AP English Language and Composition Reading List GENERAL NONFICTION Ambrose‚ Stephen. Undaunted Courage. Follows the Lewis and Clark expedition from Thomas Jefferson‘s hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific‚ through the heart- stopping moments of the actual trip‚ to Lewis‘s lonely demise on the Natchez Trace. For readers who love detailed history. Barry‚ John M. The Great Influenza. A detailed description of the scourge of the "Spanish flu" of 1918 with interesting elements of the practice
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THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF ENGLISH STYLISTICS Lecture on English Stylistics 4th year of study N. P. Izotova‚ PhD LECTURE OUTLINE Stylistics as a linguistic discipline: its aims and subject matter. Main schools of modern stylistics. Links of stylistics with other branches of linguistics. LECTURE OUTLINE Key concepts of stylistics: Style; Foregrounding; Stylistic neutrality and Stylistic coloring; Norm and its violation. Types of norms; Context. Types of context; Image and
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Anxiety is an emotion characterized by the fear‚ uneasiness and worry. In simple terms anxiety is body response to stressful‚ uneasiness‚ threat or nervousness before any event. People may suffer anxiety in different perspectives of their life. Some may have fear of future threat‚ nervousness‚ stage fright‚ or may be of imminent death which broadly be explain. It is an unpleasant normal occurring of physiological and psychological state. Some limits anxiety is necessary in one’s life‚ but when experience
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Women in the Holocaust [pic] Introduction "Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork‚ the big camp in Drenthe to which they’re sending all the Jews....If it’s that bad in Holland‚ what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they’re being gassed
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HIST 1001 FATher ZEPS Section 102 date Revolution in weapons: initiated by machine guns and the trench warfare Europe remained in peace for the whole century after Napoleonic invasion in 1814 mainly due to balance of power and principle of intervention‚ proposed by Metternich during a congress in Vienna 1815. By the end of 19th century however‚ high pressure and drive for conflicts were accumulated around major European powers‚ mainly due to sense of nationalism and universally appealing theory
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January 19‚ 2005 The Meaning of life What is the meaning of life. The meaning of our lives‚ the purpose‚ and the dreams both dashed and realized‚ and the expectations forced upon us by others. In other words how do you "translate" what life is? "Translation" means to explain in simple terms. What is it supposed to be about? There are different answers for different people at different times in their lives. A person’s lifetime is filled with self-examination. Why am I here? What am
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Work of Soviet Secret Agents. First. New York‚ NY: Readers Digest‚ 1974. "Beria‚ Lavrenty Pavlovich." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. 5 Feb. 2007 <http://school.eb.com/eb/article-9078771>. "Chebrikov‚ Viktor Mikhaylovich." Britannica Book of the Year‚ 2000. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. 5 Feb. 2007 <http://school.eb.com/eb/article- 9342255>. Freemantle‚ Brian. KGB‚ Inside the World ’s Largest Intelligence Network. 1. New York:
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) Eighteen months ago‚ deciding he needed a better understanding of the factors underpinning Gazprom’s undervaluation‚ Browder dug around a bit using public information and found that the stealing was "so brazen" that Former CEOs Rem Vyakhirev and Viktor Chernomyrdin and others transferred assets openly to members of their family. "The arrogance was so extreme that there was no cover-up whatsoever‚" Browder remarked. "But that was helpful to us‚ because it enabled us to paint a very accurate picture
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BMW Using a BRIC localization strategy to maintain global leadership in luxury automobile manufacturing Achille MOLLON‚ Aleksander OLECHNOWICZ‚ Ania‚ TWOREK‚ Celine PAN‚ Jade CHAN‚ Sophie SCHAEFGEN‚ Viktor MIKUS Content • Introducing BRIC • Company Snapshot • R&D • Sourcing • Manufacturing • Sales BMW Winning the BRIC Auto Market BRIC market performance By 2014 BRIC will account for 30% of the world sales As a whole is growing by 3%-15% per year between 2009 and 2014
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Climate change in Russia’s Arctic tundra 1. Key words Fill the gaps in the sentences using these key words from the text. Tundra‚ permafrost‚ swamp‚ wilderness‚ landslide‚ Catastrophic‚ indigenous‚ itinerant‚ unmistakeable‚ impenetrable 1. The _______________ people of a particular place have lived there for a very long time before other people came to live there. 2. A _______________ situation or event causes a lot of damage or makes a lot of people suffer. 3. A _______________ is
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