Monday, April 27, 2020
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Gulliver's travels
STRANGE EXPERIMENTS IN
LAPUTA
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· There is a project to extract sunbeams from
cucumbers
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A scientist tries to turn excrement back into
food
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Another is attempting to turn ice into gunpowder
and is writing a treatise about the malleability of fire,
·
An architect is designing a way to build houses
from the roof down
·
A blind master is teaching
his blind apprentices to mix colors for painters according to smell and touch.
·
A doctor in another room tries to cure patients
by blowing air through them.
·
One professor has a class full of boys working
from a machine that produces random sets of words. Using this machine, the
teacher claims, anyone can write a book on philosophy or politics.
·
A linguist in another room is attempting to
remove all the elements of language except nouns.
·
Another professor tries to teach mathematics by
having his students eat wafers that have mathematical proofs written on them.
·
Another claims that conspiracies against the
government could be discovered by studying the excrement of subjects.
The academy of LAGADO serves to create entirely useless projects while
the people starve outside its walls.
The result is a society in which science is promoted for no real reason
and time is wasted as a matter of course.
SYMBOLS
The Lilliputians symbolize humankind’s
wildly excessive pride in its own puny (weak) existence.
The Brobdingnagians symbolize the private,
personal, and physical side of humans when examined up close and in great
detail.
The Laputans represent the folly of
theoretical knowledge that has no relation to human life and no use in the
actual world.
The Houyhnhnms represent an ideal of
rational existence, a life governed by sense and moderation of which philosophers
since Plato have long dreamed. They have no names in the narrative nor any need
for names, since they are virtually interchangeable, with little individual
identity
ENGLAND all the races Gulliver
encounters could be versions of the English and that his travels merely allow
him to see various aspects of human nature more clearly
Saturday, April 18, 2020
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
THEMES DORIAN GRAY
The
ending of the story is CONVENTIONAL- THE
VILLAIN is PUNISHED by his own soul
Dorian tries to
separate his external appearance
from his internal reality. In
society his appearance enchants everybody and even if he commits criminal acts
nobody can believe that he can be corrupted. In fact he hasn’t got a real
identity, people don’t know the real person but the character of Dorian. He is
forced to live according to a code that doesn’t correspond to what he really
wants.
The picture expresses
the dark side of Dorian. Stabbing the portrait, Dorian kills himself. The bad side of Dorian is a part of his
personality. It’s his double. So, the
contrast betweewn how he is inside and how he appears to the others brings him
to death.
The
horrible picture is also a symbol of the immorality of the Victorian
middle-class, while Dorian and his innocent appearance are symbols of the
hypocrisy of his time.
Saturday, April 4, 2020
The next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates
Answer the questions while watching the video
1)What will kill over 10 million people in the next few decades in Bil Gates’ opinion?
2) Are we ready for the next epidemic ?
3) Did we have a system to face Ebola ?
4) What did we especially lack of?
5)If we have a large epidemic what do we need ?
6) What could be done with the blood of survivors ?
7) What’s the difference between movies and reality when dealing with epidemics ?
8) Why didn’t Ebola spread so much?
9)When did the Spanish flu spread?
19 How many people die from that epidemic?
11)Give some examples of the tools that
in his opinion we can use nowadays to fight an epidemic.
12)In the last part of the video Bill Gates talks about the things
that we need if we have to face a massive epidemic in detail.
13)What are those things?
14)In what way global health will go down ?
15)Why should investing money on health be a priority for each country?
Students First year Guided written text
DESCRIBE YOUR FAVOURITE SHOP
DESCRIBE YOUR FAVOURITE SHOP
Where is it?
How often do you go there?
What does it sell?
Why do you think it is a good
shop?
Why do you like it?
What about the shop assistants? Are they kind? Are they rude?Can they help you easily?
How about prices. are they cheap
or expensive?
Give an example of things you
have bought (tu hai comprato )there
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