Famous for being famous

activités – AN11 3 © Cned – Académie en ligne S équence 1 1 Get ready: getting to know the world of fame Activity 1 There are no right or wrong answers: it’s all totally subjective! Circle the symbols which correspond to your answer(s) for each question. Then calculate your total and read the corresponding profile to find out if stardom awaits you ! ✰ M § a. Your friends describe you as just about right. quiet and undemonstrative. always in the limelight. x x x x x x x x x x x x x

History of Soul Music The soul term appears for the first time in the titles of two albums of Ray Charles in 1961. The development of the soul music was stimulated by two principal tendencies: l urbanisation of the rhythm and blues and the secularization of the gospel. Artists like Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding mixed their passion for the gospel with the jerked rates/rhythms of the rhythm and blues to give rise to the soul. One thus finds in the soul a part of the crowned emotion mingled

ethics, consumer policy, involving government and others organizations. The aim of that is finally the well-being of people, more precisely, consumers. The term “ethics” is used to define a system of moral principles and the process in which we know how to behave, to act, to react in society and with other people. It defines also what is right or wrong to do in a specific situation for people sharing the same norms and values. But it’s basically more complicated to identify the impact of ethics

explain the social world under study. There are two main types of participant observation; covert and overt:- Covert observation involves: • the social researcher participating fully without informing members of the social group of the reasons for her presence, thus the research is carried out secretly or covertly. • contact with a 'gatekeeper', a member of the group under study who will introduce the researcher into the group. Problems of covert observation include: • the researcher

one in Leuven. Before to come in Belgium, I knew like many people I think, that the Belgium is very famous for the quantity and for the quality of the beers. Belgians are very prod about theirs beers. I could immediately see that when I came in Belgium and that’s why I have decide to make my report about the Belgian beers. I have decided to focus on Stella Artois because its one of the most famous Belgian beers and because I could visited the factory. I had the opportunity with the school to

quand il revient une nouvelle fois aux boîtes de soupe, mais cette fois-ci en retournant et en inversant les images. Andy Warhol pop art famous artist (1928-87) once joked that he wanted to be remembered as a Campbell soup can, and, in a sense, Andy Warhol quotes wish has been fulfilled as comic pop art for his Campbell soup company artwork paintings famous subject matter artwork. This type of image helped to establish Andy Warhol reputation and has since become one of the best known artists pop

This text in a an extract of the news paper "The Toronto star", and was written in 2002 by the famous American producer Joe Eszterhas. In fact the author was the film director of many sleazy movies like "Basic Instinct". In this extract, the narrator shows us how cigarette had a particular place in his films, being himself a big smoker. But when he was diagnosed with throat cancer because of smoking he changed his mind becoming a staunch anti-smoking militant. In this article he seems to feel particularly

well known since the cold war in order to make a difference between american and USSR politics, by underlining ideas of democraty and capitalism In the 50’s there was a conflict between the USA and the USSR : it was the beginning of the Cold war. For 40 years, they both wanted to be the best in the world. They were competitors in every field : politically, economically and militarily. This was Communism against capitalism. In 1991, the USSR disappeared, this was the triumph of the American model

these people move from honest persons to criminals? Jack the Ripper, Ed Gein, Charles Manson… we all know their names, they are famous because of the atrocity of their crime, they were even sometimes nicknamed “Devil” but when we look at their face, they just look like you and me. What makes those people become so dangerous for the society? There are three main reasons for committing crime, the first is the natural cause which has been largely developed by the Italian thinker Cesar Lombroso, the second

American dream includes a part of best and a part of worst. In fact, everybody would like to success by anyways which can be positive or negative. I choose to explain the best and the worst of a famous American stylist: Rachel Zoe. 1. Biography of Rachel Zoe Rachel Zoe is a fashion stylist. She is famous and she knows success thanks to this work. In fact, some stars of Hollywood are her clients. Today, she is a 37 years old woman married to an investment banker, Roger Berman who lived together