Maggie, A Girl of the Streets - Stephen Crane - Maggie is impossible to weep over
Text commentary - 3 pages - Literature
Individuals are determined by heredity and their social category (which covers the place they live in and their standard of living). Maggie, the protagonist of Stephen Crane's novel Maggie, A Girl of the Streets published in 1896, is modelled, shaped, and ultimately determined by her...
Spaces en Exchanges : Présentation orale
Book review - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
Présentation spaces and exchanges pour un oral de 3 minutes. Niveau 1ère stmg.
Rihanna - American Oxygen
Case study - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
Ecrit sur le clip "American Oxygen" de Rihanna. Nous venons de faire une séquence sur la ségrégation, les personnages importants type Martin Luther King, les évènements importants en Amérique tels quel l'immigration, les attentats, les manifestations, les droits ... L'idée est...
Pride And Prejudice : Essay
Essay - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
Write an essay trying to answer the following question. You should try and quote the book and/or the movie to support your point. Elizabeth Bennet is a modern heroine in an obsolete society. To what extend do you agree with this statement?
Banksy : Graffiti sur Clacton-on-Sea
Case study - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
Il s'agit de la description en anglais du tableau de Banksy représentant des pigeons sur un mur de Clacton-on-Sea.
Cake, Sarah Rose Etter (2008) - The isotopies
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
"Cake", written in 2008 by Sarah Rose Etter, tells the story of a husband and his wife who share a peculiar routine every two weeks on Friday nights: the husband watches his wife eat a whole cake on her own, and it gives him a lot of pleasure. This short story can be divided into three distinct...
The Impact of Wars and Violence in Scotland - Analysis of an excerpt of Fleshmarket by Nicola Morgan (2016) and of the oil canvas "The Battle of Culloden" by David Morier (1746)
Artwork commentary - 6 pages - Literature
Scotland has often been portrayed as an unstable nation in the midst of violent conflicts both before and after the Acts of Union in 1707. This set of documents consists of two literary works and a pictorial work, spanning the period following the said Acts of Union, from 1746 to 1895, which is...
A Book of Dreaming (A bok of swevenyng)
Text commentary - 7 pages - Literature
A Book of Dreaming traces its roots to the Latin Somniale Danielis and has been reproduced in numerous manuscripts across Europe from the 9th to the 15th centuries. In other words, some stylistic effects could have been lost in the translation from Latin to Middle English. Indeed, the editor,...
Expression du souhait en anglais
Worksheets - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
Il s'agit d'une fiche récapitulative sur l'utilisation du souhait et du regret en anglais. Les explications sont en français.
The present perfect a,d the present perfect be + -ing
Worksheets - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
Il s'agit d'une fiche récapitulative sur le present perfect et le present perfect be + -ing. Les explications sont en français.
Synthèse d'anglais : la construction de soi
Essay - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
Bonjour voici ci-dessous mon oral de spécialité anglais en terminal portant sur l'axe construction de soi. Bonne chance
Night Mail - Wystan Hugh Auden (1936)
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
Night Mail was written in 1936 by Auden. He was asked to write it for a 22-minute-long documentary also called "Night Mail," and also released in 1936 by the general post office in the UK. This documentary was created to show how the night mail worked, to illustrate what it was like to work on...
The Canadian Caper and How reality is delt with in moving pictures (or fiction).
Presentation - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
The Canadian Caper is the name given to the exfiltration operation of these six American citizens following a coordinated action by the CIA and the Canadian government to rescue them from Iran after and hostage-taking in the American ambassy in Teheran during the Iranian revolution of 1979. Ben...
Native American History and Culture
Tutorials/exercises - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
Ce devoir est sur la culture et l'histoire des natives américains à partir d'une vidéo sur youtube nommé 6 Stories Celebrating Native American History and Culture. Ce n'est pas une retranscription de la vidéo mais un devoir avec des exemples tirés de la vidéo.
Review of the film Irresistible
Litterature review - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
Le document est une analyse du film Irresistible. Il en fait la description et donne son avis sans pour autant trop en dire.
Poor Man's Guardian, no. 72, 27 (October 1832) - what are the political stakes linked to the Reform Act and how can we understand the place of the media in the organization of power in the United Kingdom during this period?
Text commentary - 2 pages - Philosophy
The Representation of the People Act 1832 brought about important changes in the exchange between British institutions during the 19th century and allowed for the disappearance of small districts or access to the right to vote for a certain number of individuals such as small landowners. The Act...
Street art, Banksy
Case study - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
Dialogue entre un journaliste et Banksy sur le street art et sa vision du monde Banksy serait un artiste du Street art, il demeure à ce jour un vrai mystère puisque sa vraie identité n'a jamais été dévoilée.
As I Lay Dying - Dewey Dell
Text commentary - 9 pages - Literature
Il s'agit d'un commentaire littéraire sur la section 14 dédiée au personnage féminin: Dewey Dell. Dans cette analyse j'ai cherché à montré l'ambivalence de l'esprit maternel à travers l'interaction entre le sociolecte, l'idiolecte et le dialecte de Dewey Dell. Ainsi,...
How a movie can tell a love efficiently ?
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
Tâche finale sur le thème "Meeting others" en spécialité LLCE. Analyse du film "Me Before You" et rapprochement au thème et à la problématique "How a movie can tell a love efficiently ?"
Me Talk Pretty One Day - Résumé
Book review - 16 pages - Linguistics & languages
Résumé d'un livre à étudier en licence 2 Résumé approfondi par chapitre
Lifeboat Earth Famine (Onora O'Neill, 2016), Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Peter Singer, 1972) - The moral obligation to act against hunger and poverty
Text commentary - 5 pages - Philosophy
Hunger and poverty have been a consistent problem for humanity. While the majority of humanity agrees that hunger and poverty are atrocious, the degree to which we are morally obligated to interfere is debatable. I will be examining two philosophers' papers, both that argue we are morally...
Exposé en anglais sur la Ketamine (PPT+script)
Presentation - 12 pages - Linguistics & languages
C'est un exposé en anglais sur la kétamine d'une dizaine de minutes. Le document contient à la fois le powerpoint mais aussi le discours associé au PPT. C'est un exposé de M1 Chimie qui est en 3 parties.
Junky - William Seward Burroughs (1953) - Is Junky merely the story of the narrator's drug addiction?
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
Junky, the first novel of W. BURROUGHS, was published for the first time in 1953. It deals with the story of drug addiction, through one example: William LEE, the narrator. It is a major work relating the lifestyle of drug addicts during the 1950s. He employs a laconic tone, but he always seems...
The Subterraneans - Jack Kerouac (1959) - The role of jazz in the novel
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
"The Subterraneans" is a Jack Kerouac's novel written in the 50's (written in 1953 and published in 1958). This novella is not fictional, it deals with a very short romance that Jack Kerouac had with an African American woman, Alena Lee (New York, 1953). But it was bad form to have this...
Is a road trip running away from things or running towards something?
Text commentary - 1 pages - Literature
A road trip is a travel, an escape by campervan or motorcycle (like a Harley Davidson), through vast spaces and during long hours on the road, to discover new landscape, cities or countries. I will take three texts as examples.
Can new technologies facilitate the exchanges?
Essay - 1 pages - Philosophy
Now, we are going to talk about new technologies to illustrate this notion. Indeed, new technologies, such as SMS, e-mail, and the World Wide Web, are all around us nowadays, like our smartphones. So, we're going to try to answer the question: "Can new technologies facilitate the exchanges?"
