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