USA - CHAPTERS FROM HISTORY The Viking tribes were propably the first Europeans who reached American continent in the 10th century but we basicly know nothing about their discoveries. The written record describes Columbus's discovers of America. He thought he reached India and therefore he named the native Americans as Indians. They were living mostly from agriculture, hunting gathering and fishing.
The first English colony Virginia was founded in 1607. The people called it Virginia accordin
CHARLES UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE FACULTY OF ARTS DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES
WHY IS THE BEAT GENERATION STILL ADORED BUT ITS LIFESTYLE IS NOT ACCEPTABLE?
Course name: Academic Writing Name of lecturer: Lewis Crofts Name of student: Eliška Word count: 2051 words Date of submission: 26th May 2002
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 th
He is best remembered as the author of Dracula. He was born in 1847 in Marino Crescent in Clontarf and he died in 1912, he entered Trinity College in autumn 1864 and graduated in the spring of 1870, and became a civil servant in Dublin Castle, a job that he combined with that of drama critic of The Evening Mail. From his interest in theatre sprang his lifelong friendship with the actor Henry Irving. Stoker married Oscar Wilde's former sweetheart Florence Balcombe in
In the Victorian era, called after Queen Victoria, (second half of the 19th century), Britain became the Greatest industrial power, financial power, sea power and the greatest colonial power in the world. The negative features of capitalism began to be depicted (vylíčen) in the works of many authors such as Dickens. Working class demonstrations forced several reforms - for example in education. Charles Dickens best represents the literature of social criticism in the nineteenth century. The figures and situa
An american, romantic writer was born in 1809 in Boston. His parents died when he was very jung. He was adopted but he had problems with his adoptive father. He married 13 years old girl. In 1845 he wrote and published his the most famous poem The Raven. He wrote poetry, prose and drama. After his wife`s death, he felt in to a deep depression and he attempted at suicide and he started drink. In October 1849 he died in Baltimore.
I choose this poem for its unusual character. Heros of this poem are
Frederick Forsyth is an extremely popular British writer. He was born in 1938, and when he left school, he could already speak four foreign languages. From 1956 to 1958 he did his National Service in the Royal Air Force, before becoming a local and then an international news reporter. His work for Reuters from 1961 to 1965 took him to London, Paris and East Berlin, and then he worked for several years as a radio and television reporter for the BBC. When he left the BBC, he went independently to Biafra, in West Africa
Playwright, essayist, and pamphleteer, born in Dublin, Ireland. In 1876 he left office-work in Ireland and moved to London, England. In 1882 he turned to socialism, joined the committee of the Fabian Society, and became known as a journalist, writing music and drama criticism, and publishing critical essays. He began to write plays in 1885, and among his early successes were Arms and the Man (1894), Candida (1897), and The Devil's Disciple (1897). There followed Man and Superman (1905), Major Barbara (1905), The
Stephen King, in full Stephen Edwin King (borned September 21, 1947, Portland, Maine, U.S.), American novelist and short-story writer whose books were credited with reviving the genre of horror fiction in the late 20th century.
King graduated from the University of Maine in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in English. While writing short stories he supported himself by teaching and working as a janitor, among other jobs. His first published novel, Carrie (filmed 1976), about a tormented teenage girl gifted with telekinetic power
Other cities : Sydney (3,6 mil), Melbourne (3,1 mil), Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane (1,1 mil)
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States: New South Wales (Sydney), Victoria (Melbourne), Queensland (Brisbane), South Australia (Adelaide), Western Australia (Perth), Tasmania (Hobart) Territories: Northern Territory (Darwin), Australia Capital Territory (Canberra)
General information. London, the capital of United Kingdom is situated in the southeastern part of England. It covers area of 610 square miles and has some 8, 000, 000 inhabitants. London can be divided into two parts: the City of London (commercial and business center) and the City of Westminster (historical center).
History. Londinium was founded in 44 AD by Romans and made it the capital of province Britannia. After Romans left in 5th century London still kept it s privileged position. Later, after battle at Hastings (10
Environment is the space surrounding places people live in. That means the whole nature of course, towns, our houses and flats and other people, too. When we say "environment" we usually think about destroying it and this is what a part of this theme is going to be about.
Destroying the environment is a result of mankind´s activity. The air pollution is caused by the industry, rivers and soils may be polluted by factories that release their waste waters into river streams.
Prague is the capital city of the Czech Republic, the seat of the President, government and parliament and the political, cultural and economic center of the country. It spreads out on both banks of the river Vltava in the center of Bohemia. It covers area about 500 km2 and it has 1.2 million inhabitants. A legend connects the foundation of Prague with princess Libuše. In the 9th century Prince Bořivoj founded a castle above Vltava and it became the seat of princess. In next centuries Prague came the center of the country. Charles IV.
Most is situated in Northern part of Bohemia. It was found on a fertile land between the Ore mountains and the last hills of Middle mountains in a place, where as long as can be remembered, paths lead along large lake. Yet from that time it bore the name of Most. From the Latin chronicle of canon Kosma, comes the first news, describing the battle at a place Pons in August 1040. Hněvin is a hill dominating the town, which was crowned until half of the 17th century by a gothic castle. This castle was destroyed after the Thirty year war. T
I think that food and eating generally is an important part of life. I am not ashamed (as many people are) because of my love to eating. For me, a good day begins with a good breakfast with many kinds of cheese and salami and with good bread with butter or jam. I like cooking, too, but I can´t cook as well as my mother who cares about our family. Sometimes, my father cooks, but he doesn´t like cooking - and according to it, the meal looks so. I am going to continue. If staying at school, I need to have a very good lunch. Usually I have
The USA are situated in southern part of North America. It has borders with Canada onNorth, Mexico on South and the Confederation of Independent states in Alaska. It covers area of 9 mil. Sq. km. Central plains are bounded by the Rocky mountains and the coastal mountains to the west, the Appalachian mountains to east and alluvial plains around the Gulf of Mexico. The highest mountain in the USA is Mount McKinley in the Alaska range which is 6,194 m high. The longest rivers are the Missisipi and the Missouri. It is the third longes
Till the first half of the 19th century was about conditions of the settlement in the New World. While the romantic movement arose in Europe as the expression of the revolt against political and religious authority, in America romanticism was connected with nationalism. They were proud of the American intellectual tradition which created their republic. Washington Irwig wrote on American topics - the history of New York, essays on American life, a large biography of George Washington. One of his well-known book is The Sketch book. James Fenimor
I think, family is base of the society. Now, I will speak about families in English speaking countries and then about families in Czech republic. So, there is a trend towards smaller families. In the postwar years many Americans families had four or five children, but now many young people think that zero population growth. The marrying age has dropped elsewhere and young people often start a family before they have learned to cook, in the case of student before they get their degrees and begin to earn money. While in this country is usu
Many people have things or activities, which usually do in own free time. Some of them prefer sports activities, some of them like cultural performances, other people prefer reading of interesting books. My hobbies are changed with my age. When I was a little boy, I often played with toys – cars, with lego, train set. After that, I discover sport. And I fell in love with sport. I spent a plenty of hours behind my house, where I played various ball games with my friends or we played street hockey. I did not want go to home, and my mother had t