1. a) Titel: The wind in the willows
b) Schrijver: Kenneth Grahame
c) Uitgever: Penguin readers
2.a) Dit verhaal is een Avonturenverhaal
b) Het past in deze categorie, omdat: Ze met zijn vieren van allerlei avonturen beleven.
3.Het verhaal speelt zich af in weet ik niet kan ik niet vinden in het boek.
4. Samenvatting:
Als de mol het zat is op zijn huis op te ruimen stopt hij ermee en gaat naar buiten. Als hij bij het riviertje komt ziet hij aan de overkant mr. Rat staan. Hij gaat met rat een stukje varen in de boot. Mol vind het heel leuk. Onderweg komen ze ook nog vrienden van rat tegen zoals: de kikker, de bever en meneer Toad. Mol blijft de hele zomer en winter bij de rat en ze beleven veel avonturen. Als ze op een dag het huis van rat niet vinden graaft mol een gat en gaan ze naar zijn huis. Toad was helemaal autogek geworden en gaat er vandoor met de auto van de dokter. Hij moest voorkomen en werd beschuldigd van gevaarlijk rijden, diefstal en oplichten van de politie en krijgt 20 jaar cel. De dochter van de bewaker helpt hem ontsnappen en hij rijst op verschillende manieren om aan de politie te ontkomen. Dan komt hij mol, ratty en meneer badger tegen en die helpen hem en bedenken ene plan om de wezels uit Toads huis te verjagen. Er komt een feestje en hij belooft hij nooit meer op te scheppen. Hij stuurt cadeaus naar de mensen die hem geholpen hebben en bedankt Mol, Ratty en Badger. En nog steeds als ze wezels in het bos tegen komen zeggen ze tegen ze dat zich moeten gedragen, omdat ze anders de verschrikkelijke Badger op hen afsturen.
5. a+b) Hoofdpersonen:
Het verhaal gaat over vier dieren en Taod en over toad wordt het meeste verteld dus dat is de hoofdpersoon.
-Toad: schept altijd overal over op en komt altijd in de problemen maar daar komen ze met zijn allen wel uit.
6. De titel van het boek is The wind in the willows omdat: eigenlijk weet ik niet echt waarom het boek zo heet.
7. Ik vond het boek saai want ik hou niet van boeken die gaan over dieren en ik vond het ook best moeilijk om te lezen.
John Kerry Takes Five Out Of Seven States In Tuesday's Primaries
02.04.2004 9:48 AM EST
Senator John Kerry (file)
Photo: Jeff Haynes/Agence France Presse
Voters aren't quite ready to pull the plug on the Democratic primary season. But they may be getting close.
In contests Tuesday in seven states, they handed Senator John Kerry five wins, cementing the man from Massachusetts' status as front-runner. But voters also boosted the campaigns of Senator John Edwards of North Carolina and retired General Wesley Clark of Arkansas. Each posted wins in states in their respective backyards and will live to fight another day.
In the wake of Tuesday's primaries, Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut's quest for the presidency ended; he pulled out of the race Tuesday night after failing to make much of an impact anywhere.
Kerry was the day's biggest winner by far. He scored decisive victories in Arizona, North Dakota, Delaware, New Mexico and Missouri. More importantly, he captured the most delegates and now leads former governor Howard Dean of Vermont in that race 255 to 156 overall, according to a CBS News tally. To capture the nomination, a Democrat needs the backing of 2,161 party delegates.
"For the second time in a few days, a New England Patriot has won on the road," a smiling Kerry told supporters gathered in Washington state. A longtime New England football fan, Kerry took time off this past Sunday night to watch the Patriots defeat the Carolina Panthers in the Super Bowl.
After zooming to the front of the pack with a surprise win in Iowa last month, Kerry has sought to elevate his candidacy above those of his Democratic rivals. Mostly, he has taken aim at the current White House occupant, President George W. Bush. He stuck to that strategy Tuesday night.
"George Bush, who promised to be a uniter, has in fact become the great divider," he said. "We will resume the great march of our history, to a country where everyone can hope and strive and move ahead, no matter who you are or no matter what the color of your skin."
In the South Carolina primary, Edwards cruised to an easy 15-point win over Kerry, taking home 45 percent of the vote. The North Carolinian had staked his candidacy's survival on winning the Palmetto State and his boy-next-door status clearly helped him there. Edwards was also born in South Carolina, a fact he mentioned repeatedly in the last week.
Edwards has sought to portray himself as the most optimistic voice in the race. On Tuesday night, he again avoided personal attacks on his rivals.
"Tonight you said that the politics of lifting people up beats the politics of tearing people down," he told supporters in South Carolina.
Edwards has repeatedly bragged of being the only candidate who can win below the Mason-Dixon line this fall. No Democrat has won the White House without winning at least five Southern states in the general election, he has said. Edwards hopes to secure wins in Virginia and Tennessee, which vote next Tuesday, then take his campaign north to make a stand somewhere outside his home region.
In Oklahoma, Wesley Clark scratched out a razor-thin 1,300-vote victory over Edwards. Had he failed to win Oklahoma, which borders his native Arkansas, raising funds for his campaign would have become virtually impossible.
Ironically, Kerry may ultimately be helped by Clark's survival. An Edwards win in Oklahoma would have set up a two-man Dixie showdown between him and Kerry next week. Instead, Clark could now steal votes that would have gone to Edwards in Tennessee and Virginia. That could open the door for Kerry to pull off an upset win in either state.
Still, voters rejected the chance to hand Kerry the nomination on a silver platter Tuesday. A clean sweep would probably have let him knock Edwards and Clark out of the race immediately. That would have left only Dean standing between Kerry and the chance to take on Bush this fall.
Dean skipped competing in the seven states that voted Tuesday. Instead, he is focusing on upcoming contests in Michigan and Washington, both of which vote on Saturday, and Maine, which votes Sunday. His campaign is reportedly running so low on cash that it has not run television commercials in any of those states, however.
Signs now point to a battle royale in the Wisconsin primary on February 17. All, or at least most of the candidates still in the race will need to compete there to remain viable.
For Lieberman, Tuesday's results convinced him to call it quits. After finishing a disappointing fifth in last week's New Hampshire primary, advisors urged him to drop out of the race. Instead, he chose to focus on winning tiny Delaware. Kerry ultimately took the state by a giant margin, carrying 50 percent of the vote to Lieberman's 11 percent.
Lieberman, who served as Al Gore's running mate in 2000, presented himself as the moderate alternative in the race. He was the only candidate to unequivocally support the war in Iraq. He has long been a vocal critic of what he describes as violent and sexually explicit content in movies, television and pop music.
"I have decided tonight to end my quest for the presidency of the United States of America," he told supporters gathered at a hotel ballroom just outside Washington, D.C. "Am I disappointed? Naturally. But am I proud of what we stood for in this campaign? You bet I am."
For more Choose or Lose news, check out the Choose or Lose archive.
-Ethan Zindler
Tekst 1
John Kerry Takes Five Out Of Seven States in Tuesday's Primaries
2 De tekst is geschreven door Ethan Zidler
3 De datum van de tekst is 04-02-2004
4 Ik heb dit artikel gekozen omdat dit het gaat over de verkiezingen en dat vind ik wel interessant.
5 De titel geeft aan dat hij in 5 van de 7 staten heeft gewonnen met de verkiezingen.
6 Deze tekst is geschreven voor mensen die op die site kijken en geïnteresseerd zijn in de verkiezingen.
7 Samenvatting
John Kerry heeft in 5 van de 7 staten de voorverkiezingen voor de democraten gewonnen. De volgende weken wordt er ook in de andere staten gestemt. Als hij winnaar wordt moet hij het opnemen tegen Bush voor president te worden.
8 De schrijver wil met de tekst informatie geven over de verkiezingen in de VS.
9 Om de tekst te kunnen begrijpen heb ik de volgende woorden opgezocht:
Cementing = verbinden
Captured = veroveren
Portray = schilderen
Respective = onderscheidenlijk
Retired = gemachtigde
10 De tekst bestaat uit 20 alinea´s.
11 Ik vond nieuw en interessant aan deze tekst om te weten dat John Kerry in zoveel staten had gewonnen.
Mening:
Ik vond dit verhaal leuk omdat het leuk is om te weten dat hij in zoveel staten heeft gewonnen. Ik vod het ook interessant.
Australian Music Industry Raids Kazaa's Parent Company
02.06.2004 5:38 PM EST
An investigative branch of the Australian recording industry on Friday raided the offices of Sharman Networks, parent company of the world's most popular peer-to-peer file-sharing network, Kazaa.
Besides the company's Sydney offices, agents of Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI), an arm of the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), raided the homes of two of the company's executives, three Australian universities and four Internet service providers. The investigators sought "documentary and electronic evidence that related to the operation of Kazaa," according to MIPI General Manager Michael Speck. In all, a dozen premises in three states were raided.
In Australia, the Anton Pillar order allows one party intending to file a civil lawsuit against another to search for evidence pertaining to the case if a federal judge decides such evidence might disappear as soon as the defendants are served with the suit. In other words, if Sharman Networks knew it was going to be sued for copyright infringement, it might destroy evidence before those suing the company could discover it.
The ARIA intends to file a civil suit against Kazaa principals on Tuesday.
Sharman intends to move to have the "search and seize" orders dismissed, but until then it is complying with the court orders.
"This action appears to be an extraordinary waste of time, money and resources going over legal ground that has been well and truly covered in the U.S. and Dutch courts over the past 18 months," read a statement from Sharman Networks, referring to an April court decision declaring the producers of file-sharing software Morpheus and Grokster not liable for the copyright infringement users engage in. A federal appeals judge on Tuesday heard arguments by the recording and motion picture industries to overturn the decision.
"This is a knee-jerk reaction by the recording industry to discredit Sharman Networks and the Kazaa software, following a number of recent court decisions around the world that have ruled against the entertainment industry's agenda to stamp out peer-to-peer technology," the statement continued.
The investigation was sparked by recent developments in Sharman and its related company, Sharman License Holdings.
"Clearly, in the last six months there's been a significant shift in their activities making them infringers on Australian copyrights," Speck said. "These include changes in their software, statements that the officers of the companies have made in public, information on their Web sites, changes in corporate structure and the identification of other resources in this territory."
Although the raid and subsequent lawsuit are unrelated to the U.S. recording industry's pending litigation against Sharman Networks, a decision in the ARIA's favor could have a significant effect.
"There's a possibility this case could have an international impact, because Kazaa is now run from Australia by Australians," Speck said. "The worldwide Kazaa operation spreads from Australia. If the Australians are obliged by federal court orders to stop infringing on copyrights, that would have an impact on the infringing material in the rest of the system."
The Recording Industry Association of America, whose members hold many Stateside copyrights, was thrilled with the initiative taken by its Australian peers.
"This step probably should come as little surprise given the global nature of music piracy," an RIAA statement read. "Its impact on artists, songwriters, record labels and everyone else who works to bring music to the public is felt internationally just as it is here in the United States."
Sharman Networks, however, dismisses the recording industry's claims.
"There is no doubt this is a cynical attempt by the industry to disrupt our business, regain lost momentum and garner publicity," the company stated. "The assertions by plaintiffs are hackneyed and worn out. It is a gross misrepresentation of Sharman's business to suggest that the company in any way facilitates or encourages copyright infringement."
For complete digital music coverage, check out the Digital Music Reports.
-Joe D'Angelo
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Australian Music Industry Raids Kazaa's Parent Company
2 De tekst is geschreven door Joe D´Angelo
3 De datum van de tekst is 06-02-2004
4 Ik heb dit artikel gekozen omdat het me wel leuk leek want ik gebruik zelf ook Kazaa
5 De titel geeft aan dat de Australische muziek industrie kazaa is binnen gevallen.
6 Deze tekst is geschreven voor mensen die dit interessant of leuk vinden en op deze site komen.
7 Samenvatting
De Australische muziek industrie valt kazaa binnen om bewijzen te vinden om het illegaal kopiëren van bestanden op Internet. Anders zou Kazaa die misschien vernietigen. En het is toegestaan door ene bepaalde wet om het bureau van Kazaa binnen te vallen.
8 De schrijver wil met de tekst informatie geven over Het binnen vallen van de Australische muziek industrie.
9 Om de tekst te kunnen begrijpen heb ik de volgende woorden opgezocht:
Initiative = initiatief / begin
Subsequent = (daarop) volgend
Raids = overval
Evidence = aanwijzing
Intends = van plan zijn
10 De tekst bestaat uit 17 alinea´s.
11 Ik vond nieuw en interessant aan deze tekst om te weten dat dat bureau bewijzen wil verzamelen
Mening:
Ik vond dit wel een makkelijke tekst om te lezen. Ik vond het ook ene interessante tekst omdat ik dat programma zelf ook gebruik.
Henry helps fire Gunners to club record
Gerry Cox at Molineux
Sunday February 8, 2004
The Observer
So lightning failed to strike twice at Molineux, where Wolves were unable to repeat the shock and surprise of beating Manchester United three weeks ago by taking another top-table scalp - although it was not for lack of trying.
Arsenal have had a marked superiority over Wolves for years, and so it proved again despite a typically brave and spirited performance from the home side, who looked worth a point until two goals in a five-minute period around the hour mark finished them off.
Arsenal, below their best for much of the game, thus set a club record of 24 games without defeat since the start of the season, and maintained their two-point lead over Manchester United at the top.
Arsène Wenger is reluctant to talk about records, but he recognised this milestone. 'We are very proud of it because it is a sign of the consistency and effort from the players every week,' he said. 'But it is a fragile thing. If you look at the game today, it could have gone either way until we scored our second goal, and after that we looked comfortable. Wolves made it very hard for us and the first-half was like a cup game.'
Yet Arsenal were out of the blocks quicker and made the ideal start, scoring with their first real attack after only nine minutes. Edu carried the ball from central midfield and, when Ashley Cole set off on a run down the left, the Brazilian slipped the ball inside his marker. Cole's first-time pass went square across the area for Dennis Bergkamp to shoot first time into the far corner of Paul Jones' goal.
Arsenal went close to a second when Thierry Henry cut in from the left and hit a curling shot that was well saved by Jones. But Wolves clawed their way back, with Denis Irwin swinging a free-kick just wide of a post after 20 minutes, and they equalised five minutes later.
Colin Cameron, a tiger in midfield alongside Alex Rae, swung a corner towards the far post where Jody Craddock headed it back towards the penalty spot. Ivo Ganea, the Romanian striker signed from Bursaspor in Turkey, was on hand to sweep his half-volley past Jens Lehmann and send the crowd into raptures, although the referee, Phil Dowd, greeted his celebrations with a yellow card.
It started to get lively thereafter, with tackles flying in and Bergkamp booked for diving, although Robert Pires escaped unpunished for his more blatant example.
Bergkamp also had a fierce shot from 25 yards brilliantly saved by Jones, while Carl Cort's shot at the other end was turned around a post by Lehmann.
Wolves started the second period full of confidence and began playing some neat football but, as so often happens, they went behind when they were enjoying their best spell of the game.
After 58 minutes, Pires slid a neat pass through for Henry to draw Jones forward and slip the ball through his legs for his ninety-ninth goal in the Premiership. He almost completed his century in spectacular style moments later, flicking the ball up and volleying on the turn, but the shot was straight at Jones.
It made little difference. Three minutes later Pires swung in a deep cross from the right, Patrick Vieira hooked the ball back and Kolo Touré stooped to head it over the line from close range.
That knocked the stuffing out of Wolves, and Henry could have scored again after a swift exchange of passes with the substitute Jose Antonio Reyes, but Jones saved at the Frenchman's feet.
Henry also put Cole in on goal, but the flying full-back dragged his shot just the wrong side of the far post with Jones beaten. A bigger margin of victory would have been harsh on Wolves, who are still in the relegation zone but may yet escape if they continue to play like this.
'I can't fault my players for effort today, but we missed that bit of quality Arsenal had in front of goal,' said manager Dave Jones. 'We had a good go at them and gave them a fright, with some good chances. Even at 3-1 they were snapping and snarling. Against United we had a bit of luck, which was overdue, but today it ran out.'
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Henry helps fire Gunners to club record
2 De tekst is geschreven door Gerry Cox
3 De datum van de tekst is 08-02-2004
4 Ik heb dit artikel gekozen omdat dit het gaat over Arsenal en daar ben ik fan van.
5 De titel geeft aan dat Henri zorgt voor het clubrecord.
6 Deze tekst is geschreven voor mensen die deze krant via internet lezen en van sport of van Arsenal houden.
7 Samenvatting
Arsenal verslaat The Wolves met 3-1 en haalt daarmee het clubrecord van 24 wedstrijden zonder verlies vanaf het begin van de competitie. Ze houden daarmee 2 punten voor op Manchester United.
8 De schrijver wil met de tekst informatie geven over de overwinning van Arsenal.
9 Om de tekst te kunnen begrijpen heb ik de volgende woorden opgezocht:
Maintained = beweren
Confidence = vertrouwen
Flicking = tikken
Hooked = vormig of verslaafd aan
Milestone = mijlpaal
10 De tekst bestaat uit 15 alinea´s.
11 Ik vond nieuw en interessant aan deze tekst dat Arsenal heeft gewonnen en het record heeft gehaald
Mening:
Ik vond het ene leuke tekst omdat ik ook fan van Arsenal ben en omdat dit me interesseert.
Kerry wins Michigan and Washington
Press Association
Sunday February 8, 2004
John Kerry took another big step towards securing the Democratic presidential nomination yesterday, when he trounced his rivals in the Michigan and Washington caucuses.
After winning almost 50% of the vote in both states, the Massachusetts senator predicted: "George Bush's days are numbered - and change is coming to America."
Howard Dean suffered another blow to his already waning candidacy when, despite coming a good second in Washington, he lost the support of one of America's biggest public sector unions. Democratic officials said Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, delivered the news to the former governor of Vermont personally.
In victory, Mr Kerry paid little heed to his rivals, focusing his fire in the Republican in the White House. "This week George Bush and the Republican smear machine have begun trotting out the same old tired lines of attack that they've used before to divide this nation and to evade the real issues before us," he told a Democratic Party dinner in Virginia. "They're the ones who are extreme. We're the ones who are mainstream."
Aides said the speech was designed to reassure the party faithful he would fight far harder against Republican attacks than Michael Dukakis, the former Massachusetts governor who lost the 1988 election to the president's father.
Returns from 97 percent of Washington's precincts showed Mr Kerry with 49%, Mr Dean with 30%, Dennis Kucinich with 8 %, Mr Edwards with 7% and Mr Clark with 3%.
With final returns from Michigan, Mr Kerry had 52%, Mr Dean 17%, Mr Edwards 14%, Mr Sharpton and Mr Clark at 7% and Mr Kucinich at 3%.
Mr Kerry's victories left him with more than twice as many delegates as his closest pursuer. His overall total swelled to 412, with Mr Dean at 174, Mr Edwards at 116, Mr Clark at 82 and Mr Sharpton at 12. It takes 2,162 to win the nomination.
Mr Dean and the other Democratic candidates, John Edwards and Wes Clark, signalled in advance that they were focussing their efforts on the forthcoming primaries in Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin. Southerners Mr Clark and Mr Edwards are pinning their hopes on Tuesday's primaries in Virginia and Tennessee, while Mr Dean is making a last stand in Wisconsin, which votes a week later.
In a statement that pointed to his showing in Washington, he said the voters in that state "have sent a clear message that they want this race and this debate to continue...We look forward to tomorrow's Maine caucuses and winning Wisconsin on the 17th."
But fresh polls suggested Mr Kerry's strength was spreading. New surveys showed the Massachusetts senator ahead in all three states.
Mr Kerry has won nine of 11 primaries and caucuses held to date, losing only South Carolina to Mr Edwards and Oklahoma to Mr Clark last week.
He is now looking to Virginia and Tennessee on Tuesday to show his ability to win Southern primaries - and spent part of his day vowing to contest President Bush in the region as well. "This administration is busy trying to paint everybody else as out of touch, out of synch, somehow out of the mainstream," he said in Nashville. "But let me tell you something, I'm not worried about coming down South and talking to people about jobs, schools, health care and the environment. I think it's the president who ought to worry about coming down here."
Democrats traditionally fare poorly in the South, and an Associated Press-Ipsos poll taken last week showed the president's approval rating at 60% in the region, compared with 47% nationally. Mr Kerry had suggested earlier in the campaign that the party's nominee could win the White House without winning any electoral votes in the region, and he has been emphasising its importance ever since.
But attention now turns to the state of Maine, where 24 delegates at stake in its caucuses today.
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Kerry wins Michigan and Washington
2 De tekst is geschreven door Press Association
3 De datum van de tekst is 08-02-2004
4 Ik heb dit artikel gekozen omdat het gaat over de verkiezingen en dat vind ik wel interessant want dat nieuws gaat over de hele wereld.
5 De titel geeft aan dat hij opnieuw gewonnen heeft in 2 staten.
6 Deze tekst is geschreven voor de mensen die deze krant via internet lezen.
7 Samenvatting
John Kerry heeft weer in 2 staten gewonnen en is nu weer een grote stap dichter bij de democratische presidents nominatie.
8 De schrijver wil met de tekst informatie geven over de verkiezingen in de VS.
9 Om de tekst te kunnen begrijpen heb ik de volgende woorden opgezocht:
Debate = betwisten
Election = verkiezingsactie
Pursuer = achtervolger
Voters = kiezers
Predicted = voorspeld
10 De tekst bestaat uit 15 alinea´s.
11 Ik vond nieuw en interessant aan deze tekst om te weten dat John Kerry al weer in 2 staten de voorverkiezingen heeft gewonnen.
Mening:
Ik vond deze tekst leuk en interessant om te lezen want het is ook nieuws wat over de hele wereld bekend wordt gemaakt. Ik vond de tekst ook makkelijk te lezen.
New York flips as penguins come out in Central Park
Robin McKie, science editor
Sunday February 8, 2004
The Observer
As gays go, Roy and Silo are not unusual. They cohabit, are affectionate in public and have been inseparable for years. Only their species marks them out.
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The New York pair are chinstrap penguins.
Every day at Manhattan's Central Park Zoo the two males entwine necks, vocalise to each other and have, er, sex. When offered female companionship, they decline.
Roy and Silo have even displayed urges to procreate, and once tried to hatch a rock. Finally their keeper, Rob Gramzay, gave them a fertile egg from another brood. Tango, their chick, was born later. The pair raised it lovingly. 'They did a great job,' admits Gramzay.
According to a study of the penguins released this weekend in the New York Times, Milou and Squawk - another pair of Central Park's male chinstraps - have started hanging out together, billing and bowing. At the New York Aquarium on Coney Island, Wendell and Cass - male blackfoot penguins - are a devoted couple.
But being gay is not just a New York penguin thing. In fact, scientists are discovering homosexuality everywhere they look. The lessons for humans are profound, say scientists.
Bruce Bagemihl, author of Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity, says homosexual behaviour has been noted in more than 450 species and more often in wild animals than captive ones. The question is: why? Some researchers say it helps a species' survival. By not producing offspring, homosexuals can help to support relatives' young. 'That's a contribution to the gene pool,' says Professor Marlene Zuk of University of California, Riverside.
Sexuality means more than just procreation, says Zuk. 'In animals like the bonobo, you see expressions of sex outside the period when females are fertile. It means more than making babies.
'And why should we be surprised? People are animals.
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New York flips as penguins come out in Central Park
2 De tekst is geschreven door Robin McKie
3 De datum van de tekst is 08-02-2004
4 Ik heb dit artikel gekozen omdat het gaat over dieren en ik hou van dieren
5 De titel geeft aan dat New York flipt als er nieuwe pinguïns geboren worden
6 Deze tekst is geschreven voor mensen die van dieren houden en via deze site de krant lezen.
7 Samenvatting
Twee pinguïns roy en silo zijn 2 mannetjes en willen niks van vrouwtjes weten. Daarom hebben ze hun een ander eitje van een andere pinguïn gegeven en die hebben ze uitgebroed en die voeden ze nu samen op en die heet tango.
8 De schrijver wil met de tekst informatie geven over 2 mannetjes pinguïns.
9 Om de tekst te kunnen begrijpen heb ik de volgende woorden opgezocht:
Species = soorten
Decline = buigen
According = volgens
Procreation = voortbrengen
Fertile = vruchtbaar
10 De tekst bestaat uit 8 alinea´s.
11 Ik vond nieuw en interessant aan deze tekst om te weten dat er 2 mannetjes pinguïns niks van vrouwtjes wilden weten en toch ene kindje hebben
Mening
Ik vond het ene leuk en redelijk makkelijk verhaal om te lezen omdat ik van dieren houd en er ook wel moeilijke woorden in stonden.
Democrats go fishing for the hunting vote
Matthew Wells tests the political water at a Tennessee shooting reserve as the primaries juggernaut descends upon the state
Monday February 9, 2004
Political target: Ben Goodwin, a client of the Pheasant Creek Hunting Preserve, in Tennessee, and a Bush fan. Photograph: Matthew Wells
"Are you huntin'? Did you bring a gun?" The questions from Sherry Neal, the only woman in the room, are at once surreal and totally natural.
We are, after all, at the Pheasant Creek Hunting Preserve, in rural Tennessee. Never mind that I have just got off a plane from New York and am here to talk about Democrats, Republicans and the race for the White House.
Londoners might fancy spending Sunday afternoon on the millennium wheel: New Yorkers favour a walk across Central Park. But in the countryside outside Nashville, one popular pastime at this time of year is stalking and shooting small game birds.
As Larry Daughtrey, a columnist for the the Tennessean newspaper, observed in a piece aimed at educating the influx of campaign operatives new to the state this week: "Most of us do have gun racks in our pickups.
"The state sold 1.3m hunting and fishing licences last year. That's about four times as many people as will vote Tuesday. Shows you where our priorities are."
The primary contest is being portrayed here as a slug-fest between the two southern boys: retired General Wesley Clark, of neighbouring Arkansas, versus the North Carolina senator John Edwards.
No matter that John Kerry is 10 points clear of the pack in the latest Tennessee poll. The southerners are in each other's sights, currently neck and neck. A poor third place could well be fatal to either campaign.
Tennessee is an odd place for national Democrats to operate in. Under arcane rules, registered Republicans are allowed to vote in tomorrow's primary.
Al Gore famously failed to carry this, his home state, in the 2000 presidential election - but unlike South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, ordinary folk here are not obsessed with preserving that contentious symbol of civil war defiance against the northern urban elite: the Confederate flag. I scoured pickup-truck bumpers, public buildings, steak restaurants and outhouses in vain for one yesterday.
Nevertheless, you can imagine the huntsmen of Pheasant Creek, 145 years ago, patiently waiting for Yankee soldiers to emerge from the brush; just as they now wait in the soft winter sun, shotgun in hand, for fattened birds to break cover.
Jesse Dunaway, the preserve's owner, has run this picturesque piece of artificial wilderness for almost 15 years. Up to 40 people can go about their business at any one time, each with his own hunting dog and the certainty that game is plentiful: "Don't go taking no pictures of birds being plucked in here now. I don't want them tree-huggers coming on up here," he warns.
The clientele diverge in their opinions regarding the Democratic candidates and the bona fides of President Bush.
"The president has always been down-to-earth and honest to me," says 38-year-old Johnny Leyhew. "After all that's been done to America in the past 15 years, we had to hit somebody."
But his father, Claude, is a self-styled "Yellow Dog [lifelong] Democrat", who is scathing about Bush's record in office.
"I damn sure voted for Bill Clinton, and I'd vote for his wife, too. I don't think any one of these fellas this time can beat Bush, but I think John Edwards will be a good vice-presidential person. Kerry? He aint got it at all in my view," he says.
Ben Goodwin, 56, has bagged 12 birds, largely for the sake of training his new Britney Spaniel puppy, Tide. He has faith in Mr Bush and an instinctive dislike for Massachusetts liberals such as John Kerry:
"There's something about New Englanders that grates with me. This gay marriage thing [the Massachusetts supreme court ruling that will make it legal there soon], I just don't understand it. We don't have high regard for that sort of thing in Tennessee."
Jerry McGregor, 54, works for the local fire department. He hunts but today he has come late to cook an evening meal of hot chicken wings for the regular Sunday crowd at the lodge. A registered Democrat, he says with a mischievous grin that he probably will not bother voting tomorrow, choosing instead to save his democratic energy for the showdown in November:
"Bush ain't done shit. The war was for oil, and now Cheney and him have got all their own men in there locking up the work. Liberating Iraqis? My ass ... I will certainly be voting Democratic later on."
On the issue of gay marriage or civil unions, his view would be more appreciated at a Conservative evangelical rally, than on a Democratic battle bus: "That's not going to happen any time soon. I reckon they should take them away and give them their own country or something."
According to the experts here, the bird hunting season has reached its peak: the dogs appreciate the cold, damp weather, when they can smell their prey better and keep going all day without overheating.
The same could be said of the Democratic race. Joe Lieberman, badly winged, has already been picked off, and some of the other candidates will be reconsidering the future of their costly campaigns after tomorrow's judgement here and in Virginia.
Doug Kraemer, who comes to shoot on the preserve every weekend he can, provides a hint as to why this complex, largely irrational and idiosyncratic primary system still works. He admits to getting sick of the taste of quail at this time of year, especially with the risk of cracking a tooth on a piece of shot.
As for his political tastes, he is undecided on whether Mr Bush deserves another four years: exactly the kind of floating-voter the Democrats need to win over in swing states such as Tennessee come November.
"With the Democrats, I like to see the eventual candidate being put through a rigorous trial. It's good for the character. I can see which one really has integrity, before I decide whether they have enough of what it takes to beat the president, " Mr Kraemer says.
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Political target: Ben Goodwin, a client of the Pheasant Creek Hunting Preserve, in Tennessee, and a Bush fan. Photograph: Matthew Wells
"Are you huntin'? Did you bring a gun?" The questions from Sherry Neal, the only woman in the room, are at once surreal and totally natural.
We are, after all, at the Pheasant Creek Hunting Preserve, in rural Tennessee. Never mind that I have just got off a plane from New York and am here to talk about Democrats, Republicans and the race for the White House.
Londoners might fancy spending Sunday afternoon on the millennium wheel: New Yorkers favour a walk across Central Park. But in the countryside outside Nashville, one popular pastime at this time of year is stalking and shooting small game birds.
As Larry Daughtrey, a columnist for the the Tennessean newspaper, observed in a piece aimed at educating the influx of campaign operatives new to the state this week: "Most of us do have gun racks in our pickups.
"The state sold 1.3m hunting and fishing licences last year. That's about four times as many people as will vote Tuesday. Shows you where our priorities are."
The primary contest is being portrayed here as a slug-fest between the two southern boys: retired General Wesley Clark, of neighbouring Arkansas, versus the North Carolina senator John Edwards.
No matter that John Kerry is 10 points clear of the pack in the latest Tennessee poll. The southerners are in each other's sights, currently neck and neck. A poor third place could well be fatal to either campaign.
Tennessee is an odd place for national Democrats to operate in. Under arcane rules, registered Republicans are allowed to vote in tomorrow's primary.
Al Gore famously failed to carry this, his home state, in the 2000 presidential election - but unlike South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, ordinary folk here are not obsessed with preserving that contentious symbol of civil war defiance against the northern urban elite: the Confederate flag. I scoured pickup-truck bumpers, public buildings, steak restaurants and outhouses in vain for one yesterday.
Nevertheless, you can imagine the huntsmen of Pheasant Creek, 145 years ago, patiently waiting for Yankee soldiers to emerge from the brush; just as they now wait in the soft winter sun, shotgun in hand, for fattened birds to break cover.
Jesse Dunaway, the preserve's owner, has run this picturesque piece of artificial wilderness for almost 15 years. Up to 40 people can go about their business at any one time, each with his own hunting dog and the certainty that game is plentiful: "Don't go taking no pictures of birds being plucked in here now. I don't want them tree-huggers coming on up here," he warns.
The clientele diverge in their opinions regarding the Democratic candidates and the bona fides of President Bush.
"The president has always been down-to-earth and honest to me," says 38-year-old Johnny Leyhew. "After all that's been done to America in the past 15 years, we had to hit somebody."
But his father, Claude, is a self-styled "Yellow Dog [lifelong] Democrat", who is scathing about Bush's record in office.
"I damn sure voted for Bill Clinton, and I'd vote for his wife, too. I don't think any one of these fellas this time can beat Bush, but I think John Edwards will be a good vice-presidential person. Kerry? He aint got it at all in my view," he says.
Ben Goodwin, 56, has bagged 12 birds, largely for the sake of training his new Britney Spaniel puppy, Tide. He has faith in Mr Bush and an instinctive dislike for Massachusetts liberals such as John Kerry:
"There's something about New Englanders that grates with me. This gay marriage thing [the Massachusetts supreme court ruling that will make it legal there soon], I just don't understand it. We don't have high regard for that sort of thing in Tennessee."
Jerry McGregor, 54, works for the local fire department. He hunts but today he has come late to cook an evening meal of hot chicken wings for the regular Sunday crowd at the lodge. A registered Democrat, he says with a mischievous grin that he probably will not bother voting tomorrow, choosing instead to save his democratic energy for the showdown in November:
"Bush ain't done shit. The war was for oil, and now Cheney and him have got all their own men in there locking up the work. Liberating Iraqis? My ass ... I will certainly be voting Democratic later on."
On the issue of gay marriage or civil unions, his view would be more appreciated at a Conservative evangelical rally, than on a Democratic battle bus: "That's not going to happen any time soon. I reckon they should take them away and give them their own country or something."
According to the experts here, the bird hunting season has reached its peak: the dogs appreciate the cold, damp weather, when they can smell their prey better and keep going all day without overheating.
The same could be said of the Democratic race. Joe Lieberman, badly winged, has already been picked off, and some of the other candidates will be reconsidering the future of their costly campaigns after tomorrow's judgement here and in Virginia.
Doug Kraemer, who comes to shoot on the preserve every weekend he can, provides a hint as to why this complex, largely irrational and idiosyncratic primary system still works. He admits to getting sick of the taste of quail at this time of year, especially with the risk of cracking a tooth on a piece of shot.
As for his political tastes, he is undecided on whether Mr Bush deserves another four years: exactly the kind of floating-voter the Democrats need to win over in swing states such as Tennessee come November.
"With the Democrats, I like to see the eventual candidate being put through a rigorous trial. It's good for the character. I can see which one really has integrity, before I decide whether they have enough of what it takes to beat the president, " Mr Kraemer says.
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Democrats go fishing for the hunting vote
1 de tekst komt van www.guardian.co.uk
2 De tekst is geschreven door Matthew Wells
3 De datum van de tekst is 09-02-2004
4 Ik heb dit artikel gekozen omdat dit weer over de verkiezingen gaat van de VS en dat vind ik interessant.
5 De titel geeft aan dat democraten vissen naar de stemmen van de jagers
6 Deze tekst is geschreven voor mensen die via deze site de krant lezen en dit interessant vinden
7 Samenvatting
Matthew Wells ging op onderzoek naar tenessee naar het politieke klimaat. Hij kwam erachter dat de mensen meer geïnteresseerd zijn in jagen dan in de verkiezingen en dat blijkt wel omdat er 1,3 miljoen vergunningen voor te jagen per jaar worden afgegeven en dat is 4 x zoveel dan als dat er mensen dinsdag gestemd hebben.
8 De schrijver wil met de tekst informatie geven over de verkiezingen in de VS.
9 Om de tekst te kunnen begrijpen heb ik de volgende woorden opgezocht:
Largely = groot
Defiance = uitdagen/ trotseren
Hunting = zoeken/ jagen
Descends = neerkomen
Upon = op
10 De tekst bestaat uit 26 alinea´s.
11 Ik vond nieuw en interessant aan deze tekst omdat het bijzonder is dat mensen liever jagen dan stemmen.
Mening:
Ik vond dit ene minder leuke tekst om te lezen maar ik vond het wel interessant omdat het over de verkiezingen van de VS gaat.
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