A Grammar of contemporary English

Definition: Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech und Svartvik definieren in „A Grammar of contemporary English“ ein Kompositum als eine aus zwei oder mehreren Basen bestehende Einheit, die grammatisch und semantisch als ein Wort begriffen wird. Als Basis definieren sie eine Form, an der eine...
 

A Street with No Name

A Street with No Name Last summer, I wrote about some of the pleasures and peculiarities about living in the country. What I hadn`t come to appreciate at the time was the frustration that would come from living on a street that has no name. At first, the idea of having a nameless street seemed...
 

A Tribut to Kurt Cobain

A Tribut to Kurt Cobain It is three years ago, since the „Godfather of Grunge“ killed himself in his luxury house in Seattle. At that time his suicide dropped many Kids into deepest sadness. But who was Kurt Cobain, the man,who couldn’t just enrich a generation with his...
 

About A Boy

About a Boy Nick Hornby Author:Nick Hornby was born in 1957 and worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. His first book “Fever Pitch” enjoyed great critical success, it was published in 1992. The film of “Fever Pitch” (with screenplay by the...
 

Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart (Study Guide)

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart Study Guide Read the following poem, which is the source of the title of Achebe`s novel:William Butler Yeats: "The Second Coming" (1921)Yeats was attracted to the spiritual and occult world and fashioned for himself an elaborate mythology to explain human...
 

Acid Rain

Speech: ACID RAIN I am presenting my speech about ACID RAIN. 1. INTRODUCTION Acid rain is caused by burning fossil fuels like coal and oil and allowing them to pollute the atmosphere. This form of pollution is so strong that many trees and lakes are dying, buildings are...
 

Advertising

Thomas Gorges 29.Oktober 2000 OT-1-00 Comment „We are all advertiser“ Advertising influences all parts of our lives. Do you think advertising is a positive or negative aspect of...
 

Albee, Edward

Biography - Edward Albee Albee was born on March 12, 1928, in Washington, D. C., and adopted at the age of two weeks by Reed and Frances Albee, who named him Edward after Reed’s father. This elder Edward held a substantial business interest in a chain of vaudeville theatres, and the...
 

Albee, Edward Franklin: Who’s Afraid of Virginia W

Milosavljevic Sanela Edward Albee: ”Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”: Author: Edward Albee was born March 12, 1928, in Washington D.C., and he was adopted as an infant by Reid Albee, the son of Edward Franklin Albee of the powerful Keith-Albee vaudeville...
 

Alcohol and Tobacco

Table of contents 1.) Alcohol What is alcohol The alcohol content of various drinks Why do people drink alcohol How alcohol affects the human body What is being drunk The alcohol industry is a big business Consumption of alcohol is increasing Drinking and driving 2.)...
 

Allende, Isabell: The House of the Spirits

THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS by Isabell Allende © Valentin Wegerth, 1999 The plot of the novel stretches from the 30s of our century to the present. The story is about two families of the chilean upper class, the Truebas and the Del Valles (spricht man übrigens „dell...
 

Ambrose, David: Mother of God

Mother of God by David Ambrose Title: The title implies that the book is about a woman inventing something extremely powerful. The book is about a maniac serial killer in L.A and a young female scientist, who is able to create a program with artificial intelligence. The book is...
 

Amensty International

Amnesty International What is Amnesty International? It’s a worldwide movement which is independent of any government, political party, ideology, economic interest, or religious belief. Its activities focus strictly on prisoners: It seeks the release of “prisoners...
 

America

Grafiken wurden aufgrund ihrer Größe entfernt History The Undiscovered South: Before the first Europeans came to the continent of America the country was vastly unsettled. But in the Southeast of the Tennessee River the tribes of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw...
 

American Educational System

American Educational System 1 Types of schools in the US Pupils in America have to attend the following schools: Age Grade School 3 - 5 Nursery School 5 - 6 K Kindergarten 6 - 12 1 -...
 

American Holidays

AMERICAN HOLIDAYS: The USA has no official national holidays, only federal holidays. There are eight major holidays: - Thanksgiving Day (fourth Thursday of November): 1620: Puritans with Mayflower to America; could only survive with the help of amer. Indians; - Martin Luther King Day...
 

American Revolution

American Revolution The American Revolution, the conflict by which the American colonists won their independence from Great Britain and created the United States of America, was an upheaval of profound significance in world history. It occurred in the second half of the 18th century, in an...
 

Amnesty International

Amnesty International In our talk we want to tell you about Amnesty International. We chose this topic, because last year, we had a young- AI- group and this year, I’ve become member of the local group in Baden. Today, we want to talk about its story of AI, the members,...
 

Anmerkungen, zu dem veröffentlichten Referat: Mass

Anmerkungen, zu dem veröffentlichten Referat „Mass Media in Great Britain“ Dieses Referat wurde von mir, im Januar 2000, für den KI Englisch Leistungskurs angefertigt. Ich habe darauf 11 Punkte erhalten. Die Tabellen, die dieser Datei beiliegen, sind als...
 

Anonymous: Go Ask Alice!

Go Ask Alice! Alice is fifteen, white, middle, class. She diets, she dates. She loves Roger but the most time he doesn’t notice her. If she would ever sleep with a boy she would sleep with him. Alice hates her look. She wants to be pretty and slim. Lately she loses fascination about all...