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==Borussia Dortmund==
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==About me==
  
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Borussia Dortmund or BVB is one of the most successful soccer team of germany, which was founded in 1909. Its current trainer is Jürgen Klopp.
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* born on the 7th August 1991
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* live in in the nice village <span style="color: #C00000">'''westheim'''</span>
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* '''like''' going to concerts and festivals
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* ''hate'' getting up early in the morning
  
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===stadium===
 
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The stadium of Borussia Dortmund is called Signal Iduna Park is with 80.552 the biggest stadium of germany. Once it was calles "WEstfalenstadion", but to get money they had to sell the naming rights.
 
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The london "Times" placed the stadium on the first postion of the most beautifaul stadiums in the world.
 
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===successes===
 
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The most important success is probably the victory against Juventus Turin in the Champions League 1997. But there are also nation successes. They won a few times the german Championship (last time 2002) and the DFB-Cup.
 
  
 
==Thoughts about the election in germany==
 
==Thoughts about the election in germany==
  
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:# The party "SPD" is the biggest loser in this election becuase 23,4% is its lowest election result in history. I think a reason for this is, that a lot of people, who elected "SPD", decided to vote "Die Linke", which reached more than 10% the first time.  
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:# The party "SPD" is the biggest loser in this election because 23,4% is its lowest election result in history. I think a reason for this is that a lot of people who elected "SPD", decided to vote "Die Linke", which reached more than 10% the first time.  
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:# The big winner of the rather small parties is "Die Piratenpartei". Especially young voters, decided to elect them. I think this is just because of their name! And a lot of people, who don't care who to reign germany just read "Die Piratenpartei" and think "Ahh. pretty cool name".
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:# The big winner of the rather small parties is "Die Piratenpartei". Especially young voters, decided to elect them. I think this is just because of their name! And a lot of people who don't care who to reign germany just read "Die Piratenpartei" and thought "Ahh. pretty cool name".
 
:# Another big winner is the party "FDP", which reigns germany now with "CSU/CDU"
 
:# Another big winner is the party "FDP", which reigns germany now with "CSU/CDU"
 
:# The voter turnout this year was very low. I think especially young voters don't care about electing.
 
:# The voter turnout this year was very low. I think especially young voters don't care about electing.
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==New president of the USA: Barack Obama==
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===people expect from him===
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:# [http://www.newstatesman.com/north-america/2009/01/obama-crisis-president What the world expects from Obama]
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===hope for Obama===
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:# [http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45527 Latin america: People see ray of hope in Obama]
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=Vocabulary=
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{| class="prettytable sortable"
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|+ Constitution and rights
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|- style="background: #DDFFDD;"
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! english
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! deutsch
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|-
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| US Constitution
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|Verfassung d. Vereinigten Staaten
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|-
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| amendment
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| Zusatzartikel
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|-
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| citizen
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| (Staats)bürger
 +
|-
 +
| bill
 +
| Gesetzesentwurf
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|-
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| to overrule
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| ablehnen
 +
|-
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| Unalienable/inalienable rights
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| unveräußerliche Rechte
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|-
 +
| constitutional right
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| verfassungsmäßiges Recht
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|-
 +
| to draft
 +
| entwerfen
 +
|-
 +
| impeachment
 +
| Amtsenthebungsverfahren
 +
|-
 +
| representative
 +
| Abgeordneter/(allgem.)Vertreter
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|-
 +
| '''federal''' government
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| '''Bundes'''regierung
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|-
 +
| checks and balances
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| Gewaltenteilung
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|-
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| to appoint
 +
| einsetzen
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|-
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| federalism
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| Föderalismus
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|-
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| compete for the presidency
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| um die Präsidentschaft kämpfen
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|-
 +
| inaugural address
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| Antrittsrede
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|}
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 +
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{| class="prettytable sortable"
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|+ Democratic principles
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|- style="background: #DDFFDD;"
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! english
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! deutsch
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|-
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| ballot
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| Stimmzettel
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|-
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| term of office
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| Amtszeit
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|-
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| universal suffrage
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| allgemeines Wahlrecht
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|-
 +
| voter registration
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| Wählerregistrierung
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|-
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| majority
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| Mehrheit
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|-
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| majority vote
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| Mehrheitswahlrecht
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|-
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| minority
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| Minderheit
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|-
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| to consent to
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| zustimmen
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|-
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| to resign
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| zurücktreten
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|-
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| delegate
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| Delegierter
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|-
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| electorate
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| Wahlberechtigte
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|-
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| eligible
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| berechtigt
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|-
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| unalienable
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| unabdingbar
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|-
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| embassy
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| Botschaft
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|-
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| to ratify
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| bestätigen
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|-
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| to overthrow
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| stürzen
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|-
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| opinion poll
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| Meinungsumfrage
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|}
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==Adverts==
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{| class="prettytable sortable"
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|+ The advert "Buckle Up"
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|- style="background: #DDFFDD;"
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! question
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! answer
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|-
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|what product?
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|To buckle up
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|-
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|aim and target group?
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|Everyone who drives with a car
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|-
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|elements (description, relation between them?
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|Four framed pictures of persons on a bright wall; the first persons are dead , which you see at the black ribbon at that position of the picture; the last person uses that black ribbon as a seatbelt
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|-
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|how is "customers'" attention attracted?
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|contrast between the bright wall and the black ribbon
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|-
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|message (of text and image)?
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|If you don´t use a seatbelt you will possibly die, when you have a car accident.
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|-
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|how does the advert work, how are people influenced/conviced?
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|
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*advert appeals to everyone who drives with a car
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*advert uses customers' fears of being dead or injured after a car accident
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*rhetorical and stylistic devices in language and imagery: the black ribbons, which represent death, are used to save somebodys life
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|}
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==Essay==
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Advertising works pretty easy, which i will show you on the advert of "Deutsche Verkehrswacht" to buckle up.
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The advert shows four framed photos of people different ages and different genders. The first three persons are dead, which is symbolized by the black ribbon on the upper corner of the pictures. The person of the last photo uses this black ribbon as a seatbelt. The first thing you notice, when you look at the advert is the big contrast between the bright wall and the black ribbons. Because of the bright clothes the persons are wearing, the contrast get even stronger. On this way the costumers' attention is easily attracted. So the customer thinks about the advert and understands the message of the image, that you will probably die, if you don't use a seatbelt. The advert also uses costumers' fears of being dead or injured after a car accident.
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==Romeo==
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Romeo is the son of the Lord of Montague and one of the title characters and about 16 years old. Romeo's first love is not Juliet but a woman called Rosaline. But his love to Rosaline is unrequited, so he is sad because he fell deeply in love with Rosaline and thought she´s the only woman he could ever love. Then he met Juliet and quickly forgot his old love Rosaline. From this point on he´s very dynamic. So it seems Romeo is a guy, who fells easily in and out of love. Furthermore he´s also courageous, because Romeo and his friends go to the party of the Capulets, his family's enemy, which means. Moreover Romeo likes poetry, which you can see, when he´s talking with his friends, who are very important to him.
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==Translation 4==
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Letztendlich ist ihre Liebe tödlich, als Romeo sich selbst vergiftet, da er Julia fälschlicherweise für tot hält, woraufhin Julia, Selbstmord begeht, als sie entdeckt, dass er tot ist.
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Luhrmann's Romeo und Julia (genau betitelt mit William Shakespeare's Romeo und Julia) nimmt das Stück und verlegt es in ein modernes Verona Beach, das zum Teil verfallen ist und zum Teil sowohl Miami als auch Mexico City ähnelt. Nach eigener Aussage des Regisseurs ist das eine geschaffene Welt, die Aspekte der einzigartigen optischen Gestaltung aus solch verschiedenen Perioden wie den 1940er Jahren, den 1970er Jahren, den 1989er Jahren auslieh. Und die eine Vielfalt an klassischen Filmen (vor allem Rebel Without a Cause) zur Inspiration benutzte. Durch das Ersetzen von Pferden mit schnellen Autos mit dröhnenden Motoren und  das Vertreten von Schwertern und Dolche durch Gewehre, ist der daraus resultierende Hintergrund erstaunlich.
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Romeo und Julia's Kamera ist ruhelos, immer in Bewegung. Es gibt Momente, in denen die schnellen Schnitte und der tobende Soundtrack eine nachvollziehbare Verwirrung zwischen dem Film und einem Rockvideo verursachen könnten. Tatsächlich ist es einfach, dass wegen all den Kameratricks, Spezialeffekten (wie zum Beispiel ein aufbrausender Sturm) und ausgelassenen Farben, der Gestaltung von der Handlung ablenkt. Und dementsprechend kommt Luhrmann, besonders zu Beginn des Films, Shakespeare's Dialoge mit Technik zu überfluten nahe, obwohl er versucht dies zu verhindern. Dabei geht das feinsinnige Immaterielle der Romanze unwiederbringlich verloren.
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{| class="prettytable sortable"
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|+ Typical "theatre, Shakespeare, literature" vocabulary
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|- style="background: #DDFFDD;"
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! english
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! deutsch
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|-
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| background
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|Hintergrund
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|-
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| cut
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| (Kamera)schnitt
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|-
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| soundtrack
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| Soundtrack
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|-
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| (to) title
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| betiteln
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|-
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| director
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| Regisseur
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|-
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| camera tricks
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| Kameratricks
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|-
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| special effects
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| Spezialeffekte
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|-
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| camera is restless
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| (die) Kamera ist ruhelos
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|}
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=Angela's Ashes=
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Angela's Ashes, published in 1996, is an autobiographical novel by Frank McCourt. 
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The first-person narrator Frank McCourt tells his experience of his childhood in New York and Ireland.
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In 1930 Frank was born in Brooklyn, New York, as the eldest son of irish immigrants. Due to the Great Depression the family moves to Limerick in Ireland. But things don´t get better there. The relatives of Frank's mother doesn't accept his father because of his nordish accent. Furthermore he can't prove that he fought on the side of the republicans in the irish cival war. So he doesn´t get the help, which a war veteran deserves. The family lives in poorness because his father spends all his money in pubs. That's why the only opportunity to get some money for food is to steal it.
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Because of the poorness Frank decides to leave school and go to work, for example at the post office. Moreover he works secretly for a private moneylender. When the moneylender dies, he steals the available money to fulfil his dream, going back to New York.
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I think the book could be pretty interesting and futhermore it is pretty easy to understand because Frank McCourt tells the plot from the viewpoint of a child.
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The novel even won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1997.
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==Changing Places==
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=Two  main Characters: Personality, Family, Career=
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{| width="99%"
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| style="vertical-align:top" |
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<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf;
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padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F5F5F5; align:left;">
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== Morris Zapp ==
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* 40 years old
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* smoker
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* he never left america so far
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* long gorilla-like arms
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* professor of English
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* cannot swim
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* light-headed
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* veteran of long distance flying
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* he exaggerates
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* he's got a wife
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</div>
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| width="50%" style="vertical-align:top" |
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<div style="margin:0;  border:1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em;
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background-color:#F5F5F5; align:left;">
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== Philipp Swallow==
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* afraid of flying
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* 40 years old
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* unaccustomed to traveling
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* unconfident
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* infinitely suggestable
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* observes other people
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* conservative/traditional
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* married too
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* good imagination
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* professor of English
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* excited about flying/travelling
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</div>
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|}
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=University Life and Academical System=
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{| width="99%"
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| style="vertical-align:top" |
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<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf;
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padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F5F5F5; align:left;">
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== Euphoric State University ==
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* white stones
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* the formal name is State University of Euphoria
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* easy to cheat, a lot of free time
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* a state between Northern California nd Southern California, with a beautiful lanscape around
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* teachers don`t want to go to Britain
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* exchange progamm with rummidge
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* not too diffucult to obtain a bachelor's degree
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</div>
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| width="50%" style="vertical-align:top" |
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<div style="margin:0;  border:1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em;
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background-color:#F5F5F5; align:left;">
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== Rummidge ==
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* red stones
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* in the English Midlands
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* four tests, last one is called Finals
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* industrial city
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* professors don`t get paid very well
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* pressure is way bigger
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</div>
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|}
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=Life in the USA vs. Life in Britain=
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{| width="99%"
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| style="vertical-align:top" |
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<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf;
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padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F5F5F5; align:left;">
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== USA ==
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* violent land
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* alcohol, swimming pool, sunny weather
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</div>
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| width="50%" style="vertical-align:top" |
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<div style="margin:0;  border:1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em;
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background-color:#F5F5F5; align:left;">
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==Britain==
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* school system is not easy
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* rainy weather
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* tea time
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</div>
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|}
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==Translation==
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Karten aus dem 13. Jahrhundert zeigen deutlich den Weg nach Paradis, einer Insel östlich von Indien, die so unerreichbar war, dass niemand beweisen konnte, dass sie ein Mythos war. Die Zielorte, die mittelalterliche Gelehrte auf der Mappa Mundi eintrugen, erscheinen dem moderen Reisenden lächerlich unwissenschaftlich. Dennoch führen wir, mehr als zu vor, die Suche nach unserem verlorenen, idealen Paradies, voller Naivität fort.
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Das Streben nach Abenteuern ist niemals weiter verbreitet gewesen als heute, wo die Bibel der Rucksacktouristen, "Lonely Planet", ihren 30-jährigen Geburtstag feiert. Exotische Ziele, die außerhalb der Reichweite durchschnittlicher Familien der 70er waren, sind nun einfach zu erreichen. Ursprünglich war das Handbuch ein Wegweiser für die mittellosen und mutigen Jugendliche - ein Gegensatz zu dem Luxus herkömmlicher Urlaube. Dennoch, durch die Eröffnung solch entlegener Ziele, wies der berühmte Reiseführer Lonely Planet die Richtung für den Massenmarkt vor. Die Autoren hatten genug Glück, zu einer Zeit, als der Urlaubsmarkt sich grundlegend änderte, von Inspiration erfüllt gewesen zu sein.
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inaccessible: difficult or impossible to reach or to get
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penniless: having no money; very poor
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remote: far away from places where other people live

Aktuelle Version vom 21. Februar 2011, 11:55 Uhr

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About me

  • born on the 7th August 1991
  • live in in the nice village westheim
  • like going to concerts and festivals
  • hate getting up early in the morning


Thoughts about the election in germany

  1. The party "SPD" is the biggest loser in this election because 23,4% is its lowest election result in history. I think a reason for this is that a lot of people who elected "SPD", decided to vote "Die Linke", which reached more than 10% the first time.
  2. The big winner of the rather small parties is "Die Piratenpartei". Especially young voters, decided to elect them. I think this is just because of their name! And a lot of people who don't care who to reign germany just read "Die Piratenpartei" and thought "Ahh. pretty cool name".
  3. Another big winner is the party "FDP", which reigns germany now with "CSU/CDU"
  4. The voter turnout this year was very low. I think especially young voters don't care about electing.

New president of the USA: Barack Obama

people expect from him

  1. What the world expects from Obama

hope for Obama

  1. Latin america: People see ray of hope in Obama


Vocabulary

Constitution and rights
english deutsch
US Constitution Verfassung d. Vereinigten Staaten
amendment Zusatzartikel
citizen (Staats)bürger
bill Gesetzesentwurf
to overrule ablehnen
Unalienable/inalienable rights unveräußerliche Rechte
constitutional right verfassungsmäßiges Recht
to draft entwerfen
impeachment Amtsenthebungsverfahren
representative Abgeordneter/(allgem.)Vertreter
federal government Bundesregierung
checks and balances Gewaltenteilung
to appoint einsetzen
federalism Föderalismus
compete for the presidency um die Präsidentschaft kämpfen
inaugural address Antrittsrede


Democratic principles
english deutsch
ballot Stimmzettel
term of office Amtszeit
universal suffrage allgemeines Wahlrecht
voter registration Wählerregistrierung
majority Mehrheit
majority vote Mehrheitswahlrecht
minority Minderheit
to consent to zustimmen
to resign zurücktreten
delegate Delegierter
electorate Wahlberechtigte
eligible berechtigt
unalienable unabdingbar
embassy Botschaft
to ratify bestätigen
to overthrow stürzen
opinion poll Meinungsumfrage


Adverts

The advert "Buckle Up"
question answer
what product? To buckle up
aim and target group? Everyone who drives with a car
elements (description, relation between them? Four framed pictures of persons on a bright wall; the first persons are dead , which you see at the black ribbon at that position of the picture; the last person uses that black ribbon as a seatbelt
how is "customers'" attention attracted? contrast between the bright wall and the black ribbon
message (of text and image)? If you don´t use a seatbelt you will possibly die, when you have a car accident.
how does the advert work, how are people influenced/conviced?
  • advert appeals to everyone who drives with a car
  • advert uses customers' fears of being dead or injured after a car accident
  • rhetorical and stylistic devices in language and imagery: the black ribbons, which represent death, are used to save somebodys life

Essay

Advertising works pretty easy, which i will show you on the advert of "Deutsche Verkehrswacht" to buckle up. The advert shows four framed photos of people different ages and different genders. The first three persons are dead, which is symbolized by the black ribbon on the upper corner of the pictures. The person of the last photo uses this black ribbon as a seatbelt. The first thing you notice, when you look at the advert is the big contrast between the bright wall and the black ribbons. Because of the bright clothes the persons are wearing, the contrast get even stronger. On this way the costumers' attention is easily attracted. So the customer thinks about the advert and understands the message of the image, that you will probably die, if you don't use a seatbelt. The advert also uses costumers' fears of being dead or injured after a car accident.


Romeo

Romeo is the son of the Lord of Montague and one of the title characters and about 16 years old. Romeo's first love is not Juliet but a woman called Rosaline. But his love to Rosaline is unrequited, so he is sad because he fell deeply in love with Rosaline and thought she´s the only woman he could ever love. Then he met Juliet and quickly forgot his old love Rosaline. From this point on he´s very dynamic. So it seems Romeo is a guy, who fells easily in and out of love. Furthermore he´s also courageous, because Romeo and his friends go to the party of the Capulets, his family's enemy, which means. Moreover Romeo likes poetry, which you can see, when he´s talking with his friends, who are very important to him.

Translation 4

Letztendlich ist ihre Liebe tödlich, als Romeo sich selbst vergiftet, da er Julia fälschlicherweise für tot hält, woraufhin Julia, Selbstmord begeht, als sie entdeckt, dass er tot ist.

Luhrmann's Romeo und Julia (genau betitelt mit William Shakespeare's Romeo und Julia) nimmt das Stück und verlegt es in ein modernes Verona Beach, das zum Teil verfallen ist und zum Teil sowohl Miami als auch Mexico City ähnelt. Nach eigener Aussage des Regisseurs ist das eine geschaffene Welt, die Aspekte der einzigartigen optischen Gestaltung aus solch verschiedenen Perioden wie den 1940er Jahren, den 1970er Jahren, den 1989er Jahren auslieh. Und die eine Vielfalt an klassischen Filmen (vor allem Rebel Without a Cause) zur Inspiration benutzte. Durch das Ersetzen von Pferden mit schnellen Autos mit dröhnenden Motoren und das Vertreten von Schwertern und Dolche durch Gewehre, ist der daraus resultierende Hintergrund erstaunlich.

Romeo und Julia's Kamera ist ruhelos, immer in Bewegung. Es gibt Momente, in denen die schnellen Schnitte und der tobende Soundtrack eine nachvollziehbare Verwirrung zwischen dem Film und einem Rockvideo verursachen könnten. Tatsächlich ist es einfach, dass wegen all den Kameratricks, Spezialeffekten (wie zum Beispiel ein aufbrausender Sturm) und ausgelassenen Farben, der Gestaltung von der Handlung ablenkt. Und dementsprechend kommt Luhrmann, besonders zu Beginn des Films, Shakespeare's Dialoge mit Technik zu überfluten nahe, obwohl er versucht dies zu verhindern. Dabei geht das feinsinnige Immaterielle der Romanze unwiederbringlich verloren.


Typical "theatre, Shakespeare, literature" vocabulary
english deutsch
background Hintergrund
cut (Kamera)schnitt
soundtrack Soundtrack
(to) title betiteln
director Regisseur
camera tricks Kameratricks
special effects Spezialeffekte
camera is restless (die) Kamera ist ruhelos


Angela's Ashes

Angela's Ashes, published in 1996, is an autobiographical novel by Frank McCourt. The first-person narrator Frank McCourt tells his experience of his childhood in New York and Ireland.

In 1930 Frank was born in Brooklyn, New York, as the eldest son of irish immigrants. Due to the Great Depression the family moves to Limerick in Ireland. But things don´t get better there. The relatives of Frank's mother doesn't accept his father because of his nordish accent. Furthermore he can't prove that he fought on the side of the republicans in the irish cival war. So he doesn´t get the help, which a war veteran deserves. The family lives in poorness because his father spends all his money in pubs. That's why the only opportunity to get some money for food is to steal it. Because of the poorness Frank decides to leave school and go to work, for example at the post office. Moreover he works secretly for a private moneylender. When the moneylender dies, he steals the available money to fulfil his dream, going back to New York.

I think the book could be pretty interesting and futhermore it is pretty easy to understand because Frank McCourt tells the plot from the viewpoint of a child.

The novel even won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1997.


Changing Places

Two main Characters: Personality, Family, Career

Morris Zapp

  • 40 years old
  • smoker
  • he never left america so far
  • long gorilla-like arms
  • professor of English
  • cannot swim
  • light-headed
  • veteran of long distance flying
  • he exaggerates
  • he's got a wife

Philipp Swallow

  • afraid of flying
  • 40 years old
  • unaccustomed to traveling
  • unconfident
  • infinitely suggestable
  • observes other people
  • conservative/traditional
  • married too
  • good imagination
  • professor of English
  • excited about flying/travelling

University Life and Academical System

Euphoric State University

  • white stones
  • the formal name is State University of Euphoria
  • easy to cheat, a lot of free time
  • a state between Northern California nd Southern California, with a beautiful lanscape around
  • teachers don`t want to go to Britain
  • exchange progamm with rummidge
  • not too diffucult to obtain a bachelor's degree

Rummidge

  • red stones
  • in the English Midlands
  • four tests, last one is called Finals
  • industrial city
  • professors don`t get paid very well
  • pressure is way bigger

Life in the USA vs. Life in Britain

USA

  • violent land
  • alcohol, swimming pool, sunny weather

Britain

  • school system is not easy
  • rainy weather
  • tea time

Translation

Karten aus dem 13. Jahrhundert zeigen deutlich den Weg nach Paradis, einer Insel östlich von Indien, die so unerreichbar war, dass niemand beweisen konnte, dass sie ein Mythos war. Die Zielorte, die mittelalterliche Gelehrte auf der Mappa Mundi eintrugen, erscheinen dem moderen Reisenden lächerlich unwissenschaftlich. Dennoch führen wir, mehr als zu vor, die Suche nach unserem verlorenen, idealen Paradies, voller Naivität fort. Das Streben nach Abenteuern ist niemals weiter verbreitet gewesen als heute, wo die Bibel der Rucksacktouristen, "Lonely Planet", ihren 30-jährigen Geburtstag feiert. Exotische Ziele, die außerhalb der Reichweite durchschnittlicher Familien der 70er waren, sind nun einfach zu erreichen. Ursprünglich war das Handbuch ein Wegweiser für die mittellosen und mutigen Jugendliche - ein Gegensatz zu dem Luxus herkömmlicher Urlaube. Dennoch, durch die Eröffnung solch entlegener Ziele, wies der berühmte Reiseführer Lonely Planet die Richtung für den Massenmarkt vor. Die Autoren hatten genug Glück, zu einer Zeit, als der Urlaubsmarkt sich grundlegend änderte, von Inspiration erfüllt gewesen zu sein.

inaccessible: difficult or impossible to reach or to get penniless: having no money; very poor remote: far away from places where other people live

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