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Im Gegensatz zu uns, hatten die Australier immer schon ein gespaltenes Verhältnis zu ihrem Wappentier. In einer gesteigerten, seitdem einige Bundesstaaten Abschußquoten festgelegt haben. Die 'Kangaroos' müssen vor allem deswegen sterben, weil sie als Busch- und Graslandbewohner mit Rindern und Schafen um Wasser konkurrieren. Tierschützer laufen Sturm gegen die staatlich legitimierten Killer, die eine Reduzierung der Tiere von derzeit 20 Million ...
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Wir hatten Brisbane nun endgültig hinter uns gelassen und fuhren auf dem 'Bruce Highway' die Sunshine Coast entlang, Richtung Norden. Viele kleine, abgelegene Siedlungen, die hauptsächlich vom Tourismus leben, liegen dort an der Küste, wie an einer Schnur aufgefädelt. Die Sunshine Coast ist neben der Gold Coast einer der wichtigsten Feriengebiete für Australier aber auch für Südostasiaten. Anscheinend hat die Baubehörde dort mehr Gefühl für die ...
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Mackay, die Zuckerhauptstadt Australiens, wo insgesamt ein Drittel der Zuckermenge des Landes hergestellt wird, lag schon längst hinter uns, als wir am Nachmittag in Arlie Beach, dem Tor zu den Whitsunday Inseln, eintrafen.
Der Anblick des türkisfarbenen Ozeans, eingerahmt von tropischer Vegetation, war ein herrlicher Kontrast zur öden, staubtrockenen Landschaft der letzten Tage. Dazu die erfrischende Meeresluft im Gegensatz zum heißen Wind ...
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Als wir in Darwin das klimatisierte Flughafengebäude verließen, glaubten wir geohrfeigt zu werden. Die drückende Hitze war auch spät in der Nacht noch so stark, daß schon das Verscheuchen einer Fliege einen Schweißausbruch zur Folge hatte. Mit einem Shuttle-Bus fuhren wir in die Stadt, und es dauerte kaum eine halbe Stunde, da waren wir auch schon in einer Jugendherberge (Backpackers Ressorts) untergebracht. Es gibt in Australien etwa 140 solch ...
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Landesgegebenheiten
Irland hat eine Fäche von 84459 km^2, auf der 5,1 Millionen Einwohner leben. Die Hauptstadt ist Dublin.
Ein ausgedehntes, von Hochmooren und Seen durchzogenes, aus Kalkstein bestehendes Tiefland wird von Hügelketten umgeben. Im Nordwesten und im Osten bestehen diese Erhebungen aus Granit, im Süden und Südwesten aus Sandstein und im Nordosten aus Basalt. Im Inneren des Landes ragen mancherorts auch einzelne, isoliert ...
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Die USA sind Teil des Kontinents Amerika. Sie liegen im Norden des Kontinents und reichen vom 48 bis zum 35 Breitengrad und vom 70 bis 125 Längengrad. Vier Zeitzonen durchlaufen das Land. Man unterscheidet nach Eastern Central, Mountain und Pacific Time. Die Eastern Time liegt 6 Stunden hinter der Mitteleuropas zurück. Im Osten grenzen die USA an den Atlantik und an den Golf von Mexiko, im Westen an den Pazifischen Ozean.
Nordamerika wird in ...
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Plot:
The book is about a Farm where the animals make a revolution and chase away the farmowner with his family. For a while everything works great and everybody is happy. But on and on the pigs, who make the organization part on the farm, get more and more like humans. They even change \"the seven rules of Animalism\" one by one and in the end the other animals can\'t divide them from humans, which used to be their enemies and then are the ...
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Overview
[*]How old is the earth, and how do we know?
[*]Common creationist \"dating methods\"
[*]Common creationist criticisms of mainstream dating methods
[*]Suggested further reading
[*]References
How Old Is The Earth, And How Do We Know?
The generally accepted age for the Earth and the rest of the solar sytem is about 4.55 billion years (plus or minus about 1%). This value is derived from several different lines of evid ...
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Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is widely regarded as the greatest American painter of the nineteenth-century.
Like many American artists, Winslow Homer had strong New England roots. He was born in Boston, and at the age of six moved with his family to Cambridge. In 1858 his family moved to Belmont, and the following year Homer himself left for New York where he had his studio until 1880. However, he returned frequently to see his family and to ex ...
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Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resoluti ...
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My Fellow Citizens:
The four years which have elapsed since last I stood in this place have been crowded with counsel and action of the most vital interest and consequence. Perhaps no equal period in our history has been so fruitful of important reforms in our economic and industrial life or so full of significant changes in the spirit and purpose of our political action. We have sought very thoughtfully to set our house in order, correct t ...
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Steht der Einführungssatz in einer Zeitform der Vergangenheit (z.B. Past Tense, Past Perfect) so ändert sich die Zeitform in der indirekten Rede nach folgendem Muster:
Present Simple Past Simple
Present Continous Past Continous
Present Perfect Simple Past Perfect Simple
Present Perfect Continous Past Perfect Continous
Past Simple Past Perfect Simple
Past Continous Past Perfect Continous
Will Future Conditional (would+Infini ...
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He was born on February 27th, 1902 in Salinas, California. There he grew up and much of his work draws on his knowledge of life on the farms and ranches of the West. He worked as a reporter, chemist, and bricklayer until his first novel \"Cup of Gold\" (1921), was published. In 1930 Steinbeck married Carol Henning and they lived near Monterey. He was still a struggling, unknown writer and they were very poor, till he wrote the novel \"Tortilla ...
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The dramatic function of the first act in a classical play is to serve as the exposition. For Macbeth, it starts with the introduction of the witches and their influence on the protagonist as the drama's leitmotif. When they first encounter Macbeth and Banquo to predict their future, the viewer can already sense Macbeth's determination. This is where Shakespeare introduces the exciting force. By the end of the first act, the plan to kill the Ki ...
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Facts The Merchant of Venice was written around 1596/97. It is a comedy in 5 acts, written in verse and prose. The first performance took place in London before 1600. It was first printed in 1600. Shakespeare used sources like e.g. \"The jew of Malta\" by Christopher Marlowe, or \"Il Pecorone\" by Ser Giovanni Fiorentino. There appears the pound-of-flesh story for the first time.
Plot Antonio, a well-off, venetian merchant is expecting the ...
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1. Act 1. Scene
At the king's palace the Earl of Gloucester and the Earl of Kent waiting for his majesty Lear.
Ceremonious the king enters the hall, followed by his three daughters Cordelia, Goneril and Regan and the son-in-laws the Duke of Albany and the Duke of Cornwall. King Lear sends a servant for the King of France and the Duke of Burgeoned who are in order to marry his youngest daughter Cordelia.
After having done this, Lear pro ...
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Author
Nevil Shute is the pseudonym of the British novelist N. S. Norway. He was born in England in 1899 and died in Australia in 1960.
Novels
No Highway
In the West
Requiem from a Wren
Main characters
Jean Paget
She is the niece of Douglas Macfadden and she inherits a considerable amount of money when he died. She tells Mr. Strachan about her life in Malaya.
Douglas Macfadden
He is the uncle of Jean Paget and sh ...
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Kurzbiographie
Will Self wurde 1959 in London geboren. Für den Erzählband \"The Quantity Theory of Insanity\" (bisher nicht auf Deutsch erschienen) wurde er 1992 für den John Llewellyn Rhys Prize nominiert, erhielt 1993 den Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize und kam im selben Jahr mit 19 Kollegen auf die alle zehn Jahre neu erstellte Liste der \"Best young British novelists\".
Werke
Auf Deutsch bisher erschienen:
Cock & Bull (Ein Rührst ...
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THE AUTHOR
Jerome David Salinger is an American author, born 1919 in New York City. He graduated from a military academy and briefly attended two colleges; after his early literary success, he became a recluse. His most important work, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), established him as a leading author. The hero of the book, Holden Caulfield, became a prototype of the rebellious and confused adolescent searching for truth and innocence outsid ...
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The book is written by Marylin Sachs. The centre of attention is a boy named Jeff and Ellen, the fat girl. Jaff is a good looking seventeen-year-old boy. He lives in a house with his mother and his sister. His parents are divorced. His father is married again and has two new sons. Jeff is not very happy with his family circumstances but he always has a girlfriend and when he meets his girlfriend, he is very happy. Ellen is "The Fat Girl\". She ...
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