SIMPLE PAST
The present simple is used to
talk about actions we see as long term or permanent. It is very common and very
important.
In these examples, we are
talking about regular actions or events.
· [...]
Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde
The Duality of Human Nature
Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde centers upon a conception of humanity
as dual in nature, although the theme does not emerge fully until the last
chapter, when the complete story of the Jekyll-Hyd [...]
1) Oliver
Twist Summary
Oliver
Twist was born in a workhouse in a provincial town. His
mother has been found very sick in the street, and she gives birth to Oliver
just before she dies. Oliver is raised under the care [...]
YEAR: U.S.A. 2002
KIND: Commedia
DIRECTION:
CAST:
LENGTH: 113 '
PLOT
Anni '20. Roxie Hart
sogna di diventare una star del Vaudeville, e per diventarlo è pronta [...]
David Herbert Lawrence
He was born at a
mining village in Nottinghamshire in 1885.
He was an artist: he
was a painter and a writer.
His father was a miner
and he wasn’t educated and disciplined; he was a simple person.
His mother c [...]
The licterary
activity of Wordsworth is linked to his region form witch he draw ispiration. His personal grand tour happened in France
where he shared the ideal of the France revolution, he accepted the democratic
idea to create a right social ord [...]
The Letter by W.S.
Maugham
Mr. Joyce is a lawyer, who had to defend Mrs. Crosbie, a
woman who has killed Geoff Hammond, who has tried to rape her. She protected
herself and she shot him 6 times. She told Mr. Joyce that Hammond come to her
hous [...]
VENICE: THE CITY OF ART
Venice
is an art city rich of history. We want to propose an “off the beaten path” itinerary
through the beauty and the history of Venice.
1st
day: the New Ghetto
The Venetian palace, church and monument r [...]
Walt Whitman (1819-92)
Author profile:
born in Long Island, NY,
belong to a working-class family he
was outgoing. Brief period as an editor that ended when his
opposition to slavery became a problem. He travelled a lot and was
imp [...]
TOPIC. FOOTBALL
I started playing football
when I was only seven years old 10 years ago. I went to a church oratory and I
started playing with my friends there. It was a great period but then we grew
up. We went to a football club near my house [...]
WILLIAM
WORDSWORTH
LIFE
WILLIAM
WORDSWORTH WAS BORN IN THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRIC.HE WAS EDUCATED IN CAMBRIDGE
AND IN1790 HE WENT ON A WALKING TOUR IN FRANCE.
IN THIS
JOURNEY HE KNOWN THE REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS THAT THERE WERE IN FREN [...]
Wordsworth and Coleridge
Wordsworth
and Coleridge are the two most important poets of the first English romantic
period.
They worked
together to create the collection “Lyrical
Ballads”, and they have some different point of view about p [...]
TELEVISION
Since its birth television became the most important
mass media all over the world. In the past television brought culture and
information in every house, thousand of people have learnt to read with
television.
But today, unfo [...]
HE WAS RICH AND SHE WAS
HANDSOME
THIS
PASSAGE IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE IN IT WE CAN FIND SOME OF THE MAIN THEMES OF
THE NOVEL:THE MARRIAGE,THE SOCIAL CONVENTIONS AND
IDEAS OF THAT PERIOD . .
AT THE
BEGINIG WE CAN FIND A SORT OF POTRAIT [...]
The plot
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary
novel by Samuel Richardson, first published in 1740. It tells in the first
person the story of the virtuous lady's maid Pamela and the modest and agonized
delicacy, yet determination, with wh [...]
Barcellona,
luna y sol
Barcellona è una città di mare, una
metropoli europea. Anzi spagnola. Anzi catalana. Con un'anima cosmopolita, ma dalle componenti ben identificabili, si presenta
come un affresco caotico e proporzionato.
[...]
THE LAST OF MOHICANS
- CAP.1 – THE FOREST
Nella calda estate nel Luglio 1757 la densa foresta della valle del
fiume Hudson in nord America era la scena di una crudele guerra. La guerra era
tra Francia e Inghilterra.
Molte tribù [...]
Medieval drama
Drama has its origins in
church ceremonies, performed in Latin. So drama evolved from liturgy and
Biblical events, these events were dramatised in the church. Usually there was
a dialogue between the priest and the audience. [...]
The Chronicles of Narnia
- Summary
Narnia....a land of
fantasy and adventure where magic and a Great Lion prevail. A
land where so many people wish to be, a land from start to finish in The
Chronicles of Narnia. Seven books written by
Clive S [...]
THE
MELTING POT
American
society has been called a melting pot because it is the result of a combination of varios components which
have been melted together. The New World has always been considered a land of
opportunity. People have alw [...]
