After the War

a little village of the south of South Africa. When he was sixteen, Nelson is initiated to become a man according to the local custom. He was a talented pupil and he got into Fort Hare, a famous university which formed future managers... It was there that Mandela understood the real situation of blacks in South Africa. Detailed as representative of students council, he began his first struggles against white administration so powerfully that it caused his expulsion of the university. In 1942

confuse the different terms related to the destruction by the Nazis of the european Jews during the Second World War. The « Holocaust » is not only the « Final Solution », and the « Final Solution » is not only Auschwitz and the gaz chambers... Even if the main topic of the Wannsee conference held on January the 20th 1942 was to coordinate the « Final Solution » (Endlösung), this conference didn't give birth ex nihilo to the process in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish

is an island (same etymology as “isolation” and “insular”) Isolation: surrounded by the sea - Develop a strong navy for protection from other countries - Military purpose - Trade purpose From the “Economist”: Britain has assets in terms of natural resources, raw materials (coil, iron, water). It has been the “Workshop of the World”, by 1973; Britain has been the first economic power within the sun never set, in a sense of EXTENSION. Insular (psychological meaning): narrow-minded

Fitzgerald was born the 24th sepetember 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota) in an Irish upper middle class Roman Catholic family. His parents, Edward and Mary Fitzgerald, came from different social backgrounds. Scott’s mother, Mary came from a background where money meant position, stability and security. While his father came from a modest background. Scott is their only child who survived. He had two older sisters, before he was born, Mary and Louise who “suddenly died during an epidemic, at the ages of one

From the New Frontier to the Great Society Postwar : The affluent society Industries resumed production on a much larger scale than ever. 1944 : G.I.Bill : help veterans to buy homes and start business. New industries such as electronics, plastics, frozen, foods and jet aircraft : planes became booming businesses, cars. Population boom increased the number of consumers. Between 1950 & 1960 : the population of the US grew by about 28 million. Labor unions gained

We are going to present you Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States : Barack Hussein Obama II, was born on August 4th, 1961 in Honolulu, in the State of Hawaii, and he is the 44th and current president of the United States. Son of black Kényan and American white with Kansas he is the first afro-American which arrived at the presidency of the United States. He was born in Hawaii and is brought up in Indonesia, then returns to the United States to his grandparents. It’s there

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The Olympics Change a Country For South Korea, hosting the Olympics successfully means opening its door to the world by tool of sport and culture. The Olympics’ benefits were not countable, they changed a country and still influence the country today, even in the 0066uture. The 1988 Summer Olympics, also known as The Seoul Olympics, were an all international multi-sport events celebrated from September 17 to October 2, 1988 in Seoul, South Korea, with the motto” Harmony and Progress”. These

see. The scene seems to take place on another planet, perhaps Mars or Jupiter, because there are aliens on it. They are situated in the foreground, on the left hand side. Their bodies have black dots, they have only three fingers on their hands, long noses which are pointy like their ears, and they have two short antennas on their heads. Apparently, they can speack, or at least they share a common language, because one is asking the other: “We don’t have any oil, do we?” Because of the question

The true story of Arnold the snail A day, Arnold, famous actor in Franklin the turtle, decided that the situation was to stop. Indeed, he found that he was less paid than the other members, they were more mediatized and he said that cameraman didn’t express to film him and he described it like an injustice. There was as well the fact that everybody laughed at him because of his small size. So he decided to declare a war between him, Franklin and all his friends. What was going to take place