Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007

Snow falling on cedars

When two men visited the boat of Carl Heine, all lights were on, but the owner was absent. When they put in the flue they discovered the death man. After they examined the boat and Carl, it seems to be a foul play.


The American Japanese Kabuo Miyamoto is charged because of following evidence.
At that night Kabuo was at sea, where he met Carl.
On Carl’s boat they found two kinds of batteries, a D8 and a D6 in the battery holder. Carl used D8, Kabuo d6 batteries.
When Carl was exhumed, they found a wound behind his left ear, which came likely from one of those kendo strikes Japanese used. They assumed that Kabuo hit Carl with a gaff. The gaff was found, like a net, on Kabuo’s boat and there was blood from Carl on it.
Kabuo also has a motive.
Once, Kabuo’s family has worked for the Heines. The Miyamotos wanted to buy land from Carl Sr., who did agree to an eight-year, lease-to-own contract. The problem was that laws at that time prevented aliens from owning land. So they make a deal, that after the last payment was made, Carl would deed the land to Kabuo.
But because of the war the Miyamotos had to leave. They ever did the last two payments and after Carl Sr. dead, his wife sold the land to another.
When the war was over and Kabuo came back, he went to Carl to ask for selling him the land again. Carl wanted to think about.

Later it turns out, that Kabuo was innocent. In that foggy night Kabuo helped Carl and gave him one of his batteries, because Carl’s battery was dead. Because Kabuo had only D6 batterys, which are bigger than D8s, they had to prepare the battery holder. By doing this, Carl hurt his hand and blood on the net and Kabuo’s fishing gaff. They talked about the land and Carl agreed to sell his land to Kabuo, who went back to the harbour.
Carl, who has put a lamp to the mast, when his battery died, wanted to put the light down. When he was on the top of mast, he tried to put the lamp away, a wave came, because of a big ship, and Carl fell down. He hit his head on the boat, get unconscious and fell into his own flue. His dead was an accident.

Sonntag, 2. Dezember 2007

first exam correction

Task 1


Dear Lisa!

How was your week? I hope as good as mine. Yesterday I went to an art exhibition with Mum. It was really fascinating. In the first room there was a special picture by an artist named Norman Rockwell. The picture is called “The problem we all live with”. In the picture you can see a little girl with a white dress. On the left side (in front of her) and on the right side (behind her) are two men. All of them are walking on a pavement. The men wear suits and yellow armbands, with the words “Deputy us Marshall” on them. In the background you can see a wall with a smashed tomato and the word “Nigger” is written on the wall, too. I get the impression that the artist tries to convey a bad feeling. The little girl seems to be lonely and scared. The men are not black like her. It’s quite possible that it is a scene of a South African street. Maybe the artist wants to emphasize the racism and lack of humanity in this area.
I assume that the men are policemen.
This painting made me think about all the black people in South Africa and about their problems. Remember the title! It’s really a beautiful painting. If you have time, watch it on the internet. I’m sure you will like it, too.

In love Anna




Task 2

It’s really difficult to say what is art and what isn’t art. In my opinion nearly everything is art. – This photo, too, because as I see it the artist expresses his feelings with this picture and this makes it art. If someone disagrees with me it’s no problem. Art is free thinking and there are different ways to express or to show this. Art or not art? Is that so important? Our world is a modern world. There should be place for things like that. Art means to express what I want to express. It’s not important how and why. It needs more acceptance and awareness in our time. In my opinion it’s o.k. to say it’s a bad picture, but it’s not o.k. to say it’s no art. If you want to see it as art, it can be art. You only have to try!