Thread: Literature Homework HELP:!:

ok, so I have a homework assignment, and I need your help ok? Ok... so, I need to make the English ABC's like.... how do I explain it? A- apple, B-ball, c-cat... you know? But it has to be on my culture... AKA Russian... I dont know much, so like examples from you would be AMAZING! uhhh.... try and tell me what it is in Russian... Examples from America are like 9/11, Katrina, Micheal Jackson, I-pods, MP3... yeah.... so... what are some in Russia? HELP!


Thank you much! And try and like.... I also want an allusion... like 9/11 everyone in America knows what it is when you just say it.... so what is something like that in Russia..... thanks!
OH btw it is due on Moday, and it is Thursday... so... help fast would be nice!

So do you have to use Russian alphabet? And find some russian words, corresponding to Russian culture?

no the english alphabet and make some of the words both English and Russian, its a High School class and my teacher wants it to be harder on me, so she is wanting me to make a mixed pop culture thing... help iw very much so apreciated if you will!

Originally Posted by iamjames

no the english alphabet and make some of the words both English and Russian, its a High School class and my teacher wants it to be harder on me, so she is wanting me to make a mixed pop culture thing... help iw very much so apreciated if you will!

And how does she intend to make you find the russian words, begining with some english letters which do not exist in russian alphabet?

OK, let's see...

А - "Аквариум" the band
B - Борис Ельцин, the former president
C - Советский Союз, the former country
M - мавзолей Ленина..

Like this???
Or you have to find some english words, corresponding to Russia?

A - abomination
B - barricades

uhhh more of the first thing that you did... PERFECT!!!! thanks much can you do more? plz?!?!?! <3

Б - Беломор


В - Водка


Ч - Чебурашка


М - Матрёшки


Х - Халява
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Like 10 minutes ago I came across that alphabet, it's not that you want but it's interesting in a way - http://dolotov.nm.ru/azbuka.htm

Originally Posted by iamjames

I also want an allusion... like 9/11 everyone in America knows what it is when you just say it.... so what is something like that in Russia.....

22 июня 1941 (June 22nd, 1941)

Beginning of Great Patriotic War
(Germany invaded the Soviet Union).

RADIO ADDRESS OF 22 JUNE 1941, BY VYACHESLAV MOLOTOV, ASSISTANT CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS OF THE U.S.S.R., AND THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSAR FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
http://www.mishalov.com/Molotov_22June41.html



Sunset. 21 June, 2005.
The nature marks an overnight of the war.

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9 мая 1945

End of Great Patriotic War, marked by capitulation of Nazi Germany, 1945

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7 ноября 1917

The Great October Revolution

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12 апреля 1961

The first manned space flight took place on 12 April 1961, with Yury Gagarin, the first cosmonaut, flying on Vostok spacecraft.
Yuri Gagarin became the first man in Space.

Poems about June 22nd.

Тот самый длинный день в году
С его безоблачной погодой
Нам выдал общую беду
На всех, на все четыре года.
Она такой вдавила след
И стольких наземь положила,
Что двадцать лет и тридцать лет
Живым не верится, что живы.
А к мертвым, выправив билет,
Все едет кто-нибудь из близких,
И время добавляет в списки
Еще кого-то, кого нет...
И ставит, ставит обелиски.

1971
(Константин Симонов)

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Рассвет не встал, а рухнул залпами,
Шатнулся вздыбленной землей,
Заполыхал рассвет на западе,
На нас обрушась силой злой.
Сметал рассвет палаток улицы
И вырывал бойцов из сна.
Не все, не все в тот день проснулись,
Не все узнали, что война.
А кто успел - живой и яростный
Дошел, дополз до огневой!
Рассвет войны, как залп безжалостный –
Как залп безжалостных живых.

(Константин Симонов)

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22 июня

Не танцуйте сегодня, не пойте.
В предвечерний задумчивый час
Молчаливо у окон постойте,
Вспомяните погибших за нас.
Там, в толпе, средь любимых,
влюблённых.
Средь веселых и крепких ребят,
Чьи-то тени в пилотках зелёных
На окраины молча спешат.
Им нельзя задержаться, остаться –
Их берёт этот день навсегда,
На путях сортировочных станций
Им разлуку трубят поезда.
Окликать их и звать их – напрасно,
Не промолвят ни слова в ответ,
Но с улыбкою грустной и ясной
Поглядите им пристально вслед.

Вадим Шефнер

http://download.sovmusic.ru/sam/s622.mp3

Заявление Советского правительства о нападении Германии от 22 июня (отрывок). Читает Юрий Левитан.

hey wait! I need like thing that have like JUST happened in my life-time and I am only 15! I dont think that the war was in my lifetime! Lol but that is a great start!

Wow, man! So you missed even Perestroyka!
K - Курск, sunk sub

http://dolotov.nm.ru/azbuka.htm

lol cha! I totally forgot about that... wait I have a K and a P..... huh... I will work it in... maybe as an S? Iono anymore ? I hav until tommorow morning and I need like 17 more! Ugh! HELP MORE! PLEASE! like a popular band or something! PLZ!?!?!?!

Originally Posted by iamjames

lol cha! I totally forgot about that... wait I have a K and a P..... huh... I will work it in... maybe as an S? Iono anymore ? I hav until tommorow morning and I need like 17 more! Ugh! HELP MORE! PLEASE! like a popular band or something! PLZ!?!?!?!

P - Putin
S - Sharapova

Originally Posted by net surfer

Х - Халява
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Originally Posted by Gerty

S - Sharapova

If he uses this, he will officially be the most popular person in his class!
-Fantom

Originally Posted by Moryachka

Originally Posted by net surfer

Х - Халява
Image is not available.

Ehhh.... I dont get it... what does it mean? lol

Originally Posted by iamjames

Originally Posted by Moryachka

Originally Posted by net surfer

Х - Халява
Image is not available.

Ehhh.... I dont get it... what does it mean? lol

You won't understand it. It's a Russian reality, which defies description. No image available, yeah, that's abso-BLOODY-lutely right.

Originally Posted by Rtyom

You won't understand it. It's a Russian reality, which defies description. No image available, yeah, that's abso-BLOODY-lutely right.

Only Russian? Have you heard what happened in Richmond not so far ago? :P

Originally Posted by iamjames

Originally Posted by Moryachka

Originally Posted by net surfer

Х - Халява
Image is not available.

Ehhh.... I dont get it... what does it mean? lol

Халява - free stuff
Нахаляву - for free or being uninvited/to crash somewere
Халявщик - loafer, especially an impudent one, who can use the results, obtained by other people

Significant part of Russian culture