End of the Century

INFLATION: In the early 60’s, prices were stable and were not rising quickly. Kennedy, however, wanted to stimulate economic growth and reduce unemployment; both usually not occurring at the same time without inflation. His policy worked at the beginning but starting 1965, inflation reached an annual increase of 4,5% every year until 1970. The principal reason of this instability was the war in Vietnam because the government was spending more money than they had to finance the different aspects of the war

SEXING THE CHERRY Plot : * 17th c England : alternative reality = historical facts + magical elements * The dog woman finds a little boy in the Thames (Jordan = river name travel connotation) * Alternance of narratives Dog woman / Jordan. Then Jordan leaves (mentally or physically we don’t know. He travels with John Tradescant = historically he was a traveler during the period = he gathered some “curiosities”) * Jordan is looking for a dancing girl (fortunata)

officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in southeastern Europe. Situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula, Greece has land borders with Albania, the Republic of Macedonia , Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the tenth longest coastline in the world at 14,880 km in length, with approximately 1400 islands In Greece there are 94 percent of greek

History of organization Company efficiency: everything is about evolution and development. What is organization? • 17th century: mercantilism • 18th century: start of manufacturing, Adam Smith (1776 research on nature and causes of wealth of the nation). Adam Smith: essential tenants of capitalism. • 20th century: Henry Fayol (rationalization of models of structures of authorities), F.Taylor (rationalization of production model). Different types of organizations • Non commercial organizations

“Nationalisation is the centre piece of the socialist vision, an inevitable outcome of long standing debates within the labour party and of its rise to power” (Caincross 85 cited in Millward 97) This is one of the arguments for the programme of nationalisation in the UK. It is one of many suggested for the phenomena, which occurred in the late 40’s, and accounted for over 80% of the transfer of private industry to public ownership. This particular political argument centres on the idea that “Private

On the Threshold of a new world Commentary Introduction Extract from a book by Mark Helprin called Ellis Island and other stories. The passage deals with the arrival of an immigrant in the Usa at Ellis Island. 1st person narrative : “I” The passage can be divided into 3 parts: * Lines 1 to 15 : Physical tests * Lines 16 to 31 : Intellectual tests * Line 32 to the end : The American dream First I’m going to talk about the narrator’s situation, then I’ll show why immigrants

march 2008. The Independence of Kosovo [pic] Kosovo is a little region of 10 887 km² in the Balkans, bordering Serbia to the North, Montenegro and Albania to the west, and Macedonia to the south. Among its 2 200 000 inhabitants (estimations in 2005), 92% is Albanian, and 5,3% Serb. It has just declared its independence from Serbia on 17th of February 2008 but it is not recognized by the whole international community (Russia, Serbia, China and Spain among others do not accept the independence)

A discussion of the portrayal of colonialism in Heart of Darkness and in ‘The White Man’s Burden’. Page Introduction ……………………………………………………………. 2 Heart of Darkness ……………………………………………………… 2 - Background and historical context …………………………….. 2 - Literary devices ………………………………………………... 4 - Representation of colonialism …………………………………. 7 ‘The White Man’s Burden’ ……………………………………………

l'environnement I. Le vocabulaire 1) Les problèmes écologiques  pollution : la pollution  to pollute : polluer ; polluted : pollué. Ex. : Oceans are polluted. Les océans sont pollués.  the environment : l'environnement ; environmental issues : problèmes écologiques. Ex. : Environmental issues are the priority of the Greens. Les problèmes écologiques sont la priorité des Verts.  an oil refinery : une raffinerie de pétrole  a nuclear power plant : une centrale nucléaire  chemical industries :

VICTORIAN AGE : 1837-1901 longest period in the history of England. It was characterized by: * Stability > political point of view. Two Prime Ministers Disraeli and Gladstone. They were good in both home and foreign affaires * Economical progress > industry substituted the old agricultural economy: new inventions steam engine and telephone that means that transports communications improved. * Democracy > people could participated in the government. Men started to have rights.