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A voice from Native American culture: House made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday |
A voice from Native American culture: House made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday, was conceived first as a series of poems, then replanned as stories, and finally shaped into a novel. In writing House ... |
A voice from Native American culture: House made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday |
A voice from Native American culture: House made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday, was conceived first as a series of poems, then replanned as stories, and finally shaped into a novel. In writing House ... |
Astronomy and its limits: from the myth to heliocentrism |
ASTRONOMY AND ITS LIMITS: FROM THE MYTH TO HELIOCENTRISM The first hypothesis about the structure and the origin of the universe are to be found in mythology: in fact ... |
Far From The Madding Crowd |
Far From The Madding Crowd Author profile: Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Upper Bock Hampton; he was educated at local schools and then he began life as an architect. He wrote his first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, ... |
From middle ages (1000-1500) to renaissance |
FROM MIDDLE AGES (1000-1500) TO RENAISSANCE During the Middle Ages there were two kind of drama: RELIGIOUS DRAMA: short plays acted outside in front of the churches after the mass. They had to be understood also by illiterate pe ... |
From Modernism to Pop Art |
From Modernism to Pop Art THE TWENTIETH CENTURY It is a period full of changes from life style side and from the new centrality of mans subconscious with desires and fears. Art is changing too. Here rise different styles character ... |
From Neoclassicism to Romanticism, Industrial Revolution , Coleridge |
Neoclassicism Romanticism reason feelings and passion wit, elegance simple, clear and easy style realism imagination, mystery ex ... |
From Prehistoric Britain to the Germanic invasions |
From Prehistoric Britain to the Germanic invasions The Celts The invasion in great Britain started during the bronze age while the Celts arrived form central Europe I great Britain in iron age. They were organized in tribes and the ... |
From the Napoleonic wars to the regency |
From the Napoleonic wars to the regency Even if the French revolution is a French project it involved all Europe. Some people among intellectual accepted these new political ideas while some people continued to have a conservative ideas. In ... |
Joseph conrad (1857 - 1924) - conrad and imperialism, heart of darkness |
JOSEPH CONRAD (1857 - 1924) Joseph Conrad (whose real name was Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) was born in 1857 in Ukraine, at that time a Polish province under Russian rule. In 1861, Josephs father moved to Warsaw, whe ... |
L’arte di amare di erich fromm |
LARTE DI AMARE di Erich Fromm Ma per un lettore con la mente indipendente, che ricerca la verit obiettiva, quasi tutti i libri, anche quelli disonesti e nocivi, possono essere di un certo valore se sar capace di estrarre quelle parti c ... |
The british empire (from 1776 to 1931) |
THE BRITISH EMPIRE (from 1776 to 1931) The indipendence of the 13 American colonies, proclaimed in 1776, and recognized in 1783 with the treaty of Versailles, was harmful for the English imperial ideal. The British colonial expansionism f ... |
The photovoltaic system: From the solar surface to the heart surfase |
The photovoltaic system: From the solar surface to the heart surfase The structure of a photovoltaic system can be very varied; in its most general form, a block system is shown here. Even if, in general, the most practical realizations us ... |
“I see thee better – in the dark” by Emily Dickinson |
I see thee better in the dark by Emily Dickinson In the poem I see thee better - in the dark, Emily Dickinson reports her thoughts looking at a dead man in his tomb. She says that she can see him better in the dark because of the lov ... |
“The troubles” - What happened in Northern Ireland from 1968 to 1990 |
The troubles - What happened in Northern Ireland from 1968 to 1990 The troubles, a period of rebellions that went on from 1968 to 1990, took place in a region called Ulster, which, now a days, corresponds to Northern Ireland. In ... |
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