A State of Mind

Essay as a reaction to the documentary film about ZEN in Japan The word « Zen » is today really in fashion in the West. It took a common sense to refer to what is quiet, relaxing and also to pass on the idea of a certain aesthetics made of simplicity, and of purity of the line. Thanks to this documentary film, I now believe that only few people realize, by using the word « Zen », that they are referring to a religion, a Japanese religion : today the western sense is rather connected to a state of mind

Money does not make happiness Money can be a source of happiness Money is the symbol of social materialism. It has become vital for all men wishing to live in society, or at least survive. So money is not an end in itself, is there a way to access any object of desire. The money just to be a source of happiness for example a person with an abundance of money has a more comfortable life than a poor person in need. Money offers more opportunity. From one side we can say that money make

les arts et la littérature Le rêve américain à travers le cinéma D’un point de vue positif ou négatif le rêve américain à été source d’inspiration pour de nombreuses œuvres cinématographiques : depuis les débuts du cinéma, en 1939 avec Des souris et des hommes de John Steinbeck jusqu'à nos jours en 2013 avec No pain, no gain de Michael Bay. Entre temps beaucoup d’œuvres sont apparues: Arizona Dream, Rocky, Scarface, Easy Rider, West Side Story, A la recherche du bonheur avec Will Smith, etc. En

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A Michigan museum recently paid $492,000 for an old, dilapidated bus from Montgomery, Alabama. The old bus was reported to be the same one that Rosa Parks sat on and which action sparked the civil rights movement in the America. She refused to give her seating place to a white man. In the 60’s in the United States, white people had the priority in buses for seats over black people. Everything was segregated at this time: schools, churches, restaurants, bars … It was the period of the

Obesity is a problem in many developed countries. TO encourage citizens to adopt a healthy diet some expert have proposed a fat tax on junk food based on their fat content.. What do you think of such a proposal? Obesity is such a plague that the expression « world epidemic » is often used to qualify it. This idiom, even if it is quiet wrong, implied that obesity touches more Voc/o = quite tps = présent and more people over the world. Vous devez absolument donner votre point de vue, clair

define? Discuss, drawing on different models of health. Health is perhaps one of the most difficult words to define. Even after many years of discussion, philosophers, politicians, medics, and various literary critics have all struggled to set a perfect definition for it. Originating from the old English word for heal: "hael" and the even older Greek word for health: "hygeia" , the definition of the word health remains up to this day a crucial aspect of ones everyday life. Indeed, determining

America in comparison to that of France with an eye towards the historical development of each country. His interest in the democracy in America was led by the notion of equality of rights among equality of conditions. In my opinion, it is difficult to compare such different histories: the French Revolution and that of the United States of America. The difference, in respect to de Tocqueville’s thinking, is that the USA was a country born with democracy as its system of government, whereas in France

casser casser : CHOC, réalisé par un SUJet et HUMain avec un INSTrument (qui est une CHOSE) dans le BUT de CAUSER qu'un OBJet PHYsique puisse ÊTRE FRACTIONNE. [Wilks ] Représentations lexicales par primitives sémantiques  Décrire les significations à partir d'unités sémantiques non décomposables appelées primitives ou traits sémantiques (ou sèmes)  Questions : – primitives universelles ? – combien ? – grain de représentation ? Analyse componentielle en linguistique structurale  Pas d'hypothèse

Toward a Typology of Commitment States Among Managers of Born-Global Firms: A Study of Accelerated Internationalization Substantial scholarly work has shed much light on the development of a contemporary global environment—namely, the phenomenon of born-global firms. These young entrepreneurial firms, which take on internationalization early in their evolution, are now found in large numbers in most economies, especially in smaller, saturated, developed markets. In this article, the authors advance