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Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Sprache & Litteratur).

Lung. I INTRODUCTION Lung, either of a pair of elastic, spongy organs used

lead to emphysema, which is caused by wholesale destruction of alveoli. Other lung disorders include pneumonia, or inflammation of the lungs, which is usually causedby viruses or bacteria; pneumothorax, or collapse of the lung; pulmonary edema, or fluid in the lung; and pleural effusion, or fluid on the pleura. Pulmonary embolismoccurs when a blood clot or other foreign substance lodges in the lungs and blocks the major pulmonary arteries. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corp...

Sussex Spaniel.

Seven Wonders of the World Seven Wonders of the World, works of art and architecture regarded by ancient Greek and Roman observers as the most extraordinary structures of antiquity.

Windmill.

Space Station - astronomy.

l'idée de nature humaine peut-elle s'accorder avec la diversité des cultures ?

B- On aboutit à un sens affaiblit de la nature humaine qui apparaît alorscomme illusoire. Chercher à penser une nature humaine c'est toujours penserl'homme tel qu'il n'est pas. C'est le constat de Rousseau pour qui la « natureactuelle » de l'homme doit être distinguée d'une « nature originaire »(Rousseau, discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes) La « nature actuelle « de l'homme est artificielle car l'homme « actuel » est un homme de...

Eclipse - astronomy.

bending of light rays passing close to the sun because of the sun’s gravitational field ( see Relativity). The great brilliance of the solar disk and the sun-induced brightening of the earth’s atmosphere make observations of the corona and nearby stars impossible except during a solar eclipse. The coronagraph, a photographictelescope, permits direct observation of the edge of the solar disk at all times. Today, scientific solar eclipse observations are extremely valuable, particularly when thepa...

Halley's Comet - astronomy.

Rice - biology.

V HISTORY According to the most widely accepted theory, rice cultivation originated as early as 10,000 BC in Asia. Archaeological evidence shows that rice was grown in Thailand as early as 4000 BC, and over the centuries spread to China, Japan, and Indonesia. By 400 BC rice was cultivated in the Middle East and Africa. The invading armies of Alexander the Great probably introduced rice to Greece and nearby Mediterranean countries around 330 BC. Rice was brought to the American colonies in t...

Pluto - astronomy.

depended on how Pluto was classified. The status of Pluto drew world attention in 2006 when the official body that governs the naming of astronomical objects, the International Astronomical Union (IAU),voted for an official definition of the term planet . According to the standards adopted, a “classical planet” must orbit the Sun, must have a rounded shape from effects of its own gravity, and must be the dominant object in its region of space, having cleared the neighborhood of its orbit of oth...

Milky Way - astronomy.

La liberté de penser est -elle un idéal inaccessible ?

(le raisonnement abouti) ou dans la démarche, démarche de réflexion active qui tend à remettre en cause préjugéset opinion ? Plan I- Liberté de penser : le mythe d'une réalisation idéale. · On ne peut pas faire comme si, dans les faits, la pensée n'était pas contrainte, du moins comme si elle ne rencontrait aucun obstacle. En effet, même non apparents, les obstacles sont nombreux :on naît toujours dans un certain contexte, dans une certaine culture. Si l'on ne doi...

Marco Polo.

Marco Polo Marco Polo (1254-1324), Venetian traveler and author, whose account of his travels and experiences in China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade.

Marco Polo - explorer.

Rabbits and Hares.

Rabbits and Hares - biology.

Venice (Italy) - geography.

acknowledge Venetian supremacy. Wars of conquest enabled Venice to acquire neighboring territories, and by the late 15th century, the city-state was the leadingmaritime power in the Christian world. The beginning of Turkish invasions in the middle of the 15th century marked the end of Venetian greatness. Thereafter, faced with attacks by foreign invaders andother Italian states, its power faded, and the discovery of a sea route to the Indies around the Cape of Good Hope by the Portuguese navigat...

Beauty

preference as a socio-psychological phenomenon and as a variably rational or nonrational part of life. Generally, subjectivists in aesthetics, like those in ethics, retain the usual value terms but reinterpret them as avowing, expressing or soliciting preferences. In contrast, aesthetic realists seek to identify the property or state of affairs that beauty consists in and to explain how it can be known. Many issues are common to aesthetic realism and subjectivism. For instance: (1) What is the r...

Nickel - chemistry.

Les mouches de Sartre

- L'existentialisme, tout en étant une réflexion sur la nature humaine, aboutit donc à la nécessité de s'engager dans des actions concrètes. C'est là le sens de la liberté : elle consiste à choisir entre plusieurs possibilités et à en assumer les conséquences. C'est la raison pour laquelle Sartre lui-même, de son vivant, s'est battu pour des causes politiques et sociales. L'Etre et le Néant n'est pas un livre abstrait. Ce qui préoccupe Sartre, c'est l'action. Penser à ma propre liberté ne suffit...

Commentaire de texte : Platon : « N'est-ce pas le désir insatiable de ce que la démocratie regarde comme son bien suprême qui perd cette dernière ? »

Devoir rédigé Introduction La réflexion politique moderne s'est habituée à considérer volontiers la démocratie comme, sinon le meilleur, du moins « le moins pire » (Churchill) des régimes. Telle n'est pas l'opinion de Platon, qui montre ici qu'elle ne peut qu'aboutir à la tyrannie. Précisément parce qu'un tel jugement paraît aujour d'hui déroutant, il est intéressant d'en analyser les fondements. I - Démocratie et liberté Si la « démocrat...

The different phases resulting from culture changes, illustrated by my personal experience

2 U-curve of adjustment. The idea is quite simple: if the level of adjustment, adaptation and well-being over time is drawn, a U- shape appears. Upon tasting the new culture he is in good spirits, but gradually encounters more and more problems eventually leading to the lowest point of despair and disappointment. In the middle of the crisis (cultur e shock), there seems to be no way out. The student has hit the botto...

Quelle importance accordez-vous au dénouement d'une nouvelle ou d'un roman ?

rigoureuse de ses motivations et de ses moyens, sont enfin présentes au lecteur. Ce type de roman peut donc êtrelu dans le seul but d'en découvrir le dénouement, puisqu'à l' instant où celui-ci est révèle, il perd aussitôt de sonintérêt et ne mérite pas d'être relu : l'effet de surprise qu'il prétendait produire est consomme, donc perdu et nonrenouvelable (a moins que le lecteur n'oublie le fin mot de l'histoire). II. L'importance considérable accordée au dénouement d'une nouvel...

Kuiper Belt - astronomy.

III RESEARCH The Kuiper Belt is an exciting area of research in astronomy. The discovery and astronomical exploration of the Kuiper Belt over the past decade have fueled arevolution in scientists’ views of the solar system. Today astronomers recognize the Kuiper Belt as the third major region of the solar system (the other two regions arethe inner solar system, with its small rocky planets, and the outer solar system, with its gas-giant planets). They believe that the belt helps explain Pluto’...

Orbit (astronomy and physics) - astronomy.

archaeology and religion

English

typical elements to define a style. Hairs can be read, blue, blond or black, it can be long, short, curly, straight or it can be a crest. About what it concerns the behavior, people can be excited, funny, stiff or run wild, impossible is nothing. Instead of copying what is shown in the newspapers, or in fashion magazines, creating your own style is like you have to mix what you've seen. Then, thanks to your personality, your liking and your opinions, you change it. Then, the « classi...

power

The four ideas that were at the heart of Apartheid in South Africa was: • First, four different racial groups were created: for white people, colored people, Indians and South Africans. • The second was to establish the superiority of the whites over the other groups • The third set the priority of the whites interests over those of others • The fourth was to establish the whites as the most important nation because the blacks were spread into various groups according to their...

his father the chief

La division du travail

La division du travail dans la société industrielle La division sociale du travail — c'est-à-dire la répartition du travail entre différents métiers — est très ancienne,tout comme la division entre travail intellectuel et travail manuel. Au XVIe siècle, avec les manufactures, apparaîtune nouvelle forme de division du travail : une division technique. Avec l'utilisation des machines, cette divisions'intensifie dans la grande industrie du XIXe siècle. Dès 1776, Adam Smith, décrivant une fabrique...

Neil Armstrong - astronomy.

La déforestation en Amazonie

-And, What can we do about it ? I ) Wha t a re t he causes of t he defo resta t ion ?? A) T he logging The wood’s industrial exploitation has a very strong impact on the forest’s life. The cut wood is always rising since the exploitation of the forest is not yet economically viable. The Amazonian’s wood is really famous all over the world for his quality and usually used in the world’s production of pieces of furniture. It exists two types of tree cutting...

Iron - chemistry.

man in the other room called again, this time extremely loudly, like he was desperate, but she didn't pay any attention, ike she didn't hear it, or didn't care.

panicky, andsometimes they'drun.They remembered hundredsofcalls. Thousands. Theremight noteven bealimit. Isn't thatfascinating?" "Itis." "Because what's really fascinating isthat she'd playthecall ofadead elephant toits family members." "And?""Theyremembered." "Whatdidthey do?" "They approached thespeaker." "I wonder whattheywere feeling." "Whatdoyou mean?" "Whentheyheard thecalls oftheir dead, wasitwith lovethat they approached thejeep? Orfear? Oranger?" "Idon't remember." "Didthey charge?" "Id...

Understanding of Art

sub-structure of a society (see Marx, K. ). The understanding of the work that this would yield would not, however, be relevant to judgments of artistic merit. In the next two sections we shall look more closely at such attempts toseparate understanding and evaluation. 4 Understanding, truth and morality Much of the debate about art and understanding is a debate about how much of what might rightly be called an understanding of art is relevant toquestions of the evaluation of art. Bell, for e...

Urinary System.

The rime of the ancient mariner

tVisual imagery In my part, I want to speak about waht represents the ocean. he Rime of the Ancient Mariner is set in a time when, once you crossed a certain point in your ship, you could expect not to see other people for a long, long time. The ocean represents the mysteries of the human soul. When the Mariner pollutes his soul by killing the albatross, it's not a surprise to see that the ocean becomes polluted with slime and horrible creatures. Moreover, the imagery of the vast, vacant...

Myths and heroes

their money and bought shares at the stock exchange to back the project and the help from the foundater of The Bank of America, the construction finally began in 1933. From this moment, thousands of workers moved tons of dirt and rocks to make way for almost 200,000 cubic yards of concrete needed to build the basis. Then 900,000 tons of steel were used, a staggering 1.2 million rivets were hammered into each tower which in turn support the 2 main cables, cables that are 36 inches in diameter and...

SYNTHESE PLACES AND FORMS OF POWER

the confidential government information or give it all to the public because people have a right to know everything in order to make enlightened decisions. What this third document puts forward is the expectations of the readers and what they actually buy the newspaper for, which is at loggerheads with what people traditionally think and what the two previous documents showed. Therefore, we may say that it is all about a balance between the freedom of the press to deal with any subject they lik...

Turbine.

steam turbine has supplanted the reciprocating engine as a prime mover in large electricity-generating plants and is also used as a means of jet propulsion. Steam turbines are used in the generation of nuclear power and in nuclear ship propulsion. They operate with fuel-fired boilers for power generation. In cogenerationapplications requiring both process heat (heat used in an industrial process) and electricity, steam is raised at high pressure in the boiler and extracted from the turbineat th...

Mesopotamia - History.

Republic of the Congo - country.

rate of 50 CFA francs equal to 1 French franc was in force from 1948 to 1994, when the CFA franc was devalued by 50 percent. The leading commercial banks are theBanque Internationale du Congo and the Union Congolaise de Banques. E Foreign Trade In 2000 imports cost $930 million and exports earned $2.09 billion. The Congo engages in considerable trade with the nearby countries of Cameroon, the CentralAfrican Republic, and Gabon, with which it is joined in the Customs and Economic Union of Centra...

Commentaire de texte Platon « N'est-ce pas le désir insatiable de ce que la démocratie regarde comme son bien suprême qui perd cette dernière ? »

Devoir rédigé Introduction La réflexion politique moderne s'est habituée à considérer volontiers la démocratie comme, sinon le meilleur, du moins « le moins pire » (Churchill) des régimes. Telle n'est pas l'opinion de Platon, qui montre ici qu'elle ne peut qu'aboutir à la tyrannie. Précisément parce qu'un tel jugement paraît aujour d'hui déroutant, il est intéressant d'en analyser les fondements. I - Démocratie et liberté Si la « démocrat...

Marsupial - biology.

The way in which companies frame themselves, their products and their clients

THE ALCHIMIST

Pau lo C oelh o - T he A lc h em is t 2 o f 6 8 w ho l iv ed i n t h e v illa g e t h ey w ould r e ach i n a b out f o ur d ay s. H e h ad b een t o t h e v illa g e o nly o n ce, t h e y ear b efo re . T he m erc h an t w as t h e p ro prie to r o f a d ry g oods s h op, a n d h e a lw ay s d em an ded t h at t h e s h eep b e s h eare d i n h is p re se n ce, s o t h at h e w ould n ot b e c h eate d . A f r ie n d h ad t o ld t h e b oy a b out t h e s h op, a n d...

Lexique travail social en anglais

Cascade Range - geography.

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