Fast Fact: Jimmy Carter championed human rights throughout the world. Biography: Jimmy Carter aspired to make Government "competent and compassionate," responsive to the American people and their expectations. His achievements were notable, but in an era of rising energy costs, mounting inflation, and continuing tensions, it was impossible for his administration to meet these high expectations. Carter, who has rarely used his full name--James Earl Carter, Jr.--was born October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia. Peanut farming, talk of polit
“Lincoln International Airport is hit by a violent snowstorm and a plane gets stuck on the main runway. As staff struggle to keep the airport open their personal relationships cause more problems. To make matters worse, a man arrives at the airport determined to blow up a plane. The drama unfolds as the storm reaches its peak.” Would you resist?
A novel AIRPORT, written by Arthur Hailey in sixties of 20th century, is one of his best-known and best-seller works. It was not his first one from aviation environment; also televisio
Fashion is an important thing in the modern society. Thinking about profession like model or bussinesman it can even decide about one`s succes in a carrieer– for example a lawyer with messy hair and dirty tie does not look like the one to be trusted. Fashion first became important in the Ancient cultures. The first methods of improving the image to the likings were made up in those days .Those have been advanced during the centuries to the present state. Some of then use the fact about our eye – it is easily fooled. So if we have a wee bit
1891 – Kinetograph designed and patented by T. A. Edison and W.K. Dickson 1893 – Kinetoscope designed by Dickson shown in public ( a box with a peephole to show images after inserting a coin....didn´t have much success) 1895 – pictures projected to the audience for the first time in Paris with a Cinematograph made by Lumiere brothers. First films showed one scene which took about a minute. 1898 – Robert Paul´s company used cut to longer the film. 1901 – developement of new techniques G.A. Sm
Mary Stuart was born at Linlithgow Palace on 7th December 1542, the daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise. Six days after her birth her father died, and she became Queen of Scotland. From her infancy, Scotland's rival pro-English and pro-French factions plotted to gain control of Mary. Her French mother was chosen as regent, and she sent Mary to France in 1548. Mary lived as part of the French royal family. In April 1558 she married the Dauphin Francis; she secretly agreed to bequeath Scotland to France if she should die withou
As "the only unusual incident" of her girlhood, "Nellie" Herron Taft recalled her visit to the White House at 17 as the guest of President and Mrs. Hayes, intimate friends of her parents. Fourth child of Harriet Collins and John W. Herron, born in 1861, she had grown up in Cincinnati, Ohio, attending a private school in the city and studying music with enthusiasm. The year after this notable visit she met "that adorable Will Taft," a tall young lawyer, at a sledding party. They found intellectual interests in commo
In the US, the most popular sports are : baseball, basketball, American football and ice-hockey. Baseball is played by two teams which play on the grass field. It is played with small ball. Basketball in played in sports hall. It is played with ball which is bigger than football. In one team play 5 players. There are two teams necessary to play the game. Half time takes 30 minutes. It is very favourite sport because about 20 000 spectators cheer for their team in the hall. Ice-hockey is famous too. There is the most famous
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Actress. Born Norma Jean Mortenson, on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles. For most of her childhood and teen years she was in foster homes or an orphanage because her father abandoned her, while her mother, Gladys Monroe Baker, had to work and then was in a mental hospital. (Norma Jean grew up using her mother's last name, Baker, and at age 16 discovered that her father was probably not Mortenson.) In 1942 she married James Dougherty, an aircraft factory worker, and when he went to sea in the merchant marine she took a job in a target airplane
Singer, born in Paris. Abandoned by her mother at birth and raised by her grandmother, she was blinded for four years by meningitis, and it was her father, an acrobat, who encouraged her to sing. She started her career by singing in the streets, graduating to cabaret, and becoming known as Piaf, from the Parisian slang for "sparrow'. She appeared in plays and films, but it was for her songs, with their undercurrent of sadness and nostalgia, that she became legendary, travelling widely in Europe and America. Despite her phenomenal succ
Book: An American Tragedy Type of book: Novel Name of author: Theodore Dreiser Number of pages: 80 Description of main characters:
Clyde Griffith: He is the main character of the book. Clyde is a typical American boy from a very poor family who is able to do almost everything to become a part of the rich and wealthy society. He is prepared to betray his feelings to a working poor girl Roberta who is expecting his baby.
The family members of Clyde: Father: Seems to be s
Why is there so much fuss (rozruch) about the millennium? It must be in the magic of the number itself. People seem (zdát se) to like „round figures“ (kulaté cifry) and „round anniversaries“ (kulatá výročí) which they consider (považují) to be certain (jisté) milestones (milníky) in lives or in history of mankind (lidstvo).
However (jakoli), next year will be 2000 only according (podle) to the Gregorian calendar; the Jews (židé), for example are now in 5760 and the Islamic era started when the Christian world w
(presentation) Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. First, let me introduce myself. My name is Peter Micenko and I’m student of The Department of Power Engineering at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of Technical University in Košice. I’m going to talk today about nuclear power plants and their signification in the world. I would like to divide my presentation into three parts. Firstly, I`ll talk about how we produce electricity and what is its effect on environment. Secondly, I`ll define why are the nuclear power st
Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953), Soviet Communist leader, the longtime ruler who more than any other individual moulded the features that characterized the Soviet regime and shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe; in this regard, Stalin may be considered the most powerful person to live during the 20th century.
Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, as he was originally named-he adopted the pseudonym Stalin, meaning "a man of steel", around 1910-was born on December 21, 1879, in Gori, now in the Republic of Georgia. Bot
Fast Fact: Franklin D. Roosevelt led the Nation through the Great Depression and World War II. Biography: Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York--now a national historic site--he attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. On St. Patrick
The "elliptic salon", with the Yellow Oval Room above and the Diplomatic Reception Room below it, formed the most elegant architectural feature of Hoban's plans for the White House. The Blue Room has always been used as a reception room except for a brief period during the administration of John Adams when it served as the south entrance hall. During the Madison Administration, architect Benjamin Latrobe designed a suite of classical-revival furniture for the room, but only some working drawings remain; the furnishings were destr
Film maker and writer, born in Co Sligo, Ireland. He studied at University College, Dublin, and helped form the Irish Writers Co-operative (1974). His first collection of stories, Night in Tunisia (1976), was followed by the acclaimed novels The Past (1980) and The Dreams of the Beast (1983). He worked as a script consultant on Excalibur (1981), made his directorial debut with the thriller Angel (1982), and has boldly emphasized the fairy-tale and fantasy elements of such challenging works as The Company of Wolves (1984) and Mona Lisa (1986). H
- is a representan of american prose that worked at the beginning of our century. He wrote under influence of hopeful socializm of Marx on the one hand and the rather darker views of Nietze and Darwinism on the other. That is, London believed at the same time in the necessary triumph of the working class and in the evoluntary necessity of the survival of the strongest individuals. The contradiction between these competing beliefs is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel MARTIN EDEN. It is a central document for the Londo
II. TÉZA PRÁCE The man was lonely and not interesting for ordinary people although he was a person of much better behaviour than others.
III. CIEĽ PRÁCE I will try to describe the main characters, analyze their actions and behaviour and find and explain hidden ideas and messages for the reader. I will try to find some parts of the story, with which I do not agree or agree, and I will try to explain why. IV. OBSAH The story is about a man
The temporal bone and the ear The pinna or auricle is the most external portion of the ear. Itcommunicats via the external auditory canal to the middle ear. The middle ear contains the tympanic membrane, the middle ear bones, a muscle, and ligaments which are not shown in this diagram. The internal cochlea (auditory portion ) as well as the labyrinth (for balance and equilibrium) constitutes the entire inner ear . Resonant Chamber The bones of the middle ear form a suspension bridge-like structure between the tympanic membr