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Wilton House The Palladian Idea The famous south facade At this period plans were also drawn up for a gracious & magnificent house to match the gardens & King Charles I encouraged the idea. ...

World War II At Munich in September 1938, the British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and his French counterpart douard Daladier bought time with 'appeasement'--betraying Czechoslovakia and handing the Sudetenland to Hitl ...

Write a composition about :The metaphor of travelling Travel is one of the most present metaphors in the collective imaginary:ed it is the theme more appreciated for a long time and used in many literary works. Every literary epoch and ...

Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights, wrote by Emily Bronte, was published in 1847. It was her only novel and her masterpiece and was a highly imaginative and dramatic presentation of a tragic story. However it was not an immediate success b ...

WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN (1907-1973)   EPITAPH FOR THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER: epitaph is an inscription on the tomb stones and it comes from the Greeks. To protect your world: to protect your power/privilege. YOU is referred to a powerful ...

Xenophobia is a very actual and diffused problem all over the world. The dictionary defines it as a phobic attitude towards strangers or of the unknown, a xenophobe is a person who is unduly fearful or contemptuous of anything foreign, such as of ...

Araby Summary The narrator, an unnamed boy, describes the North Dublin street on which his house is located. He thinks about the priest who died in the house before his family moved in and the games that he and his friends played in th ...

EVELINE Eveline sits at the window, watching the avenue. She thinks of her family. Years ago, the children on the avenue used to play on a field where now stand many houses. She and her siblings are now grown up, and her mother is dead. E ...

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 ...

ROMEO AND JULIET Summary In Verona a feud has broken out between the families of the Montegues and the Capulets. Romeo, the Montegues heir, is in love with Rosaline, who has vowed to remain chaste for the rest of her life. He ...

The Chimney Sweeper When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep! weep! weep! So you chimneys I sweep, and I soot I sleep. Theres little Tom Dacre, who cri ...

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the 20th century.  It is located in Peggy Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Veni ...

The Rime of the ancient mariner di Coleridge It is the story of a crime and its punishment narrated by the protagonist himself an old mariner condemned to expiate his crime by travelling from land to land telling his story and teaching ...

THE SCARLET LETTER: WRITE ABOUT PURITAN BEHAVIOURS ATTITUDES IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES In the seventeenth century Puritans went to America where they found many colonies. Here they introduced their own life-style. In The scarlet ...

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 ...

I RACCONTI DEL FOCOLARE NELLA VECCHIA EUROPA Quando ero giovane io. Se i nostri nonni iniziano una frase cos noi pensiamo al nostro modo di vivere e non sappiamo cosa aspettarci, ci sembra impossibile che qualcuno abbia vissuto sen ...