Montag, 9. März 2009

Should money be spent on space exploration?


Every year the NASA and other organisation spend a lot of money on space exploration. I don't think that's a good idea.

First of all we should solve the problems of our world.
Every day there are more people all over the world who are hungry and they are dying because they don't have enoug food or clean water.
With the money which is spent on space exploration we could help these people.
And ther are a lot of other reasons:
For example in war times. What is more important for people? Looking for a place to live on Mars in the future or looking for a place to live for this winter so that they don't die because of the cold?
Or everybody always talks about renovable energy and that they are too expensive. This money could be the solution.
Or we could spend the money on investigation to cure cancer or Aids.
Finally the reason which is most actually in this times: The economic crisis from this year. The money could help a lot of people without work.

In short I think tere are thousand other ways to spend this money than on space exploration. First we should solve all the problems of our world before we begin to investigat en explore things that aren't absolutely necessary.

Sonntag, 8. März 2009

Biography of Jane Austen


Jane Austen was born at Steventon, Englan in the year 1775. At the age of ten her parents George and Cassandra sent her, together with her sister Cassandra, to the Abbey School in Reading, England for three years.
As a 15-year-old teenager she began to write her juvenila and started her career as one of England most famous authors. She finished the juvenila three years later.

In the years 1795-98 she wrote the original versions of some of her most famous novels like Norhanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudiuce. But Pride and Prejudice wasn't the original title of the book. Austen first baptized it with the name First Impressions. She tried to publish it in 1797, but a London publisher rejected it.
Four years later her father retired and the family Austen moved to Bath.

At the age of 28 seh was able to sell Susan, that was the original name of the novel Northanger Abbey, as her first book to a publisher. But it was never published. One year after this disappointment she began a new novel, but gave it up quickly. (The Watsons)
At the age of 30 she lost her father and three years later she moved to Southampton with her mother and with Cassandra.

During her early 30ties she lived with her mother and with her sister in a village in the southern England called Chawton. Her rich brother Edward provided a small house for the family.
At Chawton she began to revise the original versions of two of her most famou novels.
Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. The first one was published in the year 1811 and the second one two years later.
One year after that her next book Mansfield Park was published. At the same time Austen began to work on Emma.

After working two years Emma was published and the Prince Regent who was the future King George IV asked her to dedicate the novel to him. She did it and in the same year she completed the novel Persuasion.
One year later, in 1817, she composed a fragment called Sanditon, butshe was forced to abandon it because she got ver ill. In May of this year she had to move to Winchester for medical car.
She died on 18 of July at the age of 42. She was buried two years later in the Winchester Cathedral.

One year after her death Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, her last novel, were published jointly in a four-volume edition. It included a biographical prologue of Austen written by her brother Henry.

In her novels, protagonized by women, the protagonist alwas finds her man to marry. Austen herself never got married.
But the world keeps her in mind as one of the most famous novelists. Her novels have benn a big succes until today.