Prove the statements

1) Washington is the world's largest one-industry city.

2) Washington is one of the most beautiful and unusual cities in the United States.

3) It's easy to get lost in the huge building of the Capitol.

5.6.6 Read the texts about well-known American writers. Have you read any their stories and poems?

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, in1899. He was one of Hollywood’s favorite authors. His books, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, and A Farewell to Arms were made into films. He won the Noble Prize for Literature in 1954. As a hunter, fisherman, boxer, solder, war correspondent and author, Hemingway led a life of action.

Hemingway wrote six novels and more than 50 short stories. His early short fiction was greatly influenced by his outdoor life in the American mid-west.

Emily Dickenson

Emily Dickenson was an American poet. She is now recognized as one of the greatest poets of 19^th – century America.

Emily Dickenson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. She lived there her whole life. She led an isolated. Her life experiences were very limited, but still her poems deal with the general problems and concerns of the time in witch she lived.

Only 7 or more than 1000 of her poems were published during her lifetime. They were published anonymously.