This story is about how a man's life who loves animals, turns into a nightmare.

We start off with the narration of the main character. We get to know him a little. Since he was a child he loved animals. He as an adult has many pets and he loves them all, especially cats. He got married, his wife shares the love with the man towards animals. The sad story begins here because the man starts drinking and goes out of his way. One day he got home drunk and with the lack of straight thinking he thought Pluto didn’t want to hang out with him, he gets mad and carves out one of its eyes. The cat soon recovered and started wondering around the house as usual but with dislike towards rather than love towards the main character. this irritated him so he hung up the cat from a limp of a tree. Within the upcoming night a fire accured in the man’s house, he, his wife and another person escaped but the house was almost entierly destroyed. Only one wall „survived” and on that wall there was the shape of a cat wich was hung up, just like pluto. This image haunted the man for month from there. One day the man was hading home drunk when he met a black cat just like pluto, except this cat had a white are of furr within its breast. As he moved closer to the cat it immedietly shown love for him. The cat followed him home. The man at first loved the cat, he thought this creature was the thing he needed, the rescue from the nightmares pluto left. But soon he began to dislike even hate the cat. However the cat continued to love the man and even follow him around everywhere. the white spot ont he cat quickly grown into a shape of a gallows. One day the man and his wife was going down the stairs and the cat as usual followed him, he almost even tripped because of it. This was too much for our „not entierly sain” main character. He grabbed an axe and tried to kill the cat, but instead he killed his wife who tried to protect the cat from the axe of death. Since the action happend in their house no one expect the man and the cat have seen it. The man decided to hide his wife lifeless corps in the wall. He wanted to kill the cat right after buti t appeared the cat was smarter than he thought and it ran away or híd somewhere. Either way the man felt way better, a couple of days passed and the guilt in his hearth was very little,he was happy, he felt like he was finally free. The next couple of days the police came around to search, it looked like the man was innocent. The police was just about to leave, since they didn’t fin anything there was no point in staying any longer. The man filled with pride and happiness he admired the wall he „built” and said to the police officers how well this house is put together and how well he constructed the walls. As he was saying this he knocked the wall a couple of times. These knocks caused his failure because just after he knocked a cats „cry”-ing sounds could be heard from the direction of the wall. A police officer stood in place for a couple of seconds, then turned back and ripped the wall apart. After that it was clear that the corps was built right into the wall after the fire and the cat who caused the mans failure was right there too. The man got hung up just like pluto.

Does love make our life meaningful?

Is it just an escape from our loneliness and suffering?

Is it just a disguise for our sexual desire?

Or a trick by biology to make us procreate?

Is it all we need? Do we need it at all?

 

Plato’s theory:

Plato was an ancient greek philosopher who said: „love makes us whole again”. What does is mean? Well, in his „symposium” he wrote a about a party between greek gods where one of them told the story of „love”. The story was: All humans once were creatures with four legs four arms two heads and a single torso (a rather large one..probably..). One day they angered Zeus, so he sliced them in half. Since then every person missed the half of him/her-self, so we love to find a „soulmate” who can make us whole again. [or at least that’s what Plato believed a drunk comedian god would say in a party.]

 

Arthur Schopenhauer’s theory:

Arthur schopenhauer was a german philosoper in the eighteen hundreds, who belived that „love tricks us into having babies”. He believed that we love just to procreate, and after we’re done with maintaining our species we get thrown back into our tormented existence. That way our only real success was giving humanity another member(s).

 

Bertrand Russel’s theory:

Nobel prize winning British philosopher Bertrand Russel Who live between the eighteen and the nineteen hundreds, who thought: we love to satisfy our physical and psychological desires, and without passionate love sex is unsatisfying. He said we fear the curel word, we don’t want to get hurt by it! So we built hard shells to protect and at the end isolate ourselves. Love is a great solution for this, it is the way to break out from out lonely shells and engage more abundantly in life. Love enriches our wole being making it the best thing in life.

 

Buddha’s theory:

Buddha said that “love is a misleading affliction”. What he means by that is: With love we try to satisfy our desires, but the whole thing is defective, and love is a great source of suffering. Then buddha discovered the eight-fold path, which was sort of a program for extinguishing the fires of desire. He then thought we need to discover it to get to the state of peace.

 

Cao xueqin’s theory:

In one of china’s greatest classical novels he illustrated that romantic love is folly. In the story (dream of the red chamber) Our main character falls in love with a woman(xi-feng) who tricks and humiliates him. This torn him apart emotionally. Another character(thaois) came into the story and gave him a magic mirror that can cure his emotional suffering if he doesn’t look at the front of it. He looks the front of it, and he sees xi-feng. Not only he got depressed again but also his soul got sucked into the mirror and he’s dragged away in iron chains to die. The moral of the story is that romantic love should be avoided.

 

Simone de beauovir’s theory:

“Love lets us reach beyond ourselves.” She proposed that love is a desire to integrate with another, and it infuses our lives with meaning. She’ theory is romantic love can be so captivating, we can make it our only reason to live, we can make ourselves so dependent from another person that we can not see our lifes without him/her. And it can easily lead to a boring existence. to avoid this she suggests to love authentically, this works more like a great friendship, this way people support and care for each other but with less dependence. 

 

My opinion:

Well, I think these people above all made understandable points, but I do not agree with all of them. I think love is a really important part of our life. I somewhat agree with the “love authentically” thing, but the bond between on another is an important part of romantic love, which should be kept. Love has always been about desires, and I think it’s right this way. 

 

 

 

Our 'protagonist' piece searched for it's circle but with little sucsess, with every circle came at least one flaw:
some fit but could not roll, some could roll but did not fit, some did not know anything about fitting, some did not know anything about anything, some were too delicate, some put it on a pedestal and left it there, some had too many pieces, some had too many missing, some earned to hide from the hungry ones, some looked too closely and some just rolled by without any notice...

 
One day a circle came along that was just the right fit for our missing piece, but as time passed the piece started growing so their bond could not be continued so their paths differed from then on. Later something came across our little piece, it was different, it was a perfect circle without a piece, called the big O. At first the piece thought 'O' was his 'other half' the big however denied since it had no place for a piece but it suggested that perhaps the piece could try to roll by itself. That was not only unheard but considered impossible
by the piece. After a short thought on the idea, the piece tried rolling.
Due to its hard edges its was difficult and extremely slow at first, but as time passed and the piece kept trying its edges started to soften and after a while it became a circle, an O some would say...It joined up with the big O and they rolled.

 

Landmarks:
 · Big Ben is the nickname of a bell that hangs in the clock tower at the northern end of the Houses of Parliament in Westminster.
 · Stonehenge is a prehistoric World Heritage Site. At the north of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England. It is made of a henge, with standing stones in circles.
 · Buckingham Palace is a palace in the City of Westminster, which is part of central London, England in the United Kingdom.
 · Tower Bridge is in London: it crosses the River Thames near the Tower of London.
 · The London Eye is a large metal Ferris wheel. It is also known as the Millennium Wheel

 

Sport:
 · Football is the most popular sport in England.
 Famous football clubs: Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool
 Famous football players: Wayne Rooney, David Beckham, Harry Kane
 · Cricket is one of the most popular participation sports in England,
 · Rugby: Rugby union in England is one of the leading professional and recreational team sports.

 

Foods:
 · Fish and chips is a hot dish of English origin consisting of fried battered fish and hot potato chips
 · Christmas pudding or Plum pudding is a steamed dessert which is served on Christmas Day.
 · A full breakfast is a breakfast meal that typically includes bacon, sausages, eggs and sometimes coffee and tea.
 · Beef Wellington is a preparation of fillet steak coated with pâté and duxelles, which is then wrapped in puff pastry and baked.
 · The Victoria sponge, also known as the Victoria sandwich or Victorian cake was named after Queen Victoria, who was known to enjoy a slice of the sponge cake with her afternoon tea.
 · Christmas pudding is a type of pudding traditionally served as part of the Christmas dinner in the UK.

 

Famous people:
 · Sir Tim Berners-lee invented the World Wide Web.
 · David Beckham a famous former football player. He played for Real Madrid, LA Galaxy and Manchester United
 · Elizabeth the II. she is the queen since 1952.

 

Interesting facts:
 · Highest temperature was 38,5 C.
 · French was the official language in England for about 300 years.
 · England is the 25th largest country in the world by population.

 

Stereotypes:
 · British drink a lot of tea: in England tea has a great culture to it.
 · British people have a plummy accent: this is a part of their great aristocratic past 
 · British are extremely polite: the English people are very gently, they have a great history with many victories, kings and queen
 · British’ve never seen sunlight: the Sun shines in England, just not too often

Wales

General facts:

·        Cardiff is the capital city of Wales. 

·        The population is 3,063 million.

·        They speak English and Cymraeg.

·        The patron of Wales is St. David.

2.           Symbols:

·        The flag of Wales is white and green background with a red dragon in the middle.

·        Daffodil is the national flower of Wales.

 

3.           Landmarks:

·        Cardiff Castle: It’s in the middle of Cardiff.

·        Cardiff University: There are 1883 students in the university.

·        Great Orme: It’s a limestone headland ont he north coast of Wales.

·        Millennium Station: This station was chosen as the venue for the 2017 UEFA Champions League Final.

4.           Food:

·        Cuisine: is the most famous cake in Wales.

·        Cawl:  is a soup, what is similar to the Hungarian goulash.

·        Bara Birth:  is the traditional fruit cake of Wales.

 

5.           Sports

·        The national sport is Rugby and football.

·        Some famous football player of Wales:

-Ryan Giggs

-Garry Speed

-Gareth Bale

-Chris Gunter

 

6.           Famous People:

·        Gareth Bale: He is a football player who plays in the Real Madrid.

·        Ioan Gruffudd: Some of his films: Titanic, Fantastic 4, Forever, 102 Dalmatians

·        Richard Burton: He is an actor, producer and director, Cleopatra

 

7.           Interesting Facts:

·        According to 2013 survey 24% of the population speaks Cymraeg.

·        The Welsh motto ,,Cymru am byth”, „means Wales forever”

Scotland

General facts

·       The capital city of Scotland is Edinburgh.

·       The population is around 5.3 million

 

 

Symbols:

 

·        The thistle (floral emblem), the unicorn (national animal), bagpipes, tartan, kilts (traditional costume), Nessie (myth), ceilidhs, Giants Causeway

·         The flag is also known as Saint Andrew’s cross or the Saltire (blue background and white diagonal cross).

 

 

 

Landmarks

·        Loch Ness: The second largest lake in Scotland. Here live the most mystery monster of the World, Nessie. 

·        Edinburgh castle: The castle has been built a volcanic rock cliff. This castle is Edinburgh and Scotland’s accepted symbol

·        Ben Nevis: This is the highest point of The UK and Scotland. The summit is a crater of a long-collapsed volcano

 

 

Traditional foods and drinks:

·        Haggish: Offals put into a stomach.   

·        Scottish Porridge: This is a traditional porridge make of milk, yogurt, honey and porridge oats.

·        Scottish raspberry buns: This is a dessert in Scotland. (similar to doughnut)

·         Scottish shortbread: Buttery biscuit  Scotch whiskey: All Scotch whiskies must be aged in oak barrels for at least three years.

 

 

Sports:

 

·       Highland games: Held in spring and summer, in Scotland it is a way of celebrating. Athletic events, Highland dance competitions and piping.

·       Tennis: The best Scottish player is Andy Murray.

·       Golf: Scotland is the home of golf. The game plays a key role in the national sporting consciousness.

·       Rugby: Similar to football. The best player in 2017 was Beauden Barrett.

·       Cycling: Cycling is a popular amateur sport, with 99 clubs throughout the country. In recent years mountain biking has become very popular. Scotland has produced several world-class cyclists.(Robert Millar, Chris Hoy)

·       Shinty: 12 members in each team, the goal of the game is to put a small ball into a goal. The ball is smaller than a tennis ball, and the game is played with long curved sticks.

 

 

 

Famous people:

·       Alexander Bell: He is an inventor. He invented the telephone

·       James Watt: He invented the steam-engine

·       Sean Connery: He is an actor. His most famous movie is Indiana Jones - The Last Crusader.

·       Arthur Conan Doyle: He is a writer. He wrote Sherlock Holmes

·       Gerard Butler: He is a famous actor. He played in a lot of famous movies such as: London Has Fallen, P.S I Love You.

·       Calvin Harris: He is one of the most famous DJs nowadays. He performs at the biggest music festivals all around the world.

 

Northern Ireland

·        General facts:

The Capital city is Belfast, there live almost 2 million people. The patron saint in St. Patrick. The national flowers are the Shamrock and the Flax flower. The national flag is the Ulster Banner. The background of a flag is white and there is a red cross on it and in the middle there is a red hand on a white star.

 

·        Landmarks:

·        The Giant’s causeway is on the UNESCO World Heritage list. It has around basalt columns.

·        The Titanic museum is a very famous is Belfast. It was opened in 2012. 

·        Dark Hedges is an avenue of beech trees. The trees creates a magic tunnel.

 

·        Foods:

·        Ulster Fry: This is a traditional Irish breakfast. Its make of eggs, sausages and fried bread

·        Irish Stewe: it is a traditional soup, what make with potato, meal, carrots and onions

·        Dulse: This is a salty, seaweed snack. Also call red dulse, sea lettuce flakes or creathnach

·        Guinness pie: Beef filled pie        

 

·        Sports

·        Union Rugby: 15-15 people play on the court. The game time is 2x40 minutes

·        Netball: ,,Basketball of the women”, 7-7 women play on the court. The game time is 4x15 minutes. with 3 minutes breaks

 

·        Famous People:

Lot of famous people were born here.

·        Jamie Dornan: Actor, His most famous role the 50 Shades of Grey

·        Liam Nesson: Actor, His most famous role the Taken

·        Sam Neil: Actor, Jurassic Park

·        Bear Grylls: Who is the best-known survival

 

6. Interesting Facts: 

·        Northern Ireland was the location of the most watched series, the Game of Thrones. One of them is a Dark Hedges

·        Snow typically falls in Belfast less than 10 days a year

Judaism a monostatic religion, what started when the God called Abraham.

Judaism contains the belief of a person chosen to God to speak. 

 

Symbol: menorah

Hanukkah: Festival of light

 

Judaism at a glance:

·        originated in the Middle East over 3500 years ago

·        founded by Moses-originated in the Middle East over 3500 years ago

·        founded by Moses  à trace their history back to Abraham

·        believe in one God

·        the most important document: Torah (halakhah)

·        spiritual leaders: RABBIS

·        worship in synagogues

 

Jewish beliefs:

·        keep God’s laws

·        they are feel part of global community

·        ceremonies start early à circumcised at 8 days old

·        Jew: child of Jewish mother

·        who isn’t born a Jew, can convert to Judaism

 

Customs:

·        Sabbath is commanded by God

·        Beings at night on Friday 

Lasts until Saturday night 

·         often call the day Sabbath à comes Hebrew word of rest

·        time without TV, phone,  busy work

·        people don’t think about work

·        eat challah soft, rich bread à before they prayer

·        some family go to the synagogue before the meal

 

 

History:

The Old Testament: 

·        God chose the Jews to be an example to the world

 

The Bronze Age: 

·        The Jewish history begins the Bronze Age in the Middle East

·        God chose Abraham to be the father of people

·         At the time of Moses: God gave them a set of rules

 

The kingdom declines:

·        around 920, the kingdom fell apart à groups

·        time of prophets

 

Rebuilding the Jewish kingdom:

·        in 164, there was a revolt against the king of Syria

·        This is Hanukah




Christianity

·        Christianity is monostatic religion, what’s from the Chrisna and grown up from Judaism

·        2 billion Christian people live in the world

·        God is human form, Jesus, whose parents are virgin Mary and Joseph 

·        Jesus born in 24^th on December

·        he died on a cross, he has been crucifixion

·        he resurrection in Holly week

·        he said: ,, Love another as I have loved you”

 

Secret text: Bible

 

Believe:

Jesus Old Testament: 

·        He save humanity from consequence of its sins

·        giving his life on the cross

 

Three elements:

·        God, the father

·        God of son

·        The Holy Spirit

 

-        worship in churches 

-        Bible

-        Easter and Christmas à Holy days

 

 

Beliefs:

·        God: only God, father as Jesus Christ

·        Jesus: son of God

·        Trinity: God as father. Son of God, Holy spirit

 

 

Symbol:

·        The cross: Good Friday marks the Passion of Christ and his crucifixion

·        Roman Catholic and Easter Orthodox Christians also reflect the cross 

 

 

Secret text:

·        The Old Testament: 39 books

·        The New Testament: 27 books

                                       Gospels à story of Jesus

A tradicional Turkish breakfast:

simit: ring-shape bread with seas am seeds

feta cheese: salt sheese

Turkish tea: black tea

 

Lunch

Köfte: usually make by beef and it make boiled

Manti: Cooked stuffed pasta with beef or mutton with yogurt

Börek: Stuffed pastry with mince or spinach or cheese. You can eat any time, because it’s a soft meal.

Burek: The pastry is same like the börek, but it’s stuff is sweet, grits with eggs, lemon and sugar.

 

 

Drink

Ayran: Made from water, yogurt and salt

Raki:      -     40-50% alcohol content

-        Make by fruit distillate with anise

-        usually drink with water, because it’s alcohol content is very high --- Raki become white

 

Desserts

Baklava: - puff pastry with nut and pistachio

-        during cooking it have to watered with syrup what made by honey, water, sugar and lemon juice.

 

Lokum: - Made from stretch and sugar, sometimes with lemon

-        it’s a jelly with powdered sugar

-        available in nut, pistachio and cinnamon flavoring

 

Lokma: cooked, sweet pasta balls

Künefe: vermicelli with soft, sticky cheese stepped with a sweet syrup

 

 

Turkish tea: 

-        Turkey is the 3. largest tea producer country

-        usually drink after eating (any time)

-        Turkish tea: They use 2 tea pots. Take water on the bigger pot and take tea on the smaller. Fit each other. When the water s boiled point half of it on the tea. 20 minutes later the tea leaves settle down. During the pouring mix the and water on the tulip shaped tiny glass, because the tea is very strong

4/2. Healthy food and unhealthy food


4/3. My favourite recipe


4/4. Food idioms

·        Apple of one’s eye - adored by someone
I’m the apple of my mother"s eye.

·        Bun in the oven - be pregnant 

·        Bad egg – who is often in trouble
 My sister is a bad egg, when see meet her friends.

·        Big cheese – V.I.P.
 Viktor Orban is a big cheese.

·        Bread and butter – the main things
 The school is the bread and butter for me now. We do not have a lot of money but we have the bread and butter. 

·        Bring home the bacon – earn the income
 Now that I have a full-time job, I am bringing home the bacon.

·        Butter someone up – be extra nice to someone
  I was butter Berny up but she was so annoying. 

·        Cake and eat too – want more than you fair share
 Don’t buy a car if you want to walk and stay healthy. You can't eat your cake and have it too.

·        Carrot top – red hair
 My father had carrot top when he was young.

·        Cheesy – silly
 My sister isusually cheesy.

·        Cool as a cucumber – very relaxed
 My mother is cool as a cucumber.

·        Cream of the crop – the best
 I love the English lessons because our teacher is the cream of the crop. :)

·        Cup of tea – something you enjoy
 Opera is not my cup of tea.

·        Egg someone on – urge someone to do something
 I egg my mother on to go to the bathroom.

·        Freeze ones buns off – be very cold
 The weather freezes my buns off. 

·        Full of beans – have a lot of silly energy
 My sister is usually full of beans.

·         Gravy train – extremely good pay for minimal work
 My cousin was working at he Festival Sziget last summer and she got on the gravy train. 

·        Handed to someone on a silver platter – receive without working for something
 I don’t like her, she expects to be handed everything on a silver platter as if she’s better than other people.

·        Hard nut to crack – difficult to understand
 The geometric is hard nut to crack for me.

·        In a nutshell – simply
 The Hungarian lessons are in a nutshell.
We learned about environment, talked a lot about greenhouse effect and bad gases, in a nutshell, we discussed green environment issues.

·        Hot potato – difficult subject to talk about
 The math is a hot potato for me
Think of a taboo subject - Talking about sex is hot potato in the class. .

·        Nuts about something – like a lot
 Anne is nuts about John.

·        One smart cookie – very intelligent
 Debi is one smart cookie at Math.

·        Piece of cake – very easy

·        Put all of ones eggs in one basket – rely on one single thing
 I put all of ones  my eggs in one basket and I invited him to Debi's party. Nincs mit vesztenem, mindent egy lapra tettem fel... 

·        Sell like hot cakes – bought by many people
 The Apple phones sell like hot cakes.

·        Spice things up – reveal the truth
 That necklace really spices your outfit up.

·        Take something with a pinch of salt – don’t consider something in 100%
 I usually take my Math homework with a pinch of salt.

·        Use your noodle – use your brain
 You have to use your noodle if you don’t want to fail in the exam.