Men in Black

tabasser. Ex. : Black people were often beaten up under apartheid. Les Noirs étaient souvent passés à tabac sous l'apartheid. ■a riot : une émeute ■a flare-up : une flambée de violence 4) La lutte contre la discrimination ■civil rights : les droits civiques ; equal rights : l'égalité des droits ■to get equal pay : obtenir l'égalité des salaires ■to outlaw racial discrimination : proscrire la discrimination raciale ■to fight for one's rights : se battre pour ses droits. Ex. : Black people fought

Billie Holiday. It tells about lynching in South of United-States. Explication: There is many negative images in the text, like “bulging eyes” or “twisted mouth”, which refer to suffering, to death. The key-word “strange”, repeated 3 times in the text, is an element of strangeness. One of the element of strangeness is a juxtaposition of cliches about the pleasant-to-live-in, gentle South ans the images of death referring to the harsh reality of the blacks fate, particulary obvious line 5 to

Black people were once slaves in the USA and then they had to fight against legal segregation. Is there an injustice you are particularly sensitive to and revolted against? What is it? What are/were the means to set it right? Explain. On the eighteenth century, men and women were unequal in France. Indeed, women were powerless and they had to fight so as to have the same rights as men. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, men were misogynists and mighty, that’s why they

CIVILISATION AMERICAINE | | Chapitre 1 : The current immigration dilemma I) A short reminder: American immigration policy until 1965 Debate: a lot of question about immigration today in US. The existence of the US is linked to the immigration. US created as asylum of a refuge for all the people that were poor, persecuted, etc. ->for a long time the US practiced an open door policy: they welcomed all the people who wanted to go. 19th: They started restricting, limiting immigration

le plus connu : « I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed : “We hold these truths to be self-evident : that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down

Grant’s attitude 1) A complex character. In a second part, we will study Grant's attitude in the scene. First, we can see that he is a complex character because he is blocked between two groups: he is black and he wants to be accepted by the white community. He rejects the fact to be treated as a simple black man but he isn’t considered as a white man, even if he went to the university. We can imagine that it’s only when he helps Jefferson to become a man that Grant will belong to one of those

Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in rural Nebraska 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

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October 24th, 1929: Black Thursday 1919-1933: Prohibition [pic] :means “consequences” Arnaud: American Revolutionnary war: From 1775 to 1783 In America and Europe Opposing GB and 13colonies Cause: colonists in the US rejected the rights of British Parliament to govern them without representation Before: revolutionary waves April 18th, 1775: battle of Concord September 3rd, 1783: freedom of 13 colonies [pic]France in debt ($187 million), French revolution in 1789 Cyrille:

Steven Hiller, un pilote de l'air chasseur d'aliens, avec un énorme succès cette fois (le film se plaçant à l'époque comme le second plus gros succès commercial mondial de l'histoire du cinéma derrière Jurassic Park). L'année suivante, il joue dans Men in Black, où il donne la réplique à Tommy Lee Jones, puis dans Ennemi d'Etat en 1998 et Wild Wild West 1999. Il refuse d'ailleurs de jouer dans Matrix pour tourner Wild Wild West aux côtés de Kevin Kline. En 2001, Smith subit une transformation physique