After the War

Eric Blair was born on the 25th of June in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, in the then British colony of India, where his father, Richard, worked for the Opium Department of the Civil Service. His mother, Ida, brought him to England at the age of one. He did not see his father again until 1907, when Richard visited England for three months before leaving again until 1912. Eric had an older sister named Marjorie and a younger sister named Avril. He is better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an

pendant cette période, j’aurais sans doute pris des trains bien différents. En pensant à cela, j’ai voulu écrire une œuvre qui exprime avec précision cette situation. »  L’œuvre est constituée de 3 parties : America-Before the War ~ 9′ – Europe-During the War ~ 7’30″ – After the War ~ 10’30″.   Création de l’oeuvre    « Voilà ce que j’ai fait pour préparer la bande magnétique :   J’ai enregistré ma gouvernante Virginia, maintenant âgée de plus de soixante-dix ans, qui évoque nos voyages en train

It's an extract from the biography of Gandhi written by Roberts Strauss Feuerlicht . It was plublished in 1965 . It takes place in 1893 when Gandhi went to South Africa to work as legal counsel and decided to stay to lead Indian peoples's fight against discrimination . What is Gandhi's evolution ? How did Gandhi become the leader of his fight ? How did Gandhi start his political career ? Which elements pushed Gandhi to fight for all the people's rights ? I. The stilness of a paceful and passive

The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states. All but two (Mozambique and Rwanda) of these countries were formerly part of the British Empire, out of which it developed. The member states co-operate within a framework of common values and goals as outlined in the Singapore Declaration.[1] These include the promotion of democracy, human rights, good

Assess the application of the policy of Containment in Southeast Asia between 1954 and 1975 Containment was a United States policy which involved military and economic strategies to prevent the spread of communism. This was due to the US’ fear of the domino theory, who suggested that if a country becomes communist, the countries around would have a greater risk of becoming communist too. The policy had already been applied in Korea to prevent North Korea from invading South Korea. In Vietnam, the

Kennedy This text is an extract from “the Pursuit of Happiness” by Douglas Kennedy published in 2002. Actually it is mainly a dialogue between the main character Eric Smythe who works for a TV network and an FBI agent who accuses him of being a communist.We should mention that the dialogue is set against the back-drop (toile de fond) of the Mc Carthy witch-hunts in the 50s. During the cold war, many US politicians were afraid of communism because the USSR represented a big threat to American

du son. Elle a été créée en 1988 au Queen Elisabeth Hall à Londres par Le Quatuor Kronos. C’est une composition pour quatuor à cordes et bandes magnétiques. Elle se divise en trois parties : -  « Before the war » = « Avant la guerre » - « During the war » = « Pendant la guerre » - « After the war » = « Après la guerre » Cette œuvre rend hommage aux victimes déportées de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Cette œuvre a remporté le Grammy Award de la meilleure composition de musique classique contemporaine

The coke (coca-cola in France ) is a soda . The name "Coca-Cola" is an American trademark put down(deposited) in 1887. Since the end of the Second World War, this original drink is, in the collective imagination, a symbol of him(her,it) américanisme . He(it) pulls(fires) his(its) name of his(its) first composition: the sheet(leaf) of coca extract(Coke) and the use of walnut of kola, the drink was then recommended by his(her) inventor, the pharmacist John Pemberton, as remedy against the gastric

first published in 1880 in the anthology Les Soirées de Medan. Often considered his greatest work, "Boule de Suif" was published the same year that Guy de Maupassant made his poetic debut with Des Vers. The theme of the anthology of short stories was the Franco–Prussian War from a decade earlier. Other writers contributed, including Émile Zola and J. K. Huysmans, but it was Maupassant's short story, often considered the best example of naturalism, that has reigned as the most famous. Maupassant is

in the text, like “bulging eyes” or “twisted mouth”, which refer to suffering, to death. The key-word “strange”, repeated 3 times in the text, is an element of strangeness. One of the element of strangeness is a juxtaposition of cliches about the pleasant-to-live-in, gentle South ans the images of death referring to the harsh reality of the blacks fate, particulary obvious line 5 to 8. The metaphor of the fruit brings strangeness, generally the fruit is associated with birth, life, the futur