After the War

6EMTb 9 02/03/2010 The author’s life. GEORGE ORWELL WAS THE PEN NAME of the English author, Eric Arthur Blair. Orwell was educated in England at Eton College. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927, he returned to Europe to become a writer. He lived for several years in poverty. His earliest experiences resulted in the book, Down and Out in Paris and London. By 1936, Orwell had joined the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was critical of

AT the beginning of the 1800s, the British Isles had become deeply embroiled in a bitter war with her French neighbours and Napoleon had introduced what was later to become known as the Continental Blockade. This took the form of a French fleet patrolling the offshore waters around Portsmouth and Southampton, designed to prevent both imports and exports from either leaving or arriving at the British coast, although Britain was still secretly trading in armaments with her French enemies. As a result

Different Trains de Steve Reich (1936 - ) 2ème mouvement : Europe (During the War) Présentation de l'oeuvre Different Trains de Steve Reich (1988) ART DU SON ● Different Trains est une œuvre écrite pour quatuor à cordes et bande magnétique. DEF :La bande magnétique est un support permettant l'enregistrement d'informations analogiques ou numériques à l'aide d'un magnétophone ou d'un magnétoscope C’est une œuvre électro-acoustique. Elle a été composée en 1988 et évoque la déportation des juifs

Repetition The context in which the play was written : the aftermath of ww2 with its tragic revelations – apocalyptic. The discovery of a Nazi atrocities, and the invention of the atomic bomb, creating a sense of a generalisation of horror. The play is set in a ‘shelter’ which can only evoke a situation of war or of post nuclear apocalypse, the comments on all that is gone is evocative of the nuclear annihilation. All the more so with the Cold War, which started just after the end of World War II and

Today, I will expose the main caracteristics of the MK Ultra project, also known as the "MK Ultra", code name used to design a CIA project which lasted from 1950 to 1970. The aim of this project was to manipulate mentally some people by using psychotropic substances injections. I. TITLE AND ORIGINSThe project's intentionally oblique CIA cryptonym is made out of the digraph MK, meaning that the project was sponsored by the agency'sTechnical Services Division, followed by the word ULTRA (which had

International Relations Module The Making of American Foreign Policy – M14045 (30 Credits) Is Foreign Policy – Making RAtional? Introduction. Albert Einstein once said that “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift”. This quotation by one of the most famous physicists, surprising in that a scientist would be expected to extol rationality, summarizes very well the debate within social sciences

HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION AND THE CRISIS IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION OF AFRICA INTRODUCTION Since two decades now, the Great Lakes region of Africa faces a situation of infectious crisis, a political and social crisis which has changed the face of the whole region by its war and crimes. From a chronological point of view, everything started by the coming to power of Yoweri Museveni in Uganda in 1986 and continued with the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 as result of the civil war which started in 1990

He was the son of a family pioneer. His father was carpenter and farmer. He known a little of his mother because she died in 1818 when he was 8 years. After law studies, he began a political career before 30 years. He made war against Indians in 1832. Elect deputy republican in 1834, he entered in Congress in 1847. From 1854, he defended the introduction of a slave legislation in Kansas and Nebraska. In 1856, he leaded a campaign of antislavery. In 1860, he was candidate in the presidency

guerre mondiale In 1941, Germany is the ruler of Europe. In two years, it has conquered most of the territories nearby as for example France or Poland. Since the signature of the German Soviet pact, it is allied with Russia ,nevertheless Hitler decided finally to attack it. This is the operation Barbarossa which is launched on June the twenty-second of 1941. We are going to study a cartoon from... It is realised three days after the launching of the operation Barbarossa. It represented Adolf

HISTORY In 1488, the Portuguese Bartolomeu Dias explored south africa, and in 1492 it’s Vasco De Gama who goes to south Africa, they call it first “Cape of Storm” and later king of Portugal change it to “Cape of Good Hope”. In 1652, Jan Van Riebeeck established the Dutch East India Company. They have lot of native living in the Cape, it’s why slaves are sell to Indonesia, Madagascar, and India to work at the colony. In 1795, Great Britain took the Cape at the Dutch East India Company, but in