Me Against the World

Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth” NOT so very long ago, the earth numbered two thousand million inhabitants: five hundred million men, and one thousand five hundred million natives. The former had the Word; the others had the use of it. Between the two there were hired kinglets, overlords and a bourgeoisie, sham from beginning to end, which served as go-betweens. In the colonies the truth stood naked, but the citizens of the mother country preferred it with clothes on: the native had to love

THE AMERICAN DREAM Who hasn’t heard about it? “The American dream”. Its creed: nothing is impossible, who wants can! A dream based on people’s hope of a better life, a brighter future; on the faith that anyone who has the willpower and works hard enough can enhance his living-standard. Put in other words: anybody’s life is susceptible to become a tale of rags to riches. This faith is something much anchored to US-American society. It is written in the Declaration of Independence itself: “all men

Fast food restaurants are opened all over the world. This extraordinary success can be explain by many reasons ! First, they are low-cost : that’s the most attractive of their characteristics. Everybody can order some warm meat, even people of modest means or teenagers, who are besides the main costumers of these restaurants. They are for most part fond of the proposed food. Hamburgers, chips … They enjoy themselves ! Furthermore, the speed of the service is an advantage, because a lot of people

with the rise of “empire bringer of development and modernity”, but that image is scratched by the violent issue of discrimination, exploitation and slavery in colonies. The French empire is used by the author to illustrate the ambiguities of citizenship at the imperial level, and the British Empire to illustrate the ambiguity of the relationship of imperialism and capitalism. For the French the focus of contestation was how to reconcile the dimension of inclusion and differentiation in the space

Introduction This strategy case will focus on the strategic choices of Gaz de France, French energy group, from its nationalization in 1946 to nowadays new group GDF-Suez. In order to understand the complexity of GDF-Suez structure, we have to stress on its organization. GDF-Suez is composed of 6 business units: Energy France (Supplying of gas and electricity in France, Production of electricity in France, Services to energy for individual), Energy Europe and International (Production of electricity

first real encounter with the world outside the United States came in 1962, when I spent s€veral mOfiths working for an anti-government newspaper in South Africa. [...J The battle against aparthei~\vas my first exposure to serious politics, and to a ninetelm-yea '-oldi,as was then, it was ovenvhelming. Part of the experience was 5 realizing that the filiSAwas on the wrong side. Fine speeches at the United Natiol)s were one thing, but the directory board in the iJ.obbyof the American Embassy in Pretoria

problems Friends of the Earth is an NGO that fights for the protection of the environment. It was created in 1969 by David Brower and has its headquarters in London since 1971, where it organized its first worldwide demonstration against nuclear power plants. Non-profit association self-declared independent of any political or religious power, it got involved in the creation of an environmental movement in France and in the creation of the first global ecologist network: Friends of the Earth International

measures against the People’s Republic of China: the case of fibreglass Despite the existence of a customs union between Turkey and the European Union (“EU”), the latter remains competent to adopt its own protective measures, and thus, antidumping measures. As a consequence, the EU and Turkey have separate antidumping actions, although some of them tend to be quite similar. The great majority of antidumping procedures that are implemented throughout the world affect Chinese products. The purpose

and, in the German case, the most radical genocide of the last century: the Holocaust. Fascism, in its many forms did not hesitate to kill its own citizens as well as its colonial subjects in its search for ideological and political closure. Millions of civilians perished on a global scale during the apogee of fascist ideologies in Europe and beyond. In historical terms, fascism can be defined as a movement and a regime. Emilio Gentile – who, with Zeev Sternhell and George Mosse,2 is the most insightful

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th president of United States. He was elected on January 20th 1961, aged to 43 years old. He was the younger president of the USA and the younger to die during his mandate too. First, we will talk you about his life before his election. Then, we will see what he did during his political career. Finally we will tell you how he is dead. I- His Life before his election John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29th 1917