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About me

• What I like

1. Music: Linkin Park,Limp Bizkit,Billy Talent,Bloodhound Gang,Sum 41,Blink 182,Green Day...
Linkin Park

2. Movies: Underworld,Resident Evil,Ironman,Jumper,Equilibrium,The Fighters,Shooter,Transformers 1+2,Bourne-Collection,Riddick,Die Hard-Collection,Forrest Gump,Death Race,Casino Royal,Quantum of Solace,21
Underworld Evoution Poster

3. Cars: Lamborghini (my Favourite), BMW, Audi, Koenigsegg
Lamborghini Embolado Superleggera

4. Sports: American Football (just watching on TV ;D ), Icehockey, Billard, Baseball

5. Favourite subjects: Sports, English (LK`s)

• What I dislike

1. Music: Hip-Hop,Tearjerkers (ger: Schnulzen)
2. Reading Books
3. Cars: Japan-Crap [1]
4. Subjects: German, Chemie (deselected), Sozialkunde (deselected)

English Stuff

Hispanic and Latino Americans

Facts

The number of Hispanic and Latino Americans is 45,427,437. That are 15.1% of the U.S. population.

Regions with significant populations are for example the Southwest,Florida,Chicago, and the BosWash Region of the Northeast.

Spoken languages are predominantly American English and Spanish.

The main religion is predominantly Roman Catholicism;significantly Protestantism;Judaism, Islam and others. Related ethnic groups are Latin Americans, Spaniards, Latin Europeans and others.

Article

US Hispanics Pin Hopes on Obama Administration

1. Largest minority group. Hopes: resolve economy crisis,immigration education
2. More than 45 Mio. People. 15% of US-population ; critical part of workforce in industrie and agriculture ; fast growing minority
3. Education,Economy,Prosperity,Health Care Access,Safety in streets (inner cities)
4. Hispanics identify with Obama
5. Many Hispanics in Obama`s Cabinet
6. Hispanics want to help Obama in his administration
7. Tackle issues of immigration reform and border security
8. Hispanics risk break of families
9. Latino community younger than the American one. ==> Education most important
10. Many Hispanics serve in U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan ==> Stop war
11. 70% of Hispanics voted for Obama
12. 30% of U.S. population are Hispanics by mid-century

Supreme Court

[...]The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the law violates the Second Amendment, which states: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” The decision broke with the great majority of federal courts that have examined the issue, including the Supreme Court in 1939. Those courts have held that the constitutional right to bear arms is tied to service in a militia, and is not an individual right.[...]

Translation/Übersetzung

Das U.S.amerikanische Bundesberufungsgericht des Bezirks Columbia beschloss, dass das Gesetz gegen den zweiten Zusatzartikel der (U.S.) Verfassung verstößt, in welchem es heißt: „ Das Recht auf eine wohl geregelte Bürgerwehr, derer es zur Sicherheit eines freien Staates bedarf, und/d.h. das Recht des Volkes, Waffen zu besitzen und zu führen, darf nicht eingeschränkt werden.“ Dieser Entschluss steht im völligen Widerspruch zu (den Entscheidungen)der großen Mehrzahl der U.S.amerikanischen Gerichtshöfe, die sich mit dieser Problematik auseinandergesetzt haben, wie unter anderem dem Obersten Gerichtshof von 1939. Diese Gerichte waren der Auffassung, dass das verfassungsmäßige Recht, welches erlaubt Waffen zu führen, (fest) an den Dienst in einer Bürgerwehr geknüpft ist, und dies kein Recht des Einzelnen sei.

Nobel Prize

The already high bar set for President Obama got even higher Friday, when the Nobel Prize Committee shocked the world, and the president himself, by announcing he was to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Just nine months into his presidency, Obama has set an ambitious diplomatic agenda, calling for peace between Israel and the Palestinians and a decrease in the world's nuclear weapons, but has yet to achieve any real results.

Already faced with the challenge of working to ensure his actions keep pace with his rhetoric, the president now has an even higher standard by which his accomplishments will be gauged.

As his former opponent, Sen. John McCain, R- Ariz., put it: "He now has even more to live up to."

The committee said it awarded the prize to Obama for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," but made the clear the prize was intended to encourage Obama to greatness rather than celebrate any achievement.

"I hope it will help him," Nobel committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said of the award. "Obama is the right man at the right time, and that's why we want to enhance his efforts."

Translation/Übersetzung

Die ohnehin schon sehr hohen Erwartungen an Präsident Obama wurden am Freitag noch höher, als das Komitee für die Vergabe des Nobelpreises die Welt und den Präsidenten selbst schockierte, als es bekannt gab, dass er den Friedensnobelpreis erhalten solle. Nach nur neun Monaten seiner Präsidentschaft hat Obama ehrgeizige diplomatischer Themen auf die Tagesordnung gesetzt, z.B. mit der Forderung nach Friedensgesprächen zwischen Israel und den Palästinensern und nach einem Abbau der weltweiten Atomwaffenarsenale, tatsächliche Ergebnisse/Erfolge muss er aber erst noch erzielen.

Der Präsident, der ohnehin schon vor der Herausforderung steht, daran zu arbeiten, dass seine Taten mit den Worten Schritt halten, muss seine Erfolge jetzt an einem noch höheren Standard messen lassen.

Sein ehemaliger Gegner im Rennen um die Präsidentschaft, Senator John McCain, drückte es folgendermaßen aus: "Er muss jetzt noch höhere Erwartung erfüllen."

Das Komitee sagte, es Verleiheropa mal den Preis für seine "außerordentlichen Bemühungen, die internationale Diplomatie und Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Völkern zu stärken", machte aber klar, dass der Preis eher dazu beitragen solle, Obama zu großen Taten anzuspornen, als einen bestimmten Erfolg zu würdigen/feiern.

"Ich hoffe das hilft (ihm)", sagte der Vorsitzende des Nobelpreiskomitees, Thorbjoern Jagland, über den Preis. "Obama ist der richtige Mann zur richtigen Zeit, und deswegen wollen wir seine Bemühungen unterstützen."

Expectations to Barack Obama

• Great expectations: Barack Obama and the world

• Great Expectations — The Obama Administration and Health Care Reform

• Poll finds great expectations for Obama

• Barack Obama fulfils the dream

• Great expectations: Barack Obama and the world - a Canadian opinion

U.S. Politics

Article about -Expectations from Obama -US Supreme Court -Lobbying

Answering a question

1. Key Words

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2. Question -> Answer

-Content / Topic

-Tense!

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3. Mirror the question

"What is the reason..."

->" The reason (for...) is ..."

-First sentence

-> structure of answer

   ("there are two main reasons...")

Usefull words from: "Britain has become markedly less class-bound. How did this happen?"

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1. albeit
   

(formal) although: He finally agreed, albeit reluctantly, to help us.

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1. distinctive
   

having a quality or characteristic that makes sth different and easily noticed syn characteristic: clothes with a distinctive style * The male bird has distinctive white markings on its head.

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1. dichotomous
   

{adj} [divided into two parts]

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1. acquiesce
   

(formal) to accept sth without arguing, even if you do not really agree with it: Senior government figures must have acquiesced in the cover-up. * She explained her plan and reluctantly he acquiesced.

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1. wisdom
   

1 the ability to make sensible decisions and give good advice because of the experience and knowledge that you have: a man of great wisdom

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1. squire
   

also Squire) (in the past in England) a man of high social status who owned most of the land in a particular country area:

1. yokel (often humorous)
   

if you call a person a yokel, you are saying that they do not have much education or understanding of modern life, because they come from the countryside

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1. hitherto
   

(formal) until now; until the particular time you are talking about: a hitherto unknown species of moth * Her life hitherto had been devoid of adventure.

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1. meritocracy
   

a country or social system where people get power or money on the basis of their ability

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1. sham (disapproving)
   

a situation, feeling, system, etc. that is not as good or true as it seems to be: The latest crime figures are a complete sham. * She felt trapped in a sham of a marriage,.

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1. heir
   

a person who has the legal right to receive sb’s property, money or title when that person dies: to be heir to a large fortune * the heir to the throne (= the person who will be the next king or queen) * the son and heir of the Earl of Lancaster

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1. amorphous (formal)
   

having no definite shape, form or structure syn shapeless: an amorphous mass of cells with no identity at all

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Estuary English

Estuary English is a name given to the dialect(s) of English widely spoken in South East England, especially along the River Thames and its estuary. The name comes from the area around the Thames Estuary, particularly London, Kent and Essex.

The variety first came to public prominence in an article by David Rosewarne in the Times Educational Supplement in October 1984. Rosewarne argued that it may eventually replace RP (Received Pronunciation). Studies have indicated that Estuary English is not a single coherent form of English; rather, the reality behind the construct consists of some (but not all) phonetic features of working-class London speech spreading at various rates socially into middle-class speech and geographically into other accents of south-eastern England.

Estuary English

Accents and Dialects of the UK

Listening Example of Estuary English in Canterbury

Answer of Question 1 from Text "Oi! Just you mind your language!"

There are some different influences and changes to English spoken in Britain mentioned in the text.
First of all the language is influenced by TV and cinema. When the first showmaster spoke Estuary English in a show people were horrified because they thought its a sign of the end of civilisation. But today it`s quite normal to speak Estuary English even on TV.
A second influence are popular slang words which are even mentioned in dictionaries. Anyone can create a new word like "downsizing" or "delayering".(Neologisms)
Moreover the number of people who speak Estuary English which has its origin in London is increasing and spreading up all over Britain.
The fourth influence on English language are middleclass pop-stars,who speak classless Estuary English to hide their upper-class origin.
The last influence mentioned in the text is the transatlantic influence. Many american slang words are integrated into English. Upperclass white kids are adopting the pronunciation of maximum-pigmented-afro-americans to increase their coolness in the streets.
All in all there are many influences to English language and the language has changed seriously in past few years and the change will go on.