Email to Tony: Mediation

Hi Tony,

I think I have some interesting places for you to visit, so you can really get a feeling of the Berlin's Cold War history.

The best thing to do is to visit the real Berlin Wall. In the centre of Berlin, there you can find the three last meters, where the Wall is still standing in his original form. One is the memorial Berlin Wall in the “Bernauer Straße”, the other is near the house of Parliament in the “Niederkirchenstraße” and the last 15m are in the “Liesenstraße”. If you want to take a piece of the Wall with you, it is possible to buy one. It is about 2,50€ and the owner promises that it is no face and he saved it before they would have been thrown away.

As you know, there are about 130 people who left their lives while trying to pass the Wall. The museum Checkpoint Charlie commemorates the victims killed by passing the Berlin Wall. It is the most visited museum Berlins', that is located at the border crossing point. The main message the visiters get to know in this museum is the importance of freedom. The house at the Checkpoint Charlie, opened in 1963, was actually a place, where all the refugees were welcome and supported. The task for the museum was to illustrate, how it was made sure that nobody could pass the Wall without a permission. As a result of the friendships to refugees, the museum has a hot-air balloon, cars for a escape attempt and a lot of other spectacular means for a successful escape.

I hope you will like Berlin and I could give you some helpful tips.

See You, Bianca

english homework

Write an email in with you sum up the gist of the interview. then ask for jonathan's opinion with regard to their career plans.

Dear Jonathan
Today I read an interview between the German Minister for Family Affairs Kristina Schröder and the newspaper "Die Zeit" on the Girls Day 2010.
The surprising point is that now boys are the new children with problems, no longer girls. Boys are often worse in school, without apprenticships and A-levels.
Schröder thinks that the reason for this development is that boy grow up with hardly no male influence. For example, there are only 3% male educators in kindergartens and school is dominated by female teachers. The consequence is a cultur of machos with violence especially against women and no realistic male ideal, so they don't know how to behave as a man.
It's important to support the boys in their natural necessity to proof their power, but to control the aggressiveness to be developed rationally. Measures could be homework tutoring, boxing and during this training, the procurement of discipline and rules.
To provide that there are enough male educators, the government has to re-educate jobless men and motivate boys for pedagogic studies on the Boys Day.
Services are the job-related future especially social jobs.
In my opinion it's a very good idea Jonathan if you want to do a social job, because this sector of the working world will develope in the future and will be the most important one. So what do you think about this topic?
greetings Bianca