Happy 8 of March, Dear girls! Happy 8 of March, Dear girls! This world doesn't have any sense without you. You bring gladness, sense and future in a life of men. Without you we can't live and couldn't appear. Thanks, congratulations and be near, please)

What is 'Americaness' ? Good day my friends. I have a course of American Society at my university and one of the questions at the exam will be 'Americanness" and beside book-learning I would know opinions of people. So, my American friends - What is 'Americanness' for you?

Useful phrases to begin the sentence Hello my friends could you advise me some useful phrases to begin the sentence when you write something? (I'm also not sure that this phrase is grammatically correct) For example: It is... There is... There are... It is noticeable... Also, In Russian we have the expressions such as: "I would pay may attention to..., or I want to mark that...etc" But as I know it's incorrect to use these constructions when you write something.

Expediency’s Substantiation of the participation in educational program of the studies abroad. (I know, that the title is horrible, but I don't know another way to translate this clerical lexicon:-) Norwegian University of Science and Technology is one of the best European universities; it is in the triple of the most prestigious universities of Norway. The scientific school of Political Science in NTNU is developing by the Faculty of Social Science and Technology management that is biggest in the university. The political scientists of NTNU give the priority to the International Politics, Public Policy and Administration, English and American political system in the context of the relationships with the European Union. The experience of Norway in this area is interesting to me because of the several aspects. First of all, I would pay my attention to the International Politics. Norway is one of the most peacekeeping nations in the whole world. It has a significant experience of the balance between Anglo-American interests, continental Europe and Russia (Norwegian scientists call it the balance between the three poles of influence). In the second, the experience of Norway in the social-democracy is unique. Moreover, in my opinion it’s really important for the domestic Political Science because Russia has been a capitalistic state almost never. In the third, the courses about the national political systems in NTNU are conducting by the teachers-native inhabitants of those countries (for example the USA, the UK, Norway, Japan etc). For me it’s an unique opportunity to learn specific features of those societies using the most reliable sources of the information. The last in the list, but not in the significance is improving of English language’s skills. The conversation in English is a basis of the studies and everyday life. English language in Norway is ubiquitous. It’s using in all spheres from scientific to cultural. Even movies and media information in English is not translated. The results that I will acquire after the probation I plan to use in my future professional activities. Now, my priority is the question of developing of domestic Public Policy and Administration. For writing my specialist’s thesis and future researches I have to take into consideration the experience of Russia’s west political partners. So, I’m studying it now.

Is free market capitalism a morally just system? (part 1) Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. Frank Borman The moral question is a weakest part in the theory of capitalism. The support of these stances we can draw by the many works of famous socialists and anarchists. For instance, Marks, Lenin, Proudhon and Bakunin assumed that capitalism is awful system, exactly due of its immorality which based on an exploitation of labor and unequal exchange. And properly speaking, contemporary liberal world hasn’t finally resolved these problems, yet. The stereotype of rich cruel fabricant from XIX century, nowadays has transformed to “a gnome from the Wall street”. Which became the main reason of the “Occupy” movement swept the whole world (more than 82 countries). The scale of the action is a serious reason to think: What’s the existence of capitalism and is it really beneficial for a whole society? Speaking about this phenomenon, most amounts of people get a definition free market capitalism like it was suggested by T. Palmer in the “Morality of Capitalism”. They mean that it’s an economical system which had changed feudalism in Western world. In my opinion it’s not precise, because feudalism wasn’t just an economical system. It was also a political system and a special system of social relationships. Feudalism divided a society in estates, and put the God in the head of the hierarchy. As you remember it was a great sin if a peasant wanted to replace a knight or a bishop. For those people it meant that one day he could wish to replace the God. Feudalism couldn’t be replaced by just an economical system. Capitalism brought a democracy and new moral values which we call liberal. Moreover, an institute of elections is an illustration of capitalistic equal exchange’s principle. In fact liberal politicians are traders which suggest to us their goods – political programs and when we elect for candidate or party – we buy the good. If some state takes a free market it doesn’t mean that it becomes a capitalistic. Just look at China or Saudi Arabia – they took an economical part of capitalism, but saved their own totalitarian and feudal model of the societies...

The differences between American and British English. Hei, guys, here are my notes about differences between American and British English. It's my own observations that I did listening videos and people. I'll be very glad if you will show me my mistakes in the orthography, grammar and may be in content if I wasn't precise somewhere. 1. There is no such thing as “British accent”. 2. One of the main phonetic distinction between British English and all other variations it’s a vocal. A vocal of British English is narrower than for example American or Canadian. British speakers more use their mouths for creation of vowels. As an illustration of this statement linguists use a phrase: “A lot of hot Scots” which in RP or London accent is pronounced with a short sound [ɒ] and small movement of lips. American or Australian speaker will say this phrase “deeper” using the throat. And good example of North-American pronunciation and open vocal we can see in a song “Hot”of Canadian singer Avril Lavigne. Especially such words as “hot”, “drop”, “stop” she pronounces with the wide open mouth and almost [ʌ] vowel sound. 3. British English is non-rhotic. On the place of the “r” Englishman will use schwa sound [ə] 4. There is no Tapping in British English (“d” instead “t” in such words like butter [budder], metal [medal]) 5. In some regions of England there is phenomenon such as “t” dropping (Cockney, Estuary). For example in the movie “Harry Potter” one of the characters (Hagrid) say something like [Hʌəi poə]. But it’s not very common. 6. In Britain you can often hear “h” dropping (Cockney). For example: hat (at), hope (ope). 7. There is a serious distinction between American and British English in pronounce such words as privacy or vitamin. Englishman will say [pəivʌci], [vitʌmin] and American will do it like [praivaci], [vaitamin]. 8. Also we should mark that in British version it’s more common to use a vowel “ʌ” and in American “æ”. For instance a word aluminum in the UK will be [ʌ]luminum and in the US [a]luminum. 9. In the consonants process [z] – American and process [ss] British. 10. British English has more syllable orientation. You-tube and Youtúbe. 11. A Usage of “do” in statements. For instance: “People usually do say that…”

The main features of the British imperialism. I. Colonialism. The main destination of colonies as phenomenon is resources which they can give to metropolis. During of all of English ownership of India and lands of the “New World” the Whitehall received profit from a lot of goods such as: gold, coffee, tea, spices, sugar, cotton etc. and until 1834 even from slave traffic. II. Maintaining of trade. End of the XIX century it is time of huge monopolies which were in a permanent competition for outlets. Colonies helped to fix the problem. First of all they were the outlets. Secondly, they gave cheep raw and labor force that allowed to make products competitive. III. Inflation and overflow of population. The Wakefieldian reformers believed that England suffered from two "surpluses": one of people and one of capital. The solution of the problem was in immigration and investment. Like wrote P. Sullivan: "long before Hobson and Lenin, liberals had established the connection between the problem of surplus capital and the solution of imperialism." IV. Cultural expansionism. On all of territory of British empire there were main things same for all: law, language, religion and system of governance. British lifestyle frequently displaced local culture and some consequences of this phenomenon you can see almost in all last dominions. V. New system of safety and self-defense. Great Britan actually laid the system of US national security. It supposed necessary to protect a safety of a country outside its territory and sometimes very far away from it. Most illustrative examples were British interventions in Afghanistan caused hypothetical threat of Russia’s invasion into India. VI. The especial ideology and legitimating of violence. After 1870 – Imperialism were starting point which connected different lobbyist’s groups in government and society. Whether jingoists (George Holyoake, Lord Salisbury) or liberal imperialists (John Mill, Lord Rosebery) each of them assumed the policy of imperialism as a most appropriate. And after books of R. Kipling, R. Haggard, and G. Henti many of people believed that they really have to bring white man’s burden to far wild lands. On the whole we can conclude that the British Imperialism based on the two main ideas. Primarily it was natural inequality of people and respectively an inability of some folks to manage them. This conception allowed to British empire to interfere and subjugate other countries. Probably the best expres

First notebook entry: Introducing myself Hello everybody. My name is Ivan. I speak on low-level english, but very want to become better, and I will be very grateful to each human, who will help me in my study. Thanks a lot.