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Morris Zapp

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

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
• Marriage and Honeymoon in America, Euphoria
• three children with his wife Hillary
• lives in England

Euphoric State University

• "Leaning Tower of Pisa"-like, but double-sized, building on the university area
• it is situated on the Western seaboard of America, between Northern and Southern California
• Pays the exchange teachers extreme high salary
• entitles them to "visitor professors"
• beautiful landscape and nature around
• one of America's major universities
• extremly well organized, "wealth" concerning laboratories, libraries, research grants
• nobody really likes to participate in an exchange to England
• everone in Rummidge wants to get to Euphoria

Rummidge

• "Leaning Tower of Pisa"-like building, built of red brick
• It's an old university (new ones are more favoured)
• losing prestige because the values changed from old to new
• Exchange teachers are paid according to the rank and seniority on the scale of the host university
• no American professor could live with the money that is monthly paid by this university for more than a few days
• terrible surrounding (industry)
• middle size university
• mood is disgruntled and discouraged
• students are formed and tested four times (eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus)
• afterwards nothing really happenes and everybody is disappointed and lonely, even unmotivated for the competition is just missing

USA

• Abortion is not allowed (that's why many women fly to England, for abortion is possible there)
• "It's not too difficult to obtain a bachelor`s degree."
• The student is left very much to his own devices, he accumulates the necessary credits at his leisure, cheating is easy, and there is not much suspense or anxiety about the eventual outcome."
• "[...]free to give full attention to the normal interests of late adolescence - sport, alcohol, entertainment and the opposite sex."
• "[...]scholar-teacher[...]is free to sell his services to the highest bidder." (p.15)

Britain

• Abortion is legal
• There is nearly no competition in becoming a teacher in the British education-system