miércoles, 2 de diciembre de 2009

Charles Dickens




Index
1.Personal information.
2.A part of his life.
3.About Nicholas Nickleby.
4.His books

Personal information
•Charles Dickens was born on February 7th. 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
•He died on June 9th. 1870 in Gads Hall.

A part of his life
•He was the second of eight children in a family often plagued by debt. Dickens at ten, saw his father arrested and confined in the Marshalsea, a debtor’s prision in London and although as a small boy he was placed on a blacking factory where he worked labeling bottles, visiting John Dickens, his father, on Sundays. Charles returned to school on his father’s release, taught himself shorthand and at sixteen became a parlamentary reporter. At twenty-four his carreer took off with the publication of Scketches by Boz (1836), which was followed by Pickwick papers the next year. As a novelist and successes through Our Mutual Friend (1864-65). His family life had ended earlier, in 1858 when fame drew him apart from his wife of twenty-three years, Catherine, and (although his readers never knew) in the arms of young Ellen Ternan, an actress. Ill health slowed him down but he continued his popular dramatic readings from his fiction to an adoring public that included Queen Victoria. At his death, he left The mistery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.

About Nicholas Nickleby
•Nicholas Nickleby is one of the books that Charles Dickens wrote and is very similar to his life because of the time the place and the economical situation. Something that was very important to him in this book was the difference between the rich people an the poor people.

His books
•The Old Curiosity Shop.
•A Christmas Carol.
•Martin Chewzzlewit.
•A Tale of Two Cities.
•Great Expectations.
•Scketches by Boz.
•Paperwick Papers.

lunes, 30 de noviembre de 2009

Christmas Time

christmas is a special time when people celebrate when Jesus' born. people eat natilla , buñuelo, wine, grapes, cookies and others in colombia. is a date celebrated almost all around the world. Christmas is one of the most widely celebrated Christian festivals all around the world. It is annual holiday celebrated on the 25th of December to honor the birth of Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus Christ as he is more popularly known.

Thanksgiving Day

What is the Thanksgiving Day?
The Thanksgiving day is a date when the people share food and conmemorates the arrival of the pilgrims to U.S.A. sharing and learning from the natives. the pilgrims shared a lot of things with the natives such as the weapons and the natives showed the pilgrims how to cook, they showed them the corn and at the end of this celebration peolpe eat turkey and corn to celebrate the previous event.

The Day Of The Dead



Mexican festival

What is it?
•Is a festival that is celebrated in Mexico the 1 and 2 of November.
•In this days people decorate the graves to remember their familiars or friends who have died.
•It is believed thet on this days, the souls of the dead come to visit their families and friends. People feels happy to meet this special souls.

How do people celebrate it?
•People celebrate gathering of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died.
•The traditions include building private altars honoring the dead using sugars skulls, orange marigolds and their favorite food and drinks.

Costumes
•They use evil masks and they pretend to be dead people with make ups and old clothing.
Dance and music
At night with everything ready, the dances begin:
•The ”Danza de los Viejitos” dance of the old men, representative dance of this region.
•In the pre –hispanic times this dance was performed as a ritual honoring the sun, this dance is the “Pescado Blanco” white fish.

Typical dishes
•Morsels of candy
•Nuts
•Fruits
•Vegetables
•Tequila or mezcal
•Salty-sour roasted grasshoppers called chapulines
•A bowl of chicken bated in chili-chocolate mole sauce
•Several avocados
•Twin mangoes