According to http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/12/25-random-things-about-reading/ While surfing the Internet I саme across the following: th
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A new book of recipes has been published in May in Russia. What differs it from a million of others of the same kind? The book "Movie-cooking”written by Swedish writers Maria Holm and Michaela Chindblum describes the recipes of the dishes from the best-known movies.
A a lot of movies are based on books, it's not a secret. A lot of popular cartoons are based on books too, it's also well-known. But did you know that a popular green kind-hearted monster Shrek used to be a character of a picture book? Shre
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100 years ago on the 21th April, 1910 a famous writer Mark Twain died of a heart attack. And this year his last will is to be executed.
Documents known as a "blackmail dossier” that expose the intimate secrets of Mark Twain, the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The
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On the 3rd of March a writer from Ekaterinburg was awarded a special prize for “The most original literary work that develops the principles of minimalism in Russian literature”.
Here you cam read the very contents of his book “A novel without a
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"In the land of Ingary Sophie Hatter's miserable little world is turned upside down when she is transformed into an old lady by a woman known as the Witch of the Waste, and Soohie leaves the hat shop to seek her fortune in the world. On the way, Sophie encounters a huge moving castle owned by a wizard Howl...”
New Year is coming soon... Children try to catch snowflakes, lick icicles, decorate Christmas tree... and write letters. For many years, there is a popular Christmas tradition in which children write letters t
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Do you know what Fanfiction (or just “fanfic”) is? According to Wikipedia, “Fan fiction (alternately referred to as fanfiction, fanfic, FF, or fic) is a broadly-defined term for fan labor regarding stories about characters or settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creator”. So, it is a story, based on some popular “book/movie/cartoon/etc”, but written by its fans, using the characters and situations developed in the “book/movie/cartooon” and developing new plo
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"You have a pen in hand but you are showing something of your own character. The very style of one handwriting is an element in the determination of character”. (New York Times, January 23, 1881)
While reading a handwritten letter or a text you usually pay attention to WHAT it written. The idea, the theme, the words. But we never (or very rarely) pay attention to HOW it is written. I'm not speaking about the style, about the vocabulary, no. I mean, we don't notice the importance of on
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According to http://www.essortment.com/all/calligraphyhist_reyt.htm
“Calligraphy – written beauty of feelings”... Have you ever thought what calligraphy is? Is it just a way to write words neatly and accurately? Or may be, it's a kind of art that not everybody can practise? If you look this word up in a dictionary you will find the following definitions: ... Read more »
According to http://www.howtowriteanessay.com/index4.html
As our dear teacher has said, "it wil be a good idea if you post in blog some information on how to write an artcile". So, here it is)))) Honestly, I have never thought that writing an essay can be very difficult. How wrong I used to be! =))) It demands hard work and a great deal of attention. While writing an essay you should follow a procedure, an algorithm. Now I'd like to sum up the ideas given in the article
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What is writing? According to Collins Dictionary, the word "writing" has the following definitions: 1) a group of letters or symbols written or marked on a surface as a means of communicating ideas by making each symbol stand for an idea, concept, or thing (see ideogram ), by using each symbol to represent a set of sounds grouped into syllables (syllabic writing), or by regarding each symbol as corresponding roughly or exactly to each of the sounds in the language (alphabetic writing) ... Read more »
