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• Mountain Climbing.

  teeth on one side, and a straight, flat, metal blade called an adze on the other. Ice axes have many uses. One of the most common is to help the climber stay balanced on steep slopes. The climber swings the axe with a short, quick movement to lodge the pick in snow or ice, creating a secure anchor. If a climber should slip and beginsliding down a snowfield, a self-arrest can be performed by turning face down on the snow and burying the pick in the snow surface. The climber’s weight over the...

• Jordan (country) - country.

  whom belong to the Greek Orthodox Church, make up about 4 percent of the population. Islam is the state religion and Arabic the official language. C Education Jordan has made significant strides in education in recent decades, despite the influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees and the very large share of the nationalbudget assigned to the armed forces. Public education is free and compulsory between the ages of 6 and 15. At the secondary level, about 85 percent of the malechildren and 87 p...

• Estonia - country.

  protest the expansion of open-pit phosphorite mining in northeastern Estonia. Their success in stopping the expansion prompted further demonstrations as part of thecountry’s independence movement. Since independence Estonia has taken measures to protect the environment. The government has ratified international agreementsto reduce emissions of hazardous wastes and greenhouse gases, as well as to protect biodiversity, wetlands, and endangered species. Estonians cherish thecountryside, and 31 perc...

• Johnson Wins Olympic Gold.

  Johnson rewarded himself with a solid jump but faltered a bit on his fourth step. Fredericks took full advantage, grabbing an early lead. Johnson recovered, firstpassing Boldon and then, at the 80-meter mark, overtaking the Namibian. A twinge of pain shot through Johnson's right hamstring as he neared the tape (the injury would keep him out of the 4 x 400 relay), but by then victory was secured.He erased the final 100 meters in a blazing 9.2 seconds, leaning into the tape a comfortable 5 met...

• Johann Sebastian Bach I INTRODUCTION Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer and one of the world's greatest musical geniuses.

  Bach served nine years at the Weimar court, first as organist and then, from 1714, as concertmaster as well. His employer, Wilhelm Ernst, duke of Weimar, was a greatadmirer of the organ, and spurred by the duke’s enthusiasm Bach proceeded to compose a vast number of unprecedented works for the instrument: the Orgelbüchlein (“Little Organ Book”), a collection of small chorale preludes for the church year; the so-called Great Eighteen Chorales of larger size; and a series of dramatic preludes a...

• Wilt Chamberlain.

  The Lakers returned to the NBA finals the following year, but they lost to the Knicks. Chamberlain then retired as a player. He coached the San Diego Conquistadores ofthe American Basketball Association (ABA) for the 1973-74 season before leaving basketball for good. Many NBA teams tried to convince Chamberlain to return to thesport, but he refused their offers. In 1978 he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. V LATER YEARS Chamberlain remained active during the remaining years of his lif...

• Wilt Chamberlain I INTRODUCTION Wilt Chamberlain (1936-1999), American professional basketball player, one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.

  The Lakers returned to the NBA finals the following year, but they lost to the Knicks. Chamberlain then retired as a player. He coached the San Diego Conquistadores ofthe American Basketball Association (ABA) for the 1973-74 season before leaving basketball for good. Many NBA teams tried to convince Chamberlain to return to thesport, but he refused their offers. In 1978 he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. V LATER YEARS Chamberlain remained active during the remaining years of his lif...

• Meteor Shower - astronomy.

  Meteor observations with radar work much the same way that observations with radio forward scattering observations do. With radar, the receiver and transmitter areat the same place. Both methods provide numbers of meteors per hour, without the visual observer’s dependence on a clear, dark sky. Astronomers can determine the orbit of the particle stream that creates a meteor shower by finding out the radiant of the shower and the speed of the meteors.Observers must record meteors with cameras or v...

• Les systèmes de projection (TPE)

  Projection de Lambert Projection de Mercator :1 ,....__, "'' ·!' ... · ~·~~~~; __ ,_·· ... ;. ·. .. . A k .. ~ •liiiii11 Ïi11 dlll 1 Projection azimutale projection directe de Mercator rend totalement impropre cette projection à l'analyse dans les régions polaire s. Pour être plus complet, dans la project ion de Mercator , le Groënland ( 2 ,2 m illion s de km') est repré senté avec une superficie en projection identique à celle de l'Amérique du...

• Dissertation sur Le suicide de d'Emile Durkheim

  suffit pas de quelques mécomptes pour le bouleverser ».Au contraire du reste de l'univers qui est soumis à un frein physique, l'homme est soumis à l'ordre moral, c'est-à-dire au social.Seulement, quand la société est troublée que ce soit par une crise douloureuse ou par d'heureuses mais soudainestransformations, elle est provisoirement incapable d'exercer cette action. C'est alors que l'on peut observer de brusquesascensions de la courbe des suicides. Par exemple, lors de crises éco...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: Ibycus - anthology.

  The choristers, clad in black, bore in their fleshless hands torches blazing with a pitchy flame. Their cheeks were bloodless, and in place of hair writhing and swellingserpents curled around their brows. Forming a circle, these awful beings sang their hymns, rending the hearts of the guilty, and enchaining all their faculties. It roseand swelled, overpowering the sound of the instruments, stealing the judgment, palsying the heart, curdling the blood. 'Happy the man who keeps his heart pure...

• Theseus - Mythology.

  claim his birthright from his father, the king. Aethra took Theseus, when he was 16, to the rock, which the lad lifted easily, and sent him on his way to Athens. Theseus had many adventures on his journey and entered Athens as a hero. Warmly welcomed by his father, Theseus then went on to his greatest adventure, the slaying of the Minotaur, the dreaded bullmonster of King Minos of Crete. Every year, Minos demanded seven men and seven maids from Athens to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, thus bring...

• Babe Ruth.

  earned. But Ruth’s boyish exuberance, compassion for hospitalized children, and personal warmth and generosity endeared him to most people. During the 1926 World Seriesagainst the St. Louis Cardinals, Ruth received word that one of his fans, a boy named Johnny Sylvester, was hospitalized and extremely ill. Ruth wrote the boy atelegram and promised to hit a home run for him in that day’s game. Ruth made good on his promise with not only one, but three homers. And even at the height offame and for...

• Pyramids (Egypt) - geography.

  displayed in its full majesty. B Interior The interior of the Great Pyramid is complex, with a series of passages leading to several rooms. The most important room is the King’s Chamber, the room in which Khufu’sbody was placed during his funeral. In this room the priests left items that Khufu, like all Egyptians, would need for the afterlife. Although the builders tried to blockpassages and doors when they left the pyramid after the king’s funeral, tomb robbers did eventually take everything o...

• Kangaroo - biology.

  ungulates, they have evolved multi-chambered stomachs containing bacteria that can break down plant cell walls and release the nutritious cell contents. V SOCIAL ORGANIZATION Kangaroo social life is poorly understood, as few species have been studied in detail. Small species, such as potoroos, bettongs, and musky rat-kangaroos, tend to besolitary and widely dispersed, with a male's territory encompassing those of several females. The animals come together briefly for mating, and mother and offs...

• Le handball (Exposé – Sports & Loisirs – Collège/Lycée)

  Après le tir, le ballon ne peut être touché par un joueur que si le gardien l'a repoussé ou un des montants de la cage. Durant le tir, le gardien ne peut s'éloigner de sa ligne de but que de 4 m. LES CONTACTS • Bien que les contacts soient interdits et que le handball soit un sport d'évitement, lorsque le jeu se déroule le long de la ligne de surface de but, une épreuve de force a lieu pour occuper la meilleure place à l'intérieur du réseau déf...

• Croyez-vous, avec C. Lévi-Strauss, que le but dernier des sciences humaines n'est pas de constituer l'homme mais de le dissoudre ?

• Steam Engine.

  wear caused by this pressure, steam-engine valves are frequently made in a cylindrical form entirely enclosing the piston, so that the pressure is equal all around thevalve and friction is minimized. The development of this type of valve is attributed to the American inventor and manufacturer George Henry Corliss. In other types ofslide valves, the moving portion of the valve is designed so that steam does not press directly on the back of the valve. The linkage between the piston of the engine...

• Chiang Kai-shek - History.

  Even one of Chiang's allied commanders, Zhang Xueliang, who had been expelled from Manchuria after the Mukden Incident, came to doubt the wisdom of Chiang'sapproach. In 1936 Zhang held Chiang prisoner in Xi'an until Chiang agreed to join the Communists in an allied front against Japan. Chiang later denied making anyagreement. On July 7, 1937, near the Marco Polo Bridge on the outskirts of Beijing, a Chinese patrol and Japanese troops on a training exercise clashed, and full-scalewar broke out be...

• Central African Republic - country.

  Manufacturing activity in the Central African Republic is very limited. Products include cottonseed, peanut, and sesame oils; textiles; leather goods; tobacco products;soap; flour; bricks; and paint. The output of electricity in 2003 was 106 million kilowatt-hours, 80.19 percent of which was generated in hydroelectric installations. Gemdiamonds account for nearly all the country’s mineral output and two-thirds of its export revenue. Production was 250,000 carats in 2004. Uranium was discovered i...

• Exercise.

  broad, and most studies suggest a positive relationship between physical fitness and mental achievement. The relationship between regular aerobic exercise and cardiovascular health and longevity is well established. Regular exercise leads to a reduction in the risk ofcoronary heart disease, in which fatty deposits (plaque) form in blood vessels supplying the muscular wall of the heart, compromising oxygen delivery to the heartmuscle. In addition, with regular exercise the efficiency of the heart...

• Penguin - biology.

  B Parents and Offspring Once female penguins lay their eggs, both the parents incubate the eggs. The incubation period varies according to species, ranging from 33 days for the little penguinto about 63 days for the emperor penguin. In most medium-sized penguins incubation takes 35 to 38 days. The incubation routine is highly variable among penguinspecies, although in general both sexes participate in incubation and feeding of young. Male and female Adélie penguins take turns incubating their e...

• De quel façon et dans quel but l'Eglise a-t-elle lutté contre l'hérésie cathare ?

  En 1095, face à cet échec, le pape Urbain II lance à Clermont l’appel de la première croisade présente le document 3, extrait de l’Histoire du pèlerinage des Francs à Jérusalem au XIIème siècle. Il invite les chrétiens à porter secours à leurs frères qui habitent les pays d’Orient. Il promet des indulgences à ceux qui prennent les armes contre les cathares. L’illustration extraite des chroniques de Saint Denis vers 1325, illustrent un grand nombre de seigneurs du Nord de la France qui...

• Temple (building) I INTRODUCTION Wat Phra Kaeo Thailand has nearly 18,000 Buddhist temples, called wats, throughout the country.

  colonnaded terraces connected by ramps. The surrounding area was planted with trees and flowers during Hatshepsut’sreign and for many years after.Gian Berto Vanni/Art Resource, NY In ancient Egypt, temples were grandiose, built of huge blocks and columns of stone. Often they were enlarged by successive rulers to form strung-out series of templeparts, as in the gigantic Temple of Amon (circa 1550-1070 BC) at Al Karnak. The Nile cliffs were used as settings for temples, such as the massive mortuar...

• l'activité de l'artiste relève-t-elle du travail ou du jeu ?

  livre à l'inspiration, j'entends à sa propre nature, je ne vois que la résistance de la matière qui puisse lepréserver de l'improvisation creuse et de l'instabilité d'esprit. Par cette trace de nos actions, ineffaçable, nousapprenons la prudence ; mais par ce témoin fidèle de la moindre esquisse, nous apprenons la confiance aussi. Avez-vous compris l'essentiel ? 1 Peut-on, dans l'art, se fier entièrement à l'inspiration ?2 Faut-il opposer l'artiste et l'artisan ?3 L'imagination et la fan...

• Aging - biology.

  Different theories have been proposed to explain how SF works. One theory is based on the assumption that aging, and diseases that occur more frequently withadvancing age, are caused by structural damage to cells. This damage accumulates in tiny amounts each time the cell divides, eventually preventing the cell fromcarrying out normal functions. One cause of this damage may be free radicals, which are chemical compounds found in the environment and also generated by normal chemical reactions in...

• Psychoanalysis.

  A cornerstone of modern psychoanalytic theory and practice is the concept of anxiety, which institutes appropriate mechanisms of defense against certain dangersituations. These danger situations, as described by Freud, are the fear of abandonment by or the loss of the loved one (the object), the risk of losing the object's love,the danger of retaliation and punishment, and, finally, the hazard of reproach by the superego. Thus, symptom formation, character and impulse disorders, andperversions,...

• 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...

• Latin American Painting I INTRODUCTION Diego Rivera Museum Gallery The studio of Mexican painter Diego Rivera is now maintained as an art museum in Mexico City.

  The Viceroy Arrives at PotosíThe discovery of silver on a hillside near the town of Potosí in 1545 turned this Bolivian city into a key Spanish possessionin the Americas. The population of Potosí shot up until it reached 150,000 inhabitants by the year 1611. The work shownhere, The Viceroy Arrives at Potosí, by 17th-century Bolivian painter Melchor Pérez de Holguín, was painted during thezenith of the town’s fortunes.Archivo Fotografico Oronoz From about 1580 to 1650 European styles became domin...

• Louis XIV I INTRODUCTION Louis XIV (1638-1715), king of France (1643-1715), known as the Sun King.

  he could defend against attack from his enemies. In the first instance, Louis worked to tighten central control over the array of departments, regions, and duchies that together made up France. To this end, he revivedthe use of regional intendants, officials who were sent to the provinces with instructions to establish order and effective royal justice. Although agents of the centralgovernment, intendants worked closely with the local nobility and legal institutions to establish efficient admini...

• Louis XIV.

  he could defend against attack from his enemies. In the first instance, Louis worked to tighten central control over the array of departments, regions, and duchies that together made up France. To this end, he revivedthe use of regional intendants, officials who were sent to the provinces with instructions to establish order and effective royal justice. Although agents of the centralgovernment, intendants worked closely with the local nobility and legal institutions to establish efficient admini...

• Bahrain - country.

  A Religion Almost all Bahrainis and the majority of nonnatives are followers of Islam (Muslims). About 70 percent of all native Bahrainis belong to the Shia branch of Islam, whilethe remainder, including the ruling al-Khalifa clan, are adherents of the Sunni branch. Non-Muslims, including Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, and Jews, account for 15percent of the total population. High unemployment among the Shia population has caused considerable discontent on the part of this group toward the Sunni...

• Respiratory System.

  rapidly, or laughs while swallowing, the swallowing reflex may not work, and food or fluid can enter the larynx. Food, fluid, or other substances in the larynx initiate acough reflex as the body attempts to clear the larynx of the obstruction. If the cough reflex does not work, a person can choke, a life-threatening situation. TheHeimlich maneuver is a technique used to clear a blocked larynx ( see First Aid). A surgical procedure called a tracheotomy is used to bypass the larynx and get air to...

• Internet.

  usually pays a fixed monthly fee for a dedicated connection. In exchange, the company providing the connection agrees to relay data between the user’s computer andthe Internet. Dial-up is the least expensive access technology, but it is also the least convenient. To use dial-up access, a subscriber must have a telephone modem, a device thatconnects a computer to the telephone system and is capable of converting data into sounds and sounds back into data. The user’s ISP provides software that con...

• Drug. I INTRODUCTION Drug, substance that affects the function of living cells, used

  normalizing chemical activity in the emotional centers of the brain. Antianxiety drugs, also referred to as tranquilizers, treat anxiety by decreasing the activity in theanxiety centers of the brain. Sedative-hypnotic drugs are used both as sedatives to reduce anxiety and as hypnotics to induce sleep. Sedative-hypnotic drugs act by reducing brain-cell activity.Stimulant drugs, on the other hand, increase neuronal (nerve cell) activity and reduce fatigue and appetite. Analgesic drugs reduce pain...

• Women's Rights.

  In 1840 Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton traveled to London to attend the World Anti-Slavery Convention. Upon arrival, however, the women were barred fromparticipating in the conference and forced to sit behind a curtain. This experience of discrimination inspired them to organize the first women’s rights convention. Thisconvention met in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19 and 20, 1848. The Seneca Falls Convention attracted more than 200 women and approximately 40 men. For theconvention,...

• Fire - chemistry.

  were usually natural caves. Eventually people learned to dip branches in pitch to form torches. They created crude lamps by filling a hollowed out piece of stone withmoss soaked in oil or tallow (a substance derived from animal fat). By cooking with fire, prehistoric people made the meat of the animals they killed more palatable and digestible. They learned to preserve meat by smoking it over a fire,vastly decreasing the danger of periodic starvation. Cooking also enabled them to add some for...

• Comet - astronomy.

  may exceed the planet Jupiter in size, however. Observations from telescopes on Earth and in space indicate that most of the gases in the coma and tail of a comet are fragmentary molecules, or radicals, of the mostcommon elements in space: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. The radicals, for example, of CH, NH, and OH may be broken away from the stable molecules CH 4 (methane), NH 3 (ammonia), and H 2O (water), which may exist as ices or more complex, very cold compounds in the nucleus. Al...

• Vivrait-on mieux sans désir ?

  question de savoir si l'action qu'il va entreprendre est bonne ou non. Ou bien cette action est bonne comme unmoyen obligé pour obtenir quelque chose d'autre, et l'impératif (qui est la formule par laquelle est déterminé l'action)est un impératif hypothétique. Ou bien l'action qui doit être accomplie est bonne « en soi », elle est nécessaire parelle-même, elle est sans rapport avec un autre but, et l'impératif qui la commande est catégorique.Le détour par cette grille conceptuelle est nécessaire...

• L'art (cours)

  L'art sert à exprimer une forme de vérité. En contemplant une œuvre, le spectateur découvre une richessesémantique, et il donne à l'œuvre un sens nouveau. Dans l'œuvre d'un artiste, il y a un pouvoir caché qui lui donneun sens inépuisable. Ce pouvoir c'est le génie de l'artiste. Selon Kant, la nature donne à l'art des règles parl'intermédiaire du génie d'un artiste. En d'autres termes, l'œuvre exemplaire d'un artiste ingénieux contient desnormes et des règles que les académi...

• vocabulaire

  2             a fall in love        b split up with   c go out with 3             a fall out              b fall down         c fall in 4             a come on          b get on               c go on 5             a gossip               b headline          c tabloid 6             a get out with   b fall out with    c go out with 3 Complete the text with one word in each gap.                             / 6   I listen to the radio a lot and I often listen to phone-in shows. They can be really fun...

• La famille n’a-t-elle pour but que d’assurer la protection, la prospérité et le bonheur de ses membres? PLAN.

  306 LA DISSERTATION PHILOSOPHIQUE néc'sstt.s et les satisfactions de ses membres. Elle a une jin qui la dépasse. A. -- (:tflt un long passé, elle prépare un avenir wa'é/ini. La famille o pour fin d'assurer le maintien, le per- pétuité de l'espèce'. B. - Elle fournit à la société nationale, à la société humaine les en/anis, qui seront les hommes de demain 2 C. - Elle les instruit . D. - Elle les éduque 4 dans l'intér& de la socité prése...

• HEGEL: Que l'État de Rousseau et de Fichte reste abstrait...

  3. La nécessité de cette distinction fournit précisément le point de départ de notre texte Première intervention critique : elle porte sur l'essentiel du débat, les rapports entre ces trois « unités »que nous venons d'identifier (l'État, la Société civile, l'Individu). Le mot d'ordre : ne pas confondre. Quelva être l'instrument du discernement philosophique? Tout le premier paragraphe (Si l'on confond --> ensoi et pour soi de l'Esprit) développe l'opposition majeure (bien marquée par mais et tou...

• but. XXIII « Je suis bien aise de vous voir, me dit M. Pocket,

  XIII « Je suisbien aisedevous voir,meditM. Pocket, etj’espère quevous n’êtes pasfâché deme voir non plus, carje ne suis pas, ajouta-t-il aveclesourire deson fils,unpersonnage bieneffrayant. » Il avait l’airassez jeune, malgré sondésordre etses cheveux trèsgris, etses manières semblaient toutàfait naturelles. Jeveux direparlàqu’elles étaientdépourvues detoute affectation. Ilyavait quelque chosedecomique dans sonairdistrait, quieût étéfranchement burlesque,s’ilnes’était aperçu lui-même qu’ilétait...

• COMMENTAIRE INCIPIT THERESE RAQUIN

  asked him: - Oh green hill, why do you become greener? - That's because Hayna went through here. Arrived at an orange hill, he asked him: - Oh orange hill, why do you become even more orange? - That's because Hayna went through here. Arrived in front of a yellow hill, he asked him: - Oh yellow hill, why do you become even more yellow? - That's because Haina went through here. When he arrived at the white hill, he asked: - Oh white hill, why do you become even whiter? - That's because Hain...

• Méthodologie de la question de corpus Quel est le but de la question portant sur le corpus ?

• Valeur morale

  Elles obtiennent une certaine satisfaction personnelle.   Mais je soutiens que dans un tel cas, une action de ce genre, si conforme au devoir, si digne d'affection soit-elle, n'a pas pourtant aucune véritable valeur morale,  à Pour Kant, ces actions ne sont pas réellement de valeurs morales. Elles ont beaux répondre au devoir, suivre la morale, et être bienfaisantes, Kant ne considère pas ces action comme ayant une réelle valeur morale. Leur nature l'est peut-être, mais pas leur fond.   Mais qu'...

• brazil by terry gilliam

  An alternative version of George Orwell's 1984, film critic Pauline Kael perhaps said it best when she described Brazil as "a retro-futurist fantasy—a melancholy, joke-ridden view of the horribleness of where we are now and the worse horribleness of where we're heading. It's like a stoned, slapstick 1984 ; a nightmare comedy in which the comedy is just an aspect of the nightmarishness. The title refers to pop escapism of the past—what you can only...

• Les jeux d'argent et hasard

  2) Quels différents jeux d’argents existent-ils ? http://jeu-argent.weebly.com/les-diffeacuterents-types-de-jeux.html  4 grandes familles de jeux de loterie : - Les instantanés, ou jeux de grattages (Rapido, Cash, Astro). - Les paris sportifs (PMU, Loto Foot, Parions Sport) - Les loteries diffusées sur le cable (Le loto, l' Euromillion ) - Les loteries traditionnelles (Loterie nationale)  2 types de jeux de casinos : - Les machines à sous. - Les jeux de table. (Le poker, la...