General information: Population: 31,902,268 Capital: Ottawa Other towns: Montreal, Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec, Edmonton, Winnipeg Currency: Canadian dollar = 100 cents Head of state: Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952), represented by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson (since 7 October 1999) Head of government: Prime Minister Jean Chretien (since 4 November 1993) GDP: $ 27,700
Geography: · It is the second largest country in the world (after Russia).
Canada is the second largest country in the world and a country with very high living standards. It lies in the north of the North American Continent and it stretches from the Pacific coast in the west to the Atlantic coast in the east. In the north it is washed by the cold Artic Ocean and in the south it borders with the USA. In the north-west Canada borders with Alaska. The boundary with the US is partly formed by the region of The Great Lakes and partly by the 49th parallel. The largest island on the west coast is Newfou
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. After serving in Europe during the Second World War, he specialised in anthropology at the University of Chicago before becoming a full-time writer. Author of more than fifteen published novels, Vonnegut is perhaps best described as a social satirist. A writer of almost prophetic vision, his work not only covers a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, but also often mixes genres within the same book. His amazing versatility and imaginativ
For many people in our country food, eating, sometimes also cooking, is downright pleasure. There are some people who eat just once a day – they have one continuous meal, others are figure-conscious and try to fast, cut down on some fat and sugar, or go on a slimming diet. For many others cooking and eating is a nuisance and they do not care much about meals. On the whole we eat more than the British and Americans do and our food is known to be less healthy. The Slovaks are used to eating many floury, sweet and fatty meals, such as dumplings,
Public holidays in Great Britain are called „Bank Holidays“. All the banks, offices, schools, shops and factories are closed on these day. There are the following days : Good Friday, and Easter Monday, Whit Monday (seven weeks after Easter), August Bank Holiday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
There are other days of the year which are not public holidays in England but the English people celebrate them in some way.
14th February, St. Valentine`s Day is the lovers feast. Friends and llovers send letters sr greeting
Holidays is very important for people who work all the year round. They go on holiday to take rest, forget their problems, get away from large noisy cities or just have a change their life.
Those who like warm and sunny days take their holidays in summer. Others like to go skiing to the mountains in winter. A lot of people travel and visit other countries. They go abroad because they want to know new countries, people and their customs, or they want to learn foreign languages.
The British Islands form a group of islands lying of the North – west coast of Europe. The largest islands are : Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales), and Ireland (Northern Ireland, the Irish republic), Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Orkneys, Shetlands and Hebrids Islands. The sea surrounding the British Isles are shallow – usually less then 90 m. this shallow waters are important because they provide excellent fishing grounds.
Geology : Britain can be devided roughly into 2 main regions : Highland and Lowland Britain.
The EU is a unique organisation of 15 Member States. These states have given specific powers to the E. institutions so that they make E. decisions and laws in specific areas. You can often see that the EU is pictured as a temple – a structure with common foundations, three pilars and a common roof. Building of the EU temple started after the Second World War. The ideas of creating a United States of Europe or a Pan – European union were not new, but only after WWII. Did the conditions for a European organization exist. Politic
Royal London London is a royal city. The British king or queen has a palace there-Buckingham Palace. Queen Eluzabeth lives there now. Important visitors often go to the palace. They meet Queen Elizabeth and the royal family inside the palace. Tourists go to Buckingham Palace too, but they don´t go inside, and they don´t meet the queen. They stand outside and see the Changing of the Guard. There are always guardsmen outside the palace. Every day a new guard of thirty guardsmen marches to the palace and takes the pla
The people choose 650 men and women for the House of Parliament. The second „House“ is the House of Lords. The men and women in it are the dukes, earls, and lords of the great families, heads of the Church of England, head judges, and some modern „Life Peers“ and „Live Peeresses“. These two „Houses“are Parliament. Westminstere Bridge is one bridge across the River Thames in London. Big Ben and the House of Parliament stand beside the River Thames. You can go on a boat from Westminster and see London from the river.
You can go up 627 steps from the floor of the cathedral to the top. Westminster Abbey is near the Houses of Parliament. It si near the Thames, too, and you can see its two towers from the river. It is old (1042-1065) and very big (158 metres).
Cockneys A large number of the London churches have bells. The small church of St Mary-le-Bow is between St Paul´s Cathedral and the Bank of England. It is the Cockney church. A „Cockney“ is a Londoner, but not every Londoner is a real Cockney. The real Cockneys can hear B
City offices are in tall modern buildings, or in old buildings on narrow streets. The office people do not live in the City; they come to the City every day, from Monday to Friday. Only 5890 people live in the City;340 000 people work there. They come in trains, on buses, on the Underground, on bicycles, and in cars and taxis. They come in one hour-„rush hour“. Rush hour is from 8.30 to 9.30 in the morning, and the evening rush hour is from 5.00 to 6.00. St Paul´s Cathedral is near the middle of the City. Perhaps the real middle is
They often have exhibitions of famous pictures from galleries in Europe and America.
Exhibitions and shows You can see a new exhibition or a show every week in London. Some of the London shows are famous. People come to them from many countries (Crufts Dog Show). Madame Tussaud´s is famous for waxworks. There are waxworks of famous people (good&bad) in the show. You see not only people of the past but famous people of today there: kings, queens, princes and princesses, sportsmen and sportswomen, cinema stars and
Book written by Erich Maria Remarque called Time to live, time to die is one of his greatest war novels. This one was written couple of years after Second World War and it was mined like warning. It was threat before Cold War, which he knew was coming. To know and see what weapons and longing for power can do was the worst experience in his whole life. He deserted to Switzerland in 1931. He as author of German literature was added to Lost Generation. American authors and Remarque formed that generation of writers, whose childhood had been lost
Not only for his guilty but he is killed by Russians but like warning before we decide to start another war which he knew that is coming. Book was written in 1954 as caution before Cold war. I think that Time to live, time to die is one of his greatest books after All quiet on the western front, and maybe now showing us a little from reality of live in WW2 pointing on fact that nothing is untouchable. Battles can be won by strategy but strategy can only increase your chance to survive. Fortuity is unpredictable.
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Like maze and wheat, rice is a staple food.It is the main food of at least , milion people.Nitery per cent of the worlds rice is grown in Asia.However, the Asian countries eat most of what they grow.The USA also produces huge amounts of rice, but sells much of what it grows to the rest of the world.The paddy fields are flooded, ploughed, raked and flattened.In Asia, buffaloes are used to do the heavy work.The pre-sprouted seedlings are moved to the paddy fields.They are planted for apart so they have plenty of space to grow.The rice is ready fo
The fascism outgrew to the World War II. In 1933 Adolf Hitler got the power. Germany had an economic disarray. Many people were unemployed and they didn’t have food. Hitler claimed, that communists and Jews were the cause of all evil. In 1938 Hitler occupied Austria and one year later he divided Czechoslovakia. On September 1-st 1939 he begun to occupy Poland. Two days later Britain and the allied forces declared war to Germany. In 1940 Germany empowered Denmark, Norway, Benelux and a part of France. Britain braved Germany. In 1941 Germany at
What is the family? Generally family is a community of two or more people where parents try to bring up their children as well as they can. The main mission of the family is to stay together forever in good and bad times and support each other in all ways of their lifes. What is the possition of family in nowadays society? The possition of each family is very different. Exist more kinds of families: Ř strong ones which possition in the society have a big importance, Ř
So I think that in the bigger families children have better expectations to grow up and become a strong components of the society. Small family have three or four members. Mainly in modern families parents prefer to have only one child and give him or her everything which is not so good for the character of child, I think, because he or she could become very mean and proud person. These properties can make the entray to the society more harder. But I don´t tell that what I said before is a rule, it is only my own opinion.