Marry the Night

until he was 34 years old to marry, but once he had settled on 17-year-old Sofia Behrs, "Sonya," as his bride, he saw that events moved very quickly. At his insistence, but a single week elapsed between his proposal and their wedding on September 23, 1862 -- and in the course of that week Tolstoy asked, really required, his fiancée to read the intimate diaries he had kept for much of his life. Sonya, the middle daughter of the Tsar's court physician, had grown up in the sheltered, innocent circumstances

often do we come across situations wherein we have a healthy dispute with our elders (especially parents) about our low waists or probably the knee-cuts or maybe the late nights or one of the thousands of “issues”. Sports Vs TV Games, Home Made Vs Fast Food & so on – it’s a miniature battlefield out there! So what is all this about? The young getting careless – or the elders getting tougher? Well, practically, it’s none of these. What we have here is a Generation gap. Technically, it is defined as occurring

since the beginning of the century as regards marriage, work and Education? Introduction The place of the woman evolves in France a lot in the XXth century, wars are the origin of the change. Indeed, the situation of the women in the marriage, in the work and in the education was really transformed. I- The marriage Before XXth century, the woman is completely subjected for her life to the marriage (the husband works and makes the family live). 1960s make of the place(square) of the woman

Life in the 18th Century was a lot different from life as we know it today. Many things were done for obvious or different reasons. Authors of that era had a particular approach to authorship of literary works. The novel The Female American or The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield is a good example, being that the book is written by an anonymous writer. In week 8 of the lecture, Professor Hron asked: “who is the author; was it a woman or was it a man?” Throughout the book, many elements

Extract 1 Introduction : In her novella, The Fifth Child, published in 1988, Doris Lessing tells the upheaval of a blissful family after the fifth child, a large, ugly, violent and uncontrollable child, is born. The passage under study is part of the incipit. Indeed, we are presented to the protagonists, the parents David & Harriet Lovatt when they first met at an office party in the 60s (their encounter, their backgrounds => past influencing their future). Guideline : To what extent their respective

une école privée catholique. Elle commence à écrire des ballades à partir de treize ans et commence à chanter lors de « scènes libres » à l'âge de 14 ans. À dix-sept ans, elle est admise à l'université de New York (faculté de la Tisch School of the Arts), sise à Greenwich Village. Elle commence à étudier la musique et améliore son style en composant des essais sur des sujets comme l'art, la religion ou l'ordre socio-politique. Après avoir quitté l'université pour se concentrer sur sa carrière

when his parents die. Jim and Jake Marpole, one of the Burdens' farm-hands, travel to Nebraska on the railroad together from the hills of Virginia. An immigrant family, the Shimerdas, is traveling to their destination as well. Like most other immigrants, the Shimerdas left their native Bohemia and moved to America for a better life. Like Jim, the Shimerdas have no one to turn to in a new, frightening place. Chapter 2 The next afternoon, at the farm, Jim’s grandmother, Mrs Burden, awakens him

any of the great plays of the classical tradition brings up their strong dependence upon the famous rule of the three unities : a play should consist of a single action or plot, unfolding in one day in a single place. Unity of action, unity of time, unity of place. When we study a play by Shakespeare – or any other playwright in the English tradition, we should bear in mind that it works according to principles that are poles apart from the classical rules: the meaning of a play, and the pleasure

possible pour laisser sortir le monstre de créativité qui sommeille en elle. Stefanie le sait, elle deviendra célèbre en très peu de temps. LA ROUTE DE LA GLOIRE A dix-sept ans, Stefanie est admise à la prestigieuse Faculté de la Tisch School of the Arts. C'est véritablement une libération pour Stefanie : elle chante, évolue, danse, écrit. Elle se produit un peu à l’extérieur, mais cependant il y a toujours cette timidité lors de ses prestations, sans doute les traces de son in-insertion sociale

Test your English 1 Choose the correct item. 1 It took us almost four hours to …………………………………… to London. A reach B get C arrive D approach 2 She bought a large …………………………………… of chocolate at the kiosk. A loaf B bar C slice D tube 3 She had to pay adult …………………………………… on the bus because she was 18. A fare B duty C fee D fine 4 If you're on a diet, you should …………………………………… honey for sugar in your tea. A supersede B substitute C replace D stand in 5 Be …………………………………… , you