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Focusing on the beginning and the end of the "American Dream"

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Most authoritative personalities of American literature

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The novel was also made into a film

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https://www.gotquestions.org/clone-soul.html

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https://www.genome.gov/25020028/cloning-fact-sheet/

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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1021132602330
A statute about some bioethical definition

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMgyKNr-Vbk

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A summary from Sparksnote
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/never-let-me-go/summary/

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Ishiguro's speech at the Nobel Ceremony Award

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Ishiguro's speech at the Nobel Ceremony Award

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW_5Y6ekUEw&t=1122s

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Ishiguro talking about his work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=_jCB59pPG7k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=t_gRhJ_Rwhg

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https://books.google.it/books?id=JAzxznMKiq4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=never+let+me+go+book&hl=it&sa=X&ei=A2tPVcjeGIT-UPPUgOgN&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=never%20let%20me%20go%20book&f=false

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Ishiguro's masterpiece deals with important contemporary topics, such as the meaning and dignity of life, genetic issues, definition of humanity, memory and passing of the time. The novel was awarded with the Booker and the Nobel.

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One of the most influential authors of English contemporary literature, he wrote on modern themes such as genetic engineering and the meaning of human life.

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A story of parents and sons, a story of raising together.

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She suffered of terrible nervous crisis. She committed suicide, leaving this touchable letter to her husband, Leonard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP-Ih1ENGn4

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbc7jtmuOJM

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Just some analogies and differences with Eliot

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"April is the cruellest month" (The Burial of the Dead)

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Most important author of the new century, he best expressed the human loss of hopes in the post-war world.

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"A farewell to arms" - Ernest Hemingway 

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"A farewell to arms" - Ernest Hemingway 

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"Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herslef" (Beginning of the novel)

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Deep, fragile and incredibly beautiful. Three words to describe the woman who changed the 20th-century's conception of literature.

Here's her voice recordered:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8czs8v6PuI

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"She gripped with both hands at the iron railing (...) No! No! No! It was impossible. Her hands clutched the iron in frenzy. Amid the seas she sent a cry of anguish (...) She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition" - Eveline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7soqMb0Hub0

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"I said yes I will yes" (from the interior monologue of Molly Bloom

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First leader of the Modernist Movement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOVFwljgw6Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SuHkY2wAQA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=OznjTwpP3AQ

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This song by Angelo Branduardi was inspired by Yeats' poem dedicated to Maud Gonne, his distant shores.

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,

And nodding by the fire, take down this book,

And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,

And loved your beauty with love false or true,

But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,

Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled

And paced upon the mountains overhead

And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h6hzGxw2Wc

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This is the famous Post Office in O'Conell Street, Dublin, when the Easter Rising started.

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Official protagonist and author of the Irish Question, he wrote a poem dealing with the Easter Rising.

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After 1819, Ireland started its battle to gain indipendece. The main event occurred in 1916, the cruel and bloody "Easter Rising".

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The 20th century saw the world changing forever. Everyone could hear the drums of war.

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Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

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You love us when we're heroes, home on leave,
Or wounded in a mentionable place.
You worship decorations; you believe
That chivalry redeems the war's disgrace.
You make us shells. You listen with delight,
By tales of dirt and danger fondly thrilled.
You crown our distant ardours while we fight,
And mourn our laurelled memories when we're killed.
You can't believe that British troops 'retire'
When hell's last horror breaks them, and they run,
Trampling the terrible corpses - blind with blood.
O German mother dreaming by the fire,
While you are knitting socks to send your son
His face is trodden deeper in the mud.

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Finally exiting from the classical schemes, modern poetry has begun one of the central topic of the year.
(a ppt about it)

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If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

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"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"

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Working on the rising of a new nation, we focused on the author of the famous "O Captain, my Captain".

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The myth of Eternal Youth: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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The myth of Eternal Youth: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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Shall we consider Voldemort as a modern Dorian Gray? Wanted he to live forever without being corrupted?

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have we ever thought about the Occidental vision of India? Well, let's give a look to one of 2016's best hit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YykjpeuMNEk

http://www.lastampa.it/2016/01/31/spettacoli/il-video-dei-coldplay-che-imbarazza-gli-indiani-fS5yXsi9e5AWlc8GRnl4gO/pagina.html

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"Twenty-one...Twenty...Nineteen...Time was coming"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zircAqna3sc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhO_ivU2uE  (The film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWkw9NH2_EE

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First (still alive) author writing on Indian decolonization

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The story of a young Indian boy living in British India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR5qoOSkfAQ

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Forster's vision about colonization: A Passage To India

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Forster's vision about colonization: A Passage To India

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How did he relate with the conventions typical of that age? Did he approve colonization or did he look at India just a country to discover?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d1O1vDvetc

a scene outside the Caves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3UAPNPffGw

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Kipling's poem for his son:                              "IF "                                               If you can keep your head when all about you   Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,  ....you'll be  a man. 

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Kipling's poem for his son:                              "IF "                                               If you can keep your head when all about you   Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,  ....you'll be  a man. 

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He  wrote an important and significative poem for his son, giving him suggestion on how to become a good and wise man.

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"Take up the White Man's Burden..."

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Voice of the British Colonizer in India.

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- Wilde Salomè with Al Pacino (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTbmrbGEKz0
- The Happy Prince Read by Stephen Fry https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=211&v=t33NWgOzjK8
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=300&v=NpUX4Lj4Py4

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"All art is quiete useless"

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Working on Wilde's masterpieces

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AihkS3ts7Hs
With a tribute to Breaking Bad.

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A tour around a little world - Keats and Shelley House

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A tour around a little world - Keats and Shelley House

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZxAGg9qhKg

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Bright star,
would I were steadfast as thou art
Not in Ione splendor hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores
Or gazing on the new soft fallen masque
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors
No, yet still steadfast, still unchangeable
PiIIow'd upon my fair Love's ripening breast
To feel for ever its soft swell and fall
Awake for ever
in a sweet unrest
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath
And so Live ever, or else swoon to death.

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"Please sir, I want some more"

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"Emotion recollected in tranquillity"

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"And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils"

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"My greatest miseries in the world have been Heathcliff's ones"

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"Where there's a superiority of mind, pride will always be under regulation"

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A Prezi about this topic!

http://prezi.com/eqhladmd_i1c/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

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Learning paths for CLIL - Phisics in English

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Learning paths for CLIL - Phisics in English

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https://padlet.com/barreca_marco4/jy0uai7r01hw

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Music, TV series, fashion...A whole entire world!

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Music, TV series, fashion...A whole entire world!

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US have always been a real world, full of aspects and things to discover:

Many musicians are American, so the most popular music comes from there (....)

American TV series are the most viewed in the world (Game of Thrones!)

Although fashion was born in Europe (Italy especially), even America has got some well-known chain stores such as Gap or Macy's.

Don't need to talk American food...

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It is mostly linked to the idea of "being cool". This lifestyle still influences lots of European countries.

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American influence on European countries

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American influence on European countries

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New topic: discovering how the American culture influenced our way of living and thinking. My list:
. music
. art
. film and cinema
. fashion

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Enjoying this work of pure art with the great Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonaham Carter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qu_L-G5b64

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She's the writress of darkness and gloom, focusing on very modern themes: cloning, organ transpartation, artifical mind. Her "Frankenstein" is still a masterpiece of Gothic literature.

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                                    Romanticism

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                                    Romanticism

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Starting with the two generation of Romantic poets. Lord Byron (on your sight) is the most famous of the second generation, neverthless a living legend.

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After the Great Fire of London in 1666, the city was largely destroyed. King Charles II decided to give a new arrangement to the city.

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From the early years of 18th century, merchants and traveller started to tell the story of their voyages. Robinson Crusoe, by journalist Daniel Defoe, is inspired by a true story.

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"Better to reign in the Hell then serve in the Heaven"  from Satan's monologue (Book I)

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Mark Antony's oration at Caesar's funeral

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Uploaded by Marco Barreca on 2016-11-19.

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FINAL ORAL TASK:  ready to give a PRESS CONFERENCE TO TALK TO REPORTERS. 

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FINAL ORAL TASK:  ready to give a PRESS CONFERENCE TO TALK TO REPORTERS. 

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Imagine you’re Bob Dylan’s spokesperson/agent or a
journalist at a EUROPEAN YOUTH PARLIAMENT. PREPARE A 5M’ SPEECH.

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FINAL ORAL TASK: now that we have investigated into the life and career of this great artist you are ready to give a PRESS CONFERENCE TO TALK TO REPORTERS. Imag

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American Indians: a piece of the American history

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American Indians: a piece of the American history

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A website I used to make researches of this curious population:
http://www.indians.org/articles/american-indians.html

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He has been the first American writer, writing about the origins and life on the American Indians. All the sotires are collected in his famous book "The last of the Mohicans".

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"We were born in ten wooden house"
President Abraham Lincoln.

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History vs. Christopher Columbus.

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History vs. Christopher Columbus - Alex Gendler

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Many people in the United States and Latin America have grown up celebrating the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage. But was he an intrepid explorer who brought two worlds together or a ruthless exploiter who brought colonialism and slavery? And did he even discover America at all? Alex…

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  Hardship of the First American Settlers

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  Hardship of the First American Settlers

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William Bradfor, Pilgrim Father and Governor of New Plymouth, wrote about the first settlements in North America and the relation with the Natives

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                                       Bermudas

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                                       Bermudas

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The author Andrew Maxwel wrote about the English arrival to the mysterious Bermudas.

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                    In the meantime in England...

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                    In the meantime in England...

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After the Repubblican experiment of Oliver Cromwell, the parliament accepted the return to the monarchy. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the new monarchs, William of Orange and Mary Stuart, granted the Bill of Rights. England became a constitutional monarchy.

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                                        Pocahontas

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                                        Pocahontas

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This is the story of a Young princess of the native tribe of Powhatan and the English settler, John Smith. Pocahontas saved John's life from her father and then she fall in love with him. This coild be considered the first interracial marriage in America and, when she changed her name to Rebecca and converted to Christianity, she became the first "civilized savage".

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American, English...Or both?                         

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American, English...Or both?                         

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As we all know, there're some important differences between American and English languages. And this difference, influence pronunciation and even dictionary. Let's see a ppt on the topic!

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The Bible: source of faith and inspiration , brings the Lord's Verb to the pagans.  This was also the main theme of the colonization

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The Bible: source of faith and inspiration , brings the Lord's Verb to the pagans.  This was also the main theme of the colonization

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From the "King James Bible" to other translations, the Holy Text has been main source of inspiration for lots of Writers, such as Andrew Marvell and William Bradford, .

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Thanksgiving Day: two ppts about this important traditions 

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Thanksgiving Day: two ppts about this important traditions 

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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and Black Friday

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"This is island's mine from Sycorax my mother", from the dialogue between Prospero, Miranda and Caliban

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Pilgrims met the Americans Native of the North, who we call "American Indians".
Other populations lived in South America, Indios, Aztecs, Mayas, all coming from Mexico and Columbia. This population, from the first colonizatin, were used as slaves in plantations and farms. Millions of them were killed in this period.
Above all, America represented a real myth, a world full of mystery and new things to discover. Of course, this will influence the literary production.

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On the second Thursday of November, with the Natives,  the organised a great meal, thanking the Mercy Lord for the possibilities He gave them, to begin a new life. And this was also the beginning of one of the most important American Holiday: THANKSGIVING DAY.

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In 1629 a Group of Puritans, who believed in simple planes and simple worship, decided that they needed a new place to live.  So some Puritans, left England on the Mayflower, which set out from Plymouth, with Bible as guiding book. They called themselves "Pilgrim Father" and they founded a new nation, from just some piece of wood.

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                       English Literature (2016-2017)

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                       English Literature (2016-2017)

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Let's start this new year literature's course! New year, new land to discover: AMERICA!

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The Wife of Bath from The canterbury Tales  G, Chaucer

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The Wife of Bath from The canterbury Tales  G, Chaucer

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One of the most famous tales!

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Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

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Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

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From the Italian "Decameron", the Canterbury Tales represent one fo the most important novel canzoniere in the English literature

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             Hamlet

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             Hamlet

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"To be or not to be"

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                                         Macbeth

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                                         Macbeth

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"Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.

From the monologue in Dusinane (Act5, scene 5)

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                             Shakespeare's sonnets

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                             Shakespeare's sonnets

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Finally, after tragedies and Roman plays, here's the part all dedicated to the famous "marriage sonnets", in which the author talks about love and the passing of the time

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This book shows the "Great Matter" of Henry VIII, find a wife who could give him a male heir. He had about six wives!

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Husband of dead housewife arrested (Elena Ceste). A contemporary Othello 

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Husband of dead housewife arrested (Elena Ceste). A contemporary Othello 

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ttp://www.ansamed.info/english/news/general_news/2015/01/29/husband-of-dead-housewife-arrested_07275a53-a578-425f-947f-a770f1625303.htm

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(ANSA) - Asti, January 29 - Police on Thursday arrested the husband of Elena Ceste, a 37-year-old mother of four who went missing in January 2014, on charges of premeditated murder and concealing the body.
Michele Buoninconti, a firefighter, was placed under investigation in October after the woman's body was found in a state of advanced decomposition by workers cleaning a drainage canal in the countryside near Turin, not far from the couple's home.
He had reported his wife missing on January 24.
"She asked me to pick the kids up from school because she wasn't feeling well," Buoninconti told police that day.
"I never saw her again".
Ceste had disappeared without a trace, leaving her car, her cell phone and her wedding ring behind.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA

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Husband of dead housewife arrested for murder - English

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(ANSA) - Asti, January 29 - Police on Thursday arrested the husband of Elena Ceste, a 37-year-old mother of four who went missing in January 2014, on charges of premeditated murder and concealing the body.

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                             William Shakespeare

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                             William Shakespeare

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Working on Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies and Roman plays.

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Here is a map with some key words and references to the reality.

https://bubbl.us/?h=1ea5f0/61cdc9/20dNv2XqyurbQ&r=2022432127

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From the Zeffirelli version the balcony scene.