London (England), city, capital of the United Kingdom. London is situated in southeastern England along the Thames River. With a population of about 7 million, this vast metropolis is by far the largest city in Europe, a distinction it has maintained since the 17th century. In the 19th...
Introduction I have chosen a book written by Doltu Claudiu and Tasnadi Alexandru, called “Robert A. Mundell si zonele monetare optime”, ASE, Bucuresti , 2000. This book contains in approximately 120 pages, a series of theories of Robert Mundell, a Canadian economist, teacher at...
I. INTRODUCTION Stonehenge, prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain, in southwestern England, that dates from the late Stone and early Bronze ages (about 3000-1000 bc). The monument, now in ruins, consists of a circular group of large upright stones surrounded by a circular earthwork....
OF TRUTH WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be, that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet...
Cadrul general al cursului Cursul de limba engleza îsi propune sa dea studentilor care urmeaza cursurile Facultatii de Comunicare si Relatii Publice în sistemul Învatamânt Deschis la Distanta (IDD) posibilitatea de a învata si exersa situatii comunicationale si terminologia specifica...
DESCRIBING OBJECTS First of all, when you describe objects you should give information concerning the size and weight, the shape, the pattern or the decoration, the colour, origin, material. Observation: " You are not supposed to use all these words in all because this can make your...
IntroductionEquation Section 1 From human prehistory to the new media of the future, speech communication has been and will be the dominant mode of human social bonding and information exchange. The spoken word is now extended, through technological mediation such as telephony,...
A -a piece of cake -a lemon -apple of ones eye -a butterfingers -a tough cookie -a bad egg -a bun in the oven -a hot patato -apple-pie-order -about as useful as a chocolate teapot -alike as two peas -all the tea in China -all your eggs in one basket -as cool as a cucumber...
The novel The French Lieutenant's Woman is almost as much about the twentieth century attitude to the Victorian age as it is about its setting. The author, John Fowles, makes much of contradictions (such as the popularity of pornography in a supposedly straitlaced culture), implicitly...
THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN BRITAIN While the British are reputed to be a law-abiding nation they are not particularly fond of making new laws. The style of their democracy is based on comparatively few rules and regulations, which is actually a result of their love for privacy and,...
London (England), city, capital of the United Kingdom. It is situated in south-eastern England at the head of the River Thames estuary. Settled by the Romans as an important shipping point for crops and minerals, it gradually developed into the wealthy capital of a thriving industrial...
THE Chinese province of Fujian has been feeling a bit left out. While the Pearl River delta to the south and the Yangtze delta to the north have boomed, subtropical Fujian has prospered too, but not quite so impressively. Every time the central government picks a new area for...
1.Introduction At the end of the 20th century, Europe has a multitude of significations. It means a large market and a competitive and stimulator factor, capable of generating prosperity and technologic innovation.It means a society model based on individual rights that generated such...
Classifying Shakespeares Comic Heroes Shakespeare drew so many different comic heroes that to try to classify them would be an impossible task however for the sake of economy we can consider most Shakespeares comic heroes would fit into any of the three following groupings, that...