4. Government in the us

There are three levels of government in the US — federal, state, and local. All of these are elected by the people of the country.

The federal government is the national government of the US. The Constitution of the US limits the power of the federal government to defense, foreign affairs, printing money, controlling trade and relations between the states, and protecting human rights. The federal government is made up of Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court.

Congress is the institution that makes laws, and is made up of4he House of Representatives and the Senate. The House of Representatives has 435 members called Representatives or Congressmen and Congress-women, who are elected by the people of a state to represent that state. The number of Representatives for each state depends on the size of the population of the state. The Senate has 100 members called Senators, who are elected by their state. Each state has two Senators.

State government has the greatest influence over people's daily lives. Each state has its own written constitution (set of fixed laws). There are sometimes great differences in law between the different states, concerning things such as property, crime, health, and education. The highest elected official of each state is the Governor.

The organizations that are responsible for local government in the US are called town or city or county councils. They make laws which concern things such as traffic, when and where alcohol can be sold, and keeping animals. The highest elected official of a town or city is usually the Major.

Every law at every level of government must be in agreement with the United States Constitution.

5. John galsworthy

John Galsworthy (August 14, 1867 — January 31, 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include "The Forsyte Saga"(1906 — 1921) and its sequels, "A Modern Comedy" and "End of the Chapter". He won the Nobel Prize for lit­erature in 1932.

Born at Kingston Hill in Surrey, England into an established wealthy family, Galswor­thy attended Harrow and New College, Ox­ford, training as a barrister. However, he soon began to put his writing first, especial­ly after forming a friendship with Joseph Conrad. His first play, "The Silver Box" (1906) became a success, and he followed up with "The Man of Property " (1906), the first in the Forsyte trilogy. This remains by far his best-known work, but in his lifetime he published several other novels, including "The Island Pharisee "s (1904) and many plays, the best-known of which include "Strife" (1909) and "The Skin Game" (1920). Much of Galsworthy's work contains social commentary, focusing especially on the British class system. The depiction of a woman in an unhappy marriage furnishes another recurring theme in his work.

John Galsworthy died from a brain tumour.

Т. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 — January 4,1965), was a major Mod­ernist Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic.

Eliot was born into a prominent Missouri family; his fifth cousin, Tom Eliot, was Chancellor of Washington University, and his grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot, was the school's founder.

During the years 1898—1905 Eliot was a day student at Saint Louis' Smith Academy, a preparatory school for Washington Univer­sity. Even this early Eliot was studying Lat­in, Greek, French and German. Then his parents sent him to Milton Academy near Boston where he spent the next school year. The years 1906—1909 were spent at Harvard where he earned his master's degree. In the 1910—1911 school year Eliot lived in Paris, doing some studying at the Sorbonne and some touring of the continent. He returned to Harvard in 1911.

When World War I started, he went to London and then to the uni­versity. In the summer of 1915, he married and after a short visit to the U.S. to meet with his family (not taking his wife) he took a few teaching jobs. He continued to work on his doctoral thesis, and in 1964 the thesis was finally published as "Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H.Bradley".

Eliot made his life and literary career in Britain. Literary success came in 1915, he published his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". In October 1922, Eliot published the long poem "The Waste Land", which became one of the principal examples of a new trend in English poetry and came to represent the disillusionment of the post-World War I generation.

In 1927 Eliot took British citizenship and converted to Anglicanism. Eliot's later work, following his conversion, is often but by no means exclusively religious in nature, but it also attempts to preserve historical English values which Eliot thought important. This period includes such works as "Ash Wednesday", "The Journey of the Magi", and "Four Quar­tets". Eliot considered "Four Quartets" to be his masterpiece, as it draws upon his vast knowledge of mysticism and philosophy.

Eliot's plays, mostly in verse, include "Murder in the Cathedral" (1935), "The Family Reunion" (1939), "The Cocktail Party" (1949), “The Confidental Clerk" (1953), "The Elder Statesman" (1958).

On November 4,1948, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry".

Eliot's second marriage was happy though short. On January 10,1957 he married Valerie Fletcher. Valerie was 38 years younger than her husband and the years of her widowhood have been spend preserving his legасу; she has edited and annotated "The Letters of T.S. Eliot".

Eliot died of emphysema in London on January 4, 1965. For many years he had health problems due to his heavy smoking. After his death, his body was cremated and, according to Eliot's wishes, the ashes taken to St Michael's Church in East Coker, the village from which Eliot's ancestors emigrated to America. On the second anniversary of his death a large stone placed on the floor of Poets' Corner in London's Westminster Abbey was dedicated to Eliot.