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Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) The Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, scientist and genius who lit the world He had 700 patents in the US and Europe. Tesla's discoveries include the Tesla Coil, fluorescent light, wireless tra ...

No Logo Theyre the biggest companies of the world, they only buy something, they never sell; they only give back a logo, their name, their own brand applied on each stupid object that without it wouldnt been sold. Buying shoes or t-s ...

NON FICTION THE DIARY The diary is an informal record of day-to-day events, observations and reflections, usually not intended for a general readership. It usually contains references to time and place. It follows a chrono ...

Novels (Austen, Dickens, Whitman, Stevenson, Wilde) Walter Scott (1771 1832). He wrote historical novels (realistic historical backgrounds), he opened up the movements of History. His works talked about revolutions and social transformat ...

O Captain, my Captain! O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the st ...

Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode on a Grecian Urn is a poem by John Keats, first published in January 1820. Some scenes like those described in this poem can be found on several examples of Greek pottery surviving in museums, all the details combin ...

ODE ON A GRECIAN URN By John Keats Published in 1819 it was probably inspired by the great sculptures of Partenone kept in the British Museum. This ode was written during Keats most productive period. The Grecian urn is, first of al ...

ODE TO THE WEST WIND If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Ode to the West Wind is an Ode wrote by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in the 1819, and showed to the public in the 1820. The poet appended a note to it, to explain how the ...

OLIVER TWIST In the workhouse of a provincial town seventy‑five miles north of London a young woman who has arrived in an exhausted condition gives birth to a boy, and dies. The child is named OLIVER TWIST and put into the ...

Oliver Twist Oliver Twist was born in a Workhouse, a place where all the poor people goes to have some food and help. His mother died after have looked at him for the first time. When he was 9 heve been sold to an undertaker for 5 po ...

Oliver Twist Plot Overview Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in 1830s England. His mother, whose name no one knows, is found on the street and dies just after Olivers birth. Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in a badly run ...

On The Road On The Road is not only a description of the ethos of the 'Beat' generation. It is a wild brawl of a story, as applicable now as was then and will, till the final man falls from the earth and makes his great, sad journey to som ...

Order of Hierarchy The society of 16th century was organized according to a pyramidal hierarchy. The sovereign was on the top; only Privy Councillors had the right of access. Nobles were very rich, they had great proprieties and servants bu ...

Osama bin Laden The dramatic events happened into the Twin Towers and into the Pentagon on September 11th are probably made by Americas public enemy number one: Mr Osama bin Laden. Thanks to his money he is able to organise sophisticated t ...

OSCAR FINGAL OFLAHERTIE WILLS WILDE A major spokesman for the Aesthetic movement in the late 19th century and an advocate of 'Art for arts sake', which proposes that beauty has no utilitarian value and is independent of morality, is ...

OSCAR WILDE He deepened psychological analysis but refused the convention of the omniscient narrator. Most of his stories are told from the point of view of one character speaking in the first person. The line of development of the Aes ...

Oscar Wilde INTRODUCTION: THE AESTHETICISM. The term ' aestheticism' derives from Greek and means: 'Perceiving through senses'. It was also for the Romantic culture, in fact the movement has its roots in the Roman ...

Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. After attendig Trinity College, he was sent to Oxford where he gained a first class degree in Classics and distingueshed himself for his eccentricity. He accepted the teory of Art for Art ...

Oscar Wilde Wildes life and art are very closely linked. He was born and grew up in Dublin. He established himself as a spokesman. He had published his first volume of poems collection, Lord Arthur Saviles Crime and Other Stories and his ...

OSCAR WILDE He deepened psychological analysis but refused the convention of the omniscient narrator. Most of his stories are told from the point of view of one character speaking in the first person. The line of development of the Aes ...