The importance of being well-informed

we live in a world where we can get thousands of informations and news out of many sources, like TV, internet and newspaper. But is it improtant for people to stay informed? I think it's a very important thing and in the following paragraphs i will show you why.

First of all, if you are well informed about whats going on on this world you have allways something to talk about with your friends and family. You can discuss about an issue or the latest results of elections, like recently in the USA the election for presidency. You also make the impression that you are a quite intelligent person if you know what happens in our society. Furthermore it's easier to make knew contacs if people don't think that you are stupid and you don't know whats going on.

Secondly, it's importan to follow the news because if there is a big storm coming or even a natural catastropg like an hurricane it can save your live, because then you have time to prepare for such a catastroph and avoid worse. An other good example are avalanches. Every year die many people because they don't know about the danger of avalanches in certain regions. This could be avoid if the people watch the news or read the newspaper, because there are mostly reports about the alarm level of avalanches.

As you may know we live in a democracy, and because of this its really important to be well informed about politics, about the problems in the state and also about solutions that are given. It was a long way to this political system, and now it's our turn to make the right decisions. So if they have the right to elect theire politicans, then they shoukd be informed about them. Therefore people have to watch the news, read the newspaper and listen to the radio.

To conclude i have to say that not all news are the same important, but it's never a disadvantage if you are informed in "unimportant" things like stars and promis. But all in all its very important for all people to stay informed, read the newspaper , watch tv or use the internet for getting information.

This graph shows the rate of the population in the USA which have their birthplace in a foreign country from the beginning of the 20th century to 1998.
until 1910 there was an increase of the foreigners. If you look at the graph closely
you can see that it climbs up to 15%, but from then on the population decreases nearly constantly until 1970. Then it recovers and it rises up to 9% in 1998.

Boyz in the Hood

Group 1: What kind of lessonds does Furious Styles teach his son Tre.
Do they guarantee a better life?

-> Show respect (3 rules)
1.) Look people onto their eyes | leading person-> doesn’t be lead by others
2.) Stealing is not necessary | Rule is self reliance
3.) Show everybody respect who respects you back

Black add white persons have different aims (e.g. the Army)

-> What a real man is
• real men are allowed to have kids
• trying to be responsible
• take care on children, family, job
• you have to know your problem and not these from the other ones (Ricky: shooting)
-> better think at your future
• structure life
• leader (leadership)



• work is not dirty- it is important (have to be done by society)
• black/white: respect soldiers; stealing is not necessary, brotherhood (not hate black people, you should understand them
• not only put your dick in women -> there is more than that




In our opinion, the rules of Furious Styles do guarantee a better life. Not for nothing he is one of the few survivors. It was absolutely right, to went out of the car and let adjust Ricky’s brother the situation on himself. It was his problem- not the problem of Tre

job application

Gallusstraße 7
A-6844 Altach
2nd March 2009

THQ, Kaos
Attn: Recruiting
129 W. 27th St.
8th floor
New York, NY 10001

Dear ThQ-Team,
I read on your webside that you are looking for a Graphics Programmer and I'm really interested in
this job. Since I was a teenager i spent a lot of time at my pc, playing many of your great computer
games. And once I started to modifie your game Company Of Heroes, i also made new models
and textures. And because I liked that so much I studied computer graphics at the University in
Vienna. After that I worked 2 years for a small company which produced small computer games.

I have all of the required skills and experiences i need for your job: I am a good team worker, I
have nearly 3 years of experience in c++ architecture design and far over 5 years of
experence with 3D Studio Max and I have excellent 3D math skills. In addition to this I have
also an excellent imagination and I'm very creative.

I can be reached all the time by my cellphone, 123 456 789. I hope I successfully showed you that I
have lots of experience as a graphic programmer and it would be great if I can work in your team.

Sincerely yours,
Simon Ender

letter of complaint

Mösleweg 16

A-6840 Götzis
Frebruary 1st, 2009

ORF
1190 Wien
Heiligenstädter Lände 27c

Dear Gerald Heidegger,

The reason that i am writing you is that the way how women are shown in the advertisments is completle unacceptable.
You should know that i'm a member of the organisation "men and women for a right exposition of women in advertisment", a.k.a. MAWFAREOWIA, and our organisation follows the deployment of the role of women in advertisments since nearly 20 years. In this time periode we could see how women are shown as an object, and it gets worse every year. For example in ads for a cleaning product or something like this, there are allways women who promotw the product, never men. Young girls learn from he beginning that cleaning is work for women, not for men. Another problem is that the women in ads are allways beautiful and very thin. And this influences young girls extremely. Nowadays there are thousands of young girls or womens who think that they are too fat or ugly, although the are not fat or chubby or even ugly. The children and teenager grow up with teenagers, television is kind of the upbringer for young people. Studies showed that they spend more time on watching TV than spending time with theire family. And if you only watch 2 hours a day over a long time, you begin to think that what the TV shows you is right.

So what i am trying to say is that your TV station should not submit the discrimination of women in advertisment. It's time the that the situation changes and that the seperation of roles stops. You could do the first step.

Yours sincerely,
Simon

Group 5: different attitudes to beauty in men and women

Pro:
- from a mans perspective it's an advantage (more respect than they probably should get)
- it's natural, we accept it because it's in so many cultures
- good for selfconfidence
- women allowed to look better than men
- also a man should try to look good in front of a woman

Con:
- prefers man -> women are expected to look young and beautiful
- old men look wise and experienced, old women look like witches
- women don't get as much attention than men
- makes people unhappy with this pressure
- people start to neglect themself
- discriminative tradtition, pressure on women

Additional thoughts:
- difference between men and women, created by upbringing
- nowadays the situation is changing
- now looks are important for both genders
- society should change!

My Style

First of all: i'm no emo! But some people like to think that because of my hair style or my band-shirts or whatever. I don't belong to any group and i don't want to be put into one. Like i said some people like to think that i'm a emo because my hair are pretty dark and they hang always into my face because i just let them grow. I only wear band-shirts, because music is a very important part of my life. I listen to music nearly the whole day. I never listen to music which is in the charts odr radio, i hate that mainstream-comerce-pop-shit. Mostly i listen to NuMetal or Rapcore bands, bands which nobody knows and some of them really influenced my life. I also don't really watch TV because people only get influenced by this. They dress like the people in the TV, they hear the music that comes in TV. I don't want to be part of the mainstream, i try to stay different from the rest. And so i don't want to get put into any group.
I think very much about god and the world and i like to discuss with my friends about such things. I'm also very critical to the politic of america and the whole system on this earth, because i read some books about this topics and conspiracy theories and they really changed my life.
although some people think i'm intolerant i am very tolerant, i tolerant everyone. But that doesn't mean i accept everyone and everyones opinion but some intolerante people can't seperate this two terms.
Finally i want to cite a citation from Christoph: "Everybody is born as an original ... but many die as copies!" And i try to not end as a copy =)

The Perks of Being a wallflower - Review

The book "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" was written in the 1990s by Stephen Chbosky, an american Novelist. It's about a 15 year old boy who sends letters to an unknwon person on which whe tells what happens to him during his year as a freshman on a high school.

Charlie came to his new school with now friend , as a shy and sentimental person with no friends, his best friend killed himself ad his aunt who meant a lot to him got killed at a car accident. As he met Sam and Patrick his whole life got turned upside down. He used to stay at home and read and think about everything, but then he went to parties, took drugs, drunk and smoked. All this are topics in which nearly everyone comes in contact while being a teenager. The story itself has funny and sad parts, just like real life. It shows really all that charlie experienced, but sometimes it's a bit nasty. But it makes the book fortiory interesting. You can really feel with Charlie, because you may made some similar experiences in your live. Sometimes I fealt like i don't read a book, but rather a real letter wo was sent to me by one of my own friends.I can only recommend this book. It's quiet easy to read, because there are not so many big confusing words, but if there are they are well explained. It's the best book we read so far in english and it was it's 10 € absolutely wort it.

Description of Charlie

Charlie is a 15 year old shy, sensetiv, soft and introverted boy, a wallflower. He is very emotional and cries alot. His only friend Michael commited suicide and his aunt, who meant much to him, died at a car accident. He spend a lot of his freetime with books an music, which are his passions. He got a pretty good connection to Bill, his teacher, who gave him some books to read. Bill also told Charlie to get involved with other people so charlie went to a footballgame. There he met Sam and Patrick, an they become good friends. He felt a bit more for Sam than just friendship and he didn't have a problem with Patrick being gay. From now on his live changes completely. With Sam and Patrick, he got in contact with drugs alcohol, smoking and parties, he found out about sexuality and also homosexuality. He also began to lie to his family, thats something he didn't do before, but his relationship to his sister who got pregnant got better. Charlie likes being a part of a group. He is a very good friend who always wants the best for everyone and sometimes he also made mistakes. At the end you find out that Charlie was abused by his aunt. So he had a hard childhood, and that could be the reasen why he has no self-confidemce and why he is so introverted.

pro/contra essay

Violence is a very big part of movies. In every genre of films you can see violence, physical or verbal. Some people belive that such movies make a part of the audience use the violence, that they see on TV or in the cinema, in their real life. Should violent films be banned from the screens?


Supporter for the ban of violence say that such films are very unrealistic. For example if the heroe of a violent film is hit by a bullet, he just walks on like nothing happens, but the enemys die with nearly every hit. The heroes also have a very high hit rate, and the enemys can shoot the hole magazin at the heroe but they don't hit.
Supporters also believe that such films animate some poeple to do things they saw in films in real. Like in one case a group of men lavished a random man with gas and then they burnt him. Such a sceen was in a movie which the men saw just before.
But most of the violent films are so unrealistic that no normal person gets violent by watching such films. As someone runs amok because of a film he/she gets on the title page of every news paper. But how many people do not run amok after such a film? Much more, and anyone can confirm this.
And what about the nonviolent films? They are even successfuller than violent films. In many of the last years were nonviolent films the most viewed films. That shows that not everyone loves violence.
We also don't turn into a nonviolent society because we don't watch violent movies. Violence is nothing that came with movies, and it won't go with movies.


Some people think that films make people violent. But without violent films our society would be as violent as it was, and such films are just to amuse us. So just lay back, turn your brain of and watch this stupid amusement, because for this such films are made.

E-SA

Task 2

I don't think that this picture is art. It's just a picture, I could also take a picture like this. There's nothing special, on it, nothing that makes me see think or that makes me see thins in a different light, it's just a woman with a spade, standing in her garden. In my opinion this picture is just called art because an artist made it. As I said before, art has to look different, special and it should make me dream or think about something. I don't want to say that no photo can be art, but mostly photos are not art. A photo of art is art, a photo of special geographic places or phenomena, or a photo that shows me something in a different perspective can be art.

E-SA

Task 1


Dear Christoph,
I've just seen a very interesting picture which evoke a lot of emotions in me. So I just want to describe you the picture , and what it expresses. On the painting you can see five people, four adult white men and a little black girl. Each man has a yellow band arround the left upper arm, on which it says "Deputy US Marshall. The people walk down a pavement from left to right. two men are on the left side of the picture, and two on the right side.In the middle the little black girl is walking with shining white clothes. In the background you can see a wall, on which someone worte "Nigger" and a tomato has been thrown at it. At the bottom of the picture stands the name of the artist: Normal Rochwell. I think the picture has a very deep sense. It*s about racism. The little girl is carring some books and a rukler, so i think she is walking to school. Bute there are too many racists there so it's too unsafe to let the girl walk to school alone., which is why the US government decide d to send 4 strong and tall man to protect the child, so taht no one can hurt her. It made me think about our society, that someone gets kocked out just because they have a darker skin than others. You also have to see the picture, maybe you can find it in the internet. I would recommend it to you.

Snow Falling On Cedars

The Japanese Kabuo Miyamoto is accused to have murdered Carl Heine, so he was brought to a trail. The victim was found by sheriff Art Moran. He found Carl's boat at White Sand Bay, but the owner of it was out of sight. They recognised that the fishing net was still in the water so they decided to bring it in. As they pulled the net in they saw Carl Heines dead body in the net. They saw a bing wound on his head. The sheriff said to Nels Gudmundsson, Kabuo's lawer, that there were two different batteries in the batterie holder: a D-6 and a D-8. Carl had just D-8 batteries, but on Kabuo's boat they found 2 D-6, but no spare battery
Horace Whaley, Island County Coroner, found a pink cream came out of Carls mouth. It was air, body liquids an seawater mixed by breathing , which means that Carl was still alive as he drowned in the sea. Whaley also found that the headwound could be caused by Kendo, a japanese fighting method with stick. On Carls boat they found a rope which was different from the others, but on Kabuos boat there were other ropes like this. So it could have been that Kabuo tied his boat together with Carl's boat and left a rope in a hurry. Dr. Whitman tested the blood that was found on a stick which was found on Carls boat, and he had to prove the blood on it. The stick fixed exactly into the wound in Carl's head. But on the stick were no hair and no bone, but if this was the weapon whoch killed Carl there had to be things like this on the stick. The blood was only on the handl of the tool. Sergeant Maples trained Kabuo for the 2. world war. He said that Kabuo is able to kill far larger man then himself with a fishing tool.
Then Kauo told his story what happenend on the sea when he last saw Carl. It wa sa foggy night and the batteries of Carl were dead so Kabuo gave him one of his. But it didn' fit so they had to make more space for the battery, and Carl did that with the stick that Kabuo gave him. While he worked he cut in his hand with the metal and he begun to bleed, so the blood got to the stick. Hatsue had an idea what could happen to Carl afterwards, so she sent Art Moran to the boat to search it. They found out that Carl Heine went on the mast on his boat to put a light up, but then came a big ship and threw him with big it's big waves down from the mast, so he got his head injury and then he fell into his net and finally into the water.

Dear editor

I read your article "Giuliani forced into climbdown". It was about a artwork which shows the holy Virgin Mary adorned with elephant dung. I think that artsist have the right to create what they want, but a artist should know about the consequences of an artwork. It's very disrespectful if someone makes a picture in which he "adorne" one of the holiest person in a religion. I also think that it's not good if an artist only creates shocking art to get attention or to make promotion. Also shocking art has it's limits. The photos of an anorexic model are a good example of positive shocking art. It's against anoxeric models at the milano fashon week. Shocking art can be used very well to show the problems of our society, but some artists cross the line and tehy just provocate like the Virgin Mary in elephant dung.

yours simon

A STORY

One day, a new girl came to our school. Her name was Jane Eyre. Like me and all the other pupils she was an orphan. She lost both parents, just like me. In this school, there were only girls ho had lost one or both parents. I was not so long on the school, I arrived just a week before Jane arrived. Like me, she was often alone. So I decided to talk to her. She seemed like a nice girl to me. I also never got much friends, so I was glad that we built up a friendship. We both got problems in school. It was a very bad school. The food was very bad, and in winter it was always very cold inside ad outside the school. Then the water we had to use to wash our self was frozen. One day Helen was hit by the teacher because her fingernails were dirty. I've met Helen 2 days before Jane met her. She was a good friend of us, always devotional. She was very intelligent. The time at the school was very bad. The saddest thing that happened to us was when Helen died. She died in front of me, in the arms of Jane. She had tuberculosis. It was a hard time for me and for Jane, but we could talk about the problem that we had. The death of Helen had starched the friendship of me and Jane.

London (SE). Bill Sikes, the most proble murderer of nancy, died in front of manyinhabitans after a persecution of the police. An inviolent person called Fagin was arersted and interragated. The missing boy oliver was also saved of after the abduction by the leader of a pickpocket gang.

Yesterday at 12 o'clock the withe dog of Bill Sikes brought the police to the hidding place, where over ten children were hidding. This children were allso members of the pickpocket gang. As the police arrived, Bill took Oliver and he escaped with him. The police and a crowed of people followed him, until he had an accident after a escape over the roofes of the houses. At teh accident he hanged himself. It was a succesfull night for the police, because they also cought Fagin, the leader of the pickpocket gang.
Oliver, who was a few weeks in captivity brought back to his stepfather Mr. Brownlow, who we interviewed: "I'm so glad that Oliver is saved. I'm sure, now that Oliver lives at me, he will have the best live that i can give him. He is like a son for me, which i've never got."
Now Oliver lives in the big house of his stepfather Mr. Brownlow, who is very rich. Oliver met Mr. Brownlow after he was charged to be member pickpocket gang, but Mr. Brownlow knew that it was not Oliver who robbed him, that it was another boy. So he came the first time to Mr. Brownlow, but then he was cought again by fagin and the pickpocket gang.
After a trial in London Fagin was arrestet for 15 years. The judges orderes that, because Fagin leaded the pickpocket gang for over 25 years. Oliver visited him after a few days.

Interview

A: Good morning little boy.
B: Good morning, sir.
A: Can i ask you some questions?
B: Why not?
A: First of all, how old are you?
B: Tem, sir.
A: And what do you have to work. Do you work in factory?
B: No, but one of my older brothers work in one.
A: So where do you work?
B: I have towork as a chimney sweper.
A: So tell us, what do you have to do there?
B: I have to climb into chimneys and clean them, because i'm so thin. But it's a very dangerous job. I often hurt my leg and so and it's very dirty. If you have an open wound it's usually that you get ignition. The chance that you die at it is big.
A: And what does your brother work?
B: I don't know exactly, becuase everytime he gets home he is so tired that he just fells asleep. But i think they need him because he have so little arms they can do finer work than machines.
A: Do you have any sisters?
B: Yes sir. 2. They both work at a farm. They have to do very bad things like picking up the stones before the plants were sown.
A: And what about school. Do you go to school?
B: No sir. We aren't able to go to school.
A: Why not?
B: Our family needs the money. Without it we would starve to death. School is manly what for richer children. I heared that boys and girls have diferent subjects. And if the children don`t listen to the teacher, thea were hit by him with a ruler. I don#t know more about school.
A: And what do you do in your free time?
B: Me and my brothers and sisters just have teddy bear and a wooden locomotive. But we don't have much time to play. Usually we go on the streets to play. On sunday we we always go to the park. There play little bands . Then we listen to them .
A: What about your parents, how are they?
B: They work very hard. My father is nearly the whole day in a fay#ctory and my mother has to do the whole work at home. She has to cook for 7 people, wash for 7 people and stuff like that. But thats not all. Like my sisters she have to work on a farm.They both are very strikt.
A: Ok, i think that was it. Thank you for that great interview.
B: No problem, sir. You're welcome.