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• Mia Hamm Mia Hamm, born in 1972, American soccer player, one of the greatest female players in the history of the sport.

• Penelope Greek The daughter of Icarius and Periboea; the wife of the hero Odysseus; mother of Telemachus.

• Messier Lifts the Curse.

  Swept up in the hype, the Rangers came out for game five at the Garden in a virtual sleepwalk. By the start of the third period they were down 3-0. New Yorkscratched back to level the score as Messier culminated the three-goal spurt with a wrist shot midway through the period. Vancouver then stunned the Rangers—andthe sellout crowd—by netting three quick goals to put the game far out of reach. Game six in Vancouver proved even more of a challenge for the Rangers. The team showed little will...

• Latium Roman In ancient times, a region in west-central Italy, south and east of the Tiber River on the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea.

• Maia (1) Greek Daughter of Atlas and Pleione, the eldest and most beautiful of the Pleiades (the Seven Sisters).

• The death of meritocracy - Commentaire

  Yet the paper shows that the British do not think living in a meritocracy. Many voters are convinced that executives are as exceptional as today’s pay levels would suggest and they aren’t talented as they claim, finally they can do their job for less. So that it wonders about the place of the well-paid in the British society. Indeed, the well- paid are they a symptom or the root of the social and economical problem in the British society? Firstly we can define the principle of meritocracy, and t...

• Saturn (Saturnus) Roman Originally a god of agriculture, of the sowing of seeds and corn; also the god of the passage of time.

• Hypnos (Sleep) Greek The personification of sleep and the twin brother of Thanatos (Death); the son of Nyx (Night) and Erebus (Darkness).

• Helios (Helius) (The sun god) Greek Helios was husband to Rhodos, the Nymph of the island of Rhodes, which he chose as his favored abode.

• RESHAPING THE AMERICAN DREAM

  mostly realized, while the dream of the sons bas not yet been successfully formulated. In its traditional form, it included both our purpose as a nation, embodied in such propositions as "liberty and justice for ali", as weil as the personal goals that echo in the familiar phrase, the land of promise. But dreams achieved become mondane (1). The achievements bring new problems. Not many Americans are so naïve as to think that money auto­...

• THE BEAT GENERATION

  The book 'On the Road' was one of the flagship works of the 'Beat Generation', a term used by the author Jack Kerouac to name a writer's group that found its inspiration in jazz, poetry, and drug use. In 1958, the New York Times hailed it as « the most beautifully executed, the clearest and most important utterance » of Kerouac's generation. Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast. He was considered the father of the...

• Earth Mother A symbol in many ancient myth systems of the Earth, the source of all life and the power to create life.

• Commentary The adeventures of Huck Finn

  same hundrun is emphasized by the use of the modals « would », « could » and the verbal form « used to ». So, this everyday life is depicted by the narrator as « lovely ». The child describes his habits as sacred ones. The way it is depicted seems mechanical : everything has a time to be done and is done by the time the children are allowing it. For instance, they are eating first, then having a nap, then shaving « soon as it was night ». The actions are ennumerated, which emphasize the idea o...

• Mays Makes "The Catch".

  Game one was held at the Polo Grounds in New York. In the eighth inning, with the score tied, 2-2, the Indians put two men on base, Doby and Al Rosen. Durocherbrought in left-hander Don Liddle to face Cleveland first baseman Vic Wertz, who already had three hits in the game, including a two-run triple in the first. Wertzknocked a long drive to center field, the deepest part of the longest outfield in the league. A double or triple would score both runners, giving the Indians a two-runlead and a...

• Commentaire : "The darkling Trush"

  Secondly, the w riter m ade specious choices of im agery through the beginning of his poem in order to create an apocalyptic atm osphere. Thus, the reader pictures a frozen earth decaying w here life is increasingly rare just like in the “Snow piercer”. For exam ple, in the first stanza, “Frost” is com pared w ith a “spectre-gray” w hich sets a gloom y atm osphere. Besides, m aybe that using the w ord “Frost”, the w riter m akes allusion to G reek god w ho controls the w eather. So this...

• NHL Top Scorers in a Single Season The following are the top scorers in the National Hockey League ranked by the largest number of goals scored in a season.

• Is the American dream a concept

  "The Supermarket Lady" perfectly illustrates her time and American society in the 1960s the birth of the society of mass consumption, the shopping cart replaces the basket, the products are manufactured industrially( cans of tomatoes ; spaghettis, Eggs), the overweight of the model shows the opulence of this consumer society. I believe everything displayed here has a meaning and everything here has a purpose. His main while expressing himself throughout his sculptures is to transport scenes fro...

• Constantine the Great I INTRODUCTION Constantine the Great (about AD 274-337), Roman emperor (306-337), the first Roman ruler to be converted to Christianity.

• Lord of the flies

  The prospect of exploring the island exhilarates the boys, who feel a bond forming among them as they play together in the jungle. From the peak, they can see that they are on an island with no signs of civilization. The view is stunning, and Ralph feels as though they have discovered their own land. As they travel back toward the beach, they find a wild pig caught in a tangle of vines. Jack, the newly appointed hunter, draws his knife and steps in to kill it, but hesitates, unable to...

• The Bahamas - country.

  Pindling held power throughout the 1970s and 1980s, but chronic unemployment and allegations of government corruption and drug trafficking eventually eroded hissupport. In 1992 the Free National Movement won parliamentary elections, and Hubert Ingraham became prime minister. Ingraham and his party were reelected in1997, but the PLP regained control in 2002 with Perry Christie as prime minister. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

• Towards Independence - Protest and Unrest in the Colonies

  The seven year war and its aftermath (1756-1736) This is when the hostility between the colonies and Britain became more important. The French and British fought for the land that was east the Mississippi river. At first, the British settled for business, but then the French arrived and built Forts along the line to stave off the British. Of course the French lost because their territory to defend was too large. → The French was kicked out of...

• Analyse du tableau de Norman Rockwell "the dugout"

  the crowd burst out laughing loudly as we can see in this drawing. Which does not seem to improve the mood of the young player. The reason I chose this drawing is because it perfectly illustrates the moments of dousbt we all have in the face of adversity. It even shows the cruelty of people who, instead of supporting you, revel in your misery and make it a subject of taunting and joking. As long as this young man exceeds his apprehensions and goes into the arena, he will be able to overcome all...

• "The Charge of the Light Brigade" - anthology.

• The idead of progress

  GMOs to be at least labelized : GMOs can't be forbidden but because of the uncertainty of their causes on health, something have to be done to give a choice to the population. In USA, you find GMOs everywhere, even in organic shops ! And you don't know anything about that while you're buying those one ! GMOs are an actual progress, but it has to be improve to turn out to be a good progress. We should make GMOs that are not dangerous for human health, with the help of the science.   We are going...

• The Beatles - Musik.

  1963 Please, Please Me Please, Please MeLove Me DoI Saw Her Standing ThereTwist and Shout 1963 With The Beatles It Won't Be LongAll My LovingPlease Mister PostmanRoll Over BeethovenI Wanna Be Your Man 1964 Meet The Beatles I Want To Hold Your HandThis Boy 1964 Something New Things We Said TodayAnd I Love Her 1964 A Hard Day's Night A Hard Day's NightCan't Buy Me LoveI Should Have Known Better 1964 Beatles for Sale I'm A LoserEight Days A WeekEverybody's Trying To Be MyBaby 1965 Help! Help!Youre...

• 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.

• Rex I INTRODUCTION Rex, a common name for any of three distinct breeds of curly-coated cat: the Cornish rex, the Devon rex, and the Selkirk rex.

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• Recap of the notions

  RECAPITULATION OF THE NOTIONS multicultural society, with the emergence of TV channels in Spanish for example. Another illustration of these exchanges is Spanglish : it shows the influence of Spanish over the English language. Actually, it is not only a matter of linguistics, it has also become a commercial strategy to target the Latino community in the USA. When big American firms want to sell their products to the Spanish-speaking community, they often use Spanglish in their ads. It is a...

• In back of the real Ginsberg

  - It is obvious that the sunflower represents America, a land once filled with the promise of progress and advancement. The locomotive was the symbol of that progress - a machine powerfulenough to connect the coasts and bring about a revolution in transportation and human ingenuity. Asthe railroad yard it represents a way to progress. - Sunflower means to suggest an America that has been tarnished and battered, but which also contains the ability to be redeemed and to be bea...

• Constitution of the United States.

  chief executive should have the power to veto legislation, should be elected by Congress or the people, should be eligible to run for reelection, and should command thearmed forces. Some delegates even hoped for a limited monarchy. Not until September 8, more than three months after the convention started, did the final shape ofthe presidency emerge: a single leader, elected to a four-year term and eligible for reelection, with authority to veto bills enacted by Congress. The president was alsog...

• The Four-Minute Mile.

  The nervous runners false-started once before setting off cleanly. As planned, Chris Brasher led Bannister through the first half-mile. After a half lap (200 meters),Bannister called out to his teammate: “Faster! Faster!” Accelerating, the runners sped through the first quarter-mile in 57.5 seconds-ahead of pace. At 600 meters,Stampfl shouted from the infield: “Relax! Relax!” Running smoothly behind Brasher, Bannister reached the half-mile mark in 1 min 58.2 sec. Chataway sprinted into the l...

• The Greatest Runner the World Has Seen.

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• Magic Johnson Magic Johnson, born in 1959, American professional basketball player, who helped the Los Angeles Lakers become one of the dominating professional basketball teams of the 1980s.

• DEVOIR MAISON EPREUVE SECTION EUROPEENNE THE USA IN VIETNAM

  To conclude, the Vietnam War upset all the USA. The casualties were important for soldiers but also for civilians. This war was a contestation of the American model, very appreciated at the time of the cold war. Many movies, paintings o r songs were afterwa rd published to denounce cancel the misdeeds of this war.

• Arcaro Wins the Triple Crown.

  that Citation was the class of the field, regardless of track condition. Citation, the overwhelming favorite at odds of 1-to-10, came out of the gate first, pulled aheadby two lengths on the backstretch, and romped to the finish six lengths ahead of the second-place horse, Vulcan. Arcaro used the whip only twice: at the entrance ofthe backstretch and just outside the eighth pole. According to the New York Times, ”Citation got the idea, and kept pulling away from the others through the final ya...

• Proton I INTRODUCTION Proton, elementary particle that carries a positive electric charge and, along with the electron and the neutron, is one of the building blocks of all atoms.

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• Anglais - Spies during the cold war

  about the creation of a nuclear bomb. Melita Norwood was a secret agent, she worked for the NKVD. She joined the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, which was a cover to an English group of scientists who worked on the creation of nuclear weapon. She supplied lots of significant material on the bomb atom project. She used to photograph the documents and then she gave them to the Soviet Union. As a result the Soviet Union exploded its first atom bomb in 1949, 3 years before Britain....

• 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...

• President of the United States.

  Democrats and Republicans—select delegates to attend their party conventions. Primary voters and caucus participants choose delegates who will support their favoredcandidate at the convention. The party conventions, held in the summer before the November general election, formally nominate the winner of the primaries andcaucuses. Would-be candidates crisscross the states that hold the earliest primaries, especially New Hampshire, which holds the country’s first primary, usually in mid-February....

• Exposé The different aspect of the American Dream

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Albert the Great

  Aristotle seems more Neoplatonic than Aristotelian, it is precisely because it is based as much on the philosophies ofArabic commentators on Aristotle (Alfarabi, Avicenna, the Liber de causis and Averroes) as it is on the philosophy of Aristotle himself. As the principal engineer of the introduction of philosophy to the Latins, Albert tried to portray ashomogeneous a philosophy that is not and cannot be homogeneous in the eyes of the philologist. It is, however,this Arabic-Latin version of Ari...

• Walt Whitman I INTRODUCTION Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet, whose work boldly asserts the worth of the individual and the oneness of all humanity.

• John Elway Leads "The Drive".

  touchdown against a strong defense. Bedlam reigned inside the stadium. In their two previous possessions the Broncos mustered a total of 15 yards. When Elway entered the huddle, however, he cracked a smile. “I couldn't believe it,”Denver receiver Steve Watson told Sports Illustrated. ”He said, ‘If you work hard, good things are going to happen.’ And then he smiled again.” Elway hit running back Sammy Winder for a short gain. After two more short-yardage plays, Elway shifted into high gear....

• Political Parties in the United States.

  quickly enabled the Republican Party to overpower the Know-Nothings. Although the Republicans lost their first campaign for the presidency in 1856, they triumphed in1860 with former congressman Abraham Lincoln. The Republican victory resulted in part from the division of the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern factions,each of which ran its own presidential candidate, and in part from their success at attracting Whigs and Know-Nothings who had opposed the Republicans in 1856.During the C...

• Congress of the United States.

  senator, a person must be at least 30 years old, a citizen for nine years, and a resident of the state from which he or she is elected. Most members of Congress haveserved in state legislatures, city councils, or other elected bodies. See United States Senate: Campaigning for the Senate ; United States House of Representatives: Campaigning for the House. The 435 House seats are divided among the states in proportion to each state’s population. Every state is guaranteed at least one seat. State...

• Behaviourism in the social sciences

  1990 ) the use of the ‘experimental' method persisted in social psychology. It was assumed that the complex situations in which human beings found themselves could be split up into simple states of the environment which could be treated as values of variables. Responses too were partitioned in a similar manner. Neither the role of the actor's interpretation of the stimulus conditions nor the actor's intention in responding were admitted as relevant, or as competing with the interpretation...

• The Great Gatsby chapter VII

  takes the blame of the accident. Nick checks if everything is alright when he saw Daisy and Tom reconciled. Nick through: “They weren’t happy, and yet they weren’t unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy…” Transition: The reader attends to another description of the Buchanans’ house. 2. II- The Buchanans’ house description faithful to previous description: At the end of the chapter 8 we notice the desc...

• Bobby Jones I INTRODUCTION Bobby Jones (1902-1971), American amateur golfer, winner of the grand slam of golf in 1930 and founder of the prestigious golf tournament, the Masters.

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The Reformation

  after an inconclusive war against the Protestant princes, had accepted the partition of Germany between Lutheransand Catholics at the peace of Augsburg (1555). England had lurched from schismatic Catholi¬cism under Henry VIII,to Calvinism under his son Edward VI, to counter¬reformation Catholicism under his elder daughter Mary and herhusband Philip II of Spain, and finally to an Anglican compromise under his younger daughter Elizabeth I.The work of the Counter-Reformation reached its apogee unde...