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The Brooklyn Follies – Paul Auster I. Short Biography Paul Benjamin Auster was born on February 3, 1947 in Newark, New Jersey. His father, Samuel Auster, was a landlord; his mother, Queenie was about 13 years younger than her husband; the marriage was not a happy one. When Auster was about 3, his mother gave birth to a daughter; sadly by the time she was five it was apparent that she was psychologically unstable, and later suffered mental breakdowns. Auster's passion for reading began when

[pic] What happened ? *In June 27th 2005, at 23:00Pm, “the bank of America” in New York has been robbed. And the two security guards have been killed. In the same time, the police officers found inside a room at the Windsor hotel which is near the bank, many objects necessary to commit a burglary like a drill to break a safe, a handgun to kill the guards, a map to find the path that leads to the safe, including plenty of dollar bills in a bag bank and a walkie-talkie which proves there wasn’t

JeunesseBernard Madoff est né le 29 avril 1938 dans une famille juive, dans le quartier new-yorkais de Queens. Son père, Ralph Madoff était plombier avant de devenir un agent de change. Bernard Madoff a fréquenté la Far Rockaway High School en 1956, puis l'Université de l'Alabama durant un an. Il obtint un diplôme en sciences politiques de l’Hofstra College en 1960. L'année suivante, il commença des études à la Brooklyn Law School, qu'il abandonna. Il commenca sa vie professionnelle comme Maître

1. Description and interpretation We can see two characters, a man and a woman, so beautiful even if we have the impression that they are survivors. Their clothes are surprising, very fashion and inappropriate. In fact, we can observe New-York city, with the Empire State Building, under the water on the background. The disaster seems evident but for the models, everything seems good. The woman is giving water to the man in a sensual position. So there is a conflict between them and the décor

(2003). The document is a poster of a film entitled The Namesake. The focal point and the main character is a young man of Indian origin. He is wandering about alone in the busy street of a big city. He must be in his early twenties. He is casually dressed and is carrying a shoulder bag. From the synopsis we can guess that the young man is Gogol Ganguli and that the city is certainly New York. Gogol is surrounded by blurred shapes of cars and buildings. We can see huge graffiti all around him. He looks

Full Name: Scarlett Marie Johansson Date of birth: 22 November 1984 Place of birth: New York, USA Education: Graduate of the Professional Children's School in Manhattan and at a prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Career: Actress, singer Family: Mother: Melanie Sloan (Polish) Scarlett Johansson is one of the most famous actresses ever for her performances in a lot of blockbusters. I love her. She is classy, beautiful and so talented : a rising star was born ! ----------------------------------

VIVENDI UNIVERSAL ONE MAN, ONE ENTERPRISE, ONE DESTINY EDUCATION AND EARLY CAREER Jean-Marie Messier was born in 1956 in Grenoble, a city in the Alps of southeastern France. The son of an accountant, he was a serious and hardworking student in his high school years. Although he failed on his first attempt to gain entry to the École Polytechnique, the training ground of France's business elite, he retook the entrance examinations the following year and was admitted. He did well in his studies

could handle a house, grow up kids, have a social life, go out, etc. The Renaissance was also an explosion of culture in Harlem. Press, literature, theater, music and other kind of arts developed considerably. A new picture of the Black man came out of this period. Unfortunately, the “New Negro” and Harlem weren’t prepared to face the Great Depression, and the Harlem Renaissance ended abruptly because of naive assumptions about the centrality of culture, unrelated to economic and social realities

Billie Holiday _ Biographie Billie Holiday, de son vrai nom Eleanora Fagan voit le jour le 7 avril 1915 dans la ville de Baltimore. Billie Holiday rendra son dernier souffle 44 ans plus tard à New York.Véritable figure du jazz, la chanteuse possède un talent et une voix qui la hisseront aux sommets de la gloire et qui feront d'elle une véritable légende de la musique. Les débutsSadie Fagan et Clarence Holiday, les parents de Billie Holiday, ont respectivement 17 et 19 ans au moment de

PAUL AUSTER 1°) Biography Paul Auster was born on February, 3rd 1947 in New Jersey. Before he stopped studies, Paul Auster went to Europe and visited Irland, Spain, France and Italie. At the age of 18, he published for the first time articles about cinema in the University's paper, and after graduating from his University, Colombia University, he moved to Paris, in 1971, where he used to translate French literature and publish his first poems, essays and novels. He wrote his first autobiographic