A Day’s Wait

Ernest Hemingway’s short story “A Day’s Wait“ is about a nine-year-old boy who wakes up one morning with a fever. The boy’s father calls a doctor who takes the boy’s temperature. His temperature is 102 degrees and the doctor diagnoses influenza. The boy has been to school in France, but he doesn’t know the difference between Fahrenheit and Centigrade. Therefore he believes that with a temperature of 102 degrees he will certainly die.  Long time before he visited school in France the boys had told him that the normal temperature was 37 degrees and that nobody could survive with 44 degrees. The boy doesn’t talk about his fear of dying to his father. Instead he was waiting all day and managed to stay calm and keep himself under control. Likewise he is taking his medicine, but refuses to sleep. The father finds his behavior a little strange but he does not realize what is troubling his son. He even leaves him alone in the house and goes hunting for a while.  Finally the father finds out about the boys suffering in the evening and explains the misunderstanding.

The story contains little action. It is mainly based on the conversation between father and son. Although the misunderstanding between them is simple and trivial it contains tragic elements. The boy is fond of his father and faces his imminent death with heroic indifference. In contrast to the father who is obviously a loving father he is unable to understand his son’s suffering.

Can America ever be weaned off its love affair with guns?

The article “The big question: Can America ever be weaned off its love affair with guns”, written by Andrew Gumble in October 4, 2006  is about guns in America.

Today every person in America can own a gun. This has historic reason. In the 19th century it was important for the settlers to own a gun, because they had to defend themselves. Nowadays any adult with clean criminal record can buy a gun in the US with relative ease. This can be reason why  there are 17,000 murders a year in the US. Most of these murders (15,000) are committed with firearms. But there is a special problem for the US: A lot of these murderers are children.

Suiced is a big problem in all over the world. Because in the US in most of the families you can find guns. Therefore in every eight hours an American youth commits suicide with a firearm.

But in America, state by state the gun-control laws vary widely. The famous actor Donald Sutherland says that in Canada you can buy a gun as easy as in the US, but gun-related deaths in Canada are dramatically lower. He thinks that the idol for the Canadian West is a law officer and the role model for the US-Americans are outlaws, gangsters and crime syndicates.

Terrorism

For my grandchild,

 

my lovely  sweet grandchild. I’m your grandma Aysel. Ohh, how old are you? I was 17 years old, when I wrote this letter, because we had to make a homework and I have to tell you about the past,as the case may beabout the 11^th September 2001. Hopefully you can remember what happened on this day?

 

So it was a normal day for me. I was a little child; I think I was 7 years old and I played with my babies. On this day your great- grandmother and your great- grandfather were at home and watched TV. Did you already have a touch TV? Ah, it does not matter.

Where I was remained?

 

Hm… Suddenly my mother called my sister and brother and said: “Did you watch the news?”

My sister answered: “No, why?” My mother was shocked: “A skyscraper in America was attacked by terrorists.”

Then I came to the living room and watched the news, too. I can remember that was interesting for me. But 2 minutes later, it was boring and I went to my room and played with my babies.

 

After the attack many people have died. Then US Army went to Afghanistan, because there were camps where terrorists were trained.

The older I got the humanity will become worse and worst. Every day the racism raised and the western people looked at the Muslims as their enemies. Every day and every time I was scared, because in Europe the people could look at the Muslims as their enemies, too.  The world war III was possibly.

 

I hope your future will be peacefully.

 

Your grandma: Aysel Ugurlu

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

1. (e) Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, we stand, signed the Emancipation Declaration.

2. (d) But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

3. (b) We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.

4. (a) I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin.

5. (c) Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

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a)  I think Dr. King wanted to say: Now it is the time for a change. We have to act.

b) Now we need racial justice.

c) We should not act with hate, we should show respect the others.

d) Ours children (sons!, why not our daughters?) should live together in peace.

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The people on the video think that the American dream includes a lot of money, good job and a good family. Persons say you have to work hard, then you will have a good future.

Pursuit of happiness.

Summary

The speech by President George W. Bush was given on 4^th July 2006 is about the American Independence Day on 1783 in US- America.

He talks about the American War of Independence and about the ideas and the principles of the founders of the Nations.  He speaks very proudly about the ideals of the American constitution. He thinks that the promises of the Declaration of Independence include the freedom of every person in every nation of the world. President George W. Bush talks about Armed Forces in distant places of the world and the missions of the Army.  He honors the brave men and women of the American Army, because they risk their lives to defend the ideals of their founding generation.

In 1776 John Adams said that America’s Independence Day would be celebrated with pomp and parade and Bush thanks all those who have made that freedom possibly.

 

Independence- Unabhängigkeit

honor- Ehre

founder- Gründer

brave- tapfer

distant-entfernt

proudly- stolz

to promise- versprechen

The American dream

The American dream

 A dream came true. 

We started with nothing,

We worked hard  

and

We believed in the American dream.

Here it is.

All US- Society believes that all individuals can improve their lives with hard work and ambition. That is the American dream.

A quotation:

From dishwasher to a millionaire.

The word American dream was created in the economic boom in the half 20.century. It stands for the emigrant, who comes to USA.

Pilgrim Fathers

Pilgrim Fathers

A Pilgrim is a person, who settles in a new colony or moves into new country.
The Pilgrim Fathers came from the religious congregations of Brownist English Dissenters. They were a little religious group, who separated from the official English church, called High Church. First the Pilgrim Fathers fled 1607/08 to Holland. They closed a contract with English business people. Then they travelled by a ship, called “Mayflower”, to Cape Cod. But the country was cold and it started to snow. The origin inhabitants didn’t like them. They looked for a place to settle down and found it, and called it Plymouth. The winter was hard and half of the Pilgrim Fathers died.
One year later in November 1621 another ship came and brought 35 more settlers. It was the beginning of the colonization of the new world by the Puritans.

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Congregation- Kirchengemeinde
Dissenter- Abweichler, Dissident
Separate – abspalten