(442 words) Each of us in childhood dreamed of growing up as soon as possible, thinking that to be adults is much better than to be small. In the view of the child, an adult does not go to school, does not teach lessons and does not eat tasteless cereal for breakfast. However, children's ideas do not always coincide with reality,
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For several months now, landowner Pyotr Konstantinovich Muromsky, having entrusted the farm to the manager, has been living with his daughter Lidochka and her elderly aunt Anna Antonova Atueva in Moscow. He has vast lands in the Yaroslavl province and already one and a half thousand serf souls - a serious condition. Of course ...
: USA, 1932. A Negro, sentenced to death for another murder, has the gift of healing. He cures the wife of the head of the prison from cancer, but this does not save him from execution. The novel was written on behalf of Paul Edgegum, who lives in a nursing home. In order not to lose the remnants of the mind, he ...
(318 words) D. Fonvizin in his play “The Young Man” ridiculed many vices that make themselves felt throughout the comedy. Greed, rudeness, ignorance and love of power alternate in front of the viewer. The simpletons family absorbed all these sins. Particular attention is paid to the play ...
The play is a prosaic genre, the most difficult for reader's perception. The essence of the dialogue is forgotten quickly, as are the details of the events. Over the centuries, language has changed, and conversations of past centuries have become increasingly difficult to understand. That’s why it’s important to use a short ...
County Siberian town of Dudari. The narration is conducted on behalf of the participant in the described events, which he recalls many years later. The author of the story, who is never named in the story (hereinafter referred to as the Author), is on the criminal wanted list together with his friend Veniamin Malyshev, ...
The huge dirty room of the school. Classes are over, and the Bursaks have fun with games. More recently, the "period of forced education" ended, when everyone, regardless of age, had to take a full course of science. Now the “law of great age” has begun to operate - upon reaching a certain ...
Vitaly Kartsev, a Russian emigrant writer living in Munich, in June 1982 got the opportunity to be in Moscow in 2042. When preparing for the trip, Kartsev met his classmate Leshka Bukashev. Bukashev made a career in the USSR through the KGB. It seemed that their meeting was not accidental and that Bukashev knew ...
The action takes place in the taiga district center on an early summer morning. Valentina, a slender, pretty girl of about eighteen, goes to the teahouse, where she works, and on the way inspects the front garden in front of the house: again the boards are removed from the fence, the gate is torn off. She inserts boards, spreads crushed grass ...
The story takes place in the era of the Regency (1715-1723), when the mores of French society were characterized by extreme liberties. With the cheerful and frivolous regent Philippe of Orleans in France, a reaction immediately began to the "lean" spirit that reigned under the aged king. French society ...
Small prose of Bunin is not very large, but it is very difficult to perceive. The author skillfully uses images, symbols and artistic details in the text, which can not always be easily remembered in the lesson, especially in a nervous environment. Therefore, each student will benefit from our ...
The boy and grandfather lived on a forest cordon. There were three women on the cordon: grandmother, aunt Bekei, the grandfather's daughter and wife of the main man on the cordon, the buster Orozkul, and the wife of the auxiliary worker Seydakhmat. Aunt Bekey is the most miserable in the world, because she has no children, and Orozkul beats her when she is drunk....
Pied Piper is Tsvetaeva’s first poem written in exile in Prague. This is a prophecy about the fate of the Russian revolution, the romantic period of which ended and began a mortal, bureaucratic, dictatorial. This is the verdict of any utopia about the possibility of popular triumph, popular power. This is a mockery ...
Terkin, killed in battle, is born into the next world. It’s clean, like a subway. Accounting table, check table, pitch table. Terkin requires a certificate, they require a photo card, a certificate from a doctor. Terkin is undergoing medical treatment. There are signs, labels, tables everywhere. Complaints are not accepted here. Grobgazeta editor is not ...
"Life is a story told by a nerd, full of noise and rage, but devoid of meaning." To retell this story differently than it was originally told, means to try to tell a completely different story, except that the people acting in it will bear the same names, they will be connected by the same blood ...
A platoon of Soviet scouts entered the village. Scout commander Lieutenant Travkin was thinking about his people. Of the eighteen former, proven fighters, he only had twelve. The rest were just recruited, and what they will be in business is unknown. And ahead was a meeting with the enemy: ...
Consultant mindset Do not rely on intuition, use facts. This will avoid mistakes and give more weight to your idea during the presentation. Think clearly. McKinsey uses the MECE - Mutually Exclusive Collectively Eexhaustive (mutually ...
The square in front of the castle in Elsinore. Guard Marcellus and Bernard, Danish officers. They are later joined by Horatio, a learned friend of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.He came to verify the story of the night appearance of a ghost similar to the Danish king, who had recently died. Horatio is inclined to consider this a fantasy....
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