Across the Universe

d’anglais Lycée Joffre, Montpellier Fiona RATKOFF, Agrégée d’anglais Académie de Nantes Joanna WISTREICH, Certifiée d’anglais Lycée Alphonse Daudet, Nîmes NEW Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Heroes and Legends Nobody’s Perfect The Grass is Greener Living Together Under the Influence Where Power Lies Moving On? Tomorrow’s World 03 05 17 29 43 55 68 81 93 105 109 Lecture suivie Fiches méthodologiques – Rédiger un dialogue – Écrire une lettre – Rédiger un article de presse – Les procédés de traduction

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Introduction ‘Jonathan Culler has always been about the best person around at explaining literary theory without oversimplifying it or treating it with polemical bias. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction is an exemplary work in this genre.’ J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine ‘An impressive and engaging feat of condensation . . . the avoidance of the usual plod through schools and approaches allows the reader to get straight to the heart of the crucial issue for many students, which is:

Berlusconi o Prodi si mettessero a fare le battaglie per l'ambiente? THE ENERGY GAME The liturgies of extreme times 1. The Earth is almost five billion years old and at best will last another five billion years before the Sun goes out. This of course with the concurrence of the 718 currently registered potentially dangerous asteroid, of which one, Apophis (the Greek name for the Egyptian god Apep, «the destroyer») will cross the orbit of our telecommunications satellites on April 13th 2029[1]. Nowadays

without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lazarus, Richard S. Coping with aging / Richard S. Lazarus and Bernice N. Lazarus. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13 978-0 -19-517302-4 ISBN 0 -19 -517302-3 1. Older people. 2. Adjustment (Psychology) in old age. 3. Aging—Psychological aspects. I. Lazarus, Bernice N. II. Title. HQ1061.L39 2004 305.26 —dc22 2004009734 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States

Zafack Takadong Thibaut   ABSTRACT The internationalization of exchanges, the globalization of markets, the technological innovation constitute factors of multiplication of risks that make the position of enterprises more and more difficult at a world economic scale. Today, the production economy is replaced by an economy of environment and by an economy of market (creation and development of alliances, mergings/acquisitions etc.…) [NCL 95]. This problematic, in an universe where the quantity of information

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qui pratiquent très peu ou qui n’ont aucune croyance religieuse. Le taux de suicide chez eux est de 100% plus bas, ils souffrent beaucoup moins de tension artérielle, et cette proportion est de 7 contre 1 parmi les fumeurs.69 Une étude publiée dans The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, une importante source scientifique dans le monde médical, rapporte que les personnes qui se disent agnostiques, tombent plus souvent malades et ont une durée de vie plus courte. Selon les résultats de

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Faber, 2005. 300 NewsLite © WPSA bg hd hg This poem says I’m sorry by Steven Clark in The Dog ate my bus pass, edited by Nick Toczek and Andrew Fusek Peters © Macmillan Publishers 2004. A note from Mum by Ann Bonner in The Dog ate my bus pass, edited by Nick Toczek and Andrew Fusek Peters © Macmillan Publishers 2004. A washing machine says sorry by Clare Bevan in The Dog ate my bus pass, edited by Nick Toczek and Andrew Fusek Peters © Macmillan Publishers 2004. 112