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Beowulf is supposedly the oldest literary work in the English-speaking world. It is an anonymous work of which only a manuscript remains. It is an epic, a long narrative poem celebrating the great deeds of the hero in a ceremonious style. It was written between the 8th and 11th centuries in Old English. The story is set in Scandinavia, in the Anglo-Saxon world. The eponymous hero travels great distances to prove his strength killing monsters and a dragon, rewarded by his lord. It is a description

Reading Project Damien Branger PS1 Paper Money Ken Follett The author: [pic] Ken Follett (born 5 June 1949) is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels. He has sold more than 130 million copies. His main successes are The Pillars of the Earth, The Key to Rebecca, Triple, Lie Down with Lions, Eye of the Needle… He published Paper Money in 1977 as Zachary Stone, as The Modigliani Scandal

places? If so, why? Doing politics is performing a political act, intended to have an effect on the established social order. It has an impact on your life, like the chances you get at the start. It also influences you personally in the way you define yourself, in the way you take position among society, and in the way you interact with the others. Politics affects you and everyone around you. When something can have such an impact on one’s life, it is important to be able to determine and

1928). The name of his first movie is “the pleasure Garden” in 1925 and his last one is “The short night” he didn’t finish in 1979 just one year before his death. Hitchcock had never won Oscar but it was five times nominated for an Oscar. In 1949, he decided to stop to work with Ingrid Bergman for later met his favourite actress Grace Kelly but too Cary Grant and James Stewart were his favourite actors. North by Northwest was release in 1959, the genre of this film is suspenseful film. It takes places

Intro The 30th January 1972 is a fatal date in the Ireland’s history: a peaceful march in Derry for Civil Rights becomes a nightmare. Ireland and Britain are known for their difficult common past. Their disagreements exist since several centuries and it seems wars between Catholics and Protestants are presents for a long time. It’s a human tragedy at the height of her reputation. Facts In January 1972 a huge civil rights march, judged illegal by the Unionist Government, took place in

able to have meaningful insight into how finance is applied in real world situations. HSBC has 8,500 offices in 86 countries; being a part of such an international bank would allow me to understand and develop my financial knowledge, which would be highly beneficial to my overall education. I’m , as I have lived in 3 different countries such as France, Burkina Faso and England. I think HSBC, which is known, as the “international local bank’s” is for me the best environment to evolve according to

An organisational change occurs when there is a move from one position to another (Ford and Ford, 1995 cited in Rollinson, 2008, p630). The need for change can be provoked by many different triggers either internal or external. Nowadays, organisations need to make radical changes whereas it used to be only incremental alterations in the past (Peters, 1987 cited in Rollinson, 2008, p630). For this reason, organisational survival will essentially depend on their ability to handle the change process

hated writing it”, that’s what Doris Lessing said after writing The Fifth Child. Doris Lessing is a British author from the 20th century. She won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2007. She wrote many bestsellers such as The Golden Notebook, or The fifth Child, published in 1988. The fifth child is a minor classic. There is also a follow up of this book called Ben in the world. The first scene of this book introduces the characters, the setting and gives us some indications about what will happen

population today is approximately 3.2 people per kilometre squared, while China’s is approximately 143 people per square kilometre (TradingEconomics.Com). In over-populated countries, there will come a time when the country will not be able to sustain or feed the people that populate it. This is when population control becomes an issue for the country and government. This policy limits couples from having more than one child in urban areas. China is the only country to have gone this far on the population

succeeded by her northern kinsman James, son of Mary, Queen of Scots. In Scotland he was James VI, but in England he became James I. He had ruled in Scotland for twenty years already and would constantly played with his codpiece. His tongue appeared to be too large for his mouth. colonisation, the rising bourgeois class in the cities, the printing press and the expansion of literacy... But this century, and the changes it brought to the worldview, can also be seen as revolutionary spirit and