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ALZHEIMERS DISEASE Definition Alzheimers disease is progressive, degenerative disease which affects the brain and its intellectual functions. The cause is not know, but as a result of this disease nerve cells in the brain are destroyed ...

AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE POSTWAR PERIOD   The First World War broke out in Europe between Austria and Germany (the Central Powers) on one side, and England, France and Italy on ...

An eventful life Daniel Defoe was born in 1660, in London, and was originally christened Daniel Foe, changing his name around the age of thirty-five to sound more aristocratic. Like his character Robinson Crusoe, Defoe was a third child. H ...

ANALISI TESTUALE POESIA TITLE OF POEM: The eagle. DATE: 1851. AUTHOR: Alfred Tennyson ( 6th August 1809, 6th October 1892) was born n Somersby, Lincolnshire, fourth of twelve children of George and Elizabeth Tennyson. ...

Animal Farm George Orwell Animal Farm is a satirical novella (which can also be understood as a modern fable or allegory) by George Orwell, ostensibly about a group of animals who oust the humans from the farm on which they live. They ru ...

Animal Farm Summary The story takes place on a farm somewhere in England. The story is told by an all-knowing narrator in the third person. The action of this novel starts when the oldest pig on the farm, Old Major, calls all animals to a se ...

TITLE Animal Farm. AUTHOR George Orwell was the pen-name of Eric Arthur Blair, an Englishman born in Bengal, India (1903), and educated at Eton, England. After service with the British colonial Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he ret ...

Animal Farm by George Orwell When 'Animal Farm' first appeared, it was taken entirely as a satire on the history of the Soviet Union: the October's Revolution, Stalin's rise to power and the attitudes and actions of various Weste ...

Appunti di inglese   Literary text It is a text showing the reader the world using the authors eyes. The basic components of a literary text are: The author (writer) The reader The language, which is the means of ...

APPUNTI DI INLGESE PRONOMI PERSONALI AGGETIVI PRONOMI SOGGETTO COMPLEMENTO POSSESIVI POSSESIVI I Me My ...

Appunti in inglese sulla Restaurazione THE RESTORATION When Charles II came back to London as king of England 29/5/1660, a new era in English history and lit-erature was opened. The king was rather tolerant and easy-going, and seemed to ...

AQUAE SULIS Although still mostly buried under magnificent Georgian streets, the Roman ruins in Bath are unsurpassed in Britain. Some believe Baths Roman art and sumptuousness some of the most important ones in the empire; certainly Bat ...

Association of ideas Sterne asserted that according to our mind we can associate image to / with our experience. He can pass from ideas to other linking them with his own head, without any logical connections. Locke was an English phil ...

AUDEN   In Auden is the LACK OF IDENTITY. He was influenced by Marx about his idea of alienation; according to Marx capitalism was the reason for modern alienation and frustration. The modern man feels powerless in front of his societ ...

Augustan Age Walpole The Prime minister is responsible to the king: there was the development of the cabinet. Parliament was formed by people chosen, not by the king, but by the major party. Sir Robert Walpole was the prime minister ...

Augustan Age 1688-1776 1688 James II removed: bloodless revolution 1689 Bill of rights 1707 Act of Union: Scotland part of UK 1714 Hanovers ascend the throne 1746 Stuarts defeated at Culloden 1764-75 Industrial revolution ...

Auguste Comte Auguste Comte was a French philosofer who was born in 1798 and died in 1857. He formulated the three-stage theory. He wrote the Plan des travaux scientifiques pour reorganiser la societ; the course de philosophie positive; ...

Augustian Age       At the beginning of the 18th century Mary Stuart was the Queen of England.       In that period the 'slave trade', that was started in the 16th centur ...

Australia AN ISLAND, A CONTINENT Australia is an immense island- continent in the south Pacific. Most of interior, called the outback, is hot, dry, semi- desert. There are also large areas of open grassland and, in the north- ...

Australia AN ISLAND, A CONTINENT Australia is an immense island- continent in the south Pacific. Most of interior, called the outback, is hot, dry, semi- desert. There are also large areas of open grassland and, in the north- ...