Glass Ceiling

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am Gregor Barth and I go to school in the business high school at Perg in Upper Austria. Yesterday I was reading an article in the online edition of BBC News and the headline was “Female Managers say glass ceiling intact”.

Basically, what it talks about is that it is harder for women to climb higher rated positions than men. The Institute of Leadership and Management conducted a survey, which shows that 75% of women still face barriers to top level promotion. So, it was confirmed that the glass ceiling still exists.

It also says that the government of the UK is willing to set a two-year time frame for the companies. Thereby they want to achieve, that the number of women on their boards increases.

What shocked me most was that only 12 out of 100 FTSE directors are female.

In my opinion, women are not as much as disadvantaged as it stands in this article because the aim of every boss of a company is to find the most suitable workers for their company. So, it doesn’t matter if the boss is a man or a woman.

What do you think about the glass ceiling?

Cartoon Analysis

Hi guys,

in our last English lesson we have been talking about cartoons and how to interpret them. Our teacher assigned us to choose a cartoon on our own and to describe it. As you can see above, I chose the cartoon “Global Warming” from A. Winger, because global warming is ever-present. On the cartoon is a man, who spins the earth above a bonfire, which is out of plains, cars, factories and cows. The relationship of the person and the other elements is, that the person made the bonfire and he wants to fry the earth evenly. Furthermore, the man is wearing a suit and looks very dangerous. The smoke, which comes out of the cars, plains etc., seems to be exhaust gases.

Andy Winger tries to make the point that the human, who lives on the earth, are the reason, why the earth is going to warm. He wants the people to remember that the inventions, which were invented by the human, are going to destroy the planet. In addition, he makes the people aware of the danger which arises, when we undertake nothing.

In my opinion this cartoon is very convincing because its message is very clear. So, it is very simple to recognize, what A. Winger wants to say. Global warming concerns everybody of us and if we help to together, we will be able to make the earth a little bit better and stop the global warming.

I hope, I could give you a little analysis of this cartoon. Please, write in the comments, what do you think about the global warming.

http://www.mygeo.info/cartoonview.php?file=globwarm.gif

See you later alligator