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CONTENT:
Ponyboy, who is on the way home from the movie house, is attacted by the rival gang, the \"Socs\". The members threaten him with a knife and he is really scared to death. But suddenly his brothers, Darry and Soda, arrive and rescue him. Darry accuses Ponyboy of being so silly to walk home alone.
The next time when Ponyboy watches a movie film with his \"gang - brothers\" Jonny and Dally, he meets Marcia and Cherry, two girls, who ... mehr
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CONTENT:
This play is about two gangs of the West Side of New York City. RIFF is the leader of the JETS.
The opposition - a Puerto Rican gang called the SHARKS, is lead by BERNARDO.
Inevitably it is bound to happen that they want to fight against each other. The two gangs want to set the date of the fight at a dance. The Jets, who believe that they are the greatest, were founded by Riff and his best friend TONY. Later, T ... mehr
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1. AMERICA - a unison - melting pot (Anglo-Saxon tradition)
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- a harmony - plurality
2. The government has to create conditions, where every cultural group has a chance to live its life.
3. Ancestors {Vorfahren} determine our way of living and how we search happiness. We develop towards a rational society.
4. He discribes an ideal society, where every nation is able to live peacefully.
Mayo-Smith
1. He sees pr ... mehr
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Karl Heinrich Marx was born in May, 1818, in the city of Trier in the Rhine province of Prussia, today a part of Germany. His father, Heinrich Marx, a Jewish lawyer and his mother, born Henrietta Pressburg, baptized Karl in the Evangelical Established Church when he was six years old.
In 1835 Marx matriculated at the University of Bonn. In Bonn he spent one day in prison the only imprisionment he suffered in his life. However, he left B ... mehr
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Marxism was developed in the middle of the 19th century by Karl Marx and, to a lesser extent, by Friedrich Engels. With time the content of Marxism changed, because other philosopher like Lenin and Stalin added their oppinion to the thoughts of Marx. Originally it is consisted of three main interrelated ideas: a philosophical view of man, a theory of history and an economic and political program.
The point of departure of human history is ... mehr
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Dead Poets Society is a novel written by N.H. Kleinbaum. The book tells a story about young boys and their new English teacher Mr. Keating at Welton Academy, a private school situated in the remote hills of Vermont.
Keating comes with a very new and modern style of teaching to the old-fashioned school. Most of the students like him a lot and his way but he seems not to be liked a lot for his ".unorthodox teaching methods." (p. 109, quote-N ... mehr
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On 13 April l999 retired pathologist Dr.Jack Kevorkian was sentenced in Michigan, USA, to two terms of imprisonment for helping a man suffering from A L S to die. For the 2nd degree murder of Thomas Youk he received a sentence of 10-25 years and for using a \'controlled substance\' (lethal drug) he was given 3-7 years jail, the sentences to run concurrently.
A month earlier a jury had convicted him on both counts. The 70-year-old doctor, who is ... mehr
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R. L. Stevenson:
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on 13th November 1850. At the age of seventeen he enrolled at Edinburgh University to study engineering; his father hoped to deliver him his firm later. However, he abandoned this course of studies and made the compromise of studying law. When he finished the studies he didn't practise, because he knew that he wanted to be a writer. He went to France to join a company of other you ... mehr
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Figures:
Griffin: He is a strict English teacher he never praises his students because he is very
Tough. He wants the pupils to work hard. His age is about 40 years, exactly 41.
His wife, Katy Griffin is going to get a baby.
David: He is the president of the Senior Class, very handsome, isn't really interested in Susan,
but asks her for help for their plan; lives in a house with his grandmother and ... mehr
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AUTHOR:
The story King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table was written by Roger Lancelyn Green. He became interested in myths and legends at an early age. His education at school, was interrupted by many kinds of illnesses but he read all legends he could find. The mostly influence for him was Andrew Lang, the Victorian compiler and presenter of fairy stories. Later after he studied at Oxford he became a presenter of traditional stor ... mehr
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First act 1. Scene
At the king's palace the Earl of Gloucester and the Earl of Kent waiting for his majesty Lear.
Ceremonious the king enters the hall, followed by his three daughters Cordelia, Goneril and Regan and the son-in-laws the Duke of Albany and the Duke of Cornwall. King Lear sends a servant for the King of France and the Duke of Burgeoned who are in order to marry his youngest daughter Cordelia.
After having done this, Lear prono ... mehr
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Author: William Shakespeare was born in Stratford - on - Avon in 1564
(April 26). He was the son of a wealthy tradesman of political
influence. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway, who was eight years older
than him.
In 1586 he went to London, leaving his wife and children in Stratford.
He died there on April 23rd 1616.
Famous works: Romeo and Juliet, King Henry IV, King Henry VIII and many
others more.
The drama "King Lear" was writt ... mehr
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SUMMARY
"Richard III" was written by Shakespeare as the 3. part of the York trilogy in 1592/93. The play tells us something about Richard's way to power.
Richard sends two murderers to Clarence (his brother) , who was arrested in the tower. Also Edward and King Henry VI were killed by him. Richard loves Anna, who should have been Edward's wife. Queen Margaret, King Henry's wife, curses him. Edward IV, his other brother, died, because he stand ... mehr
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AUTHOR
N.H. Kleinbaum, a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, is a former newspaper reporter and editor. Her other novelizations include the Bantam Starfire title Growing Pains and D.A.R.Y.L. She lives in Mt. Kisco, New York, with her husband and her three children.
LITERARY TYPE / GENRE
Dead Poets Society is based on the motion picture written by Tom Schulman, so it is the novelization of this fi ... mehr
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MORTON RHUE
1994, PUFFIN BOOKS
AUTHOR
I am sorry, I couldn't find any information about Morton Rhue.
I only know that this book is a novelization of a teleplay by Johnny Dawkins based on a short story by Ron Jones.
SUMMARY
When Ben Ross, a history teacher at Gordon High School, shows his students a film about the cruelties in the Nazi concentration camps they are shocked and upset. They can't understand how such a small minority ... mehr
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ANNE FINE
1996, PUFFIN BOOKS
SUMMARY
There are two main characters in this mystery novel, which are portrayed through the way they act, what they say and through their behaviour: The protagonist Natalie Barnes and the antagonist Tulip Pierces. Natalie, who is the first person narrator of the story, is the daughter of the manager of a hotel called Palace. She is at a disadvantage by her mother because of her younger brother Julius who i ... mehr
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Roald Dahl
1988, Puffin Books
ABOUT THE BOOK
The story of Matilda is completed with illustrations by Quentin Blake (which I liked even better than the story itself...). It was first published in 1988 by Jonathan Cape and it was the winner of the "Children's Book Award". The book is processed in three different ways: The book, the cassette and the video. It is no special type of book; it is a mixture between fiction, adventure, mystery, ... mehr
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ROALD DAHL
1977, PUFFIN BOOKS
AUTHOR
Roald Dahl was born on September 13, 1916 in Llandaff, South Wales. He has got three sisters Alfhild, Else, Asta and Astri. He was educated in Llandraff Cathedral School, then he was sent to an English boarding school: St. Peter`s. He was good at sports but academically he was toward the bottom of the class. One of his main hobbies was reading, and some of his favourite novelists were the adventure ... mehr
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Kurzinhalt
Die Tragödie "König Lear" von William Shakespeare spielt in Britannien und handelt von Haß, Wahnsinn und Treue in der Königsfamilie. Nachdem König Lear seine Königspflichten abtritt, wird er von seinen verlogenen Töchtern schlecht behandelt. Er verfällt dem Wahnsinn. Nach zahlreichen Intrigen endet es mit dem Tode fast aller Dargestellten.
Inhaltsangabe
Der selbstherrliche König Lear von Britannien beschließt seine Kö ... mehr
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"My mom named my after the great civil-war hero General Nathan Bedford Forrest..
The Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes well do well.. Things that just make no sense."
The Ku Klux Klan claims to stand for a non-violent Christian movement, but in fact they are very violent. Over the history of the KKK it has been involved in lynching of black people. It was characteristic for them to wear hoods, so that nobody can see their faces.
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