Understanding Americans a) After queueing at the underground station to buy a return ticket, I realised that I ?d left my wallet in my other trousers. b) After standing in line at the subway station for a round trip ticket, I realized that I?d left my billfold in my other pants. a) When I
I I I must admit that, before enrolling on the university course called ?Translation 1? in October 2003, I was not specially interested in the complex process of translation. I took for granted that writings about the theory of translation were too speculative, too wordy and too unreadable for my taste. I must even add
A summary of ?The House on Mango Street? Sandra Cisneros?s The House on Mango Street has a minimal plot. Rather than concentrating on external events, the author records a series of impressions and significant moments in the life of a young girl, Esperanza, who is slowly becoming a poet. This novel covers a year in
A novel written in ?Chicano? dialect: ?The House on Mango Street? by Sandra Cisneros Sandra Cisneros is a Chicano writer. She wants to express her feelings like a member of an immigrant community. She uses simple vocabulary, which shows us her honest personality and the human group where she comes from. The House on
ABOUT THE WRITER Despite living in the Olympic city of Sidney for quite a few years, successful veteran writer David Malouf[1] comes from Brisbane, Queensland, where he was born 70 years ago. His father?s family had a Lebanese origin, while his mother?s came from the United Kingdom. After graduating at the University of Queensland,
PLOT Joyce Carol Oates?s Expensive people deals with the dark issue of a totally bankrupt society. She creates some affluent characters who never feel accepted in the place where they were born and have their living. As the best example, the son of a successful businessman and a frustrated wife, who is looking for
PLOT William Faulkner?s Light in August deals with three controversial stories of three very different people: Lena Grove, Joe Christmas, and Reverend Gail Hightower. Twenty-year-old Lena Grove was looking for her unborn child’s father for four weeks. She was walking along country roads and depending on the kindness of strangers. She feels confident that
PLOT The two main protagonists of this famous drama play come from a former wealthy family, but one of them, Stella Kowalski, is now living with her arrogant husband in a small apartment in the multiracial city of New Orleans. She receives her sister?s unexpected visit, Blanche Dubois, who is a schoolteacher from Laurel,
BRIEF INTRODUCTION We believe that the 1985 Booker[1]-prize-winning novel, The Bone People, was published (after lots of corrections) to basically start an immediate communication with all those New Zeelanders who are highly concerned with their national identity, as it definitely gives them the opportunity to change completely their traditional conception of their society by
"SULA" BY TONI MORRISON PLOT Toni Morrison?s Sula is located in a Midwestern black community called ?The Bottomdeals?. It deals with the large number of problems two black women have to face in order to understand their own existence. The novel is then a long journey through the difficult lives of two close friends,
The Diviners by Margaret Laurence Margaret Laurence?s The Diviners has been considered by a large number of outstanding reviewers to be a great masterpiece. As a matter of fact, it is one of the most remarkable novels ever published in Canada, which has already won its golden place in the still not very
Sentences in both British and Australian English I’ve written some sentences to give some examples of the use of some words in both Australian-English and British-English. The dag madam we saw yesterday who is wearing a blue frock is driving her station wagon in the paddocks. (Australian English) The amusing madam we saw yesterday
Aquest text prové del bloc Aventures in France del periodista campredonenc Oriol Gracià, que va participar amb el voluntariat a França. la soupe aux choux [11-9-2006] La pétanque est un jeu très ataché à la tradition de la Catalogne. Souvent, c’est un simple divertissement pour les retraités, surtout quand il fait beu temp. Mais en
Shall praise good news and singmelodies. Bye wars and blood.the sea is calm tonight,welcome new hymns,true anthems of gaiety. Not flyins on the aire,not building the moon on earth,walking in beauty like a cloudless night,kissing new ways of livingin starry climates. Hopes that my heart does need,all dark shadows it denies.a mind at peace whose
Contadino Sono un contadino, povero.Non so leggere e non scribo.Laboro di sole a soletra un fiore e un olibo,e non riposoper godere di un tempo cattivo. Se non piove, niente a fare.Pocche liree la fame viene;se piove troppo, lo stesso.Questo è il mio destino. Non nascera un fiumenel lontano cielo del lamento. Amo la terra.