109 résultats pour "boy"
- BOY, n.
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Beach Boys, The - rock.
3 LES BEACH BOYS TENTENT DE SAUVER LES APPARENCES (1967-1973) 3. 1 1967, année charnière dans la carrière des Beach Boys Tandis que l’éclosion du mouvement hippie place la côte Ouest des États-Unis (plus particulièrement San Francisco) au centre de la scène rock internationale, les Beach Boys connaissent en 1967 un tournant décisif dans leur carrière : après l’écriture et l’enregistrement de l’une de leurs chansons les plus homogènes et abouties, musicalement et techniquement — « Good Vibratio...
- Définition du terme: cow-boy COW-BOY, substantif masculin.
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VIE DE BOY (Une), de Ferdinand Oyono
CAMEROUN Une vie de boy Ferdinand Oyono Roman paru en 1956, Julliard, Presses Pocket, 185 pages. L'AUTEUR Ferdinand Oyono est un des représentants les plus célèbres de ce que l'on a appelé« la littérature négro-africaine» ou la «littérature noire d'expression française». Son œuvre a servi de modèle à beaucoup d'autres. Il est né le 14 septembre 1929 à N'Goulémaking, dans le Sud-Est du Cameroun. Sa mère, catholique pratiquante, avait quitté...
- LE MYTHE DU COW-BOY
- Citations avec boy, nom masculin.
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Le mythe du cow-boy
[1. Fabrication] Le cow-boy, s'il est un mythe qui plonge loin ses racines dans notre histoire, n'en n'est pas moins un mythe qui aété soigneusement fabriqué dès la fin du siècle dernier. Le poème de Jules Laforgue, datant de 1890, évoque lecaractère légendaire de ces histoires de chevauchées et de vie libre dans la Prairie. Le poème débute en effet sur leton de la fable merveilleuse pour se terminer sur un constat : tout ceci n'est qu'un fragile rêve d'enfant, ce n'estque de la littérature. C'e...
- Définition: BOY, substantif masculin.
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- OLD BOY
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- Pet Sounds [The Beach Boys] - analyse de l'oeuvre musicale.
- a boy's journey
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VIE DE BOY (Une) Ferdinand Oyono (résumé & analyse)
noire engagée. Comme René Maran lBatouala*) ou Bernard Dadié
- WILLIE BOY d'ABRAHAM POLONSKI
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Une vie de boy de Ferdinand Oyono
Faculté de Droit et )'École Nationale d'Administration. Il s'essaie au théâtre, joue Papa bon Dieu, une pièce de Louis Sapin montée par Jean Yitold. Il commence à rédiger Le Vieux Nègre et la médaille et Une vie de boy qui seront publiés en 1956. Les deux livres décrivent avec une ironie féroce un colonialisme sur Je déclin. Ferdinand Oyono publia un peu plus tard un troisième roman: Chemins d'Europe (1960), au moment de l'acces sion...
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- TAXI BOY
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Beatniks Teddy-boys Flower Power New Age Travellers
L'écologie : du flower power à la prise de conscience "Sous les pavés la plage". Ce slogan inscrit en lettres blanches sur les murs du Collège de France en mai 1968n'incitait pas seulement au rêve. Il inaugurait la grande utopie du retour à la nature, il signalait la prise deconscience d'un environnement nécessairement pur puisque naturel. Et tandis que qu'Yves Montand chantait ABicyclette, les communautés prenaient la route des Cévennes et de la haute Provence pour y r...
- E.T.--The Extra-Terrestrial E.T.--The Extra-Terrestrial, box-office hit motion picture about a boy
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Excerpt from Nicholas Nickleby - anthology.
After some half-hour's delay Mr Squeers reappeared, and the boys took their places and their books, of which latter commodity the average might be about one toeight learners. A few minutes having elapsed, during which Mr Squeers looked very profound, as if he had a perfect apprehension of what was inside all the books,and could say every word of their contents by heart if he only chose to take the trouble, that gentleman called up the first class. Obedient to this summons there ranged themse...
- Beach Boys - encyclopédie.
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Human Sexuality.
About six weeks after conception, if a Y chromosome is present in the embryo's cells (as it is in normal males), a gene on the chromosome directs the undifferentiatedgonads to become testes. If the Y chromosome is not present (as in normal females), the undifferentiated gonads will become ovaries. If the gonads become testes, they begin to produce androgens (male hormones, primarily testosterone) by about eight weeks after conception. These androgens stimulate development of the one set of the...
- MACADAM COW-BOY
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Le western et le mythe du cow-boy
Western 1 Les westerns, ftlms ainsi nommés parce que lèur action se déroule dans l'Ouest américain, jouissent aux États-Unis d'une immense popularité. Les Américains s'identifient volontiers à leurs personnages et considè rent la " conquête de l'Ouest .. illustrée par ces films comme la page la plus glorieuse de leur histoire. 2 Reffet de la psychologie américaine, le western est devenu le sujet d'Innombrables études. Les historiens du ciném...
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Babe Ruth.
earned. But Ruth’s boyish exuberance, compassion for hospitalized children, and personal warmth and generosity endeared him to most people. During the 1926 World Seriesagainst the St. Louis Cardinals, Ruth received word that one of his fans, a boy named Johnny Sylvester, was hospitalized and extremely ill. Ruth wrote the boy atelegram and promised to hit a home run for him in that day’s game. Ruth made good on his promise with not only one, but three homers. And even at the height offame and for...
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Mark Twain.
father, who keeps him prisoner in an isolated cabin. The boy escapes and, together with a runaway slave, Jim, sails down the Mississippi on a raft. During their trip,Huck and Jim encounter many unusual characters, including two families involved in a senseless feud and a pair of scoundrels who swindle innocent townspeople. Theirexperiences bring about a strong friendship between the boy and the slave, but their adventures end when Jim is captured and held at the farm of Tom Sawyer’s AuntSally. W...
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Mark Twain
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INTRODUCTION
Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), American writer and humorist, whose best work is characterized by broad, often irreverent humor
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father, who keeps him prisoner in an isolated cabin. The boy escapes and, together with a runaway slave, Jim, sails down the Mississippi on a raft. During their trip,Huck and Jim encounter many unusual characters, including two families involved in a senseless feud and a pair of scoundrels who swindle innocent townspeople. Theirexperiences bring about a strong friendship between the boy and the slave, but their adventures end when Jim is captured and held at the farm of Tom Sawyer’s AuntSally. W...
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Mark Twain - USA History.
father, who keeps him prisoner in an isolated cabin. The boy escapes and, together with a runaway slave, Jim, sails down the Mississippi on a raft. During their trip,Huck and Jim encounter many unusual characters, including two families involved in a senseless feud and a pair of scoundrels who swindle innocent townspeople. Theirexperiences bring about a strong friendship between the boy and the slave, but their adventures end when Jim is captured and held at the farm of Tom Sawyer’s AuntSally. W...
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Learning.
B1 Acquisition The acquisition phase is the initial learning of the conditioned response—for example, the dog learning to salivate at the sound of the bell. Several factors can affect the speed of conditioning during the acquisition phase. The most important factors are the order and timing of the stimuli. Conditioning occurs most quickly when theconditioned stimulus (the bell) precedes the unconditioned stimulus (the food) by about half a second. Conditioning takes longer and the response is...
- BLACK BOY Richard Wright (résumé)
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English commentary : A boy's journey
and nicknamed him “ wunderkind “. We can suppose that is in German because at this time in history this was the war and germans people controlled Poland. Later the author speak about the time context “ World War I had just ended, and it was a bad time in Europe “ (L 7-8). The author is right, it remins me my history lessons, and i have learn that it was the reconstruction from Europe. All was destroyed and this was not opportunities’s time. It leads they to decides their to leave to America. May...
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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...
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- Etats-Unis. Kansas, cow-boy au féminin.
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Arts et Culture LE WESTERN
Le western à partir de la réalité, un monde entièrement fondé sur le rapport de force, sur le coup de feu expéditif et sur un individu continuellement en situation d'affrontement ou de réponse à un dan ger, une façon de vivre librement choisie par goût pour l'aventure ou imposée par les événements. L'adversaire du cow-boy est, entre autres, l'In dien. De l'extermination de la population indien ne, le western n'a retenu pendant longtemps que l'image...
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Stevenson: From Treasure Island - anthology.
air in front of him: ‘Will any kind friend inform a poor blind man, who has lost the precious sight of his eyes in the gracious defence of his native country, England, and God bless KingGeorge!—where or in what part of this country he may now be?’ ‘You are at the “Admiral Benbow,” Black Hill Cove, my good man,’ said I. ‘I hear a voice,’ said he—‘a young voice. Will you give me your hand, my kind young friend, and lead me in?’ I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eye...
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Excerpt from Hard Times - anthology.
Mr Bounderby, the two gentlemen at this present moment walking through Coketown, and both eminently practical, who could, on occasion, furnish more tabularstatements derived from their own personal experience, and illustrated by cases they had known and seen, from which it clearly appeared—in short it was the onlyclear thing in the case—that these same people were a bad lot altogether, gentlemen; that do what you would for them they were never thankful for it, gentlemen; thatthey were restless,...
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THE RIGHT TO DIE
When people talk about euthanasia (1), they always insist on the right to live and say that cases like this young boy's are very unusual. But sooner or later we bave got to realise tbat we are produclng so-called unusual cases by the hundreds. Of course no-one bas the right to take another's life. But our hospitals are already full of old people who are carefully being kept balf alive, although we know that they wiU never be nor...
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Louis Pasteur.
In 1885, a young boy and his mother arrived at Pasteur’s laboratory; the boy had been bitten badly by a rabid dog, and Pasteur was urged to treat him with his newmethod. At the end of the treatment, which lasted ten days, the boy was being inoculated with the most potent rabies virus known; he recovered and remainedhealthy. Since that time, thousands of people have been saved from rabies by this treatment. Pasteur’s research on rabies resulted, in 1888, in the founding of a special institute in...
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Excerpt from King Lear - anthology.
Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretchThat hast within thee undivulgéd crimesUnwhipped of justice. Hide thee, thou bloody hand,Thou perjured, and thou simular of virtueThat art incestuous. Caitiff, to pieces shake,That under covert and convenient seemingHas practised on man’s life. Close pent-up guilts,Rive your concealing continents, and cryThese dreadful summoners grace. I am a manMore sinned against than sinning. KENT. Alack, bare-headed?Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel;Som...
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From Bulfinch's Mythology: Bacchus (Dionysus) - anthology.
me their fishing rods and nets and their fisherman's trade. This I followed for some time, till growing weary of remaining in one place, I learned the pilot's art and howto guide my course by the stars. It happened as I was sailing for Delos we touched at the island of Dia and went ashore. Next morning I sent the men for fresh water,and myself mounted the hill to observe the wind; when my men returned bringing with them a prize, as they thought, a boy of delicate appearance, whom they hadfound a...
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Excerpt from Dombey and Son - anthology.
light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promise of fair weather; winds blew for or against their enterprises; stars and planetscircled in their orbits, to preserve inviolate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference tothem. A.D. had no concern with anno Domini, but stood for anno Dombei—and Son. He had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to D...
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Inca Empire.
The Incas’ public works were built through a labor tax known as mit’a. This tax required most people incorporated into the Inca Empire to provide labor for public worksduring certain portions of each year. This labor tax supported large-scale public works that required the marshalling of large labor forces, such as for the building offorts, roads, and bridges, or the mining of metals and gems. It also allowed the emperor to raise large armies to undertake wars of conquest. Road building was impo...
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Inca Empire - History.
The Incas’ public works were built through a labor tax known as mit’a. This tax required most people incorporated into the Inca Empire to provide labor for public worksduring certain portions of each year. This labor tax supported large-scale public works that required the marshalling of large labor forces, such as for the building offorts, roads, and bridges, or the mining of metals and gems. It also allowed the emperor to raise large armies to undertake wars of conquest. Road building was impo...
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Track and Field.
VI RUNNING EVENTS Running events are competitions that test athletes’ quickness, speed, and endurance. Athletes win running races by completing the distance or course in the leastamount of time. A Sprints The shortest running events, called sprints or dashes, are the premier events at a track-and-field meet. The outdoor sprints consist of the 100-meter, 200-meter, and400-meter events. Sprints contested at indoor meets include the 50-meter, 60-meter, 200-meter, and 400-meter events. Past champ...
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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...
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OYONO Ferdinand Léopold
CAMEROUN Une vie de boy Ferdinand Oyono Roman paru en 1956, Julliard, Presses Pocket, 185 pages. L'AUTEUR Ferdinand Oyono est un des représentants les plus célèbres de ce que l'on a appelé« la littérature négro-africaine» ou la «littérature noire d'expression française». Son œuvre a servi de modèle à beaucoup d'autres. Il est né le 14 septembre 1929 à N'Goulémaking, dans le Sud-Est du Cameroun. Sa mère, catholique pratiquante,...
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Commentaire the great expectations
take on an adult point of view on his own deed. It seems that he is now older and looking back on past events : “ So I called myself Pip” (l.2); it shows that the story is retrospective. When looking on this former events, his behaviour is often characterized by adjectives linked to childhood, and which seems here derogatory : “infant tongue” (l.1), “childish conclusion” (l.10). Finally, one can easily notice that the story is not narrated by a young boy, but...
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Excerpt from Oliver Twist - anthology.
Now, Mr. Bumble was a fat man, and a choleric; so instead of responding to this open-hearted salutation in a kindred spirit, he gave the little wicket a tremendousshake, and then bestowed upon it a kick which could have emanated from no leg but a beadle’s. “Lor, only think,” said Mrs. Mann, running out—for the three boys had been removed by this time,—“only think of that! That I should have forgotten that the gatewas bolted on the inside, on account of them dear children. Walk in, sir, walk...
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Winning One for the Gipper.
Gipp had a swagger off the field as well. A noted pool shark and gambler, he frequented South Bend's less savory establishments and kept hours that would haveearned any other player a swift dismissal from the team. In an era when gambling and college football seemed congenial bedfellows, Gipp often served as the teambookie—for wagers on Notre Dame games. Accused by Rockne of lacking interest in the 1920 Notre Dame-Army clash, Gipp reportedly replied, “You're wrongthere,” according to Wake Up th...
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Excerpt from Henry VI - anthology.
SON. Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.This man whom hand to hand I slew in fightMay be possessèd with some store of crowns;And I, that haply take them from him now,May yet ere night yield both my life and themTo some man else, as this dead man doth me.—Who's this? O God! It is my father's face,Whom in this conflict I, unwares, have killed.O, heavy times, begetting such events!From London by the King was I pressed forth;My father, being the Earl of Warwick's man,Came on the part of York, pr...