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a book of poetry for children, “Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats”, which after his death became the basis of the hit West End and Broadway musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, “Cats”. On November 4, 1948, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. After his death, his body was cremated and, according to Eliot's wishes, the ashes taken to St Michael's Church in East Coker, the village from which that Eliot's ancestors emigrated to America. A simple plaque commemorates him. As a note of

and America are divided by so many things but they can't really be dissociated because they share a common point which is their language. First of all the 2 countries are divided geographically, in deed America is 9 629 048 km² and located to the east whereas England is more European so located to the west and is 130395 km² meaning it's really smaller. Does this problem of size need to be considered? We can just say that America is more a nation than a country and for that, America feels stronger

the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact in an effort to channel Hitler's aggression toward those who had foolishly rejected his friendship. This pact, which enabled Adolf Hitler to invade the West with relative impunity and without fear of retaliation from the East, became a major point of tension between the Western Allies and Soviet Union during WWII and the Cold War. However, had the Western Allies been willing to negotiate with the Communist Soviet Union before the Pact was formed, WWII would have progressed

part. This event had the effect of stopping the exploration started by the British company. 5. Turkmenistan Turkmenistan has a changing position. Indeed, It was first in a line according to the point of view of the new independent States, to end up agreeing with Iran and Russia on November 12th 1996 on a status of the Caspian Sea giving to countries a zone of 45 mile of territorial waters where each would have exclusive rights on hydrocarbons, rest of the Caspian Sea being common territory

is not a legal institution. Modern slavery has two characteristics that make it very different from slavery of the past. Today, slaves are cheap, and they are disposable. The drop in prices can be explained by the population explosion at the end of WWII. Indeed, it helped create a flood of potential slaves. It is an illustration of the laws of supply and demand: with so many potential slaves, their value has plummeted. This drop in prices makes the slaves disposable as buying a slave

lay thickly on the crooked (tordu) crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.” Joyce’s second work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, published in 1916, is a semi-autobiographical, coming of age novel which recounts the childhood and adolescence of the protagonist Stephen Daedulus and

for ten minutes or so and I am fed up with it 15. Le taux de natalité a baissé depuis un siècle = the birth rate has been decreasing for a century 16. Les prix ne cessent de grimper depuis la fin de la reprise = prices have kept rising since the end of the recovery 17. Nous soutenions le député depuis le début de la campagne électorale = we had been supporting the MP since the election campaign had started 18. Quand le parti conservateur a gagné les élections législatives, l’ancien Premier

1) We can say the Cold War began in 1947, with the apparition of Truman’s containment policy. In 1950 it was the very end of the Berlin blockade, in which the Russians and the Americans challenged each other by means of Berlin’s people, and which lasted from 1948 to 1949. 1949 is then marked by the division of Berlin in two parts: the RFA at the West, and the RDA at the East. This last one is led by the Soviet Union, whereas the first one is led by the free Western Europe plus America and England

en ligne Contenu des séquences Séquence S É Q Civilisation et Culture U E From Europe to America N C E Le mythe fondateur des États-Unis 1 Séquence Civilisation et Culture S É Q U E N C E 2 From east to west Western expansion The Native Americans Compétences Compréhension orale A tour of Ellis Island Compréhension écrite Texte 1 : A Boy’s Journey Texte 2 : Dear Mom and Dad Expression orale A Boy’s Journey : présentation orale Dear

Always the first one of class, he amazes his professors and his companions by his knowledge, but also by his independence and his balance. One of his teacher said of him: “Intelligent, as much as you want, but he had a smile which I don’t like. He will end badly: in any case, nothing banal will germinate in that head: he will be the genius of good or evil”. That shows well his so particular character, so strange, singular… His gifts are exceptional. He fascinates his professor of rhetoric, his name was