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reasons must be that in my country gambling is regarded very differently by people as well as by the government. Now I am attracted by the games and in particular, those that are not very spread in the place I live like betting on sport. But before realizing by myself how gambling is rooted in British culture by observing my friends, people in pubs, casinos or even just by watching TV (poker tournaments, racing channels), I understood it by the word itself. In my mother tongue’s vocabulary

Table of contents WHY SUCH A THEME? 3 HOW IT STARTED 4 THE NAME 5 THE COCA-COLA"CONTOUR BOTTLE" design 6 THE WODERUFF LEGACY 6 WWII 7 I’D LIKE TO BUY THE WORLD A COKE 8 THE NEW COKE 10 A WORLD OF CRITICS 11 COCA COLA NOW – „The Coke side of life“ 12 DID YOU KNOW? 13 BIBLIOGRAFY 14 WHY SUCH A THEME? They started their journey with no end in their mind. That is the way to start any journey, in my opinion. They enjoy the ride rather than think

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 Chapter One: Creolizing Feminism 11 Chapter Two: Creolizing Language 25 Chapter Three: Creolizing History 40 Conclusion 53 Works Cited 56 Introduction They inhabited a confused universe, this Caribbean, with no center and no outward edge. Where almost everything was foreign. Language, people, landscape even. --Michelle Cliff, Free Enterprise What is really Swedish culture? In an era of population movements and communication satellites will it survive,

A Patriotic American by Douglas Kennedy This text is an extract from “the Pursuit of Happiness” by Douglas Kennedy published in 2002. Actually it is mainly a dialogue between the main character Eric Smythe who works for a TV network and an FBI agent who accuses him of being a communist.We should mention that the dialogue is set against the back-drop (toile de fond) of the Mc Carthy witch-hunts in the 50s. During the cold war, many US politicians were afraid of communism because

December 2007 In my book Reasons and Persons, I defended one view about the metaphysics of persons, and also claimed that personal identity is not what matters. In this paper I shall give some further arguments for this second claim, and also try to respond to some forceful objections by Mark Johnston. I shall not, however, try to decide what does matter, since that is a much larger and more difficult question. 1 PART O NE 1 The Metaphysics of Persons We can start with some science fiction

THE SHALLOWS ALSO BY NICHOLAS CARR The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google Does IT Matter? THE SHALLOWS What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains NICHOLAS CARR W. W. NORTON & COMPANY New York * London Copyright © 2010 by Nicholas Carr All rights reserved “The writing ball is a thing like me…” from Gramophone, Film, Typewriter by Friedrich A. Kittler, translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz. Copyright © 1996 by the Board of Trustees of the

Places of great interest in China Geographical position of China China lies in the east of Asia. It has a number of neighboring countries. To the north, northeast and northwest are the Mongolia, Russia and Korea. To the south are Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and the Philippine. To the west and southwest are India, Burma, Bhutan, Nepal and Pakistan. To the east is Japan, which faces China across the East China Sea. The following description of the four places of great interest are all listed by UNESCO

Objets / Lieux Argos: A city located on the Peloponnesian Peninsula in southern Greece. Argos: Une ville située sur la péninsule du Péloponnèse dans le sud de la Grèce. The Argive king Tantalus began a pattern of destruction for Argos after he offended the gods by feeding them his son Pelops at a banquet. Le roi d'Argos Tantalus a commencé un schéma de destruction d'Argos après avoir offensé les dieux en les nourrissant de son fils Pélops lors d'un banquet. King Pelops' sons continued this as Atreus

connections and drawing up a synthesis 6. On the way to autonomy “One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you’re a star you’re dead already. You’re embalmed.“ Dustin Hoffman UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie. © Photo Edward Parsons / AFP. Séquence 1 – AN11 1 © Cned – Académie en ligne O bjectifs de la séquence Dans cette séquence, vous allez apprendre à exprimer et à justifier votre réaction par rapport à un incident ou événement concernant

transcript of a speech Robert did at Yale in October along with the Q&A that followed. For those of you who would prefer to listen to an mp3 of the speech, you can do that here. Host: Welcome everybody. So, it’s a pleasure to have all of you here, and a particular pleasure to welcome our honored guest, Robert Greene. He is, well, you are all here, so I think you probably know a lot about his books, his writings. I’ll state just a few words. He has trained in classical literature. And then had a very shifting