After the War

unfolds Nov 15th 2007 | RUTSHURU From The Economist print edition One year after the Congolese elections, civilians flee renewed fighting in the east AMONG the crowd of displaced civilians clamouring for food stood a young boy. He had fled his village and was left with little but a filthy T-shirt that read: “I'm voting for Kabila, the peacemaker”. A year ago, Congo did indeed hold elections that many had feared would never take place. They were won by the incumbent president, Joseph Kabila

décision sur ce sujet épineux. « Experts are calling into question the decision by the Matsue Municipal Education Committee to forbid children from borrowing the anti-war manga Hadashi no Gen, or “Barefoot Gen”, by Keiji Nakazawa, from the city’s libraries. There is a public debate over whether it should be restricted, with some saying that those who requested it are seeking to cover up some of the negative aspects of Japan’s history. The comic is about a young boy trying to survive in postwar Japan

keenly interested in ideas about the nature and purpose of history. Faced with a class of bored and rebellious students, he scraps the traditional history curriculum and tells them stories of the fens instead. These stories form the substance of the novel, which takes place mainly in two time frames: the present, and the year 1943, when Tom Crick is fifteen years old. The traumatic events of his adolescence reach forward in time to influence the present. The structure of the novel, which frequently moves

Describe the effects of the blitz on London and other cities. The blitz was the attack of German aircraft on British cities between 1940 and 1941, right after the phoney war and the first air-battle of the “Battle of Britain”. It affected the different British cities, the citizens and the way people by changing basic life-routine (Gas, water, food ect... reduced), it created services (Home guards or fire department.), change the infrastructure of the country and had devastating effects in human

and at the age of fourteen became a clerk in the textile industry. Public life: In 1828 he and two friends went into partnership to sell calico in London. In 1831 they opened a calico-printing works in Lancashire. In 1832 Cobden settled in Manchester but went on to visit America and the Levant. In 1837 he stood as a parliamentary candidate for Stockport on a free trade platform but was unsuccessful. In 1838 he became one of the seven

Anglais cours n° 1 : Irish history irish home rule dominant question of the 19th century the Home rule party created in 1872 the irish parliamentary party demanded home rule (Le Home Rule est un projet visant à donner une autonomie interne à l'Irlande, tout en restant sous la tutelle de la couronne britannique. En 1870, Isaac Butt crée la Home Government Association pour la promotion de l'autonomie de l'île, et l'institution d'un parlement à Dublin, dans le cadre du Royaume-Uni ;

is the first man to have posed the foot on the Moon on July 21st, 1969. Its first space flight on board Gemini 8 took place in 1966, flight for which it carried the role of pilot-commander. During this mission, it carried out the first manual mooring of two spacecrafts with the pilot “Dave” Scott. The second space flight of Armstrong was as a commander of the famous mission Apollo 11 on July 20th, 1969. At the time of this mission, him and Buzz Aldrin are gone down on the surface from the Moon

new powers in the globalisation process which is a spectacular economic integration. So Asia Pacific is a key region in the geography of globalisation, and China began to compete with the USA, but contrary to popular opinion, Tyler Cowen said in 2006 that China may be good for the US balance of trade. Actually China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea have mutual needs. (The USA are dependent on Asian countries, such as China, regarding export rates) Since 1980 China is in the mondialisation

After the second world war, the worls was separated in two blocs (competiting group of countries) , There were the east led by USSR a country who was communist and the other the west led by the USA a capitalis country, The USA created the north athlantic treaty oraganisation to fight (NATO in 1949) against a threat; the soviet occuped eastern europe countries. Them they created the warsaw pact in 1955. The USA wanted to stop comminism in the world consequently they created the south asia treaty

Gagarine was the first man to go into space. He was born in 1934 in a poor family. He had a difficult childhood. His passion for flying did ​​him become a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force and a few years later, after Several tests made, he joined a team of cosmonaut as part of the Soviet space program. Its small size, 1m57 probably helped to integrate this team. He made ​​the first flight into space in April 12th 1961 during the mission named Vostok 1. He made a complete rotation of the Earth in