Tragedy of the commons

« Dante And The Lobster » “More Pricks Than Kicks” is a collection of short stories, which was published by Samuel Beckett in 1934. We are going to study an excerpt of one of these short stories called “Dante And The Lobster”. More precisely this excerpt seems to be the end of that novella. Therefore we can attach importance to this part of the short story because the outcome of a story generally allows the reader to discover the aim of the author and it highlights the sense of the text. After

timeless wisdom of Realism? Realism has been considered as the dominant theory of International Relations since the Great Debate of the interwar period. However, it actually dates back as far as Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War in 400 BC. In fact, the idea that war, the balance of power, and the state are the key elements that matter concerning the interactions between nations have almost always existed and seems, at least at the first sight, to be valid independently of time and place

extract is the first scene of the fifth child, a book published in 1988. Doris Lessing was a British writer, her life had been full of adventures and of stranges events. She was awarded the Nobel prize of litterature in 2007. The first scene we have to analyse introduces us to the main characters : Harriet and David. They met at an office party. In this passage, we learn about their lifestyle, their moral and pshycological features Firstly, we will see that it is the introduction of two characters

communs la façon la plus sure de maximiser sa satisfaction c’est d’utiliser ce bien de manière plus que désirable. C’est cette réalité qu’a voulu souligner Garrett Hardin dans son fameux article « the tragédie of Commons ». Paru en 1968, sous la plume du biologiste Garrett Hardin, l’article « the tragedy of Commons » constitue une référence structurante dans les débats sur la propriété, le gouvernement des ressources, les liens entre organisation économique et viabilité écologique. C’est à l’occasion d’une

inventor, architect and was part of the Enlightenment elite. But above all he was a prominent political figure of his time. He is one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence, inspiring himself mainly from Locke's Natural Right Theory, and later he will participate in the creation of the American Constitution. He is of course the 3rd president of the U.S. He would later work as ambassador in France. He also doubled the size of the U.S. by buying Louisiana to the French. As for his convictions

Lehramt Gym/Ge * Sutpen’s White women in William Faulkner’s « Absalom, Absalom ! », seminar paper ????? The représentation of women in Absalom, Absalom ! * women in AA does not share the same code of honor as men, that’s why it seems they are on another level of reality * no semi-measure in the women’s character, they are not really balanced « they embody the extrêmes of human nature » livre 1 p25 * Clytie à la fin est destructrice mais elle permet un nouvel ordre des choses,

During the XXth century, the demographic explosion, the economic development, the industrialization of a party of the world and the expansion of irrigated agriculture led to great impacts on water cycles. Global common resources have been washed up or polluted leading to dramatic situations on human societies. Indeed, scientific data confirmed the uneven access and distribution of fresh water at the global and local scale. According to the report of the United Nations Development Program of 2006,

Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf brought a totally new approach to fiction in the second decade of the 20th century, her work having a common feature with the works of other two writers of the time, namely James Joyce and DH Lawrence. The thing that united the works of the three modernist writers was the common reaction against realist method as illustrated by Edwardians writers who tried to express through symbols, order, truth and justice. Virginia Woolf and the other modernist

economicus – rationnel + égoïste + parfaitement informé – et pas d’externalités négatives) * optimum de Pareto n’est pas forcément socialement juste (1 personne possédant tout est un optimum de Pareto) * problème des biens publiques => tragedy of the commons * régulation par l’Etat Argument déontologique : le libertarisme

The Age of Realism and Naturalism The three strong advocates of 19th century American realism • William Dean Howells (critic)豪威尔斯 • Henry James 詹姆斯 • Mark Twain 马克• 吐温 Background • The Civil War marked a deterioration of American moral values. • Increasing industrialization and mechanization produced extremes of wealth and poverty. • The romantic view of man in the New World began to lose its hold on the imagination of the people. • By the 1870s New England