New York
In 1605 the first Europeans came to Manhattan island from Holland. In 1626, Peter Minuit, governor of the Dutch settlements in North America known as New Amsterdam bought the island from the Native Americans for a few glass necklaces, valued about twenty-four dollars today. In 1609 Henry Hudson entered the River of the Mountains. In 1613 the Dutch built only four small houses on Manhattan…
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Students Should Be Given More Choice As To What They Study
Consultations concerning an occupation are needed as well. There are two experts, structural units, needed for facilitate in a choice of a profession: the psychologist and a good class teacher. From my point of view it is definitely necessary to bring in a special post, for the help in a choice of a profession and to introduce practice in twelfths grade necessary for reception of representation…
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Books and Reading
Books can fit almost every need, temper, or interest. Books can be read when you are in the mood; they don «t have to be taken in periodic doses. Books are more personal and more impersonal than professors. Books have an inner confidence which individuals seldom show; they rarely have to be on the defensive. Books can afford to be bold, and courageous, and explanatory; they don «t have to be so…
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Holidays, Travel and Tourism
For most people there is no problem in deciding how they are going to spend the money they earn — it all goes on housing, food, clothes, transport and, if they are lucky, leisure and some holidays. Many of us have spent our lives without doing anything out of the ordinary and now I have got a marvelous opportunity of doing something exciting and I will. If I win the prize of 20,000 dollars…
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Kuwait
Now I «d like to tell you about the history of Kuwait. In the 1700s Arab nomads founded the town of Kuwait. Under the leadership Sabah Abu Abdullah Kuwait «p.s population grew to several thousand (now the population of Kuwait is about 988 thousands of people). With the discovery of оіл in Kuwait in 1938, and its development after 1945, Iraq decided in 1952 to renew an ancient claim to Kuwait…
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History of Basketball
Basketball is an extremely popular all around the world. The object is to put a ball through a hoop, or basket, and thus score more points than the opposing team. Teams comprise of ten players, with a maximum of five on court at any one time. Substitutions are unlimited during the course of the game. Although basketball can be played outdoors, it was invented to serve as an exciting indoor…
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Monet, Claude
French painter, initiator, leader, and unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style. He is regarded as the archetypal Impressionist in that his devotion to the ideals of the movement was unwavering throughout his long career, and it is fitting that one of his pictures—Impression: Sunrise (Musйe Marmottan, Paris; 1872)—gave the group his name. In his final years he was troubled by failing…
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Eyck, Jan van
Van Eyck has been credited traditionally with the invention of painting in oils, and, although this is incorrect, there is no doubt that he perfected the technique. He used the оіл medium to represent a variety of subjects with striking realism in microscopic detail; for example, he infused painted jewels and precious metals with a glowing inner light by means of subtle glazes over the…
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Baroque
A term used in the literature of the arts with both historical and critical meanings and as both an adjective and a noun. The word has a long, complex and controversial history (it possibly derived from a Portuguese word for a misshapen pearl, and until the late 19th century it was used mainly as a synonym for `absurd «or `grotesque «), but in English it is now current with three principal…
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Disregard of corporate entity
D. SUBORDINATION OF SHAREHOLDER DEBTS—"DEEP ROCK" DOCTRINE—if a corp goes into bankruptcy, debts to its controlling shs may be subordinated to claims of other creditors. When subordination occurs, shareholder loans are treated as if they were invested capital (stock). Major factors in determining whether to subordinate include fraud, mismanagement, undercapitalization, commingling, excessive…
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Топик з мови /english/
Most people get married between the ages of 20 and 23 but many marriages end in divorce. This means that both countries have a large number of «single parent families «, one father or mother looking after their children alone. Do you help your mother to take care of your brothers, sisters? What holiday is a favourite one in your family? Do members of your family go in for sport? Would you like…
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10 творів англійською языке
My name is … I’m a pupil of the 9th form of the secondary school #****. Our school gives general education. My class used to be a specialized humanitarian class. We have special programs in Russian, Russian Literature and History. I always liked social sciences and I enjoy staying here. English is a widely spoken language all over the world. You can hear it everywhere: in a street, in shops and…
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Fuseli, Henry
Fusely was a much respected and influential figure in his lifetime, but his work was generally neglected for about a century after his death until the Expressionists and Surrealists saw in him a kindred spirit. His work can be clumsy and overblown, but at its best has something of the imaginative intensity of his friendBlake, who described Fuseli as `The only man that e «er I knew / who did not…
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Financial intermediation
They provide obvious and convenient ways in which a lender can save money. Instead of having to find a suitable borrower for his money, the lender can deposit his money with a bank etc. All the lender has to do is decide for how long he might want to lend money, and what sort of return he requires, and choose a financial intermediary, that offers a financial instrument of the fitting conditions…
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My favorite writer
I «m fond of reading. Usually I borrow books from the library, but I have a lot of them at home, too. I like to read books about the history of our country, about famous people and the life of my contemporaries abroad. Literature means much in my life. It helps to form the character and the world outlook, to understand life better. My favoririte English writer is Daniel Defo: he was the founder…
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Radio And TV In My Life
When I come home from school I turn on the radio, leave it on and go about my household duties. So I am actually doing two things at one and the same time. The best radio station for me is Europa Plus and Radio Maximum. I watch TV at the evening when all the lessons I have done. I prefer to see news programs such as: «Vesty» and «The Time». Sometimes we can watch rather interesting films at TV…
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What is Temperature?
If we experiment further with more than two systems, we find that many systems can be brought into thermal equilibrium with each other; thermal equilibrium does not depend on the kind of object used. Put more precisely,. If three or more systems are in thermal contact with each other and all in equilibrium together, then any two taken separately are in equilibrium with one another. (quote from T…
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Anthroposophy
Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe. It arises in man as a need of the heart, of the life of feeling; and it can be justified only inasmuch as it can satisfy this inner need. He alone can acknowledge Anthroposophy, who finds it in what he himself in his own inner life feels impelled to seek. Hence only they can…
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My plans for the future
As for me, I have made up my mind to be a manager. My choice of this occupation didn «t come as a sudden flash. I think that nowadays this profession is of great need and importance to our country. It is my aim to be a qualified specialist and to serve the interests of my country. To be a well-prepared manager I should have some important qualities: great persistence, sociability, considerable…
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Mass Media
The Internet has recently become another important source of information. Its main advantage is that news appears on the screen as soon as things happen in real life and you don «t have to wait for news time on TV. Of course, not all newspapers and TV programmes report the events objectively, but serious journalists and TV reporters try to be fair and provide us with reliable information. Still…
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China
Some words about China’s education system. At the first all foreigners students will have to share a room with one Chinese student, which is very common. Days start very early, so they’ll have to get up at about six o’clock. There are morning exercise in the open air, and they will be invited to join it. The breakfast is at about six thirty. And all meals are communal. Their classes will probably…
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Our town
Our town is surrounded by forests, there are also small rivers and lakes. Our people like to spend weekends in the forests picking mush-rooms and berries in autumn, skiing in winter and in early spring. Our men and boys are fond of fishing. There is also a musical and art school, seven schools, many kindergartens. There is an airport and a railway station and our people can go to Moscow…
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Robin Hood — a legendary hero
Robin Hood was a legendary hero of those times. He was well known_and loved by the poor people of England. He was tall strong handsome, and his songs were heard everywhere. He was brave too and there was no better archer in that part of the country. He was also kind in never hurt the weak or the poor. One day the Normans came with many soldiers to Robin «p.s house. There was a terrible fight…
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Valley of the Kings
It was first used as a royal necropolis by Thutmosis I, although it was his predecessor, Amenhotep I, who was considered as the patron-god of the valley by the actual builders of the tombs. All of the tombs have fallen victim to one or several visits by tomb robbers, even the famous tomb of Tutankhamun that was discovered almost intact in 1922 by Howard Carter! The last known king to have built…
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Art and culture
The twentieth century has given the world cinema. For a long time there have been disputes whether the cinema is an art or just an entertainment. Nowadays the cinema is considered one of the main contemporary arts. Not so long ago people went to cinemas frequently, but now we prefer to stay at home and watch video films and TV. Maybe cinemas are no longer as popular as they used to be but films…
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Mercury and Venus
The second planet from the sun bakes under twice as much solar radiation as Earth and reaches temperatures of 895 degrees Fahrenheit (480 degrees Celsius). Pressure from the dense atmosphere of sulfuric acid gas is about 95 times greater than Earth «p.s and would crush a human. The thick cloud cover around Venus rotates much faster than the planet itself — once every four days. After the moon…
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Steady state theory
Problems with the steady-state theory began to emerge in the late 1960s, when observations apparently supported the idea that the universe was in fact changing: quasars and radio galaxies were found only at large distances (i.e., redshift, and thus, because of the finiteness of the speed of light, in the past) not in closer galaxies. Halton Arp, also since the 1960s, has been taking a different…
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Slang
Slang fills a necessary niche in all languages, occupying a middle ground between the standard and informal words accepted by the general public and the special words and expressions known only to comparatively small social subgroups. It can serve as a bridge or a barrier, either helping both old and new words that have been used as «insiders «» terms by a specific group of people to enter the…
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Современный контекст обучения (чтению) английскому языку учащимися начальной школы
Новые слова вводятся учителем, на доске или на карточках, затем учитель произносит слово, дети повторяют хором и индивидуально. Чтение текстов осуществляется в сопровождении аудиозаписей, когда дети следят за диктором, повторяют в паузах, а потом переходят к самостоятельному чтении (аналогичным образом работа была организована в УМК «Spotlight»). Среди коммуникативных заданий, представленных…
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Соизучение языка и культуры в овладении иностранным языком
Важно учитывать индивидуальные особенности школьников и обеспечивать каждого ученика возможностью достигать планируемого результата. Во второй главе мы рассматриваем факты использования лингвострановедческого аспекта для повышения общекультурного уровня учащихся. Аутентичными, то есть они должны представлять собой речевые произведения, которые отражают реальные ситуации общения в изучаемом…
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