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• Question : LES HOMMES FONT-ILS LIBREMENT LEUR HISTOIRE ?

  II. PROBLEMATIQUE PREMIER MOMENT : CONTENU EXPLICITE DE L'ENONCE Réfléchir sur l'hypothèse d'un déterminisme historique en cherchant à savoir si la raison des événements finit toujours par prévaloir sur le bon vouloir des hom­ mes autrement :dit savoir si l'homme n'est que le jouet passif d'événements qui le dominent ou s'il est l'artisan supérieur d'un processus qu'il maîtrise ? DEUXIEME MOMENT : CONTENU IMPLICITE DE L'ENONCE Premier point de vu...

• Les droits subjectifs et leurs titulaires

  2Prépas HEC « Ce qu’on appelle liberté , dans le langage politique , c’est le droit de faire des lois , c’est-à- dire d’ enchaîner la liberté . » Auguste Vermorel pénale. Dans certains cas toutefois, le secret ne s’applique pas, il en va ainsi de la correspondance des détenus. En France, les écoutes téléphoniques depuis 1991 doivent faire l’objet soit d’une autorisation écrite et motivée du Premier ministre (écoute administrative) soit d’une autoris...

• Apartheid.

• From Brown v.

  their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. The effect of this separation on their educationalopportunities was well stated by a finding in the Kansas case by a court which nevertheless felt compelled to rule against the Negro plaintiffs: “Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of thelaw; for the policy of separating...

• Pottery I INTRODUCTION Pottery, clay that is chemically altered and permanently hardened by firing in a kiln.

  basket, or a clay or plaster form. Liquid clay can be poured into plaster molds. A pot can be coil built: Clay is rolled between the palms of the hands and extended intolong coils, a coil is formed into a ring, and the pot is built up by superimposing rings. Also, a ball of clay can be pinched into the desired shape. The most sophisticatedpottery-making technique is wheel throwing. The potter's wheel, invented in the 4th millennium BC, is a flat disk that revolves horizontally on a pivot. Both...

• LES GRANDS COMPOSITEURS EUROPEENS (Exposé – Art & Littérature – Collège/Lycée)

  • Dans la période dite « classique », la musique dramatique et instrumentale évolue . Au savant contrepoint de Bach , les compositeurs préfèrent un style plus naturel. Cela passe par la création de nouvelles formes au xq uelles participent la France , l 'Allemagne et l'Italie . • la sonate à deux ou trois instruments donne naissance à la sonate pou r instrument solo , au concerto , au q uatuor, à la sym phonie . le violon cède une partie de sa suprématie...

• South Africa - country.

  The major soil zones are conditioned largely by climatic factors. In the semiarid north and west, soils are alkaline and poorly developed. In the southern part of WesternCape Province, rain falls mostly in the winter months, and soils there form slowly and are generally thin and immature. The moderate temperatures and summer rainfallof the High Veld and eastern coastal areas create conditions for more productive organic decomposition, leading to dark, fertile soils, or chernozems, similar to tho...

• « The problem we all live with »

• LA DANSE (Exposé – Art & Littérature – Collège/Lycée)

  Il ne prend la direction de celui-ci qu'en 1776, à la fin d'une carrière qu'il réalise en grande partie à l 'étranger . A l'Opéra , il monte les Petits Riens (1778) sur une musique de Mozart . • Réduisant les déploiements de virtuosité auxquels se complaisaient les danseurs, Noverre crée le spectacle de danse se suffisant à lui-même , tel qu'il est encore conçu aujourd'hui . LE BAlLET ROMANTIQUE • Après la poésie , le roman et la peinture , le théâtre co...

• LA LINGUISTIQUE : SCIENCE DU LANGAGE ET DES LANGUES

  LE SCHÉMA DE JAKOBSON Héritant de théories de la communi­ cation, ce schéma associe au «message" des fonctions du langage (en italique) : le Destinateur (fonction expressive) envoie un Message à un Destinataire (fonction conative , qui marque !"invitation à agir et à réagir). le Message lui-même (fonction poétique, désignant le travail de la forme) prend sens en fonction d'un Contexte (fonction dénotative , qui marque la production d'informations), v...

• Rap I INTRODUCTION Jay-Z Rapper Jay-Z rose to popularity with such albums as Vol.

  Run-DMCTypically in rap music, vocalists recite rhyming lyrics in time to a beat that may be sampled from prerecorded music byother groups. Black youths developed rap music on the streets of inner cities in the United States during the 1970s, butthe style has expanded to include a wider variety of performers and audiences. The rap group Run-DMC, shown here, wasa powerful early influence in the genre. The group helped bring rap music into the mainstream when it released “WalkThis Way” (1986), a s...

• AUTRUI (cours de philosophie)

  AUTRUI Introduction: l'existence d'autrui pose-t-elle un problème philosophique? 1. Pour la philosophie moderne, un problème de connaissance : Descartes juge des chapeaux ambulants. Sciences humaines et philosophie: un exemple, le racisme. 2. La reconnaissance d'autrui: a. l'approche affective : Rousseau et la pitié. b. l'approche polémique: Hobbes. c. du sujet de dro it à la p-ersonne universelle: la dialectique hégélienne et la per sonne universelle. Conclusion:...

• Ellroy, James - écrivain.

  4 UN ÉCRIVAIN HORS NORMES James Ellroy est aujourd’hui l’un des auteurs de romans noirs américains les plus populaires. Il a réussi à canaliser ses pulsions les plus sombres pour les transcender dans le roman noir. Son style cru et acide dépeint les recoins sombres de la société américaine. Il s’intéresse particulièrement aux structures et au fonctionnement de l’État ainsi qu’à ses pratiques policières. Ses romans revêtent une dimension historique, notamment ceux de la trilogie Underworld U.S....

• Van Gogh (Exposé – Art & Littérature – Collège/Lycée)

  à ce contact- c'est l'époque des premiers Tournesols -, et il va «sur le motif », à l'Instar des impressionnistes, peindre des vues urbaines (Le Pont d'Asnières , Le Boulevard de Clichy) et des paysages des bords de Seine : Asnières, Boug ival, Chatou, Argenteuil , etc. Quelque deux cent trente peintu res réalisées en deux ans à Paris témoignent de l'évolution de sa peinture vers les couleurs vives et de son état d'esprit plus gai et comme apaisé...

• HiSTOiRE DE UNiON JACK

  descendant du roi d'Angleterre Henry VII Tudor, et il se trouve en effet être le plus proche héritier de la « Reine-Vierge » (The Virgin Queen). The King of Scotlandis a distant descendant of King Henry VII Tudor of England, and it is indeed be the nearest heir to the "Virgin Queen".Il est le fils de la cousine de la reine, MaryStuart (connu aussi sous le nom de Bloody Mary), qu'elle a fait décapiter, et de Henry Darnley, lui-même exécuté par Mary Stuart. He is the son of the cousin ofQueen Mary...

• Aboriginal Australians - History.

  Until Europeans began to settle in Australia in 1788, the Aboriginal way of life was supported by hunting, gathering, and fishing. Like other hunting and gatheringpeoples, Aboriginal people had an extremely detailed knowledge of their environment, especially plant ecology and animal behavior. The deep connection betweenAboriginal people and the natural world influenced every part of their culture, including their food gathering, tools, trade, religion, art, music, language, and socialorganizatio...

• National Football League Records.

  Norm Johnson 1,736 Matt Stover 1,752* Nick Lowery 1,711 Jan Stenerud 1,699 Jason Elam 1,696* Eddie Murray 1,594 Field Goals MadeMorten Andersen 546* Gary Anderson 538 John Carney 418* Matt Stover 418* Nick Lowery 383 Jan Stenerud 373 Jason Elam 382* Norm Johnson 366 Jason Hanson 362* Eddie Murray 352 Longest Field Goal (yards)Jason Elam 63 Tom Dempsey 63 Morten Andersen 60 Steve Cox 60 Morten Andersen 59 Steve Christie 59 Pete Stoyanovich 59 Tony Franklin 59 InterceptionsPaul Krause 81 Emlen Tun...

• La peinture russo-soviétique (Exposé – Art & Littérature – Collège/Lycée)

  LES AMBULANTS ET LE COUlANT SLAVOPHILE • Aprés la guerre de Crimée {1853 -1856 ), les peintres russes représentent avec de plus en plus de réalisme leur époque , dénonçant ses excès et prônant plus de justice sociale . • C'est dans ce contexte qu'apparaît la querelle opposant les " Slavophiles », tenants d 'un nationalisme artistique slave, aux " Occidentaux », forgés par le classicisme , qui perdure près d'un demi-si ècle. • En 1863 , deux ans après l'a...

• Whales.

  whales travel to cool waters near the Arctic or Antarctica every summer. They feed on krill , small animals that look like shrimp. In the winter, baleen whales head for warmer waters near the equator tobreed. Other whales do not migrate. Narwhals, for instance, live year-round in the cool waters of the Arctic andNorth Atlantic oceans. HAVING BABY WHALES After male and female whales mate, it takes from 10 to 16 months for a baby whale to form. The lengthof time depends on the whale species. A wh...

• Socrate : ACCOUCHEUR DE LA PENSÉE (Exposé – Art & Littérature – Collège/Lycée)

  voire héroïque -il aurait entre autre s sauvé la vie à Xénophon et à Alcibiade , et avait une haute idée du devoir patriotique , fondé sur la morale . • il n'occupe aucune fonction politique , expliquant sur un ton provocateur qu'il ne veut pas risquer d'être corrompu par l'argent ou e xécuté pour avoir dit ce qu'il pense . • Les accusations portées contre lui avant sa mort mentionnent qu'il corrompait la jeunesse : il a sans doute, plus vraisem...

• Bears.

  American black bears live in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. Scientists think there maybe as many as 700,000 black bears in the United States. American black bears eat grasses, berries,acorns, and walnuts. BROWN BEAR Brown bears have fur that is light or dark brown. They also have a big hump on their shoulders. Theirsnout is turned upward. Brown bears live in Asia, Europe, and North America. Grizzly bears are a kind ofbrown bear. Brown bears are among the largest bears. Large mal...

• CUBISME ET FUTURISME (Exposé – Art & Littérature – Collège/Lycée)

  • là où Picasso et Braque s'astreignent à une palette limitée de teintes sourdes, léger fait éclater les tons vifs qu'il dit être «un tonique nécessaire n. !:année qui suit le voit se consacrer à la théorie des contrastes qui conclura définitivement sa période cubiste . ne commence peindre qu'en 1911, sous la double influ ence de Cézanne et du duo Braque -Picasso. Analyste rationnel, cet artiste un peu plus jeune que les précéde nts cherc he avant tout...

• Basketball Hall of Fame.

  Lanier, Bob 1992 Lapchick, Joe 1966 Lemon, Meadowlark 2003 Lieberman-Cline, Nancy 1996 Lloyd, Earl 2003 Lovellette, Clyde 1988 Lucas, Jerry 1979 Luisetti, Angelo (Hank) 1959 Macauley, C. Edward 1960 Malone, Moses 2001 Maravich, Peter P. 1987 Marcari, Hortência de Fátima 2005 Martin, Slater 1981 McAdoo, Bob 2000 McCracken, Branch 1960 McCracken, Jack 1962 McDermott, Bobby 1988 McGuire, Dick 1993 McHale, Kevin 1999 Meneghin, Dino 2003 Meyers, Ann 1993 Mikan, George L. 1959 Mikkelson, Vern 1995 Mil...

• Basketball Hall of Fame Players.

  Lanier, Bob 1992 Lapchick, Joe 1966 Lemon, Meadowlark 2003 Lieberman-Cline, Nancy 1996 Lloyd, Earl 2003 Lovellette, Clyde 1988 Lucas, Jerry 1979 Luisetti, Angelo (Hank) 1959 Macauley, C. Edward 1960 Malone, Moses 2001 Maravich, Peter P. 1987 Marcari, Hortência de Fátima 2005 Martin, Slater 1981 McAdoo, Bob 2000 McCracken, Branch 1960 McCracken, Jack 1962 McDermott, Bobby 1988 McGuire, Dick 1993 McHale, Kevin 1999 Meneghin, Dino 2003 Meyers, Ann 1993 Mikan, George L. 1959 Mikkelson, Vern 1995 Mil...

• Le Rouge et le Noir Incipit Analyse

• United States Senate.

  providing for military forces, and declaring war. Article I, Section 8, also gives Congress implied powers—to “make all laws which shall be necessary and proper” forcarrying out the enumerated powers, and to investigate and oversee the executive branch. The Senate also has the power to conduct impeachment trials against thepresident, federal judges, and other officials. The Senate can only impeach someone after the House brings charges, however. A two-thirds majority vote of thesenators in the c...

• Hawaii (state) - geography.

  limestone along the coast. The volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands are all so-called shield volcanoes, or lava domes. Unlike the volcanoes of Alaska and South America, those of Hawaii were notcreated by very explosive eruptions. Formed mostly by lava flows, they are great rounded mountain masses, rather than steep-sided cones. Mauna Kea, dormant forcenturies, is the highest mountain in the state. It rises to 4,205 m (13,796 ft) above sea level, and its summit is dotted with cinder cones formed by...

• Hawaii (state) - USA History.

  limestone along the coast. The volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands are all so-called shield volcanoes, or lava domes. Unlike the volcanoes of Alaska and South America, those of Hawaii were notcreated by very explosive eruptions. Formed mostly by lava flows, they are great rounded mountain masses, rather than steep-sided cones. Mauna Kea, dormant forcenturies, is the highest mountain in the state. It rises to 4,205 m (13,796 ft) above sea level, and its summit is dotted with cinder cones formed by...

• Steven Spielberg I INTRODUCTION Steven Spielberg The imaginative films of Steven Spielberg are known for their technical creativity and memorable characters.

  Courtesy of Everett Collection Spielberg teamed up with writer-producer George Lucas in the 1980s to make the action-adventure Indiana Jones film series: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Other directorial projects during this period included the science-fiction fantasy E.T.—The Extra-Terrestrial , at the time the highest-grossing film ever made; The Color Purple (1985), a drama based on the novel...

• Louisiana - geography.

  lakes are on the Red River and its tributaries. In addition, small oxbow lakes are numerous in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. Oxbow lakes are formed when a river cutsthrough the neck of one of its loops, or meanders, thus establishing a shorter course and leaving the former loop as a lake separate from the river. Louisiana also hassome artificially created reservoirs. C Coastline Louisiana’s long and irregular coastline extends along the Gulf of Mexico from the Pearl River on the east to the S...

• Louisiana - USA History.

  lakes are on the Red River and its tributaries. In addition, small oxbow lakes are numerous in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. Oxbow lakes are formed when a river cutsthrough the neck of one of its loops, or meanders, thus establishing a shorter course and leaving the former loop as a lake separate from the river. Louisiana also hassome artificially created reservoirs. C Coastline Louisiana’s long and irregular coastline extends along the Gulf of Mexico from the Pearl River on the east to the S...

• Billiards.

  One of the most important snooker players in history was Joe Davis of England, who retired in 1946 after dominating the game for 20 years. He made runs of 100points or more 687 times. This record was later broken by Australia's Horace Lindrum, whose uncle Walter Lindrum was also a world-class billiards player. The mostsuccessful players in recent years include Ireland’s Ken Doherty, Scotland’s Stephen Hendry, and England’s Steve Davis, Jimmy White, and Mark Williams. IV HISTORY Billiards can b...

• Excerpt from Henry VI - anthology.

  SON. Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.This man whom hand to hand I slew in fightMay be possessèd with some store of crowns;And I, that haply take them from him now,May yet ere night yield both my life and themTo some man else, as this dead man doth me.—Who's this? O God! It is my father's face,Whom in this conflict I, unwares, have killed.O, heavy times, begetting such events!From London by the King was I pressed forth;My father, being the Earl of Warwick's man,Came on the part of York, pr...

• H. Bergson sur l’art

• Saskatoon - Geography.

  were suspended after being charged with dumping two indigenous men at the outskirts of the city in the middle of the winter. They froze to death. The city requested aspecial Royal Canadian Mounted Police task force to investigate the matter. VII HISTORY Indigenous peoples inhabited the Saskatoon area for more than 5,000 years before white settlers arrived. The original settlement was designed in 1882 to be theadministrative center of a temperance colony led by Ontario Methodists. The city grew...

• United States History - U.

  and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...

• United States History - U.

  and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...

• North Carolina - geography.

  The drainage divide in North Carolina follows the Blue Ridge range on the eastern margin of the mountain region. This is called the “Eastern Continental Divide.” West ofthis divide, rivers drain into the Mississippi River through the Tennessee River and other tributaries of the Ohio River. The French Broad, the largest, and the LittleTennessee flow into the Tennessee River. The New River flows into the Kanawha River of West Virginia which in turn flows into the Ohio River. Most of the state’s ri...

• North Carolina - USA History.

  The drainage divide in North Carolina follows the Blue Ridge range on the eastern margin of the mountain region. This is called the “Eastern Continental Divide.” West ofthis divide, rivers drain into the Mississippi River through the Tennessee River and other tributaries of the Ohio River. The French Broad, the largest, and the LittleTennessee flow into the Tennessee River. The New River flows into the Kanawha River of West Virginia which in turn flows into the Ohio River. Most of the state’s ri...

• Theodore Roosevelt.

  in Oyster Bay, Long Island. The couple had five children, Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel Carow, Archibald Bullock, and Quentin. They also raised Alice, Roosevelt’s daughterfrom his first marriage. Discouraged with politics, Roosevelt enjoyed family life and literary pursuits. He wrote Essays on Practical Politics in 1888. The same year he also wrote an opinionated biography of Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman who helped draft the Constitution of the United States. The book revealed far mo...

• Theodore Roosevelt

  in Oyster Bay, Long Island. The couple had five children, Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel Carow, Archibald Bullock, and Quentin. They also raised Alice, Roosevelt’s daughterfrom his first marriage. Discouraged with politics, Roosevelt enjoyed family life and literary pursuits. He wrote Essays on Practical Politics in 1888. The same year he also wrote an opinionated biography of Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman who helped draft the Constitution of the United States. The book revealed far mo...

• Extreme Sports.

  racing events are the Raid Gauloises and the Eco-Challenge. Created in 1989 by French journalist Gerard Fusil, the Raid Gauloises is a grueling two-week adventure racein which five-person teams cross rugged and remote terrain. The inaugural Raid was held in New Zealand, and subsequent races have been staged in Costa Rica,Madagascar, Borneo, and Chile. The race has five separate stages designed to fit each location’s unique terrain. Stages may require horseback riding, white-waterpaddling, mounta...

• San Jose (California) - geography.

  The San Jose metropolitan area is an economic powerhouse. It is the single most important high-technology center in the United States, specializing in aerospace andcomputer technology. Assisting in the area’s steady innovation is its many venture capital firms, which loan money to entrepreneurs starting new companies. It isestimated that the region contains one-half of the leading venture capital firms in the world. Among the nation’s largest companies in the San Jose metropolitan regionare Inte...

• From The Canterbury Tales - anthology.

  In Gernade at the sege eek hadde he beOf Algezir, and riden in Belmarye;At Lyes was he and at Satalye,Whan they were wonne; and in the Grete SeeAt many a noble arivee hadde he be. At mortal batailes hadde he been fifteene,And foughten for oure feith at TramisseneIn listes thries, and ay slayn his fo. This ilke worthy knyght hadde been alsoSometime with the lord of PalatyeAgain another hethen in Turkye;And everemore he hadde a soverein pris.And though that he were worthy, he was wis,And of his po...

• Jacksonville (Florida) - geography.

  and southern sections and avoiding the downtown bottleneck where Interstate 95 crosses the Saint Johns River at the Fuller Warren Bridge. In addition to being a regional highway crossroads, the city is a railway hub, with Amtrak passenger service and several freight routes. The city’s expanding airport,located in northern Jacksonville, was the nation’s fastest growing in passenger volume in the mid-1990s. V GOVERNMENT Jacksonville has a mayor-council form of municipal government. The mayor and...

• Astronomy - astronomy.

  Telescopes may use either lenses or mirrors to gather visible light, permitting direct observation or photographic recording of distant objects. Those that use lenses arecalled refracting telescopes, since they use the property of refraction, or bending, of light ( see Optics: Reflection and Refraction ). The largest refracting telescope is the 40-in (1-m) telescope at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, founded in the late 19th century. Lenses bend different colors of light by d...

• Salt Lake City - geography.

  adding a runway to the city’s airport. V GOVERNMENT Salt Lake City is governed by a mayor and a seven-member council, which is presided over by a chair. Voters elect each of these officials to four-year terms. Salt LakeCounty is governed by a county mayor elected to a four-year term and a nine-member county council. Council members—six elected from districts and three elected at-large—serve terms ranging from two to six years. The Utah Transit Authority, located in Salt Lake City, oversees publ...

• Les arts premiers ou primitifs

  • Les artisans ''''ii'·i·I3 f'i:i!J à dossier . En Nouvelle-Zélande , fMI' D'AFIIIQUE Les métaux aztèques les ma roe sont plus élaborés , dotés • Le travail des métaux, apparu en maîtrisent • Les objets de l'art océanien ont pour d'une construction imposante , • Sophistiqué et complexe, Afrique dès le Il' millénaire av. J.-C., en outre fonction principale de mettre en relation le wharenui ou cc maison de réunion ». l'art africain reflète toute la ric...

• Que changerait l’affirmation d’un respect envers le vivant ?

  la distance du mépris. Respecter autrui c'est /e laisser être lui­ même et ne pas le réduire à l'état de simple moyen pour nous. Que/ sens le respect peut-il avoir dans notre rapport au vivant en général? S'agit-il seulement de s'abstenir de cruauté? Ou faut-il aller plus loin et s'interdire toute utilisation quelle qu'elle soit:, y compris alimentaire? •Quelles difficultés s'opposent à l'élargissement de la notion de respect? L...

• American Revolution.

  C1 The South Southern agriculture was founded on the cultivation of tobacco, wheat, and corn in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina, and of rice and indigo (a blue dye) in SouthCarolina and Georgia. There was a large demand for these crops in Europe. These crops were cultivated with the help of black slaves imported from Africa. The whiteplanter class in the South was the most powerful, both politically and economically. C2 The North Wheat was the main cash crop of the mid-Atlantic colonies...