Family Matters

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INTRODUCTION This text is an extract from Imaginings of Sand and was published in 1996. It was written by André Brink. The story takes place in a South Africa family in 1994, before the general election. There are two characters: Casper and Kristien who is his sister in law ant the narrator of the story. Casper and Kristien speak about the conflict between the Whites and the Blacks. We wonder how the debate grows up. On the one hand we will see what happened in South Africa on the eve of the

1. Family Relationships Double page d’ouverture La photo • La série Six Feet Under, produite par Alan Ball (scénariste de American Beauty en 2001, notamment), Robert Greenblatt et David Janollari comporte cinq saisons. Elle suit les méandres de la vie des membres de la famille Fisher, unis par les liens du sang autant que par l’entreprise funéraire familiale. • Diffusée par la chaine américaine HBO connue pour ses concepts novateurs et ses productions indépendantes et peu conventionnelles, la

attacks of September 11th. In fact, the kingdom’s foreign policy is being constantly challenged by events like the war on terrorism, Afghanistan, Middle East conflict and the war on Iraq. The international interest in Saudi Arabia made the ruling family change its restraint in its foreign policy and have a more active position regarding regional issues. Its main priority remains to guarantee the stability in the region and to maintain a status quo in order to avoid any negative impact on domestic

improve the society’s lot. So what message does Salinger try to communicate to the reader through his novel Catcher in the rye ? We’ll see that Salinger tries to let a message concerning a few fields as childhood, adolescence, adulthood, education and family values. Firstly, Salinger tells us a story about a boy – Holden – who constantly swings between childhood and adulthood : indeed, he is a teenager. Salinger uses this fact to expose his opinion on what has become – in the 50’s – the

cited, the two primary functions for a married woman of the 4th century, were child-bearer and housewife. The bearing children role was more crucial because slaves could be used to fulfill the domestic duties such as cooking, making clothes for the family, cleaning, or taking care of the children. Of course, in case that there were no slaves, for instance, in case of a poor lady, those duties had to be accomplished by the wife. In addition to running a household (the men spend all their days outside

difficulty to find the perfect words to express what he thinks but he admits it’s hard to him for example: "I don't exactly know what I mean by that," he says at one point, "but I mean it." Finally, Salinger knows when to break the heaviness of his subject matter with humor. It’s classis. It’s a way to balance the strength of the words (seriousness) used by the man who has written the book in the 1960’s. THEMES The Catcher in the Rye is first and foremost about the journey of one individual, into self-discovery

ainsi que Justin, 5 ans, rêvaient d’avoir une fille et former une famille de 4 personnes. She and David, with their 5-year-old son Dustin, had long dreamed of the day they would have a daughter to become a family of four. [pic] Les heures passaient ainsi que leur rêve. Now, within a matter of hours, that dream was slipping away [pic] Après quelques jours, un nouveau problème pour Diana et David : le sous développement du système nerveux de Dana devenait très compliqué, ils ne pouvaient pas

following syllabuses: 8004 General Paper (Caribbean and Rest of the World) 8005 General Paper (Singapore) 8009 General Paper (Mauritius) GENERAL PAPER 8001 AS LEVEL 2010 INTRODUCTION The AS General Paper is multi-disciplinary, its subject matter drawn from across the curriculum. The syllabus encourages in candidates the ability to make cross-curricular links; to develop a maturity of thought appropriate to students at this level; and to achieve an understanding and usage of the English language

stowaway are you ? We are just two migrants! Anyone other participate to the escape with us. Do you know anyone in your family, or relatives who live in L.A or anywhere in America? Or you just want to risk your life ? Yes but it's not important to talk about it. We are alone in this escape, we only count on ourselves because our relatives who live in USA don’t matter about us… We are nothing for them. Stop lieing ! Why don't you cry them? Because they want to convince us, that they are