Americans de New York

1. B I O G R A P H I E Alex Katz est né le 24 juillet 1927 à Brooklyn, dans l’État de New York. Sa famille, Émigrée de Russie, vit à New York dans le quartier de Queens. A 13ans, Katz fréquente le collège technique Woodrow Wilson, où il fait notamment l’apprentissage du dessin d’après moulage. Il développe un fort intérêt pour le jazz. En 1946-1949, il fait des études d’art à Cooper Union, à New York. Il est d’abord inscrit dans le département d’arts appliqués et commerciaux. Plus tard, il

New York Draft Riots July, 13 to July, 16 1863 From the time of Lincoln's election in 1860, the Democratic Party had warned New York's Irish and German residents to prepare for the emancipation of slaves and the resultant labor competition with them. In March 1863, by a federal draft law, all male citizens between twenty and thirty-five and all unmarried men between thirty-five and forty-five years of age were subject to military duty. The federal government entered all eligible men into a lottery

Details of the business Name and type of our new business : The name of our new business will be “Objective France” because it will be a travel agency specialized in travel to France and in which we will propose only travel to France. What is the format we have chosen ? It will be a partnership between Anaïs Goutte and Anne-Louise Roman because a partnership is a business in which the partners share profits and losses that is to say in which the partners share the liability. Moreover

Introduction Since the abolition of slavery in the USA, the American Negro needed changes in his living conditions. With the end of World War 1, and the industrialization in the north, African Americans found it necessary to move north for a better living. They went en mass to big cities and gave rise to a new grand culture. This was “the great migration of African Americans” The great migration expended the Negro’s communities and created a greater market for Negros’ culture, mainly on Art which

NEW YORK I – INTRODUCTION New York, city of the oriental rib of the United States, situated in the State of New York, on the Atlantic Ocean in the mouth of Hudson. It is the most important conglomeration of the United States and one of the biggest world metropolises. Its power and its brilliance practice the global scale Taking advantage of a geographic situation to particular, the site of New York consist of the islands of Hudson which bloom with an interior gulf of 7 – 8 kilometres

La statue de la Liberté, qui marque l'entrée du port de New York depuis 1886, est non seulement l'un des monuments les plus célèbres de la ville mais aussi un emblème national des Etats-Unis. Voici l’histoire et les caractéristiques de cette statue colossale qui fut offerte par la France en gage de l'amitié franco-américaine La statue de la Liberté, située sur la petite île de Liberty Island au sud de Manhattan. Cette statue a été offerte aux Etats-Unis par la France en 1886, à l’occasion du centenaire

de la bibliothèque, aile Écosse. Mise à jour des références et des disponibilités : 1er juillet 2015 -4- Anglais - Agrégation 2016 LITTÉRATURE : BIBLIOGRAPHIE GÉNÉRALE ELAM Keir, The semiotics of theatre and drama, London; New York : Routledge, 2002, XII-260 p. (New accents). 809.2 ELA GENETTE Gérard, Figures. III, Paris : Éd. du Seuil, 1972, 285 p. (Poétique). 840.91 GEN GRELLET Françoise, An introduction to English literature : from Philip Sidney to Graham Swift, Paris : Hachette supérieur

The New York Stock Exchange Slide 1: The New York Stock Exchange was born in 1817. It is situate in the south top of Manhattan, in New York. The main street is obviously calling Wall Street, a street which is built by the Dutch settlers in order to protect them against the Indian and English attacks. It is today the main worldwide Stock Exchange place where the biggest sum of money is sharing. Unfortunately, after several events, everybody found out that the worldwide economy depend, a little

CORRIGE TYPE Matière : Devoir n° : AN01 01 Epreuve de recette du : 21/04/10 7AN01CTPA0106 statut: 00 1. Compétence linguistique (14 points) 1. Texte à compléter (14*0,25 = 3, 5 points) She went to New York for the first time 1890. In those days, air travel didn’t exist. It took three weeks to sail from France to America by boat. When she left home, she felt very excited. Imagine! she was going abroad on her own. For the occasion, she wore / was wearing her best clothes. Her parents came

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 The American presidential election is a very important event for the United States, but also for the rest of the world. Whereas the election race only takes a few weeks in some countries, in the US, the presidential candidates undergo a real political marathon: Primaries, conventions and then the Electoral College system. Once each party has chosen the candidate that will represent it in the election race through the Primaries or Caucuses (Iowa)