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GOVERNMENT IN BRITAIN THE UNITED KINGDOM We often say England when we talk about the British isles, but it is only one of four countries: Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England. Wales, Scotland and England form the Gr ...

THE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES - BIOGRAPHY Gulliver's Travels was an overnight success, a runaway best-seller. And why not? Not only did it smack of mystery and political, social, and sexual scandal, but it's often hilarious, and just about always ...

The plot Gullivers Travels recounts the story of Lemuel Gulliver, a practical-minded Englishman trained as a surgeon who takes to the seas when his business fails. In a deadpan first-person narrative that rarely shows any signs of self- ...

Hamlet Hamlet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sets in Denmark. After THE death of the king, Hamlets father, became king Claudius, Hamlets uncle, that married Gertrude, the queen Hamlets mother. In that period Hamlet was v ...

HAMLET PLOT: Hamlets father, the king of Denmark, has been dead only two months, but his mother, Queen Gertrude, has married her brother-in-law, Claudius, who is now become king. A Ghost, that looks like the late king of Denmark, appeared ...

Hamlet Shakespeare's Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is based on a 12th century tale by Saxo Grammaticus, which Shakespeare most certainly never saw, and is part of a spate of revenge dramas which were extremely popular around the ...

Hamlet William Shakespeare This play talks about revenge, hate but also about love and sorrow. Hamlet, Denmarks king, was killed by the brother, Claudius, seduced his wife, Queen Gertrude. Hamlet, son of the dead king, knew this facts ...

It is in 1938 that Handball starts in its current form and that are organized the first official international competitions. But one cannot deal with his evolution without referring to his direct ancestors: His/her father Handball with eleven, and ...

Henry the II Henry the II (1154-1189) was the first of the Plantagenest. He was a man of a tremendous energy. He decided to set in order England before anything else. He received help from the chancellor Thomas Becket, who was older tha ...

Henry VII During the reign of Henry VII monarchy bacame really important. Home politic: England became a modern state, with a new modern mentality. Henry VII avoided war, because it was too expensive. For this he became popular ...

HIGH SCHOOL IN THE U.S.A. The American high school system is unlike that in many other countries. In the United States, there is little national standardization in the high school (or secondary school) curriculum. Individual states have gre ...

Italy has played an important role in European higher education: it is one of the four countries that first engaged to create the so-called 'European Area of Higher Education', thus starting that type of higher education reform which, k ...

History - The English renaissance (War of the Roses 1455-85 / Mary Stuarts death 1603)   Guerra delle due Rose 1455 1485     White Rose of York VS ...

THE ORIGINS OF AMERICA (1492-1776) The original inhabitants of the USA were the Amerindian people. The first recorded expedition of Europeans to America came with Christopher Columbus in 1492. He was followed by Spanish colonisers who re ...

HOPE IS THE THING 1-     The subject of the poem is hope, that is compared to a bird. Hope can be found everywhere, even in the most dangerous storm you can hear the feeble sound of the tune of the bird of hope. Hope is a ...

I TEMPI PASSIVI This house was built 20 years ago. Costruzione attiva e costruzione passiva In una frase attiva, il soggetto compie attivamente lazione espressa dal verbo. <Mark legge un libro.> Mark ...

IDEAL CITIES Howard, Wright and Le Corbusier were strongly impressed by recent technological advances. Their writings were filled with the image of the city as a living organism, a city that can always be changed or up-to-date with new tec ...

Il Grande Fratello Il Grande Fratello non una persona reale, anche se onnisciente, dotato di poteri illimitati, e continuamente spiante, egli si pu vedere solo attraverso la tv. Anche se le sue effigi ci fissano dai poster che gridano ...

Il modernismo in Europa un complesso movimento che inizia nel 1910 e fiorisce fra gli anni 20 e 30 in Europa, e coinvolge tutte le arti. In letteratura, pensiamo a Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Musil o Proust, mentre, per la poesia pensiamo a Elio ...

Il passato progressivo Il passato progressivo si forma con il passato del verbo to be + forma in ing del verbo. Il passato progressivo si usa: Per descrivere unazione che era in corso di svolgimento in un momento del passat ...