A Day in the Life

What are the similarities and differencies between the "British dream" and the "American dream" ? To anyone having seen or read The Remains of the Day, the very notion of a British dream (be it a new one) may seem laughable. Well, is it ? And doesn't it have something in common with its glorious ancestor, the American dream ? Similarities : The British dream does in fact have a lot in common with its American counterpart. It is a dream of material success, but not just that, it is also a dream

In which country is the story set? Justify by quoting from the text. The story takes place in India. We may say so because of a couple of elements. First, two castes are mentioned which refer to the Hindu caste system. What’s more, at the end of the text, the main character and his father are in the inner ashram yard, which belongs to a religious Hindu community. Identify the different members of the family. A family of three people is presented in the text. The son is the main character

January 10th The care of the dependent elderly people in France 1/15 ABSTRACT Ageing population is a global phenomenon all across Europe, and France has to face the problem too. The increase number of elderly in France is a challenge for the governmental policies. Today, the policies have to answer the request of the population about elderly. These policies focus on the home care policy and on the development of the care institutions. The aim is to give a good way of living to the elderly by

you a little about my life. Yeah, let me tell you all about December 26, 2004. I was in Phuket. ***** “Shall we take a walk?” proposed my big brother. My older brother had just turned 23, and he had a found a serious job and a steady girlfriend in England. We didn’t see each other very much, and he had wanted to spend his vacations with me. He had taken me to Phuket. I was 10 at the time, and everything I saw made me marvel. The birds singing, the sun shining, the waves crashing on the rocks

Change of heart, change of life This man in her life was very brave. He begin to live a normal life he would have liked and continued. But fate would not allow it. And one day while circulate to a destination unknown, he lived the worst thing that can happen on a highway: the accident. Luckily he managed to get away with have a heart transplant that saved him for a few years. So he realized more than before, that life was the rarest thing. That's why when he release from the hospital he decided to

Willpower is best used with care A DECADE ago when I was an undergraduate psychologist, a departmental librarian called Anne was doing something any psychologist would say was impossible. Every year, with near-perfect accuracy, she would predict which third-year undergraduates would be awarded first-class degrees. Anne didn't know how their essays were rated, what A-level grades they had under their belts, or how they scored on IQ tests. (All information many would say was essential to forecasting

ENGLISH REPORT OF INTERNSHIP Internship in Travel Agency in Lima. Bienaimé Clémence European Business School This is a report of my internship in February 2010 in Peru. I have to explain why I did it there. I have a Peruvian friend in EBS in my group who asked me if I would like to share an experience with him: do my internship in Peru. Of course I accepted. We were not in the same family and we did not work in the same company but we shared this experience and came back so happy! I hope

Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt / Stephen J. Dubner This book is about a different intrepretation of Economics . These authors try to present it in an unusual way : they give examples from the day-to-day life. By the way they interested themselves in employing some unusual topics. Steven Levitt is a famous economist ( Although he is a less than 40 years old one ). He considers himself as marginal because he doesn't care about the usual ways to apply Economics ( Statistics, Markets and famous companies

First, King’s choice of words shows a contrast between the situation in the past and how it should change in the present to make a better future. To show this contrast, King uses negative and positive words. He starts his speech by explaining the situation in the past and present, by using negative words such as “discrimination,” “injustice,” “captivity,” and “segregation.” All these words show the strong racial injustice in America. In the second part King paints a future of fairer and better racial

The Mezzotint (1904) by M.R. James The Mezzotint, written by M.R. James in 1904 is one of the many ghost stories the author is famous for. This short story is typical of the ghost story in many ways that we will develop, but with an originality that almost undermines the genre. The Mezzotint is constructed like so many ghost stories, with the apparition of a disruptive something that cannot be explained by the rational known rules that govern the world and the mind, and this apparition takes