IRELAND
History
Irish liberation from British rule was achieved as the
result of a struggle extending over several centuries and marked by numerous
rebellions. That “England's
difficulty is Ireland's
opportunity” was the oldest princip [...]
GUNTER
GRASS
Gunter Grass war schon bekannt, als sein Roman Die Blechtrommel 1959 erschien. Danzig,
die Geburtsstadt von Grass, ist der Hintergrund der Geschichte, die
autobiographische Elemente und sozial-historisches Geschehen entahlt.
[...]
FRÄULEIN ELSE di von Arthur Schnitzler
Der Autor
Arthur Schnitzler wurde am 15. Mai 1862 in Wien als Sohn
eines jüdischen Professors der Medizin geboren. Er veröffentlichte zahlreiche
Abhandlungen, unter anderem auch zu P [...]
America! The making of the American character
The American
dream: The American dream took form with the
landing of the first Puritan settlers in New Plymouth in 1620. To the
eyes of the Pilgrim Fathers – and their followers – the new contin [...]
THE AGE OF IMAGINATION :
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
When the french revolution broke out, in 1789, english
public opinion reacted favorably to it, because it was
seen as a blow to the royal absolutism and the
beginning of a liberal process [...]
MINISTERO DELLA PUBBLICA ISTRUZIONE
ESAME DI LICENZA
LINGUISTICA ----COMPOSIZIONE IN LINGUA STRANIERA ESAME DI LICENZA LINGUISTICA
----COMPOSIZIONE IN LINGUA STRANIERA
1)IL ROMANTICISMO E’ UN MOVIMENTO PRESENTE IN TUTTE LE
NAZIO [...]
Albert Einstein
Einstein
was born in Ulm,
Germany on 14
March 1879. When he was five, he turned the compass, the needle always pointed
in the same direction. It was the first time that the boy started to think
about the mysteries of [...]
IVANHOE
Ivanhoe è un eroe del XII secolo
vissuto in Inghilterra, territorio conquistato dai normanni già dalla seconda metà del
secolo precedente e in preda a lotte intestine fra i Sassoni e gli ultimi
conquistatori. Infat [...]
LISPETH by
RUDYARD KIPLING
The story is
set in India,
in a Christian Mission; there’s a 3 th
person narrator.
The text opens
with a description of L. , a beautiful Hill-girl, who is the main character of the
story. When she is a
[...]
OF MICE AND MEN
A novel by John Steinbeck
Two
Youngs, George e Lennie were going to Soledad
to work in a farm. The two mans were friends for a lot of time. Lennie wasn’t
sane, but he was a good guy and a strong worker: George looked aft [...]
L’AVARE
L’œuvre de Molière peut être vue
aussi comme un’ étude des comportements et aspirations des personnages
principaux en relation aux coutumes de l’époque dans laquelle se déroule
l’histoire. On peut prendre comme exe [...]
Dai segni alle lingue. La semiosi tra natura e
cultura – Daniele Gambarara
Esistono
diversi tipi di segni:
·
indizi
·
comunicazione non
verbale
·&nbs [...]
Geographie du Martinique
SURFACE
DU ZONE: 1128 Kmq
HABITANTS: 360
000 ab
CAPITAL: Fort-de-France
LANGUE
MATERNELLE: Français / Creole-Français
RELIGION: [...]
The story begins with a newspaper article that tells about a murder
mystery . Mary Turner, wife of Richard Turner a South African farmer, was found
dead at her house . The reporter tells about a houseboy who admitted killing
Mary Turner. The farm fa [...]
Languages bring people together.
Since ancient times man
has had to deal with the problem of the different languages spoken by various
populations, in fact during the times of Erodoto, in the fifth century B.C.,
people who did not speak Gre [...]
DRAMA IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE
Drama became the national
literary manifestation of the time for different reasons:
Ø
The theatres were open to everybody and the
admission prices were relatively low;
[...]
HEAT AND DUST
TITLE Heat and
dust
AUTHOR Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
PUBLISHER Oxford University
DATE OF PUBLICATION 1990
LEVEL [...]
JOYCE'S
DUBLINERS
AS EPIPHANIES
"By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether
in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind
itself. He believed that it was for the man of letters to [...]
LE ORE
Wieviel
Urh ist es?
Wie
spöt ist es?
13:15 Es ist Viertel nach eins
13:45 Es ist Viertel vor zwei
12:30 Es ist halb eins
7:30
Es ist halb acht
10:05 Es ist fünf nach halb sieben
18:50 Es ist v [...]
George Orwell and the Politics of Animal Farm
Note:
These excerpts were taken from a paper I wrote in 1979, nine years before I
became a Christian. Orwell was convinced that totalitarianism was
twentieth-century man's greatest enemy, but the r [...]