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Its strats when Hamlet sees the ghost. Hamlet talks to him and the ghost says how Hamlet's uncle killed the old king. Hamlet can hardly believe and doesnt even want to believe it. Then the ghost disappears and Hamlet meets Horatio. Horatio wants to know what the ghost told Hamlet. Hamlet tells him but Horatio and his friends have to swear several times that they wont tell anyone the secret. Then there is a scene with Polonius and his friend Reynaldo. Polonius is asking Reynaldo if he could go and check up on his son who lives in France. Then there is a scene with Polonius, the king and the queen. Polonius explains Hamlet's maddness by saying that he fell in love with his daughter, Ophelia. The queen is against that and disagrees. Then she says "The reason why Hamlet is mad is because of his father's death and because I married the new king!"

Hamlet

Today we read few pages from Hamlet, which for me was a bit difficult because I didnt read the first ones. So i read the whole thing again. So far I understood that Horatio and other friends of Hamlet saw the king's spirit. When they tell Hamlet, he doesnt believe them but still wants to find out the truth. Of course when Oratio and his friend see it they cant believe it and are amazed. Then Oratio is also there and someone tells her that she shouldnt show any emotion while she is with Hamlet. This is so far what I understood, its not much but its pretty hard to understand..

Hamlet

Thanks for the book again!!!!

Hamlet

Hamlet

During English class we started to watch Hamlet. The starting showed a coffin with Hamlet’s father in. Hamlet’s mother was in a really big emotion, she couldn’t believe that her husband is dead. There was also Hamlet’s uncle which didn’t really care about his brother’s death because he knew he is going to the throne afterwards. After few weeks Hamlet’s mother marries Hamlet’s uncle who becomes the new king. Hamlet’s mom is now happy and telling Hamlet that life has to go on. He still doesn’t like it because his uncle took the throne. The uncle makes Hamlet’s mother to do everything he tells her but she doesn’t recognizes that. The uncle uses her to get closer to Hamlet and get Hamlet to believe and follow his uncle as well. Hamlet wants to leave the palace in Denmark but then his mom persuades him to stay. The movie is a bit harder to understand but you get most of the content by just watching it.

Break!

I hope you're having fun on your break away from bo-ring Vilnius.

Chapter 8

Copious: Big quantity
Visage: The way how your face looks
Eccentricity: difference from others..
Embonpoint: Beeing plump
Acrimony: Sharpness or bitterness

Chapter 7 words

Resplendent: Something shining
Hobbledehoy: A boy that doesnt act as he should..
Vociferous: Something that is really loud
Expostulation: Some is protesting
Incongruity: Something that you dont agree with. you've got another opinion

Words chapter 5 - 6

Quaint : Charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way
Guttering: the act of making gutters
Jauntily: smartly trim… to walk with a jaunty step
Ascertain: to find out definitely

Words.. Chapter 4

Cursorily: going quickly over something
Penury: destitution, extreme poverty
Ostentatiously: conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others
Covet: to wish for... He won the prize they all coveted.
Imprecation: cursing
Vicar: a person acting as priest
Ammonite: chambered fossil shell of an ammonoid

Words from the Invisible Man

Acquiescence: agreement or constent by silence or without objection. He acquiescene to his boss' demands.

Sovereigns: being above all others in character. The boss was sovereigns in his company.

Impenetrable: Something that can't be entered. It was an impenetrable mystery.

Germinate: To begin grow or develop. The plant will probably germinate tomorrow.

Dilettante: A lover of an art or science. The Invisible Man was very dilettante.

Fatuity: Something that is silly or stupid.

Crepitation: To make a cracking sound.

Hitler's painting

Sketches made by Adolf Hitler were sold for 500,000 LT in a British auction, Lostwithiel. This collection contained 21 paintings which he drew during the World War I as a soldier. Those paintings were found after 60 years in a house in Belgium.

The invisible man

Advanteges :
-He could steel things from other people
-He can be somewhere, where he is not suppoed to
-He can be famous as the invisible man
-He can kill someone becasue no one will find who it actually was
Disadvantages :
-He doesn't have any relationship
-No close friends, No family (No life, really)
-Can't be really taken to a normal society
-If he dies no one will care becasue no one will know
-If he injures himself, no one can fix it because no one can actually see him!!

My finished essay

The LP by U2 - "War"

War was the third LP released by U2. It came out in March 1983, and it showed them as a mainstream band when it entered the British music chart at number one. The album discusses the signs of spiritual and religious influences on “War.” “The ability to use a range of powerful images, taking a song initially about sectarian anger, and turn it into a call for Christians to unite and claim victory over death and evil.” This message is shown by three main points: the songs and their lyrics, the cover, and the music and its sounds.
The lyrics in this album are very interesting because all of them show different influences on war. The album contains 10 songs which contain anger, passion and despair. The starting of this album has a strong song called "Sunday bloody Sunday." It’s about the conflicts in Northern Ireland, 1972. The song “seconds” is based on young boys leaving home to the war and about the rise and fall of revolutions. The song goes, “It takes a second to say goodbye, say goodbye.” The fourth song of this album is a bit of departure from the other tracks in War, as it is quiet, atmospheric song. It talks about someone who is rescuing other person from his life problems. The third and the fifth songs of this album talk about the end of the war and how everyone is excited that it’s over. The last song ‘40’ was used for several years as the closing song of all U2 concerts. The words “How long to this song” were each night sung by the fans while they were leaving the show.
The cover of this album symbolized how the band had moved on. It shows an aggressive picture of Peter Rowan, the same child shown on their first album called “Boy,” only now he is older. It describes how the boy is no longer innocent as he was before. The same producers of this album used Peter Rowan in another U2 album called “The best of 1980 – 1990” and created the similar emotional intensity that comes from the child’s expression. The back cover shows the total opposite of war. The producers used colored paper; the symbolism of this is more peaceful than anger and despair.
The feeling of this LP was totally different from the two albums that had gone before. They used raw guitars, pulsating drums and bass from Adam. All of them were combined together which gives us the idea that we can hear this in all the songs of this LP. The sound of most of the songs could be described as the sadness of war and disaster. In the songs “Red light” and “Surrender” they used a guest who played the back vocals. This was the first time when U2 used a guest on their records.
The music discusses the signs of spiritual and religious influences on "war". They used passion and despair in their lyrics and music sounds. The album "War" is one of the best albums that came out around the year 1980. They even achieved the first place on British music charts. By now U2 has around 25 albums and "war" could be still placed in the first three albums.

U2 - "War"

We were writing an essay about our favourite album and I finishe today. It talks about our impression of the album and the songs' lyrics. It was an interesting essay to write!! My favourite song on the album is "Sunday Bloody Sunday." And I learned that you have to put a period before the quotes not after :-))

Passport

A British tradesman Mark Coshever flew from London to Armsterdam using his little daughter's passport.Without any attention he went through British check - in 2 times. He found the misstake on the airport in Holand when the poeple at the check- in saw a picture of his little daughter Alicie.

The last Kennedy's co-driver died

On Friday in the United States, the last surviving person who was in the car with John Kennedy when he was assasinated died. Nelli Connally was a widow of her husband John Connally. The rifleman also shot him but he lived till 1993. Nelli Connally was 87 years old when she died.

The shortest person

Hindu empire under the Himalayas, which is famous because of 8000 meters high mountains but they can also be proud of another interesting thing. Which is the shortest person on the planet who lives in Nepal. His name is Khagendra Thapamagar, he is 14 years old. His height is 51cm and his weight is only 4.5 kg!! This record was registered to the "Guinness World of Records" this week.

Anteater fourfingered

One of 10 zoological gardens in the whole world can be proud of that, they raise an anteater fourfingered. One of them is also a zoological garden in Olomouc (Czech Republic). Right now it was born and for Czech Republic it is unique thing.

War

An actual interesting fact that people in the world are talking about the most is that Libanon ended war with Izrael. I think it's interesting that all people in the world are intrested and know about it, even it's not their own country. Now days OSN is trying to find lots of soldier forces, which will go there and help. The soldiers should devide Libanon from Izrael which would make peace between them. I hope this will be a succesfull operation and everything will go well.

Advertising

We are doing an essay about advertising and I think it's very interesting because you get to think really deeply about the advert. Each picture has a different message in it and to get the message you need to actutually think about it!!! Most people get convinced because of these advertisments and we learn how it's easy to get conviced. People can just see a picture which is decribing and showing the product and they go all crazy about it!