Prologue: July 1956 /
Darlington Hall
Summary
Stevens, the head butler at Darlington Hall in England, discusses the
journey upon which he is about to embark—a journey that his employer, Mr.
Farraday, has suggested Stevens take. Mr. Farraday [...]
BRITISH
ECONOMY
Natural resources and agriculture
Britain has large deposits of coal but the
historically important coal-mining industry has declined in recent years
because of competition from cheaper imported coal and other forms of energy [...]
The Twilight of Classicism
The second half of the 18th century was a complex period in which new
trends rose and developed side by side with prevalent classical ones,until the
latter finally declined.New ideas and attitudes were beginning to cir [...]
TOPIC: “Young
people” (GRADE VII)
About young people today it
would seem, at first sight, that contemporary society grants the new generation
more opportunities than before enjoying more freedom, leading a busy life,
being able to spend a lot [...]
OSCAR
WILDE - DORIAN GRAY
Oscar Fingal O 'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin, October 16, 1854. His father William
was a renowned surgeon and a versatile writer, and her mother Jane Wilde, a
poet and fierce Irish nationalist.
The [...]
The curriculum vitae
What
is a CV ? Today if we want to get a job
there are many ways but we will certainly have to prepare a CV (curriculum
vitae-Latin for ‘life story’) and a cover letter that we may send through
traditional mail or e-m [...]
Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaucer were
a busy middle class-man. Little is recorded about him as a man and a poet. He
was born around 1343, the son of a London
wine merchant. He led a vary busy life: he served
three kings, Edward III, Richard II and Hen [...]
THE SENTENCE
1. L’ordine della frase
Il
soggetto va posto prima del verbo, il complemento oggetto dopo.
Gli
avverbi sono utilizzati prima del verbo o dopo il complemento oggetto; ma nel
caso del riferime [...]
SONNET- ON HIS BLINDNESS
The primary theme of the sonnet is the
blindness of the poet. He became blind in the third period of his production.
In the first line there is a metaphor, LIGHT, that stands for SIGHT and for
LIFE.
Spent has tw [...]
THE IMPORTANCE OF
BEING ERNEST
Jack Worthing,
bold man from the strangers native, alive in country together with Cecily, an eighteen year-old girl on which manages the
guardianship, and with the governess of this last, Miss Prism. J [...]
Main characteristics of the sonnets
The first Shakespeare’s collection , called
“The sonnets”was printed in 1609 and it includes 154 sonnets in the so- called
“Shakespaerean” ryme- scheme : 3 quatrains and one rhyming couplet important to
[...]
ELECTRIC CARS
An
electric car is a vehicle powered by an electric motor which runs on a system
of rechargeable batteries. (These are at present of the lead-acid variety,
although new types, including zinc-chlorine, sodium-sulphur and fuel c [...]
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
LIFE:
We know little about him. He was born in
Stratford‑on‑Avon in 1564, probably ori
April 23. The date of his birth being unknown, it was later fixed on April 23,
incidentally, the same day of his [...]
Il film “Schindler’s list” è tratto
dalla vita dell’industriale
tedesco Oskar Schindler che, fino al film di Spielberg, era sconosciuto. Durante la dittatura, mostra coraggio e umanità rischiando addirittura la propria vita per salvar [...]
Jane Eyre di Charlotte Bronte
The story: Summary
OPENING SITUATION:
The story
begins with the narration of the protagonist’s childhood. In fact, Jane first
appears as an orphaned child, lodged at Gateshead Hall with an [...]
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Life
The early years
He was born on 23rd April 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon.
His father belonged to the corporation of glovers and his
mother came of a country family of some importance.
He proba [...]
Forms of business ownership - The legal
organization of business
There are many types of business units in operation.
The main ones are:
·
Sole
trade
The sole trade [ditta individuale] is the [...]
How an
Ethernet Works
1. Ethernet is not a single product,
but rather a technical standard
developed for network communications by Xeros, Dec
and Intel, which the rest of the computer community have adopted.
2. All nodes, clients and s [...]
THE PLOTS OF DICKENS’ NOVEL
Dickens gradually developed a more radical view of the social scene, although he
did not became a revolutionary thinker, he was aware
of the spiritual and material corruption of the present day reality. Dickens
s [...]
Ernest Hemingway
He was born in Illinois
in 1899. He was the son of a doctor, who committed a suicide, and he spent his
childhood hunting and fishing in the Great
Lake region. He worked as
a reporter for the “Kansas city
star”. When America [...]
