

Welcome to our virtual tour through Cambridge. We will start at the Bus Station in Drummer Street. Across the street there is a very small nice restaurant, which sells the best burgers in town. Now we are walking down the Hobson Street and the big yellow building you see in front of us is the Post-Office. It was destroyed during the second World War, which meant that they could not send letters to our troops in France. Do you see the huge white building? This is the Whipple Museum, our history of science museum. It is open from Monday to Friday from 12:30 to 4:30 pm. Everybody should go and see it, because it’s fantastic. We will Continue our tour at Corpus Christi College, which is the oldest building, because all other old buildings were bombed, but luckily for us no bomb hit the college. It has a nice court in the middle, which most students use to learn. We will make the next stop at the market. There you can buy vegetables, although the tomatoes are not as good as they might look. Now do you see the white building with the many windows? It’s another college, called Trinity College, which was founded in 1546, It’s really famous and students from all over the world study here. Now we got to the newest building in the city: the Methodist university. It has the best and latest equipment in town. The next attraction I will show you the Grafton Shopping Centre, which has every thing you need. Now we will walk back the bus station and I hope you have enjoyed this tour.

© Markus Lampert

English Homework

Let me take you on a virtual tour through Laterns.

We’ll start at the municipal office, in this building is a post office, a bank and the mayor. Let’s go in the bus and I will tell you about everything what you see. When you look at your right you see the church, which is always worth a visit. It was built in the 17^th century. At your right you see the first tavern in Laterns, the name is “Gasthof Löwen”. Do you see the side road at your left, there is a forge? If you go along the street there you’ll see the elementary school. I went in this school and I can only say that it is a very good school. Now we are moving on to the old fire station of Laterns, it was in operation until 1978. Our way is leading us to a company which generates windows for houses and doors. Now we move on to the Bonacker, which is the next part of Laterns. Now at your left you see the next tavern, it’s called “Die Krone”. Across the street you see many trucks of the “Nesensohn Transporte” company. Do you see the small chapel? Every Saturday evening there is a church service, but at Sunday there is the service only in the church, where we star our travel. We continue our tour with the building yard of Laterns, there is also the new fire station. Our way leads us to the most interesting thing of Laterns, the Ski-lift. There is everything you need, such as taverns, bars, hotels and a ski shop. In winter you can skiing or snowboard, you can do some tricks in the fun park or have fun at the taverns. In summer you can enjoy the bobsledge or you can jump on the trampolines. Anyway that’s the finish, I hope you enjoyed it.

© Markus Lampert