The Beginning

Легендарный отец панка Малькольм Макларен, первым из белых продюсеров обративший внимание на молодое брейкерское племя, описывал ту атмосферу так: "Однажды в Нью-Йорке я увидел большого черного человека, который прогуливался в майке "Never Mind The Bollocks". Мы разговорились, и он мне сказал, что очень любит "Sex Pistols" - не музыку, а идею, - и пригласил на свою вечеринку в этот же день. Звали его Африка Бамбаата. Я тогда плохо знал Нью-Йорк и два часа ловил такси, потому что никто не хотел

This is the beginning of the story, the presentation of both Harriet and David. The scene takes place during an end-of-year party between colleagues. - 200 people at the party, in a small boardroom now transformed into a party room. It was noisy, the place was crowded and everyone was trying to get the attention on themselves. - Focus on the 2 main characters, their relationship with other people: They were rejected because old-fashioned (Harriet still virgin) and weren’t living like the others

p. This 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

can, with the exception of therefore and nevertheless (which are conjuctions), be used in other ways and sometimes as other parts of speech. Their position will vary according to how they are used. Let's have a look at each of them: besides (preposition) means "in addition to". It precedes a noun/pronoun/gerund: Besides working in a bookshop she looks after the garden. besides (conjunction) means "in addition". It usually precedes its clause, but can follow it: I can't go to the cinema;

of the two main characters in Hemingway’s “The Old Man and The Sea”, published in the US in 1952 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. The novel “The Old Man and the Sea” talks about an old fisherman’s final struggle; a story about the greatest catch of his life.Manolin is prManolin is present only in the beginning and at the end of The Old Man and the Sea, but his presence is important because Manolin’s devotion to Santiago highlights Santiago’s value as a person and as a fisherman. esent only in the beginning

Suicide in the workplace is not a characteristic of the Western world. A recent poll brings back that a factory of sportswear goods which employes 420 000 persons know a series of suicides, since the beginning of the year 2010. Twenty employees killed themselves, since the beginning of this year, falling from the top of the buildings of this factory. The last one is a 22-year-old young man. He started his work at the factory 42 days ago. We called the chairman and managing director, of this

Katherine Mansfield’s “The Fly” In Katherine Mansfield’s “The Fly” the boss’s inability to grieve for his son is presented in three incidents. When Woodifield mentioned the boss’s son the boss shows no reaction, only a “quiver in his eyelids” indicates his shock. After this the boss does not listen to Woodifield anymore, but gets carried away thinking about his son. It seems like he has not thought about his son for a while and has forgot about him. The reader learns that the boss never visits his

The movie “Making an American Citizen” by Alice Guy, tells the story of a Russian couple who immigrated to the USA and find their habits completely changed by the American social conventions, especially the husband who bitterly experiences drastic changes in his way of treating his wife. At first, the husband treats his wife like a farm animal (he whipped her like a mule, loaded her with his luggage, made her do the hardest work, etc.) but he is immediately confronted to the indignation of American

POIGNON in Amiens. Being the only office in the city, I pick up a work placement easily because I am an inhabitant of this city. It began at the end of May and finished at the beginning of July. Before this period, I was arrested because I didn’t know what tasks the chartered surveyor, who is the boss, gave me. 2) The Internship The boss wanted to consider me like an employee. The staff was welcoming and I discovered a pleasant environment. The first week, the chartered surveyor tested

The Story takes place in the early twentieth/at the beginning of the twentieth century in Chicago and in this sscene we see Joe Crown who belongs to a German family of immigrants and his daughter who is twenty - five years old / and his twenty -year- old daughter . Fritzi's father is stunned when hhs daughter breaks the news to him but even if he disaprooves with her decision , she will not/won't change her mind. When Fritzi announces that she is going to NY , her father imagines that she