I Have A Dream

WORLD OUTSIDE Adam Hochschild (New York, 1942) is an American writer. He is one of the founders of the journal Mother Jones. After he worked as a student in South Africa, he becomes sensitive to the injustices of racism and began to engage in politics. He joined the civil rights movement, he showed against the war in Vietnam and he found a job as a journalist at Ramparts. In his text “The World Outside”, Adam Hochschild tells what he saw and what he experienced in the United States. He denounced

You meet a friend from your band, Andrew, after arguing with your dad about your future in the music business. You complain about your dad’s misunderstanding. Write the conversation. I am walking on the street, remembering the argument I had with my father when suddenly I hear my name. I look all around me and I see Andrew who is coming to me. “Hey, how are you?” You look disappointed.” “Oh, I just had an argument with my father” I admitted “and I went out while he was talking to me, I am so angry

Subject A The scene takes place at night in the personnel manager’s office . Both have a discussion about work. The personnel manager : - So Angela (the narrator) tell me what you want to talking ? Angela (hesitating) : - I’m wondering if I have to say that because it’s something important into my mind… The personnel manager : - I’m here for listening what you want to say. Angela : - It’s really nice, that’s why I will tell you . Over the past few years I wanted to get a job on

New Kids in the Neighhood is a painting by Norman Rockwelle. When the artist painted this work of art , America was experiencing the civil rights movement. Lot of families from different backgrounds , cultures and religion were beginning to live in the same neighborhoods , eat at the same restaurants and sit next to each other on buses. New Kids in the Neighbourhood ( 1967 ), so entitled Negro in the Suburbs is a very famous painting. We can notice at once a symmetry of this picture : the opposition

rougeadam = noir (Rodrigo) They have been caught in San Diego. Stop talking, shut up, listen to me and give me your papers ! Don't worry! He' nervous, because he's fed up of this kind of story! (calme les nerfs de mehdi + prends les papiers) My name is Raphael, and he is Rodrigo (montre du doigt). We are two good friends who were living in Caborca. We were living in the misery, and we are fed up of this bad life. This is a reason why we tried to fullfil our dream : go to L.A. Okay, okay, this

Les 3 discours pour l’égalité racialeDiscours de Barack Obama :Le discours de Barack Obama prononcé le 18 mars 2008 à Philadelphie met en avant la question raciale, toujours présente aux Etats-Unis. Cette intervention du candidat africain-américain à l'investiture du Parti démocrate a rencontré un large écho. Il y a été forcé par la publication des propos de l'un de ses proches, le pasteur Jeremiah Wright, qui avait dénoncé en termes virulents sur la discrimination envers les Noirs. Tout en s'en

TEENAGE GANSTERS SHOOT DOWN THE AMERICAN DREAM This text is an article, entitled “Teenage gangsters shoot down the American Dream” It is an extract from The Weekly Telegraph published in 1994. It deals with the American gangs and the reasons of the existence of these gangs and their consequences according to the reporter. We can divide this text into 3 parts : -The first one will be “A gang member’s story” and we will talk About James Wade life -The second, alludes to facts and figures

Doris Lessing Extract 1 p.3 to p. This extract is the first scene of the fifth child, a book published in 1988. Doris Lessing was a British writer, her life had been full of adventures and of stranges events. She was awarded the Nobel prize of litterature in 2007. The first scene we have to analyse introduces us to the main characters : Harriet and David. They met at an office party. In this passage, we learn about their lifestyle, their moral and pshycological features Firstly, we will see that

were unconscious, in a coma for instance, we couldn't know the world. That's why Aristotle thought that knowledge starts with sensation. Yet, being aware of something isn't the same as knowing that thing. You can see something and have no clue as to what it is. Think of the men who 1st found dinosaur bones: they could perfectly see giants bones but they didn't know what these bones were. Some people actually thought they belonged to giants. So you know something when you have a right or correct idea

speech with these words : "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union." Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of