ENGLISCH-ABITURTHEMEN 2015:"Challenges & Choises in an insecure world." - USA

1. Graham Waters
   1. Ria
   2. G's & P's mother
2. Peter (Waters)
3. Anthony
4. Farhad
   1. Dorri
5. Daniel
   1. Lara
6. Cameron Thayer
   1. Christine Thayer
7. John Ryan
   1. ill father
   2. Shaniqua Johnson
8. Tom Hanson
9. Rick Cabot
   1. Jean Cabot
      1. housekeeper Maria

1. insecurity
2. violence
   1. anger
   2. bad conciense
3. despair
4. protection
   1. family ties
5. frustration
6. isolation
7. racism
   1. prejudices
8. identity
9. faith/belief
10. power
    1. abuse of power

Annotations:

• summary:"LA citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interwearing stories of race, loss and redemption." - nominated for 6 Oscars/Academy Awards - won 3 -> Best Picture -> Best Original Screenplay -> Best Film Editing (process of selecting takes & assembling/arranging/joining them together) -Rodney King (1991/1992) a black man, who was brutally beaten by 4 LA police officers (3 whites + 1 latino). Later the officers were acquitted. -> riots for 6 days: 55 killed + over 2.000 injured

1. Lily Casy (Smith)
   1. 1rst husband Ted Conover
      1. family + wife
   2. best friend Minnie (+)
   3. 2nd husband James "Jim" Smith
      1. daugther Rosemary
         1. husband Rex Walls
         2. daugther Jeanette
         3. lamb "
         4. "boyfriend" Fidel Hanna
      2. son "Little Jim"
         1. wife Diane
   4. friend Rooster
   5. horse "Patches"
2. family
   1. mother (+)
   2. father (+)
   3. younger sister Helen (+)
   4. younger brother Buster
      1. wife Dorothy
         1. family
   5. Lupe
3. Pricilla
4. Mother Albertina
5. Miss Pearl & Marion Finch
6. deputy Johnson
   1. Johnny Johnson
7. mormon community

1. education
2. the West
   1. economy
      1. "NEW DEAL"
   2. the enviroment
   3. history
      1. GREAT DEPRESSION
      2. HIRIOSHIMA
      3. PROHIBITION
3. the "AMERICAN DREAM"
   1. mobility/transportation
      1. Henry Ford
   2. gun-culture
      1. gun-control
   3. big cities
   4. HOLLYWOOD
      1. film industry
4. immigration
5. justice
6. gender roles
   1. emancipation
      1. Amelia Earheart
      2. Elenor Roosevelt
   2. equality
7. crime
8. religion
   1. freedom of religion