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took care of her grandmother and her mother because they were ills. She was a black seamstress who worked in shop.She was an activist and she worked with her husband, Raymond, in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP's) programs. Rosa Parks sees the energy of young people as a real force for change. It is among her most treasured themes of human priorities as she speaks to young people of all ages at schools, colleges, and national organizations around the world. One

in the early 1960s led in 1962 to the establishment of a formal linguistic border and elaborate rules were made to protect minorities in linguistically mixed border areas. In 1970, the Constitution was amended. Flemish and francophone cultural councils were established with authority in matters relating to language and culture for the two language groups. The 1970 constitutional revision did not finally settle the problem, however. A controversial amendment declared that Belgium consists of three

In 2000, a plaque commemorating the Hogg’s Hollow tragedy was erected at the entrance of the York Mills Subway station. The plaque serves as a way to remember the five Italian Canadian labourers (Pasquale Allegrezza, Giovanni Battista Carriglio, Giovanni Fusilo, Alessandro Mantella and Guido Mantella) who died while working in an underground tunnel in order to connect the growing borough of North York with a water-main. The following is an assessment of the commemorative plaque in order to evaluate

document is composed of a text and a photo picturing its author. The text is an extract from a novel entitled Brick Lane which was written by Monica Ali and published in 2003. It was named after Brick Lane, a street at the heart of London's Bangladeshi community. It follows the life of Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman who moves to Tower Hamlets in London at the age of 18 (her English consisting of "sorry" and "thank you") to marry an older man, Chanu, described by The Observer as "one of the novel's foremost

The olympic games of London 2012 I - Presentation of London Introduction: London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It is the UK's largest and most populous metropolitan area and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Geographic situation: London is situated in the south east of England at nearly forty five kilometres of the sea. Geography : It’s cut into thirty three districts like Westminster city. The greater London urban area has a superficy

sentence brings out two major characteristics: the need to provide additional tools for understanding the world today, and concern about the prospects offered by the current capitalism. The new century has opened is marked both by continuity, and both by profound changes. Jacques Chirac (former President of France) has said: “Globalization is a new face of the human adventure.” This illustrates the fact that globalization is due to men and is part of our present and especially our future. Moreover

l'Environnement, p10, 1991. 2 Science 333, Special Section on Population, pp 562–594, 2011. 6 3 L. Chapman, « Transport and climate change: a review », Journal of Transport Geography, 15(5), pp. 354-367, 2007. 4 Transport, Energy and CO2, Moving Towards Sustainablilty, IEA Report, 2009. 5 O. Inderwildi, Sir D. KingEnergy, Transport, & the Environment, PSpringer-Verlag London 2012. 6 Aleksandar Subic, JörgWellnitz, Martin Leary and Lucien Koopmans (Eds.) Sustainable Automotive Technologies 2012

History of England Introduction: The history of England did not begin until the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons, when the partition of Britain into several countries largely began. At the height of the Roman Empire, Britannia was under the rule of the Romans. Their rule lasted until about 410, at which time the Romano-British formed various independent kingdoms. The Anglo-Saxons gradually gained control of England and became the chief rulers of the land. Raids by the Vikings were frequent

[pic]French literature of the 18th century letteratura francese del 18 ° secolo From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera Jump to: navigation , search Vai a: Navigazione , cerca [pic] [pic] Voltaire Voltaire [pic] [pic] Rousseau Rousseau French literature of the 18th century usually refers to the literature written between 1715, the year of the death of King Louis XIV of France , and 1798, the year of the coup d'État of Bonaparte which brought the Consulate to power

DORIS LESSING “ The fifth child” ( p 13-16 “ If I’m pregnant), Harper Perennial Intro: up to you / put this passage into its context recall what happened in the first extract studied The question we shall try to answer: will the house Harriet and David have found be their home sweet home, the house of their dreams? 1) LONGING FOR A HOUSE AND A KINGDOM a)David’s love for his room and his desire to find a new one: -elements we have in the passage just before this one ( p 12) + David’s wish