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Possible topics/suggestions
The novel "The Tortilla Curtain" is about loads of
topical issues but mainly focusses on (illegal)
immigration from Mexico into the US and clashes between immigrants
and
natives.
This could be a topic for your Facharbeiten as well: MOVEMENT
of people
worldwide (migration, immigration, emigration, possible clashes of
people
and cultures);
CHANGES in our world, of cultures and economies.
GLOBALIZATION has advantages and disadvantages, some were
presented in the
presentations.
Ideas & suggestions so far from my side were
- globalization and Enercon (or the Meyerwerft)
- specific aspects from the SPIEGEL articles in the
globalization-edition
- various current and/or historical aspects of immigration,
migration, emigration.
Novels like
- "Water Music" by T. C. Boyle, the author of
"Tortilla Curtain"
- "Brick Lane" by Monica Ali
- "A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry
- "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" by Alexander
McCall Smith
...if you research some information about these books you'll see
why they
fit to the topics mentioned above.
There are Canadian, Australian and South African novels as well
which are definitely worth
working on them and of course more novels from GB, the US and
perhaps from NZ as well ;-)
--> Henning Mankell (yeah, the Swedish author!) "Tea-Bag"
(to be read in the
English version, of course; quite a topical situation: African
woman as a
refugee/illegal in Spain, then on her way to Sweden
--> with Europe trying to prevent people from poorer countries
to enter (cf.
the Spanish parts in Morocco and thousands of refugees trying to
enter via
these areas into Spain; numerous boat people in the Mediterranean
trying to
get into Italy etc.) there's quite a challenging topic to be seen.
Most
European countries are affected by this, England especially!
--> Ireland has an interesting history of emigration and right
now loads of
Irish who once emigrated are coming back as Ireland is another
example of a
tiger state (thanks to EU money); at the same time numerous people
from
Baltic states work in Ireland (there's the money and there are the
jobs);
there are several topics to be found here, as well literary ones
as economic
or "Landeskunde" issues
--> South Africa has been changing for quite a while and yet
loads of
challenges are still to be found; Beverley Naidoo has written very
interesting novels (mainly for young readers) which give an idea
of the
situation in South Africa, as well historic as topical
--> short stories from South Africa might be interesting as
well |about
African history|
--> China is changing enormously, as we've heard and can read:
Qui Xiaolong,
born in Shanghai 1953, living in the US since 1989, writes super 'detective
novels' about Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police Bureau. They
are
excellent descriptions of China's development and changes and I
have learnt
a lot about the current situation in Shanghai & China as well
as about
China's history. Click for "Death of a Red Heroine" or
"When Red is Black"
--> numerous short stories deal with "Living in a
multi-ethnic society", why
not read some and compare them?
--> Earnest Hemingway is a traditional American writer of
excellent short
stories. There are interesting changes to be seen concerning his
description
of real male persons, the relationship man - woman, etc.;
comparison of some
short stories for example from the collection "The Snows of
Kilimanjaro"
possible
--> did I mention Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist" in
my last email? His
novel was just recently filmed by Roman Polanski, could be
interesting to
compare novel & film.
All in all, just think about your interest and a possible topic.
You don't
have to work on a long novel if you don't fancy doing that, short
stories
are fine as well and if you don't like to work on literature,
think about a
topical issue, be it strictly economical or the result of economic
pressure
which we can see when Fortress Europe is the destination refugees
want to
reach.
And more ideas on January 31st:
--> Mankell, Henning: "I Die, But the Memory Lives On"
The World Aids Crisis and the Memory Book Project. A Personal
Reflection on Aids
HARVILL PRESS; IMPORT
ISBN 1843432072, EAN 9781843432074 PREIS: EUR 9.90
2004.
--> Born Abroad - BBC Asylum Issues http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4663010.stm
--> Destination UK http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2001/destination_uk/default.stm
--> The South African author Deon Meyer and his detective
novels |more|
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Formal aspects & methods
Die Erstellung einer Facharbeit Beispiel: Leistungskurs Deutsch
(Wolfgang Pohl): http://www.ni.schule.de/~pohl/lernen/technik/techn_08.htm
sowie http://www.ni.schule.de/~pohl/lernen/technik/techn_07.htm
Verbindliche Hinweise zum Zitieren, Annotieren und
Bibliographieren im Rahmen der Facharbeit Französisch (Wolfgang
Pohl): http://www.ni.schule.de/~pohl/unterricht/frz/methoden/citation.htm
Examples from 2004:
List of Contents: |Montgomery
Bus Boycott & Rosa Parks |
|"Stronger
than the storm" & AIDS in South Africa |
| The U.S.
Invasion of Grenada |
| Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe
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Bibliography: |"Stronger
than the storm" & AIDS in South Africa |
| The
U.S. Invasion of Grenada |
| Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe
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