Oral d'anglais, notion lieu et formes de pouvoir.

I'm going to talk about the notion of «place and forms of power». To introduce this notion, I would like to give a definition of this concept.

«Places» could be important buldings or institutions that represent a certain form of power, for example Buckingham Palace, a symbol of the British monarchy, or the White House, a symbol of the American presidency.

A «place» can also be a country or a state, for example the USA is a state which is powerful enough to influence events throughout the world and China is a major economie power in today's world. The power is the ability to control others, events, or ressources; the ability to make things happen despite obstacles, resistance, or opposition. This of course leads to conflict between those who have power and those who don't.

PB :

Firstly, we will study the positive heritage of the fathers of pilgrims and then in the second time their negative impact.

As the first document which we studied: The Pilgrims, these people were puritans and lived in England. They did not appreciate the king James I because he wanted that everyone has the same religion as him. They thus have called in question the Church of England and decided to separate some. These opponents then decided to embark in Mayflower in order to join America in order to have freedom to adore God according to their conscience. At the time they unloaded in the Cape Cod in the Massachusetts, they were the first colony and thus have allowed the creation of the United States while wanting to create “new Jerusalem”. They thus founded their colony: the colony of Plymouth and thus had to set up their rules and to found a justice in this new territory. They thus wanted to put order in this new civilisation. The pilgrims believed enormously in a God and they strongly had faith in him. They show today that the faith is a force and the American currencies show them. Ilsaccordaient an important place with work, but also especially with the family life and the education of the children and had also value showing them a good image. Indeed, they were persevering, dynamic and had the entrepreneurship. All these values have allowed the creation of capitalism and have were transmitted at the time of the conquest of the west.

One can thus note the positive aspect of the rules of the pilgrims on the current US company.

If the arrival of the pilgrims in America had a positive aspect on the company, that also has a negative aspect. Indeed, America knows one period marked by a hunting for the witches. This period knows a wave of charges, paranoia and hysteria. As we could see in The Scarlet Letter, a woman was shown to be a witch and to have a connection with a member of the community and a summer prisoner under sentence of death. The Fifties is also marked by a hunting for the witches. Indeed, this period is marked by the cold war, of many people are suspected of Communism. One speaks then about a hunting for the Communists, founded by McCarthy: it is McCarthysme. This period, the waves of death sentences, false lawsuit and a massive hatred of the Communists are made with work. This hunting for the Communists takes again the history of Salem thus, more than 150 people were shown of sorcery and condemned to hanging. At the time of the period of the cold war,

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