Krugman et la redistribution aux USA
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Linguistics & languages
Today in America, the president is the millionaire Donald Trump. He campaigned for protectionism and tax cut. And even if the polemics the president started on social medias outshined his politics, he actually kept his promises. He signed a decree meaning the end of the American's participation...
Analysis : 'Politics in Time', Paul Pierson
Case study - 5 pages - Literature
Analyse de l'ouvrage de Paul Pierson "Politics in Time", full english text
Résumé des chapitres 6-7-8-9 de Predictably Irrational (Dan Ariely)
Case study - 4 pages - Linguistics & languages
Fiche de lecture : chapitres 6,7,8 et 9, "Predictably irrational" de Dan Ariely
Daniel Coyle's The Talent Code, Chapter 1 : 'The Sweet Spot'
Case study - 5 pages - Linguistics & languages
Analysis and critical report of Daniel Coyle's The Talent Code, Chapter 1 : 'The Sweet Spot'
Constitution of American Anti-Slavery League - 1833
Case study - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
The document we are about to comment is an extract taken from The Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society, an abolitionist organization founded in 1833. It is therefore a political and historical document, and we will analyze it as such.
U.S.-Colombia : an Analysis of their Relationship. The colombian war on drugs between 1970 and 1990
Thesis - 11 pages - Linguistics & languages
The early 1980s saw Pablo Escobar reached its peak in terms of economic power and popular support. Colombia's parsimonious commitment to the war on drugs had not yet affected all its different actors at that time.
Qu'est ce que la relativité Générale d'Albert Einstein
Case study - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein's “E=MC²”, which he made popular in 1905 in his theory of special relativity, but that general of relativity, which he published in 1915, is not as famous.
The Circle - Dave Eggers (2013)
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
“My God. (…) It's heaven” are the first thoughts of Mae when she discovers the Circle (p. 1). This heaven will progressively become hell as we follow her into The Circle, a science-fiction novel written by Dave Eggers and published in 2013. Mae Holland joins the Circle, the most...
Marriage à la mode - Katherine Mansfield (1921)
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
Introduction: “I feel that indifference is really foreign to my nature and that to live in a state of it is to live in the only Hell I really appreciate,” wrote Katherine Mansfield in a letter written to Murry in Paris. The indifference is a major theme in “Marriage à la...
Commentary: Alice through the looking glass, Lewis Caroll
Text commentary - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
From an English very ancient songette, whose first version dates from 1797…
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
Case study - 4 pages - Linguistics & languages
Cette analyse écrite en anglais de l'oeuvre Benito Cereno d'Herman Melville décortique plus particulièrement la façon dont sont perçus les esclaves par l'auteur et le narrateur. Le thème est plus particulièrement "Giving Voice to Rebellious Slaves". Il y a également une comparaison...
"The Prologue" by Ann Bradstreet
Case study - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
Ce document rédigé en anglais pour un cours de littérature américaine est une analyse strophe par strophe du poème "The Prologue" d'Ann Bradstreet.
"Women-fowls and tree-women metaphors: an ecofeminist perspective on Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary"
Essay - 8 pages - Literature
This paper is an ecocritical reading of an extract from Madame Bovary, and assesses the extent to which such a reading is a fruitful demonstration of the relevance of ecocriticism to literary analysis.
Focus on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's life and The Gulag Archipelago (1973)
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
The author of The Gulag Archipelago, born a hundred years ago on December 11, 1918, in the very early Bolshevik Russia, is a Russian writer and dissident of the Soviet regime. Alexander Solzhenitsyn experienced civil war, Stalinist gulags, exile and disintegration of the former USSR. It is a...
Idea of progress - How far can we make our life more sustainable?
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
I'm going to deal with the notion ‘Idea of Progress'. To begin, progress can be defined as an improvement, a development in any field of activity: science, technology, living conditions… But progress can also have bad sides, and we are going to study one of them by now. Climate change...
Oral anglais Myths ad heroes
Presentation - 5 pages - Linguistics & languages
Cet oral rédigé porte sur l'une des 4 notions au bac d'anglais, à savoir Mythes et héros. Ce document entierement rédigé évoque la vie de Suzanne Lenglen, une tenniswoman francaise, ainsi que le discours de la reine Elisabeth sur l'importance du sport. Cet oral porte donc sur les...
Oral anglais Places and forms of power (lieux et formes de pouvoir)
Presentation - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
Cet oral rédigé porte sur l'une des 4 notions au bac d'anglais, à savoir Lieux et Formes de pouvoir. Ce document entierement rédigé évoque le débat qui a lieu en Amérique sur le droit des armes à feux et sur la notion de "gun control".
Oral anglais Idea of progress
Presentation - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
Ce document porte sur la notion d'idée de progrès pour le bac d'anglais de terminale. Il évoque notamment l'évolution de notre société grace à Internet et l'avenement des MOOCS (cours en ligne) et de leur bienfaits/limites. Il y egalement ) la fin du document toute la partie...
Family matters
Essay - 2 pages - Linguistics & languages
oral d'anglais entièrement rédigé sur le thème "family matters". Le thème est abordé par le biais des valeurs apportées aux enfants. Trois documents sont utilisés : la chanson "How could you leave us" de NF, une enquête d'un historien sur l'évolution de la famille appelé Steven Mintz...
Relations between the United States & Canada
Presentation - 18 pages - Linguistics & languages
Exposé rédigé en anglais qui explique les relations entre le Canada et les Etats Unis. Quel rôle a joué le Canada dans l'Histoire des Usa, leur relation économiques et les différences de culture.
Small Island - Andrea Levy (2004): which elements of Hortense's childhood can explain her behaviour as an adult?
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
This theme is large so we decided to focus on the theme of family throughout the novel, and especially Hortense's family. This character is a complex one and the reader doesn't always support her as she is often showing contempt to Queenie or Gilbert, her husband. In addition, she is...
Notion of myths and heroes - English oral for BAC
Essay - 2 pages - Philosophy
I am going to develop the notion of myths and heroes. Let me introduce my subject by giving you a short definition of those terms. A myth is a story that may or may not be true. Mythology includes the legends of our history, our religions, stories of how the world was created, and our heroes....
The Three Weissmanns of Westport - Cathleen Schine
Book review - 7 pages - Literature
Joseph (Joe/Josie) Weissmann divorced his wife. Joseph has got another woman, Felicity. Betty, his wife was surprised. They travelled to Tuscany. It was as if she was a maid (femme de chambre) and she was being fired. Joseph will give the apartment to Betty. Felicity liked this apartment....
Biography of an English novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
We studied Jane Austen as a romantic writer, although her interests lie outside the range of romantic elements. Jane Austen lived all her life (except for a few years) in the countryside. She started writing to entertain her family, she published 6 novels (their date does not correspond to the...
As You Like It - William Shakespeare (1623)
Essay - 10 pages - Literature
Northrop Frye, in A Natural Perspective, explains that there is often in Shakespearian comedies what he calls "a displacement from a world of chaos to a forest". The world of chaos is in As You Like It the Court, the spatial framework which used to prevail in the first Act of the play. Normally...
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde (1895)
Essay - 8 pages - Literature
In The Decay of Lying written by Oscar Wilde in 1891, one character named Vivian asserts: "... I prefer houses to the open air. In a house we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure." This statement proves to be true in The...
Idea of progress - publié le 18/12/2018
Essay - 2 pages - Philosophy
First of all, progress can be defined as evolution, because it is a change to something else, but unlike evolution, progress is supposed to be an improvement. It can occur in several fields such as science, medicine, technology, industry, or mentality. If we talk about the "idea" of what is...
Race and Blood: California's influence on Nazi eugenics and racial science
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
The Nazis' race-based crimes are well documented and well-known. Most people are familiar with Adolf Hitler, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and concentration camps. Less known, however, is America's role in influencing these racial crimes - California in particular. After the American...
It is only knowledge produced with difficulty that we truly value
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
When examining knowledge that is obtained with difficulty, one automatically thinks of the sciences. The scientific method, for instance, requires many repeated experiments, exact measurements, extensive background knowledge, and accurate observations. However, when one thinks of knowledge that...
Self-Concepts in The Red Dress (Alice Munro, 1946) and Raymond's Run (Toni Cade Bambara, 1972)
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
The short stories, The Red Dress by Alice Munro and Raymond's Run by Toni Cade Bambara, explore the effect that self-constructs have upon one's identity. In each of the short stories, characters' actions and lives are defined by their images alone, and they are often criticized for...
