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But there is also some disadvantages in the globalisation of Taiwan. The major problem is that it created ugly buildings on the landscape. They are building so many skyscraper that the cities are looking more and more like big American cities as New York or Chicago. There is also the problems that globalisation is creating poverty around the big cities. In Taiwan the inhabitants of the small villages around are forced to even go and work in the big companies as Acer that helped modernizing Taiwan

controversies during its history, including the 1965 Sea Gem incident and the 2010 Deepwater oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Its primary listing is on the London Stock Exchange and it is a constituent of the FTSE Top Index It has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange. April 2010: The Event: - The accident: On April the 20th, a fire erupts on the Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico, 43 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Two days later, the platform sank. It contained 2.6 million

Vicence (Italie, 1566-1570). - Une architecture utopique : Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, les Salines royales d'Arc-et-Senans (Franche-Comté,1775-1779). - Un gratte-ciel américain, première moitié du XXème siècle : le Chrysler Building de William Van Alen (New-York, 1930). - Un habitat collectif : la Cité radieuse du Corbusier (Marseille, 1945-1952). - Une ville neuve : Brasilia, Oscar Niemeyer (Brésil, 1960). - Deux architectures à vocation culturelle : - le Centre Georges Pompidou, Renzo Piano et Richard

Since the explosion, April twenty, the oil platform Deepwater Horizon, to seventy kilometer offshore of New Orleans, the United States are confronted with one of the worst oil spills of their history. Everyone is anxious not only in Louisiana, but also in the Mississippi, in Alabama and Florida. The White House declared the state of national disaster. This oil spills mobilizes the American public opinion but should not call into question drillings offshore oil rigs which the country needs for its

in an open letter which remains famous named as: the artists protest against Mr. Eiffel Tower. We read in this letter phrases such as: * "this truly tragic street lamp" (Léon Bloy) * "this high and skinny pyramid of iron ladders, and giant ungainly skeleton, whose base appears to be made for a wonderful monument of Cyclops, and abortion in a ridiculous and thin profile factory chimney" (Guy de Maupassant ) * "a pipe factory building, a carcass waiting to be filled with stone or

Santo Stefano, Venice, Italy), la majestueuse Echo (2011, Madison Square Park, New York) ou Dream (2009, St. Helens, Liverpool, Royaume-Uni). Sur « Echo »: « New York a tant de mouvement. Je voulais faire quelque chose qui ne bouge pas du tout, mais offre un endroit tranquille pour se détendre ». (The man with a thousand faces. A cultural conversation with Jaume Plensa. The Wall Street Journal, 2011) « Echo », New York Plensa s’est concentré principalement sur le corps humain depuis 2000. Il a

Can oxygen disappear? It happened 2 days ago, in the biggest bank of New York and the most famous, the giant Bank of America , the police was surrounding the skyscraper , the lights dazzled the passers-by , the bank has been broken , the police entered into the bank , 7 men on the floor . Right in the middle of all this noise, the thief got out, with 40 million dollar in cash, this man is called Oxygen because he disappeared without trace, his real name is James Meckler , already condemned

véritable culture. WRITING : Le Writing est un mouvement esthétique né à la fin des années 1960 sur la côte Est des Etat-Unis dans un contexte de grandes mutations de l’espace urbain américain et d’émergence du Civil Rights Movment. Les rames de métro de New York se parent peu à peu de pseudonymes variés peints à la bombe aérosol et inspirés de l’art calligraphique. Le Writing devient alors le moyen d’expression des jeunes et déshérités proches du mouvement hip-hop. Parmi ces gaffeurs quelques pseudonymes

John Towner Williams est un compositeur, chef d'orchestre et pianiste américain, né le 8 février 1932 à New York, États-Unis. Il est principalement connu pour ses musiques de films. On lui doit le renouveau des bandes originales symphoniques avec ce qui reste son œuvre la plus célèbre, la musique de la saga Star Wars. Il est quasiment le compositeur attitré de Steven Spielberg et de George Lucas. Dans une carrière qui s'étend sur six décennies, Williams a composé un grand nombre des plus célèbres

With promotional campaigns that exploit our deepest fears of death, decay, and disease, the $500 billion pharmaceutical industry is literally changing what it means to be human. Rightly rewarded for saving life and reducing suffering, the global drug giants are no longer content selling medicines only to the ill. Because as Wall Street knows well, there's a lot of money to be made telling healthy people they're sick. At a time when many of us are leading longer, healthier, and more vital lives than