WikiLeaks

I read an article the other day in the online-version of economis.com and it talks about WikiLeaks.
I thought you might be interested because I'm sure you heard the news in the last time.

Basically what it talks about is that the homepage WikiLeaks publishes a lot of secret information and secret videos, for example a dialogue of American diplomats. This dialogue contains bad statements about Putin, Berlusconi, Merkel and so on.

It is also mentioned that the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is wanted by the whole world. Julian Assange is supposed by 5 anonym collaborators.

The homepage is nearly like Wikipedia because everybody can write an article on the homepage. The difference between WikiLeaks and Wikipedia is that Wikileaks is coded very well. That's the reason why WikiLeaks is so powerful.

Summing up it's amazing how clever the whole organisation of Wikileaks is and how one man creates difficulties for a great part of the world.



VOCABULARY:

collaborator (Projektmitarbeiter): The collaborators did a good job.

founder (Gründer): He is the founder of WikiLeaks.

coded (verschlüsselt): The homepage is coded very well.




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Halloween

Tonight is the night
When dead leaves fly
Like witches on switches
Across the sky,
When elf and sprite
Flit through the night
On a moony sheen.

Tonight is the night
When leaves make a sound
Like a gnome in his home
Under the ground,
When spooks and trolls
Creep out of holes
Mossy and green.

Tonight is the night
When pumpkins stare
Through sheaves and leaves
Everywhere,
When ghouls and ghost
And goblin host
Dance round their queen.
It’s Halloween.

Last wednesday, Farrah, a exchange student of america, took part at our english-lesson. She is 22 years old, from Maryland and a only-child. Maryland is near Washington DC. Her hobbies are listening to music and watching movies. One of her favourite singer is Johnny Cash and one of her favourite movie is Fight Club.

Advertisement

In the 19th century, companies started advertising for novelties and fringe products. Later, brand-naming became necessary because more and more companies were launched.

From 1873 to 1894, there was an economic depression. Many companies connected with other small companies to increase advertising, because they had to present there new range of products.

At the end of the 19th century, there was a man who is called Lord Leverhulme. He branded his soap because there were so many rivals.

Lord Leverhulme was also the first one who realised that advertisement needs more than a presentation of a product. Advertisement should be eye-catching and should contain logical and considered arguments. The companies who are not able to advertise are the victims of the big companies.

Our trip to italy

1. day:

On monday, the 17th of Mai, we started travelling by bus to italy. On the way, we stopped two times for going to toilets, eating something or buying something to drink. After 6 hours travelling by bus, we stopped in Udine for sight seeing. Then we continiued the trip to Bibione. After arriving in Bibione, we marched in our mobil-homes, changed our clothes and ran to the beach. Dinner was at 19:00 o'clock. After dinner, we went in the citiy bibione for eating and drinking something.

2. day:

At 7 o'clock, we had to grow up because breakfast was at 7:30. After the breakfast, we went to Venice. In Venice, we had to do a little quiz about the town. Answering the question was very difficult and in addition, it was very very hot. After trip we relaxed on the beach and after the dinner, we relaxed on our terace.

3. day:

Wednesday was the first official sport-day of our trip. In the morning, we did archery and in the evening, we rided our bike and had a picnic. The rest of the day, we spent time on the beach and played beachsoccer. It was very funny. At night, we spent most of the time in the disco near our mobile-homes.

4. day:

The fourth day was the last full day in Bibione. For lunch, we went to a village near bibione. After that, there were three tournaments on the beach, on which we took part. Most of the girls played beach-volleyball, most of the boys played beachsoccer and some people played "Botcha". Then we relaxed on the beach, like every day. After dinner, we went in the town for drinking something.

5. day:

The last day of our trip. After breakfast, we started travelling home. I think everybody was a little bit sad because we left this beautiful place.

All in all, it was a very nice week.

Environment and Pollution

Today, Yvonne Stitz, Magdalena Kiesenhofer and Bianca Danninger did a presentation about Environment and Pollution. The title of the presentation was "Let's go green".

Now i would like to tell you something concerning the topic.

One of the most important parts of the presentation was climate change because it effects all of us. To my mind, we can't stop the climate change anymore, only reduce it. The three girls also told us something about the global warming. Many scientists all over the worlds study the global warming and why climate is changing. One reason is pollution and another reason is the destruction of the rainforest, but as I wrote before, we are unable to stop the global warming and so the climate change.

If all nations on the whole world work together, we will be able to do something against the climate change. All in all, environment is an interesting topic which concerncs each living organism on the planet.