Vincent Malloy

 "Vincent"

Vincent Malloy is seven years old,
He's always polite and does what he's told.

For a boy his age he's considerate and nice,

But he wants to be just like Vincent Price.

He doesn't mind living with his sister, dog and cat,

Though he'd rather share a home with spiders and bats.

There he could reflect on the horrors he's invented,

And wander dark hallways alone and tormented.

Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him,

But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum.

He likes to experiment on his dog Abacrombie,

In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie.

So he and his horrible zombie dog,

Could go searching for victims in the London fog.

                                              His thoughts aren't only of ghoulish crime,

He likes to paint and read to pass the time.

While other kids read books like Go Jane Go,

Vincent's favorite author is Edgar Allen Poe.

One night while reading a gruesome tale,

He read a passage that made him turn pale.

Such horrible news he could not survive,

For his beautiful wife had been buried alive.

He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead,

Unaware that her grave was his mother's flower bed.

His mother sent Vincent off to his room,

He knew he'd been banished to the tower of doom.

Where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life,

Alone with a portrait of his beautiful wife.

                                            While alone and insane, encased in his tomb,

Vincent's mother suddenly burst into the room.

"If you want to you can go outside and play.

It's sunny outside and a beautiful day."

Vincent tried to talk, but he just couldn't speak,

The years of isolation had made him quite weak.

So he took out some paper, and scrawled with a pen,

"I am possessed by this house, and can never leave it again."

His mother said, "You're not possessed, and you're not almost dead.

These games that you play are all in your head.

You're not Vincent Price, you're Vincent Malloy.

You're not tormented, you're just a young boy."

"You're seven years old, and you're my son,

I want you to get outside and have some real fun."

Her anger now spent, she walked out through the hall,

While Vincent backed slowly against the wall.

                                           The room started to sway, to shiver and creak.

His horrid insanity had reached its peak.

He saw Abacrombie his zombie slave,

And heard his wife call from beyond the grave.

She spoke from her coffin, and made ghoulish demands.

While through cracking walls reached skeleton hands.

Every horror in his life that had crept through his dreams,

Swept his mad laugh to terrified screams.


To escape the madness, he reached for the door,

So he and his horrible zombie dog,

But fell limp and lifeless down on the floor.

His voice was soft and very slow,

As he quoted The Raven from Edgar Allen Poe,

And my soul from out that shadow floating on the floor,
Shall be lifted--Nevermore!"

read  more about Vincent here  http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.9/articles/frierson1.9.html

Internet - the most inportant invention of the last 100 years

Internet - the most inportant invention of the last 100 years

The invention that changed the world, in my opinion, this is the internet. In 1989-1990, Berners-Lee proposed a fantastic project communication, now known as the World Wide Web, which brings together a quarter of the world's population (or 1.4 billion people). Internet has never been as popular, if not a convenient way of representation and retrieval of information, and an attractive appearance. There is a computer language for creating Web pages, which later received the name of  HTML Hypertext Mark up Language. It's the language spoken all existing computer programs for Internet navigation, which allows them to display web pages in that form in which they were conceived by the author.

Internet has made our life a little easier. Now we can order anything on the Internet without leaving our home before we go to the cinema we can find out the schedule, we can communicate with relatives who are very far away and do a lot of other things. So connect the Internet - it's like to get a ticket for a world fair, communication, and communication is not limited by either time or spatial boundaries. Like any fair in the "Network" a huge selection of potential companions. Internet service provider - the mediator, without which this kind of communication would be simply impossible, and how mediation meets the expectations of its customers - will be judged by customers, for that matter, and select it among many others.
So why the Internet has become the most epoch-making invention? The Internet has made the world a small village, where information is being circulated "with the speed of sound." But the main thing - the Internet has reduced the unthinkable distance. Behind the screen of the monitor there is virtual reality, where our opportunities are not limited by time and space.

And of course the fact what we can so quickly find, the information we need is very helpful for students like me

The Big Ben theory

 The Big Ben theory   

Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, and is generally extended to refer to the clock or the clock tower as well. The clock tower holds the largest four-faced chiming clock in the world and is the third-tallest free-standing clock tower. It celebrated its 150th anniversary on 31 May 2009,during which celebratory events took place. The tower was completed on 10 April 1858 and has become one of the most prominent symbols of both London and England, often in the establishing shot of films set in the city.

Two theories of its origin. The origin of the nickname Big Ben is the subject of some debate.  The nickname was applied first to the Great Bell; it may have been named after Sir Benjamin Hall, who oversaw the installation of the Great Bell, or after boxing's English Heavyweight Champion Benjamin Caunt. Now Big Ben is often used, by extension, to refer to the clock, the tower and the bell collectively, although the nickname is not universally accepted as referring to the clock and tower. Some authors of works about the tower, clock and bell sidestep the issue by using the words Big Ben first in the title, then going on to clarify that the subject of the book is the clock and tower as well as the bell.