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The Island- Michael Bay
INTRODUCTION Le cinéma est sans doute l’une des meilleures distractions de l’homme, surtout en notre époque où l’audiovisuel ne cesse d’étonner de par ses innovantes fictions futuristes. C’est dans ce contexte que s’inscrit le film « The Island » signifiant « L’île » en français, film réalisé par l’américain Michael BAY et dont le scénario met en image une société futuriste dans laquelle les hommes s’adonnent à la création de leurs propres clones dans le
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The myth of King Kong
In order to bring another light to the issue raised, as a 3rd document, I have choosen The myth of King Kong, more precisely a remake of the 1933 film of the same name, the film of Peter Jackson on 2005. We can identificate a mythic odd couple in characters of King Kong and Ann Darrow(played by Naomi Watts). King Kong is a terrible Monster, an enormous gorilla who reign over an island of dinosaurs
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Myths and heroes: How the myth of the American dream influenced people’s life and can we still believe in it? What is a modern-day hero? How have they made an impact on our lives?
1 / 2 Introduction: I’m going to talk about the notion of “Myths and heroes”. Myths and heroes refer to tales, legends, fictional stories and characters… A myth is a traditional story related to a country’s culture and history. A hero is someone who inspires people thanks to his noble qualities and a hero takes place mostly in a myth. But it seems that they are also still present in real life, they are created
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Critique of Ritzer & Lair's (2009) the Globalization of Nothing
A Critique of “The Globalization of Nothing and the Outsourcing of Service Work”, a chapter written by George Ritzer & Craig Lair (2009) In the chapter written by Ritzer & Lair (2009) the concept of nothingness is introduced. The term ‘nothing’ refers to the lacking of distinctive or unique features of a product or service, while ‘something’ means that it has unique features. Take fast food restaurants, for example: they are highly standardized and almost
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The idea of progress: The quest for eternal youth and immortality
The idea of progress: The quest for eternal youth and immortality The notion I am going to present today is “The idea of progress”. To begin with, I would like first to define this notion. The idea of progress can be defined as an improvement, a development or a change which contributes to making the world a better place. These progresses can be made in different fields as science (medical advance, cloning, …) , technology
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Spaces and exchanges: Who pushes the foreigners to come to the United States? What is the trigger of the immigration?
ORAL D’ANGLAIS I’m going to talk about the notion Spaces and exchanges . Firstly, I am going to define the notion ; This notion deals with the geographical and symbolic areas that all societies occupy and the interactions between men and different societies. Our world is built on the exploration and conquest of new spaces. The different cultural, economic, sociological and language interactions have shaped and characterized our modern-day world. For introduce this notion i’m
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Walmart - Cultural differences in work ethics in the USA and Germany
Walmart is an American multinational retail corporation that has more than 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under different names of subsidiaries. It is the biggest private employer in the world. Walmart has always been a huge success around the world until it started to set up shops in Germany. Even though America and Europe share similar way of living, its implantation to Germany did not go as well as expected. As a matter of fact,
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Anglais - Myths and Heroes: Are women the new Heroes of the United States ?
I’m going to talk about the notion of “Myths and Heroes”. First of all I would like to give a definition of myths and heroes. A myth is a story often linked to religion, It is generally based on the legend. The legend is a story based on real facts that includes part of truth and that usually involves heroic characters. The hero is a main character of a story. In general, the hero helps
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Oral d'anglais: how women rebelled against the power exercised by men?
I am going to talk about the notion places and forms of power . in politics and social science, power is the ability to influence the behavior of people.In order to live together members of a community accept rules, regulation, laws. this helps to create social cohesion but can also lead to conflicts and tensions. Even when authority seems absolute, there are always counter-powers , so we can ask the question how women rebelled against
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Discrimination in the working world
Discrimination in the working world. The article with i choose to present, about the discrimination in working places, is naming « discrimination in the workplace : the public service concerned « . It’s a document who speaks about discriminations during the recruitment in public service. What type of discriminations workers can be victim at work ? I organize my plan in 3 parts, the ethnic discrimination , the sociospatial discrimination and a last about measure
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Is it the role of governments to eradicate inequalities?
Is it the role of governments to eradicate inequalities? The role of governements is to assure a well-being for its citizens, and the society generally. For this, they are implementing various policies in different areas to ensure the general welfare. But can the governments totally eradicate inequalities ? We will see that governments are planning several policies that help to contribute to eradicate inequalities, but they can not manage to reduce them entirely. I) The
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The last journey
The Last Journey In the heart of this immeasurable desert was our camel caravan. Proudly marching across the waterless dunes. Our destination was an abandonned temple. We knew many dangers were awaiting us. We were like walking on thin ice. After a week in this exhausting death – trap, our bodies were starting to get along with the unbearable heat. Leading our united small group of camels, was me. Piercing any sign of danger in
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The Black Rider, the casting of the 12 magic bullets, mis-en-scène par Robert Wilson
Marine DAVID 09/11/2016 L3 – Arts de la scène Les ruptures esthétiques The Black Rider, the casting of the 12 magic bullets, mis-en-scène par Robert Wilson Wiener Festwochen, 1990 PLAN Introduction Comment Robert Wilson a-t-il fait d’un conte commun une œuvre très singulière ? I. Une œuvre singulière par son genre A/ La porosité des genres théâtraux B/ La dissolution du temps C/ Le minimalisme de l’espace II. Le bouleversement de la parole A/ Un
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The U.Sv federal Reserve bank and the European bank.
The U.S Federal Reserve Bank and the European Center Bank 1. The Federal Reserve’s System, The Fed Federal: States’ rights -> California has the power; means the power is for all states * Gay marriage is federal law (in 50 states) * Same situation in Europe with the decision of E.U Financial Service Industry * Government institution (FADE) * Supranational Institutions The Federal Reserve System, the Fed * was established by Congress: The Federal Reserve
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The Great Gatsby, Fitsgerald
Forms of power are ubiquitous in The Great Gatsby. It's the ability to control others, resources or events. It might lead to a conflict between those who have power and those who don't. In GG, violence is extremely important since it's ubiquitous and since it stands for a form of power. Primarily, Tom is the most violent character of the whole novel as much as he is the most unlikable person. He tries to take
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THE MIGRATORY WAVE IN EUROPE
THE MIGRATORY WAVE IN EUROPE INTRODUCTION Since a few months, European Countries watched several thousand of migrants cross Mediterranean Sea to join Europe. Most of them embarked on crowded boats. The others walked during several days with some personal items. This journey was very dangerous and European Countries counted several hundred deaths especially by drowning. How and why this situation happened? The main cause is the civil war in Syria. Indeed, this war began four
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POLITICS IN THE VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN PERIOD
POLITICS IN THE VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN PERIOD Bill = when Parliament makes the law, this law is called and ACT when a BILL is passed, it becomes and ACT a BILL is a proyet that becomes an act 1832 REFORM BILL Extended the franchise (the right to vote) And the BILL was passed in the middle of a social and political crises It was first of all an economic crises, with very high unemployment rate
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"Space and exchanges", do global cities really have influence over the world?
The notion of: “Space and exchanges” Today I’m going to talk about the notion “Space and exchanges”. The different spaces of the world are nowadays more and more connected to each of the world. An exchange is a general movement. The exchanges can appear on many forms: people, trade, information. Do global cities really have influence over the world? In the first part, we will see the good impact over the world, secondly we will
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Implications of Zamboanga Siege to Money, Credit, Banking and The Economic Activities of Zamboanga City
Implications of Zamboanga Siege to Money, Credit, Banking and The Economic Activities of Zamboanga City The Zamboanga siege caused by the Moro National Liberation Front or MNLF contributed to a temporary stop of business operations in the city. It was one way to assure the safety of the citizens from what was happening outside the different structures in the city. But because of the cease of operations, both the city and its citizens were affected
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Oral d'anglais, idea of progress: to what extent the world hqs evolved?
Oral Anglais : Idées de progrès : I have drawn the notion "Ideas of progress", an idea of progress is a transformation towards the best in a particular field, evolution towards a satisfactory result, evolution of humanity, of the civilization. Nowadays, the world has evolved in many areas. The question we ask ourselves in order to study the notion is to what extent has the world evolved? To answer the question we will see the
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What are the impacts/avantages and drawbacks of social networks on our future life ?
Anglais Today I am going to talk about social networks. A social network is a website or an application which is free, you just have to give your personnal informations. It’s a way of communication and to be close to people. So what are the impacts/avantages and drawbacks of social networks on our future life ? To illustrate the notion of Porgress, we studied in class the theme of Facebook, and the person who have
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If music reflects the mood of an age, what can you say about music of today?
J.G November 25, 2012 If music reflects the mood of an age, what can you say about music of today? We have been playing music since the Ancient Times, but music has always had a different meaning depending upon ages, places, and generations. For example, the Greek’s and Roman’s music had a divine and beneficial dimension, while in some Native American civilization it had some evil power. But whatever the age, for the Eurasian people,
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Reasons of the American Revolutions
Armand BEAUDOR 12/01/2017 US History Ms Jester How did new colonial implement by the British after 1763 change American attitudes toward the king, Parliament, the English constitution? After 1763, American attitudes toward the British government worsened drastically because of the British and American different views, as well as British laws. One of these nations’ disagreement was over which assembly should rule. British attached weight to the parliament, which governed the entire Empire and represented the
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The excesses of globalization
Wordbox: global/globalization – a network – to connect – a principle – to participate in sth – an assumption The excesses of globalization A sweatshop is a factory where workers are exploited and not allowed (être autorisé à) to unionize (se syndiquer). You might not sweat(transpirer) in a sweatshop, but you probably work hard (travailler dur) and under lousy (minable, pourri) conditions. In a sweatshop, workers slave away in poor conditions for low pay (un
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The European Stability Mecanism
Arthur PEILLON Academic year 2016-2017 Rayan SABOURI course: European Integration The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Homework made as part of the 1st year of the International Business and Law program (IBL) at IESEG School of Management and Faculté Libre de Droit Introduction The European debt crisis represents a series of financial events that affected, since the beginning of 2010, the economies of the Member States of the European Union, whose reference currency was the euro.
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