as she is desperate to fit in with the other children in her neighbourhood while forever feeling like an outsider because she is "different". She and her family are the only immigrants in the village. They are trying to work out how to fit into British society while attempting to maintain their own culture. Meena's house is always full of a constant stream of ethnic visitors and her parents seem to see no need to integrate futher. Namely, her parents considered every Indian immigrant in England as a friend or even as a part of the family. Meena's family are keen to see her keeping up the family's cultural tradition. Meena on the other hand, is caught between two cultures. She is having a difficult time adjusting to her surroundings, wishing she were blonde and carefree like her 14-year-old neighbor, Anita (Brewster). Meena idolizes Anita for her looks and free spirit, and in many ways wants to be
Dolly has discovered his affair - with the family's governess - and the house and family are in turmoil. Stiva's affair and his reaction to his wife's distress shows an amorous personality that he cannot seem to suppress. In the midst of the turmoil, Stiva reminds the household that his married sister, Anna Arkadyevna Karenina is coming to visit from Saint Petersburg. Meanwhile, Stiva's childhood friend Konstantin Dmitrievich Levin ("Kostya") arrives in Moscow with the aim of proposing to Dolly's youngest sister Princess Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya, "Kitty". Levin is a passionate, restless but shy aristocratic landowner who, unlike his Moscow friends, chooses to live in the country on his large estate. He discovers that Kitty is also being pursued by Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky, an army officer. At the railway station to meet Anna, Stiva bumps into Vronsky
· Point of view: amoral-outside the category of morality, neither good or bad · Naturalist find it absurd to blame the wicked. These criminals are doing what nature, environment, their unconscious tells them to do. Naturalists do not judge their characters, they simply report. Try to describe facts like they are. Naturalists depict the lower, coarser forms of life. · Drab, squallid set of scene. Revolting, disgusting · Characters are people with strong animal desires · Neurotic characters unable to understand the forces that control them · By the end of the 18th century the naturalism depicts in europe, but stars to become the literature method no 1 in america · Naturalism appealed American authors because they found it very right to describe what was going on in the turn of century in America · They wanted something fresh, new · They were disgusted by romantics · Showed the harsh tone in moral life
1) INDIAN ROCK ART: A NATIONAL TREASURE IN DANGER Unrecognized, unprotected, this priceless legacy of primitive art has endured the ravages of nature only to fall victim to wanton destruction by ,,civilized" man. Like the huge stone statues of Easter Island and prehistoric cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux, North American Indian rock art is surrounded by an atmosphere of mystery. Although examples of rock art exist at some 15000 sites in canyons, deserts, caves and river gorges. Nowadays, however, primitive rock art in the United States has become a new field of scientific study. Klaus F Wellmann wrote two books about rock art. He is a professor of medicine. Rock art represents the history of aboriginal Americans. In the most cases the art is an expression of ideas and way of life, ritual ceremonies, hunting, fighting
he did publish a French revision of Letters (1787) and a final book on his American experiences: Voyage dans la Haute Pensylvanie et dans l'état de NewYork (1801). Letters from an American Farmer is an excellent example of how a New World American thinks about the many changes occurring and that have occurred during the era of Enlightenment. Crevecoeur's essay is an enlightened perspective that shows how the people of that time are feeling about being a part of the new world and its current workings. Although the writer is originally from Normandy, and later Canada, he seems to truly grasp the changes in American society and how vastly different it is from Europe. Crevecoeur explains that America is a literal melting pot for people of all religions. He states that "the Americans become as to religion what they are as a country, allied to all". When Crevecoeur describes the
Merde Actually By Stephen Clarke "Merde Actually" is written by Stephen Clarke, who is a British journalist and a novelist living in Paris. When he first arrived in Paris, he experienced a cultural shock and got inspired by it. He started to keep a diary of his experiences and decided to publish it as a novel when the Anglo-French relationships were at their worst during the Iraq War spring 2003. Therefore his novels (he has written three in this series) have become enormously popular all around the world, especially because they are partly true. Stephen Clarke himself still lives in Paris with his French girlfriend. This novel is considered to be seriously funny and a comedy with a message
(1960) and M.A. (1964) in comparative literature Married and has two daughters. Has written over 50 books. Main Characters COL. WILLIAM LUDLOW - Idealistic, formalistic, rational, stong willed, so principled that he left his job because of unethical behavor in the army, it's almost obsessive to him that Indians get treated properly; wrote a book to the government objecting to their policy. TRISTAN LUDLOW - Adventurer and smuggler who loves his freedom so much that he lives like an indian, his long hairs and horse riding symbolize his independence, too self-confident, takes risks, when Sammuel is killed he tries to escape his feelings of guilt by sailing the sea's ALFRED LUDLOW - Macho; power hungry, the indian says he was older and looked even more older than the other ones, humiliates his other brothers in public(bully). Main Characters SAMUEL LUDLOW - He's the kamikaze son; self sacrificially loyal, naive need
Though Card is best-known for "Ender's Game", he has also written in a variety of other genres, including plays, short stories, books on writing, the Homecoming series, other science fiction books, and nonfiction, such as articles on computer technology. Orson Scott Card in 2008 and when he was younger. The Setting The novel starts off on Earth, with scenes at the school and the Wiggin home. Little attention is given to the details of this setting, not even the name of the city, and so it comes across as a standard American neighborhood. A shuttle is used as a background in the fourth chapter. It has small narrow corridors and the walls of the rooms were carpeted as floors. The importance of the shuttle is that Ender learned something about orientation in zero gravity and that knowledge helped him a lot later. Most of the time passes in Battle School, which is composed of army barracks with rows of
Author (name and some general information): Chuck Palahniuk is an American novelist born February 21, 1962 in Washington, USA. He is best known as the author for the novel Fight Club (1996), which was made into a movie in 1999. Palahniuk began writing fiction in his mid-thirties. When he attempted to publish his novel, Invisible Monsters, publishers rejected it for its disturbing content. This led him to work on Fight Club which he wrote as an attempt to disturb the publisher even more for rejecting him. After initially publishing it as a short story in the 1995 compilation, Pursuit of Happiness, Palahniuk expanded it into a full novel, which --contrary to his expectations--the publisher was willing to publish. Some other well-known novels: Rant, Choke, Diary. Analysis of the book 1. Setting The story takes place in somewhere between 1980s and 1990s in the United States. 2. Characters
,,The Road to Wigan Pier" George Orwell AUTHOR George Orwell was the pen name of the English author, Eric Arthur Blair. He was born on June 25 in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, in the then British colony of India, where his father, Richard, worked for the Opium Department of the Civil Service. His mother, Ida, brought him to England at the age of one. Orwell was educated in England at Eton College. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1928, he returned to Europe to become a writer. He lived in Paris for the next two years, and then came to England as a school-teacher. He lived for several years in poverty. By 1936, Orwell had joined the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War. He was wounded in the fighting. Late in the war, Orwell fought the Communists and eventually had to flee Spain for his life. During the Second World War, Orwell
Kipling cannot exist in the same room."[3] Father - John Lockwood Kipling. Lockwood Kipling, a sculptor, an illustrator, museum curator and pottery designer, was the principal and professor of architectural sculpture at the newly- founded Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy School of Art and Industry in Bombay. Later in life Kipling illustrated many of Rudyard Kipling's books, and other works. Kipling also remained editor of the Journal of Indian Art and Industry, which carried drawing works from the students of the Mayo School. COUPLE named their son after the place they had first met Rudyard Lake. Alice Kipling Fleming - Sister of British author Rudyard Kipling who became a well-known psychic, producing automatic writing under the name "Mrs. Holland." Born June 11, 1868, Alice Kipling was privately educated. She went to India at age 16 and married British army officer John Fleming. While in
He is well-liked and honored, despite his racial difference. He moves to Cyprus after becoming a general and he marries Desdemona. He falls victim to Iago's plan causing Othello to believe his wife has betrayed him with Cassio, becomes insanely jealous of their relationship and ultimately smothers his wife to death. After he realizes that Iago has tricked him and that Desdemona has always been faithful and chaste, he stabs Iago, leaving him to a life of pain and then kills himself. (Micha el) Cassio he is Othello's lieutenant and another victim of Iago's evil plan. He meets Desdemona and asks her help to mend his relationship with her husband. Iago schemes and makes Othello believe that Cassio is having an affair with her, though he has a mistress Bianca. At the end of the play, Cassio is injured and Othello is dead and after Othello's death, he wants to
Dracula Bram Stoker An Irish novellist Bram Stoker’s Gothic horror novel ‘’Dracula’’ was first published in 1897. The story is about vampire that tries to find new blood for himself and the hunt for him. Also you can find a little romance in the book. It takes place in Transylvania, Romania and in England. The novel is written in diary-form and several characters are telling their story by keeping a journal. Entries are written in six months by four persons. In the novel there are nine main characters: Jonathan Harker, whose writings are seen first; Count Dracula, of whom all the story is about, but he does not keep a diary; Wilhelmina
e. nature, astronomy, and poetry His best known work is "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People" Starting with the Roman invasion in the 5th century, he recorded the history of the English up to his own day Old English Cædmon ,,The Father of English Hymn" Cædmon's Hymn is the oldest recorded Old English poem, and also one of the oldest surviving samples of Germanic alliterative verse The Hymn itself was composed between 658 and 680, recorded in the earlier part of the 8th century Middle English Geoffrey Chaucer 13431400 Known as the ,,Father of English literature", the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages An author, philosopher, alchemist and astronomer, diplomat Wrote The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde Best known today for "The Canterbury Tales" Crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England
In the 15 th century Johann Gutenberg invented a mechanical process of duplicating texts, which we today call book printing. The first book was printed between 1444 and 1446, so these years can be considered as the beginning years of book printing. His most important preserved printings are the 40 copies of the Bible. By the end of the 15 th century there were about 1000 print-shops in Europe already. The oldest Estonian book dates back to 1535. Libraries form a vital part of education. They make available-through books, films, recordings and other media- knowledge that has been accumulated through the ages. People in all walks of life use libraries to get information for their work. Libraries also play an important role in preserving people's cultural heritage. For example, some libraries have rare books, authors' and composers' manuscripts or works by artists. Today's libraries differ very much from the ones from the past - not only in
Republic, it makes sense. We began studying Russian in first grade, though it was simplified – "koška" instead of "kot", "medvešonok" instead of "medved", "saichik" etc. Did not make much sense and we mostly played some games in Russian (Tare-tareke etc). Learned as much playing outside, since we had Estonian-Russian kids around as well. Not that we played with them. It's sad to say but it was not a nice time to be a Russian kid. We were mean to them, and we did not even know why. I think that's the only time I've ever been part of bullying someone, but there was this kid everybody called Vene-Russ and we spent a lot of time playing mean tricks on him. Well, there's that. And I also learned a lot of Russian from my mother's lover who was a Russian military officer and pretty much my father figure at the time. I tried to teach him Estonian and learned some Russian instead. My Russian studies in school have always been very hectic and making very little sense
Anna, on the other hand, is distraught and troubled. Th e sexual relationship has brought her the realization that she has betrayed not only her husband but herself as well. Her entire emotional struggle involves resisting the notion that she has become a "bad, despicable creature." Her not crossing over to using ty with Gurov suggests her need to maintain some distance between herself and him, thereby preserving a degree of self-respect. Th roughout their conversation in this passage, even when Gurov treats her with gentleness and compassion -- the kind that he might off er a pet dog -- Anna addresses him only as vy. Th e interplay of the two pronouns here clearly reveals a degree of tension and distance between the two characters that is entirely missing in English translations. Yet another dimension of the asymmetrical usage of second-person pronouns here is the attention that it calls to the couple's asymmetrical age relationship and social status: Gurov is twice Anna's age
The picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890. We meet our three central characters at the beginning of the book, when painter Basil Hallward and his close friend, Lord Henry Wotton, are discussing the subject of Basil's newest painting, about handsome young man named Dorian Gray. Henry told Basil that it's his best work yet and should it sent to the best art gallery in London. Basil refuses to send, because he has pu too much of himself into it. Lord Henry wants to meet this mysterious boy, but Basil doesn't want him to because he's afraid that Henry will change and influence Dorian by his clever words. However,
Phoebe is intelligent and, despite her age, mature. She understands Holden better than anyone else. · D. B. Holden's older brother who is a writer and now works in Hollywood by writing movie scripts. Holden doesn't like it, saying that they don't leave anything for the writer's imagination in Hollywood. · Allie Holden's deceased younger brother, who died of leukemia years before Holden tells the story. Holden feels depressed and even guilty of his brother's death. He carries Allie's baseball glove around with him. 3. Main problem/conflict Holden is expelled from another school, Pencey Prep in Pennsylvania this time. He has been expelled from many school before. The school sent his parents a letter about their son dropping out from the school but since it would have taken a couple of days for the letter to reach his parents, Holden decided not to go home before they got the letter.
child, Will bluntly refuses, he didn´t want to be responsible for the child, if something would happen with her parents. In an attempt to avoid spending time with the couple, Will meets Angie, and starts dating with her. But soon they break up and Will understands, that he have to look for girlfriend in some single-parents group. He comes up with idea of attending a group called "SPAT" to meet potential female partners. As part of his play, he claims to have two-year-old son named Ned. His plan succeeds and he meets Suzie. One day, Suzie takes Will in the park for a picnic, where he meets Marcus. Marcus is an 12 years old boy, who has bad haircut and who wears starnge clothes. Even his music style is different from others. At the picnic, Marcus accidentally kills a duck with a stale loaf of bread while trying to feed it. When a park keeper questions him about it, Will quickly defends Marcus by claiming the bird
BOOK REPORT Alice Tärk, 9b. Title: The Horse Whisperer Author: Nicholas Evans Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd Year: 1991 Number of pages: 97 Genre: fiction The setting: Takes place in Montana The Time Period: 1995 Goal: Some are going to be okay, some are not. The main character is Grace, who is thirteen years old and lives with her mother and father in New York. She is a usual teenager until she loses her leg and her best friend in a serious riding accident. After that she is sad and truly desperate hating the entire world. Her mother Annie is an Englishwoman who had lost his dad and wanted to prove her whole life that she is good in everything: as an important journalist in a fashionable magazine, as a mother and as a husband. But her job is number one and she does not find a lot time for her daughter and husband. Tom Brooker learned a special skill with horses from his father and grandfather
Also, he often drifts away from the topic on hand and starts to speak about what is on his mind at the moment. This often irritates many of the other characters (Quote 3). He is absolutely possessed with his garden and the farm animals and products that might win him prizes. Because of that, he spends much time with them and worries about them. This is probably because he still has the old nobility manners and thus tries to spend his free time this way. Many of his ancestors took part in these contests and many of them won there. So, he does not want to be worse than his ancestors were and uses a lot of time and care on these things. His main obsessions are the Empress of Blandings and the great pumpkin. (Quotes 3,4,10). Lord Emsworth is very much attached to the old nobility manners. He tries to do everything like his ancestors did before him. It is most notable in his language: it is exactly like out of a 18th century nobleman's mouth. Although he is
Olympiad. In the beginning the games lasted for only one day and comprised only one event, the running of one Stadion, but gradually more events were added resulting, towards the 5th century B.C., in the games lasting for 5 days. In total the Olympic Games consisted of 10 events: running, the pentathlon (viievõistlus), jumping, discus, "ekebolon" javelin, wrestling, boxing, the pancration, chariot racing and horse racing. All Greeks who were not criminals had the right to take part in the games. Women were not allowed to compete, they could not even watch the competition. The athletes presented themselves 1 moth before the games began at Elis, the organising town. The athletes had to swear that they would compete with honour and respect the rules. The victors enjoyed great honours and on returning to their cities their compatriots pulled down part of the walls for them to enter. They were also given special privileges and high office.
3. All stereotypes are true; the fact that you recognize a slur proves that it isn't. 4. Anything you're afraid is true is true. 5. Before most people get to the point of being able to tell their ass from a hole in the ground they're already assholes and it's too late. 6. Concentrating on something important can make you lose track of your soap opera. 7. Debunking the bunk is everyone's responsibility. 8. Don't ask me to pay for anyone else's mistakes. I make enough of my own. 9. Even those who possess real magic must beware of being misled by "magical thinking." 10. Everyone knows what shit tastes like. 11. Exclusive occupancy of a private room is a basic human right. 12. Fair compensation for genius is wealth. 13. God's not perfect, so it's a pretty good bet that you're not, either. 14. Good institutions help to overcome human moral inertia. 15. I am not one of your little friends. 16. If a dimension is anywhere it's everywhere. 17. If God's not crazy, why are you? 18
everything has changed. Joe hurts Susan´s feelings when he has an affair with Norah. It seems to Joe that he is in love with Norah and he eventually decides to leave from Warley to London. It almost works out to start a new life in London with Norah, but then comes Mrs.Brown, who says that Harry had run away from the school and wants to see his father. Joe goes back to home and finds out that he cant live without Harry, who he discovers, is a lot like Joe himself and Barbara, who has been and always will be his most loved one. Joe discovers that it is hurting others that hurts and they reconcile with Susan. The author is really good at descriptions there are just wonderful descriptions in the book. Always when Joe meets someone new or an old friend then the author describes him/her like he/she was the most important one and I like that every little detail counts. I love how the
the second is outside near the convent (road), and the third one is reservation and the island, in every chapters there is a 1st pr.narration. Reliable. `Saint Marie' 4. Introduce the narrator of `Saint Marie'. Why does she consider herself ignorant? What is the purpose of her wanting to join the convent? Interpret the quotation: `I had the mail- order Catholic soul . . .' (44). Marie, 14-year-old girl. Maybe since she isn't pure blood Indian. She want to enter the white community (to belong there). Her wish is not to 5. go to church but to come in to town where the shops and people are. 6. Describe the Sacred Heart Convent. Explain the sentence: `Where the Dark One had put in thick bush, liquor, wild dogs, and Indians' (45). It is on top of the highest hill, the windbreak is planted before the bar ,,for the purposes of tornado insurance". Buildings of painted brick, gleaming white
when Desdemona tires of her new husband. When the Venetians arrive in Cyprus, Iago immediately goes about planting doubt in Othello’s mind as to how loyal his wife is. A carefully planned fight between Roderigo and Cassio, the man who was promoted above Iago, results in Cassio’s demotion. Taking advantage of his saddened state, Iago advises Cassio to seek out Desdemona’s favor to speak on his behalf. Iago carefully maneuvers Othello and himself to arrive as Cassio is leaving Desdemona’s audience. Iago points out how Cassio seems to be avoiding Othello. Desdemona for her part immediately begs for Cassio’s pardon, as she has promised him from their meeting. This is all Iago needs to immediately begin planting seeds of doubt in Othello’s mind as to his wife’s fidelity. The ensuing scenes are all a carefully staged dance by Iago in which he finds a dropped handkerchief of Desdemona’s and convinces Othello of her improper actions
James Thurlow, Ph.D. 01.02.2012 Books to read · Plato's Republic · G.W.F. Hegel's Philosophy of History 1. Greek philosophy 2. Republic 3. Philosophy of History Ancient Greece - Ancient Greece vs. Persia (300-Herodotus) Salamis - Ancient Greece vs. Troy (Homer-screen writer)Iliad o Achilles- Hero of the heroes (main hero in Greece)- handsome, strong, brave, fast, anger(tema viga), young, bad temper o Agamemnon- son of King Atreus - Olympics - Sculptures- more lifelike, human figures come out of the stone - Greek liked physical beauty - Development of medicine - Greeks are pirates, they steal- high technology - Bad tempered people Men's progress towards freedom. (Hegel) Persia is under emperor Xerxes- slaves, fighting for Xerxes and their country, but it does not mean anything to them
memories of the childhood, the nature, etc. Keywords: Larkin, poetry, cruelty, suffering, nature Index Introduction 4 1. Chapter I 5 1.1. Larkin Studies Points of View: Biography and Poetry 5 1.2. Larkin Stylistic Map 8 2. Chapter II 11 2.1 Expressing Himself 11 3. Conclussion 15 4. References 16 INTRODUCTION Philip Larkin is one of the most important English poets of the new Era, due to the interest of he owns, more and more readers get to know about the two Philip Larkin’s the man and the poet. Since the publication of the three most widely used
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He borned in Cambridge. When he was five years old, his parents got divorced and he moved to Bretnwood with his mother and sister. From 1959 until 1970 he studied at Brentwood School in Essex. In 1974 he decided to become a writer. But nothing didn't bring him success. He worked with Graham Chapman, John Lloyd, but mos of his projects fell flat. In 1977 he met Simon Brett from Radio 4 and they produced a radio show there. It was the birth of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". He even wrote "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" into the novel in 1979. Adams wrote 4 books as a sequel and "Life, The Universe and Everything" is the 3rd book of the series. Books have been adapted into television series, stage plays, comic books. Over 15 miullions copies of books have been sold during his lifetime. In 2005, Garth Jennings even made a film "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Adams has also written "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" (1987), "The Long Dark
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Character List Paul Bäumer - A young German soldier fighting in the trenches during World War I. Paul is the protagonist and narrator of the novel. He is, at heart, a kind, compas-sionate, and sensitive young man, but the brutal expe-rience of warfare teaches him to detach himself from his feelings. His account of the war is a bitter invective against sentimental, romantic ideals of warfare. Read an in-depth analysis of Paul Bäumer. Stanislaus Katczinsky - A soldier belonging to Paul's company and Paul's best friend in the army. Kat, as he is known, is forty years old at the beginning of the novel and has a family at home. He is a resourceful, inventive man and always finds food, clothing, and blankets whenever he and his friends need them.
early or be respectable." - Oscar Wilde The picture of Dorian Gray This book talks about a young man called Dorian Gray, who doesn't age. Instead a portrait, which is painted of him shows all the changes Dorian is going trough. That is somehow making Dorian evil, he starts enjoying life at first, but later on his actions take a darker turn. All of that starts when Dorian meets lord Henry Wotton, who tells him that one should cherish his youth, because youth is only temporary. Lord Henry himself is a fine example of an upperclass gentleman. His day mostly consist of elegant dinners with the London's elite and attending shows, operas etc. He's trying to make Dorian like him, while Basil Hallward, the artist who painted the portrait of Dorian told him not to. Basil seemed to have an affection for Dorian, making him jealous when Dorian spends time with lord Henry. Somewhere along the line Dorian met an actor called Sybill Vane and fell for her. He
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