Inglese

In 1862, Congress passed an act to help farmers. It offered them one hundred and sixty acres of land free if they remained on it for at least five years.. The settlers began moving westwards. In 1870 there were about 200’000 indians living in the West. The white people moved on their lands without any respect for these tribes. The indians were sent to l

In the XVII century the puritan Oliver Cromwell was responsible for a lot of massacres of catholic Irish. After Cromwell the Irish supported the catholic king James II, but the protestant king William of Orange arrived in Ireland in 1690. In 1690 there was the Battle of the Boyne, which ended with the victory of the Protestants of Northern Ireland with

- chronological sequence of events;
- a great stress on contemporaty reality;
- abdunance of realistic details;
- the novelty of the stories.
Deteiled realism shows in two elements: place and time. Time ceased to be a eternal and immutable power(felt through death and physical decay), it becomes a sharping influence on a character’s pers

Assonance = the repetition of the same vowel sound
Alliteration = the repetition of the same initial consonant sound
Repetition = phrases or lines may be repated
Onomatopoeia = the use of word whose sound illustrates their meaning
Simile = a comparison between 2 things with a comparison word such as like
Metaphor = comparison between

The selfsame tendency to realism has led writers to encompass the whole range of human experiences into their fiction. The euphemistic hints at, or straightforward suppression of sexual relationships, for instance, so characteristic of pre-Victorian and Victorian literature, has been definitely abandoned in favour of frank and detailed handling of sexua

2) What can you do with a computer?
Computers can be used in many fields. We can use computers to perform financial transactions or mathematical operations, to keep records of large collections of data such as lists or inventories. Computers allow us to type and print any kind of document, letters, memos and we can also communicate with other comput

Finally in 1995 (very late indeed) a National Inquiry was set up, and terrible facts emerged.
The government tried obviously to defend itself, and as first reaction it denied everything, saying that “there never was a generation of stolen children”. But then it had to yield before the facts.
The state increased some funding, but it always refus

Their discussions revolve around their similar intellectual interests, including books, political theories, and music, and with each meeting they draw more closely together. Such sharing gradually softens Mr. Duffy’s hard character. However, during one of their meetings, Mrs. Sinico takes Mr. Duffy’s hand and places it on her cheek, which deeply bothers

Leavitt is exceptional is showing his character’s psychology, and he does it with both irony and a feeling of gloom. He usually starti from insignificant details and tries to find that event’s meaning, analyzing his characters’s memories. Leavitt uses the third person, unobtrusive narrator and hisstyle is marked by smoothness, elegance and clearnes

L'organizzazione della scuola elementare è praticamente identica in tutta Europa, sia sotto il profilo dell'articolazione in classi, sia per quanto riguarda gli obbiettivi didattici, che riguardano l'apprendimento delle abilità primarie (lettura, scrittura, calcolo) e di un bagaglio di nozioni relative alla lingua e alla letteratura, all'arte e alla mus