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Georg-Büchner-Realschule, München

2, 2008

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the united states of America.

He was born in the year 1809 in a small one-roomed log cabin.

As his family was rather poor, he received very little formal school education as a child.

But because the boy was very interested in learning and books, he self taught himself most of what he knew.

As a young man, Abraham had a variety of different jobs, until he decided to run for president. After he had won the election in the year 1860, he achieved a number of things as the president of the united states of America. Under his lead it came to the abolishment of slavery, he strengthend the national government and he lead the country through the civil war.

In the end, Abraham was shot during a play at the theatre. As a matter of fact, he was the first American president to be assassinated, but as we all know, not the last.



Civil War

The conflict goes back to the foundation of the United States of America, where the southern states had less power than the northern part. The south decided that they wanted to leave the USA and found their own country. The northern states however, didn’t agree with this, as they wanted to stay a unit. After the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in the year 1860, the northern states could achieve the abolishment of slavery. But because the south feared that this could happen in their part aswell, here you should know that they needed the cheap workers for their agriculture, it came to the civil war between the northern and southern states in 1861. Overall the war lasted 4 years and when it ended in 1865, over 600 000 people had lost their lives.



Montgomery Bus Boycott

The Montgomery Bus boycott was started by a black lady called Rosa Parks. It was the 1 December of the year 1955, where segregation was still very common, when Rosa was taking the bus home from work, in Montgomery, Alabama. When a white person boarded the bus, the driver asked Rosa Parks to stand up and give him her seat. After she refused, he called the police and Rosa was arrested and had to pay a fine. This little act of bravery lead to a whole movement under the lead of Martin Luther King Jr., where 90 percent of the black population didn’t use public buses for over a year. In the end this lead to the passing of the civil rights act and it showed the black people, that peaceful protest was successful.









Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was a black civil rights activist. She is most know for starting the Montgomery Bus Boycott. It was the 1 of December, in the year 1955, she was taking the bus home from work. When a white man boarded the bus, the driver asked Rosa to stand up and make space for him. When she refused, he called the police and Rosa was arrested and had to pay a fine. This little act of bravery lead to a movement under the lead of Martin Luther King Jr., where 90 percent of the black population didn’t use public buses for over a year. In the end this lead to the passing of the civil Rights Act and showed the black people that peaceful protest was successful.



Civil Rights Movement

Before the year 1955, racial discrimination and segregation was very common especially in the southern states of America. There were separate areas for black and white people in public transport, toilets, restaurants and even schools. The black people felt that they had less rights-which was true by the way- concerning education, politics as well as pretty much everything else. So they decided to take a stand and do something about their situation. One of the first events in the civil rights Movement was the Montgomery Bus boycott, which Rosa Parks had started on the 1 of December in the year 1955. Another important name of this time is Martin Luther King Jr. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott movement, but the thing that he is most know for is his famous speech “I have a dream”. The Civil Rights Movement took over 100 years, but was a very important process, because if it hadn’t happened, maybe we would still have segregation today.





Martin Luther King JR.

Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most well known names of the civil Rights Movement. Before the year 1955, racial discrimination and segregation were still very common epecially in the southern states of America. On the 1 of December in the year 1955 Rosa Parks, a civil rights activist, started the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Martin Luther King Jr. was the official leader of this movement, and could persuade 90 percent of the black population, not to use public buses for over a year. Eventually this lead to the passing of the civil rights act. Martin Luther King Jr. also organized a number of marches ,protests and sit ins and risked his life many times. The thing that Martin Luther King Jr. is most known for, is his famous speech “I have a dream”, where he calls out to the black population and tells them to take a stand and join his form of peaceful protest. Martin Luther King Jr. achieved many great things and because of this he is considered a hero and has gone down in history.









Malcom X

Malcom X is a not quite so well-known civil rights activist. As you properly know, racial discrimination and segregation was still very common especially in the southern states of America, before the year 1955, in which Rosa Parks started the Motgomery Bus Boycott. But unlike Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, who both thought that only peaceful Protests like Marches, Sit ins and Boycotts could lead to racial equality, Malcom X belived in Black nationalism. This means that he thought that black people were worth more than whites and that they should reverse the current situation. Malcom X held a speech in which he calls out to his followers in the crowd, and tells them that it is time to fight back against the white population. He believed only weapons and war could bring the blacks the rights that they deserved. In the end it wasn’t Malcom X who achieved the passing of the Civil Rights act, no it was Martin Luther King Jr. amongst other activists, who had achieved this only by peaceful forms of protest.



Common Wealth

Today I am going to talk about the topic Common Wealth. The Name Common Wealth of Nations goes back to the year 1884 where a lot of the british colonies became independent and formed the organization. Today there are over 50 countries Member of the Common Wealth. In total that is almost a third of the world population. The countries are united by amongst other things their language, history, school education and also their goals for the future. The member countries have regular meetings to discuss economic cooperation, to encourage democracy in other countries and to ensure that everbody is following the human rights. The head of the association is Queen Elisabeth the second, who is also the Queen of 16 countries of the Common Wealth. Every four years there are the Commonwealth Games, which is a sporting Event and the friedship between these countries is celebrated on the second Monday of march every year.



A family Drama

The Text is about a British Asian girl called Jamilia, who lives in London. Jamilias father Anwar, has decided that it is time for his dauther to marry and has therefore found in his eyes a perfect husband from India. But Jamilia thinks that arranged- marriages are old-fashioned and she refuses to marry the man. This is the part of the story where the real conflict starts. Jamilia tells her cousin everything, he advises her to run away. But this is not an option for the girl because she knows that her father will take it all out on her mother with physical violence. When she tries to have another conversation with her father, to try and show him her point of view, she discovers that he has put himself on a hunger strike and will not stop until his daughter promises to marry the man of his choice. He already is looking rather thin and unhealthy and Jamilia knows that if he doesn’t eat something soon he will die. Her father puts her under even more pressure to do as he asks by stating that if she doesn’t agree on the engagement, he will continue to avoid food of any kind and his death will be her fault. Jamilia is in an inner conflict with herself and really doesn’t know what to do. With this cliff hanger the reader is left to wonder about what actions Jamilia decides to take. I guess if we wish to find out we will have to read the whole story.



The sheep

This story is about what the author remembers of the beginning of his career as a teacher.

The main character, Mr. McCourt is a young teacher from Ireland who is in his first English class at a high school in New York. He wants to go straight into his lesson, but the student seem to have other plans. There is a boy called Joey, to which the author refers to as the mouth, because he tries to distract the teacher by asking him all sorts of questions. The rest of the class encourage by going along and moaning about the spelling list that Mr.McCourt had planned. All in all the student are very disrespectful and address the teacher in their teenage slang. After having answered a numer of questions, Mr. McCourt decides that he has had enough. When Joey asks him if he had gone out with girls in ireland, he responds in an ironical way and says “ no dammit, I went out with sheep”, the class thinks that this is extremely funny. But the next day the principal sends for the teacher and tells him that there have been complaints about him having used bad words in class. Furthermore he is not pleased to hear that Mr.McCourt has talked about sheep in his lesson instead of doing his Job. This time he lets him of with a warning but in his view that was just unacceptable.


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