Learning languages
The problem of learning languages is very important today. Foreign languages are socially demanded especially at the present time when the progress in science and technology has led to an explosion of knowledge and has contributed to an overflow of information. The total knowledge of mankind is known to double every seven years. Foreign languages are needed as the main and most efficient means…
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Leisure time
The most spectacular example of unofficial organization is presented by the Tolkienist movement. J.R.R. Tolkien, the famous British writer created a magic world of elves, dwarves, and hob-bits. Any person who likes Tolkien «p.s novels can become a Tolkienist. This community is open to everyone; young people come and go, they choose a race, becoming, for example, an elf or a goblin. Their…
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The Golden Hair Girl
Once upon a time Golden Hair met a handsome, nomad from the Bashkirian tribe, who was hunting nearby Poloza «p.s Palace. They fell in love, decided to get married, and to go to live in the hunter «p.s house. On this beautiful Island the couple found meadows and forests, herds of horses and sheep, wonderful gar-dens with flowers in bloom all year round, plenty of food, and all manners of comfort…
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The Future: A Must for Our World Community
You can see a lot of advertisements, signboards, names in the streets. They are in foreign languages. Very often they are in English. If you know English, you can read and understand them. Now we buy many clothes from other countries. If you know English well, you can read something about the size of this or that thing. It is clear for you what it is made of. Для підготовки даної праці були…
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Aus Lenins Leben
Mit neuneinhalb Jahren trat Wladimir Iljitsch in die erste Klasse des Gymnasiums ein. In ihren Erinnerungen an Lenin erzählt A.I.Uljanowa, dab im Gymnasium Lenin sich für Geschichte, Georaphie, Literatur und Sprachen interessierte. Wolodja Uljanow war nicht nur ein sehr begabter, sondern auch ein fleibiger Schuler. Gewöhnlich hörte er dem Lektor im Unterricht sehr aufmerksam zu, deshalb bereitete…
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Moscow
The best starting point of the tour around the city is Red Square, the central and the most beautiful square in Moscow. It is the place of parades, meeting and demonstrations. Here one can see the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed, or St. Basil’s cathedral, erected by architects Postnik and Barma to commemorate Russia’s conquest of the Kazan Kingdom in 1552. It is a masterpiece of Russian…
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My home is my castle
We all feel happy when we are together. In the evenings we often have little gatherings in the kitchen by the cup of tea, chatting, laughing and discussing the events of the day. Those evening are the best of all. But sometimes I have problems with my parents. They don’t like the clothes I wear the music I listen to and the friends I bring home. It’s not easy to be a teenager. In summer I visit…
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Hiroshige, Ando
With Hokusai, Hiroshige dominated the popular art of Japan in the first half of the 19th century. His work was not as bold or innovative as that of the older master, but he captured, in a poetic, gentle way that all could understand, the ordinary person «p.s experience of the Japanese landscape as well as the varied moods of memorable places at different times. His total output was immense, some…
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Cranach, Lucas the Elder
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472−1553). German painter. He takes his name from the small town of Kronach in South Germany, where he was born, and very little is known of his life before about 1500−01, when he settled in Vienna and started working in the humanist circles associated with the newly founded university. His stay in Vienna was brief (he left in 1504), but in his period there he painted…
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Carracci
Agostino assisted Annibale in the Farnese Gallery from 1597 to 1600, but he was important mainly as a teacher and engraver. His systematic anatomical studies were engraved after his death and were used for nearly two centuries as teaching aids. He spent the last two years in Parma, where he did his own `Farnese Ceiling «, decorating a ceiling in the Palazzo del Giardino with mythological scenes…
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Baburen, Dirck van
Baburen was especially fond of genre scenes (subjects from everyday life), such as his best-known work, The Procuress (1622; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). This picture is seen in the background of two paintings by Vermeer, whose mother-in-law apparently owned it. A certain coarseness in conception, irregular compositional rhythms, and less atmospheric quality distinguish Baburen «p.s art from…
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KOREA People and History in Harmony
This rapid economic and social development has brought Korea increased international exposure and recognition, as the Republic begins to expand its role on the international stage. Testifying to this was the successful hosting of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the largest held in history up to that time. This was following by the 1993 hosting of an international exposition, the Taejon Expo ‘93. Both…
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Россия /english/
Russia is a presidential republic. It is one of the leading powers in the world. Head of State in this country is the President. The government consists of three branches: legislative, executive and judicial. The President controls each of them. The legislative power is exercised by the Federal Assembly. The executive power belongs to the Government, or the Cabinet of Ministers. The government…
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Polari — English gay slang
By the mid-twentieth century, there had also been a cross-over to a recognisably gay form of slang, with polari used by the gay community to communicate in code in elaborate forms. Words such as trade and ecaf (backslang for face, shortened to eek) became part of gay subculture. Blagging trade (picking up sexual partners), zhoosing your riah (doing your hair), trolling to a bijou bar (stepping…
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School Reform: Pros and Cons
One more nerve-wrecking factor is an independent examination commission. Specialized schools introduced exams at each year beginning with the fifth grade. School students strain every nerve to please the commission to simply pass from one grade to another and then find themselves in breakdowns. There’s no ground for that. Final control testing is proved to be sufficient except for graduate years…
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The political role of Great Britain in modern world
As a matter of fact there are only two alternatives of the British foreign political development. The first one is changing nothing but England should know nowadays most political analysists agree that soon playing the role of a sort of a oikumena, the US will exert itself to the utmost. The American industry and production cannot compete with the European ones not only in the world but even…
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Герундий
Герундий після іменників з приводом. |To be |Боятися |(at*) |Удивлен|Hope |Надежда|Время: |Час: — |afraid of |Бути |Astonish|ие |Idea — |On |після — |To be |здатним |ment |Разочар|Importa|Идея |(upon) |Після — |capable |(не*) |Disappoi|ование |nce |Важност|After |Перед — |(in*) of |Бути |ntment |Удивлен|Intenti|ь |Before |Тоді| |To be |разочарован|Surprise|ие |on |Намерен|In |як — |disappoint|ным…
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Словарь по збиральним машинам і комбайнам
Absence — відсутність across — в поперечному напрямі air intake — паркан повітря all-condition — усілякий all-metal — цельнометаллическая angular — кутовий arranged — розташований assembly — разом auger — свердло awner — шасталка back zone — задня зона backed by — вироблений balanced — урівноважений bearing — кріплення beater — бич beveled — конічний blade — лопата boost — збільшувати brass…
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Эссе англійською (TEN REASONS FOR A TRADITION OF MODERNITY; made in Britain)
London. «Traditionally» speaking, London is supposed to be permanently foggy, with no other means of transportation but double-deckers and cabs, populated by men wearing bowlers or looking like James Bond. Well, it’s not. What is really traditional about London is its scent, its atmosphere, it’s the arrogance to have an area named so pompously «The City», it’s the mixture of trends, it’s the…
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Южнодунайские діалекти румунського языка
Trayan Cantemir, Texte istroromane, Bucuresti, 1959. Th. Capidan, Arominii. Dialectul aroman. Studiu lingvistic, Bucuresti, 1932. Th. Capidan, Meglenoromanii, I, Istoria si graiul lor, Bucuresti, 1925. Th. Capidan, Meglenoromanii, II, Bucuresti, 1928. Th. Capidan, Farserotii. Studiu lingvistic asupra romanilor din Albania, in Dacoromania, Buletinul «Muzeului limbei Romane», Cluj, VI, 1929;1930…
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USA: Political System
In actual practice, and in line with the American tradition of keeping government as close to the people as possible, the states delegate many of these powers to their political subdivisions—counties, cities, towns and villages. Thus, at the lowest political level, residents of small American communities elect village trustees to run their police and fire departments, and elect a board…
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Melville «s» The March into Virginia «and» The College Colonel": The Broken Youth
Such people are described in «The College Colonel». In this poem, Melville shows a return of soldiers from the front to a hometown. Again, the poem is told by a spectator watching marching troops. This time, however, there is no doubt that this man is a soldier himself. It seems that the narrator knows all thoughts and feelings of the returning men. He even could be a former member of this…
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Global warming
Global warming «has been introduced by the scientific community and the media as the term that encompasses all potential changes in climate that result from higher average global temperatures. Hundreds of scientists from many different countries are working to understand global warming and have come to a consensus on several important aspects. In general, Global warming will produce far more…
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Books in our life
As for me, I prefer to read science fiction. It is very interesting and exciting for me as my hobby is computing. I read that some scientists think that without the computer the 21st century would be impossible. Computers are penetrating all spheres of human activity. In many of them they become indispensable. They calculate orbits, guide spaceships and planes, play chess, teach pupils, house…
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Problems of the youth (friendship, love, conflicts)
Every new generation is different from the one that preceded it. Today the differences are especially considerable. The adults always believe that they know best only because they have been around a bit longer. They don «t want their values to be doubted. The young on the other hand are questioning the assumptions of the adults, they suspect that the world created by their predecessors was not…
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Coronations in Westminster Abbey
George IY saw his coronation as an opportunity for a great theatrical spectacle and spent vast sums of money on it. He wore an auburn wig with ringlets, with a huge plumed hat on top, and designed his own robes for the procession into the Abbey. After the coronation, because Queen Caroline had been forcibly excluded from the ceremony, the crowds in the streets were extremely hostile to him and…
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I heard a Fly buzz
Для підготовки даної праці були використані матеріали із сайту internet. I heard a Fly buzz — when I died — (Я почула, як дзижчить муха, коли вмирала —). And Breaths were gathering firm (І подих готувало сили = літер. «збиралося крепко»)). Be witnessed — in the Room — (Був би засвідчений = з’явиться в комнате.). Assignable — and then it was (Передана — і саме тоді; to assign = препоручать…
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New York City. Capital of USA
The artists of New York City exhibit in a wide variety of forms, ranging from traditional crafts to the most avant-garde work, flavoured by complex blends of ethnic and national influences. Theatrical arts and entertainment are also widespread: Broadway is the synonym for musical comedies and legitimate drama; Carnegie Hall is one of the most famous concert halls in the world; and Lincoln Center…
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Pushkin
In 1823 Pushkin began writing his masterpiece, a novel in verse. became the linguistic and literary standard. It is a commentary on the life of the early I 9th century Russia. It is noted for brilliant verse. He also wrote other long poems, including (1833), the finest collection of lyrics in Russian literature. Pushkin created also a number of masterpieces in drama and prose. and are among the…
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Origins of slang
A slang expression may suddenly become widely used and as quickly dated (23-skiddoo). It may become accepted as standard speech, either in its original slang meaning (bus, from omnibus) or with an altered, possibly tamed meaning (jazz, which originally had sexual connotations). Some expressions have persisted for centuries as slang (booze for alcoholic beverage). In the 20th century, mass media…
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