John Agard is born in June 1949 in British Guiana
there now is Guyana. He grows op in Geogetown in British Guiana. In British Guiana
he studies English, French and Latin and the same time he begging to writ poem.
After he was finish with the studied he begging work. He works in a library and
teaches in French, English and Latin. He published two books when he still
lived in British Guiana. In 1977 John Agard and his partner grace Nichols moved
to Britain. In Britain he work for BBC and commonwealth institute. John Agard
writes in different genres, short story, poems, drama and children. We have
read a text of John Agard. We read the text “Ms and Mrs Xenophobia” when we
have about Multicultural Britain.
2.n English
onsdag den 30. april 2014
fredag den 11. april 2014
Martin Luther King
Basic facts:
- Born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929
- He was born as Michael King
- He was assasinated at age of 39 in 1968
- He was raised as a Christian
- He was a pastor
King's Life:
- He was an activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
- Known for his speeches - I Have A Dream
- On October 14th, 1964 King received the Nobel Peace Prize - for combating racial inequality trough nonviolence.
- Later he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.
- Today: A role model for many people all over the world.
mandag den 7. april 2014
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham
Lincoln was born February 12, 1809. Even though he grew up in a poor family, he
became a lawyer. In 1842 he married Mary Todd and they
got 4 children, all of them boys.
In 1856 he
affiliated to The Republicans Party, which was a new party at that time. He
became the vice-president candidate and in 1861 he won the presidential
election and became the 16th President of United States. Abraham
Lincoln successfully led the United States through its greatest constitution,
military and moral crises – the American Civil War. He ended slavery when he
signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. We have read a speech
of him from November 19, 1863 were he spoke about equality. The speech became
one of the most famous speeches in the world.
Abraham Lincoln was killed in April 1865, and it was
the first assassination of a U.S. president and sent the nation into mourning.
torsdag den 3. april 2014
Henry Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski was born as
Heinrich Karl Bukowski, August 16, 1920 In Germany. When he was 3 years
old he moved with his father, Charles who was an American soldier, and mother,
Katharina who was a German, to USA. As the age 6-11 he got beat by his father
and it had helped his written as he came to understand undeserved pain. He
joined Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941 just before Second World War
and after that he moved to New York so he could begin his career as a writer. He has wrote thousand poems, hundreds of short
stories and 6 novels and his written were influenced by social, cultural and
economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles .It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of
poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the
drudgery of work. We have read one of his texts “Son of Satan”. He died by
leukemia March 9, 1994 as the age 73
torsdag den 27. marts 2014
Oscar Wilde
His name is
Oscar Wilde and he is born Oktober 16,
1854 in Dublin, Ireland. He died November 30, 1900 In Paris, France.
He was son of sir William Wilde og Jane Francesca Wilde, and his mom was an successful
writer and Irish nationalist who wrote under
the name "Speranza". Wildes father was a surgeon and wrote books
about archeology and folklore so Oscar Wilde had both parents who wrote.
When the study was over, he took home to Dublin where he met and fell in love
with Florence Balcombe, but she married Bram Stoker so he left Ireland in 1878.
In 1884 he met Constance Lloyd and they get married. A friend said that he likes
his wife the first year but after that he have no feelings for her anymore and
could only say bad things about her, but they stay togehter and they also get two
sons. Cyril (1885) and Vyvyan ( 1886).
He wrote novels, short stories, poems
and fairytales. His début was the poem“Ravenna” from 1878.
Oscar Wilde was a fomous writer but he was not famous til he died. He was
married with Constance Lloyd but people knew that he was attracted to other
men. Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years hard labor in Reading prison for
homosexual acts, the statutory maximum penalty. When Oscar Wilde get free he
settled in 1897 in France, but ill health and financial problems made it impossible for him to
recover human and artistic.
We have in our class read the faritytale "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar
Wilde.
By Kathrine Randrup
Oscar Wilde
His name is
Oscar Wilde and he is born Oktober 16,
1854 in Dublin, Ireland. He died November 30, 1900 In Paris, France.
He was son of sir William Wilde og Jane Francesca Wilde, and his mom was an successful
writer and Irish nationalist who wrote under
the name "Speranza". Wildes father was a surgeon and wrote books
about archeology and folklore so Oscar Wilde had both parents who wrote.
When the study was over, he took home to Dublin where he met and fell in love
with Florence Balcombe, but she married Bram Stoker so he left Ireland in 1878.
In 1884 he met Constance Lloyd and they get married. A friend said that he likes
his wife the first year but after that he have no feelings for her anymore and
could only say bad things about her, but they stay togehter and they also get two
sons. Cyril (1885) and Vyvyan ( 1886).
He wrote novels, short stories, poems
and fairytales. His début was the poem“Ravenna” from 1878.
Oscar Wilde was a fomous writer but he was not famous til he died. He was
married with Constance Lloyd but people knew that he was attracted to other
men. Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years hard labor in Reading prison for
homosexual acts, the statutory maximum penalty. When Oscar Wilde get free he
settled in 1897 in France, but ill health and financial problems made it impossible for him to
recover human and artistic.
We have in our class read the faritytale "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar
Wilde.
By Kathrine Randrup
mandag den 24. februar 2014
Stephen King
Stephen
King was born 21 September 1947 in Portland Maine. He is a successful American
writer there are famous for his horror novels. His books are very popular and
are among the best selling books ever. He has also written script for films and
television series. He is married to woman writer Tabitha King in January 1971.
King and Tabitha live in Bangor, Maine in USA.
King is the son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. When King was two years old, his father left the family, and Ruth King took care of Stephen King and his two years older adoptees big brothers often in difficult economic conditions.
From 1966 to 1970 studied King English at the University of Maine in Orono. It was there he met his wife Tabitha.
In 1967, sold King his first professional short story The Glass Floor for "Startling Mystery Stories. During this period got King also alcohol abuse in a decade, but with help of his wife and friends, came he out of it. For after publication of The Tommyknockers, went King's family and friends finally into the fight against his abuse, and he stopped all forms of drugs and alcohol the late eighties.
We will read text The Boogeyman, by Stephen King has written.
King is the son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. When King was two years old, his father left the family, and Ruth King took care of Stephen King and his two years older adoptees big brothers often in difficult economic conditions.
From 1966 to 1970 studied King English at the University of Maine in Orono. It was there he met his wife Tabitha.
In 1967, sold King his first professional short story The Glass Floor for "Startling Mystery Stories. During this period got King also alcohol abuse in a decade, but with help of his wife and friends, came he out of it. For after publication of The Tommyknockers, went King's family and friends finally into the fight against his abuse, and he stopped all forms of drugs and alcohol the late eighties.
We will read text The Boogeyman, by Stephen King has written.
By Matilde Kjeldsen
torsdag den 20. februar 2014
Angela Carter
Angela
Carter was born 7th of May 1940, in Eastbourne, England and died the
16 Febuary 1992 at the age of 51, with the diagnostic of lung cancer. In her
teenage years she struggled with anorexia, but that would not stop her. She
followed her father’s footsteps with working as a journalist for the Croydon
Advertiser. Later she went to the University of Bristol and studied English
literature. Angela Carter had two marriages, the first one was with Paul Carter
in 1960 and separated him in 1970, the second marriage was with Mark Pearce in
1977, they had a son together. In 1979 the bloody chamber was published by
Gollancz which was a major British book publishing house, it is a short fiction
collection, in the collection the text “the werewolf” is found, which is the
text that we have read in in the class, but short fiction is not the only thing
that she wrote, Angela Carter also wrote Poems and children books. In 2008 The
Times ranked Angela Carter 10th on their list of greatest British
writers, she also received a price in 2012, where she was selected as the best
winner ever of the “James Tait Black Memorial prize”. It is a literary prize
which is awarded for literature that is written in English language.
tirsdag den 18. februar 2014
Nick Cave
Nicholas
Edward Cave was born on 22 September 1957 in Victoria, Australia. He lived a
troubled life as a young man. As he were arrested for burglary, his father died
and his mother bailed him out. Later on, he started using heroin. After his
father died, he started having success writing and turned out to be a great
multiartist, besides being a writer he is also an actor and a singer in his band
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. His first book was Avengers Assemble, which he
wrote in 1988. Nick Cave have won many awards for his music and writing.
We have been working with the song "The Wild Rose".tirsdag den 28. januar 2014
Sue Randolph
Kirstine, Nanna, Andrea og Natascha
"Sue Randolph, 39, grew up in Saudi Arabia and earned her master's degree in Arabic at the university of Michigan." p.25, l. 13-14.
"I joined the Army because I had $65.000 in student loans." p. 25. l. 20
"Iraq looks like it's straight out of the Bible."
"Sue Randolph, 39, grew up in Saudi Arabia and earned her master's degree in Arabic at the university of Michigan." p.25, l. 13-14.
"Iraq looks like it's straight out of the Bible."
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