Born This Way

you have got to go all the way back to 1973 to find another year when fertility rates were higher in the UK. There were 791000 babies born between 2007 and 2008. That means 1 in 5 of the population is under 16. But we are also living longer. 1.3 million are over 85. Until now, immigration, particularly from Eastern Europe was thought to account for this baby boom. That no longer seems to be the only cause. This figure shows that is largely due to more babies being born. The population is increasing

Commentaire Trick or Treat This extract is a passage from a short story by the American writer David Sedaris. This short story is entitled Holidays on Ice and this passage reads in the form of an annual newsletter, something Americans are used to sending to their relatives at the end of the year to let them know about the important events that occurred throughout the year. The author, David Sedaris, is a writer but he’s also an anchorman and he was even named “Humorist of the year” by Time

Background : * Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were childhood friends born four days apart in Brooklyn, New York, in 1951. * During his senior year of high school, Ben drove an ice cream truck. * After graduating high school, he attended Oberlin College to study medicine. Jerry worked as an ice cream scooper in the school’s cafeteria. * After moving to North Carolina for a few years, Jerry reunited with Ben in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and they decided to go into the food business

novel: • Conscience vs. education: Is there an awareness of right and wrong in spite of the education received, the social and political pressures exerted by the environment? • Guilt, complexes, repression (= refoulement), compensation for this, therapy (therapists and relations to these, therapist-figures). • Society, politics, violence, social problems, the individual’s place in society, racism • Homeland, roots, being uprooted, integration/lack of… cf. Both black and white South

During the last decades, Britain has been shacked with political troubles especially by the terrorist attacks of the last years in London; Linda Colley, (born in 1949) is a leading historian of Britain, empire and nationalism. She is currently Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University in the United States. In this article “BRITISH VALUES, WHATEVER THEY ARE  WON’T HOLD US TOGETHER” published on May 18th, 2006 by a daily left wing paper “the Guardian” , as the title suggest

century to now on, a Scottish institution. A) A bit of History (Story telling) The BARR Factories in the 1870s: IRN BRU Belongs the BARR Company, a very famous firm, settled in 1875. BARR’s products were l “aerated waters” (soft drinks were called that way by then). The first family firm was located in Falkirk. Then two of his sons, Robert F BARR and Andrew G. BARR decided to continue the family business and expand it. They decided to open a second and independent factory in Glasgow named “Barr aerated

pen. ‘This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on topof ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.’Master picked up the paper and folded it, so that one edge touched the other, leaving a hollowbetween. ‘Our world is round, it never ends. Nee anya, this is all water, the seas and oceans, and10here’s Europe and here’s our own continent, Africa, and the Congo is in the middle. Farther uphere is Nigeria, and Nsukka1 is here, in the south-east, this is where

Meet the real-life Barbie and Ken This text is an article intitled « Meet the real-life Barbie and Ken! » and Published in Now, the 24 October 2001. It despicts the lifes of Cindy Jackson and Miles Kendall who splashed out huge amounts of money to change their appearance. They both underwent several cosmetic surgery procedures to look like Barbie and Ken and change their Outlook on life. The article can be divided in three main parts : First, Miles’s life; Second, The link that exists between

„Stepping Stones to Glory” by David Low The caricature “Stepping Stones to Glory” by David Low (1891 – 1963) was published on July 8, 1936 in the Londoner newspaper “Evening Standard” free of charge. David Low was born and raised in Australia, but eventually he moved to London in 1919 where he started working for various newspapers and earned his fame by criticizing and questioning political events and leaders, especially German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator

THE REPORT This is the report of the meeting held November 9, 2010 at 2pm. Mister Fillon the Prime minister introduced the meeting by presenting the different persons who were invited: Mr. Eric Woerth the minister of solidarity and work; Mrs. Laurence Parisot, the leader of the MEDEF; Mr. Thibault, in charge of CGT and Mr. Mailly, the trade unionist FO. The topic of the meeting was reminded: the discussion of the bill which tends to improve the pattern of pensions. The objectives