Us and Them

between Barack Obama and Dalai Lama would harm US-China relations, says Chinese official China warns US President Barack Obama not to meet the Dalai Lama Link to this video Any meeting between Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama would harm bilateral relations, China warned today while maintaining Beijing's refusal to discuss Tibet's status with the spiritual leader's envoys. A meeting between him and the US president would "seriously undermine the political foundation of Sino-US relations," said Zhu

The Internet is a member of our family. According to my last monthly bill each of us spent about 5.4 hours a week online, which makes us pretty much average American Net users. I cannot speak for the rest of my family, but I relish my online time. Now a new study tells me I should feel bad about it. Bourbon, red meat, whole milk and the Internet, too? According to the study, the Web makes us even lonelier and more isolated than we already are. The more hours people use the Internet, the less time

marketing strategy since Napster's proposition, objectives, competitors and risk factors are all reviewed. The Napster brand has had a varied history. Its initial incarnation was as the first widely used service for 'free' peer-to-peer (P2P) music sharing. The record companies mounted a legal challenge to Napster due to lost revenues on music sales which eventually forced it to close. But the Napster brand was purchased and its second incarnation offers a legal music download service in direct

was to build software to communicate and store data. This is going to change, since mains companies have more and more problems with the law. For exemple, the UE is inquiring about google to know if they respect the rules of protection of the privacy protection of the european internet users. Companies want to know that information to build more attractive products, services, and advertisements. But do these companies do enough to keep that information safe ? And why do they keep information so long

The economic and financial crisis In the end of 2008, bad news concerning job losses, recession, insolvency… were every day broadcasted by the media. People had to think about changing their lifestyles, because it was one of the biggest economic crises of the last 100 years. The economic crisis has its origins in the United States of America banking institutions. As it happened in 1929, a monumental Stock Exchange crash had been caused. In fact, during the years preceding the crisis, American

of harassment from bosses at work. To summarize, the author said that there is more and more bullying bosses at work and this phenomenon gets everybody: professionals, unskilled or skilled workers. The problem touched upon is clearly expressed here: the author and especially employment pressure group wants to create a law to punish the author by a penal law. First of all, we will give a definition of harassment, and then we will deal with the different forms that she can set according to these various

TOPIC 1 The verb have in negative sentences and in questions When have is the main verb (meaning it is the only verb in a sentence), negative sentences and questions are formed using the auxiliary DO, like almost all other English verbs. So, we say • I have a cat / I don’t have a cat / Do you have a cat? Many of you say things like I haven’t a cat and Have you a cat? which are ungrammatical. This is confusing because have is often an auxiliary. And when it is an auxiliary, we don’t need DO:

achieve anything good, to succeed and to get more satisfied. However, sometimes we try hard, and we are not rewarded for our efforts. Yet, work can have advantages and be a pleasure. The question is : can we have anything we want if only we try hard enough ? Let us begin with an examination of Britt’s point of view : she was an ambitious and independent woman, she studied at Oxford University and tried hard to succeed, thanks to her parents ‘encouragements and her own determination. Then she

they had either announced or taken, and sought to evaluate the likelihood that these actions would likely have a significant impact on these challenges. The twelve areas related to the need to: 1. raise the low productivity of the workers and of the economy at large; 2. increase domestic food production so as to be able to feed the population without undue dependence on imports; 3. provide adequate housing to the population; 4. take care of an aging population and reverse the emigration of young people;

country, before being physically and morally injured. In the extract, Toller describes how awful was the no man’s land, the place between the front-line trenches of each camp. In fact, he tells us the agony of an other soldier who wasn’t rescued. He was “naked and inarticulate” (l.3), “in excruciating pain” (l.1), but he survived three days. Toller draw the reader’s attention to the cries of this injured : they lasted the whole nights and were horrible. Toller and his comrade in arms “thrust [their]