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Tony Blair became prime minister in May 1997. The Labour landslide gave the party a greater opportunity than at any time since 1945. Blair\'s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, proved to be fiscally conservative, and the generally favourable economic conditions inherited from the previous administration helped to ensure that the Government did not experience the economic difficulties which had challenged previous Labour administrations. B ...
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The Good Friday agreement of 1998 resulted from negotiations between representatives of a broad cross-section of political groups in Northern Ireland. It provided for no change in the status of the North except by majority consent; the devolution of a variety of powers to a Northern Ireland Assembly; a North-South Ministerial Council; and a British-Irish Council, which would also include representatives from other parts of the British Isles. The ...
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In early 1998 large-scale fighting broke out in Kosovo, formerly an autonomous region within Serbia, between the Serbian government and Kosovar Albanians seeking independence. Although a ceasefire was agreed in October 1998 to allow refugees to find shelter and a European verification mission was deployed, violence continued. A peace conference, held in Paris, broke up on 19 March 1999 with the refusal of the Serbian delegation to accept the prop ...
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There is no written document that could be called the Constitution of the UK. There are 3 distinctive features that have influenced Britain's social and political institutions: statute law, common law, conventions.
Statute laws, which are written laws, are Acts of Parliament. They include rules of major importance for the history of the country, for example, the Bill of Rights(1689), which contains that there is no standing army at times of ...
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Britain is a constitutional monarchy. That means it is a country governed by a king or a queen who accepts the advice of a parliament. It is also a parliamentary democracy. That is, it is a country whose government is controlled by a parliament which has been elected by the people.
The highest positions in the government are filled by the members of the directly elected parliament. In Britain, as in many European countries, the official head o ...
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About the Author:
Born in 1876 in the slums of San Fransico, Jack London was forced to leave school after 8th grade by proverty. He spent the rest of his teenage years as an oyster gatherer, fisherman and explorer of the great North. He also was a pirate, a seaman, a Yukon prospector, and a tramp. After his marriage and one year of education at the University of California, he devoted himself completely to writing. Steading he wrote art ...
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AUTHOR: Jack London
TYPE: novel
OTHER INFORMATIONS: "The Call of the Wild" is a novel which is composed of seven chapters. It is set in1897 and the following years in the south and the north of the United States of America.
The book was first published in Canada by General Publishing Co. The story is written in prose. The story is written from an omniscient narrator who even know the feelings of the dog (the main character).
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1. Poet and his life
Jack London was born on Jan. 12, 1876 in San Francisco, California, USA. Jack London was only a pseudonym, adopting the surname of his stepfather, London for it. His real name was John Griffith Chaney.
Because of his parent's lack of money, London had to drop out of school after the eighth grade in the age of 15. He shortly worked in a fish cannery. Being sixteen he became an "oyster pirate" in San Francisco Bay and la ...
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Washington and Verginia visit Canterville Chase with their parents. The Otis family is from the USA.
Lord Canterville offers guided Tours of the Haunted Apartments, because it is hard to keep the castle going. The children want to know everything about the history of the castle and the secret room.
Mrs. Otis wants to unpack and make them comfortable in the old-fashioned rooms.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1) Where is the scene set?
The ...
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The author:
Harold Pinter was born on the 10th October 1930 in Hackney/London. He's one of the most famous English playwrights; his dramas emphasize a sense of unspoken or unexplained tensions between special characters; they often treat themes like loneliness, existential fear, and aimlessness. In his plays Pinter tries to connect absurd, realistic and psychological elements. In his early plays Pinter shows ordinary people threatened or att ...
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Summary
The story is about the youth life of Holden Caulfield, a 17 year old student at Pencey. But in this book there are only told two or three days after leaving Pencey.
He was already kicked out of 2 schools before and this year he is again flunking 4 subjects. He is about leaving also this school and so he visits his old history teacher for telling him good-bye. Back at the dorm he talks to his room-mate Stradlater, who wants him to ...
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. Chapter 1
The narrator does not want to tell us something about himself. "[.]I don't feel like going into it" (P.1) He wants the reader to pay attention to his story, not to himself.
The narrator, whose name we still do not know, seems to be quite wealthy or rather his brother D.B.: He can afford a Jaguar.
P. 2: "D.B., being a prostitute."
To my mind, the narrator actually does not mean it literally. I think he wants to say that ...
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THE AUTHOR, Jerome David Salinger is an American author, born 1919 in New York City. He graduated from a military academy and briefly attended two colleges; after his early literary success, he became a recluse. His most important work, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), established him as a leading author. The hero of the book, Holden Caulfield, became a prototype of the rebellious and confused adolescent searching for truth and innocence outsid ...
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Holden Caulfield, the narrator of The Catcher in the Rye, begins with the novel with an authoritative statement that he does not intent for the novel to serve as his life story. Currently in psychiatric care, this teenager recalls what happened to him last Christmas, the story which forms the narrative basis for the novel. At the beginning of his story, Holden is a student at Pencey Prep School, irresponsible and immature. Having been expelled ...
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From 500 BC to 795 AD the Celts were the exclusive tribe of the island. They were not the first inhabitants. But when they arrived they assimitlated with the native people. Most of the Celts were, tall and blond and they learned to work with iron. they lived scattered on farms with high walls around. There were no urban centres and the economic basis of society was cattel rearing and agriculture. The Celts had no central political organisation, ...
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At the end of the eighth century broad ships reached the Irish coast, wich were able to resist wild storms. Those ships belonged to the Vikings, Scandanavian people from today`s Norway and Denmark. They sailed upstream and invlicted devastation. The Vikings plundered and destroyed monasteries, and killed all the monks and every Irish person they saw.
In 841 AD the Vikings conquered two harbours, Anagassan and Dublin, and changed them into f ...
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By 1166, there was widespread civil unrest. The king of Leister ( the biggest of the five ares) Rory O`Connor lost power and went to England to ask for help. Henry II. ( king of England) was glad to find a reason to interfere in Irish matters and so he allowed Leincester`s king to enlist soldiers from Wales. In 1170 a small but well equiped army arrived let by Strongbow (an Anglo-Norman adventurer). His modern weapons were far superior to any ...
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Henry VII. repieled the autonomy of the Irish parliament in 1494. Now every English law was also in force in Ireland; this resolution was called " Poynings Acts". It subjected the meetings and legislative drafts of the Irish Parliament to control of the English king and council. At the time of the Reformation Henry XIII. broke all relations with the Pope. He forbade all monastic orders, including the Irish and confiscated their estates. The Iri ...
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Because the fear of the French and local rebellions, Enland and Ireland came closer and had an act of Union in1801.That provided that Ireland would have in the United Kingdom about a one-fifth of representation of Great Britain.
In 1829, the "Catholic Emanicipation Act" declared that Catholics and the Protestants should have the same voting and other rights. Now Catholic Irish people were able to attend the "House of Lords" and the "House o ...
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The Easter Rebellion, an uprising of Irish nationalists in Dublin on Easter Monday,1916, was doomed to failure, in part because of limited support from Irish people. Britain`s overreaction, however, including the execution of 15 Irish nationalist leaders, set the stage for Sinn Fein to replace Home Rule as the dominant political party. Founded in 1902 by Athur Griffith, a Dublin journalist, Sinn Fein called for Ireland to become a Republic in ...
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