Born This Way

… ), période, pays, auteur. Sujet général (en quelques mots) But de l’image (en quelques mots) to inform / criticize, prove, make sb aware of… This document is an illustration by Norman Rockwell entitled ‘The problem we all live with’ published in Life, an American magazine, in 1964. Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was an American illustrator born in New York City. He specialized in nostalgic, finely-drawn, richly anecdotal scenes of everyday small-town life. He was very popular. According to him

Willa Cather, she was born in a village of Virginia in the USA. At the age of ten her father decided to move into the state of Nebraska, where Willa met many immigrants families who will be her inspiration for the writing of the novel untitled My Antonia published in 1918, this work looks like Willa's life it takes place in the USA, we can find common points between this novel and the reality of Willa's childhood. The two main characters are Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda. This novel shows the regionalist

now a growing economy and a very powerful worldwide player to be. Economically speaking, it is the third most important country in Asia (the country being one of the economic tigers), and the twelfth largest economy in the world. In order to reach this level, the country had to go through a lot of changes and adjustments since 1947. Right after the decolonization of India from Britain in 1947, the economy of the country took a direction which is more to be associated with a mixed economy, comprising

A Lesson Before Dying written by Ernest J. Gaines, and African-American writer. This author was born on a plantation in Louisiana at the beginning of the thirties. Louisiana has been a source of inspiration for his novel since he only writes about the life of black people in the south of the USA. This book won several prizes among which France’s highest literary honour: The Chevalier Order of Arts and Letters. This novel is set in Louisiana at the end of the forties, time of segregation, which is

kinglets, overlords and a bourgeoisie, sham from beginning to end, which served as go-betweens. In the colonies the truth stood naked, but the citizens of the mother country preferred it with clothes on: the native had to love them, something in the way mothers are loved. The European élite undertook to manufacture a native élite. They picked out promising adolescents; they branded them, as with a red-hot iron, with the principles of western culture, they stuffed their mouths full with high-sounding

Minnie Lennox was a ledgendary character in Old Greenwich, too frail to break an egg but strong enough to have lasted this long, and nobody dared ask just how long she had lasted. Centuries seemed appropriate when you looked at the skin on her hands. She coughed dryily. Most of the kids from round the block had come to the farewell party that they were throwing in my honor, as I made my way back to England after nine years of life in Connecticut, and I knew almost all of them. We sat in front of her, my

An American business man: Marc Jacobs. What about his history? Marc Jacobs was born in New York City in 1963. His grandmother taught him how to knit and he speaks about her like "the biggest influence in life". At fifteen, Jacobs worked as a stock boy in New York's trendy Charivari boutique and there, he was introduced to Perry Ellis . Tom said this guy looked cool because he had long hair; he didn't wear a suit and tie, and he made funky clothes that were a big success. That gave him a

"Despite the obstacles that classic patriarchy puts in women's way, women often resist the process of transition because they see the old normative order slipping away from them, leaving them without any empowering alternatives." Explain why women in the ME are often the most insisting guardians of tradition. Provide examples from Middle Eastern women's lives. Despite the obstacles that classical patriarchs put in women's way, women often resist the process of transition because they see the

1.Has Diesel remained true to its original identity despite its growth? If yes how did it do? If no what has changed? The Diesel brand was born more than 25 years ago and is today an innovative international company. Diesel experienced a substantial growth since 1985, when Renzo Rosso based his decision concerning up market on gut feeling. Therefore he succeeded making Diesel a major fashion brand. But did Diesel keep its original identity? In order to check if Diesel remained true despite

multimedia, more processing power I want to figure out first what can be done with just a few pixels.” This quote from Lev Manovichs’ Little Movies voices his speculations about digital minimalism or digital materialism, in Virtual Worlds Manovich talks about Digitization, that is reducing all data to basic numbers, he states: Digital media reduces everything to numbers. This basic property of digital media has a profound effect on the nature of visual realism. In a digital representation