A Day in the Life

COUNTRIES: By the time the Declaration of Independence was adopted in July 1776, the Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain had been at war for more than a year. Relations between the colonies and the mother country had been deteriorating since the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763. The war had plunged the British government deep into debt, and so Parliament enacted a series of measures to increase tax revenue from the colonies. Parliament believed that these acts, such as the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Townshend

Does money buy happiness? It is one of the most heavily disputed and researched questions of all time. People invented money long time ago, it was essential to make transactions, to deal, to buy, to exchange, to live between people! Without money, the world will be anarchy. The society needs money to run correctly, to moderate the relationship. Money is a social tool. It is used to exist materially, and trying to climb the social ladder. But that money contributes to happiness? First thought, if

6 2- Aim of the project 9 3- Project general framework 10 a) Water collecting 11 b) Water distribution 11 c) The system of on-site waste water treatment 12 4- Consequences 13 II. An international team to lead the project 16 1- APCFE:Associação dos produtores de cacau especial e fino 16 2- Domestic supports 17 a) ABARA: Associação Brasileira de Apoio aos Recursos Ambientais 17 b) MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente 17 3- Students and schools participating in the project 18 a) ECN: Ecole Centrale

8 Building up a New Country The setting is a wealthy country house in England in the late nineteenth century. Lady Hunstanton is entertaining1 a few guests. Among them is a young American, Hester Worsley. LADY HUNSTANTON: I hear you have such pleasant society in America. Quite like our own in places, my son wrote to me. 5 HESTER: There are cliques2 in America as elsewhere, Lady Hunstanton. But true American society consists simply of all the good women and good men we have in our country. LADY

inovação científica: uma patente exclusiva sobre a extracção e estabilização dos polifenóis de grainhas de uva, fruto da nossa colaboração com o Professor Vercauteren, especialista mundial em polifenóis. A Investigação constitui um dos pilares de base da marca. Desde o princípio que dispomos de uma equipa própria de investigadores e criadores e, anualmente, investimos 10% da nossa facturação na Investigação. A nossa colaboração com o Prof. Vercauteren e a Faculdade de Farmácia permitiu-nos registar

Describe the effects of the blitz on London and other cities. The blitz was the attack of German aircraft on British cities between 1940 and 1941, right after the phoney war and the first air-battle of the “Battle of Britain”. It affected the different British cities, the citizens and the way people by changing basic life-routine (Gas, water, food ect... reduced), it created services (Home guards or fire department.), change the infrastructure of the country and had devastating effects in human

freedom she had as a child. "Well," she replied, "I walked to my nursery school in Cambridge alone, aged three, and by four I was roaming the fields behind my house." After that, she explained, came the war[1]. "Your grandfather was away and your grandmother was organising the Women's Voluntary Service; no one knew where the four children were. We spent our afternoons canoeing down the Cam without life-jackets, eating sausages out of tins and, when it rained, we slipped into the cinema to watch unsuitable

NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro 1. According to the story, the two female characters principally have a different comprehension of the phrase ‘‘Never Let Me Go’’. These characters might be Kathy H. and Madame. To Kathy, ‘‘never let me go’’ symbolyses the will she has to stay with her friends Ruth and Tommy, but also the fact that she might like to stay alive with the other humans and her friends forever a matter of fact, at the beginning of the story, she talks about how she felt about her past

York, 1984) is a complex tale set in eastern England's low-lying fens region. It is narrated by Tom Crick, a middle-aged history teacher. Tom is facing a personal crisis, since he is about to be laid off from his job and his wife has been admitted to a mental hospital. He is a man who is keenly interested in ideas about the nature and purpose of history. Faced with a class of bored and rebellious students, he scraps the traditional history curriculum and tells them stories of the fens instead. These

Intro: Let me introduce the characters - as from the very first sentence, the reader in introduced with three male characters, Pete Johnson, Harry Carpenter and Claude the latter’s wife, Colette is only just mentioned. This team of scientists or more precisely geologists are working on the icecap.they are digging a “shaft”.This excerpt focuses on one of character’s thoughts on Harry’s. After his team mate Claude complains he has been cold all the time, Harry wonders if one day, when he is Claude’s