The Freedom Writers Diary

Yasmine 6EMTb 9 02/03/2010 The author’s life. GEORGE ORWELL WAS THE PEN NAME of the English author, Eric Arthur Blair. Orwell was educated in England at Eton College. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927, he returned to Europe to become a writer. He lived for several years in poverty. His earliest experiences resulted in the book, Down and Out in Paris and London. By 1936, Orwell had joined the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was critical

how much freedom she had as a child. "Well," she replied, "I walked to my nursery school in Cambridge alone, aged three, and by four I was roaming the fields behind my house." After that, she explained, came the war[1]. "Your grandfather was away and your grandmother was organising the Women's Voluntary Service; no one knew where the four children were. We spent our afternoons canoeing down the Cam without life-jackets, eating sausages out of tins and, when it rained, we slipped into the cinema to

War I, was a clerk in the Imperial Bank of Persia; her mother had been a nurse. In 1925, lured by the promise of getting rich through maize farming, the family moved to the British colony in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Doris's mother adapted to the rough life in the settlement, energetically trying to reproduce what was, in her view, a civilized, Edwardian life among savages; but her father did not, and the thousand-odd acres of bush he had bought failed to yield the promised wealth. In

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Part 1 Part 1 Chapter  1: The opening lines of 1984 introduce readers to Winston Smith, Orwell's main protagonist, as he returns to his dismal apartment in Victory Mansion on a gritty, cold, early spring afternoon.  As Winston moves through his cabbage-smelling building he barely notices a poster of Big Brother, "an enormous face, more than a meter wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black mustache and ruggedly handsome

INTRODUCTION This chapter represents the last visit to the cell told by the narrator, although it is not the last visit he makes to Jefferson. The day of the execution is coming nearer and nearer as it is due to take place in a fortnight. So this is the opportunity for us to check the results of Grant’s strategy and to see if he has been successful or not in saving Jefferson and making him” regain his dignity of a man before he dies. ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------

qui sont autant de voix faisant entendre la pluralité de l’identité américaine dans un pays qui a pu faire écrire à M. Crow Dog, ‘If you plan to be born make sure you are born white and male’ tandis que M. Angelou se définit comme ‘a proud member of the wonderful, beautiful Negro race’. Quand l’auteur est une figure engagée dans la vie de la cité, tel B. Franklin, F. Douglass ou B. Obama, l’autobiographie devient une sorte de récit collectif, écho de l’histoire nationale. Lorsque le récit d’une vie

Part I : The Hippie Movement A) From the Beat Generation to the Beatniks The Beat Generation's birth occurred in the 50's, in the USA., with an international context marked by the Second World War and, after it, by the Cold War. The USA was, at this time, engaged in an affirmation of its model, advocating its capitalist system represented, in the country, by a growing bourgeois population and by a conservative society. It is in this America that begins the literature, social, and cultural

notre culture générale et l'absence de littérature ne nous empêche pas d'exister (cf. définition du verbe exister selon Jean-Paul Sartre)... En prenant comme exemple le jeune Smith envoyé dans un "Borstal" (centre de correction anglais) dans The loneliness of the long-distance runner d'Alan Sillitoe, on voit bien que Smith forme ses idées en faisant une course sans avoir une culture littéraire particulière. D'un autre côté, les livres nous apportent tellement de pensées que si une personne n'a jamais

start talking to each other and explaining their societies to each other, the stereotyped vision changes. Bien entendu, ces sont des généralisations et une fois les Américains et les français ne peut vraiment commencer à parler les uns aux autres et en expliquant leur société à l'autre, les changements vision stéréotypée. There's more room for "grey" in what is generally seen in black and white. See the mutual stereotypes of the 25 European countries Il n'y a plus de place pour «grise» dans ce qui est