The L Word

Just days before the start of summer, Tom Ridge, the official bearer of bad news, informed us that new information indicates Al Qaeda terrorists are here and planning to attack any day now. According to Ridge, there has been "a continuous stream of reporting that talks about the possibility of attacks within the United States." Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller followed today with a press conference, complete with photographs and descriptions of seven individuals whom

heritage in such city names as San Francisco, Los Angeles. As for food, people in the streets eat hamburgers and donuts as readily as tostada or tacos. When we look back, we see how Spain and Mexico played a key role in the making of America: Florida was ceded by Spain in 1819; Texas and parts of New Mexico were annexed in 1845; California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and parts of Colorado were ceded by Mexico in 1848. The word “Hispanic” is a catchall term applying to very different people. They are

decided in 1845 to excise the text, conserving only the most important elements in The Oval Portrait .These elements are not the ones we see at first – an easily read gothic story- but are about others issues, more sophisticated. Through the study of the atmosphere and the characters of this tale, we will demonstrate the gothic beauty of the text and find its symbolical interpretation. The atmosphere of a text is, for Poe, an important aspect for the frame of the story. Here the gothic genre is perceptible

chapitre. Il s’agit d’une aide à la compréhension d’un reportage vidéo. bonusfile Fiche d’information. Pour chacune des 8 œuvres d’art (« Expression autour d’un document visuel »), il y a une fiche d’information divisée en trois sections : The artist, The background, The painting. Il y a également des fiches d’information qui accompagnent certaines pages Magazine. • Le nom complet de la fiche apparaît en haut à gauche : c’est aussi le nom du fichier pdf correspondant. Vous trouverez tous les fichiers sur le

can, with the exception of therefore and nevertheless (which are conjuctions), be used in other ways and sometimes as other parts of speech. Their position will vary according to how they are used. Let's have a look at each of them: besides (preposition) means "in addition to". It precedes a noun/pronoun/gerund: Besides working in a bookshop she looks after the garden. besides (conjunction) means "in addition". It usually precedes its clause, but can follow it: I can't go to the cinema;

China’s luxury good market is the second largest luxury goods market in the world behind the United States and is expected to become the largest market for luxury goods in just five years. The luxury good market in China was valued at 9.4 billion U.S. dollars at the end of 2009 which accounts for 27.5% of the world’s luxury goods market. As the larger cities in China become more populated with luxury good outlets and stores, the competition continues to heighten and companies have begun to turn

The Future of the Erosion. 1. Vocabulary Content : Contenu Feature : fonctionnalité Purveyors : fournisseur Pattern : représentation Rear-view mirror : rétroviseur Mankind : l’humanité Current : actuel Middle age : Moyen-âge Ads : petites-annonces Items : article, rubrique News Items : faits divers To ape : singer ? Landscapes : paysages Involvement : participation Overwhelming : accablant To rich : atteindre To behoove : incomber (US) Bewildering : étourdissant Feature

newspaper called The Daily Mirror. It was written by Krissy Storrar and published on February 14th, 2006. Moreover, it is entitled “Cyclist killed by her ipod”, so this article is a news item because it deals with the death of a person. Then, this document is composed of three elements: the title with the sources at the top of the page, two photos in the middle and a text, which is mostly situated at the bottom (even if there is a sentence introducing the article which is situated between the title and

What is the United Kingdom? Where does the name “United kingdom” come from? What is the difference between England, Great Britain and the UK? What do we mean by “the British isles”, “the Commonwealth”, and “the British Empire”? I – The British Isles The British Isles is the name of a collection of about 4 000 islands including Great Britain and Ireland. The name “the British isles” is usually only seen on maps. Great Britain, known as Britain or GB, is the name of the largest of the islands

overestimate the importance of mass media in the U.S. electoral process. National television networks reach 99 percent of all American homes, making contact across the entire socioeconomic spectrum. Cable news stations, radio and television talk shows, newspapers, news magazines and Internet sites all provide voters with information about the candidates. The content and emphasis of their coverage are among the most powerful factors in determining how voters perceive the candidates and the issues. As