Assignment #2.15

1. Throughout your school education, in history classes, you must have learned about different periods of mankind's past such as Greek and Roman civilizations, middle ages, Renaissance, Enlightment, modern history, XX century and the like. Write which of them interests you most and, on the other hand, which one do you find boring. Justify your choices by giving several reasons for each of them.
2. We will resume our reading on the painting The Arnolfini Marriage.

Assignment #2.14

1. My intention for the last assignment was that you would describe in full detail the Christmas Eve supper customs that we were talking about during our lesson preceding the last one: sharing wafers, reading from the Bible, saying prayers and more. My directions in this respect were rather vague and you misunderstood them. Accordingly, you wrote about other customs only. So now, in the description as part of this assignment, cover the customs we discussed then. Before doing this read the assignment #2.13 again, so you could refresh your memory about the assumptions you should make while working on your composition.
2. If time allows, we will resume our reading on the painting The Arnolfini Marriage.

Assignment #2.13

1. Describe to a hypothetical friend living in UK the customs observed in your family during the Christmas Eve. Assume that your friend is an atheist, but is very interested in religious aspects of such customs. In your description you won't be able to rely on the kind of understanding we take for granted in Poland. You should therefore pay attention to details in a manner you did during our last lesson, when you were reporting on how you spent the Christmas Eve supper at aunt Teresa. Try to tell even more than what you did then, for example about carols and Santa Claus.
2. When I was at Julia's in Liverpool for Christmas, I visited an old cemetery nearby. Below is a photo of a gravestone with an interesting inscription. Translate it into Polish.