Live to Tell

We are goind to study an extract from the Fifth Child, a novel by Dorris Lessing. This passage is set at the beginning of the novel. After an office end of year party, Harriet and David, two lovers, decided to get married and buy a house in which they will have many children. In this passage they’re visiting a huge victorian house in the countryside. However, in this passage, there is clearly a change of mood. In the first part of the text happiness prevails whereas in the second part we can

March, another law which could restrain, according to some, their freedom to practice their religion. Indeed, a French parliamentary panel has called the 26th January for a ban on Muslim women wearing the full Islamic veil in public institutions, including public transports. After the President Nicolas Sarkozy’s remark during a parliament session in Versailles last June that such dress "is not welcome" in France, a parliamentary panel has been set to work in July on a six-month mission getting-together

SON AND A 16-YEAR OLD DAUGHTER -- SIT ON THE COUCH. THEY * LOOK AT THE CAMERA, AND LISTEN TO THE NARRATOR. * * NARRATOR (O.S.) * * Okay. You guys are old enough. I’m * gonna tell you the story of how I met * your mother. * DAUGHTER * * Heard it. * SON * You told us already. * NARRATOR (O.S.) * Sure, you’ve heard the short version. * But there’s a bigger story, and it’s * important for you to hear it. * SON * * Are we being punished for something? * NARRATOR (O.S.) * No. * DAUGHTER

of terror hurl the dart? Oh, feeble weapon 'gainst so great a heart! Must courage proved a thousand times in arms Bow to a peril forged by vain alarms? POLY. I know that dreams are born to fade away, And melt in air before the light of day; I know that misty vapours of the night Dissolve and fly before the

1920s. Olivia leaves England to live with her husband Douglas in India. But there she elopes with the Nawab who is an Indian prince. Douglas gets married to Tessie and they become the grandparents of the first-person narrator in the story. Olivia always is a forbidden topic for Tessie and her sister Beth but after Douglas’ death an old friend from India named Harry appears and leaves them the letters written by Olivia to her sister Marcia. The narrator wants to tell Olivias story and so she leaves

I can't remember anything Can't tell if this is true or dream Deep down inside I feel to scream This terrible silence stops me Now that the war is through with me I'm waking up, I cannot see That there's not much left to me Nothing is real but pain now Hold my breath as I wish for death Oh please God, wake me Back in the womb it's much too real In pumps life that I must feel But can't look forward to reveal Look to the time when I'll live Fed through the tube that sticks

fall of the Bastille: « An Englishman not filled with esteem and admiration at the sublime manner in which one of the most IMPORTANT REVOLUTIONS the world has ever seen is now effecting, must be dead to every sense of virtue and of freedom; not one of my countrymen who has had the good fortune to witness the transactions of the last three days is this great city, but will testify that my language is not hyperbolical. » I think this quote really embraces the author’s feeling about the French

a way... My Dream Is To Be Free My Dream Is To Be My Dream Is To Be My Dream Is To Be Free In search of brighter days, I ride through the maze of the madness, Struggle is my address, where pain and crack lives, Gunshots comin' from sounds of Blackness, Given this game with no time to practice, Born on the Black list, told I'm below average, A life with no cabbage, That's no money if you from where I'm from, Funny, I just want some of your sun, Dark clouds seem to follow me, Alcohol that

Go down Moses , un negro-spiritual repris par Louis Armstrong When Israel was in Egypt Land, let my people go ! Oppressed so hard they could not stand, let my people go ! So, the lord said Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt land Tell ol’ Pharaoh, to let my people go ! Thus spoke the Lord, "bold Moses said, let my people go ! If not, I’ll smite your first-born dead, let my people go ! Descends Moïse, en bas sur le chemin de la terre d'Egypte Dis à tous les pharaons de laisser mon

debout. | A constant guest is never welcome. | L'hôte et la pluie, après trois jours ennuient. | A crack driver. | As du volant (un/une). | Actions speak louder than words. | Ce ne sont pas les mots qui comptent mais les actions. | Add pence to pence, for wealth comes hence. | Petit à petit l'oiseau fait son nid. | -A dead man fights not.  -A dead man deals no blows. | -Homme mort ne mord point.  -Homme mort ne fait guerre. | A dog is valiant on his own dung-hill.  | Chien sur son fumier