Me Against the World

Today's featured article The Battle of Towton was the "largest and bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil". The engagement took place near the village of the same name in Yorkshire on 29 March 1461, a Palm Sunday. It was part of the series of civil wars—the Wars of the Roses—fought between the Houses of Lancaster and York. More than 50,000 soldiers were mustered for this battle. The reigning king of England, Henry VI, headed the Lancastrians, while the Yorkists were led by Edward IV, who

resultsLet's focus on getting the facts first:Like his predecessor, New York City's former mayor, Rudy Giuliani, Mr, Bloomberg is eager to solve an issue that is a matter of considerable public concern. While Mr. Giuliani fought urban crime by instituting a new policy of zero tolerance, Mr. Bloomberg wants to come to grips with the notoriously low standards of education in New York City's state schools by using new as well as unexpected methods.Although, the current mayor shunned the most radical option –

INTRODUCTION… 2) The health care system in America 2.1) The definition and the origins of the private American health care System 2.2) The costs of the American Welfare System 2.3) The organization of the health care system in USA 3) “ Sicko” Michael Moore’s Film 3.1) Testimonies of American people 3.2) A comparison between with the French healthcare system 4) New reforms of Obama 4.1) What are they? Who are against?

COPYRIGHT AND P2P IMPACT Sharing systems “peer-to-peer” (P2P) is no longer in the reserved domain of web customers, who are adepts of music or movies downloads. The distribution of legal contents in this way is becoming a fully developed commercial activity. Although it is often associated with the unlawful sharing of music or movie files, P2P networks enable direct exchanges between users, without needing servers or mediators. P2P includes many applications related to a lot of domains and uses

Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK, and the USA, in response to the Soviet blockade of Berlin June 1948–May 1949. They agreed that ‘an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all’. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which other countries have joined since, is based on this agreement. Signed at Washington, DC, the agreement indicated that the USA associated itself with the Western European countries

n°1 Julien In the world that we know today, there are several way of eating. On the one hand we have the fast food witch is a catering served quickly and usually quite cheap, on the other hand we have the slow food that is a kind of restoration witch uses products with a high quality and a focus on the taste and the benefits on the body. On the first part we will see the origins and characteristics of fast food, then we will see the comparison and the contrast of the origins, and finally characteristics

American music Objectives: discovers the americans musics What types of music were created in American ? And by who ?     Intro: The colonial period is between 1619 and 1776. About 1 million slaves were deported against their will in America. Slavery will have profound and irreversible consequences on the history of music. Throughout history, music and religious songs mainly allowed black Americans to preserve their unity and culture, to ensure against slavery and racial segregation, their

The United Mexican States, commonly known as Mexico is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2 million square kilometres ( 3 times biggest than France ) Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas by total area and the 14th largest independent nation in the world

report The Wind That Shakes the Barley 1 why : I have choice The Wind That Shakes the Barley because is a 2006 Ken Loach film set during theirsh war of independence (1919–1921) and the Irish civil war (1922–1923). The film opens in 1920 as Damien O'Donovan (Cillian Murphy) with his brother Teddy (Padraic Delaunay) commands the local flying columm of the Irish Republican Army. Furthmore this film won the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes festival . Loach's biggest box office success to date, the film did

The economy of the People's Republic of China is the third largest in the world, after the United States and Japan. China has had the fastest growing economy for the past 30 years with an average annual GDP growth rate over 10%. The fact of being at the same time one of the last communist countries of the planet and an economy which beats all the records of growth can seems to be paradoxical. But some people assert that if this country keeps its growth rate before 2020, China will have exceeded