HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL KU KLUX KLAN
When an American has been born who can write an impartial history of the ten years of our country immediately succeeding Appomattox, and deal fairly with the opposing factions in the bitter and frequently bloody after-struggle, he will find nothing so remarkable and mysterious as the purposes and hist ... Continuare
I Heard the Owl Call My Name - Margaret Craven
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
by
Margaret Craven
_____________________________________________________Mark Brian does not know when he takes his first assignment as a vicar that it will be his last. Being only twenty-seven years old, he never stops to consider his own mortality. He plans for the future, yet he has only two years to live. He has ... Continuare
Independence day
Independence day
Independence Day Independence Day is celebrated every year in the U.S. on July 4th. It commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The first Independence Day was celebrated in Philadelphia on July 8, 1776. This is when the declaration was read aloud. Parades, patriotic speeches, fireworks and pageants are all wa ... Continuare
Internet for English Studies
Making Use of the Internet for English Studies
Preface
The Internet. The media everybody talks about and wants to get use of. Newspapers and magazines are covered with articles about this complicate network, even though they are presenting the issues on their own homepages in the Internet; every single company, may it be a little store ... Continuare
Essay - Addicted to death
Antonia-Diana Dogaru
Professor Man
English 10A
10 Dec. 2004
Addicted to death
“Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of happiness” (Bertrand Russell, “The Conquest of Happiness")
I ... Continuare
A British Revival The Legend of Arthur
A British Revival –The Legend of Arthur
Many Britons fled to escape the invaders. They went westwards, into the hills of what are now Cornwall and Devon, Wales, the Lake District and southwest Scotland. Some even crossed the seas, to Ireland or to Brittany in France. It must have been heart breaking for them to leave their ... Continuare
American Thanksgiving Day - The History Of Thanksgiving Day
The history of Thanksgiving day
The First American Thanksgiving is attributed to the autumnal feast held by the Pilgrims and Massasoit in 1621. The Mayflower passengers, having survived a rather challenging winter in the "New World" and having managed to harvest their surviving crops, hosted a feast which was ... Continuare
Baily Frederick
Frederick Baily was born a slave in February 1818 on Holmes Hill Farm, near the town of Easton on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The farm was part of an estate owned by Aaron Anthony, who also managed the plantations of Edward Lloyd V, one of the wealthiest men in Maryland. The main Lloyd Plantation was near the eastern side of Chesapeake Bay, 12 mile ... Continuare
Basic Differences and Influences of Change between American and British English
Muresan Camelia Vasilica
LRE I / 1
American vs. British English
Basic Differences and Influences of Change
Introduction
American English acquired international significance after World War II, when the United States assumed a more global role and political, economic and technological developments promoted America ... Continuare
Ben Jonson - a great poet
Ben Jonson
THE reputation of Jonson has been of the most deadly kind that can be compelled upon the memory of a great poet. To be universally accepted; to be damned by the praise that quenches all desire to read the book; to be afflicted by the imputation of the virtues which excite the least pleasure; and to be read only by historians and ... Continuare
