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Name: Zsófi
Gender: Female
Interests: Music, films, snowboarding,my friends, watching snooker,travelling
Expertise: English,Foreign trade
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10/16/2006
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| According to many people we are surrounded by ghosts. That is why I chose this book. I have always been interested in whether it is true or not. But I think I will never get to know about it until I meet one.
On the other hand people who believe in the existence of ghosts are quite often considered to be mad or insane. Nowadays people are so realist and they can believe in things that they can see. But there are many things in the world that we can not see however they exist. For example there is the question of time. We can only feel its lapse. As far as I'm concerned I agree with the state that (our) soul is living beyond death. And in this sense why can't it be possible that souls or their other forms the ghosts visit us sometimes? Especially if there are some people who die by violence.
This book is about people who were living long time ago and their death weren't so calm and peaceful and they return to find peace or glut their revenge. There are six little stories in this book and each one is about ghosts. The stories are quite similar to each other but there are two narrations that piqued my attendance. Now I would like to write about them in brief.
The first one's title is Smee. The point is that there were twelve people in a very old house-where a girl broke her neck running down the stairs 10 years ago- and having a Christmas party. As it usually goes they wanted to play something funny. Then a few minutes later they decided to play a game called Smee. At first it sounded like hide and seek but it was different enough. The rules of it are that every people is given a sheet of paper and all the sheets are blank except one. On this one paper is written 'Smee'. Nobody knows who 'Smee' is except 'Smee' himself/herself. It is a game that you have to play in the dark of course. Then 'Smee' goes quietly out of the room and hides. After a time the others start to search for 'Smee' but at the same time they don't know who they are looking for. When one player meets another he challenges him by saying, 'Smee'. The other player answers 'Smee', and they continue searching. But the real 'Smee' does not answer when someone challenges. The second player stays quietly beside him. Every new challenger has to join the 'Smee' and the other players. The game ends when all the players are in the same place. The last one to find 'Smee' has to pay a forfeit. As they started to play this game, some people began to have a cold feeling and the number of the strange things in the old house was increasing. Then in the end of the story it turned out that the misterious lady who was sitting behind the window curtain pretending that she was one of the players, was the girl who broke her neck several years ago.
The other story is The Judge's House. It is about a boy studying for an important examination and he wants to be undisturbed. So that he decides to go to a little, quiet town. When he arrives he realizes that he needs an own place where he can work. Then he easily finds an old house and rents it. But he doesn't know that everyone in the town scares from that house because some time ago a cruel judge was living there and it is said that the judge regularly returns to his house. He doesn't believe in gossips around the house and the judge. Then a strange and scary thing happens when he is studying at night. Many rats begin to scratch and squeak and then they suddenly remain silent. This time a huge rat appears and stares at the student with his red eyes. This thing happens to him the next few days and finally the rat who is the judge in fact turns into man and hangs the student up on a bell rope.
These stories are not so frightful but made me think of these ghosts things. But I hope I will never meet one.
forfeit- something that a loser in a game must do, e.g. sing a song or tell a funny
story
noose- a small circle of rope that gets smaller when the other end of the rope is
pulled
pliable- easy to bend
stag- an adult male deer
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| Male and female smokers
There are nearly 1 billion men in the world who smoke. More than 300 millions in China. So do half of the men in the developing countries. 10.5 percent of the 13-15 year old school boys puff and it's the highest rate of them in Europe. The fact is that every fifth boy lights up here (in Europe)
Of women there are 250 million smokers. Smoking in several developed countries is decreasing but the number of female smokers is growing in Eastern and Southern Europe. To view the whole world, 6.7 percent of the 13-15 year old school girls light a cigarette while the rate of American girls shows 17.5 percent.
Norway and Sweden belong to the 5 countries where more women puff than men do.
To my mind smoking isn't worth trying. So you'd better avoid it.
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| Zsófia Verhás
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Email: sophiee@vipmail.hu
Profile: A foreign trade administrator and a university student studying English is keen
to acquire Marketing's foundations at Columbia University of New York
Education
- Continue English studies at University of Pécs, Hungary
- Certified in Foreign trade administrator training at Radnóti Miklós Vocational
School, Hungary 2006.
- Graduated at Radnóti Miklós Vocational School, Hungary 2005.
Experience
- Had an administrative assistant job for several months at Major & Társa Ltd.
- Handled phone calls at Human School Ltd.
Language skills
- Dutch: basic writing and speaking skills
- English: advanced in all four skills
Interests
- music, drawing, books and sports
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| First I'm a bit upset that there was not anybody who would have found the riddles out. So I tell you the answers of them.
1. Hawaii is a popular honeymoon destination for Japanese couples. Couples get married on 'lucky days', which means some days flights will be full, while on others they will be less popular.
2. Two-littre bottles are too large to fit into the fridges in Spain.
3. 'Finger lickin' good' was translated back into English as ' eat your fingers off'.
4. Handkerchiefs symbolize sorrow, and cutlery symbolizes the cutting of a friendship.
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| Well, she is said to be one of the most famous female authors and there is no doubt that it's true.
She was living from 1775-1817 and wrote six novels which are known all over the world. My favourite novel is Pride and Prejudice and I've read it almost a thousand times. I like the other novels too and I saw the films made from her books. The stories of her novels are quite similar, because each of them is about a family living in bad conditions or lose their house because of the father's sudden death and other things like these. Of course these stories are all about girls who fall in love and the main goal of their parents is to get off their daughters. Usually I'm not keen on reading and watching love stories but these novels are very different from the general twee stories. To my view these novels are interesting because several different characters are shown which are funny, ridiculous and sometime quite unsympathetic and astonishing. It's a kind of description and travesty of the then society.
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