APPUNTI INGLESE
FRASI DA INSERIRE IN UN ORDINE COMMERCIALE:
- could you please grant us a
little discount? Potrebbe
farci un piccolo sconto?
- how does that sound? Come le sembra?
- I was wondering if you cuold
arrangi for [...]
THE INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION
From the 1740’s the situation will change because of the Industrial revolution, that brings about deep changes
in society and art. Starting from the 1740’s coals mines are discovered in the
“black counties” in the [...]
The knight’s tale
Palamon and Arcite were two cousins
who lived in the city of Thebes.
When the Duke of Athens Theseus attacked thebes the two young men were sent to fight. After the
battle they were the only survivors so Palamon and Arcite [...]
Mark
Twain (1835-1910)
Life:He was born in a small village in Missouri. Then he moved
to Hannibal on the Mississippi River (symbol
of American changing life). He worked as a printer and at 18 he
began to travel so he did the steambo [...]
Middle and late
Victorian periods (1851-1901)
The early
Victorian period usually finishes with the Great Exhibition in 1851.
The following period saw the massive expansion of Britain’s
Empire all over the world. The British Empire toward [...]
Early Romantic Poetry
In the second half of the 18th
century, a new sensibility became manifest in poetry and a new generation of
poets began to arise. Even if they didn’t lay down a precise programme of
rules, they established new trends which [...]
The birth and development of the EU is marked by a series of treaties, starting
from 1951
1951 The Paris treaty
Belgium,
France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Paris
establishing the European C [...]
The Modern Age
and T. S. Eliot
In the last two decades of the 19th
century, Victorian values had already decayed. The spreading feeling was that
material gain implied spiritual loss.
The First World War left the country in a
disillusion [...]
ADULTERY
The theme of the woman
destroyed by love, betrayed by unrequited love, seduced by false deals or false
lovers or victimized by tragic love, dominated the Pre-Raphaelite as well as
Victorians paintings and poems of the nineteent [...]
The best country in Upper Tiber
Valley
One
day in Città di Castello
Città di Castello is situated on an light
height, between the sweet green and laughing hills, are the more important
center and p [...]
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941)
She
marked an important step in the development of the novel: she consciously rejected some of main
conventions of the reslistic fiction of the victorian age and developed a new way of expressing a
different percept [...]
NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY
When European settlers set foot in Noerth
America for the first time they started an historical
process that had effects on the rest of the world: in fact, in 200years,
the United States has become the most powerful c [...]
C++ (English)
The development of the language C++ to the
beginning of the eighties is due to Bjarne Stroustrup of the laboratories Bell. Originally the C++ had
been developed for resolving some very rigorous simulations and driven by
events [...]
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus
Chapter 1
The stranger, who the reader soon learns is
Victor Frankenstein, begins his narration. He starts with his family
background, birth, and early childhood, telling Walton about his father,
Alph [...]
The Victorian Age
Victoria became queen of England when she was 18, and she married her
German cousin (prince
Albert). In this period United
Kingdom became the country powerful in all the word
thanks the great statesmen of the tim [...]
Write a summery about Blake’s life.
WILLIAM BLAKE.
William Blake was born in London in 1757. He was an artist, an
engraver, he studied at a drowning school and he loved Gothic style. W. Blake
married Catherine Boucher, an illitera [...]
Thomas Gray
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1716- 1771, Born in London
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Gray was educated first at
Eton, then at Cambridge
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He spent [...]
My name is Carla, I’m fourteen years old
and I live in Formia a small city near the sea.I’m going to the Vitruivio Pollione junior high school.I’m
at the third year so in [...]
Topic Phase: My favourite book
My favourite
book is “An American girl” , it’s a novel by Meg
Cabot. It’s the story of Samantha; she is fourteen and she likes art. One day
at school she gets a bad mark in German so her parents decide to book [...]
ART NOUVEAU
Art Nouveau followed the Arts
and Crafts movement in rejecting the styles of the old order but not its linking of atr to social
consciousness and nationalism.
It didn’t look back to some
medieval gothic ideal but forward to the n [...]
