The Enlightment

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2. William Shakespeare Shakespeare is the most famous British playwright in history. People know his name in almost every country in the world. But who exactly was William Shakespeare? That is the question! Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon on 23 April, 1564. Families were big in those days. William had seven brothers and sisters. But his parent’s weren’t […]...
3. Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe) DD was the founder of the realistic novel. He was also a brilliant journey-list and in many ways the father of modern English periodicals. He founded and paved the way for many magazines ( “The Revue”, “The Spectator”). DD was born in London, his father a butcher, was wealthy enough to give his sone a […]...
4. Pushkin Pushkin is the most important Russian writer of all time, like Shakespeare in England or Dante in Italy. Pushkin provided the standards for Russian arts and literature in the 19th century. Pushkin was born in Moscow in 1799 into an upper-class family. In 1811 he entered a lyceum at Tsarskoye Solo. The education offered at […]...
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6. HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY There were Slavic settlements on the territory of the modern European part of Russia still long before Christ. However, as a beginning of the Russian state the 9 th century is held when the Old-Russian state here had been formed. In 988 Vladimir the Great has accepted the Christianity and have spread this new religion […]...
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10. HISTORY OF THE UK Like every old country on Earth the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland long and very interesting history. Since ancient times Celtic and Anglo-Saxon tribes inhabited these numerous islands, not far from Europe. In the first century before Christi Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, came to Britain on purpose to make it a […]...
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15. Classification of functional styles, belles-lettres style A functional style of language is a system of interrelated language means which serves a definite aim in communication. In the English literary standard Galperin distinguishes the following major functional styles (FS): belles-lettres; publicistic literature; newspaper; scientific prose; official documents. The belles-lettres FS has the following substyles: style of poetry; of emotive prose; of drama. […]...
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17. Russian Moskva Moscow is the capital of Russia. The city is located in western Russia and lies in the broad, shallow valley of the Moskva River, a tributary of the Oka and thus of the Volga, in the centre of the vast plain of European Russia. This region is one of the most highly developed and densely […]...
18. Kiev Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, is one of the most ancient cities of Europe. It is situated on the picturesque banks of the Dnieper river and occupies an area of about 800 square kilometres. Now Kiev is more than 1500 years old. Its population is nearly 2.5 million people. Administratively Kiev is divided into 17 […]...
19. Renoir For his part, Jean Renoir continued his work as one of the foremost humanists of the cinema. His third and final period as a director begins with Le Fleuve (The River, 1951), an independently produced film based on Rumer Godden’s novel and shot entirely in Calcutta. This relaxed and contemplative coming-of-age story, beautifully photographed in […]...
20. Праздники и традиции в Англии – Holidays and traditions in Great Britain Adherence of British to traditions is shown not only in the politician, but it is literally continually, in most that on is an ordinary life. British contrary to logic and common sense adhere to the system of measures and scales, link sided movement, traditions in a food. Tea with milk became for a long time […]...
21. The political system of Ukraine Ukraine is a republic. Legislative power belongs to the parliament that is called “Verkhovna Rada.” The deputies are elected by secret ballot all over the country. They have meetings when they discuss the problems of the country and new laws. Ukrainian radio and television broadcast the meetings of Verkhovna Rada and everybody can learn what […]...
22. Эрнест Хемингуэй и его произведения – The highlights of E. Hemingway Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. For a serious writer he achieved a rare cult-like popularity during his life time. E. Hemingway was a prolific letter writer and many of his letters were published in “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters”. The influence of Hemingway`s writings […]...
23. About Rap Rap is a style of music that has been popular in Britain and the United States for over ten years. The noun “rap” comes from the verb “to rap”. This is an informal word meaning to talk quickly and a lot. Rap music has developed along with movements in fashion, dance and art. They all […]...
24. Sir Charlie Chaplin Sir Charlie Chaplin is one of the beloved comedians of the world. Years after his death, the comic films of movie actor and director Charlie Chaplin continue to be popular. He is one of the greatest comic actors who achieved greater, widespread fame in his own lifetime than perhaps anyone else in the history of […]...
25. Periods of the English history According to English scientists Henry Sweet classified this periods are connected with the development of English endings. Henry Sweet classified them as 1. The Period of Full Endings, 2. The Period of Levelled Endings in reality contains the levelled vowel in the ending, but at the same time lots of endings were already lost; 3. […]...
26. Bath Bath is an unusual city because it was built for leisure and health. Most of the houses were built in the eighteenth century when Bath became a fashionable place. The houses were built with the pale golden-coloured stone from the nearby hills. Some of the terraces in Bath were built in crescent or circular shape. […]...
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29. French occupation cinema In France during the war, with Paris under the Nazi occupation and the puppet Vichy government, only a few major filmmakers chose to stay behind and create a series of very subtly subversive films; otherwise, much of the Vichy cinema was sheer escapism. Marcel Carné’s Les Enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945), from a […]...
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31. The Hollywood professionals Besides these major directors, a veritable army of skilled journeymen were trained to handle everyday directorial assignments. The studios supervised the careers of not only their actors, but also their directors, cinematogra-phers, and other key creative personnel, acting as a sort of finishing school for talent in support of the system. Directors often advanced to […]...
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33. A Laconic Answer There was a time when the people of Greece were not united but instead there were several states each of which had its own ruler. Some of the people in the southern part of the country were called Spartans and they were famous for their simple habits and their bravery. The name of their land […]...
34. Saint Petersburg St. Petersburg is a city of magic beauty, a city of white night, broad straight avenues, green parks, countless bridges and canals. The greatest architects of the 18-th and 19-th centuries created magnificent ensembles in our city. St. Petersburg reminds some visitors of Rome others of Paris, Vienna or Amsterdam. But really there is no […]...
35. The Olympic Games The Olympic games have a very long history. They began in 777 bc. in Greece and took place every 4 years for nearly 12 century at Olympia. All the cities in Greece sent their best athletes to Olympia to compete in the Games. For the period of the games all the wars stopped. So the […]...
36. A Frenchman in England A Frenchman was once travelling in England. He could speak English, but not very well. His vocabulary was not large. One day he was eating in a small country hotel and he wanted to order some eggs. But he couldn’t remember the word for eggs. Suddenly, through the window, he saw a rooster walking in […]...
37. Калифорния – California California is one of the biggest states of the USA. California is always associated with Hollywood, Beverly Hills, film production, Los Angeles, big boobs, plastic surgeries, celebrities and the richest people in the world. California becomes a place where an American dream may come true. What is an “American dream”? I think it is a […]...
38. The new American documentary film The documentary film that set the pace for the new decade was Primary (1960), which covered the 1960 U. S. presidential race, made by four men who would become the key players of the new, handheld, sync-sound documentary tradition: Albert Maysles, Robert Drew, D. A. Pennebaker, and Richard Leacock. Working as Drew Associates, the four […]...
39. Advertisements in the USA of Coloneal Period Advertising experience of British journalists rapidly covered the territories of British colonies on the American continent during the XVIII century. These colonies were established on the Eastern coast of Northern America in 1608. The main part of the first inhabitants was puritans. They were supported by the advertising campaigns which were held in honor to […]...
40. The new American cinema Another important school of noncommercial filmmaking was the New American Cinema, a loosely knit group of artists who made experimental or underground movies in 16 mm on nonexistent budgets. These movies nevertheless profoundly influenced the language of cinema, in everything from MTV videos in the 1980s to television commercials, as well as the editorial and […]...