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• La famille Un enfant A child, children Le père The father La mère The mother Les parents

  Un orphelin An orphan Un tuteur A guardian Un veuf A w id owe r Une veuve A w id ow Des obsèques A funeral Prendre le deuil To go into mourning Une vieille fille A spinster, an old maid Un célibataire A bachelor Célib ataire (adj) Single Une femme au fo yer A house wife Une famille monoparentale A single- parent f amily Des jumeau x, jumelles Twins L’aîné (de 2 enfants ) Th e elder L’aîné (de plus de 2 enfants) Th e eldest Le nom Name Le nom de f amille Surna...

• The Undefeated Dolphins.

  The Dolphins weren't seriously challenged during the remainder of the regular season. They defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 31-10; the Patriots, 37-21; the NewYork Giants, 23-13; and the Colts, 16-0. In the playoffs Miami defeated the Cleveland Browns, 20-14, and then captured the American Football Conference (AFC)championship by downing the Pittsburgh Steelers, 21-17. Miami's opponent in Super Bowl VII was the Washington Redskins. The Redskins had finished the regular season with an 11-3 r...

• The Voyage Out (1915) Virginia Woolf Chapter I As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm.

• Tecumseh: "Once a Happy Race" Early in the 19th century, Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory made a number of treaties with Native Americans that involved the ceding of land to the United States government.

• A member of the European Union, the Netherlands are the leading country for producing and exporting natural gas in Europe.

• If you had the opportunity, would you go and spend a year in a foreign country? Discuss the pros and cons.

  Sujet 2: If you had the opportunity, would you go and spend a year in a foreign country? Discuss the pros and cons. In our society, we can have the opportunity to travel and go abroad in a foreign country. People usually say that it’s a good thing because it’s a way to acquire knowledge. All the same, some persons think that to take a gap year is like going on holiday. On the one hand, I would like to go and spend a year in a foreign country since that would allow me to meet people and to go...

• The Doomsday Book

  with the Norman administration of England and impose levies. He wanted to know how much his kingdom was worth and how much taxation he could command. It also ensured that all landholders and tenants swore allegiance to the Conqueror, it was a major exigency of the Feudal System. The report showed the wealth of the country, but also the damages due to the different invasions England had undergone. Indeed, many towns had fallen into disrepair. Some were nearly depopulated. The census proved of the...

• Does the end justify the mean?

• Mephitis (Mefitis) Roman A goddess who protected the people of Rome and surrounding cities in Italy from the dangerous fumes of sulphur that spewed from the many volcanoes and the gaseous vents surrounding them.

• the money

  I admire and I respect the persons who know how to share what they have with the others, for   example by the support of the charitable actions(shares). Sometimes a lot of money(silver) is   necessary to pay a very expensive operation, to save the life of somebody and it is a case   where the money(silver) really has a big importance. It is necessary to know how to see also the other values which consider in life, for example the   friendship, the love, the family and the health. They can give a...

• The Gambia - country.

  The population of The Gambia (2008 estimate) is 1,735,464, making it one of the least populous countries of Africa. Still, the country has a fairly high overall populationdensity of 174 persons per sq km (449 per sq mi), and the population is increasing at a rate of 2.7 percent a year. Banjul, formerly called Bathurst, is the capital andonly seaport. The largest city is Serrekunda, a transportation hub and commercial center. B Religion and Language The great majority of the people of The Gambia...

• Glaucus (1) Greek The most famous Glaucus was the grandson of Bellerophon, a hero in the Iliad.

• Lance Armstrong Lance Armstrong, born in 1971, American cyclist, a record seven-time winner of the Tour de France, the most prestigious cycling race in the world and one of the most grueling contests in all of sports.

• The Road : le film

  Hillcoat sought to make the film faithful to the spirit of the book, creating « a world in severe trauma, » although the circumstances of the apocalyptic event are never explained. He preferred to shoot in real locations. He said « We didn't want to go the CGI (Computer-generated imagery) world. ». The filming in outer lasted 60 days, in more than 50 different settings. Unlike most of the filming, the team looked for places in ruins, abandoned, and especially not welcoming. And as The Road is se...

• Singin' in the Rain Singin' in the Rain, motion-picture musical about several Hollywood performers adjusting to the transition from silent to sound films during the 1920s.

• THE NEW GIRL

  Allison’s reaction shows that she is prejudiced, intolerant, narrow-minded, contemptuous and full of hatred: “ Her eyes were drawn into slits… (l. 23) – … the hatred I had seen on Allison’s face . (l. 26) – Allison spat back, ‘I don’t play with niggers.’” (l. 29) We can notice that the narrator says that he “avoided the girl’s eyes” (l. 27). The explanation is that he must have felt ashamed of himself. He didn’t want to be aggressive towards the black girl, but as he wanted to keep Allison a...

• Gaia (Gaea, Ge; Earth) Greek The personification of the Earth Mother in Greek mythology; known to the Romans as Tellus.

• The Scarlett letter

  The Scarlet Letter is an american romantic novel of fiction, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in the mid-nineteenth century. It is considered to be his best work. Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer from the nineteen century. He is a dark romantic (anti-transcendentalist) which means that he explores the psychological effects of guilt and sin, madness, derangement in the human psyche. The Scarlett letter is marked by this exploration. The st...

• The Godfather The Godfather, box-office hit motion picture about the fortunes of a prominent Mafia family during the 1940s and 1950s, based on a best-selling novel by Mario Puzo.

• Aphrodite Aphrodite, in Greek mythology, the goddess of love and beauty and the counterpart of the Roman goddess Venus.

• Salacia (The salty one) Roman A goddess of the sea, usually associated with the sea god Neptune, likely his wife.

• THE SUN AND ITS FAMILY

  period of revolution round the Sun, a period we call a year. 2.The seasons The Earth does not spin upright in space as it travels around the Sun. That is, its axis is not perpendicular to the plane of its orbit. Its axis is tilted at an angle of 23 and a half degrees. The Earth's axis is always tilted in the same direction in space. This means that, as the Earth travels each year around the Sun, the axis is tilted alternately towards, then away from the Sun. Naturally, when the northern hemi...

• Peter the Great.

  V LATER REIGN Before long, however, these and other reform measures had to cede center stage to the prosecution of the Great Northern War (1700-1721) against Sweden. Peter’sjourney west did not result in a great alliance against the Ottomans, but it led to one against Sweden. Russia fought together with Denmark and the union of Polandand Saxony against Sweden to win the Baltic coastline, the 'window into Europe,' and to break Swedish dominance over the northern part of the continent. At the tim...

• WHAT THE?

  the living one.Sometimes Ithink itwould beweird ifthere wereaskyscraper thatmoved upand down whileitselevator stayed inplace. Soifyou wanted togo tothe ninety-fifth floor,you'd justpress the95button andtheninety-fifth floor would cometoyou. Also, thatcould beextremely useful,because ifyou're onthe ninety-fifth floor,andaplane hits below you,thebuilding couldtakeyoutothe ground, andeveryone couldbesafe, even ifyou leftyour birdseed shirtat home thatday. I've only been inalimousine twiceever.Thefi...

• Confucius I INTRODUCTION Confucius (551 or 552-479 BC), Chinese philosopher and educator, one of the most important individuals in Chinese history, and one of the most influential figures in world history.

  From a modern perspective, Confucius’s worldview has certain limitations. He was ignorant of cultural diversity; he accepted the sexism of his society; he shows nointerest in natural science or technology; his political philosophy is undemocratic; and he gives insufficient stress to social change. However, Confucius will no doubtcontinue to inspire people across the world with his vision of social harmony, his insight into human virtue, and his techniques for cultivating ethical individuals. Mi...

• THE GREAT ESCAPE

  Granted, a preponderance of Germans is a characteristic that seems common to most Mediterranean sites; but as y.et there is no overwhelmingly specialized patronage (1) ... Whether the remarkable growth of organized camping means the eventual death of the more independent kind is hard to say. Most probably it will ali depend upon campers themselves: how many heath tires they cause; how much litter they leave; in short, whether or not they wholly...

• Duke Ellington Duke Ellington (1899-1974), American jazz composer, orchestrator, bandleader, and pianist, considered the greatest composer in the history of jazz music and one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century.

• Erytheia (Erythia; Dazzling Light) Greek A Dryad, or wood Nymph; one of the sisters known as the Hesperides; either the daughters of Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night) or the daughters of Atlas and Pleione or Hesperis.

• Oedipus the King

  “Enough! I won’t listen to this sort of talk from you. Damn you! My curse on you! Get out of here, quickly. Away from this house, back to where you came from!” –Oedipus (p. 25) This quote explains why they enlist the help of Tiresias, he is a blind prophet who knows about the plague therefore he has information they need. “Tiresias, you who understands all things– those which can be taught and those which may not be mentioned, things in the heavens and things which walk the earth! You ca...

• THE SCALE OF SPACE

  our journey into space - it is far too slow. We must ride in a super spaceship that can travel at the highest speed possible. This is the speed of light. Light travels at a speed of about 300,000 km a second, or 1,080 million km an hour. Science fiction stories and films feature starships propelled by photon rockets, which achieve the speed of light by beaming intense light rays from their engines. The 'Star Trek' adventure series features the best known of these, the starship Enterprise. NASA...

• Sirens Greek The Nymphs whose sweet song lured sailors to destruction by making them go mad and therefore become shipwrecked on the coast where the Sirens lived.

• Immigration in the USA Introduction : The immigration is the movement of non native people going to live in a different country.

• Oceanids (Oceanides) Greek The many daughters of the two Titan deities, Oceanus, the ancient god of water, and his wife and sister, Tethys.

• Cornucopia (Horn of Plenty) Greek The horn of the goat-Nymph, Amalthea, who had tended the infant Zeus.

• the suffragette movement

  1910. The first wave was directed by Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) who was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote. She was named as one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century. The second wave with the anti-Vietnam War, Civil Rights movements, rebellion of minority groups, the Swinging Sixties...was conducted by Simone de Beauvoir from 1960's to 1990's she was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist p...

• england in the seventeenth

   Introduction  First part: England’s territorial expansion - 1. The process of colonization - 2. The army’s role into the process of the territorial expansion  Second part: The rise of the British economy - 1. The chartered companies - 2. The slaves and triangular trades - 3. Profits from piracy  Conclusion  Sources The world is experiencing a New England since 1578, when Elizabeth I took an interest in exploring overseas and discovering the world. England is

• on the road de kerouac

  able to give up everything just because they have enough of the other people. But this is also the decision of the main character in Kerouac's text, according to him, he is different, that's why he decided to exclude himself of the white society, he is working to live, but when the work is over, he moves to an another place, he's living on the road. In Beardsley's painting we can see a woman at the top she is half naked and we can see a demon at the bottom. Indeed, she is half naked, she is show...

• Laestrygonians Greek A race of giant cannibals who devoured many of the crewmen of the ships of Odysseus when the hero anchored near their island.

• The Ice Bowl.

  Starr peppered the Dallas defense with short passes. Three tosses to Anderson and one to Mercein accounted for 46 yards. An 8-yard run by Mercein moved thePackers to Dallas's 3-yard line with a minute left. Anderson ran the ball twice, skidding and sliding for a total of 1 yard. At third down with 16 seconds remaining,Green Bay used its last time out to set up the play. “That's why I decided to keep the ball. I knew the other backs might have trouble getting started,” Starr told a New York Time...

• Lotus-Eaters (Loto phagi) Greek In Homer's Odyssey, people who lived on the fruit or the roots of the lotus plant.

• Britain: The physical background

  Northern Ireland is 8° 10' West. It is just under 600 miles (966 km.) in a straight fine from the south coast to the extreme north of mainland Britai n and about 300 miles (483 km.) across in the widest part. Owing to the numerous bays and inl ets no point in Britain is as much as 75 miles (121 km.) from tidal water. The seas surrounding the British Isles are everywhe re shallow — usually shallow waters are important because they provide excellent fishin...

• The Coral Island

  would certainly turn into nothing better or bigger than a shrimp”), but he's still quite skillful: he hunts boars with his spear (paragraph 2) and makes new shoes out of hog skin (paragraph 3). As for Ralph, we don't know much about him, but we know he contributes to the group by going fishing and hunting too. He's also the narrator and the main character of the novel, which gives him some importance.  6. Ralph describes life on the island as a life of “uninterrupted harmony and happiness”. Alth...

• The New Girl

  passage is full of hatred. Indeed, when Allison saw the girl, she became aggressive and insulted her. Allison was so prejudiced that she didn't even try to make friends with the black girl. In the first passage, though, she was just a carefree child. (45 words)12. The girl must have felt scared and taken aback by the two white children's attitude towards her. She probably did not understand why Allison had been so mean to her, and why the narrator, who had been so nice at first, had suddenly bec...

• Devolution in the UK

  1) How did devolution happen? Devolution is not a new phenomena. There have been different forms of devolution in the UK for decades which responded to public demands. NI was the forerunner of devolution. In fact, in 1921 the Parliament of NI was created: Legislative power was transferred in large part from Westminster to the Parliament in Belfast . The first years were marked by a territorial conflict called The Troubles. Due to this violent 30 years conflict, the British gov diss...

• Omphale Greek The queen of Lydia who took the hero Heracles as her slave after he had desecrated the temple of Apollo.

• THE HARDEST CHOICE

  often only telling the parents tbat their babies were stillbom. But public discussion of this unpleasant alternative is a relati­ vely new phenomenon. Doctors and hospital officiais across the U.S. are now openly acknowledging tbat there are cases in which ali concemed agree that the best-and perbaps even the most humane-treatment for a severely deformed infant is none at ali .•. ... As a result, the painful decision to treat or not to treat...

• Ida (1) Greek The Nymph who with her sister, Adrastia, and the goat-nymph, Amalthea, tended the infant god Zeus on Mount Ida (2) in Crete.

• The opening of Rear Window

  see the window: it is the only thing which the viewer can focus on in a similar way to the audience of a theatre, focusing on the stage. This credit sequence has some symbolic as the plot lies on what is seen through the window. The fact that the shutters open will allow the action to take place. It also makes the viewer feel like he is waking up in a warm atmosphere created by the sepia color of the shutters and the touch of red used for the credits. As we are going to see, the open...

• thé, cérémonie du - anthropologie.

  gestes et des objets, le détachement et la simplicité, Sen no Rikyu renouvelle profondément la cérémonie du thé, lui conférant une dimension esthétique et philosophique qui exerce une influence prépondérante sur tous les arts de l’époque — la céramique (et en particulier celle de style raku), la peinture, l’art floral, l’art des jardins, l’architecture, etc. 3 LA CÉRÉMONIE Pot et vase à thé La diffusion de la cérémonie du thé, d'origine chinoise, va s'accompagner d'une évolution de la grande cé...

• Breach of the peace

  Normand 1992 SCCR 14, for a leisure centre (Farell v Normand 1992 SCCR 859), for a police station (Carmichael v Monaghan 1986 SCCR 598), for a court of law (Dyce v Aitchison 1985 SCCR 184) or for an omnibus (McLean v McNaughton)   The extensive definition of breach of the peace is incompatible with the article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Indeed the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights requires that an offence must be clearly defined in law for example in Kokkinak...