THE AGE OF
TRANSITION
History
George III
succeeded his grandfather in 1760; he could speak English so he could do
whatever he wanted. The most important events occurred during his reign were:
- &nb [...]
A PANORAMA OF BRITISH HISTORY
The
eldest monument is Britain Is Stonehenge built by the original inhabitants the
Britons. After 400 BC the Celts arrived from Europe and occupied a lot of lands
(in fact in Wales, Ireland and Scotland some pe [...]
Numeri cardinali
Cardinal numbers
One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Uno, due, tre, quattro, cinque, sei, sette, otto, nove,
dieci.
Eleven, twelve, thirteen,
fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nin [...]
Il sistema
elettorale e i partiti politici
Nel sistema
elettorale britannico il paese è diviso in 651 collegi uninominali. I
rappresentanti sono eletti al Parlamento con il metodo first past the post (il
metodo di maggioranza s [...]
Negli anni sessanta
l'evento che più drammaticamente ha diviso le coscienze fu la Guerra del
Vietnam che avrebbe avuto per molto tempo ripercussioni sull'America. Molti
studenti borghesi non solo scesero sulle strade per dimostrare contro l [...]
DECADENTISM AND AESTHETICISM
The decadent
movement developed in the last 30 years of the 19th century. It was born in France with
Teophile Gautier and Huysmans.
They reflected
their disgustation against the materialism and the restrictiv [...]
THE UNITED KINGDOM
The United Kingdom, is composed from: England,
Scotland, Galles and North Ireland.
His capital is London,
His religion is protestant, his money is the pounds and his language is
English. It is a Costitutional Monarchy, [...]
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
(I’m going to talk about the main
characteristics of the park and the most interesting things we can see there)
Yellostone Park,
a 3,458 square- mile area in the Rocky Mountains,
was the first national park [...]
MODERNISM AND BEYOND
At the beginning of the 20th
century modernism began in Europe and America.
Modernist architect
concentrated on the function of a building rather than on its decoration.
They used glass, steel and
reinforced concrete. [...]
The Colonialism
1) The
first English colony was Ireland
conquered at the end of the 16 th
century.
2) In the
Elisabeth I period, Britain
began to colonize a great part of the territories of the World.
3) Elisabeth
I tried t [...]
The case for the defence
Riassunto e analisi
The
case for the defence deals with a murder to Mrs Parker by Mr Adams. He was a
heavy stout man with bulging bloodshot eyes. Mr Adams was in Northwood street
and the weapon was a hamm [...]
LITERARY
CONTEXT
A
country literary production is not merely writing. It is usually divided into
different sections, namely poetry, drama and prose.
Poetry
1890-1914
it was a period of transition from the canons of Victorian poetry. [...]
CREDIT CARDS
These card are issued by credit card companies and
this company guarantee payment for goods and services that the cardholder buys.
The purchaser must sign vouchers when buying something
with credit card and this cost is charg [...]
Gli
Stuarts (1603-1714) ITA
Nel 1603 ci fu il re Jones I d'Inghilterra.
Egli è stato il primo Stuart re d'Inghilterra. Quando divenne re ha
respinto il Parlamento e ha governato senza di esso. Suo figlio Charles ho
condiviso la [...]
Poetry:
poem = a piece of writing in which the words are
chosen for their beauty, sound or imagery.
Rhyme = the use of words with the same sound at the ends of the lines of
a poem
Stanza = a group of line forming a division of a poem
[...]
IL GRANDE
GATSBY-Francis Scott Fitzgerald-
MAIN CHARACTER
J.
GATSBY: The
protagonist. He falls in love with Daisy
DAISY
BUCKANON: She is
married with pole’s player and she is a cousin of Gatsby’s neighbour. She falls
in l [...]
Marketing
The marketing is important because is a sort of
promotion which the costumers are very demanding. Marketing is a key activity
to attract costumers and keep existing ones. It is more competitive because the
number of organization i [...]
Life and works
Rupert
Brooka was born in 1887 and educated atRugby School and Cambridge University.
He was well-known as a poet before 1914 when he joyned the Navy. He wrote his
five famuos war sonnet, of which [...]
Biography Oscar
Wilde:
Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900), Irish poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on
his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere's Fan(1892) and The Importance
of Being Earnest (1895). Among Wilde's other best-known works are his [...]
THE
UNITED KINGDOM
The British Isles is a geographical area that consists of a large group
of islands lying off the north-west
of Europe.
The British Isles is separated from mainland Europe by English Channel to
the south and the North [...]
