After the War

Civi GB du 31/01/11 The speech is his vision of the "United states of Europe" League of Nations (Sté des nations)--->1st organisation trying to regulate international relations, but failed to keep peace...WW2 europe has all the ingredients to be a haven (=havre) of peace and prosperity, but everything has been ruined, because of Germany/German nations. The main disease of Europe is nationalism (and nazism) victors: vainqueurs Tha dark ages, the war may return. For him, there is still a risk

Massacre Introduction The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as The Battle at Wounded Knee Creek, was the last major armed conflict between the Lakota Sioux and the United States, subsequently described as a "massacre" by General Nelson A. Miles in a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. It happened on December, 29, 1890 for different reasons. Lakota Prelude In February 1890, the United States government broke a Lakota treaty by adjusting the Great Sioux Reservation of South

Chinese?” 1°: Résumé This article drawn from the Guardian, a British newspaper, was written by Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s President since 2003. He broaches two crucial subjects for Africa of today: First, the Chinese’s investments in Africa and its impact on African societies. And secondly, all problems linked up to Occident’s aids for Africa’s development and the ideological war between China and Occident. 2°: Essay The global volume of Sino African commerce grow up from 11 milliard

created from the remains of plants that lived and died about 100 to 400 million years ago when parts of the earth were covered with huge swampy forests. Coal is classified as a nonrenewable energy source because it takes millions of years to form. The energy we get from coal today comes from the energy that plants absorbed from the sun millions of years ago. All living plants store energy from the sun through a process known as photosynthesis. After the plants die, this energy is released as the plants

October 22nd 1919) is a British writer, the author of works such as the novel "The Grass is Singing" and "The Golden Notebook". She was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007. Her Life. Her father, who had lost a leg during his service in World War I met his future wife, a nurse, at the Royal Free Hospital where he was recovering from his amputation.Alfred Taylor moved his family to Persia (now Iran), in order to take up a job as a clerk for the Imperial Bank of Persia; and it was ther

of the popular sovereignty; but this conception wasn’t invented overnight, it took us a lot of steps to get where we are today. We went by many uprisings, writings from philosopher like Hobbes, Voltaire, or Montsquieu, glorious epidodes of peace and truce, as some horrible slaughter also (WWII, Rwanda, Bosnian war). Nowadays, we tend to believe that we finally arrived to this ''winning ticket'' that garantees us a healthy democracy. However, when we look at the latest politic scandals in the twentieth

Independent Study Project - Literary Option Comparison of The Reader by Bernhard Schlink And Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Reader by Bernhard Schlink and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov are two opposite yet parallel stories. The Reader follows Michael Berg from the age of fifteen as he falls in love with an older woman whereas in Lolita Humbert Humbert is obsessed with none other than Lolita. When fifteen year old Michael Berg is struck down by hepatitis, he is helped home by Frau Schmitz (who

1988. Le compositeur met en parallèle son adolescence (il voyagea beaucoup entre ses deux parents divorcés et la déportation qui se déroula en Europe à la même époque. L’œuvre se divise en trois parties : 1. America / Before the war- 2. Europe / During the war -3. After the war. C’est une musique contemporaine répétitive (ostinato) qui utilise des enregistrements de conversations comme matériau musical. Steve Reich se sert de l’intonation vocale des interviews comme motif mélodico-rythmique : notée

intolerance and stereotypes are the current problems of our society. We all know that black people were the principal victims of these phenomena. Indeed, considered inferior to whites they have been confronted and still are by serious injustices such as apartheid and colonialism. How does black people consider white people ? How do white people consider black people? And why? A little bit of history in order to understand ... 2) History 1) Triangular trade The slavery of the black Africans by European

a typical Irishman. He was the son of a English businessman and his mother was a music teacher. | | Shaw`s family was very poor. Therefore he just got a low education. Because of the financial misery, Shaws Mother moved to London for earning some money. Shaw made his living from playing piano. | | These are reasons among others why shaw was a follower of the socialism. He was impressed by Isben and Marx. He made fun of the victorian and showed the faults of the society. He hasn’t any illusions