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Les Miserables is the story of four people. Bishop Myriel, Jean Valjean, Famine, and Marius Pontmercy, who meet, part, then meet again during the most agitated decades of nineteenth-century France. It also tells the story of the 1832 revolution and describes the unpleasant side of Paris. The novel is in essence a plea for humane treatment of the poor and for equality among all citizens Part I-Fantine
The year is 1815 and Napoleon has just been defeated at Waterloo. Bishop Myriel lives a quiet

Extended Essay: Racism The United States used to be deeply divided between what was commonly known as the Deep South, with its vast plantations of cotton and tobacco, and the north, which was much more industrialised. In the south, the plantations required a lot of manual labour, which led the whole economy to depend on slaves. It was therefore understandable for the south to be reticent when the north abolished slavery. After the Civil war though, which lasted from 1860 to 1865, slavery was

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an excerpt from the vendor of sweet by RK Narayan (1906- 2001) who was one of India’s greatest English language novelists. He is famous for having brought English language writing from India to the rest of the world. The text deals with the immigration of young Indians, and more precisely with the feelings and the opinions of the ones who stay. Indeed, the author shows us the reaction of a father who just heard of his son’s decision to move very far from his country. In fact, in the text Jagan is

relations? What types of institutions are more compelling to promote cooperation in the international arena? Such questions are fundamental to the study of international relations. However, before addressing them, it is primordial to understand the nature of the expected answers, the ontology, and epistemology of the explanations delivered by the theories. International Relations theories, are always trying to explain how the behavior of states, individuals, or other actors function in the international

I attended the last showing of Murray Horowitz's and Richard Maltby, Jr.'s Ain't Misbehavin: The Fats Waller Musical Show, at the University of Tennessee's Clarence Brown Theatre on September 27, 2008. The Director, actors, Stage Manager, and Costume Designer and were not affiliated with UT but were provided by their respective professional unions, but the rest of the production was executed by UT Graduate Students as well as other longtime UT Theatre employees and local artists. The production reached

Rule and Adrian Garratt, Sterling Markets Division, and Ole Rummel, Foreign Exchange Division, Bank of England Hedging and taking risk are the essence of financial markets. A relatively little known mechanism through which this occurs is the market in structured notes, which have embedded derivatives, some of them very complex. Understanding these instruments can be integral to understanding the underlying derivative markets. In some cases, dealers have used structured notes to bring greater balance

systemic and persistent. But, in spite of that, the industry has been here before, in that biotech companies have overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges in the past, bucking trends and defying odds.“ Glen T. Giovannetti and Gautam Jaggi, Ernst & Young Global Biotechnology Center To our clients and friends As the shockwaves from the global financial crisis rippled across the world economy in late 2008 and 2009, they left little untouched. The reverberations leveled long-standing institutions

The representation of the relations between the aristocracy and their servants in Robert Altman’s film Gosford Park An old British mansion, many guests for the weekend, a murder in the library... All these familiar elements of a detective story are present in Robert Altman’s film Gosford Park. In autumn 1932 Sir William Mc Cordle and his wife, Lady Sylvia, invite their friends for a shooting party. On this occasion some family secrets are revealed, some hidden emotions burst out and the host

from The Awakening, by Kate CHOPIN (1893) ( "Across the Lines" by Tracy CHAPMAN (1985) and "Like a King" by Ben HARPER (1992) ( "Whistle Stop, Alabama, 1933", excerpt from Fried Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop, by Fannie FLAGG (1987) ( "No Reason to Worry", excerpt from All the Dead Lie Down, by Mary Willis WALKER (1998) ( "Gun Violence in the US", by Stuart JEFFRIES, The Guardian, Friday May 17, 2002. ( "Mastering the Geometry of the Jungle with Math", by Nicholas BAKALAR, The New York