This Is England

about the author, her book and the context. 1.1) Georgian era, the England of the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth This era includes the reign of four kings, George I to George IV and underwent major upheavals in the British Empire. Indeed, the territory has been reduced due to the American war of Independence (1775-1783), who had lost thirteen Colonies. But his influence and his power were not affected by this loss since the other colonial empires were in difficulty, particularly

House of Commons ( the lower House ) the House of Lords ( the upper House ) The Sovereign : The Queen opens and dissolves Parliament. Each session begins with the State Opening of Parliament by the Queen. She delivers the Queen’s speech, which is the legislative agenda written by the government for the coming year. ( Wednesday, 26 May 2010 ) She gives Royal Assent to the bills passed by Parliament. She can theoretically veto them but never does – as it would be a sign of her taking political

· I was born in Eaglesfield in England on September 6th in 1766 and I will unfortunately died on July 27th, I am a chemist and a British physicist. Son of a poor family, I devoted myself to teaching and I became a professor. My main research work concerns the atomic theory, I am also at the origin of the discovery of the daltonism, I have also made numerous researches on the meteorology and proved that the rain is due to a fall of temperature and not to a change of atmospheric

Publishers, Inc. This FORUM features two articles by Henry Mintzberg and Sholom Glouberman, commentaries by Tom D’Aunno and Peter Weil, and the authors’ response to the commentaries. It makes for a stimulating sequence, indeed! In their first article, Glouberman and Mintzberg take a broad view of the health care system and identify four aspects—care, cure, control, and community—that function to a large part independently and under different mindsets. They see that as one reason why it is so “enormously

back to 3000 BC, with fairly big towns (up to 30'000 inhabitants), very well planned and organised, and a written language. The first invaders of India arrived probably around 1500 BC, they are know as the Aryans and came from the north. it often is said that the Dravidians were, and still are, the dark-skinned people while the Aryans were, and still are, fair skinned. The Aryans brought strong cultural elements with them, many of them still being alive today. Their written language was the Sanskrit

in her new novel: A Mercy. Novelist, literature professor and American editor, Toni Morrison is the first black woman and finally the one afro-American author to win this prize. As an editor, Morrison played an important role in bringing black literature into the mainstream. For example, she edited books by authors such as Toni Cade Bambara, Angela Davis and Gayl Jones. Set in the late 1600s, A Mercy is a very different book to Beloved, the novel which won Ms Morrison the Pulitzer Prize in 1988

COMPRÉHENSION a The narrator’s real name is Annabelle. She used to live in New England, where her best friend was called Dori, and her favourite toy was a stuffed dog called Boomer. At the time, her father was a MIT professor, and her mother probably a housewife. But at fall, they suddenly change life: they move to Tampa, Florida. They also change names: she, the daughter, will be called Sally, while her father will be called Anthony, and her mother, Claire. z Annabelle could be 6 or 7, as

and outdated concepts like the geocentric universe: the theory that the earth is at the centre of the universe and the sun and the other planets go around it. This conception reflected a divine harmony, producing the music of the spheres which could not be heard by Man as he is an impure creature. Another idea was that the universe was divided into several plans, each ruled by an unchanging hierarchy. The same relation is to be found between God and Man, The sun and the cosmos, the king and his subjects

1. a. Who is the narrator? How is he/she related to Sam? The narrator is a British woman, married to Sam. They 've got two children. She used to be a schoolteacher abroad. b. Justify your answer by quoting from the text. l.12. "We'd spent our honeymoon in Dorset in '76". l.4-5. "We produced two sons". l.6. "I could always find teaching jobs". 2. Match one element from column A with an element from column B. A B 1. Sam had a heart-attack a. in '76 2. They had children b

2051”. Actually, it is said that the proportion of black, Asian and other ethnic minorities will rise from 8% of the population, as recorded in the 2001 census, to 20% by 2051. The Leeds study suggested the population is also set to become more racially diverse as well as less segregated over the coming years. The study, based on computer modeling, suggested white British and Irish populations would grow slowly while the "other white" ethnic group would be extremely fast growing. This was because of expected