Dead Like Me

120)   It   may   be   asked,   of   course:   is   there   no  justice   to   any   of   these   charges,   no   grounds   for   outrage   on   the   part   of   people   like   Sokal   or   Gross   and   Levitt?   The   answer,   I   would   say,   is   yes,  some  justice,  but  not  much,  and  no,  no  grounds  for  a  show  of  ostensibly

Secondly, the freedom assured by the law, that we can't disavow , like the freedom of expression Then, it is not the weapons which kill but the men(people) thus weapons in herself are dangerous from the moment they meet in the hands of persons is mentally sick, irritated, under the influence of alcohol... Then, weapons don't represent only a means of protection, but weapons act as many hobbies; in fact, Americans like particularly hunt. To accept the circulation of weapons prevent

sea at the foot of the cliff which forms the black foundation of this isolated house (...). And the rain and the chill of the sea entered into our meetings. (...) All the salt, the tang, the freshness of the sea ! And the sea... Oh the sea ! Now like a lady laden With flounces frothy white, Each wave spreads out pale tinted and transparent skirts, Edging vividly the sands with frilled weedy curves of green ! While higher up the beach each wave can thrust The wood of wrecks and spread its icy

so inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian geographer's account of the Mare Tenebrarum. A panorama more deplorably desolate no human imagination can conceive. To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black and beetling cliff, whose character of gloom was but the more forcibly illustrated by the surf which reared high up against it its white and ghastly crest, howling and shrieking for ever. Just opposite

nothing illegal about it, you needn’t be scared. It’s just that I -” He hurried on in silence for a short distance, then glanced round again. “I don’t want them to find the stuff on me.” “Who are ‘they’?” He stopped, as agitated as before. “Look, I’d like to tell you everything that’s happened these last months. But I really have no time. Will you help me? “What is it you want me to store for you?” 10 “Papers and stuff. I’ve written it all down. Some bits rather hurriedly and I supposed confused

the US built hospitals and schools by hundreds - they even sent a man to the moon – and at the time people had sufficient pensions and healthcare. For Moore, “it sounded like a good deal”. Then, some people made bad choices (Ronald Reagan is here pointed at), and then inescapably came disastrous consequences. It almost sounds like the synopsis of one of those B-movies Ronald Reagan could have played in. Moore also explores other definitions: one describes capitalism as the system of free market in

days” , “no one remembers it” … Furthermore, Ranyevskaya considers the Orchard as what remains from her childhood, her family, her happiness. It is one of the rare things that still exist and testify that her past and her youth are not completely dead. This is why Ranyevskaya and her brother are fiercely opposed to the destruction of the cherry orchard. It is a way to protect their identity since the orchard represents a whole family, a symbol of their existence and cut it down would mean to lose

wonders for the character to cut the emotional ties that bind you to places and people. We produced two sons who grew like saplings in the never-ending sunshine and soon towered over their parents, and I could always find teaching jobs in whichever school was educating them. As one always does, we thought of ourselves as immortal, so Sam's coronary at the age of fifty-two came like a bolt from the blue. With doctors warning of another one being imminent if he didn't change a lifestyle which involved

missed the curfew, the girls become recluse and Mrs. Lisbon pulls them out of school. Their lives deteriorate, they communicate with the boys by phone and finally they send a message to the boys to come to the house but the boys find three of them dead. The girls have commited suicide. We will see why we could say that this text is about the death and the sexuality, indeed theses two notions are very close. The two principal subjects in the book are teenagers and suicides, therefore the atmosphere

– Choose the right answer(s). ‘Strange fruit’ is the title of a song performed / a movie made / a book written by Billie HOLIDAY. It was made after a speech / an article / a poem by a schoolteacher called Lewis ALLEN. ‘Strange fruit’ refers to the dead bodies of black people lynched by white racists / the victims of racism in the South of the USA / a specialty served at Café Society. This song reminds the narrator of her father’s death / her dad’s tragic end / the birth of pop music. The singer was