Background information The festival is one of the respected festivals in Italy. It also falls as one of the oldest in Venice and Italy as a whole. It was said to have come into existence in the 15th century, although many historians have stated that there were traces of the practice as early as the closing stages of the 14th century. It came into existence as a result of the fact that the Serenissima laws prohibited the use of masks at night. This made people start using masks during the day. The festival was turned to what it is today by the number of people it attracted. The city also…

Is there anyone who in his childhood has not dreamed at least once of the abolition of the homework? And there in Europe they talk about it seriously – British and French younger student parents no longer want to see their children over textbooks all over the evening. Opponents of homework cite a variety of arguments. First, if there is no homework, the children will have more free time to communicate with their parents and for other useful activity. However, there is another point of view on why we should do homework. Its proponents believe that it is a necessary addition to a good lesson, because it is only the…

It became known recently that the United States of America may decide on stopping produce pennies due to the fact that the cost of the production of one such coin this year exceeded the nominal due to the cost of metals. This was reported by the U.S. TV channel MSNBC citing an expert on North American coins. “Soon pennies disappear from circulation, if current trends persist in the economy” – said in an interview Robert Hogue, an expert of the American Numismatic Society. How MSNBC reports, the U.S. Mint for the first time said that the price of the penny production in the United States exceeds its nominal value. According…

Your business is always in one of two situations: winning or losing. It is losing when it stands still or is stagnant. It is winning when developing. It makes no sense to analyze all the obstacles that are in the way of your business rapid development – there are too many of them. However, there is one, which is the most important and not depending on the production and resources, company scale or its cash flows, and the abilities of its employees to think. This obstacle is called “customers understanding.” Any company that neglects this knowledge sooner or later go bankrupt and leave the market. And sooner rather than later.…

Is there anything in the world more precious than time? What is the value of time? You can create or produce something of value without investing effort, money and other resources, but nothing comes instantly. Even on the fertile soils of the south, where the soil is so fat and even a peasant labor is not a hard labor, you cannot make the fruit grow faster. But time is much more than a useful resource. This is what our life consist of. However, paradoxically, there is little what we regard so lightly, sometimes even depreciatingly as time. Killing time is a very common activity last hundred years, which is nothing…

An urban legend is a modern story, approaching the myth and can borrow from all genres (story, horror, joke, etc.) and spreading by the mouth or other popular mediums (contemporary or not). It is also called a contemporary legend and approaches the rumor or the hoax. It mainly expresses fears and fixations, which distinguish it from an educational legend that spreads more in the pedagogy, and reassuring and romantic beliefs (Mozart effect, Brain Gym, “right brain” and “left brain”). As an oral tradition, taken into account its time resistance ability, it is an integral part of folklore. The first sociological study of an urban legend is due to the French…

The first ships with convicts on board arrived from Britain to Australia, as it is known, in 1788. By that time, about 70,000 years the Australian continent and the surrounding islands had been inhabited by the local indigenous people, that is the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The natives were traditional nomadic hunter-gatherer life. Men hunted large animals. Women and children were engaged in picking fruit and berries, and on occasion caught and killed small animals for eating. Aborigines have lived in harmony with nature. Earth gave them not only a livelihood. It was everything for them – was the center of their spiritual life, was the source of…

Emily Dickinson is the famous US poetess of the 19th century who received her popularity and fame only after her death. Emily Dickinson published no more than ten poems during her lifetime and other 1800 poems remained in handwriting and were discovered only after the poetess’s death. The full version of her uncensored poems appeared only in 1955. Even her ten poems which were published at that time were censored seriously and she had to make them fit to the norms and standards of the current time. Dickinson’s poetry does not have the contemporary analogues and she could be called the innovator of her time. Her lines are short, the…

Critical Essay about The Cask of Amontillado: The Cask of Amontillado is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe, which was first published in Godey’s Lady’s Book in 1846. The action takes place in the unknown Italian town in the unknown time. The narration is carried out from the first person who speaks about the death revenge to her friend who had humiliated and abused her. The revenge had the form of immurement and this idea is found in other stories written by Poe – The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, etc. All these short stories have the common feature – the murderer’s confession and presentation of information from…

A Doll’s House is a play written by the Norway writer Henrik Ibsen in 1879. The central theme of the play is the woman’s place in the society, though the whole of idea of the text is not limited by the woman’s rights but the human rights in general. Modern critics treat A Doll’s House as the manifest of feminism, because it reveals all the peculiarities and difficulties of the woman’s life. In 2006 the play was the most popular play performed in theatres in the world. The play describes the life of Nora Helmer, the mother of three children who lived in the typical society of the 19th century.…