Abiturprufung an den allgemein bildenden Gymnasien · FOr die Fachlehrerin, den Fachlehrer ... problem (e.g. I. 3 half a million immigrants from 80 countries) • cite a poem to arouse

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Abiturprufung an den allgemein bildenden Gymnasien

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Text:

One hundred years ago today, the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay opened

its doors. From 1910 to 1940, the "EIIis Island of the West" was the gateway into America for more

than half a million immigrants from 80 countries, all seeking the opportunity, freedom and fortune of

the American dream. Among them was a Chinese immigrant who carved the following poem into

5 the barrack walls while detained on Angel Island:

I clasped my hands in parting with my brothers and classmates.

Because of the mouth, I hastened to cross the American ocean.

How was I to know that the western barbarians had lost their hearts and reasons?

With a hundred kinds of oppressive laws, they mistreat us Chinese.

10 We do not know who he was, when he arrived, how long he remained at the immigration station or

whether he was admitted into the United States or sent back to China. What we do know is that his

poem echoed the frustration , anger and despair that many other Chinese detainees on Angel Island

experienced as they suffered through humiliating medical exams, days of intense interrogation and

weeks and sometimes months of confinement.

15 Built to enforce laws that specifically excluded Chinese and other Asian immigrants from the

country, the Angel Island Immigration Station turned away countless newcomers and deported

thousands of U.S. residents who were considered risks to the nation or had entered the country

with fraudulent papers. For those who were denied entry because of race and class-biased

exclusion laws, Angel Island showed America at its worst as a gate-keeping nation.

20 But that wasn't the only Angel Island story. The immigration station was also the first stop for

thousands of Chinese, Japanese, South Asians and Filipinos who were admitted into the country

and made homes here, working as farmhands, small-business owners and laborers. Koreans,

Russians and Mexicans passed through the station and found refuge from political persecution and

revolutionary chaos in their homelands. [ .. . ]

25 Now, on its centennial , it offers a timely lesson as America once again turns its attention to the

debate on immigration reform. Last month, Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez [ ... ] introduced a new

comprehensive immigration reform bill in the House. President Obama has pledged to take up the

issue early this year. The issues are complex and the emotions are high. The country, entrenched ,

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in a global recession and suffering unemployment rates that are the highest they have been in

30 decades, remains divided over possible solutions to our immigration problem.

Many believe that immigration reform is unlikely in this context. We hope that they are wrong. In the

21st century, record numbers of immigrants have come to the country. There are now more than 38

million foreign-born residents in the United States, making up 12.6% of the American population.

We need a functioning immigration system to enhance national security; to expedite the legal flow

35 of people and goods on which our global economy depends; to support America's values as a

compassionate nation of immigrants and refugees. We need, in essence, an immigration policy that

treats every individual with dignity and respect.

Instead, we repeat the darkest side of Angel Island's history. According to the Department of

Homeland Security, more than 32,000 people are held in detention on any given day on

40 immigration-related charges. Many of them are longtime U.S. residents with no ties to terrorist

activities. Yet they are held for months in substandard conditions, often with insufficient food,

clothing and medical care, and little access to legal counsel ; 1 07 people have died in detention

since October 2003. Growing anti-immigrant sentiment is breeding discrimination. Immigration laws

are skewed to favor those with certain skills and backgrounds, while deportees are

45 disproportionately Latino and poor. Our broken immigration system encourages undocumented

immigration, and too many immigrant families are living in the shadows of American society.

America's contradictory relationship to immigration is written on the walls of Angel Island. We

welcome the "huddled masses yearning to be free," but at the same time, we unfairly detain and

deport immigrants based on flawed immigration policies.

50 On this landmark date in our immigration history, we should remember Angel Island's multiracial

history of inclusion and exclusion and recognize that there is no more time to waste. lt's time to fix

immigration and fulfil! America's promise as a nation of immigrants.

Erika Lee and Judy Yung , on the occasion of the Presidential Proclamation "National Angel Island

Day" on January 20, 2010, The Los Angeles Times, January 21 , 2010

(718 words)

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55 Wort- und Sachangaben:

a member of the House of Representatives

here: caught, trapped

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line 26:

line 28:

line44:

Rep.

entrenched

skewed changed or influenced with the result that it is not fair

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I. Comprehension (about 400 words) 15 VP

1. Outline the symbolic meaning of the Angel Island Immigration Station .

2. Summarize the authors' position on immigration reform.

3. Describe the strategies the authors employ to convince the reader of their position.

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11. Analysis (about 250 words)

Choose ONE of the following:

1. Analyze possible causes of exclusion from society. Refer to the text and to the

following two stories: "The Second Hut" and "My Son the Fanatic".

2. Analyze to what degree the cartoon provides an answer to America's 'complex'

(I. 28) immigration problem as discussed in the text.

10VP

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Ill. Composition (about 250 words)

Choose ONE of the following:

1. The collection of short stories has been given various titles, among others:

Caught between Cultures, Echoes of the Empire, One Language - Many Voices.

Discuss which of the titles is the most appropriate.

2. Interpret the photo and relate it to "Shooting an Elephant" and "An Outpost

of Progress".

Bayley-Worthington: Rhino Hunt 1895

3. In 2009, US President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Comment on this decision.

10 VP

Sprache 45 VP

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IV. Translation

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Read the following text. Lines 4- 13 ("And yet lead a nation ... determination to forge peace")

are to be translated. (152 words)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not a president of the United States - at no time in his life did he hold

public office. By his own accounts, he was a man who, like Moses before him, more than once

questioned why he had been chosen for the task of leading a people to freedom.

And yet lead a nation he did. Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds

5 he gave courage to the faint of heart. By dint of vision, and determination, and most of all

faith in the redeeming power of love, he endured the humiliation of arrest, the loneliness of a

prison cell, the constant threats to his life, until he finally inspired a nation to transform

itself, and begin to live up to the meaning of its creed.

Like Moses before him, he would never live to see the Promised Land. But from the

1 0 mountain top, he pointed the way for us - a land no longer torn asunder with racial hatred

and ethnic strife, a land that measured itself by how it treats the least of these, a land in

which strength is defined not simply by the capacity to wage war but by the determination to

forge peace [ ... ]

Barack Obama: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Groundbreaking Ceremony, 2006

Annotations:

line 5: faint of heart- faint-hearted; people lacking strength

line 11: the least of these - here: the least of us

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I. Comprehension:

1.

2.

3.

• Angel Island reflects America's ambivalent approach to immigration:

o its bright side: gateway, opportunity, safe haven

o its dark side: rejection, discrimination, humiliation, confinement, deportation

• Its anniversary should remind America that it ought to learn from the past.

• authors plead for immigration reform because of

o America's long humanitarian tradition

o the high number of immigrants

o the need for clear rules to separate the welcome from the unwanted immigrants and

to put an end to illegal immigration

o undignified (often race-related) treatment of too many immigrants

o national security

• authors are also sceptical: difficult economic situation (i.e. high unemployment rate) and

racism represent obstacles to immigration reform

• authors are aware of the divisive nature of the issue

The authors

• quote impressive figures to make the reader aware of the dimensions of the immigration

problem (e.g. I. 3 half a million immigrants from 80 countries)

• cite a poem to arouse sympathy for immigrants held in detention (11. 6- 9)

• refer to typically American notions to remind readers of their historic and moral obligation to

welcome immigrants (e.g. 1.2 Ellis Island, I. 4 American dream, I. 48 'huddled masses')

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FOr die Fachlehrerin, den Fachlehrer

• repeatedly use the first person plural to involve the reader (11. 34 - 50)

• use appeals to press for immediate action (e.g. I. 34 We need, I. 50 we should, I. 51 no

more time to waste lit's time to fix)

11. Analysis

1.

2.

• Causes mentioned in the text:

o race, class, lack of skills, fear of fraud, fear of terrorism, disease, lack of jobs

o government excludes immigrants for predominantly ethnic reasons

• Causes mentioned in the stories:

o "The Second Hut": poverty, class, lack of civilization, race

-7 one social group (the British/the Afrikaaners) considers itself superior to another

(the Afrikaaners/the natives)

o "My Son the Fanatic": religious fanaticism, rejection of Western life-style

-7 one individual (Aii) chooses to exclude himself from mainstream Western society

• Cartoon:

o line of bulletin boards (recession etc.) instead of border fence

o Mexican immigrant has dropped the idea of entering the US

o border patrol content with decrease in illegal immigrants and reduced cost of

immigration control

o cartoonist's message: recession brings illegal immigration to a virtual halt

• Contradictions cartoon -text

o US undesirable destination vs. US favoured destination

o immigration problem solves itself vs. immigration reform is necessary

• Text more comprehensive than cartoon:

o problems of political refugees, human rights violations, immigrants already living in

the US, national security, shadow economy, anti-immigrant sentiments not

addressed in cartoon

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FOr die Fachlehrerin, den Fachlehrer

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+ cartoon depicts a temporary solution at best (current economic situation), but not

a viable one

IV. Translation

Aber genau das tat er- eine Nation fOhren. Durch Worte verlieh er den Stimmlosen eine Stimme.

Durch Taten machte er den Zaghaften Mut. Durch seinen Weitblick und seine Entschlossenheit und

am allermeisten durch seinen Glauben an die erlosende Kraft der Liebe ertrug er die DemOtigung

der Festnahme, die Einsamkeit einer Gefangniszelle, die fortwahrenden Bedrohungen fOr sein Le

ben, bis er schlieBiich eine Nation dazu inspirierte, sich zu verandern und dam it zu beginnen, ihren

Grundsatzen entsprechend zu leben.

Wie Moses vor ihm sollte er das Gelobte Land nie erleben. Aber von der Bergspitze wies er uns

den Weg - in ein Land, das nicht !anger zerrissen ist durch Rassenhass und Zwietracht unter den

ethnischen Gruppen, ein Land, das sich selbst daran misst, wie es die Geringsten unter uns be

handelt, ein Land, in dem Starke nicht einfach durch die Fahigkeit, Krieg zu fOhren, definiert wird,

sondern durch die Entschlossenheit, Frieden zu schlieBen [ ... ].

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