Higgins, Jack: The Eagle has Landed
Author: Jack Higgins The Eagle has Landed Date of publication: 1975 Site: Studley Constable, a small English coastal village Main characters: Adolf Hitler, the German Leader Heinrich Himmler, Head of the SS Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Chief of Military Intelligence, Abwehr Colonel Max...

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Hemingway, Ernest Miller: Hills Like White Elephan
“Hills Like White Elephants” Hemingway`s short story "Hills Like White Elephants" touches on an issue as ageless as time: communication problems in a relationship. He tells his story through conversations between the two main characters, the American and the girl. The conflict is...

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Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel: The Hobbit
book report: "The Hobbit" (J. R. R. Tolkien) structure: 1. information on the author 1.1 the life of J. R. R. Tolkien 1.2 books of J. R. R. Tolkien 2. summary of contents of his work "The Hobbit" 3. aspects of analysis 4. the significance of Tolkien`s work 5. personal...

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King, Stephen: The Running Man
The Running Man written by STEPHEN King alias Richard Bachman The Running Man is one of those books, where you think that the film is based on the book because the plot is so superficious and fictious. You are false the book is different, but what happened to the plot? Now you can...

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Kalidasa: The Recognition of Sakuntala (Study Guid
Study Guide for Kalidasa: The Recognition of Sakuntala Source: Kalidasa: The Loom of Time. Penguin Books. Your assignment is to read Abhinjnanasakuntalam (The Recognition of Sakuntala) plus its related notes. Begin by reading the biographical note in the front of the book, the Introduction,...

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Science Fiction
Science Fiction Science Fiction is the fictional treatment of the effects of science or future events on human beings. More precisely, science fiction deals with events that did not happen, have not yet happened or are impossible to happen now. It considers these events rationally in terms...

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The Norton Book of Science Fiction (Notes on Selec
Notes on Selected Stories from The Norton Book of Science Fiction Cordwainer Smith: "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard" , Theodore Sturgeon: "Tandy`s Story", David R. Bunch: "2064, or Thereabouts", Clifford D. Simak: "Over the River and Through the Woods", James Blish: "How Beautiful with...

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Weldon, Fay: The Life and Loves of a She Devil
BOOK REPORT AUTHOR: Fay Weldon She was born in Birmingham, brought up in New Zealand and educated at Hampstead School for Girls. At the age of twenty, armed with an MA from St. Andrews` she took a job at the Foreign Office shuffling papers that sent spies to an uncertain fate in the East...

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Weldon, Fay: The Life and Loves of a She Devil
Account for my likes and dislikes in my comparison of the film She-Devil and the novel The Life and Loves of a She Devil (Critical comparison of the film and the novel) The first thing that is striking one is the different ending of the film and the novel. In the beginning the story is...

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Huxley, Aldous: Schöne neue Welt
Die Arbeit entstand zu dem Leseauftrag : 1.) Fasse die einzelnen Kapitel mit ein oder zwei Sätzen zusammen und finde eine geeignete Überschrift. 2.) Suche die Hauptfiguren heraus und charakterisiere sie kurz. 3.) Erstelle eine Fremdwörterliste mit den im...

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Lem, Stanislaw: Solaris (Study Guide)
Study Guide for Stanislaw Lem: Solaris (1961) More information about Lem Introduction During the Soviet era, Polish writer Stanislaw Lem was the most celebrated SFauthor in the Communist world. Although he read Western SF when he was young, hesoon found it shallow and turned for...

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The Song of Songs (Study Guide)
Study Guide for The Song of Songs All references to the Song of Songs are to Michael V. Fox`s translation as published in The Song of Songs and the Ancient Egyptian Love Songs (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), pp. 82 94. The Song of Songs, also known as the Song of Solomon and...

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Orwell, Georg: Animal Farm
Animal Farm George Orwell was born i 903 and died in 1950. His books were always pointing at important political themes of real importance. Mr. Jones is the owner of the Manor farm and most of the time he is drunk. One day old Major has a dream. He dreams that the animals live like slaves...

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Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman
English Choice-Duty-Subject Huda Mahdi, Andreas Eder, Jasmin Bayer, Barbara Reisenhofer Arthur Miller´s Death of a Salesman Character Linda: She is Willy´s wife and the mother of Biff´s and Happy´s. Linda loves her husband very much and...

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Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour (1850-1894) and hi
Preparation of the special field of Simone Kofler 8.C-1997/98 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON THE AUTHOR: Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on the 13th of November in 1850. The son of a successful civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family profession, but finally was allowed...

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Tenses
TENSES Ziel: Beherrschung der Strukturen und Anwendungen zum worksheet: The Tenses - Active Voice Progessive Form nicht gebildet von Verben mit statischer Bedeutung und Verben des Denkens und Erkenntnis to be, to believe, to belong, to doubt, to forget, to hate, to hear, to like, to...

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Time
Time Ausarbeitung zum Englisch Spezialgebiet by Marcus Meisel, 8C Betreuerin: Mag. Rauchenwald B) CONTENTS A) Title Page page 1 B) Contents page 2 C) Introduction page 4 1) Time is an Arrow page 5 Seeing Things Different...

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Buren, Martin Van: Inaugural Address
Martin Van Buren`s Inaugural Address Delivered on March 4, 1837 Fellow-Citizens: The practice of all my predecessors imposes on me an obligation I cheerfully fulfill--to accompany the first and solemn act of my public trust with an avowal of the principles that will guide me in performing it...

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Lincoln, Abraham: First Inaugural Address
Lincoln`s First Inaugural Address March 4, 1861 Fellow citizens of the United States: in compliance with a custom as old as the government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly and to take, in your presence, the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, to be...

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Bach, Richard: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - a story - Author: This book was written by Richard Bach, born 1936. He is a former US Air force pilot and he has written another three books about flying, he has edited a flying magazine and he has written more than hundred magazine articles...

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Juvenile delinquency and violent gangs in the USA
Juvenile delinquency and violent gangs in the USA and The treatment of this subject in literature Statistics reveal that the American`s youths are committing an increasing number of violent crimes. But are juvenile offenders fully responsible for their actions? They are children in the...

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Orwell, George: 1984
Book report on George Orwell?s ”1984" The negative Utopia ”1984" was written and published in 1949. In that imaginary year 1984 the world is divided between three superstates with similar political systems that have been waring with each other for the last...

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Huxley, Andrew: Brave New World
Brave New World The book of Andrew Huxley tells us a story of the future. After 9 years of war, humans decided to build a New World with one state, the “World State” which was ruled by so called “Controllers”. For centuries the World State held its principles on...

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Pinter, Harald: The caretaker
The caretaker The author: Harold Pinter was born on the 10th October 1930 in Hackney/London. He’s one of the most famous English playwrights; his dramas emphasize a sense of unspoken or unexplained tensions between special characters; they often treat themes like loneliness,...

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Conditional Sentences 3
CONDITIONAL SENTENCES 3 1. If the Spanish ships HAD BEEN smaller, they WOULD HAVE BEEN faster,too. Wenn die Spanischen Schiffe kleiner gewesen wären, wären sie auch schneller gewesen. im if-Satz steht das Verb, ...

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Dangerous Minds
Dangerous Minds Miss Johnson is a teacher at Parkmont Highschool. She teaches at risks of students. At the first time they don’t take her serious. But she achieves to impress them with karate and she tells them about the time at the Marines. Raul and Durell try to ape. She tries to...

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Shaw, George Bernhard: Pygmalion
Stephan Mittendorfer George Bernhard Shaw: Pygmalion The Author: George Bernhard Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856. Essentially shy, he yet created the persona of George Bernhard Shaw, the showman, satirist, controversialist, critic, pundit, wit, intellectual buffoon and...

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Francis, Dick: Reflex
R E F L E X REFLEX was written by Dick Francis in 1980. Mike Allport illustrated the book. Dick Francis (1920 - ), once Champion Jockey himself, is famous for his many bestselling thrillers set in the world of horse-racing. His novel REFLEX won the Edgar Allen Poe Mystery Prize for 1981. The...

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Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
DANIEL DEFOE ROBINSON CRUSOE BIOGRAPHY SUMMARY INTERPRETATION BIOGRAPHY ¬ 1660, Cripplegate U 1731, London – Age of Enlightenment 1695 he changed his name from Foe to Defoe 1682 he abandoned his father’s plan to become a Presbyterian priest and became a...

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Shakespeare, William: Romeo and Juliet (Study Guid
Study Guide for Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (1591?) The notes were prepared for use with an edition of Romeo and Juliet bound together with the book for West Side Story and in conjunction with a showing of Franco Zeffirelli`s film version of the play, but they will be useful with any...

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