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William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew (Illustrated)

Sammelband
Englisch
22454 Wörter
Ab 10 Jahren
214
1

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself. The nobleman then has the play performed for Sly's diversion. The main plot depicts the courtship of Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew. Initially, Katherina is an unwilling participant in the relationship, but Petruchio tempers her with various psychological torments—the "taming"—until she becomes a compliant and obedient bride. The subplot features a competition between the suitors of Katherina's more desirable sister, Bianca. The play's apparent misogynistic elements have become the subject of considerable controversy, particularly among modern audiences and readers. It has been adapted numerous times for stage, screen, opera, and musical theatre; perhaps the most famous adaptations being Cole Porter's musical Kiss Me, Kate and the 1967 film version of the original play, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The film 10 Things I Hate About You is also loosely based on the play. [mehr]

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H. Rider Haggard The People of the Mist

Fantasy
Englisch
145481 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
119
0

The January afternoon was passing into night, the air was cold and still, so still that not a single twig of the naked beech-trees stirred; on the grass of the meadows lay a thin white rime, half frost, half snow; the firs stood out blackly against a steel-hued sky, and over the tallest of them hung a single star. Past these bordering firs there ran a road, on which, in this evening of the opening of our story, a young man stood irresolute, glancing now to the right and now to the left. To his right were two stately gates of iron fantastically wrought, supported by stone pillars on whose summits stood griffins of black marble embracing coats of arms, and banners inscribed with the device Per ardua ad astra. Beyond these gates ran a broad carriage drive, lined on either side by a double row of such oaks as England alone can produce under the most favourable circumstances of soil, aided by the nurturing hand of man and three or four centuries of time. [mehr]

Stichwörter: The People of the Mist, H. Rider Haggard, The People of the Mist By H. Rider Haggard

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Amber Panda Beary Much, (On Wattpad)

Liebe
Englisch
43 Wörter
Ab 12 Jahren
370
2

"Beary much so," I sang out as I hit the machine's buttons vigorously until I kicked his arse with my majestic skills. Not literally speaking since it was only luck, but he didn't have to know that. "Not berry funny," Dimitri pouted as he turned to face me. "If Dimi actually Dimitry, he would Dimi-get it." I blurted like an idiot. I wanted to facepalm my face. No, I wanted to facepalm the woman who gave birth to such an idiot. Mara Starr isn't social; she would probably drop dead the day a boy even looked at her with the 'eyes'(the I-love-you eyes). She's the loner you would find hovering over any kind of electrical device or book in a corner of any room. She can't take big crowds because they freak her out and she fears lighting storms. Puns and insults are the things that mostly come out of her mouth. Mara Starr moves back to Chicago, IL. First night back and she already found trouble. Dimitri Estacio. One encounter from Dimitri has Mara's world spinning. [mehr]

Stichwörter: anime, mlp, gamer, emo, wattpad, teen, non-fiction, kawaii, new, puns, teen fiction, highschool, weird, love, popular, comedy, insults

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Franz Kafka In the Penal Colony / In der Strafkolonie

Bilingual Edition: English - German / Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Englisch - Deutsch

Belletristik
Englisch
21975 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
1060
0

This edition contains the English translation and the original text in German. "In the Penal Colony" ("In der Strafkolonie") (also translated as "In the Penal Settlement") is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, revised in November 1918, and first published in October 1919. The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. Internal clues and the setting on an island suggest Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden as an influence. As in some of Kafka's other writings, the narrator in this story seems detached from, or perhaps numbed by, events that one would normally expect to be registered with horror. "In the Penal Colony" describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves the sentence of the condemned prisoner on his skin before letting him die, all in the course of twelve hours. As the plot unfolds, the reader learns more and more about the machine, including its origin and original justification. "In der Strafkolonie" ist eine Erzählung von Franz Kafka, die im Oktober 1914 entstand und 1919 veröffentlicht wurde. Einem Forschungsreisenden wird das Rechtssystem einer Strafkolonie vorgeführt. Es besteht darin, dass jeder Angeklagte unabhängig von seiner Schuld oder Unschuld von einem Apparat in minutiösem Ablauf stundenlang gefoltert und dann getötet wird. Den Apparat beschreibt Kafka als überdimensionalen Parlographen in der Funktionsweise eines Phonographen mit vibrierender Metallplatte und Nadel. Dieser Apparat ist der Hauptgegenstand der Erzählung, er repräsentiert die "Einheit von Schrift und Tod, von Ekstase und Thanatos". [mehr]

Stichwörter: franz kafka, in the penal colony, in the penal settlement, in der strafkolonie, trial, castle, man who disappeared, process, schloss, verschollene, max brod

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Chalen D. She's Gone Bad

Drama
Englisch
9214 Wörter
Ab 12 Jahren
1260
28

Raylynn (rilie) is a girl who considers, god, her mom and kyler to be her best friends. at a party rilie get's raped and tells kyler, who tells his cousins. they beat the attacker to death, but then he is revived. the cops set out for rilie, and as a first time bad kid she runs. first she runs to her older brother, blakes, where she meets coltan and his friends.kyler's back home keeping her up to date. the cops get word of rilie at her brothers, and when they go to her class she sneaks out the back door, and runs. blake has josh( who is a cop, and was their dad's best friend) protect her. the cops get wind of her in forks, where her brother has sent her. rilie who already has a taste for running picks up and moves to Catalina island, with coltan who found out where she was. the phone josh gave her can be turned into a listening device, that the cops use to find her. she picks up and moves back to new jersey where her real uncle lives. he's also a cop.danny and josh, find out she knows who beat the guy and want to take her in. rilie thinks not and takes off with coltan to alska to ice's (everah) house. ice is an old friend of rilies, where she stays, until blake says it's okay to come back. [mehr]

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Usman Waheed, Muhammad Arshad Handbook of Medical Laboratory Instrumentation

Bildung
Englisch
378 Wörter
Ab 16 Jahren
238
0

Working in the medical laboratory is interesting and rewarding, but the laboratory is a complex environment and even small seemingly insignificant actions can result in huge and disastrous impacts on the outcome of testing results. It is imperative that medical laboratory scientists understand every aspect of working in the laboratory environment, and an essential skill necessary to these professionals is the knowledge of the medical instruments he or she will be working within the laboratory and the ability to apply this knowledge to ensure qualified and reliable results. The current handbook is a valuable resource in providing medical laboratory technologists with the knowledge necessary to not only recognize but also effectively utilize the laboratory instruments. This handbook begins with the introduction to the medical technology and medical laboratory terms associated with laboratory equipment and then moves into the important topic of automation, LMIS, and supply chain management. A topic whose importance is usually not emphasized enough is proper and preventative maintenance (PM) for instruments. This important subject is covered in this handbook along with the need to complete and display PM documentation. There is also a section that discusses the various instruments the medical laboratory scientist will use, a history and explanation of the device, and practical and useful information that will help the technologist in successfully using the instrument. This book will be very useful for the young students and also those working in the clinical pathology laboratories. [mehr]

Stichwörter: Medical, Pathology, Laboratory, Education

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Jean Jacques Rousseau Emile

Philosophie
Englisch
251886 Wörter
Ab 8 Jahren
290
2

Emile is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the “best and most important of all my writings”. Due to a section of the book entitled “Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar,” Emile was banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762, the year of its first publication. During the French Revolution, Emile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. The work tackles fundamental political and philosophical questions about the relationship between the individual and society— how, in particular, the individual might retain what Rousseau saw as innate human goodness while remaining part of a corrupting collectivity. Its opening sentence: “Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the Author of things; everything degenerates in the hands of man.” Rousseau seeks to describe a system of education that would enable the natural man he identifies in The Social Contract to survive corrupt society He employs the novelistic device of Emile and his tutor to illustrate how such an ideal citizen might be educated. Emile is scarcely a detailed parenting guide but it does contain some specific advice on raising children.[5] It is regarded by some as the first philosophy of education in Western culture to have a serious claim to completeness [mehr]

Stichwörter: emile, on education, rousseau, educational philosophy, philosophy, social science, philosophical novel, french history

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Gustave Le Bon The Psychology Of Revolution

Psychologie
Englisch
83558 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
3
18

Gustave Le Bon (7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931) was a French social psychologist, sociologist, anthropologist, inventor, and amateur physicist. He is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. His writings incorporate theories of national traits, racial superiority, herd behavior and crowd psychology. Le Bon began his writing career working in the new field of anthropology. In the 1870s he invented a pocket cephalometer, or as he called it, a "Compass of Coordinates", which was an instrument that allowed one to quickly measure the head's various angles, diameters, and profiles. In effect, the instrument was able to reproduce the measurements of any 3-D solid figure. Because it was small and portable the device was easily incorporated into the research programs of anthropologists. Le Bon himself, in 1881, used the cephalometer to measure the heads of 50 inhabitants of the remote Tatras Mountains region of southern Poland. His paper, "The Pocket Cephalometer, or Compass of Coordinates" is written in the style of a user's manual, and stands as an important historical document that details how 19th Century anthropologists initially practiced their science. Le Bon's physical theories generated some mild controversy in the physics community. In 1896 he reported observing a new kind of radiation, which he termed "black light".[1] Not the same as what today people call black light, though it was later discovered not to exist.[2] His theory of the nature of matter and energy was expanded upon in his book The Evolution of Matter. The book was popular in France, going through 12 editions. The major premise of the book is matter is an inherently unstable substance and slowly transforms into luminiferous ether. One major supporter was Henri Poincaré,[3] however by 1900 physicists had rejected his formulation. [mehr]

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Edith Wharton Ethan Frome

Belletristik
Englisch
34706 Wörter
Ab 8 Jahren
247
2

Ethan Frome is a novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. Ethan Frome is set in a fictional New England town named Starkfield, where an unnamed narrator tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with dreams and desires that end in an ironic turn of events. The narrator tells the story based on an account from observations at Frome's house when he had to stay there during a winter storm. The novel is framed by the literary device of an extended flashback. The first chapter opens with an unnamed male narrator spending a winter in Starkfield. He sets out to learn about the life of a mysterious local figure named Ethan Frome, a man who had been injured in a horrific “smash-up” twenty-four years before. Frome is described as “the most striking figure in Starkfield”, “the ruin of a man” with a “careless powerful look…in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain”. The narrator fails to get many details from the townspeople. However, the narrator hires Frome as his driver for a week. A severe snowstorm forces Frome to take the narrator to his home one night for shelter. Just as the two are entering Frome's house, the first chapter ends. The second chapter flashes back twenty-four years; the narration switches from the first-person narrator of the first chapter to a limited third-person narrator. Ethan is waiting outside a church dance for Mattie, his wife’s cousin, who lives with Ethan and his wife Zeena (Zenobia) to help around the house since Zeena is sickly. Mattie is given the occasional night off to entertain herself in town as partial recompense for taking care of the Frome family without pay, and Ethan has fallen into the habit of walking her home. It is made clear that Ethan has deep feelings for Mattie, and it is equally clear that Zeena suspects these feelings and does not approve. [mehr]

Stichwörter: ethan frome, edith wharton, romance and tragedy, american literature, historic fiction, pulitzer prize winner

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Rittik Chandra The Power Within You

Ratgeber
Englisch
21452 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
209
1

There is a power lying hidden in man, by the use of which he can rise to higher and better things. There is in man a greater Self, that transcends the finite self of the sense-man, even as the mountain towers above the plain. This book will help men and women to bring their inward powers of mind and spirit into expression, wisely and in harmony with universal law; to build up character, and to find within themselves that wondrous Self, which is their real self, and which, when found, reveals to them that they are literally and truly sons of God and daughters of the Most High. There is no way whereby the discipline of life can be avoided. There is no means by which fate can be "tricked," nor cunning device by which the great cosmic plan can be evaded. Each life must meet its own troubles and difficulties: each soul must pass through its deep waters, every heart must encounter sorrow and grief. But none need be overwhelmed in the great conflicts of life, for one who has learned the great secret of his identity with the Universal life and Power, dwells in an impregnable city, built upon and into the Rock of Truth, against which the storms of life beat in vain. While this book does not offer any vain promises of an easy life—for, if this were possible, it would be the greatest of all disasters—but rather endeavours to show how to become so strong that life looks almost easy by comparison (the life or fate does not change or become easier, but the individual alters and becomes stronger), yet, it does show the reader how to avoid making his life more difficult than it need be. Most people's lives would be less filled with trouble and suffering if they took life in the right spirit and acted in harmony with Universal Law. It is hoped that this book may help many to come into harmony with life's law and purpose and thus avoid much needless suffering: to find the Greater Self within, which discovery brings with it a realization of absolute security: to bring into expression and wisely use their inner spiritual and mental forces and thus enter a life of overcoming and almost boundless power. [mehr]

Stichwörter: The Power Within You, god, power, inspiration, self growth, development, spiritual, spirituality

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