1619 résultats pour "aboutissement"

• Cycling.

  gather to cheer the riders as they pedal by on each lap. Unlike stage racing and time trialing, the emphasis in a criterium is on speed and bike handling rather thanendurance. Track racing is done in a stadium-like arena called a velodrome. A modern velodrome is an oval track with steeply banked corners that facilitate high speed. Velodromes can be enclosed or open-air, and the tracks are constructed of wood or concrete. Popular in Europe and the United States at the beginning of the 20th cent...

• la constitution

  Avec la renaissance va apparai t re le concept moderne d’état que nous appelons l’état- nation, c’est à cette époque historiquement que le pouvoir poli t iq ue va se consti t uer à l’in tér ieu r de ter r i to i res européens en lu t t an t d’une part contre l’émiet tement féodal et d’aut re part contre la prétent ion hégémonique du pape. A la fin du 17 ème siècle cela va abouti r à une conception à la fois...

• Calligraphy I INTRODUCTION Japanese Calligraphy This hanging scroll is an example of Japanese calligraphy.

  Section of the Egyptian Book of the DeadThe Egyptian Book of the Dead was a text containing prayers, spells, and hymns, the knowledge of which was to be usedby the dead to guide and protect the soul on the hazardous journey through the afterlife. This section of one such book,dating from the early 19th Dynasty, shows the final judgment of the deceased (in this case Hu-Nefer, the royal scribe)before Osiris, the god of the dead. Hieroglyphs as well as illustrations portray the ritual of weighing t...

• Shakespeare

  What we can notice , is that Shakespeare tries to open our eyes on things that we tend to overlook. I personally think he wants us to understand the world better. Shakespeare's work is really special: even though he lived in the 16th century, his words, and his ideas about the society, life, love, feelings...still have an effect on people, no matter which generation they are in (Romeo and Juliet for example, is one of his plays that are still celebrated today. The idea of a man and a woman livin...

• Excerpt from Hard Times - anthology.

  Mr Bounderby, the two gentlemen at this present moment walking through Coketown, and both eminently practical, who could, on occasion, furnish more tabularstatements derived from their own personal experience, and illustrated by cases they had known and seen, from which it clearly appeared—in short it was the onlyclear thing in the case—that these same people were a bad lot altogether, gentlemen; that do what you would for them they were never thankful for it, gentlemen; thatthey were restless,...

• 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...

• Air - chemistry.

  lighting systems, fertilizers, and semiconductors (substances used to make the chips in computers, calculators, televisions, microwave ovens, and many other electronicdevices). A Oxygen More than half of the oxygen produced in the United States is used by the steel industry, which injects the gas into basic oxygen furnaces to heat and produce steel(see Iron and Steel Manufacture: Basic Oxygen Process ). Metalworkers also combine oxygen with acetylene to produce high-temperature torch flames th...

• Black Death.

  disappeared in the West. V DISAPPEARANCE OF PLAGUE Plague became less common in Europe after the 1530s. The last plague in England was in 1665, the last in Western Europe in 1722. Numerous theories have beenoffered to explain the disappearance of plague. It has been argued that black rats, the primary carriers of plague, may have been replaced by larger brown rats that donot carry the infection. A second theory suggests that increased immunity among the rodents that carried the disease or chang...

• Black Death .

  disappeared in the West. V DISAPPEARANCE OF PLAGUE Plague became less common in Europe after the 1530s. The last plague in England was in 1665, the last in Western Europe in 1722. Numerous theories have beenoffered to explain the disappearance of plague. It has been argued that black rats, the primary carriers of plague, may have been replaced by larger brown rats that donot carry the infection. A second theory suggests that increased immunity among the rodents that carried the disease or chang...

• Army. I INTRODUCTION Army, military land forces of a nation, assembled, drilled, disciplined,

  disappearance for several centuries of large standing armies in Europe. A Middle Ages Feudalism was based on a concept of local defense, each baron or landowner governing land that had been given him by the king, and each lord having his ownpersonal protective forces recruited from among men who worked for him. In return, each lord and his men were pledged to annual service to the monarch and couldbe called on in special instances, as in the defense of Christendom during the Crusades. National...

• Mark Twain.

  father, who keeps him prisoner in an isolated cabin. The boy escapes and, together with a runaway slave, Jim, sails down the Mississippi on a raft. During their trip,Huck and Jim encounter many unusual characters, including two families involved in a senseless feud and a pair of scoundrels who swindle innocent townspeople. Theirexperiences bring about a strong friendship between the boy and the slave, but their adventures end when Jim is captured and held at the farm of Tom Sawyer’s AuntSally. W...

• Mark Twain I INTRODUCTION Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), American writer and humorist, whose best work is characterized by broad, often irreverent humor or biting social satire.

  father, who keeps him prisoner in an isolated cabin. The boy escapes and, together with a runaway slave, Jim, sails down the Mississippi on a raft. During their trip,Huck and Jim encounter many unusual characters, including two families involved in a senseless feud and a pair of scoundrels who swindle innocent townspeople. Theirexperiences bring about a strong friendship between the boy and the slave, but their adventures end when Jim is captured and held at the farm of Tom Sawyer’s AuntSally. W...

• Mark Twain - USA History.

  father, who keeps him prisoner in an isolated cabin. The boy escapes and, together with a runaway slave, Jim, sails down the Mississippi on a raft. During their trip,Huck and Jim encounter many unusual characters, including two families involved in a senseless feud and a pair of scoundrels who swindle innocent townspeople. Theirexperiences bring about a strong friendship between the boy and the slave, but their adventures end when Jim is captured and held at the farm of Tom Sawyer’s AuntSally. W...

• Depression (psychology).

  IV CAUSES Some depressions seem to come out of the blue, even when things are going well. Others seem to have an obvious cause: a marital conflict, financial difficulty, or somepersonal failure. Yet many people with these problems do not become deeply depressed. Most psychologists believe depression results from an interaction betweenstressful life events and a person’s biological and psychological vulnerabilities. A Biological Factors Depression runs in families. By studying twins, researche...

• Police.

  body. In larger agencies, executive officers may be selected through a civil service or merit system, after moving through the ranks from patrol officer to sergeant,lieutenant, captain, and (in still larger agencies) deputy or assistant chief. At the county level, the head of the agency usually holds the title sheriff. The sheriff is almost always elected and has the power to appoint deputies. Sheriffs'departments often provide law enforcement services for unincorporated areas of counties and ar...

• D-Day Invasion.

  The Allied planners focused on the beaches around Caen and the Cotentin Peninsula in northern France rather than those of Calais, even though it meant the forcewould be crossing at a wider part of the English Channel. That disadvantage was far outweighed by what the site offered: comparatively scanty defensive fortificationsand beachhead ideally suited for successful exits. The clincher was an isolated battlefield that the Germans would have difficulty reinforcing. The date was set for May 1, 19...

• Calvin Coolidge.

  By 1923 President Harding was faced with a number of difficulties. A business depression, which had begun in 1922, continued. In addition, the Republican majorities inboth houses of Congress were reduced in the election of 1922, and a discontented farm bloc of Western Republican senators threatened to destroy the Senate majorityby allying with the Democrats. Finally, it was rumored that major scandals involving Harding's friends were about to break. The rumors were soon proved accurate. The dire...

• Calvin Coolidge

  By 1923 President Harding was faced with a number of difficulties. A business depression, which had begun in 1922, continued. In addition, the Republican majorities inboth houses of Congress were reduced in the election of 1922, and a discontented farm bloc of Western Republican senators threatened to destroy the Senate majorityby allying with the Democrats. Finally, it was rumored that major scandals involving Harding's friends were about to break. The rumors were soon proved accurate. The dire...

• Voilà des faits certains, évidents, palpables, et tout aussi inexpliqués que l'enflure et la rougeur de votre nez. Edmond About, le Nez d'un notaire

• Les brigands, au nombre de trois ou quatre cents, ont fondu sur l'escorte avec une fureur incroyable. Edmond About, le Roi des montagnes

• Je ne supporte pas que le souverain du monde puisse devenir pour une minute l'esclave d'un vil bâton. Edmond About, le Roi des montagnes

• Simón Bolívar.

  Again, he expressed his dislike of federalism and his preference for strong centralized republics. He felt that Venezuela and New Granada should unite into a centralizedrepublic, which would be called Colombia. This new republic would have an elected executive and a legislature consisting of an elected lower house and a hereditaryupper house. Lastly, he spoke about the need for a union of all the countries in Spanish America to ensure prosperity and security after independence. IV BOLÍVAR AS MI...

• DESMOULINS, Camille (1760-1794) Palais-Royal lance le mouvement qui aboutit à la prise de la Bastille.

• Scramble for Africa.

  additional territorial grabs. The most significant of these rules stated that colonial powers were obligated to notify each other when they claimed African territory.Further, subsequent “effective occupation” of the claimed area was necessary for the claim to remain valid. Through it all, as Europeans negotiated their rights toAfrican territory, not a single African was present. Once the conference was over, it was clear that a European Scramble for African territories was underway. Southern Afr...

• Iranian Art and Architecture I INTRODUCTION Iranian Art and Architecture, the visual arts of Iran.

  The first great development of ancient Persian architecture took place under the Achaemenid dynasty during the Persian Empire, from about 550 to 330 BC. Remains of Achaemenian architecture are numerous, the earliest being ruins at Pasargadae, the capital city of Cyrus the Great. These ruins include two palaces, a sacred precinct, acitadel, a tower, and the tomb of Cyrus. The palaces were set in walled gardens and contained central columnar halls, the largest of which was 37 m (111 ft) in length...

• Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

  A Religious Freedom Although religious freedom has not generally been curtailed in the United States, Roman Catholics, Jews, and members of such unconventional Protestant groups as theOneida Community and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have historically been discriminated against and sometimes have even been persecuted,although today overt discrimination has almost vanished. The federal Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as many state and local laws, prohibits religious discrimi...

• Uzbekistan - country.

  E Environmental Issues The evaporation of the Aral Sea is one of the worst ecological disasters in the world. The Aral has shrunk so much that it now holds only about one-fifth the volume ofwater it held in 1960. The shrinkage is due to irrigation withdrawals from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, a practice that began on a massive scale in the early 1960s aspart of the Soviet Union’s ill-conceived drive to increase cotton yields in Central Asia. Growing cotton in the naturally arid and saline soil...

• Je déjeunais d'une tasse de salep, je dînais d'un plat de viande avec beaucoup d'olives et de poisson sec. Edmond About, le Roi des montagnes

• C'était un brun ardent et velouté qui ne se rencontre que dans le grenat de Sibérie et dans certaines fleurs des jardins. Edmond About, le Roi des montagnes

• Quelle action, menée par Hissène Habré, aboutit au retrait des troupes françaises du Tchad en 1975: A.

• About Edmond, 1828-1885, né à Dieuze (Moselle), écrivain et académicien français.

• mythes et heros

  between different civilizations of the world. Consequently we can put this text in the notion of Myths and Heroes because of the traditions of Maoris’ tribe. In a second time, I would like to talk about the very famous speech of Martin Luther King Junior I Have a Dream . He pronounces his speech in Washington on the steps at the Lincoln memorial on August 28, 1963. This speech shows that in all points MLK is against segregation and injustice between black people and white people....

• Vocabulary about education life in the classroom: la vie de classe to

  a school trip = un voyage scolaire a lesson = un cours a period = une heure de cours breaktime = la récréation the lunch break = la pause déjeuner to invigilate = surveiller assembly = l'assemblée (chaque matin, dans les écoles britanniques, tous les élèves de l'école se rassemblent dans le grand hall pour assister à l'assemblée) to cheat = tricher to put one's hand up = lever la main maternity leave = congé de maternité a supply teacher = un professeur remplaçant to cover a lesson = remplacer u...

• Armadillo Armadillos are armor-plated animals about the size of a cat.

• Libre de tout souci, il put se livrer sans contrainte au doux penchant qui l'attirait vers la dot de Mademoiselle Steimbourg. Edmond About, le Nez d'un notaire

• DESMOULINS, Camille (1760-1794) Palais-Royal lance le mouvement qui aboutit à la prise de la Bastille.

• SUJET NATIONAL, SESSION DE JUIN 1995 LANGUE VIVANTE I

  Her father was delighted to have his daughter home. "She was so ashamed at being expelled, she didn't feel she could talle to anyone about it," he said. "She bottled everything up• so much that she couldn't bear it any longer. The poor girl. We would have unders- 35 tood and supported her whatever happened. W e are happy she is home and love her so much." However, Samantha's fatheris critical of the Swansea University: "1 am absolutely fur...

• animals farm

  bChp 4 :CC A new rebellion broke out. At first time, the farmers shows not to be troubled about this. The farmers become worried because animals become more angry. One day in October, Jones, Mr pilkington and Mr Frederick attack Animal Farm but animals are very prepared. Jones give a shot at Snowball and wounds him, but this is not enough to prevent Snowball from crashing into him and sending him tumbling to the ground. Boxer kills a man and he's remorse. Mollie is missing, she's hidin...

• Résumé animals farm (anglais)

  bChp 4 :CC A new rebellion broke out. At first time, the farmers shows not to be troubled about this. The farmers become worried because animals become more angry. One day in October, Jones, Mr pilkington and Mr Frederick attack Animal Farm but animals are very prepared. Jones give a shot at Snowball and wounds him, but this is not enough to prevent Snowball from crashing into him and sending him tumbling to the ground. Boxer kills a man and he's remorse. Mollie is missing, she's hidin...

• Ulysses (spacecraft) - astronomy.

  Ulysses was also used to study comet Hale-Bopp, which was first seen in 1995. Hale-Bopp travels an unusual path at a large angle to the ecliptic, and the trajectory ofUlysses was well suited to capture images of Hale-Bopp as it made its way around the Sun. Astronomers paid particular attention to Hale-Bopp’s plasma tail—a plume ofionized, or electrically charged, gas within the main tail that streams away from the comet when it approaches within about 1.5 AU from the Sun. They found that theplas...

• Biographie George Orwell en Anglais + Resume court de Animal Farm

  Animal Farm is a short political fable based on Joseph Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution. It was published in 1945. The animals of the Manor Farm live in a bad situation because their farmer Mr. Jones, a mean and always drunk man, exploits them. One day Old Major, an old pig, called a meeting of all the animals and told them about a dream that he had had the previous night. He had dreamed about an old song 'Beasts of England' that started a resistance against the human beings. Everyone...

• Ernest Hemingway I INTRODUCTION Ernest Hemingway Twentieth-century American author Ernest Hemingway wrote novels and stories that reflected his rich life experiences as a war correspondent, outdoor sportsman, and bullfight enthusiast.

  In his early work Hemingway used themes of helplessness and defeat, but in the late 1930s his writing began to reflect concerns about social problems. His novel To Have and Have Not (1937) and his play The Fifth Column, published in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories (1938), strongly condemned economic and political injustice. Two of his best short stories, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” were part of the story collection. In thecla...

• Shang Dynasty - history.

  dependents, and sacrificial victims lay among and beyond the buildings. The Xiaotun settlement was linked to a complex of settlements and craft centers bordering thefoothills of the Taihang Shan to the west. The absence of a wall around the site suggests the Late Shang kings were confident they could defend their settlement againstattacks from outsiders. On the north side of the Huan River, a Shang cemetery at Xibeigang contains the burial pits of eight of the last nine Shang kings. (Another tom...

• Aristotelianism, medieval

  are introduced by the interaction of Aristotle with Jewish, Christian and Islamic religious thinking. The Christianambiguities are perhaps the most familiar. Almost all of the Christian Aristotelians in the Latin West were members ofthe clergy. Most spent their professional lives teaching and writing, not the liberal arts or philosophy, but Christiantheology. It remains controversial whether or to what extent we can find an autonomous or even a textuallydistinguishable Aristotelian p...

• Film Noir I INTRODUCTION Lynch's Blue Velvet The motion picture Blue Velvet (1986) brought wide acclaim to American director David Lynch.

  Double IndemnityBarbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray are featured in Double Indemnity (1944), a story of lust and greed in the film noirtradition, directed by Billy Wilder. The film’s events are related in flashbacks by protagonist Walter Neff (MacMurray), whomakes a dying confession about a plot to kill a man for his insurance money.Bettmann/Corbis Another common aspect of film noir is the femme fatale, a seductive woman who lures the protagonist into actions that ultimately lead to his downfall...

• Inca Empire - history.

  rediscovered the site in 1911.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Inca society was strictly organized, from the emperor and royal family down to the peasants. The emperor was thought to be descended from the sun god, Inti, and hetherefore ruled with divine authority. All power rested in his hands. Only the influence of custom and the fear of revolt checked the emperor’s power. The emperor had oneofficial wife, but he had many royal concubines and his children by these wives often numbe...

• Winning One for the Gipper.

  Gipp had a swagger off the field as well. A noted pool shark and gambler, he frequented South Bend's less savory establishments and kept hours that would haveearned any other player a swift dismissal from the team. In an era when gambling and college football seemed congenial bedfellows, Gipp often served as the teambookie—for wagers on Notre Dame games. Accused by Rockne of lacking interest in the 1920 Notre Dame-Army clash, Gipp reportedly replied, “You're wrongthere,” according to Wake Up th...

• Microeconomics.

  changes in any of their underlying determinants. Thus, for example, fairly confident and precise predictions can be made about how changes in consumers' preferencesor in technology are likely to affect demand, supply, and equilibrium output, but only under conditions of perfect competition. Although the model of the firm under conditions of perfect competition is the starting point of the theory of supply in microeconomics, it is generally accepted thatmarkets are not usually characterized by pe...

• Y a-t-il des limites à l'expérimentation sur l'être vivant ?

  L'expérimentation est un concept scientifique qui n'existe que depuis quelques siècles, en effet auparavant seulesles sciences émanant de la pensée pure étaient critères de véracité. Au lieu d'observer & de faire des expériencesles scientifiques développaient des idées à priori sur les phénomènes de la nature & les mécanismes du corps, ellesétaient indépendantes de l'expérience. Il suffisait qu'une idée émane d'une autorité telle que la religion ou laphilosophie pour qu'elle soit considéré...

• Nicklaus-Watson Match.

  until 1977, primarily because golf officials felt that there weren't enough hotel rooms in the area to attract and accommodate the crowds. But officials finally relented,deciding that the majestic course deserved to stage golf's most noble tournament. The sun shone brightly over this scene for the July event. Nicklaus and Watson were both on the leader board after the first two rounds with identical scores of 68-70-138. Their dramatic play began in the third round, on Friday. Nicklaus jumped...