If we look at someone, our brain subconsciously categorizes this person because of his/her appearance. That’s why the first impression we get from someone always plays a decisive role, especially at job applications.
It’s quite a common situation to apply for a job, but thousands of people don’t know how to make a good impression.
First your appearance is decisive for the first impression, which’s why your clothes should fit with the working place you apply for. It won’t make a good impression, for example if you apply for a job at a reception and appear in a track suit. Secondly, the impression you convey of your own person is of particular importance. It’s mostly made up of your cleanliness and your self-confidence.
At the same time self-confidence is what makes it difficult for many people to get a job, because embarassingly they don’t know the difference between being self confident and being arrogant! Which’s maybe the reason of watching tv too often. There they're lying, showing off and being aggressive, which may be quite funny to look at. In real life such behaviours aren’t funny in any way and may even cost your job.
The conclusion is: be informed, prepare yourself for every question they may have and show them that you’re the best person for the job. If you stay as naturally as you can and consider all this, I’m sure you’ll easily get your dreamjob! Well begun is half done.
Monday 30 March 2009
Friday 27 February 2009
Thursday 26 February 2009
Staying informed
Whenever there happens something horrible in society, in the most cases especially newspapers report that society is very uninformed because otherwise ‘this or that’ would not have been possible to happen. I personally think that it’s enormously important to inform our self and I also do inform myself with looking the news, reading the newspaper and using the internet (e.g. BBC) daily. But many people (unfortunately especially in my age) don’t know why it is important to inform our self, which is why I want to talk about some examples in my essay. To answer this question (why we should stay informed), there are a lot of examples which I personally subdivided in three main reasons: for society, for yourself and for democracy!
First of all, it’s very important for our self and our basic knowledge, to be and stay informed all the time. Communication is decisive for a “good society” and for integration, which means that everyone needs a certain knowledge to argue and communicate with others on a certain standard. Additionally being informed is an advantage in many subjects in school and can really help you by building and presenting your own opinion.
Therefore it’s secondly very important for our society and of course also for our social aspect that we inform our self. In the newspaper you can find information about all kinds of services our community has and also where you can find organisations that support e.g. poor people. You can also find some letters to the editor which are also good for society because they’ve something to do with your own conscious or subconscious formation of opinion.
Thirdly, maybe the most important reason to inform our self is politics. I think if our society would know more about our past and if they would be generally better informed, it wouldn’t be possible that still right wing extremists parties earn as many votes as they earned at the last selection. Because if society would only know a bit more about our political past, I’m sure they wouldn’t want to have the same crime as we actually had (not long ago!). Politics is material to all of us and society should be able to react or protest against politics all the time, if they try to do something “wrong”. But if we don’t know what’s going on, we’re unable to do anything, which means that we’re totally government-controlled and powerless, which is very dangerous!
The more our society consists out of uninformed people, the more dangerous it is for all of us! It’s so important for a state and our future to stay informed, because otherwise there consists the danger of manipulation, like Hitler actually is the best example for. He and of course also many other powerful people until today wanted and want that “no one is able to think independent”, which was also a basic idea of the African apartheid - an idea powerful enough to destroy the half world!
Finally as you can hopefully see at my examples, being informed should be a “must have” for everyone. Everyone of us should now what’s going around in the world we all live in, because everyone of us is a part of our society, which automatically means that also everyone of us is jointly responsible for our society and therefore how our future is going to look like.
First of all, it’s very important for our self and our basic knowledge, to be and stay informed all the time. Communication is decisive for a “good society” and for integration, which means that everyone needs a certain knowledge to argue and communicate with others on a certain standard. Additionally being informed is an advantage in many subjects in school and can really help you by building and presenting your own opinion.
Therefore it’s secondly very important for our society and of course also for our social aspect that we inform our self. In the newspaper you can find information about all kinds of services our community has and also where you can find organisations that support e.g. poor people. You can also find some letters to the editor which are also good for society because they’ve something to do with your own conscious or subconscious formation of opinion.
Thirdly, maybe the most important reason to inform our self is politics. I think if our society would know more about our past and if they would be generally better informed, it wouldn’t be possible that still right wing extremists parties earn as many votes as they earned at the last selection. Because if society would only know a bit more about our political past, I’m sure they wouldn’t want to have the same crime as we actually had (not long ago!). Politics is material to all of us and society should be able to react or protest against politics all the time, if they try to do something “wrong”. But if we don’t know what’s going on, we’re unable to do anything, which means that we’re totally government-controlled and powerless, which is very dangerous!
The more our society consists out of uninformed people, the more dangerous it is for all of us! It’s so important for a state and our future to stay informed, because otherwise there consists the danger of manipulation, like Hitler actually is the best example for. He and of course also many other powerful people until today wanted and want that “no one is able to think independent”, which was also a basic idea of the African apartheid - an idea powerful enough to destroy the half world!
Finally as you can hopefully see at my examples, being informed should be a “must have” for everyone. Everyone of us should now what’s going around in the world we all live in, because everyone of us is a part of our society, which automatically means that also everyone of us is jointly responsible for our society and therefore how our future is going to look like.
Monday 23 February 2009
The Aids rate
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It’s quite scary to note that there’s an almost dramatic explosion of the Aids rate after 1985.
Before the year 1985 there Aids honestly wasn’t existing and the rate was quite zero.
From 1989 until today we can notice a permanent and dramatically upward trend of the Aids rate.
Between the years 1997 and 1998 there was a change and the rising of the Aids rate wasn’t as dramatically as it was in the years before!
It’s quite horrible to not that the Aids rate increases since 1980 until today.
It’s quite scary to note that there’s an almost dramatic explosion of the Aids rate after 1985.
Before the year 1985 there Aids honestly wasn’t existing and the rate was quite zero.
From 1989 until today we can notice a permanent and dramatically upward trend of the Aids rate.
Between the years 1997 and 1998 there was a change and the rising of the Aids rate wasn’t as dramatically as it was in the years before!
It’s quite horrible to not that the Aids rate increases since 1980 until today.
Monday 2 February 2009
application
Anja Kern
Blumenstraße 33
7777 Köln
February 1st, 2008
Blumenstraße 33
7777 Köln
Mr. George Derby
XYZ Company
87 Delaware Road
Hatfield, CA 08065
(909) 555-5555
XYZ Company
87 Delaware Road
Hatfield, CA 08065
(909) 555-5555
February 1st, 2008
Dear Mr. Derby,
Application for the conservator position
I'm writing in reply to your advertisement in the New York Times. As request I'm enclosing a completed job application, my certification, my resume and two references. The opportunity presented in this listing is very interesting and I think my abilities meet your claims. It's one of my hobbys to restore old things, from paintings to bildings and until now I've already got a quite worth seeing collection of building plans. After I findished the study of preserve & restore I have been working for two years for a furniture designer, where I completed my practical training period. In addition I made good experiences with joiners work an I'm quite good at drawing, painting and planing. It's the idea of making old things new that fascinates me at being a conservator.
I believe that my strong experience in many areas and my education will make me a very competitive candidate for this position.
Please see me resume for additional infromation on my experience.
I would welcome the opportunity to discuss my application with you.
Sincerely yours,
Anja Kern
Encl.: CV, References, resume
Wednesday 31 December 2008
" The struggle for beauty" (Task A of the exam)
Today we live in a world that strives for perfection. People have cosmetic surgery from toes to noses, all in the name of beauty. It seemes that society's so obsessed with what they want to be that they're not interessted in what they are. My personal thoughts on this topic are quite different. I'm not for plactic surgery but I'm also not against it. Let me explain some advantages and some disadvantages to you, before I reach my decision.
This topic is of course a mixed bag of positive and negative aspects. Let's look at the arguments of the advocates of plastic surgerys first. They say that we're living in a free country and so everyone should be allowed to do with his/her body whatever he/she wants, which is quite true I think. They also argue by saying that we should be thankful to have all those possibilities - so why shouldn't we use them? When you're disfigured because of an accident you've got the possibility to get (or nearly get) your look before back. When you're inborn with something (e.g. hair lent) you could have a more normal life after a surgery. And when you're ill (e.g. breast cancer) they're able to rebuilt parts of your body. Therefore making use of any of this means may help you to get rid of mental or psychical problems. Many people who had such operations say that they got the feeling of being accepted and integrated now, which also means that they've more self-confidence now! All those options make it easier for lots of people to live a "normal" life.
But as can be expected there are also people who see this differentely.
What is the real price we have to pay for keeping or achieving this beauty? In fact these "new" possibilities changed our opinion of what we find beautiful. Our society changed and we forget that having a nice charismatic personality and a healthy dose of self-esteem is really beautiful. In addition lots and lots of dentists do a botched job. Which means that you've got a body full of scars and that the people who had a plastic surgery do often look much worse than before! The new possibilities also lead to psychical problems. More and more people feeling to fat also they look quite healthy and normal. It's a body distortion and exactly this wrong opinion leads to anorexica and bulimia.
To sum up I personally think that a plastic surgery is a good option when you're disfigured in course of an accident, when you're inborn with something or when you're ill but not, if someone want's to look like Da Vincis Mona Lisa or someone else. Then i find the result always worse than before because it costs the persons personality, which is the basis of a character.
If we go on like this, we'll have a soiety with a completely wrong sight of what is beautiful. In a world where everything can be modified for the sake of pefection, it's going to be impossible to see the real face of a person, because NOTHING seems real anymore.
This topic is of course a mixed bag of positive and negative aspects. Let's look at the arguments of the advocates of plastic surgerys first. They say that we're living in a free country and so everyone should be allowed to do with his/her body whatever he/she wants, which is quite true I think. They also argue by saying that we should be thankful to have all those possibilities - so why shouldn't we use them? When you're disfigured because of an accident you've got the possibility to get (or nearly get) your look before back. When you're inborn with something (e.g. hair lent) you could have a more normal life after a surgery. And when you're ill (e.g. breast cancer) they're able to rebuilt parts of your body. Therefore making use of any of this means may help you to get rid of mental or psychical problems. Many people who had such operations say that they got the feeling of being accepted and integrated now, which also means that they've more self-confidence now! All those options make it easier for lots of people to live a "normal" life.
But as can be expected there are also people who see this differentely.
What is the real price we have to pay for keeping or achieving this beauty? In fact these "new" possibilities changed our opinion of what we find beautiful. Our society changed and we forget that having a nice charismatic personality and a healthy dose of self-esteem is really beautiful. In addition lots and lots of dentists do a botched job. Which means that you've got a body full of scars and that the people who had a plastic surgery do often look much worse than before! The new possibilities also lead to psychical problems. More and more people feeling to fat also they look quite healthy and normal. It's a body distortion and exactly this wrong opinion leads to anorexica and bulimia.
To sum up I personally think that a plastic surgery is a good option when you're disfigured in course of an accident, when you're inborn with something or when you're ill but not, if someone want's to look like Da Vincis Mona Lisa or someone else. Then i find the result always worse than before because it costs the persons personality, which is the basis of a character.
If we go on like this, we'll have a soiety with a completely wrong sight of what is beautiful. In a world where everything can be modified for the sake of pefection, it's going to be impossible to see the real face of a person, because NOTHING seems real anymore.
Thursday 25 December 2008
My own idea of a perfect family (exam correction - Task B)
Nowadays there exist many different kinds of families. But in most cases you’re not able to choose, in which family you would like to live. The different kinds of families are a mixed bag of positive and negative aspects but which type is the best to live in? I personally think of the traditional family, the nuclear family, consisting of a male breadwinner, a female homemaker and in most cases 2.2 children.
From this perspective the family that is presented in ‘Virgins’ seems to be ideal, but only at first sight. The roles they play in their family are exactly the opposite of what I presented of a nuclear family. But this family shows some positive aspects of a nuclear family, other kinds of families may not offer. For example the advantage of their children to have both sides, their father and their mother, to discuss with, which is quite good, because I personally think that you normally need both sides. Primarily Jack shows how important it is to have siblings. He doesn’t get along with his father all the more his sister plays a important role in his life. She’s someone he can ask for advice and support which is the reason why he trusts her and is very thankful to have her (more often than not).
I think roles in a family are quite important. In the play Suzy’s the provider and Nick cares for the children and is in charge of the household. It hasn’t to be exactly like in this family, I think it’s only important that there exist some roles and a certain kind of structure which automatically leads to respect, which is very important. And that’s also what I miss a bit in a single parent household. There the single parent has to be breadwinner, provider and the one who calls the shots at the same time. That means that a single parent is often too busy and has no time for the children anymore. Then you may have the same problem, as the family in the play has: no one has time to listen and speak to each other – as a result also no one understands the other one! Therefore I think it’s much better when the work is split and when the parents both have equal rights in a family, because otherwise it may seem to live in a dictatorship, where also only one person calls the shots!
The role children play in a family is very, very, very important and it’s the main reason why I think that a nuclear family is normally the best! In my own experience I know that in the end it’s positive for a child to grow up with brothers and sisters. I already mentioned that in the play Jack shows how important his sister is for him and how important it is to have her as a father figure. In my opinion you need someone you can ask for advice and support. That’s so important!
In my essay I tried to show that it’s the feeling of being part of a community which a nuclear family (normally) offers you. And that it’s important to have both a common history and a kind of father figure. In my opinion it’s easier to achieve these points in a nuclear or extended family, which is the reason why I personally support this type although I unfortunately don’t live in such a kind of family.
From this perspective the family that is presented in ‘Virgins’ seems to be ideal, but only at first sight. The roles they play in their family are exactly the opposite of what I presented of a nuclear family. But this family shows some positive aspects of a nuclear family, other kinds of families may not offer. For example the advantage of their children to have both sides, their father and their mother, to discuss with, which is quite good, because I personally think that you normally need both sides. Primarily Jack shows how important it is to have siblings. He doesn’t get along with his father all the more his sister plays a important role in his life. She’s someone he can ask for advice and support which is the reason why he trusts her and is very thankful to have her (more often than not).
I think roles in a family are quite important. In the play Suzy’s the provider and Nick cares for the children and is in charge of the household. It hasn’t to be exactly like in this family, I think it’s only important that there exist some roles and a certain kind of structure which automatically leads to respect, which is very important. And that’s also what I miss a bit in a single parent household. There the single parent has to be breadwinner, provider and the one who calls the shots at the same time. That means that a single parent is often too busy and has no time for the children anymore. Then you may have the same problem, as the family in the play has: no one has time to listen and speak to each other – as a result also no one understands the other one! Therefore I think it’s much better when the work is split and when the parents both have equal rights in a family, because otherwise it may seem to live in a dictatorship, where also only one person calls the shots!
The role children play in a family is very, very, very important and it’s the main reason why I think that a nuclear family is normally the best! In my own experience I know that in the end it’s positive for a child to grow up with brothers and sisters. I already mentioned that in the play Jack shows how important his sister is for him and how important it is to have her as a father figure. In my opinion you need someone you can ask for advice and support. That’s so important!
In my essay I tried to show that it’s the feeling of being part of a community which a nuclear family (normally) offers you. And that it’s important to have both a common history and a kind of father figure. In my opinion it’s easier to achieve these points in a nuclear or extended family, which is the reason why I personally support this type although I unfortunately don’t live in such a kind of family.
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