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Biography of Louis Vuitton Louis Vuitton (1821 – February 27, 1892),[3] eponymous founder of the company, was born in Jura, France (now part of the commune of Lavans-sur-Valouse). In 1835, he moved to Paris. The trip from his hometown to Paris was over 400 kilometers (249 mi), and he traveled the distance by foot. On his way there, he picked up a series of odd jobs to pay for his journey. There, he became an apprentice Layetier to prominent households.[4] Because of his well established reputation

Agatha Christie 1.Her biography: Agatha Christie, her maiden name Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay in the United Kingdom (Devon) in 1891, an American father and an English mother. The latter died when the writer is a child. His widowed mother encouraged him very top through education original writing. When Agatha reaches the age of 16, she moved to Pars to start learning a singing career that she should give up quickly. Agatha celebrates her engagement with Colonel Archibald in

The American history is marked by a peculiar institution, that is slavery (1861-1865) Slavery was abolished at the end of the civil war by Lincoln by 13th amendments of December 1865. Slavery was abolished but segregation remained. Segregation - separation of black and white people and lack of rights for the black population. In the south segregation was implemented (appliqués) by the “Jim Crow laws” (1880-1890). “JC laws” separated blacks and whites in schools and the public places (schools,

théorie à l’opérationnalisation. • Battistella (Ch. 1-3) • Aron, R. (1967) « Qu’est-ce qu’une théorie des relations internationales? » Revue française de science politique, 17(5): 837-61. (#) • Bull, H. (1966) “International theory: The case for a classical approach,” World Politics, 18(3): 361–377. (#) 15 sept 2010 Sem. 3 : Réalisme (classique contre néo-) • Battistella (Ch. 4) • Legro, J. W., & A. Moravscik. (1999) “Is Anybody Still a Realist?” International Security

Josephine Baker, the frenchiest American girl In 1925, during the jazz era in Paris, the sensational cast of musicians and dancers from Harlem, assembled as La Revue Nègre, exploded on the stage of the “Théâtre des Champs Élysées”. Its talented young star, Josephine Baker, captivated the audience with her “erotic dance” and a wild new dance called the Charleston. This show permitted her to became the high priestess of jazz culture and African art in Paris. Who was this artist which wore banana

[pic] The Blyton Phenomenon The controversy surrounding the world’s most successful children’s writer SHEILA G. RAY I. INTRODUCTION II. ENID BLYTON, THE LIBRARIANS, THE TEACHERS AND THE PARENTS 1. The early years 2. The war years 1939-45 3. The period of recovery 1946-58 4. The second golden age 1958-74 5. Bullock and after III. ENID BLYTON AND THE CHILDREN IV. CONCLUSION I. INTRODUCTION II. ENID BLYTON, THE LIBRARIANS, THE TEACHERS AND THE PARENTS 1. The early

How we lost our place in the world Andrew Cohen is journalist and professor. He worked for the Financial Post and for the Globe and Mail. He is now teaching journalism and international affairs at Carleton University. In his 2002 book While Canada slept: How we lost our place in the world, he describes the decline of Canada in the world and its challenges for the future. He thinks today’s Canadian international Policy is to be reviewed. Its budget shall be raised and the policies adjusted in order

- Protest Movements  A short description of the movements  Understanding their significance - The Vietnam War - The end of the Gold Standard 1950S: Period of stability and prosperity in the US and a certain comfort of life, as opposed to a period of high tensions. We can see a shift in the period, this also applies to the economy. Demography From 1950 to 1960, increase in population from 151 684 M to 180 671 (+19%). Very fast increase. The consequence: a rapidly increasing young population

the re-telling and re-writting are always a complicated things.And the question about the ethical is obvious.For example in journalism, the most common form of re-telling, there is a lot of rules. How objective can you be about a fact? Even if journalists try almost the times to be impartial, it's quite easy to understand that the informations about a same fact are different in the different country.That the poin of view are different. In all the diplomatic accidents or conflist, opinion is different

culture in few questions : Briefly highlights the differences between Athenian democracy and Roman “republican” government. In 508 BCE, Cleisthenian develop his reforms on Athens which consisted in the “deme”. In others terms, he created 30 districts and put them into 10 groups in order to gather people from different areas (polis, Paralia and mesogeia) to constituency, in order to take decisions together. This reform broke the power of the healthy families = Aeropagus. Both systems are