This Is England

on earth: “The state of monarchy. . . is the supremest thing upon earth: for Kings are not only God’s lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.” - King James I To dispute what God might do is blasphemy, so it is sedition for subjects to dispute what a king might do. At that time, the political system was therefore the absolutism. However the deeply figure of the king changed over the 17th century in England and later in France. In the first half

America, or Henderson’s Adventures in Wonderland Henderson Dores, the main character of William Boyd’s Stars and Bars is of course not an ingenuous little Victorian girl like Lewis Carroll’s Alice. But in the same manner, he seems dumbfounded by the odd world in which the twists and turns of the plot take place. Is America in Stars and Bars similar to Alice’s Wonderland? Or is Henderson Dores interacting with his American environment in like manner as Alice in her Wonderland. First of all one should

Noel, who was born in 1879. Stoker moved to London in order to oversee Irving’s theater, and he fell into the city’s literary circles, which included figures such as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. Stoker’s early fiction is not of particularly high quality. He wrote short stories for children and then a first novel, The Snake’s Pass (1890), which was unsuccessful. Stoker’s fortunes changed in 1897 with the publication of Dracula, which still stands as his greatest -literary

George Orwell (1903-1950) [pic]George Orwell George Orwell is the pen name (the name taken by an artist) of Eric Arthur Blair: essayist, novelist, literary critic, advocate (lawyer) and fighter for political change. Blair was born on June 25, 1903, in India, which was a British territory. He was the son of Richard Walmesley Blair, a civil servant (a person who works in the cicil service), and Ida Mabel Blair. He moved to England with his mother and sisters at the age of one. He shew academic

characters to remind Sade of her Lagos. She looked like her Iyawo, the female ebony head she had to leave on her desk when leaving hastily her home with Uncle Tunde. This is why she nicknamed her Jenny-Iyawo. • Then, Mrs Appiah who strongly reminds Sade of Mama Buki (her mother’s sister) and Sade alludes to the resemblance many times. She is from Ghana and she wore a Gele (l.2) / (l.5) / (l.26) Some questions asked by Mrs Appiah revived pain in Sade’s heart: (l.36) « how are things there at home 

“England is not exactly like I pictured it”, p. 46 Le sujet de bac qui figure dans le manuel a été préparé pour les classes littéraires. Barème Compréhension : 70 points + expression : 70 points = 140 points, ramenés à 14 points. Traduction : 60 points, ramenés à 6 points. On trouvera plus loin une adaptation des questions pour les classes de ES-S (p. 96) et les sections technologiques (p. 98). Corrigé de l’épreuve simulée de Bac ssection L COMPREHENSION 1. The text can be divided into three

people are mostly conscious of these stereotypes. What is a stereotype? A stereotype is considered as “A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image ». This supposes that it is normally wrong because oversimplified. Stereotypes come from our experience with people from other countries. Our experience is subjective but we tend to do from this biased opinion something that we can apply to an entire population. It is therefore very important to be careful with stereotypes

Introduction: Thomas Paine was born in 1737 in England and died in 1809 in New York. He was what we call now an intellectual activist of the 18th century and he took part in all the great revolutions of his age. He influenced the American Revolution with his book “common sense” published in 1776 in which he denounces the English administration in the thirteen colonies. Three years after, he published “the rights of man” ( in 1791) to answer to Edmund Burke an Irish Philosopher who commented the

|ENGLISH IS ENGLISH   | |In the English speaking world, people can easily understand each other no matter what English speaking country they are from, | |if they just spoke simple standard English (which isn't hard if your from an English speaking country). American English and | |British English must be what?.... 99.5% different when it comes to spellings and word usage? The accents change

Scotland [pic] Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain. It shares a border with England to the south and Scotland includes over 790 islands including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides. Edinburgh, the country's capital and second largest city, is one of Europe's largest financial centres. The Kingdom of Scotland was an independent sovereign state until 1707. History of Scotland: In 1294 Balliol and other