o Next to the Australia About Capital-Wellington Largest city-Auckland Government-Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy • Monarch - Queen Elizabeth II • Governor-general - Jerry Mateparae • Prime minister - John Key About Area-268,021 km2 Population-4,509,461 ( January 2014 ) Anthem-"God Defend New Zealand„ New Zealanders are calling their country Aotearoa. History o Māori were the first to arrive in New Zealand, journeying in canoes from Hawaiki about 1,000 years ago. A Dutchman, Abel Tasman, was the first European to sight the country In 1840, the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, an agreement between the British Crown and Maori Nature New Zealand is made up of two main islands and a number of smaller islands The South Island is the largest landmass of New Zealand New Zealand has a mild and temperate maritime climate with mean annual temperatures ranging from 10 °C in
The little prince took great care of this planet, preventing any bad seeds from growing and making sure it was never overrun by baobab trees. One day, a mysterious rose sprouted on the planet and the little prince fell in love with it. But when he caught the rose in a lie one day, he decided that he could not trust her anymore. He grew lonely and decided to leave. Despite a last-minute reconciliation with the rose, the prince set out to explore other planets. While journeying, the narrator tells, the little prince passes by neighboring asteroids and encounters for the first time the strange, narrow-minded world of grown-ups. On the first six planets the little prince visits, he meets a king, a vain man, a drunkard, a businessman, a lamplighter, and a geographer, all of whom live alone and are overly consumed by their chosen occupations. Such strange behavior both amuses and perturbs the little prince. He does not understand their need to order people around, to be
literature and in particular with the works of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio. The French period (up to 1370). early works were based mostly on French models. The Italian period (up to c. 1387). Was influenced by Italian literature, especially Dante and Bocaccio. The English period. Wrote Canterbury tales. CANTERBURY TALES This unfinished poem of about 17,000 lines was written mostly after 1387. The poem introduces a group of pilgrims who are journeying from London to the shrine of Thomas à Becket at Canterbury. Chaucer originally planned that the work should contain 120 tales, four for each pilgrim, but at the time of his death he had only written twenty-four and some of them were not complete. The Prologue. The pilgrims are described in the General Prologue; together, they represent a wide cross-section of fourteenth-cent. English life, although the nobility and the poor are missing as they would not have taken part