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N. Shute: On the beach - summary

Summary : On the beach is a story about the darkness of the nuclaear age . There is Peter Holmes , his wife Mary and thier daughter Jennifer . The all try to live thier life as normal . Peter works for the Australian Navy. They are friends with Moira Davidson, a young woman who seems bent on drinking herself into oblivion. An American submarine scorpion pulls into the nearest port, captained by Dwight Towers. Peter is asked to go on an exploratory cruise with the Americans, along with the other main character, John Osborne, a scientist. They we

What is better to watch a film or to read a book?

Books and films. What is better to watch films or to read books? It is a very relative question. However, I thing that reading books is much better. And why? There are many reasons, why it is so. The first reason is, that when you read a book you can imagine all characters, situations, country and a lot of things around. You can see it how you want to see it rather than someone else makes you to see it. Your imagination is not limited. And when you watch film, you have to look at it and it is all you can do, no imagination.

I thin

Angeline Jolie

Angelina Jolie came from a very popular family. Her full name was Angelina Jolie Voight. She was born on 4 June 1975 in Los Angeles. Her father was a film actor Jon Voight and mother was mannequin Marchel Bertrand. She had got a brother called James. Her parents separated when she was a baby. When she was young, she wanted to be a sexton.When she was 7, she recorded the first movie with her father. In 1986 she started Lee Stratsberg Theater Institut.

In 16 years she worked as a mannequin. She appeared in music clip. In short time

Non-formal letter

Hello Michelle,

Thank you for your last letter. I was very happy when I received it. You wanted me to describe a party so here it goes.

Last weekend, my best friend Lucy had the party. She was sixteen at that time. The birthday party was in a pub in London called Real. It started at 6 p.m. on Saturday and finished at about 8 p.m. in the evening.

Ten people were invited by Lucy and only nine teenagers turned up. Nobody was wearing formal clothes or skirts, but everybody was wearing jeans and modern T-shi

Internet

Internet has become the most important source of information. Nowadays many people started using of Internet for its informational character that gives you an opportunity to find the information you need. There are millions of information that creates society. Nowadays internet gives you the opportunity for quicker sending of information as e-mails, chat, ICQ, it opens the door as information source for not highly developed in case of education gives work to millions of people, supports advertisement of companies, gives chance to handicapped to

About Bratislava

Today Bratislava has 470 000 inhabitants.
The pearl on the Danube is called our capital - Bratislava. It's a beautiful city situated in the south-west part of Slovakia. In the past it was an important junction of the main trades and nowadays it's a gate to Slovakia from Austria and Hungary. Bratislava is situated among the warmest places in Slovakia -in the Danube lowland. It offers a lot of oportunities how to use your free time.

The history of the city is very rich. The first settlers - Celts from Boi were in th

Angličtina: Irregular Verbs

awake awoke awaked/awoken zobudiť sa
be was/were been byť
beat beat beaten biť
become became become stať sa
begin began begun začať
bend bent bent ohnúť
bet bet/betted bet/betted staviť sa
bite bit bitten hrýzť
blow blew blown duť
break broke broken lámať
bring brought brought priniesť
build built built stavať
burn burnt burnt páliť
burst burst burst puknúť
buy bought bought kúpiť
catch caught caught chytať
choo

Health

We can compare human body to a difficult machine, which has a lot of parts. Each part of the machine has its function and it is the same, when we think about human body. We can move by legs and by feet, think by brain, make thinks with hands...

But our body consists not only of head, trunk, limb, but of internal organs too. They have the most important function in our body, e.g : heart transport blood, kidneys clean the blood, liver transforms chemicals in our body...If these organs work like they should, we will be health


USA

USA

The USA extends[1] on more than one third of North American continent, being the fourth largest country of the world. It borders Canada and Russia in the North and Mexico in the South. The total area of the US is over 9 million square kilometres and it is home of more than 240 million people mostly of European origin and also of Afro-American, American Indian, Japanese, Chinese and other origin. The official language is American English and the second most widespread language is Spanish. The continental part of the US consists

Festivals

Festivals are also called Public holidays and in Great Britain than Bank Holidays. All the banks, offices, shools, shops and factories are closed these days. They are the following days: Good Friday and Easter Monday(Easter holidays), Whit Monday(seven days after Easter), Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Easter is spring festival, it is in March or April usually. I like this festival, becouse it´s sunny and flowers and green are grow. We usually tidy and decorates every year our flat before Easter. There are many decorations in our

Does eating and drinking cut our life expectancy?

Eating and drinking, in general, belong among the most essential human needs. They give us energy, strength, vitamins for our body, and even a good feeling when we have something tasty and delicious on our plate.
Food influences our lives in many ways. As it is one of the most necessary needs, the human would not be able to live without it. We need and have to consume food every day, otherwise it could negatively influence our health. On the other hand, it should not be satiation. It is generally known that consusming is the healthiest i

Violence

Although our society is fighting against all the means of violence, television companies constantly put more and more children cartoons with heavy violent background into their programs what effects the behavior of children in a negative way.

When E.B.White in 1939 introduced a television for the first time to the public, he probably did not figure out that television would have such an impact on our society. In 1949, only two percent of homes had television. However, today only two percent of homes exist without it. If we would c

Human rights

Human rights

It is difficult for me to write about discrimination. I mean racial because I don’t meet with it frequently in spite of it is one of the most pervasive forms of discrimination in the world. I personally don’t have any prejudice against Gypsies or better Romanies. But the fact is that we are the 1st from European countries in quantity of Gypsies on count of original inhabitants. The more I think about it, occurs me several cases of discrimination from my surroundings. Not only racial, but also sex discrimination. <

Australia: Sydney

Sydney (Australia), first permanent European settlement in Australia and today the country’s largest metropolitan area, with about 4 million residents. Sydney is the seat of state government as the capital of New South Wales (NSW), Australia’s most populous and economically important state. The city is a dynamic cultural center with a diversified economy focused on service industries, tourism, manufacturing, and international commerce. Its port is one of the leading centers of intercontinental trade in the Asia-Pacific region. Sydney is loc

Cinema will soon be a thing of the past

I like borrowing a cassette from film exange, but som films are not on the cassette. This is a reason why I like cinema more than watching video at home.
In my opinion, young people prefer cinema to video, because in teh cinema they can meet some friends. However, today are cinemas where you feel like in your living room.

Many people go to the cinema, because of the atmosphere and entertainment. New technology of cinemas enable to acquire impression that spectator is component of story. It is bigger artistic experience than

Description of my school

The building of my school – The Secondary technical school – is situated on an eastern side of Martin, on a hill near Matica slovenska. The school is surrounded by heterogenous vegetation from bushes to spruces.
T
he building itself has a shape of letter H and consists of three main parts. In front of the main part is a big parking place, which is always fully occupied. Wide stairs made of marble, lead the way to school and end near enterance door. Behind them, inside, there is a small enterance hall, from which on the left an

Healthy lifestyle

Good health is a goal toward which many of us strive. After all, we know that, in great measure, our physical well-being determines the quality of our life. But deciding which approach to a healthy lifestyle will best improve or maintain personal health is no easy task. It is virtually impossible to read a newspaper, watch television, listen to the radio, or browse in a bookstore without being bombarded by information from experts and so-called experts on the art of staying healthy. It is no wonder that confusion abounds.

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Tennessee Williams: A streetcar named desire

Short Summary:
The play takes place right after World War II, in New Orleans.
The Kowalski apartment is in a poor but charming neighborhood in the French Quarter. Stella, twenty-five years old and pregnant, lives with her blue collar husband Stanley Kowalski. It is summertime, and the heat is oppressive. Blanche Dubois, Stella's older sister, arrives unexpectedly, carrying all that she owns. Blanch and Stella have a warm reunion, but Blanch has some bad news: Belle Reve, the family mansion, has been lost. Blanche stayed behin

Avril Lavigne

Avril does not want to be a typical teen-pop princess. She is a Canadian who loves rock music. She is real but not ordinary.

Avril started to sing when she was two years old. She sang country music. As a ten-year-old girl she started to sing in a church choir. Only a few years later Avril won a grand prize in a local radio station componetion - a trip to Ottawa where she perfomed a duet with country singer, Shania Twain. It was a big sucess for z thirteen – year – old girl. Later on she also started to write songs and play the

Personal computers

Computer security as a discipline was first studied in the early 1970s, although the issues had influenced the development of many earlier systems such as the Atlas system and Multics. Unfortunately, many of the early seminal papers are often overlooked as developers (and sometimes researchers) rediscover problems and solutions, leading to wasted time and development effort.

We are identifying seminal papers in the field of computer security, synopsizing them, and putting them on a series of CD-ROMs. Each CD-ROM will also contain

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