The Celts
migrated to Britain from
north-west Germany
between 2000 and 1200 BC.
The Celts
were organised in tribes, lived in villages and were mainly farmers.
The Romans
firs came to Britain under
Julius Caesar in 55 BC, but extensive rom [...]
Thomas Cook:
the father of the package tour
Thomas Cook was born in England in
1808. He was a wood-turner/printer and the secretary of him church in Leicester.
In 1841 he organized a rail travel for the members of
his church from Leicester t [...]
Chaucer
Chaucer was
born around the 1345. He worked as Justice of peace and clerk for the king’s
works. In 1390 Chaucer retired from public life, and started writing his
masterpiece: The Canterbury Tales.
The
Canterbury Tales is an unfinis [...]
Tesina
di inglese
The
British system
Britain
is a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch. At one time the
monarch head real power but over the centuries this power has been transferred
to parliament.
At
first [...]
James Joyce
Life
Joyce
was an Irishman, and he was born in 1882 in Dublin.
He was son of John Stanislaus Joyce, that had a good job and a reasonable
economic position. James’s father is a big influence in his work, thanks to his
many faults [...]
The restoration
History:
Charles 2:
Charles 2 landed in england
in 1660. He was welcomed by the people who had never accepted republican
ideals. A new parliament replaced the convention parliament in 1661. Charles
passed the Test act [...]
JOHN KEATS
He belongs
to the second generation of Romantic poets: they all died very young. They
produced and published their works during all the 19th century ( Keats – Odes after 1819).
The
Congress marked the end of revolutions and re [...]
The Tudors and the
Stuarts
Henry VII
Henry VII, who
came to the English throne, was the first king of the Tudor dynasty. During his
reign he made the monarchy supreme. Henry’s foreign policy aimed at making England’s
trading position st [...]
LORD ARTHUR - SAVILE’S CRIME
Author profile: (Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde). Oscar Wild was an Irish author,
born in Dublin
in1854 as the son of an eminent surgeon.
He studied at Trinity
College, Dublin,
and at Magdalen Colleg [...]
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR was crowned in Westminster Abbey on
Christmas Day 1066. With the Normans feudal system was introduced
; barons and knights become very important .Thanks to William the system
of rules was well organized actually he was able [...]
History
The tribes from Germany Angles, Saxon and Jutes
invaded the Britain
in the first part of the 5th century. They killing and driving out
the British in habitants to Wales
and cornwall.
Their settlements had developed into a Heptarchy
[...]
GEORGE ORWELL
Vita:
Born in Bengal,
in the british empire. Suffered sense of anxiety over the expectations of his
parents. Moved to London, Paris, Spain . contrast
with his family: very rich / his interest for poor people. Was a journalist.
I [...]
CHARLES DICKENS (1812/1870)
He had an un happy childhood, since has father
went to prison on the had to work in a factory at the age of 12. these day of sufferings inspired much of the content of his
novels, he began to contribute various pa [...]
Swift
A modest proposal
A modest proposal is the most significative Swift’s work of irony. Swift is able to say
the most shoking things in the most natural way. A
modest proposal was inspired by the dreadful that he found in Ireland;s [...]
Articolo indeterminativo
Indefinite article
a e an si usano solamente al singolare. Si usa a davanti alle parole che cominciano per
consonante, ed an con quelle che cominciano
per vocale.
Eccezioni:
Se la vocale ha il [...]
THE CANTERVILLE GHOST
by Oscar Wilde
AUTHOR
I’m going
to talk about the book that I red this summer, the title of this book is “ THE CANTERVILLE GHOST”.
The author
is Oscar Wilde, an Irishman who was born in Du [...]
Oscar WILDE (1854-1900)
Life
& main works:
·
Born
in Dublin
·
Mother:
literary woman
·
After
grad [...]
ENGLISHNESS AND NATIONAL CULTURE
Al contrario di quanto è accaduto in
Italia, in cui c’è stata un’eliminazione delle tradizioni, in
Inghilterra non c’è mai stata una crisi delle tradizioni nazionali,
anche perché l’ [...]
THE CANTERBURY TALES
THE
PROLOGUE
In aprile le dolci piogge, il caldo sole e il leggero vento svegliano le
piante e gli animali dopo aver dormito tutto l’inverno. La natura scuote loro
nella vita,. Anche gli uomini si riempiono di deside [...]
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare wrote his sonnets using the Elizabethan form: 3 quatrains
and a concessive couplet, all in linking rhyme. The principal themes og his sonnets were love, time but also beauty, daeth and
friendship. Some of his [...]
