Culture

25. Culture

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For me the culture is a source of certain part of knowledge and education. The most common cultural heritage after our ancestors is literature written in books, which is the first part of my speech. We can divide literature in two main parts - poetry and prose. Prose contains novels and short stories. Poetic pieces are usually divided into paragraphs. Now I would like to focus on typical novel. Long novel can be divided into volumes. Each volume should contain contents, glossary and main story divided into chapters. Instead of fiction and non-fiction books we have other types of books like manuals, encyclopedias or memoirs. Usually we have our favorite books at bookcase or we can visit a library to borrow books for a small price. Magazines and newspaper are other types of readable materials. Typical newspaper contains news related to its country or region, weather forecast, announcements, ads and sometimes supplements. Other sources of information and knowledge are radio and TV. Both are spoken as mass Medias. Television stations broadcast their scheduled programmes over satellites to cover wide areas as countries or continents. We can choose from many channels, for instance about nature, sports and science or we can watch movies. Better sense of watching movies we can experience in the cinema. Huge wide screen and louder sound can provide us great enjoyment. We can see by who the movie was directed or who wrote a screenplay. The most successful movies are awarded by Oscar prize in various categories. More serious way to see some drama is theatre. The contact of actors on a stage and auditorium is there closer. Instead of dramatic plays we can see ballet performance, musical or opera in the theater. A special kind of culture is the fine art. It was the first kind of cultural heritage that mankind invented in caves and it passed through long development. Now we can see impressive paintings on exhibitions and also we can resemble differences between periods when they were painted. Other kinds of fine arts are ceramics, sculptures or figures from clay. The last part of culture I would like to speak about is music. In the 20th century was invented a swarm of new styles that nearly broke classical music. With the development of electricity and need of better record to broadcast many new instruments and equipment for musicians were invented. I think that the main breakthrough was invention of electric guitar which resulted in various new musical families like jazz, blues, rock, metal and fusion between them. With computer in 70ties came electronic music which resulted in weak styles as techno, house or rave. My favorite styles are rock and grunge and fusion of them with others.

Newspapers
The first form of mass media started after the printing press was invented in Germany in 1450. Many copies of simple newspapers and posters were quickly printed, which could then be distributed to many people. Newspapers are still one of the most important forms of mass media.
There are two kinds:
1. QUALITY PAPERS (serious newspapers) that aim at (zaměřit se na) the educated reader. They contain detailed news comment, editorials, many topics written by