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* [http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/in-the-supreme-court-today-gun-control/ Supreme Court on gun control 1] | * [http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/in-the-supreme-court-today-gun-control/ Supreme Court on gun control 1] | ||
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If you want to know a lot more .... | If you want to know a lot more .... | ||
* [[wikipedia:en:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States |Wikipedia: Supreme Court]] | * [[wikipedia:en:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States |Wikipedia: Supreme Court]] | ||
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| + | * Supreme Court decides if new laws (by states and districts)or federal governments are constitutional | ||
| + | * Former courts decided that the right to bear arms is not an individual right, but applies to a militia | ||
| + | * Supreme Court can decide what limitations of constitutional rights are ok | ||
==Talks== | ==Talks== | ||
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'AKTUELL' HOMEWORK:Fetter Text Create a short entry in your own user page in this wiki. Use the following formats/forms
Finally find at least 2 good English articles/webpages on what the Americans expected/hoped for from Obama and if (they think) he fulfills these hopes and expectations. Create a numbered and annotated link collection like this for these two (or more) articles you have found. It could look like this (if the topic was "bananas"):
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US Politics
Look at the following two articles! Show/explain the function of the supreme court and the power it has!
If you want to know a lot more ....
- Supreme Court decides if new laws (by states and districts)or federal governments are constitutional
- Former courts decided that the right to bear arms is not an individual right, but applies to a militia
- Supreme Court can decide what limitations of constitutional rights are ok
Talks
Look into your English books ... there are good texts and info boxes covering these topics.
1. The US Constitution
- Making of the Constitution Bill of Rights
- Branches of government / Division of Power
- Checks and balances (examples, e.g. who can stop a president ….., how are laws made)
- Federalism (Rights of the States)
2. Presidential Elections
- Constitution on elections ….
- Starting/Financing a campaign – How to be elected
- Steps to become the candidate of the Democrats or Republicans
- Unjust electoral System (esp. 2001 election)
3. Citizens’ Initatives, PACs, Lobbying
- Influence of citizens/industry/ ??? on lawmakers, different approaches
- Role in political system
- Examples general (e.g. NRA, Suffrage, ….) and in upcoming presidential elections
Analysing texts
Other categories:
- theme/topic
- author's intention (what he wants to do ...)/message (what he says)
- author vs. narrator
- types of irony and their functions
- verbal irony: express something by saying the opposite --> effect: reader enjoys finding irony, reader discovers real meaning, reader discovers contrast between what is said and what is meant
- dramatic irony: the reader or the audience know more than the characters
--> effect 1: reader feels superior, only to show him he is not --> effect 2: the reader feels pity, involvement in story
- irony of situation: sharp contrast between what the characters/readers wish and what real life is like
- types of texts
- line of argument/argumentative structure
- describe what the author does (e.g. he puts forward his main thesis)
- explain why he does it at this point
- show how he tries to do this effectively
- means to make a text interesting / convincing
- attitude of an author
Style
Building / Refuting an argument
Immigration, Multiethnicity
What is the trend, what are the effects and problems of interracial relationships/marriages?
Art and Artists
Big City Life and "The Car Crisis"
Links covering "Big City Life"
Results of "Big City Life - Search on 01/10/07
Musterlösung Translation "Four Legs Good ....
Project: US-Solutions to "The Car Crisis"
Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
Talks: Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
- Talk 1: Wikipedia: "Elizabethan Era" & "English Renaissance"
- Talk 2: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/Tillyard01.html, http://library.thinkquest.org/C0120460/arte/index.htm
- General: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/resource_lit.shakespeare.html
- http://www.william-shakespeare.info (esp. talks 1, 3, 4, 5, 6)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare (esp. talk 4)
- Talk 6: http://www.bartleby.com/215/index.html#11 (Punkte 1-8)
Shakespeare - Sources and material ...===
- What do you get for 1 p. - The naked truth about Romeo and Juliet!
- The Prologue
- Elements of a Play about Love.doc
- Romeo and Juliet online ....
"Facharbeit"
Just in case you've forgotten: There are some useful links ...
- http://www.theli.de/englisch/
- http://www.theli.de/englisch/inetsearch.pdf or
- http://www.theli.de/englisch/style.pdf
- NEU: Word-Anleitung Facharbeit
For more questions, or in order to arrange a quick meeting --> To discuss your progress or problems ==> joerg.thelenberg@gmx.de
An annotated collection of links can also be found in this wiki: Annotated Links for Learners of English
Interpreting symbols
- Online-Dictionary of Symbols
- Colour-Symbols
- Animal Symbolism I
- Animal Symbolism II
- Animal Symbolism in Medieval Christian Sources
Vocab sheet USA at war
usa-war-politics.pdf - produced by LK E2
