LONDON London is a capital city of Great Britain, located in sutheastern England on the river Thames. It is one of the World´s most important financial and cultural centers. Central London is divided intro three main areas: The first is the city, the second is the Westminster and the third is the West End. THE CITY is the oldest part of the city with the Tower on the north bank of the Thames, Tower Bridge and st. Paul´s Cathedral. The well – known Trafalgar square is also located here. WESTMINSTER, with the Royal Palaces, Goverment o
(1711–76). A Scottish philosopher and historian, David Hume was a founder of the skeptical, or agnostic, school of philosophy. He had a profound influence on European intellectual life. David Hume was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on April 26 (Old Style), 1711. His father, Joseph Hume (or Home), and his mother, Katherine Falconer, had grown up together as stepbrother and stepsister on the family estate of Ninewells in Berwickshire. Under the system of primogeniture Hume's older brother was heir to the estate. Dav
Clothes and fashion have always been important for people. It’s not only a way of dressing but also a big business. Fashion designers, models, managers, dress-makers try to make big money with fashion. Today the fashion is changing faster than before. New trends, new styles, new materials come in. The fashion can’t be dated back because there can’t be right date when it came to existence. It’s clearly that first men wore nothing. Practically they were naked but later when they felt a need of wearing something, they
Many documents have been shot, many books written and many words said about the phenomenon of the beat generation. What are the main causes of adoring the beat generation all around the world by people of all races and nationalities? Does the name correspond to the main idea of the movement? Are their ideas valid 50 years later? Is it possible to live like they did?
The beat generation was undoubtedly one of the most significant literary movements of the last century. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Cor
Born in Edinburgh in 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson was the son of a prosperous civil engineer. His father had plans for Stevenson to follow his profession but his son's ill health and weak disposition meant that an alternative career had to be decided upon. Choosing law as a compromise, Stevenson attended Edinburgh University to study for the court, but his growing disillusion with the Presbyterian life of his parent's class led to frequent clashes. He became distanced from his family preferring ins
The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. There are many books written in English which I consider being worthy to compose an essay about and thus it is quite difficult to pick just one. Lots of these have left a great impression on me and I have had a notion of reading them once more. But
George Orwell was born as Eric Blair in 1903 in the Indian village Motihari. At that time India was a part of the British Empire, and Blair’s father Richard, held a post as an agent in the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service. The Blairs led a relatively privileged and fairly pleasant life, in helping to administer the Empire, although they were not very wealthy. They owned no property, had no extensive investments; they were like many middle-class English families of the time, totally dependent on the Brit
After twelve hours spent in the airplane with overlanding in NewYork, you’re landing at Ft. Lauderdale International Airport. Ft. Lauderdale is located in Florida, approximately 30 miles North from Miami. When you see Fort Lauderdale from airplane, you realize that the city is built on the water. That’s why many people call it American Venice. There live about 1.2 million inhabitants in Ft. Lauderdale. You can find there vocation houses of many rich people such as president o
The general definition of a proper noun is that it belongs to a grammatically distinct class of nouns which characteristically function as the head of noun phrases serving as proper names. A prototypical proper name is the institutionalized name of some specific person, place, organization, etc. – institutionalized by some formal act of naming and/or registration. It is necessary to distinguish between proper nouns and proper names for two reasons:
a) Although a proper name may have the form of a prop
When we want to talk about American studies we must first say what does this term mean. American studies is a subject which is dealing with America, of course. But what consists it from? There are several parts, and we must know something about each of them when we want to describe this studies. So let´s name them. These parts are: history, philosophy, business, science, technology, way of life, system of values, geography, national characteristics, system of government. So we begin with history, especially with American history. This history
First chapter – Early American and colonial period to 1776.
American literature begins with the orally transmitted myths, legends, tales, and lyrics of Indian cultures. The closest equivalents to Old World spiritual narratives are often accounts of shamans´ initiations and voyages. Apart from these, there are stories about culture heroes such as the Ojibwa tribe´s Manabozho or the Navajo tribe´s Coyote. Examples of almost every oral genre can be found in American Indian literature: lyrics, chants, myths, fairy tales, humorous
Article Five, clause two of the United States Constitution states, "under the Authority of the United States, [the Constitution] shall be the supreme law of the land." As a result of the fact that the current activist government is pursuing inconsistent policies, many believe the Constitution has become irrelevant because no guiding principles seem to exist. Thomas Jefferson once said, "The Constitution belongs to the living and not to the dead." Accordingly, it is often referred to as a &
Plot: All the thing which happened are only a dream (fiction of the author). The first part of the work is about a man called Christian and his pilgrimage. His journey starts in the City of Destruction and he is travelling to the Celestial City. But this pilgrimage is not only just a trip. Christian red in a book that the City of Destruction, in which he lived with his family, will be destroyed and everybody will be damned. So we can say that he escaped from this city because he wanted to save his soul. On his way he met many other characters.
When you told us to read a book from the period which were we learning about I decided to read a book written by Charles Dickens because his works are not so complicated and are good for reading. You can find out some facts about the life in the 19th century. But Dickens wrote many books. So I decided to read Oliver Twist and I was satisfied. Setting: The main part of the novel take place in London especially in the poorer parts of the town in the 1830s. Theme: I think that it is about honest boy who is in the wrong gang. But after all he is no
Prologue: In the prologue the author is describing how he went on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. By the way he rested in a pub in Southwark and there he met a group of twenty nine people. These are pilgrims too, so the author joined this group. There were: knight, his son, nun Eglantine, another nun, chapel, three priests, friar Hubert, student from Oxford, jurist, landowner, shopper, carpenter, cook, shipsman, doctor, woman from Bath, parson, farmer, reeve, miller, and many others. And later the i
Main characters:  Duncan – the king of Scotland  Malcolm and Donalbain – his sons  Macbeth – Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, later king of Scotland  Lady Macbeth – his wife  Banquo – Thane of Scotland  Fleance – his son  Macduff and Ross – Thanes of Scotland
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The Scotland is in war with Norway. The Thane of Cawdor has been
Main characters:  King of Navarre – is the king and a scholar  Berowne, Langaville, Dumaine – are the three lords, they have joined king in his oath of scholarship  Princess of France – she comes to visit the King  Rosaline, Maria, Catherine – three ladies attending the Princess  Boyet – is the lord who is attending the Princess  Don Armando – is a Spaniard
Tom Cruise is among the upper talent of Hollywood. His films attract people, many of which are fans and number in millions This is the story of a powerful man who started out an average person like you or I and became a superstar. Tom Cruise's real name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, born July 3, 1962. His father was an electrical engineer and monther Mary Ann, was a talented Actress. A school production of "Guys and Dolls" got Tom interested in acting. . He lived his early life in the small town of Syracuse, New York, and in Otta
Forrest Gump is a film, with Tom Hanks and Sally Field in it. Tom Hanks won an Oscar for the film in 1994. In its first eighteen days, the film Forrest Gump earned $100 million in American cinemas – more than any other film that Paramount Pictures has made before. It´s a wonderful warm and funny story about a good-hearted young man from Alabama, who wins a medal for being brave in Vietnam War and who meets the President of the USA. Forrest Gump is an unusual man who does a lot of unusual things – he is a footbal
. . . . . my work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof. Antony van Leeuwenhoek. Letter of June 12, 1716
Antony van Leeuwenhoek was an unlikely scientist. A tradesman of Delft, Holland, he came from a