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Texte de ruff randwell
qui venait juste de sortir de la poissonnerie. Sa mère était une femme bavarde qui adorait les commérages, et son ami également. Ils n’ont pas fait attention à Walter. Expression Each family member has an important role on the family. Cousins, brothers, sisters, parents and grandparents all have a decisive role. It is these two that will interest us. We'll see if the grandparents and parents have the same role and the same influence on children. First, we think not because the parents have an im...
- Woody Allen Woody Allen, born in 1935, American motion-picture director, actor, and writer, many of whose films are humorous depictions of neurotic characters preoccupied with love and death.
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Reproduction.
plants. The male part is called a stamen. The sperm is called pollen. The female part is called a pistil.The egg grows inside the pistil. Bees, birds, and even the wind carry the pollen to the pistils. Some plant species have different male and female plants. But in many species, the male and femaleparts are on the same plant. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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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...
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Cards and Card Games.
Certain games have developed that are difficult to categorize, especially games that use special decks of cards. Contributed By:Gene HochmanMicrosoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Seoul - geography.
Major arts centers include Sejong Cultural Center, the largest performing arts center in South Korea located in Sejongno in central Seoul. The Korea Traditional PerformingArts Center, which showcases traditional Korean music and dance, is in the Seocho district. VI RECREATION Biwon, or the Secret Garden, formerly a retreat for the Yi rulers of the Chosŏn dynasty, is now a public park occupying 32 hectares (80 acres) just north of ChangdeokPalace. Namsan Park, located on Namsan Mountain south of...
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Tigers.
Many nations have passed laws to protect tigers. Scientists are trying to create more national parks fortigers to roam in and make the forests they live in bigger. Zoos also breed many tigers. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Pacific Ocean - Geography.
concretions of iron and manganese oxides that sometimes also contain copper, cobalt, and nickel. Programs are under way to examine the feasibility of mining thesedeposits. See also Deep-Sea Exploration. Contributed By:Fred N. SpiessMicrosoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Bees.
It's a warm summer afternoon in a park or garden.
become the queens. When a honey bee finds food, it tells other honey bees. The bee comes back to the hive with nectar. Itthen performs a dance. The bee’s movements tell the other bees where to look for this nectar. BUMBLEBEES If you go on a picnic, a yellow and black bumblebee may buzz by. Bumblebees have thick, hairy bodies.Their hair helps keep them warm. Only the queens live through the winter, however. The workers anddrones die. Like honey bees, bumblebees live in colonies. Bumblebees like t...
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LANGUE
Scientists use animals to learn more about health problems that affect both humans and animals, and to assure the safety of new medical treatments. M edical researchers need to understand health problems before they can develop ways to treat them. Some diseases and health problems involve processes that can only be studied in a living organism. Animals are necessary to medical research when it is impractical or unethical to use humans. Animals make good research subjects for a variety of...
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Oral Bac Anglais - Idea of Progress : Designer Babies
Trait selection can be a service, it sounds like a business, a transaction, a deal. Pr oviding people with a service could be positive. The problem is that no everybody would agree. Even I have trouble setting a limit. Think it can become bad, when it stops become non medical. It definitely sounds bad, unethical when doctor offer to craft a baby. - In a r ecent U.S. survey of 999 people who sought genetic counseling, a majority said...
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Brown, Thomas
Hume's view of causation. He defends Hume's account of causation as nothing but invariable succession, mounting a powerful attack on the notion of power, particularly that of unexercised power, as wielded by Reid. However, he also uses tools furnished by Reid: the world consists of substances; general terms are essentially abbreviations of lists of substances, suiting our own practical purposes, and descriptions are abstractions from states of those substances; we have by virtue of our natur...
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Azerbaijan Facts and Figures.
Russian Orthodox 4 percent Other 1 percent NOTE: Religious affiliation is nominal. There are far fewer actual practicingadherents. HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy Total 66.3 years (2008 estimate) Female 71 years (2008 estimate) Male 62.2 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 56 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 276 people (2006) Population per hospital bed 121 people (2003) Literacy rateTotal 99.6 percent (1995) Female 99.5 per...
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Central African Republic Facts and Figures.
Other Christians 23 percent Muslim 16 percent Indigenous beliefs 15 percent Other 14 percent NOTE: Christians are strongly influenced by animistic beliefs and practices. HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy Total 44 years (2008 estimate) Female 44 years (2008 estimate) Male 43.9 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 82 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 11,819 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 1,145 people (1990) Literacy rateT...
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Calgary - Geography.
and other services to new suburbs is the greatest difficulty. VII HISTORY When European explorers first entered southern Alberta in the 1700s, it was chiefly the domain of the indigenous Blackfoot confederacy. The Blackfoot lived by huntingbison (often called buffalo) and other large animals, as their ancestors had done for perhaps 10,000 years. The evidence of this plains region way of life survives atnumerous archaeological sites, such as the nearby Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, now a World...
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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...
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy: PLATO'S REPUBLIC
sexes in common). Women as well as men are to be rulers and soldiers, but the members of these classes are notallowed to marry. Women are to be held in common, and all intercourse is to be public. Procreation is to be strictlyregulated in order that the population remains stable and healthy. Children are to be brought up in public crecheswithout contact with their parents. Guardians and auxiliaries are to be debarred from possessing private property, ortouching precious metals; they will live in...
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Body Scanner Research
Christmas 2009 when the Nigerian Abdul Mudallad avoided security men vigilance and failed to blow up a bomb during the flight from Amsterdam (Holland) to Detroit (US). In the wake the attempt, many governments over the w orld have decided to introduce a new technology device in the airports in order to strengthen the available measures. This technology device, called Body Scanners, like its name depicts - is a device built to facilitate a strict and reliable search of hazar dous materials t...
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Yellowstone National Park - geography.
1976 and a World Heritage Site in 1978 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Administered by the National Park Service.Area, 898,317 hectares (2,219,791 acres). Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Ash'ariyya and Mu'tazila
Wasil bin 'Ata' said that such a person was neither a believer nor an unbeliever, but occupied an intermediateposition. Hasan was displeased and remarked, 'He has withdrawn from us ( i'tazila 'anna )', at which Wasil withdrew from his circle and began to propagate his own teaching. The historicity of this story has been questioned on theground that there are several variants: according to one version the person who withdrew was Wasil's associate'Amr ibn 'Ubayd (d. AH 141/AD 761), and accor...
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Being
the present participle of the verb 'to be' . This suggests a different analogy. When one asks 'What is running? ' (and is not asking which thing is running) one is asking about the character a thing must have in order to count as running. By analogy one might expect that the question 'What is being? ' raises the issue of which character or property being is. The notion that 'being' names an entity was the first possibility explored. Parmenides reaches the extraordinary conclusion tha...
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Atlantic Ocean - geography.
Volcanic Island of SurtseyThe Icelandic island of Surtsey, one of Earth's newest tracts of land, was created in November 1963 when a volcano erupted on thefloor of the North Atlantic Ocean south of Iceland. The volcano ejected molten lava for more than two years, forming an island about3 sq km (about 1 sq mi) in area. The Icelandic government named it for the mythological fire god, Surtur, and designated it a naturepreserve.Ragnar Larusson/Photo Researchers, Inc. The largest islands of the Atlan...
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Animal Migration.
No one understands exactly how migrating animals know when to migrate or how they find their way.Some experts think that the shortening days in fall or the lengthening days in spring may act as a signalto birds and other animals. Such signals indicate that it is time to start their long journey. Once on their way, birds are thought to navigate by the Sun and stars. Research shows that birds alsomay be sensitive to Earth’s magnetic field—the space around Earth where a magnetic force is felt. Fish...
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Conceptual analysis
Kant's important idea that conceptual truths can be either analytic a priori or synthetic a priori is effectively erased by Gottlob Frege in his Foundations of Arithmetic (1884). Frege's overriding philosophical aim is to put mathematical proof on a firm footing by reducing the truths of arithmetic to analytic truths of logic. In view of this, the proper goal of an analysis is the production of non-circular, explanatory, yet meaning-preserving general definitions of fundamental concepts -...
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Regina - Geography.
in 1883, was incorporated as a city in 1903, and was made the capital of Saskatchewan when the province was created in 1905. The headquarters of the police forcewere moved in 1920 to Ottawa, the nation’s capital, but the force’s training facility remained in Regina. Regina has been associated with a number of important historical events. In 1885 Louis Riel, leader of the Northwest Rebellion, was tried for treason and executedthere. In 1933 Canada’s newly formed socialist party, the Co-operative...
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Art, performing
performers in instancing their work is not to say merely that performers are means for the work's transmission. Thefoundry workers who follow the sculptor's instructions and the film's projectionist help to create or transmit thework, but theirs is not the pivotal role of the performer. They might be replaced by technologically superioralternatives without thereby altering the artistic character of the statue or film, whereas the performer's task isineliminably part of works created fo...
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Pakistan Facts and Figures.
HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy Total 64.1 years (2008 estimate) Female 65.2 years (2008 estimate) Male 63.1 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 67 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 1,353 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 1,429 people (2003) Literacy rateTotal 47.4 percent (2005 estimate) Female 32.4 percent (2005 estimate) Male 61.4 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP)...
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Wrestling.
(4) Escapes are scored when a wrestler, controlled by the opponent on the mat, frees himself or herself and moves to a standing position, facing the opponent. Common escapes include the standup and the sitout. V HISTORY Wrestling has been popular throughout recorded history. Origins of the sport can be traced back 15,000 years through depictions in cave drawings in France. EarlyEgyptian and Babylonian reliefs depict wrestlers using most of the holds known to the present-day sport. In ancient G...
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Russia Facts and Figures.
Nonreligious 28 percent Other 7 percent HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy Total 65.9 years (2008 estimate) Female 73.1 years (2008 estimate) Male 59.2 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 11 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 232 people (2006) Population per hospital bed 95 people (2003) Literacy rateTotal 99.6 percent (2005 estimate) Female 99.6 percent (2005 estimate) Male 99.7 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as...
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Why america ?
certainly have to renounce and give up some of his cultural heritage. Jagan dreads Mali might be faced with an entirely different cultural environment and be rejected, looked down on by other students because of his color and origin. Last, but no least, Jagan can’t stand the thought of being separated from his son. This is made clear in the sentence “he had.. so far l10). We aren’t given much information about the relationship between Jagan and his son, but we can suppose that jagan is a do...
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Wolf - biology.
VIII RED WOLF The red wolf is smaller than the gray wolf. An adult red wolf stands about 65 cm (about 2 ft) high at the shoulder, measures 100 to 130 cm (3 to 4 ft) in lengthexcluding the tail, and weighs 20 to 36 kg (45 to 80 lb). It has long legs and ears and its head is not as wide as that of the gray wolf. The coat of red wolves varies incolor from light tan to black with reddish head, ears, and legs. Scientists have debated whether the red wolf is a subspecies of the gray wolf, a separate...
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Belief and knowledge
know that it is the case. There are two advantages to this. First, when we accept that something is the case, we do so for a purpose, and the relevant purpose for epistemic agents is the pursuit of truth. When we believe (or harbour a conviction) we need not have any such purpose. So the use of 'acceptance' rather than 'conviction' helps us keep in sight the goal-oriented nature of epistemic agents. Second, a belief (and conviction) can be the product of entirely irrational factors, such as...
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Edmonton - Geography.
both of which built fur trading posts near present-day Edmonton in 1795. The posts were rebuilt several times, always along the North Saskatchewan River, whichprovided the traders’ main transportation route. The last move came in 1830, when Fort Edmonton was erected on the high bluff where the Alberta Legislature nowstands. For the next 50 years, the fort was the major trading center on the western plains. The modern city began to take shape after 1900, when central Alberta was opened to Europea...
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Civil disobedience
constitutional privilege to disobey a statute. Such an action, based on an accepted constitutional right, is not true civil disobedience. However, classification becomes more troublesome when someone breaks a law believing that the law should be declared unconstitutional, but strongly expecting that courts will disagree. This essay disregards this subtlety and concentrates on persons who lack any serious claim that their behaviour is protected by another, higher legal rule. People usually disobe...
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Flood Control.
When scientific research into the causes of floods showed that the construction of levees was insufficient as a method of control, the first steps were made to provide forreforestation and soil conservation. The Clarke-McNary Act of 1924, the Mississippi Flood Control Act of 1928, and the McSweeney-McNary Act of 1928 were all directedtoward that end. In 1935 the Soil Conservation Service was established by the Congress of the United States under an act declaring a policy of permanent provision f...
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Swaziland - country.
convention of 1894 placed Swaziland under the administration of the Union of South Africa (now the Republic of South Africa). Administration passed to the Britishgovernor of Transvaal in 1903 and to the British high commissioner for South Africa in 1907. In 1967 Swaziland became internally self-governing. The nation attainedfull independence on September 6, 1968, with King Sobhuza II as head of state. The king suspended the constitution in 1973 and banned all political activity; under anew const...
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy: METAPHYSICS (the system of aristotle)
study something as a being is to study something about which true predications can be made, precisely from thepoint of view of the possibility of making true predications of it. Aristotle's first philosopher is not making a study ofsome particular kind of being; he is studying everything, the whole of Being, precisely as such. Now an Aristotelian science is a science of causes, so that the science of Being qua being will be a science whichassigns the causes of there being any truths whatever abo...
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Imperialism
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INTRODUCTION
Imperialism, practice by which powerful nations or peoples seek to extend and maintain control or influence over weaker nations or peoples.
prudent to examine the economic impact of imperialism on a case-by-case basis. The political and psychological effects of imperialism are equally difficult to determine. Imperialism has proven both destructive and creative: For better or worse, it hasdestroyed traditional institutions and ways of thinking and has replaced them with the habits and mentality of the Western world. Contributed By:Michael MastandunoMicrosoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Arthropod - biology.
through a series of distinct phases to become adults. Larvae may also inhabit different environments and eat different foods than their parents. The life spans ofarthropods range from a few weeks to several decades. V ARTHROPOD EVOLUTION The evolutionary origins of modern arthropods are unclear and complex. It is generally accepted that the phylum is polyphyletic—that is, derived from several separateancestral lines. The ancestors of arthropods were ancient aquatic segmented worms, similar to p...
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Denver - geography.
percent of Denver’s population, blacks 11.1 percent, Asians 2.8 percent, Native Americans 1.3 percent, and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders 0.1 percent. Peopleof mixed heritage or not reporting race made up 19.3 percent of the population. Hispanics, who may be of any race, were 31.7 percent of the people. In 2006, Denver'spopulation was estimated at 566,974. IV EDUCATION AND CULTURE Since the very beginning of Colorado’s settlement, Denver has been the region’s thriving cultural hub...
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art brut
unconventional materials (glass; textile fragments; buttons; butterfly wings) to his paintings. The use of the unconventional materials suggest that the artist is associated to the art informel but this is a pretext for Dubuffet to « build » his art brut in the 1945. The artist is interested by the popular arts, the graffiti, kids drawings and the mental ill ( insane ) artworks. In his artistic process, he assumes that art should be practice by anybody that doesn't need talent or i...
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Tuvalu - country.
Funafuti has a town council, and each of the other islands except Niulakita has an island council. Members of these councils are directly elected to four-year terms. Tuvalu is active in regional affairs. It is a member of the South Pacific Commission, an advisory body of Western and Pacific nations promoting social stability in theSouth Pacific, and the South Pacific Forum, a regional organization that addresses the foreign affairs and international trade of its member countries. Tuvalu became a...
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Artistic forgery
pieces, including pure music, where expressiveness is present in the absence of a narrated or depicted content.Whose emotions are expressed thereby and how are they expressed? 3 Arousal theory One suggested answer to the above question is that we ascribe emotions to art works just because those emotions are awakened in us. This is the theory of emotivism or arousalism. Two cases need to bedistinguished. In the first, the art work or some aspect of it is the emotional object of a response in...
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Amazon (river) - geography.
5,000 indigenous groups remain today in Peru, but few are untouched by the outside world.Alison Wright/Corbis The Amazon watershed includes the largest and wettest tropical plain in the world. Heavy rains drench much of the densely forested lowland region throughout the year butespecially between January and June. Seasonal variation in rainfall is reflected by the width, rate of flow, and discharge volume of the river. During the months of maximumprecipitation, broad areas traversed by the Amazo...
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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’...
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Redaction en anglais sur la propagande dans le regime totalitaire
fact, propaganda in North Korea is so effective that there are some who believe that their leader does not defecate. Another example in regards to the efficiency of propaganda is the use of it by news agencies in western countries to paint Arab and Muslim countries in the bad light they are in today. The aforementioned clarifies the importance of propaganda as a tool for totalitarian governments. Totalitarianism is a dictatorship, just a more organized sort, and just with any dictatorship, ther...
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Le Wi-Fi
~ 1 ~ Wi -f i i s a pr etty r e cen t w i r el es s r a di o co mm uni cati o n te c hno l o gy us e d i n par ti cul ar i n co mp uti n g a cti v i ti es . I t i s us ed i n p ar ti c ul ar f o r w i r el es s l o cal n etw o r ks , a nd no w ad ay s i t’s t he f i r s t w ay to ac ces s t he i nter net. What are the advantages and the drawbacks of Wi -Fi technology, and how safe is it ? SUMMARY I - General Presentation .............
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Artistic expression
standard way. As a result of realizing that a character in a work is dying unloved one feels sadness for and pitytowards that character. Or, believing that the dramatic potential of the last act was botched by the playwright,one feels disappointed by the play. Or one is delighted by the felicity of a turn in the melody. In the second case,one tends to respond with sadness to works called sad, or with happiness to works said to express happiness.Something in the work calls forth the reaction...
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mythes and heroes
and recognized. In sport, Respect is also important but athletes transmit others values. For instance, Mohammed Ali, heavyweight champion of the world, teaches the importance of the determination, the courage and the will through his fight. He shows us that we should never give up in front of the difficulty because the perseverance always pays. Also, some heroes are important because they protect us by serving their country. Some men and women are ready to put their life in danger and to sacrifi...