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3. The scene takes place in 1967 at the beginning of the school year since the students are settling down in their room, the luggage of his roommate being on the floor and unpacked. 4. The characters involved in this passage are the narrator, his father and mother, the roommate of the narrator named Will Savage and the housemaster of the dorm where the students will spend the school year. 5. a) Will and the narrator come from two different places. The narrator doesn't live far from the school

Biography of Barack Obama His child hood Barack Obama was born to a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, who were both young college students at the University of Hawaii. When his father left for Harvard, she and Barack stayed behind, and his father ultimately returned alone to Kenya, where he worked as a government economist. Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta when Barack was six.. He returned to Hawaii, where he was brought up largely by his

____________________________________________________________ __ True / False / I don’t know The tone of the introduction is very serious. The two men hate each other. The father doesn’t like the song they’re playing on the radio. The narrator’s ‘complaint’ about his generation living in peace makes his father angry. The language register of the father is very colloquial. He deliberately distorts the name of the first Gulf War. He would like his son to fight for their country. The two men are Native Americans

of Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California. Both are intelligent and charismatic students. Their father, a firefighter, is murdered by black drug dealers while trying to extinguish a fire in South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles, and Derek is drawn into the neo-Nazi movement. Derek brutally kills two black gang members whom he catches in the act of breaking into the truck left to him by his father, and is sentenced to three years in prison. The story shows how Danny is influenced by his older

play”. However, she has nothing to say, nothing to share with her father – she simply disappears into her bedroom, and the very sight of liver wipes the smile from her face. We have n information to tell us whether there is a particular issue between her and her father – Oliver certainly feels isolated when she shuts him out of her happiness, but it may just be the usual “communication gap” between an adolescent girl and her father. The situation is different with Benjamin who comes in after midnight

(CAPC/CPNP, 2000) The family and the father of the child also greatly influence the mother in her choice of keeping the child or not. The father was either present or not after the news of the pregnancy, and most of them that were present were excluded at one point or another but the relationship sometimes kept on going. It usually was the teenage mother that restricted the involvement of the father either voluntarily or not. (Schoflield, 1994) ‘’Fathers of babies born to teenagers, whether or

Katmandu in Nepal. With my sister and my parents, we had eaten “noodles” for days, and I was fed up with that. My family had chosen a restaurant in what we call a hash house, a small restaurant. But I, the young rebellious son, had a small tantrum. My father told me that it was not a problem and if I wanted to play this game he would play with me. He gave me some rupees. I decided to pace up and down in the street until I found something edible. I found a snack trolley man, who sold skewers. There was

de réservation. Music est un puissant médicament. Going further : 1/ the title of the text is « a magical ride ». The history of the text tells the adventure of a father and her son drive in Snowy weather and on dangerous roads so the word « ride ». And the word magical means that thanks to a song of Jimi Hendrix, the father and her son will engage in conversation about war and peace in the world. 2/ the son links Jimi Hendrix’s song with war because the title of the song is « the Star-Spangled

Fritzi Their surname/family name CROWN How they relate to each other they're a father and his daughter 2. Using the tool-box page 15, complete this summary The scene ____________________ place in Joe Crown's ____________________. Fritzi has just broken the ____________________ to her ____________________: she is going to ____________________ her family to become an ____________________ in ____________________. Her father disapproves of her ____________________. He thinks she's running ____________________

major conflicts in the movie. The first one was with Neil and his father. Neil wanted to become an actor, but his father insisted that he become a doctor. He wouldn't allow Neil to follow such a foolish dream. The second conflict was a power struggle between the boys of the academy and the administrators. The administrators wanted the boys to be all the same and have no distinguishing characteristics. The conflict with Neil and his father was resolved when Neil committed suicide.It was a sad resolution