Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (1817)
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
Northanger Abbey is one Jane Austen's books, which was first published in 1817, three years after Pride and Prejudice, her best-known novel, and also the year she died. Jane Austen might be one of the most popular writers of her time and is still world-renowned to this day. Northanger Abbey...
What are problems and how do we deal with them?
Presentation - 5 pages - Philosophy
Faced with the same event, several people can react in totally different ways. Better still, the same person, at different times, can react in a completely different way when faced with the same situations. All of this allows us to affirm that it is perhaps not reality itself that causes the...
Beware the next be thing - Summary
Book review - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
Here is the summary of the article “Beware the next big thing” published May 2014 in the Harvard Business Review. The author, Julian Birkinshaw, argues the idea that adopting new, popular management models is extremely risky for the stability of a company if the manager did not...
British Civilisation - Commentaire de texte
Text commentary - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
Commentaire du document suivant : "Let Us Face the Future: A Declaration of Labour Policy for the Consideration of the Nation"
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 ?"
