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Places and forms of power: the power of media
Places and Forms of power « Places » could be important buildings or institutions that represent a certain form of power, for example Buckingham Palace. 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 (superpower) and China is a major economic power in today’s world. « Power » is the ability to control others, events, or resources; the ability to
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Oral anglais, places and forms of power
Places and Forms of Power : DOC 1 : EXTRACTS FROM BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE BY MICHEAL MOORE. 2Oth April 1999 : two 17yo students killed 12 pupils and a teacher at Columbine High School (Littleton / Colorado). Besides they wounded many others. Next, the two pitiless murderers killed themselves, they committed suicide. Many Americans are in love with guns because they think they can’t rely on the police all the time, they feel entitled to
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Spaces and exchanges: what do borders mean to first people in Canada?
I’m going to talk about the notion of spaces and exchanges. This notion deals with the geographical and symbolic areas that all societies occupy and the interactions between men and different societies. The different cultural, economic, sociological and language interactions have shaped and characterised our modern-day world. I would like illustrate this notion through the origin of Canada. Concentrations of different cultures in Canada have made inevitably changed native people's lives. We may answer the
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Places and forms of power: the tuition fees
I'm going to discuss about the notion of place and form of power. I will talk about higher education in UK and in US. Indeed, in this countries, the cost of university is really expensive so in what having a degree in universities in UK or in US are instruments of power ? First, I m going to talk about the tuition fees and after the disagreement between people about that. Firstly, the tuition fees
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Spaces and exchanges: Latinos immigration
I introduce the notion of spaces and exchanges. Today, the economic crisis affects many homes forcing some people to leave their homeland for a country more developed like America. This is the case of latinos in the United States, which represents seventeen percent of the population. But go to a new country is not synonymous for a better life. Indeed, there are many difficulties to integrate and live outside the law. Thus, for the latinos
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Jean Moulin, Myths and Heroes
I will present you Jean Moulin, who’s for me a hero. Jean Moulin was born in 1899 and died in 1943. He was before the 2nd world war a politic man indeed he was the prefect of Chartres but when the war burst he refuses submit himself at the Germans and he condemns the signature of the armistice by Pétain so he enters on the resistance. In 1940 he joins England and met the General
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Spaces and exchanges: how does globalization is changing the organization and the file in the cities?
Spaces and exchanges How does globalization is changing the organization and the life in the cities? Spaces are today, defined by the geographical and the symbolic aspect. In this notion, we are going to focus on urban spaces, and more precisely on two global cities: London and Singapore. They are at the crossroad of culturally, economically, politically or scientifically exchanges. Moreover, our world never seemed smaller thanks to communication and transportation. We may wonder
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Myths and heroes: Was the American Dream beneficial for everybody?
ORAL D’ANGLAIS Hello, I’m going to talk about the notion Myths and Heroes. To begin I am going to define you what is a myth. A myth is a story that may or may not be true. There may not be records or other proof that they happened, but there is a part of truth in these. In order to illustrate the notion I have chosen to talk about the American dream and a figure
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Places and forms power: how can people from different cultures live together in harmony such as the South African population?
PLACES AND FORMS OF POWER Hello so today, I will talk to you about South Africa who is a theme that we studied in class and wich illustrates very well the notion of “Places and Forms of power”. But before entering in the subject, there is a key question we can ask ourselves in order to better understand: what does this notion mean ? Well, power is for me the ability to act in order
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Myths and heroes: to what extent are myths and heroes cornestones of our societies?
Myths and heroes Today I am going to talk to you about myths and heroes. In order to understand the issues involved in this topic, I will first of all give a definition. Generally speaking, a myth is a popular belief which embodies the ideals and institutions of a society. Furthermore, it may include heroes, who are fictive or real persons admired for their great accomplishments and noble qualities, because they contribute to the well
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Ethics and compliance
Ethics and compliance cours 1. PART ONE : The international regulatory environment Goal : improving and ensuring the well functioning of the financial system. Consumer and investor protection. Overall stability of the financial system. Compliance : to implement rules and regulation put in order in the government to reach these goals. AMF/ACPR FCA in the UK. BAFIN in Germany. SEC aux US. Achieve better allocation in fonction and to avoid market failures. Idea of appropriateness
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Spaces and exchanges: What are the different factors that explain migratíons throughout the world?
Spaces and exchanges Definition: Nowadays, the different spaces in the world are more and more connected to each other, as we live in a globalised world. The exchanges can appear in many forms: people, trade, and information. I’m going focus on migrations and especially the reason for these exchanges of people. What are the different factors that explain migrations throughout the world? First I will study the bust and the boom of Ireland. Then I’ll
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Myths and heroes: how can an orinary person can change a dociety model.?
Myths and heroes : During this presentation, I will talk about the notion of myths and heroes but particulary about the leader of the civil rigths mouvement, MLK, and the heroes of south africa, NM. A hero is a person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. It can be the main character in a book or a film or a person with superhuman qualities. It can also be a modern-day
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Places and forms of power
Places and forms of power I would like to talk about places and forms of power. First of all, « Places » could be important institutions that represent a certain form of power, but even so a country or a state. Power is the ability to influence people's behaviour; it can be related to law, money, media or men and their opinions. However some forms of power are criticized and rejected by some people. They
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Places and forms of power, plan
Places and forms of power symbolic places (the White House) human relations : the language (English) democracy →freedom to vote works of art (NicK Ut’s photo) you accept authority (power) religious places (the Ganga →purification oppression : China (for the treatment = clean your body) of its minorities) the internet, the press, media the capacity to influence people (see the street India) the community (communities) power ↔ counter-power (resistance) (example : social networks) examples 1.
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Spaces and Exchanges: the global cities
1. Spaces and Exchanges 1. introduction I am going to talk about the notion of Spaces and Exchanges. First of all I would like to give you a definition of this spaces and exchanges notion. An exchange is an act of giving and receiving something else in return. Nowadays these exchanges can take several forms : * economic – goods and work exchanges * cultural – ideas, information and education exchanges, very easy now thanks
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Spaces and exchanges: what is the impact of the immigrant in USA?
Introduction: Hello my name is... I'm going to talk about the notion of spaces and exchanges. To start with I'd like to give you a definition about the notion. So space is the unlimited three-dimentional expance in wich all material object are located ans exchange is to replace unsafactory goods with another. The subject of my presentation is the emigration. Now the question i can up with is what is the ipact of the immigrant
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Places and forms of power: why did the press have so much influence?
I'm going to talk about the notion of « Places en forms of power ». First of all, I would like to give a definition of this notion : The power is the abvility to control others, events or ressources. There are various sorts of power like the political power, the fourth power with the press/media. First, I’m going to talk about the press, which is called the fourth power. Nowadays, the press and media
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Myths and heroes: can we consider King as a hero?
Mythes and heroes Intro: Definition: a myth is a popular believe a faith or a false idea, a hero is someone who stands up against injustice and protects the most vulnerable people. It can be a real person or a totally fictional character. I’m especially going to talk about M.L King. Can we consider King as a hero? Dvpt: I/ presentation: - DOB: 15/01/1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. - He went to Boston University to study
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Myths and heroes : the American Dream
INTRO The notion I’m going to deal with is Myths and Heroes A myth can be a popular belief or a tradition or a false notion. A hero is a person who is admired for his or her achievements, as a superhero an icon. Regarding this notion, I’m going to speak about African-Americans and the American Dream. Indeed we will talk about the myth of the American Dream which is the equality, the liberty, and
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Sites and forms power: to what extent universities are instruments of power?
Sites and Forms of Power Speaking of places, sites and forms of power we have to define power. Power is the ability to decide, to control others, events, or resources; 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.« Places » could be important buildings or institutions that represent a certain form of power, for example Buckingham Palace
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Spaces and exchanges: What influence does the web have on today's society ?
Spaces and exchanges Introduction : - Définitions : Today, different spaces are connected by a lot of ways especially thanks to Internet, and these spaces are dependant between them (international institutions, agreements between states...). This independence is due to the exchanges between these spaces. It contains the trading, information, people... - Problématique : What influence does the web have on today's society ? -Annonce du plan. Plan détaillé : I- What are the different forms
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Synthèse, Art Restitution, notion places and forms of power
ART RESTITUTION (Places and forms of power) To what extent can we say that art restitution is used as a counter power today ? I/ Art restitution as a Political Power a) The Mission of the Monuments Men b) The restitution of cultural poperty stolen during WW2 (= still an issue today) II/ Art restitution as a Cultural Power a) Art restituion in the Pacific b) Ghanaian works of art III/ Art restitution as an
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Notion anglais, Locations and forms of power: the power of money
INTRODUCTION I'm going to talk about the notion of Locations and forms of power, and first of all, i would like to give a definition of this following notion. 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, regulations, laws. This helps to create social cohesion but can also lead to conflicts and tensions. Even when authority seems
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Places and forms of power: selection for higher education
I would like to talk about the notion of "places and forms of power" The places define the places where there are some influence that is to say where there are or there were important things happening Forms of power can be people or institutions that make things happening In the united states of america, universities are this kind of places We have for example a picture of harvard university. On the photograph, we can
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