Sick of It All

Book I Chapter 1 Ten-year-old Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in rural Nebraska when his parents die. Jim and Jake Marpole, one of the Burdens' farm-hands, travel to Nebraska on the railroad together from the hills of Virginia. An immigrant family, the Shimerdas, is traveling to their destination as well. Like most other immigrants, the Shimerdas left their native Bohemia and moved to America for a better life. Like Jim, the Shimerdas have no one to turn to in a new, frightening

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pour se faire pardonner il invite les gens à qui il a fait du mal pour les dédommager. | This is the story of a mole, a mouse, a toad and a badger. The mole was cleaning her house when he heard something that came over him. The mole decided to go see what it was; he dug and came to a river. He meets Rat, who invited to come in his boat for a walk. They become friends and Rat learns all he knows about the river Mole, which has never seen. One day they decided to visit a friend, Toad. Toad is rich

“The Gift of the Magi” Author: O. Henry Setting: New York City late 1800s Christmas Eve Protagonist: Della Dillingham Young Antagonist: Man vs. Nature (Della vs. Poverty because she has o money to spend on a gift for Jim) External Conflict: Poverty Internal Conflict: Man vs. Self (Della is afraid Jim won’t love her because she lost her hair) Denouement: It tuns out that Jim sold his watch, and both gifts are now useless. She goes to apartment and they put the items away. Elements of Fiction:

the present continuous form of the verb in brackets. 1. Please be quiet. I _______________ (try) to read my book. 2. I _______________ (not/use) the computer at the moment so you can use it. 3. Mary is ill so Sue _______________ (teach) her 1essons today. 4. Excuse me, I _______________ (look) for a hotel. Is there one near here? 5. _______________ (you/wait) for someone? 6. Jack, you are very careless. You _______________ (always/forget) to do your homework! 7. The cost of living _______________ (rise)

NEVER THE TWO SHALL MEET, September Paul West, a British of 27 years, comes in Paris for a one-year job. He will work for VanDiffusion, a meat company which wants to open some Tea rooms in Paris. Paul meets Jean Marie, a 50 years old man who is his boss His crew : Bernard, Marc, Stephanie and Nicole Christine, Jean Marie’s secretary He was going to have a fair with Christine but she screw it up because of her boyfriend. Paul realizes that it’s difficult to live in

dawn with the feeling he needs to warn Gatsby of something immediatly. He finds him at his mansion where Jay waited all night for Daisy to appear at her window. Gatsby tells Nick «Nothing happened» : Daisy did not get hurt by Tom, nor did she came outside and talk to him. Nick suggests Gatsby to leave Long Island and lay low but the latter refuses to even consider leaving his lost love behind. The beginning of chapter 8 epitomizes the successive downfalls of Gatsby -- his crumbled dreams and social condition

"1984" and "Animal Farm" Is Victim Of Tuberculosis LONDON, Jan 21 - George Orwell, noted British novelist, died of tuberculosis in a hospital here today at the age of 46. The author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, he had been virtually an invalid for the last three years and most of his recent writing had been done in sanitariums to which his illness forced him to retreat. Last october, he married his second wife, Sonia Brownell, assistant editor of the literary magazine, Horizon, at his

for the first time. It works out at 38p for a can of weak lager and £10.71 for a litre of vodka. Health campaigners say that is too low to have an impact, but the drinks industry described the proposals as a "pragmatic solution". In their coalition agreement, the Conservatives and Lib Dems pledged: "We will ban the sale of alcohol below cost price." Under government proposals the ban is on sales of alcohol below the rate of duty plus VAT, rather than including the cost of producing the drinks

not want to tell she is mistaken. I do not go to the bar. It is not like home. People do not say hello and offer drinks. They look at me and talk in each others ears. But all that is finished. I will tell from the beginning. I was in the café drinking hot chocolate. A treat (new word) for getting an A in my essay on farming. Mad cow is not funny. The teacher liked that, she said I had a good 'grasp' on English humour. Lizzie was having a cup of tea with milk and much sugar. She wore yellow glasses and