Black Sunday

friendly and welcoming people by nature, they consider the family as very important. Locals in Abu Dhabi are easily distinguished by their traditional dress: men wear dishdasha, a collarless dress down to the ankles, usually white and women wear black abayas over their clothes. A woman who marries later can wear the burka, a veil facial when she is in public places (Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority). Islam is the official religion of the UAE. Nevertheless, non-Muslims are warmly welcomed.

Orleans on Sunday to mark the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Critics will say he’s responding to political attacks that he’s out of touch, and he’ll be faulted for catering to the 24/7 cable chatter. That’s the nature of the modern presidency, but even more so with Obama, who as the first black president reinforces the myth of America as a colorblind society, and it’s so much more complicated than that. The satirical newspaper, The Onion, got it right in their post-election headline BLACK MAN GIVEN

better medication. Economic consequences of age distribution > youth-oriented industry in the 1960s (records, clothes “swinging London”, pop culture) > huge pressure now on pensions and on NHS medical services. (iii) Ethnic groups. Whites: 92.1%, Blacks (Caribbean, Africa): 2%, Indians: 1.8%, Pakistani: 1.3%, Banladeshis: 0.5%, Other (Chinese, Latin-America etc.: 0.4%). Immigration less than emigration until WWII (mainly from Eastern Europe: Jews and political refugees fleeing Stalin or Hitler).

must help one another... ; should/shouldn’t ; must/mustn’t ; you have to...). • Vocabulaire : le football, le civisme (the law, the rules...). • Phonologie : liaisons, accentuation et prononciation de la graphie (racism, card, famous, manager, black, all...), schéma intonatif des injonctions. – Compétence sociolinguistique : recours à des connaissances interculturelles. – Compétence pragmatique : combiner, adapter des expressions apprises ; attirer l’attention, marquer son accord ou son désaccord

encouraged to come and work in Britain. The latest waves of immigration have caused problems. There is racial tension and racial prejudice in Britain, today in spite of laws passed to protect them, there is still discrimination against Asians and black people, many of them whom are unemployed or in low-paid jobs. The British population is far more ethnically mixed than it used to be Ethnic minorities groups make up about 7,9% of the British population. The commission for Racial Equality investigates

valeur considérable du jour au lendemain4. L’effet fut tel que la compagnie en parle de la façon suivante dans son rapport annuel de 1998 : One year ago, EntreMed was a little known biotechnology company working on angiogenesis and cancer. On Sunday, May 3rd, our lives 4 Robert-Sauvé, M. « Quand faut-il annoncer une découverte en recherche clinique? », Forum de l’Université de Montréal, 4 octobre 1999. http://www.forum.umontreal.ca/numeros/1999-2000/Forum9910-04/article05.html © Laboratoire

in the midst of the Paris mud, because he wore white silk stockings, on which the splashes betrayed his impatience. He had just come, no doubt, from a wedding or a ball; for at this early hour he had in his hand a pair of white gloves, and his black hair, now out of curl, and flowing over his shoulders, showed that it had been dressed _a la Caracalla_, a fashion introduced as much by David's school of painting as by the mania for Greek and Roman styles which characterized the early years of

(Blancs-Créoles) pour défendre la Place d’Armes ; (ii) Star, l’ancien journal du Dr Fakim et S. Mohabeer (CAM) par opposition au Citoyen (de R. Qay Store) ; (iii) l’Advance (PTR) ; Le Populaire (Parti Mauricien) De nos jours : Star – L’Express – Sunday Vani – La Voix Créole, etc. - Le malaise créole ; l’ambivalence des musulmans. • Deux sphères ou l’universalisme est plus prononcé : 1- l’éducation : seule l’anglais et le français sont acceptés comme medium d’instruction ; voire déchainement

questions. I knew something was odd at home when, after we had eaten our dinner, my dad followed my mum, Carl and me into the living room to sit down. This usually did not happen. Dinner was just an interruption from my dad’s jobs around the house. On Sundays after church Dad was always fixing, painting, adjusting or mending. He was always, “in the middle of a job”, that required his full, silent concentration and a *monkey wrench. If I ever asked him what he was doing he’d 5 say, “fixing something, so

His hair was brown and straight, parted on one side. His beard was neatly and closely trimmed." Chapter 1, pg. 2 Mr. Pontellier looks around at his surroundings. He sees Madame Lebrun running around giving orders to her servants, people going to Sunday church, and his well-groomed young sons of ages four and five. He looks to the sunlight on the beach and sees his wife, Mrs. Pontellier, and young Robert Lebrun. He cannot understand why they have chosen to bathe at such an hour with the heat and