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    Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until 1945 who led the country into World War II and oversaw the Holocaust. As a young man, Hitler was rejected from art school and drifted for years before joining the German military during WWI. After the war, he helped create the Nazi party and rose to power in Germany by blaming the country's problems on Jews and foreign powers. By 1934, Hitler had consolidated power and made himself dictator. He remilitarized Germany and expanded the country's territory through threats and force. Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939 triggered WWII. Though initially successful due to new blitzkrieg tactics, Germany was eventually defeated in 1945.

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    Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until 1945 who led the country into World War II and oversaw the Holocaust. As a young man, Hitler was rejected from art school and drifted for years before joining the German military during WWI. After the war, he helped create the Nazi party and rose to power in Germany by blaming the country's problems on Jews and foreign powers. By 1934, Hitler had consolidated power and made himself dictator. He remilitarized Germany and expanded the country's territory through threats and force. Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939 triggered WWII. Though initially successful due to new blitzkrieg tactics, Germany was eventually defeated in 1945.

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    Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until 1945 who led the country into World War II and oversaw the Holocaust. As a young man, Hitler was rejected from art school and drifted for years before joining the German military during WWI. After the war, he helped create the Nazi party and rose to power in Germany by blaming the country's problems on Jews and foreign powers. By 1934, Hitler had consolidated power and made himself dictator. He remilitarized Germany and expanded the country's territory through threats and force. Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939 triggered WWII. Though initially successful due to new blitzkrieg tactics, Germany was eventually defeated in 1945.

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    Drcula: Reading and listening.

    Originally Dracula is a gothic novel written by Bram Stoker in the form of


    journals and letters. It was first published in 1897. Stoker was born in Ireland
    in 1847 and died in England in 1912. PLOT
    It is the year 1875, Jonathan Harker, an English lawyer from London, travels
    to Transylvania (Romania) to help Count Dracula buy a house in England. As
    soon as he arrives there, the villagers warn him about the Count because he
    is a vampire, but considering them just superstitious people, Harker
    disregards their warnings. He goes to Draculas castle and stays there as his
    guest. The Count appears to be an elegant and refined person as well as a
    mysterious and deceiving man. Very soon a series of strange events start to
    occur around, including the behaviour of the Counts assistant, a bizarre
    man named Renfield. After a while, Jonathan realises that he actually cannot
    get out of the castle and that the Count shows a peculiar interest in Mina
    Murray, Jonathans fiance. The Count is sure she is the reincarnation of
    Elisabeta, his one and only love. Mina and her best friend Lucy Westenra are
    on holidays in Whitby and exchange letters with Jonathan. Dracula travels to
    London by ship while Jonathan remains a prisoner in Transylvania. After
    some time, he manages to escape and meets Mina in Budapest where they
    get married. Back in London they find Lucy is seriously ill. A famous doctor,
    Van Helsing is called to treat her and he discovers that she has been bitten
    by a vampire. After a creepy behaviour, Lucy dies but the doctor finds out
    that she is not really dead and that she has become a vampire. Knowing
    this, Van Helsing insists that they have to kill her by driving a stake through
    her heart. They do so, and she is able to rest in peace. Van Helsing and
    Jonathan realise that Count Dracula is behind all this and therefore decide to
    hunt him down to prevent more bloodshed. Meanwhile, Dracula makes Mina
    fall under his spell in order to be with Elisabeta again. Finally, Van Helsing
    and Jonathan confront the vampire but, will it be that simple to kill Count
    Dracula? It is said vampires are astonishingly witty creatures and Dracula
    himself is a legendary one
    ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: 1) Was Dracula originally a stage
    play? If not, what is it? 2) What is gloomy and grotesque? 3) Why does
    Jonathan Harker travel to Transylvania? 4) What do the villagers tell him? 5)
    How is the Count described at the beginning? 6) Who is Renfield? 7) Is
    Jonathan a guest in the castle? Why? 8) Who is Mina Murray? 9) Who does
    Dracula think Mina is? 10) Why do they call Dr. Van Helsing? 11) What does
    Van Helsing discover? 12) Why do they have to kill Lucy Westenra? How? 13)
    Who does Van Helsing hunt down?
    Complete the sentences Do this activity after you have finished reading the
    story. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct form to complete each of
    these sentences.

    1 Mr Hawkins ....... to go to Transylvania himself, but he has hurt his leg and
    cannot travel. (intend)
    2 The train ....... Vienna in good time and ... in Klausenburg yesterday
    evening. (leave, arrive)
    3 While he ... the horses down, a circle of wolves ... around the coach. (calm,
    form)
    4 My lamp ..., but the room ... by brilliant moonlight. (go out, light)
    5 I ... some of the gold with me and try to climb down the walls. (take)
    6 Renfield said, I am here to follow your orders. I ... a long time for this
    moment. (wait)
    7 Renfield is trying to catch birds to eat alive! If I ... living things, I ...
    forever, he cried. (eat, live)
    8 I found the servants half-asleep and I believed they .... (drink)
    9 Your spirit, dead or alive, ... free until he is truly dead, said Van Helsing.
    (not be)
    10 I ... glad to see the look of peace on their faces when I ... the horrible
    work. (be, finish)

    Answers 1 had intended 2 left, arrived 3 was calming, formed 4 had gone
    out, was lit 5 will take 6 have waited 7 eat, ll live 8 had been drinking 9 will
    not be 10 was, had finished.

    Adolf Hitler: A HERO IN HIS OWN MIND.

    We explore the biography of the German dictator of the 1930s and 40s, Adolf Hitler,
    and the role he played in German and European affairs during WWII.

    Adolf Hitler
    It's hard to write objectively about some figures in history. For example, some past U.S.
    leaders, like George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, are nearly universally loved. At the same
    time, some figures are universally loathed. Perhaps the greatest example of this second
    category is Adolf Hitler. The dictatorial, highly anti-Semitic leader of 1930s and 40s Germany is
    largely responsible for one of the largest wars in the history of mankind and the death of
    approximately six million Jews. In this lesson, we will explore
    Hitler's early life as well as the military and domestic policies
    that helped him achieve his goals.

    Early Life
    Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 in Austria, the son of an
    Austrian customs official, and spent most of his childhood
    in the Linz area. When Hitler was 18, he used some of the
    money from his father's inheritance and moved to Vienna
    to study art. Hitler was deeply disappointed when his
    applications to art school in Vienna were rejected, and he
    drifted for several years afterward. According to Hitler in
    his autobiography, it was in this listless period that he first
    encountered the anti-Semitic ideas which would help sculpt his fascist political views.
    When World War I broke out in 1914, Hitler immediately applied to join the Germany army. He
    was embittered by Germany's defeat in the war, and felt its leaders had betrayed the country.
    He felt both the demilitarization of Germany and its being forced to pay the full costs of the
    war were enormous humiliations for the German people.

    Rise to Power
    Soon after the war, Hitler began working side-by-side with German ultranationalists. Over the
    following years he helped create the National Socialist German Worker's Party (NSDAP, or
    more commonly, Nazi). Hitler gained power within the party leadership and a reputation as an
    orator. His public speeches, often in beer halls, attracted disgruntled Germans by the
    hundreds and thousands.

    Early Hitler-designed logo of Nazi Party

    In 1923, Hitler was arrested after an attempted coup and was sentenced to five years in
    prison, of which he served less than a year.
    In that short time in prison, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, literally ''My Struggle,'' which was part
    autobiography, part anti-Semitic political treatise. Hitler's ideology appealed to everyday
    Germans; Hitler blamed Germany's problems not on Germans themselves but upon foreign
    powers and Jews.
    Hitler's popular message saw the Nazi Party gain seats in the German government each
    election. In the 1932 German elections, the Nazi Party won more seats in the Reichstag
    (Germany's parliament) than any other party. Hitler was narrowly defeated in the race for the
    presidency by Paul von Hindenburg, and Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor instead.
    However, Hindenburg's health was failing and before long Hitler held most of the legitimate
    power in the German government. In 1933, all other parties beside the Nazi Party were
    outlawed, and in 1934, Hitler abolished the presidency and merged its powers with his own,
    making him the de facto dictator of Germany. Over the next few years, Hitler consolidated his
    power and used his position to persecute Jews and other minorities in Germany.

    Military Tactics
    By the end of the 1930s, Hitler's Germany was ready to expand. He built up Germany's
    military, and in 1938 he unilaterally annexed Austria, claiming his intentions were to unite all
    German-speaking people in one German state. The same year, he got several European leaders
    to sign off on the Munich Agreement, which gave a portion of Czechoslovakia to Germany in
    order to avoid war. Still not satisfied, Germany seized all of Czechoslovakia in 1939. His
    invasion of Poland in September 1939 triggered the beginning of World War II.
    Germany was initially successful militarily because of Hitler's blitzkrieg strategy. A German
    term meaning ''lightning war,'' blitzkrieg utilized the relatively new technology of tanks to
    crash through enemy territory quickly, focusing on cities and other strategic points and
    avoiding the battle. Miles behind this advanced vanguard of tanks the German infantry

    mopped up the remaining opposing forces. The innovative


    strategy was highly successful, and by the end of 1941
    Germany had conquered much of Eastern and Western
    Europe.

    German Tanks in Poland, 1939

    Extension Activity: Do research on current world


    leaders, and write a description on any of their
    characteristics that remind you of Adolf Hitler or
    of Nazi rule in general.
    Movie: Listening and speaking.

    A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young


    lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is
    engaged to the woman's cousin.

    One of the themes central to The Age of Innocence is the struggle between the individual and the
    group. Newland Archer has been raised into a world where manners and moral codes dictate how
    the individual will act, and in some cases, even think. At many points throughout the book, both
    Archer and Ellen Olenska are expected to sacrifice their desires and opinions in order not to upset
    the established order of things. In The Age of Innocence, this established order most often takes
    its most concrete form as the family. One of the individual's duties is to promote and protect the
    solidarity of his group of blood and marital relationships. Later in the novel, when Countess Ellen
    Olenska wishes to reclaim her freedom by divorcing her husband, she is discouraged from this
    action because the family fears unpleasant gossip. And of course, Ellen and Archer's decision not
    to consummate their love is based largely on their fear of hurting the family.
    Ostensibly, this duty to the family and to society ensures that each individual will behave
    according to a strict code of morality. Another of her large themes is that appearances are seldom
    synonymous with realities. Hypocrisy runs in Old New York.

    Questions:

    1) Today we live still feigning


    what we are not or do not
    feel. Is it true?
    2) What do you think about the
    hypocritical people? Have
    you ever pretended love?.

    3) We are living in the world of having and not be, arent we?.
    4) Can you marry for duty?. Would you prefer to be alone?.

    5) I married her/him because she 's/hes a good person. What do


    think about this comment?.
    6) Most of the time she/he stays because she has no other choice
    and because family Review. Have you lived this situation?.
    7) To have a successful marriage we have to be tolerant and know
    relent.
    8) The magic formulae is to love and be loved.

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