Dumb and Dumber

of skyscrapers.  Nature and origin It’s an extract from a novel called moon Palace by Paul Auster published in 1989. Moon Palce is part of Paul Auster’s NY trilogy.  Summary  A homeless man spend the day wondering about where he is going to sleep and ends up sleeping in Central Park NY. Structure  - Line 1 to 28 : Rejecting options/ a choice of options - Line 28 until the end : A place to sleep / Central Park Part 1 We are not told many things about the main and only character in this passage

first-hand testimony/a witness Studying the faults/failings/shortcomings of the society he lives in on either side of the Atlantic . a satirist : writing satirical/satires : making fun/ridiculing his fellowAmericans/British ( married to an Englishwoman ) and of himself A good deal of self-mockery/derision : mocking/derisive Style : light-hearted/witty/ yet with an accurate/up-to-the point/sharp insight A matter-of-fact , everyday life language/simple/informal : makes it an enjoyable/amusing/entertaining

visit two places: Mr.Charrington’s shop and the Pub, before heading back to the Victory mansion. For this chapter, Orwell chose to shape the atmosphere into a nostalgic, yet unfamiliar place. The aroma of real coffee reminded Winston of his lost childhood, where he still tries to put pieces of his fragmented memory together. Here you have a list of the mood you can find. There are divided into three parts with represents, the district, Mr.Charrington’s shop and Winston’s apartment. There are some

some have never been athletes, some have friends on the team, and some are being made to by their parents. The team is small and no cut and always in need of more rowers. As they row they come together as a team, they all gain in confidence and learn what it is to be an athlete both on and off the water. The protagonists are a novice four, that means five girls who have never competed in crew before racing a boat with four rowers and a coxswain (cox for short). The coxswain is normally small, in

breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy takes out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says: "Calm down, I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a gunshot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says: "OK, now what?" 2-It's Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, and a man makes his way to his seat right at center ice. He sits down, noticing that the seat next to him is empty. He leans over and asks his

Vachel LINDSAY vs. Hugo MÜNSTERBERG: on their ideas on theater and the movies Differences between the stage theater and the movies – for Vachel LINDSAY: * THE AUDIENCE: * In the real theater, the audience is more ‘respectful’, it is quiet and totally concentrated on what is happening on stage. Contrarily to the movies where “the audience is not worked up into the deadly still mob-unity of the speaking theater.” * In the stage theater, the audience forms a group, a unit, whereas,

Masks The use of masks belongs to many different cultures At the origin masks were used for religious and ceremonial/ritual purposes for instance for rites of passage such as the initiation of young people, marriages, funerals…, and for festivals –in which the use of masks was associated to noise, clamour and colour often to drive away the forces of darkness and to open the way to the spirits of light Masks in the theatre Theatre masks can be traced back to the Ancient Greeks. Traditionally

Eleanor Allen I.B. HL English Mrs. Goldberg Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, and A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, both have very prominent male characters. In Things Fall Apart, the protagonist is a man named Okonkwo, who is part of the Ibo tribe, in what is now Nigeria. He has always lived in shame of his father, who he considered to be weak, feminine and sentimental. In A Doll’s House, the main male figure is Torvald, the protagonists Nora’s husband, a man who is so set in trying to conform

je n’avais pas à vivre ça … Alors oui Dimitri … je t’aimais … profondément … j’aimais ce que tu es … j’aimais ce que tu me faisais découvrir … partager … j’aimais nos rires et nos sourires … quand on se moquais de Jpraie et sa grimace … de Dumb and Dumber … Nos moments de silence … et tout ce qui nous a toujours rapproché mais au nom de cet amour je ne suis pas prête à me faire houspiller quand je suis un peu trop « bigorneuse » …. Putain de merde … je l’ai déjà trop vécu … je ne veux plus subir

What is a global economic system? And how do international capital systems work? The global economic system refers to the arrangements and institutions that unite the world's economies in one global marketplace. Developments in international economics since World War II have led to the global system that exists today. The global economic system allows nations to engage in international trade, exchanging goods and services. The system also allows labor and capital to move more freely around