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Our school by charles dickens
OUR SCHOOL BY CHARLES DICKENS
Charles Dickens is considered to be one of the greatest English novelists of the Victorian period. Dickens's works are characterized by attacks on social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy.
Charles Dickens was born in Landport, Hampshire on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. In 1814 Dickens moved to London, and then to Chatham, where he received some education. He worked in a blacking factory, Hungerford Market, London, while his family was in Marshalea debtor's prison in 1824).
In 1824-27 Dickens studied at Wellington House Academy, London, and at Mr. Dawson's school in 1827. From 1827 to 1828 he was a law office clerk, and then worked as a shorthand reporter at Doctor's Commons. He wrote for True Son (1830-32), Mirror of Parliament (1832-34) and the Morning Chronicle (1834-36). He was in the 1830s a contributor to the Monthly Magazine, and The Evening Chronicle and edited Bentley's Miscellany. In the 1840s Dickens founded Master Humphry's Clock and edited the London Daily News.
Dickens's career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays appeared in periodicals. His Sketches By Boz and The Pickwick Papers were published in 1836.In the same year he married the daughter of his friend George Hogarth, Catherine Hogarth.
The Pickwick Papers were stories about a group of rather odd individuals and their travels to Ipswich, Rochester, Bath and elsewhere. Dickens's novels first appeared in monthly installments, including Oliver Twist (1837-39), which depicts the London underworld and hard years of the foundling Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickelby (1838-39), a tale of young Nickleby's struggles to seek his fortune, and The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41).
Among his later works are David Copperfield (1849-50), where Dickens used his own personal experiences of work in a factory, Bleak House (1852-53), A Tale Of Two Cities (1859), set in the years of the French Revolution and Great Expectations (1860-61)
From the 1840s Dickens spent much time traveling and campaigning against many of the social evils of his time. In addition he gave talks and reading, wrote pamphlets, plays, and letters. In the 1850s Dickens was founding editor of Household Words and its successor All the Year Round (1859-70). In 1844-45 he lived in Italy, Switzerland and Paris. He gave lecturing tours in Britain and the United States in 1858-68.
From 1860 Dickens lived at Gadshill Place, near Rochester, Kent. He died at Gadshill on June 9, 1870. The unfinished mystery novel The Mystery Of Edwin Drood was published in 1870.
The short story "Our School" deals with the general theme of childhood and school, the universe seen by a child, and the recollections of an adult of his early life. In the first paragraph there is a monologue about the phenomenon of changing and modernizing. After some years, the narrator visits the place where it used to be his school, but in stead of it there is a railway.
He tries to remember how exactly did the school look like, and how every room was positioned because just a part of the old building still exists. The author asserts that this is the fate of everyone's school. In this particular case, the building of the school disappeared, but in most cases, the appearance of our schools tends to disappear from our memories. We all recall moments spent in school, but almost never the building of the school.
The visit at the place of the old school brings back a lot of memories for the narrator, including those from prep school, although they are not connected to the same place. All the memories are told randomly, not chronological, not in order of their importance.
At the beginning the narrator tells the reader about those from the prep school, just to exemplify the manner in which an adult recalls such early moments of his life. They are all blurred, and reality mixes with fiction, as the author does not realize whether as a child he knew the truth or there were just stories told for them. He did not have the chance or the interest to inform himself over those characters of his life, and all remained at the level of childhood memory.
When he begins telling about the time spent in the school he is visiting, he does not mention the name of the school. Throughout the entire story it is called simply "Our School". The name is unimportant; it is not well fixed in the memory of the author. The status of the school is not well remembered, because it was never known for sure. All that he recalls is that it was rather important in their area, assumes that it was a commercial school, as the owner changed over the time.
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Momentul aderarii la UE - factor pentru castiguri si pierderi in tarile candidate
Impactul Perspectivelor economice ale tarilor candidate asupra momentului aderarii
Prognozele Comisiei Europene din martie 2000 privind perspectivele economice ale tarilor Europei Centrale si de Est pe termen scurt (2000 - 2001) constituie un punct de reper. Trebuie precizat ca acestea nu sunt influentate de "strategiile pe termen mediu" ale tarilor candidate (2001-2004), care nu au fost definitivate dupa elaborarea acestei prognoze si care, in general, prevad cresteri economice anuale superioare nivelurilor indicate in prognoza Comisiei Europene.
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Prognoza Produsului Intern Brut in tarile candidate la UE
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The hard times spend in the school are told as a joke, as something funny. He first recalls some of his colleagues, the most special ones. Now he realizes that all they knew about each other were mere fairy tales, results of a too rich imagination, but it was a nice manner to spend their time and waste energy. There are given some examples, of pupils that were not very popular, because they were treated differently. All the pupil were suffering there injustices but when one of them was considered above the others, he suddenly became the most hated one. There was a boy that was a very rich foreigner, or he was supposed to be. At their age all the information tends to be unclear and even a rumor becomes a truth. Because he was the favorite of the teachers, all the other pupils began to mock him. With a lot of humor, the author recalls how one of his colleagues made a poem about him, a scene that was acted in the dinning-room as a real show. One of the most appreciated ways to have fun in the school was taking care of animals, especially white mice. The childish note persists in the story, when all the efforts made by the children to teach certain things to the animals are told as viewed through the eyes of a child: mastering engineering. All the achievements were breakthroughs in the world of science. Everything they made they compared with the lives of adults. Everything was important, a matter of life and death, and the lives of adults were talked about as they were their owns. For example, when the usher falls in love with the sister of one of the pupils, they all participate in the man's drama. They are more interested in the affair than the usher himself. They all notice that now the pupil involved becomes a favorite, but they do not hate him because after all, there is only an usher who protects him. The love affair does not end as the usher expects and they all are proud that he tends to be more protective with the boy, instead of spite him. The usher suddenly becomes a good example, in comparison with all the others presented here. Although he realizes as an adult all the faults of the school, the narrator feels the same pride when he speaks about the school. Even all these details are told in a manner of appreciation, not of judging the principal, the teachers or the pupils. Maybe he just judges the times, understanding that these were the conditions in every school. He is not proud from the point of view of the expectations as an adult, but he still reminds that once he was proud to study in that school, not in the other, although he did not liked the principal, the teachers and some of his colleagues. In the end the author adds a bitter commentary about the ephemeral things in life. All of us will disappear, the things around us. It really does not important that the world is proud or not of that thing, it perishes exactly the same. It was the fate of monuments far more important than this particular school, but the importance is given by the persons who recall it. The end note states that it really does not matter that one of the pupils, in this case the narrator, is not now too proud of the things that happened here, the school achieved its goal, it had done a lot of good and the benefits continue to increase.
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