A Registered Partnership A registered partnership is very discussed topic these days. Even the Czech parliament took up this bill. Members of parliament refuse it also many people do not this proposal at all. My position is that registered partnership should be established and homosexuals should have a chance to adopt children. Lots of people think that homosexuality is some kind of deviation. They consider gays and lesbians not normal and unmoral. For me are homosexuals ordinary people like the rest of us, they only have differen
Effects of the Revolt of a Czech Aristocracy after the Lost Battle on the White Hill Czech aristocracy rebelled in 1618 against Habsburg King Ferdinand the Second, because he broke his promise to keep traditional right of Czech people for protestant confession. After two years of fighting, the aristocracy was definitely defeated in the battle on the White Hill on 8th November 1620. Soon after were twenty-seven leaders of the revolt executed at the Old Time Square and their possession was confiscated. This event has enormous political and
System of Education in Australia and in the Czech Republic Each country has its own system of education, which can vary a lot one from another. It is interesting that even so far away a land as Australia has a rather similar system of education as the Czech Republic. Despite that, there are some differences in the general organization of education and in the pre-school, primary, secondary and university education. There are several differences in general organization of educational system. The Australian system of education is not
Vocabulary Differences between American and British English
G. B. Shaw: “Britain and the USA are two countries divided by a common language.”
The original thirteen American states were mainly settled by people from Britain Isles and remained colonies of the British Crown until they rebelled in 1775. It took them five years of fighting to win their independence. Since then English language has been developing separately in America. During its development American English has been influenced by another langu
Free and compulsory edu. Funded by the state and guaranted by law became available in 1870 for children aged from 5 to 10. In 1944 a new law raised the leaving age to 15.All edu. Beyond the age of 11 became secondary.At that age most children went to sec. Modern sch. While about a fifth of all children ,chosen by examination went to grammar sch.,aiming to gain certificates at 16 and then 18 leading to further edu.Before 1965most children in the country had to take an exam at abou
" What? " shouted Patrick. "Yes, I am pregnant." Mary was kindly smiling and repeated: "Pregnant, we will marry." "You mustn't be pregnant," said Patrick shook her and added loudly: "Forget the marriage! It would mean the end of my career!" "But you are Tincle, aren't you?" "Yes, I am, but I'm only a poor relative, I'm a burden for my rich uncle." "So you've lied to me. Oh you...!" "Could you stop it? Yes, I've lied, but you can se
William I, the Conqueror (1066-1087 AD) One of the most important personalities although not English origin in the early Middle Ages, is William I, known as the „Conqueror“. William, the illegitimate son of Robert I., the sixth Duke of Normandy, spent his first six years with his mother Herleva of Falasiain, a woman about whose origins various theories have been developed, but who was certainly an established partner of the duke. In 1035 Robert set out upon a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, in which he died. "He is little&qu
Vilém Mathesius V.M. was one of the most remarkable and most influential personalities of the Prague school.
Mathesius was one of the pioneers of the synchronic approach to facts of language, and this can be already found in his 1911 treatise,, On the potentiality of the phenomena of Language“.
The first important aspect of his work was that concerning the synchronic, non-historical approach. Secondly , ever more important about his work was the term potentiality, which was conceiverd by Mathesius as
Few weeks ago, I saw a very particular film : Cry freedom, a Sir Richard Attenborough film. It is based on real life characters, principally Steve Biko (played by Denzel Washington) and a white South African editor, Donald Woods (played by Kevin Kline). The film fulfills two main aspects: firstly, it tells a story of the relationship between Steve Biko (a banned black leader, victim of the local political system), and Donald Woods. Secondly, it show us the dominant political ideology of "white South Africa&q
Eastertime is lots of fun, That's when the Easter bunny comes, Put your basket out and wait, Then you can gain lots of weight; Wake up when the church bells ring, Then go to church and sing and sing
Easter in America
Easter in America is celebrated on a Sunday. The holiday has lost much of its religious significance. Instead of going to church, many Americans travel, go shopping or go to watch sporting events such as baseball. A popular activity for children is th
Shame is a painful feeling of embarrassment or disgrace brought on by doing something wrong; dishonor; a disappointment. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, he shows that shame forces one to change in order to be accepted in society, through Parris’s fear about his own reputation, through Abigail’s affectation and through Proctor’s internal conflict.
As Betty, Reverend Parris’s daughter, is lying on the bed inertly, the only thought on Parris mind is what people will be thinking. With anger Parris says “No-no. There be no
I believe that ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ should be taught in high school. In his book Mark Twain shows the tragedy of alcoholism and violence, that forces Huck to leave his home and equality among people as Huck and Jim became real friends. Many people think that Huckleberry Finn should not be read in schools. In my paper I will prove you that they are wrong.
Huck Finn chooses to leave cabin, his only home, because he cannot suffer under Pap’s cruelties anymore. He is imprisoned in the cabin and beaten by the Pap ever
HISTORY: The word Christmas comes from the words cristes maesse, or “Christi’s Mass”. Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus for members of the Christian religion, in America it is also considered as a celebration of mid-winter (people have celebrated this festival since pre-historic times. They marked the beginning of longer hours of daylight with fire and ritual offerings).
It’s thought that Jesus of Nazareth was born in springtime. December 25th was chosen for the celebration of his birth by a pope, J
We know four main types of speech : standard, literary, provincial and coloquial. Standard English: Since the 1980s. The notion of „ standard“ has come to the fore in public debate about the English language./ At national level, in several countries,but especially in the UK/. From the dozens of definitions available in the literature of English, we may extract five essential charakteristics. Standard speech is a variety of English- a distinctive combination of linguistics features with a particular role to play. Some pe
English is a Germanic language, and it belongs to the Indo – European family of languages.English did not always sound the way it does in our times. Old English is quite well known to us through translations of the Bible, from old chronicles, but also from other documents. It was used until about the end of the11th century A.D.It sounded very different form contemporary English.In fact, it was more similar to the German language of our century than to present- day English. It had many inflections, and the word order was by far not so importan
We know many ways of transportation. We can travel by car, by bus, by train… Without transport people are lost. People have to travel in to the work, children need to go in school and for this transport they need public transport.
In every town, village all over the world is public transport. Although in every town is a big difference in the public transport. We can not compare our public transport with transport in Japan, USA, Germany… They have much better resources on transporting people, and they transport is faster
Written by R. L. Stevenson Retold by Rosemary Border Illustrated by Jonathon Heap Published by Oxford university Press, 1991
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) is a well-known Scottish author, who wrote novels, short stories, travel books, poetry and plays. His famous novel, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, has been filmed for many times.
Mr Utterson and Richard Enfield walked in a narrow side-street in a busy part of London. There stood a strange house. Once Enfield saw a man injuring a small girl. The ma
Phonic level of language is studied by two complementary disciplines_ phonetics and phonology.
1.Phonetics – deal with the material of speech itself.Speech sounds are studies from 3 differents point of view, which correspond with 3 main branches of phonetics.
1. Articulary phonetics – Studies speech sound from the speakre´s point of view in terms of the articulatory organs and processes involved. 2. Acoustic phonetics- studies speech sounds from the point of view of the transmission of the speaker´s outp
In contrast with other European countries, in the Habsburg Monarchy the ideas of the Enlightenment were spread by a ruler-> ENLIGHTENED ABSOLUTISM. Representatives: Maria Theresa (174-1780), Joseph II. (1780-1790) 1781- Edict of Toleration- equality for Protestants 1785- Abolition of serfdom in Hungary The rule of these monarchs relieved social, political and national situation, which created conditions for development of the Slovak National Revival. The Slovak educated class started organizing the social movement