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• Westerns I INTRODUCTION Gene Autry Known as the Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry was the star of nearly 100 Westerns during his career as an actor.

  James Fenimore CooperNineteenth-century American writer James Fenimore Cooper, famed for his adventure novels of American frontier life, wasalso an ardent social critic. Cooper wrote a series of five novels, known collectively as the Leather-Stocking Tales, in whichhe detailed the adventures of a fictional frontiersman named Natty Bumppo. In Bumppo, Cooper portrayed a man ofnature and a friend of the Native Americans. In addition to fiction, Cooper wrote several nonfiction works criticizingAmeri...

• Millard Fillmore.

  B Vice President of the United States During the first half of 1850, Fillmore as vice president presided over the United States Senate (the upper chamber of Congress) as angry debates raged betweenNorthern and Southern sectionalists over the status of slavery in the recently acquired lands. His fairness and sense of humor in the chair were not enough to restorepeace among the contending senators. The antislavery faction, led by Senator Seward (the former governor of New York) and Senator Salmon...

• Millard Fillmore

  B Vice President of the United States During the first half of 1850, Fillmore as vice president presided over the United States Senate (the upper chamber of Congress) as angry debates raged betweenNorthern and Southern sectionalists over the status of slavery in the recently acquired lands. His fairness and sense of humor in the chair were not enough to restorepeace among the contending senators. The antislavery faction, led by Senator Seward (the former governor of New York) and Senator Salmon...

• Computer Science.

  theoretical research is called algorithmic complexity. Computer scientists in this field seek to develop techniques for determining the inherent efficiency of algorithmswith respect to one another. Another area of theoretical research called computability theory seeks to identify the inherent limits of computation. Software engineers use programming languages to communicate algorithms to a computer. Natural languages such as English are ambiguous—meaning that theirgrammatical structure and vocab...

• Smithsonian Institution.

  F Arthur M. Sackler Gallery The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery houses a permanent collection of art from China, South and Southeast Asia, ancient and Islamic Iran, and Japan. Changing exhibitions ofAsian art are drawn from collections in the United States and abroad. The core of the collection was a gift from American research physician and medical publisherArthur M. Sackler. G Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum The Cooper-Hewitt is located in New York City and features examples of historical an...

• éthique - philosophie.

  Socrate s’opposait aux sophistes. Sa position philosophique, telle qu’elle est présentée dans les dialogues de son élève Platon, peut se résumer comme suit : la vertu est la connaissance ; seront vertueux ceux qui sauront ce qu’est la vertu ; le vice ou le mal sont le résultat de l’ignorance. Ainsi, pour Socrate, l’éducation doit être axée sur l’enseignement de la vertu en vue de développer le sens moral des hommes. 3. 2 Les écoles d’éthique grecques La plupart des écoles grecques de philosophi...

• éthique - sciences et techniques.

  Socrate s’opposait aux sophistes. Sa position philosophique, telle qu’elle est présentée dans les dialogues de son élève Platon, peut se résumer comme suit : la vertu est la connaissance ; seront vertueux ceux qui sauront ce qu’est la vertu ; le vice ou le mal sont le résultat de l’ignorance. Ainsi, pour Socrate, l’éducation doit être axée sur l’enseignement de la vertu en vue de développer le sens moral des hommes. 3. 2 Les écoles d’éthique grecques La plupart des écoles grecques de philosophi...

• 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...

• Coins and Coin Collecting.

  U.S. coins dates from 1909, when the first Lincoln Cents appeared during the centennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. George Washington’s profile was used on thequarter-dollar of 1932, a coin originally intended as a one-year commemorative to honor the 200th anniversary of his birth. The design quickly became so popular thatit was retained for regular-issue quarters and is still being used today. Thomas Jefferson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Dwight D. Eisenhower are theother Americ...

• Greenhouse Effect.

  addition, humans cut down huge tracts of trees for lumber or to clear land for farming or building. This process, known as deforestation, can both release the carbonstored in trees and significantly reduce the number of trees available to absorb carbon dioxide. As a result of these human activities, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is accumulating faster than Earth’s natural processes can absorb the gas. By analyzing airbubbles trapped in glacier ice that is many centuries old, scientists have d...

• Neandertals.

  Neandertals made stone tools by striking flakes from rock “cores.” The cores were carefully selected and prepared so that only a single blow was normally required todetach a flake. A number of relatively standardized flakes were sometimes produced from a single core. These sharp flakes served as “blanks” that were further workedand shaped into the desired tools. Suitable stone was sometimes rare, and often tools were sharpened and resharpened to make new tools, yielding a whole variety ofshapes...

• Buenos Aires (city) - geography.

  The city has produced or nurtured many of the most prominent Spanish-language writers of the 20th century, including Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and ManuelPuig. Buenos Aires has long been one of the primary centers of Spanish-language publishing and printing, and it is home to major publishing companies. It supports theoldest English-language daily newspaper in Latin America, the Buenos Aires Herald, published since 1876. The arts have a long, rich history in Buenos Aires. This is mani...

• Brian Mulroney.

  At the party convention Mulroney was one of the candidates who ran against Clark. This time Mulroney did not have to contend with a rival candidate from Québec. Healso had the support of the remnants of the Diefenbaker faction—who disliked Clark even more than they disliked Mulroney. Mulroney was also endorsed by asubstantial group of members of Parliament; this endorsement helped allay concerns about whether he could provide effective leadership in Parliament. Mulroney waselected leader of the...

• Brian Mulroney - Canadian History.

  At the party convention Mulroney was one of the candidates who ran against Clark. This time Mulroney did not have to contend with a rival candidate from Québec. Healso had the support of the remnants of the Diefenbaker faction—who disliked Clark even more than they disliked Mulroney. Mulroney was also endorsed by asubstantial group of members of Parliament; this endorsement helped allay concerns about whether he could provide effective leadership in Parliament. Mulroney waselected leader of the...

• Sir Robert Borden.

  of the British Empire, Laurier proposed creating a Canadian navy that in case of war could be incorporated into the British navy. The plan was opposed by theConservatives, who thought that Canada should simply provide ships for the British navy. The Québec nationalists also opposed the plan because they did not wantCanada either to participate in the British navy or to have a navy of its own. At the last moment before election day in 1911 it looked as if the Liberals might win. The government ne...

• Sir Robert Borden - Canadian History.

  of the British Empire, Laurier proposed creating a Canadian navy that in case of war could be incorporated into the British navy. The plan was opposed by theConservatives, who thought that Canada should simply provide ships for the British navy. The Québec nationalists also opposed the plan because they did not wantCanada either to participate in the British navy or to have a navy of its own. At the last moment before election day in 1911 it looked as if the Liberals might win. The government ne...

• La maison Tellier de Maupassant (texte intégral)

  était comme un repos dans le badinage polisson des particuliers ventrus qui se livraient chaque soir à cettedébauche honnête et médiocre de boire un verre de liqueur en compagnie de filles publiques. Les trois dames du premier s'appelaient Fernande, Raphaëlle et Rosa la Rosse. Le personnel étant restreint, on avait tâché que chacune d'elles fût comme un échantillon, un résumé de typeféminin, afin que tout consommateur pût trouver là, à peu près du moins, la réalisation de son idéal. Fer...

• 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...

• Vice President of the United States.

  naval operations. Located in northwest Washington at Massachusetts Avenue and 34th Street, the three-story Queen Anne-style house is within easy driving distance ofCapitol Hill and the White House. The vice president receives an annual salary of $189,300. The vice president has a staff and offices in the Everett M. Dirksen Senate Office Building, near the Capitol, toassist with legislative matters, as well as a personal office near the Senate lobby. The vice president also has staff and offices...

• Sudan - country.

  B Principal Cities and Political Divisions The principal city is Khartoum, the capital; other major cities include Omdurman and Khartoum North, major industrial centers, and Port Sudan, a seaport on the RedSea. Sudan is divided into 26 states. C Religion and Language About 70 percent of the people of Sudan are Muslims, some 15 percent are Christians, and most of the remainder follow traditional religions. The people of northernSudan are predominantly Sunni Muslims (Sunni Islam). Most of the pe...

• Amérique du Sud.

  2.5 Climat Le climat de l'Amérique du Sud est relativement chaud. Une longue zone climatique humide et tropicale s'étire sur toute la largeur du continent à la hauteur de l'Équateur,se transformant graduellement vers le nord et vers le sud en de larges zones où la durée des saisons pluvieuses et les précipitations diminuent. Ces régions, aux étéshumides et aux hivers secs, sont soumises à des sécheresses prolongées. La sécheresse est un problème particulièrement grave dans le nord-est du Brésil...

• World Energy Supply.

  In the 1990s, oil production by non-OPEC countries remained strong and production by OPEC countries rebounded. The result at the end of the 20th century was aworld oil surplus and prices (when adjusted for inflation) that were lower than in 1972. Experts are uncertain about future oil supplies and prices. Low prices have spurred greater oil consumption, and experts question how long world petroleum reservescan keep pace with increased demand. Many of the world’s leading petroleum geologists beli...

• Stock Exchange.

  A Example of a Trade In an example of a trade, an investor wanting to buy 200 shares—also known as two round lots, of 100 shares each—of IBM stock will telephone or e-mail the order to abrokerage firm. This communication is normally made to an individual called a stockbroker. The investor might desire to buy the shares at the market, or current, price.On the other hand, the investor may choose to pay no more than a set amount per share. The brokerage firm then contacts one of its floor brokers...

• Fidel Castro.

  result, Castro formed a radical branch of the Ortodoxo Party called the Radical Action Orthodox wing. This organization supported Chibás in the 1948 election. PrioSocarrás won the election, despite Castro’s efforts. After Chibás committed suicide in 1951, Castro believed he should become the leader of the Ortodoxo Party and ran for a seat in the Cuban House of Representatives inthe 1952 election. Before that election could occur, however, General Fulgencio Batista staged a bloodless coup d’etat...

• espace, exploration de l' - astronomie.

  d’un géant, habitant de l’étoile Sirius, et du secrétaire perpétuel de l’Académie de la planète Saturne. En 1865, Jules Verne publie De la Terre à la Lune, dans lequel son génie visionnaire s’exprime par une description proche d’une réalité qui se concrétisera un siècle plus tard. Dans un genre radicalement différent, l’écrivain anglaisH.G. Wells publie en 1898 la Guerre des mondes, puis en 1901 les Premiers Hommes dans la Lune. Au début du XXe siècle, les pionniers du cinéma de fiction p...

• Le héros romantique peut-il représenter la figure-type de sa génération ?

  L'orgueil immense de l'exclu et les figures dela révolte Quelle que soit leur véritable condition que les héros denos drames empruntent sous des masques divers, ilsaffectent pareillement une hauteur superbe. Le hérosse sait et se sent isolé et exclu mais il revendiquecette situation dont il souffre comme de la marqued'un destin exceptionnel. Son comportement traduitcette volonté par toutes les attitudes de la révolte. Onrelèvera donc dans les trois drames qui nousintéressent diff...

• Martin Van Buren.

  political ambitions. The Clintonians cited as one example of Van Buren's unscrupulous methods his support of a convention in 1821 to revise the state's constitution. Van Buren and hisBucktails said they wanted to make the constitution more democratic. The Clintonians retorted that the real aim was to oust them from office. Both sides were right. Therevised constitution introduced a needed extension of voting rights and improved the operation of the state government. However, it also removed many...

• Martin Van Buren

  political ambitions. The Clintonians cited as one example of Van Buren's unscrupulous methods his support of a convention in 1821 to revise the state's constitution. Van Buren and hisBucktails said they wanted to make the constitution more democratic. The Clintonians retorted that the real aim was to oust them from office. Both sides were right. Therevised constitution introduced a needed extension of voting rights and improved the operation of the state government. However, it also removed many...

• Radar.

  gathers the weak returning radar signals and converts them into an electric current. Because a radar antenna may both transmit and receive signals, the duplexerdetermines whether the antenna is connected to the receiver or the transmitter. The receiver determines whether the signal should be reported and often does furtheranalysis before sending the results to the display. The display conveys the results to the human operator through a visual display or an audible signal. B1 The Antenna The rec...

• Holy Roman Empire I INTRODUCTION Holy Roman Empire, political entity of lands in western and central Europe, founded by Charlemagne in AD 800 and dissolved by Emperor Francis II in 1806.

  acquired the imperial title and an area running from the North Sea through Lotharingia (Lorraine) and Burgundy to northern Italy; Louis II received East Francia (theGerman duchies of Saxony, Swabia, and Bavaria). In 870 Lothair’s middle kingdom was divided by the Treaty of Mersen, which gave Lotharingia to East Francia and therest to West Francia. This division created the foundation for today’s states of Germany and France, respectively; however, in the 9th century these were highly fractured d...

• Holy Roman Empire .

  acquired the imperial title and an area running from the North Sea through Lotharingia (Lorraine) and Burgundy to northern Italy; Louis II received East Francia (theGerman duchies of Saxony, Swabia, and Bavaria). In 870 Lothair’s middle kingdom was divided by the Treaty of Mersen, which gave Lotharingia to East Francia and therest to West Francia. This division created the foundation for today’s states of Germany and France, respectively; however, in the 9th century these were highly fractured d...

• Television.

  A charge-coupled device (CCD) can be much smaller than a camera tube and is much more durable. As a result, cameras with CCDs are more compact and portablethan those using a camera tube. The image they create is less vulnerable to distortion and is therefore clearer. In a CCD, the light from a scene strikes an array ofphotodiodes arranged on a silicon chip. Photodiodes are devices that conduct electricity when they are struck by light; they send this electricity to tiny capacitors. Thecapacitors...

• 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...

• Colleges and Universities.

  and (3) large universities that include undergraduate programs in addition to graduate and professional schools. D Graduate and Professional Schools Professional schools are typically divisions of large universities. They offer specialized education in a variety of professional fields, such as education, business, medicine,law, social work, agriculture, journalism, architecture, fine arts, nursing, engineering, and music. Some professional schools offer four- or five-year programs leading toa b...

• Advertising.

  Advertising agencies make money in a variety of ways. When the agency uses the client’s advertising budget to buy time for an ad on the radio or on television or whenit buys space for an ad in a newspaper or magazine, the media outlet allows the agency to keep 15 percent of the cost of the space or the time as a commission. The15 percent commission has become an advertising industry standard and usually accounts for the largest portion of the agency’s income. Agencies also charge clientsfor the...

• Baseball.

  pitcher or argue a call with an umpire. Two or more coaches, positioned closer to the field, assist the manager by communicating with the players. For example,managers may decide what pitches should be thrown, when batters should swing at a pitch, and how runners should move around the bases. The manager relays thesedecisions through special hand signals that the coaches repeat to communicate to the players. Umpires are responsible for interpreting and enforcing the rules of play. They rule on...

• TPE: La représentation de problèmes de société dans le cinéma américain

  Seize états américains, ont établis une loi qui implique la responsabilité des parents dans le cas ou un enfant est accès a une arme a feu ou qu'il s'en serve ,cependantcertains états comme le Colorado permettent aux moins de 18 ans de s'acheter un fusil de chasse pour peu qu'ils aient un permis de chasse ou une carte d'un club detir.Il est aussi interdit de vendre des armes a feu aux fugitifs, aux dealers de drogues, aux immigrés illégaux; de plus la loi Brady de 1994 dit qu'il est nécessaire d...

• Explication de texte, Le Monde comme volonté et comme représentation, Schopenhauer

  Devoir 1 philosophie Qu’est-ce que la philosophie ? Lorsque nous cherchons une définition de ce terme, nous pouvons constater qu’il y a plusieurs réponses possibles à cette question. Par exemple, c’est une matière des classes terminales des lycées, ou encore, c’est l’ensemble des questions que l'être humain peut se poser sur lui-même et l’examen des réponses qu'il peut y apporter, une vision systématique et générale (mais non scientifique) du monde. Ainsi, tout le monde ne donne pas le m...

• LA REPRÉSENTATION DU TEMPS

• Une représentation peut-elle être inconsciente ?

• le théâtre et sa représentation

• Puis-je me représenter moi-même ?

• Présenter et représenter ?

• Pourquoi se représenter nos passions ?

• La représentation de la nature

  E X P 0 $ É S F C H E S Les métamorphoses Le thème des métamorphoses, traité à plusieurs reprises, souligne l'unité du monde et la possibilité, pour les êtres, de passer d'un règne à l'autre: qu'un marbre puisse devenir table, cuvette ou Jupiter (IX, 6, v. 4) ou qu'une souris se métamor­ phose en fille (IX, VII) permet de souligner l'approche poétique du monde qui est une approche totalisante. Le voyage initiatique Pour trouver dans le m...

• Le vote et sa représentation

  Le vote est universel, il appartient donc à tous les citoyens en d’âge d’être électeur. Bien sur le vote est strictement personnel, secret, et libre : personne n’est obligé d’aller voter (pas comme en Belgique où l’on paie une amende si l’on ne vote pas). Une dérogation au principe de nationalité a été apportée par le traité de Maastricht, ratifié en septembre 1992. Les ressortissants communautaires ont désormais le droit d e vote aux élections européennes et municipales sous réserve...

• Le théâtre peut-il tout représenter ?

• Le fait d'assister à la représentation est-il nécessaire pour comprendre totalement une oeuvre théâtrale ?

  suivre. De cete manière, l'auteur l'aide à mieux imaginer la représentaton. Certes, ces didascalies ne sont pas totalement complètes, mais elles sont cependant très utles. Certaines fois, le dramaturge n'use pas de beaucoup de didascalies, ne souhaite t-il pas laisser l'imaginaton du lecteur prendre le dessus? 3- L'imaginaton du lecteur A chaque lecture, le lecteur devient un meteur en scène à part entère. Il est libre dans la « concrétsaton » de l’image des acteurs, leur voix, leur taille,...