PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT 6a Look at the task and choose one of
the people you talked about in 5. Find
information and make notes.
6b Organise the information in your notes into
four paragraphs and then do the task. Use
the biography in 2 as a model, and the notes
in ba to help you. Use the Writing bank for
reference.
Write a short biography about an important person
who has changed the world, but who is no longer
living. Write about:
when they were born and their early life.
their childhood and adolescence.
the main part of their career.
their death and how they changed the world.
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1. Wealth must find time to spend on good deeds. Ashamed to die rich - must find time during the life spend money on good deeds - thought American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and multimillionaire. This view is shared by many in the West - private charity there something common and honorable, wealthy people are often a significant part of the capital transferred to charities and heirs leaving only the necessary "living wage." In the U.S. and Western Europe created more than 10,000 private foundations. Two-thirds of them are created with funds left by will.

In Russia, for charity are yet wary: most citizens know little about real assistance provided by charities, and do not believe that they sent the money will reach those who need them. In addition, the charity on a large scale - it awkward and sometimes even dangerous: first, we have to pay additional taxes, and, secondly, such generosity can cause an unhealthy interest in the state and the tax authorities. So if we have a corporate charity has already become usual phenomenon and even almost mandatory, the private - is much less prevalent than in the West, and it is often anonymous. However, in our country, individuals and even entire families accept any problems so close to the heart, even decided on the creation of special funds for their solution.

CHARITY - assistance provided to indigent haves . Caring for persons deprived of their due SUCCESSION reasons livelihoods and unable to produce their own strength , in principle peculiar to some extent any human. society at any stage of its evolution. B. Therefore tradition in Russia ( as well as in other countries) have their roots in antiquity . Already in the early stages of development otech . statehood - in the era of Kievan Rus in the specific period - help the needy is an integral part of life on the islands then . Social progress . bundle , ext. War and Knyaz . strife , natural disasters - all these factors adversely affected the broader drug . masses on the one hand , open space for charitable . activities and with others - have determined the urgent need to maintain it in the name of companies. stability. Important role in this regard played Baptism of Russia (988) . Christ. creed , calling to love our neighbor as ourselves , considered one of the B. Cont. duties of a true Christian . A special role in the development of BV naturally assigned soc. tops , especially princes. Caring for the needy , nischelyubie considered continuous . signs of a "good book. " . Book themselves . BA also considered as one of its most important functions .