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• Chinese Literature I INTRODUCTION Chinese Literature, writings of the Chinese people, with a continuous history of more than 3,000 years.

  (Huang) River basin region in the north. The verses are in lines of four characters (or syllables) and use rhyme and alliteration (repetition of the initial letter). Confuciusquoted them in his works. Because he described them as “without depraved thoughts,” all the verses in the Shi jing have been treated as moral allegories. (4) The Li ji (Book of Ritual ) contains detailed discussions of the principles of conduct at court and in private ceremonies. Although the Han dynasty and later ruler...

• Chinese Literature I INTRODUCTION Chinese Literature, writings of the Chinese people, with a continuous history of more than 3,000 years.

  (Huang) River basin region in the north. The verses are in lines of four characters (or syllables) and use rhyme and alliteration (repetition of the initial letter). Confuciusquoted them in his works. Because he described them as “without depraved thoughts,” all the verses in the Shi jing have been treated as moral allegories. (4) The Li ji (Book of Ritual ) contains detailed discussions of the principles of conduct at court and in private ceremonies. Although the Han dynasty and later ruler...

• Cyprus - country.

  40,000 cubic meters (1.4 million cubic feet) of salt water into fresh water per day, opened at Dhekelia in 1997, and a second larger plant opened at Larnaca in 2001. III PEOPLE OF CYPRUS The combined population of the Greek and Turkish sectors (2008 estimate) is 792,604. The overall population density is 86 persons per sq km (222 per sq mi). About69 percent of the island’s inhabitants live in urban areas. Greek-speaking Cypriots make up approximately 85 percent of the population. About 12 perc...

• Tennis.

  and interpret rules. The head official on the court, called the chair umpire, sits on a tall chair at one end of the net. A varying number of line judges sit around the courtbeyond the path of the players. Line judges determine whether serves and shots are good or out. A net-cord judge may be employed to determine when a ball touchesthe top of the net, and a foot-fault judge may watch for that specific infraction. In the 1980s electronic devices began to be used in some professional tournaments...

• Radio.

  signal, such as a musical note. This form of modulation, AM, is used in many radiotelephony services including standard radiobroadcasts. AM is also employed for carriercurrent telephony, in which the modulated carrier is transmitted by wire, and in the transmission of still pictures by wire or radio. See Broadcasting, Radio and Television. In FM the frequency of the carrier wave is varied within a fixed range at a rate corresponding to the frequency of a sound signal. This form of modulation, p...

• History of United States Business.

  their lives. But the rewards were worth it; a few lucrative voyages and a merchant could buy a townhouse, a carriage, perhaps a summer retreat. The merchant couldclimb the social ladder and circulate among the powerful in this highly materialistic society. This prospect of riches and the honor that accompanied them made Americancolonists willing to engage in highly speculative enterprises, such as shipping flour to the West Indies or importing goods from England by the thousands without beingcer...

• Welfare.

  industrializing societies. Governments typically financed social insurance programs with tax funds and direct levies on the wages of potential recipients. Social insurancereplaced part of incomes lost when workers became disabled, were laid off, or had reached an age that forced them out of the labor market. Later, governments of Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, and other countries developed forms of social insurance that provided population-wide, or universal,coverage. Such forms included chil...

• American Literature: Drama I INTRODUCTION American Literature: Drama, literature intended for performance, written by Americans in the English language.

  American plays, while still a minority, began to appear in the theater repertory in the 19th century. Although American plays were still styled after British models, theirsubject matter came to be based on specifically American incidents or themes. In the United States as in Britain, many plays reflected the influence of romanticism , a European literary and artistic movement. Melodrama, with its outpourings of emotion, was the most prevalent dramatic form in the 19th century. Gothic melodramas...

• Manitoba - Geography.

  E Plant Life Forests cover 66 percent of Manitoba. The main forest area is divided into the boreal forest and the mixed-wood forest. The boreal, or northern, forest containsconiferous (cone-bearing) trees, especially white and black spruce, balsam fir, and jack pine. South of the boreal forest is the mixed-wood forest, which contains conifers as well as such deciduous trees as white birch, aspen, poplar, and Manitoba maple. Prairie land is found in the southwest, where the natural vegetation i...

• Manitoba - Canadian History.

  E Plant Life Forests cover 66 percent of Manitoba. The main forest area is divided into the boreal forest and the mixed-wood forest. The boreal, or northern, forest containsconiferous (cone-bearing) trees, especially white and black spruce, balsam fir, and jack pine. South of the boreal forest is the mixed-wood forest, which contains conifers as well as such deciduous trees as white birch, aspen, poplar, and Manitoba maple. Prairie land is found in the southwest, where the natural vegetation i...

• Stone Age.

  limestone, quartzite, and indurated shale. Ground stone tools could be made on a wider range of raw material types, including coarser grained rock such as granite. Flaking produces several different types of stone artifacts, which archaeologists look for at prehistoric sites. The parent pieces of rock from which chips have beendetached are called cores, and the chips that have been removed from cores are called flakes. A flake that has had yet smaller flakes removed from one or more edgesin orde...

• Heart.

  situation. A Cardiac Cycle Although the right and left halves of the heart are separate, they both contract in unison, producing a single heartbeat. The sequence of events from the beginning ofone heartbeat to the beginning of the next is called the cardiac cycle. The cardiac cycle has two phases: diastole, when the heart’s chambers are relaxed, and systole,when the chambers contract to move blood. During the systolic phase, the atria contract first, followed by contraction of the ventricles. T...

• Long Island Express Nouvelle-Angleterre, 1938 (histoire)

  A droite : Corps de vétérans de la Première Guerre mondiale tués par un cyclone, alors qu'ils tenaient une réunion en septem­ bre 1935 en Floride. Les corps furent transportés au camp de Matecumbe Key sur des plan­ ches traînées par des voitures . Ci-dessous : Un couple assis à Rhode Island devant les débris de leur maison après sa destruc­ tion en septembre 1938 par un cyclone . jusqu'alors. Sept millions de personnes furent isolées du monde e...

• New Hampshire - geography.

  Washington. D1 Temperature The coldest parts of the state are in the White Mountains and the extreme north. Average January temperatures range from about -11° C (about 12° F) along theCanadian border to about -3° C (about 26° F) along the coast. July temperatures range from about 17° C (about 63° F) in the mountains to about 21° C (about 70° F)in the south. D2 Precipitation Precipitation is evenly distributed throughout the year over most of the state. However, the higher peaks of the White Mo...

• New Hampshire - USA History.

  Washington. D1 Temperature The coldest parts of the state are in the White Mountains and the extreme north. Average January temperatures range from about -11° C (about 12° F) along theCanadian border to about -3° C (about 26° F) along the coast. July temperatures range from about 17° C (about 63° F) in the mountains to about 21° C (about 70° F)in the south. D2 Precipitation Precipitation is evenly distributed throughout the year over most of the state. However, the higher peaks of the White Mo...

• North Dakota - geography.

  Bismarck, the growing season averages 134 days, as the average date of the last killing frost is May 11 and that of the first killing frost is September 22. The length ofthe growing season drops to about 110 days in the northerly reaches of the state. The long periods of summer sunshine at this latitude, providing as much as 16 hoursof daylight in summer, help crops to mature quickly, thus compensating somewhat for the relatively short growing season. Temperatures in the north are, on the averag...

• North Dakota - USA History.

  Bismarck, the growing season averages 134 days, as the average date of the last killing frost is May 11 and that of the first killing frost is September 22. The length ofthe growing season drops to about 110 days in the northerly reaches of the state. The long periods of summer sunshine at this latitude, providing as much as 16 hoursof daylight in summer, help crops to mature quickly, thus compensating somewhat for the relatively short growing season. Temperatures in the north are, on the averag...

• Sri Lanka - country.

  acacias, and orchids are found in many areas. The animal life of Sri Lanka includes 88 species of mammals, 21 of which are threatened with extinction. The Asian elephant, cheetah, leopard, and several species ofmonkey are endangered and officially protected. The island’s many species of primates include the long-tailed langur, toque macaque, and slender loris. Other mammalsinclude the sloth bear, several species of deer, mongoose, and wild boar. Reptiles are numerous, with 144 known species. Som...

• Maine - geography.

  temperatures range from 17° to 21°C (62° to 70°F) with the southern interior being the warmest and the east coast and north the coolest. However, daytime summertemperatures may reach the lower 30°s C (lower 90°s F), and temperatures in winter have fallen as low as -44°C (-48°F) in the interior. D2 Precipitation Precipitation (rainfall and snowfall) in Maine is evenly distributed throughout the year. Most areas receive from 860 to 1,020 mm (34 to 40 in) yearly, although parts ofthe coast are som...

• Maine - USA History.

  temperatures range from 17° to 21°C (62° to 70°F) with the southern interior being the warmest and the east coast and north the coolest. However, daytime summertemperatures may reach the lower 30°s C (lower 90°s F), and temperatures in winter have fallen as low as -44°C (-48°F) in the interior. D2 Precipitation Precipitation (rainfall and snowfall) in Maine is evenly distributed throughout the year. Most areas receive from 860 to 1,020 mm (34 to 40 in) yearly, although parts ofthe coast are som...

• Chile - country.

  D Plant and Animal Life The indigenous plant life of Chile varies according to climatic zone. Plant life in the northern region includes brambles and cactus and has little variety. Here, theAtacama provides one of the best examples on Earth of an absolute desert. The more humid Central Valley supports several species of cacti, espino (a thorny shrub),grasses, and the Chilean pine, which bears edible nuts. Dense rain forests are located south of Valdivia with laurel, magnolia, false beech, and v...

• Austria - country.

  Wildlife is generally scarce in Austria. Chamois, deer, and marmot are still present; bear, which were once abundant, are now almost completely absent. Hunting isstrictly regulated to protect the remaining species. F Environmental Issues Industrial emissions, a high volume of tourist traffic, and significant air pollution from other countries—principally the former East Germany, Slovakia, and the CzechRepublic—combine to make acid rain the major environmental problem in Austria. One-quarter of...

• Sun - astronomy.

  A The Sun’s Place in the Milky Way The Milky Way Galaxy contains about 400 billion stars. All of these stars, and the gas and dust between them, are rotating about a galactic center. Stars that arefarther away from the center move at slower speeds and take longer to go around it. The Sun is located in the outer part of the galaxy, at a distance of 2.6 × 10 17 km (1.6 × 10 17 mi) from the center. The Sun, which is moving around the center at a velocity of 220 km/s (140 mi/s), takes 250 million y...

• South Carolina - geography.

  (20° F) or lower, occur each winter. July temperatures average 27° C (80° F) in most of the state, with temperatures in the lower 20°s C (lower 70°s F) in themountains. Except in the mountains, summer daytime highs throughout South Carolina often enter the lower 30°s C (lower 90°s F). The temperature in July in Columbiaranges from 21° to 33° C (70° to 92° F). D2 Precipitation Central South Carolina has an average annual precipitation (both rainfall and snowfall) of 1,140 mm (45 in). Greater amo...

• South Carolina - USA History.

  (20° F) or lower, occur each winter. July temperatures average 27° C (80° F) in most of the state, with temperatures in the lower 20°s C (lower 70°s F) in themountains. Except in the mountains, summer daytime highs throughout South Carolina often enter the lower 30°s C (lower 90°s F). The temperature in July in Columbiaranges from 21° to 33° C (70° to 92° F). D2 Precipitation Central South Carolina has an average annual precipitation (both rainfall and snowfall) of 1,140 mm (45 in). Greater amo...

• Interview Patrick Weil - le long chemin de la laïcité en France

  Le long chemin de la laïcité en France, Patrick Weil 1905-2020 : le long chemin de la laïcité en France est présenté par Guillaume Erner est en compagnie de Patrick Weil, historien, directeur de recherche au CNRS à Paris 1, et auteur de “De la laïcité en France” publié en mars 2021 aux éditions Grasset. France Culture à l'occasion de la journée de la laïcité nous propose de nous pencher sur ce sujet. Le gouvernement veut redessiner la laïcité, sans cesse au cœur des sujets sociétaux depuis...

• L'histoire et la géographie du Canada

  négligeable. En effet, la majorité des grandes villes ont été bâties à proximité d'un lac ou d'un fleuve. Il existe auCanada, deux lignes de partage des eaux. Les Rocheuses séparent en effet les cours d'eau orientés vers l'ouest deceux qui coulent vers l'est. La seconde ligne de partage des eaux est moins visible. Il s'agit d'une autre chaîne demontagne qui s'étire plus ou moins le long du 49e parallèle, des Rocheuses jusqu'à la région des Grands Lacs. Ellesépare les cours d'eau orientés vers le...

• Les régions viticoles de France (Travaux Personnels Encadrés – Géographie - Enseignements Pratiques Interdisciplinaires)

  -communales : AOC pauillac, fronsac, saint-émilion, moulis, margaux, saint­ julien, pessac-léognan, cadillac. .. La mention château désigne dans le Bordelais un domaine et le vin qui en est issu. LA BOUIGOGNE Situation Extension sur 200 km, de Lyon à Dijon . D épartem ents Yonne, Côte-d'Or, Saône-et-Loire , Rhône. (La région du Beaujolais , qui fait partie intégrante de la Bourgogne , fait l'objet d'une étude séparée, page précédente .) Superficie 29 800...

• Peut-on caractériser notre civilisation en disant que c'est une civilisation technicienne ?

  " À mesure que le genre humain s'étendit, les peines se multiplièrentavec les hommes. La différence des terrains, des climats, des saisons,put les forcer à en mettre dans leurs manières de vivre. Des annéesstériles, des hivers longs et rudes, des étés brûlants, qui consumenttout, exigèrent d'eux une nouvelle industrie. Le long de la mer et desrivières, ils inventèrent la ligne et l'hameçon et devinrent pêcheurs etichtyophages. Dans les forêts, ils se firent des arcs et des flèches etdevinrent ch...

• The Great Gatsby chapter VII

  takes the blame of the accident. Nick checks if everything is alright when he saw Daisy and Tom reconciled. Nick through: “They weren’t happy, and yet they weren’t unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy…” Transition: The reader attends to another description of the Buchanans’ house. 2. II- The Buchanans’ house description faithful to previous description: At the end of the chapter 8 we notice the desc...

• Analyse de Nuit Rhénane de Guillaume Apollinaire

  Le poème que nous allons étudier s’intitule « Nuit Rhénane » Tiré de Alcools de Guillaume Apollinaire publié en 1919 ;Apollinaire né le 26 août 1880 à Rome et meurt le 9 novembre 1918 à Paris. Il est un des principaux poètes françaisdu début du XXéme siècle.« Nuit Rhénanes » fait partie d’un ensemble de neuf poèmes groupés dans Alcools sous le titre général de «Rhénanes ». Ces poèmes lui ont était inspirés pendant son séjour en Rhénanie, où il a découvert les germes deromantisme nordique et où i...

• Le développement durable

  QUELQUES CHIFFRES DE L'OM S.. .. • 160000 personnes meurent chaque année des conséquences du réchauffe­ ment climatique, 3 millions de celles de la pollution, et 5 millions du manque d'eau saine. • 28% des femmes africaines sont analphabètes. Une sur 16 risque de mourir en couches, contre une sur 2 800 dans les pays riches. • MOIW/ité �: 1 enfant sur pays riches. ... ET DEL'ONU • 1130 espèces d'oiseaux et plus de 4 000 espèces de mammifères pou...

• Ma mère a continué.

  J'ai dit, Pourquoi ?Ce n'est pasbizarre dutout, cette histoire l'explique complètement ! J'étais assezsatisfait demoi-même. Donna, quiestpoétesse, ari et dit, OhDaniel, c'esttellement évident. C'est bizarre parceque tu es helléniste, tu es l' historien de lafamille. Tuaspassé tavie entière à te retourner pour jeter undernier coupd'œil.   Il yavait doncça. La seconde information produiteparcetaprès-midi àBolekhiv aété, dixjours après notre retour àNew York, une-mail d'Alexquia,lui aussi, changé l...

• Amphibians.

  AN AMPHIBIAN’S LIFE Amphibians that live in cold places spend most of their time trying to keep wet and warm. In hot places,they try to keep wet and cool and usually come out only at night. During the day, they stay under rocksor logs or in the ground. Amphibians hibernate (become inactive) during cold winters. They become inactive in hot places during the summer. Almost all grown-up amphibians are meat eaters. Frogs and salamanders have sticky tongues. They flickout their tongues to catch ins...

• Les dangers de la drogue

  plus de goudron que celui-ci. Les effets d'un sevrage au cannabis sont généralement minimes. 2. Cocaïne La cocaïne est un stimulant majeur du système nerveux central. Elle comporte de forts risques de dépendance, risques qui seront accrus si le consommateur s'injecte la drogue ou la fume (sous forme de crack ou de base libre). Effet La cocaïne provoque une euphorie intense chez le consommateur, principalement en raison de son action sur les neurones dopaminergiques, qui sont responsables...

• "I wanted to hurt him.

  "There's ayoung manhere tosee you," thewoman behindthedesk saidintothephone, anditmade mefeel soweird to think thathewas onthe other endofthe line, even ifIknew Iwas getting confused aboutwho"he" was. "Yes," shesaid, "a very young man."Thenshesaid, "No." Thenshesaid, "Oskar Schell." Thenshesaid, "Yes. Hesays tosee you." "May Iask what thisconcerns?" sheasked me."Hesays hisdad," shesaid intothephone. Thenshesaid, "That's whathe says." Thenshesaid, "OK." Thenshesaid tome, "Go down thehallway. Hisd...

• Premier animal à avoir été domestiqué, le chien marque l'histoire humaine de son omniprésence temporelle et spatiale.

  L'évolution de l'espèce Dès l'âge du fer (I er millénaire avant notre ère), la population canine se diversifia, et des variations importantes de la taille apparurent. Avec la civilisation égyptienne, le type du lévrier se développa. Mais c'est à partir de la période romaine qu'émergèrent des types de chiens bien différenciés. On distingua alors les chiens destinés à la chasse, ceux qui étaient employés à la guerre, les gardiens de troupeaux, les chiens de course et de combat (molosses). Puis le...

• GALAXIES Les galaxies sont des systèmes constitués de centaines de milliards d'étoiles et de gaz situé entre les étoiles, appelé milieu interstellaire.

  2 Les bras contiennent la plupart de l’activité de formation stellaire. Le bras le plus long de la Galaxie a une longueur totale d’environ 125 000 années-lumière. Si nous pouvions l’observer par la tranche, la Galaxie nous apparaîtrait comme un énorme fuseau brillant entouré d’une vague luminosité et coupé en son centre par une bande sombre, qui la divise en deux grands fleuves d’étoiles parallèles. Cet effet est dû à l’absorption de la lumière des étoiles par la poussière interstellaire concen...

• et la banquise s’étendait encore loin du rivage.

  leur présence, et bien des années plus tard, on devait apprendre qu’ils occupaient depuis longtemps, en secret, certains retranchements des Monts Brumeux, barrant tous les cols qui livraient passage en Eriad or. En 2509, Celebrian, la femme d’Elrond, se rendit en pays Lórien par la porte de Rubicorne, lorsqu’elle tomba dans une embuscade tendue par les Orques qui s’emparèrent d’elle et l’emmenèrent captive, profitant de ce que la soudaineté de l’attaque avait éparpillé son escorte. Elladan...

• 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...

• Frank Lloyd Wright.

  C Usonian Houses Wright achieved his goal of low-cost, democratic American architecture with his Usonian houses of the 1930s. Usonia was Wright’s term for the United States of North America, with an i added for a pleasing sound. The Usonian house had a simple design, usually with an L-shaped floor plan. This plan separated the noisier living space on one leg of the L from the quieter bedroom space on the other leg. The floor was made of concrete slabs, typically in a square grid of 4 by 4...

• Charlemagne I INTRODUCTION Charlemagne (742?

  border province). These officials were key to administering the empire. They were kings in miniature, with all of the administrative, judicial, and military authority of theemperor within their respective districts. Each political district had its parallel in a church district, or diocese, headed by a bishop, with similar authority in all mattersrelated to the church. Both counts and bishops were vassals of the emperor, and were overseen by representatives of Charlemagne known as missi dominici...

• Charlemagne.

  border province). These officials were key to administering the empire. They were kings in miniature, with all of the administrative, judicial, and military authority of theemperor within their respective districts. Each political district had its parallel in a church district, or diocese, headed by a bishop, with similar authority in all mattersrelated to the church. Both counts and bishops were vassals of the emperor, and were overseen by representatives of Charlemagne known as missi dominici...

• Charlemagne .

  border province). These officials were key to administering the empire. They were kings in miniature, with all of the administrative, judicial, and military authority of theemperor within their respective districts. Each political district had its parallel in a church district, or diocese, headed by a bishop, with similar authority in all mattersrelated to the church. Both counts and bishops were vassals of the emperor, and were overseen by representatives of Charlemagne known as missi dominici...

• Hippopotamus - biology.

  hippo backs up to its droppings and uses its tail as a paddle, flicking the dung through the air. This creates a pile that can become several meters wide over time. Male river hippos start to establish territories when they are in their early 20s, and they may eventually control more than 250 m (820 ft) of the water's edge.Subordinate males come and go freely, but a rival male will spark a confrontation if it tries to intrude. The territory owner and intruder face each other open-mouthedand, if...

• From "The Metamorphosis" - anthology.

  As all this was running through his mind at top speed without his being able to decide to leave his bed—the alarm clock had just struck a quarter to seven—therecame a cautious tap at the door behind the head of his bed. 'Gregor,' said a voice—it was his mother's—'it's a quarter to seven. Hadn't you a train to catch?' Thatgentle voice! Gregor had a shock as he heard his own voice answering hers, unmistakably his own voice, it was true, but with a persistent horrible twittering squeakbehind it lik...

• fusée 1 PRÉSENTATION fusée, engin à réaction, propulsé par l'éjection de gaz engendrés dans une chambre à combustion (voir Propulsion à réaction) ; seul engin utilisable pour les vols dans l'espace.

  légère en direction du navire en détresse. Ses occupants pouvaient alors être ramenés sur la terre ferme grâce à un système de filins suffisamment solides pour convoyer les hommes à bord de canots de sauvetage ou directement à l’aide de bouées. Dès 1880, on utilisa des fusées-harpons, lancées à partir de petits bateaux, pour chasser les baleines. Mais l’utilisation principale des fusées en mer était la production de signaux. Jusqu’à la fin du XIX e siècle, les fusées furent assez peu employées...

• fusée - astronomie.

  chambre de combustion au moyen de pompes, forme spéciale des tuyères, stabilisation par gyroscopes, etc.). Consacré en Union soviétique par son élection à l’Académiedes Sciences de l’URSS en 1919, Tsiolkovski est aujourd’hui considéré comme l’un des pères fondateurs de l’astronautique. Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, les fusées furent surtout utilisées pour générer des signaux, mais on les tira aussi (aéroportées par des avions français) sur desballons d’observation gonflés à l’hydrogène. L...

• Terre de très anciennes cultures et civilisations, berceau des grandes religions monothéistes ainsi que du bouddhisme, qui, parti de l'Inde, a gagné tout l'Extrême-Orient, l'Asie est aujourd'hui un immense réservoir démographique.

  accompagnés d'éruptions volcaniques, dans les zones de contact. Les parties septentrionales de la plaque arabique et surtout de la plaque indienne ont donné naissance, en s'enfonçant, à d'immenses fosses marines, qui ont été partiellement remplies par des sédiments épais de plusieurs milliers de mètres. Chacune de ces plaques a une composition complexe. Les plaques arabique et indienne sont surtout formées de roches anciennes, qui ont été plissées au cours de phases antérieures à l'èr...

• W. L. Mackenzie King. I INTRODUCTION W. L. Mackenzie King (1874-1950), tenth prime

  V SECOND TERM AS PRIME MINISTER By the election of 1925 most of the rifts in the Liberal Party were healed. Little had been achieved by King's government except for some tariff reduction and thereorganization of Canadian railroads, but no mistakes had been made. The real issue of the election was the personalities of the party leaders, King and the brilliant butarrogant Conservative, Arthur Meighen. The Conservatives swept English-speaking Canada, and they won 116 seats. The Liberals won 101, a...