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  • IMPORTANT LANDMARKS IN THE HISTORY OF THE US DEATH PENALTY

    IMPORTANT LANDMARKS IN THE HISTORY OF THE US DEATH PENALTY

    IMPORTANT LANDMARKS IN THE HISTORY OF THE US DEATH PENALTY - 1972: the death penalty was suspended by US Supreme Court (Furman v. Georgia) - 1976: the death penalty was reintroduced by US Supreme Court (Gregg v. Georgia) - 1999: the year when most people were executed in the US: 98 - April 2008: a brief nationwide moratorium on executions ended by US Supreme Court the debate: does death by a 3-drug injection constitute cruel

    785 Mots / 4 Pages
  • The Wizard of Oz

    The Wizard of Oz

    EXPOSE THE WIZARD OF OZ DIAPO 1 : Notre exposé traite du film «Le Magicien d’Oz» ou dans son titre original « The Wizard of Oz , qui est un film musical. Il est adapté d’un roman de Lyman Frank Baum de 1900. DIAPO 2: Ce film a été réalisé par Victor Fleming (qui se trouve à droite sur la photo) et produit par Mervyn Leroy (qui se trouve à gauche sur la photo). Ces

    6 451 Mots / 26 Pages
  • The Vietnam War or the trauma of the first War lost by the United States of America

    The Vietnam War or the trauma of the first War lost by the United States of America

    Antoine De Rore L3 Histoire American Civilization Subject: The Vietnam War or the trauma of the first War lost by the United States of America Summary I- The Origins of the Vietnam War (1954-1963) A) The foreign origins (1954-1959) B) The immediate origins (1961-1963) II- The progress of the Vietnam War (1964-19) A) The USA in the Vietnam War (1964-1967) B) The TET Offensive and the retreat of USA (1968-1969) C) The extension of the

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  • Invent fake news in the form of an article

    Invent fake news in the form of an article

    Invent fake news in the form of an article ( example ) The 5G connected mask, finally! After the paleo‑, neo‑ we are now in the para-lithic. Thanks to LG and 5G, we are all going to be able to wear the smart mask. SIM card, QR code and PIN code, all integrated and even more. Have you ever dreamed of ditching your fabric mask for a revolutionary and connected mask? Following the Consumer Electronics

    327 Mots / 2 Pages
  • What do you think about the afterlife or the notion of live after death ?

    What do you think about the afterlife or the notion of live after death ?

    RESEARCH METHODS SUBJECT: WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE OR THE NOTION OF LIFE AFTER DEATH? Professor: DR. Negar TERRANY SOUICI ARSLANE Tables of content ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 3 INTRODUCTION 4 RESEARCH PROPOSAL 5 LITTERATURE SUMMARY 6 HYPOTHESIS 9 METHODOLOGY 9 CONCLUSION 10 APPENDICES 11 BIBLIOGRAPHY 12 Acknowledgement Before anything else, I would like to thank my research methods professor, Dr. Negar TERRANY for encouraging my research and for allowing me to grow as a research

    3 742 Mots / 15 Pages
  • Stand-up crossing the barrier of political correctness

    Stand-up crossing the barrier of political correctness

    What is your opinion about a stand-up crossing the barrier of political correctness? Firstly, the principal goal of a stand-up is to make people laugh. In a perfect world, we should have the possibility to laugh about everything. A stand-up crossing the barrier of political correctness can be a stand-up about something sexual, about the establishment and authority, racist or sexist humour or humour about death/disease. Even if there are rules, political correctness is defined

    419 Mots / 2 Pages
  • Should humans limitate the evolution of science in the name of ethic ?

    Should humans limitate the evolution of science in the name of ethic ?

    3hould Humans limitate the evolution of Science in the name of ethics? FOR AGAINST * If we continue like this, if the science continues to growth that fast, the evolve of Science will make that we won t be humans anymore * We try to modify to much the Natur and walk too much away of our real need and it will be step by step contradict our society * Today Science is is already

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  • Spaces and exchanges : What is the impact of the sharing economy on our lifestyles and traditional business ?

    Spaces and exchanges : What is the impact of the sharing economy on our lifestyles and traditional business ?

    Spaces and exchanges What is the impact of the sharing economy on our lifestyles and traditional business ? I'm going to talk about the notion Spaces and exchanges. To begin with, I'd like to give a definition of sharing economy. The sharing economy is a system built around the sharing of human and physical ressources. First, we will see what is sharing economy and why it has risen in recent years and secondly we will

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  • The tower of the sun

    The tower of the sun

    DEVOIR D ANGLAIS N°2 1/ Compte rendu de l’article de la revue Popular Science de Décembre 2002 : Tower of the sun EuroMission, entreprise australienne, ouvre une voie innovante dans la production d'énergie à partir du soleil. Au lieu de convertir directement l'énergie du soleil en électricité, ce système utilise de l'air chauffé par des panneaux (verre, plastique). Ils entourent la base d'une cheminée de 913m et créent un courant d'air ascendant continu, à 56.3

    417 Mots / 2 Pages
  • Myths and heroes : Can myths and heroes change the direction of the course of History ?

    Myths and heroes : Can myths and heroes change the direction of the course of History ?

    The notion I am going to deal with is « Myth and Heroes ». To begin with, I’d like to give a definition of the notion. A myth is a popular belief on wich social values are often based, while a hero can be someone who is ready to sacrifised his or her life in order to make thinks evolved positivly. Myth and heroes indeed have always marked societies. Some were created whereas others are

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  • What Covid-19 is revealing on the functioning of the European Union?

    What Covid-19 is revealing on the functioning of the European Union?

    What Covid-19 is revealing on the functioning of the European Union? « L’Europe est l’épicentre de la première pandémie de coronavirus » a déclaré le 17 mars dernier, Hans Kluge, directeur régional de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé pour l’Europe. Peu après le Brexit, l’Europe est une fois de plus mise à l’épreuve, cette fois-ci face à une crise sanitaire d’ordre mondial. Après être apparu en Chine, le Covid-19 s’est rapidement répandu sur le Vieux

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  • The role of Dorothea Lange in the Great Depression

    The role of Dorothea Lange in the Great Depression

    DOROTHEA LANGE AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION Working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), Dorothea Lange accomplished both works of informing as a journalist and raising awarness as a social worker, using photojournalism. Dorothea Lange was born on May 26, 1895, and she died on october 11, 1965. She was and american phtographer who played a key role in the documentation of the Great Depression period. Indeed, after the Wall Street crach of 1929, characterized by

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  • Analyse of the level of education of women in someland

    Analyse of the level of education of women in someland

    English I/ First of all, the following graphs allow us to compare the highest level of education of women in someland in 1945 and in 1995. We can observe a great evolution in the level of education of women during this 50-year period in Someland. At the beginning, in 1945 one-third of someland women was not schooling at all, the second third as for him, could only access the third grade.The last third included the

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  • How and Why Does the Tradition of Sex Sells Still Work?

    How and Why Does the Tradition of Sex Sells Still Work?

    How and Why Does the Tradition of Sex Sells Still Work? Joshua Prynn-Petit Bucks New University Advertising: Creative January 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 Background of the Research 1 Problem Statement 1 Rationale 2 Aims and Objectives 3 Purpose of the Study 3 Research Questions 3 Theoretical Framework 4 Ethical Concern 5 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 7 What is Sex in Advertising? 7 Does Sex Sell? 7 Sexual Appeal and Advertising 8

    8 259 Mots / 34 Pages
  • Rosa Parks’ contribution on the development of civil rights in the USA.

    Rosa Parks’ contribution on the development of civil rights in the USA.

    PRESENTATION : Rosa Parks’ contribution on the development of civil rights in the USA. HISTORICAL CONTEXT ( INTRODUCTION ) Slavery in the United States was the legal institution, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed from its founding in 1776 until passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. After the United States abolished slavery, black Americans continued to be marginalized through enforced segregated and diminished access to facilities, housing, education and opportunities. Segregation soon

    1 138 Mots / 5 Pages
  • The evolution of Rugby

    Rugby, a sport I think everybody knows, has really evolved since the beginning of the 21st century. Playing rugby is not easy and does not remain accessible to everybody. Physically speaking it requires strong preparation and technically speaking you need to practise for years and years. Nowadays being selected when you are a young player to play with a first division club is more and more difficult in France because the physical selection is really

    862 Mots / 4 Pages
  • Civilisation Anglaise : The creation of the UK

    Civilisation Anglaise : The creation of the UK

    TOPIC 1. The creation of the UK, its nations and its identities 1. What is Britain & who are the British? 2. A Brief Early History: Britain’s origins 3. The Creation of the United Kingdom 4. Statistics about Britain & the British population 5. National Identities • How British are the British? • The 4 nations • Ethnic and religious diversity 1. What is Britain and who are the British? • What is the difference

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  • Ginsburg’s death: the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg also known as The Notorious RBG

    Ginsburg’s death: the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg also known as The Notorious RBG

    Ginsburg’s death: the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg also known as The Notorious RBG. 1/Who was RBG? (1933-2020) She was appointed by democrats. She was even the leader of the liberal part. She is a true New Yorker: she born and raised in Brooklyn, NYC. She got married in 1954, she was 21, gave birth to her daughter in 1955. In 1856 RBG enrolled at Harvard Law School (only 9 women out of 500 students).

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  • The wolf of wall street : an example of the theory of aliénation of karl marx ?

    The wolf of wall street : an example of the theory of aliénation of karl marx ?

    Borges Lola Movie Analysis : The Wolf Of Wall Street INTRODUCTION Movie extract Right, so, let’s talk about the Wolf of wall steet Released in 2013, The wolf of wall street, a movie directed by martin scorcese, is based on the real life story of Jordan Belfort played by Leonardo Dicaprio. Belfort is a croocked stockbrocker who made his career by embezzling his investors out of millions of dollars in the Wall Street of the

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  • The revival of Scotland’s desire for independence

    The revival of Scotland’s desire for independence

    The revival of Scotland’s desire for independence The question of Scottish independence was supposed to have been settled by the 2014 referendum when Scots voted by 55% to 45% for the country to remain part of the UK. . But nowadays, between Brexit, which almost two-thirds of Scots opposed, an another UK election victory for the Conservative party, which only a quarter of Scots voted for, and the controversial handling by Boris Johnson of Covid-19

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  • The definition of insanity

    The definition of insanity

    The definition of insanity The Economist’s main purpose is to “take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress." This article, “the definition of insanity”, is the embodiment of these values. In fact, the journalist draws the reader’s attention on the weapon issue, he tries to make sense of it in order to put an end to ignorance and irrationality. According to a study on

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  • How Ariana Grande leave the stage of Disney Channel at the icon of music?

    How Ariana Grande leave the stage of Disney Channel at the icon of music?

    How Ariana Grande leave the stage of Disney Channel at the icon of music? Ariana Grande is an American of italian origin. She is actress and singer. Ariana was born in Boca Raton, Florida, on June 26, 1993, she is currently 27 years old. She started her career in a stage play named 13 on Broadway at the age of 15, followed by a few small TV roles, helping her land the TV role of

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  • Compte rendu : the benefits of greener office

    Compte rendu : the benefits of greener office

    Compte rendu : the benefits of greener office Ce document est un article de Reno Macri, parut le janvier 2018, dans « the recruit loop blog ». Il nous parle des avantages d’un bureau plus vert, et pourquoi un bureau plus vert améliore la productivité. L’un des moyens pour lequel les bureaux verts peuvent améliorer la productivité est de fournir un environnement plaisant pour les employés, en augmentant leur moral et leur niveau de satisfaction.

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  • The last of the Mohicans questions

    The last of the Mohicans questions

    ANGLAIS LV1: THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS Did you like the film? Which scene(s) in particular? (15-20 lines min) I really liked the film because it shows us all the dimensions of our past and the war between the French and the English with the conflicts with the Indian tribes in the mid-eighteenth century. We can see the struggles between the enemy camps, the behaviours adopted, the thirst for life, the sacrifices, the war, the

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  • Coronavirus and the Future of Globalization

    Coronavirus and the Future of Globalization

    Guylian Abiven Le 18/12/20 Coronavirus and the Future of Globalization By Mie Oba - March 18th, 2020 https://thediplomat.com/2020/03/coronavirus-and-the-future-of-globalization/ The coronavirus has been relentless, rampaging beyond China and East Asia, including Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, to engulf[1] Italy and Europe, North America, and Central and South America. The world has shifted to crisis mode, with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declaring the novel coronavirus epidemic a “pandemic” on March 11. The rise of the

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