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years old and spent her childhood there. Then, she moved on New-York to continue her career : she wanted to be a writer. She decided to write about her childhood in the West. The novel she wrote with this idea is My Antonia. My Antonia is a five-book novel published is 1918. The extract under study is the introduction of novel. To begin, I will do a summary of the introduction. Then, I will do a third-part commentary. I will first deal with the regionalism. In a second part, I will explain the

watch-making. • The turnover is € 2.5 billions with a profitability of 30% • Approximately 4700 employees • Jewels are only sales in Cartier’s shops • The most famous is Rue de la Paix in Paris, but there are more than 250 around the world • Many new openings of shops in Asia and Russia (for example since 2003, 25 shops were opened in China) History of Cartier • 1847: Louis-François Cartier opened the first workshop in Paris • 1902: Opening of the first shop in London. Cartier became the 1st

C.O. Ellis Island Jeudi 6/12/12: Le document est un reportage concernant Ellis Island. C’est là que plus de 20 000 000 d’immigrés sont arrivés aux portes des Etats-Unis, au port de New York City, dans l’espoir de commencer une nouvelle vie en Amérique. Ils sont nombreux ceux qui ont du vendre tous leurs biens, voire s’endetter, simplement pour pouvoir embarquer vers l’Amérique. Des semaines durant, ils étaient serrés comme des sardines à bord, en proie aux orages et aux tempêtes de l’Atlantique

aux premières places de l'économie mondiale. Ces succès alimentèrent une immigration importante. Au xxe siècle, l'économie américaine fut renforcée par les conséquences de la Première Guerre mondiale puis ébranlée par la crise de 1929. En dépit du New Deal mis en place par l'administration Roosevelt, le pays ne sortit du marasme qu'avec la Seconde Guerre mondiale dont il sort grand vainqueur. La domination économique américaine est alors à son apogée. Dès la deuxième moitié du xxe siècle, cette hégémonie

(nineteen eighty seven) , it remains her highest-charting hit in the USA. This song was one of the earliest to deal with child abuse and domestic violence. Suzanne VEGA was born in 1959 ( nineteen fifty nine) in Santa Monica. She is an American songwriter and singer known for her highly literate lyrics and electric folk-inspired music. When she was two and a half , the family moved to New-York city. She grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Upper West Side. At the age of nine she began to write poetry

material on which nothing can stick, just like Gotti who always found a way to make sentences just slip past him. In 1992 Gotti was sentenced to life for racketeering and six killings, the major one was the Castellano murder, whom he succeeded as boss of New York Gambino crime family in 1985. He passed himself of as a plumbing supply salesman and yet he was dressed in 2000$ suits, which a salesman would never have afforded. In the second part we are going to discuss why Gotti was a notorious mobster

Après le Whitney Museum of American Art de New-York et la Fondation Canal de Madrid, c’est au tour de la Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin à Paris d’accueillir sept pièces majeures de l’artiste américain Duane Hanson (1925-1996), précurseur dans les années 60 et aujourd’hui maître incontesté de l’hyperréalisme, rendu célèbre dans le monde entier par ses sculptures figuratives à taille humaine et toujours à hauteur d’homme dont il est seul à avoir le secret. « Illusions perdues », tel est le nom romanesque

journalistes. Il refera la même chose au Canada. Il y enregistrera le morceau Give Peace A Chance. Dès cette année, il va se recentrer sur ce qu’il est vraiment, c'est-à-dire un compositeur, un musicien. Il va quitter l’Angleterre pour s’installer à New-York qui est, selon lui, la Rome des 70. Il va y trouver une espèce de tranquilité. Il va donner libre court à ce qu’il veut faire, il est complètement libéré des Beatles, et va sortir quelques 45 tours, un album qu’il a fait avec Yoko Plastic Ono Band

very difficult, and it is often risky/ dangerous for illegal immigrants especially between the US and Mexico. Matthieu: BLACK THURSDAY: Black Thursday refers to October 24, 1929, when panicked sellers traded nearly 13 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange (more than three times the normal volume at that time), and investors suffered tremendous losses. Before ( the roaring 20’s, a period of wealth and excess. Many Americans invested on the stock Market ( speculative boom, due to

civilisation. D) be ready for the end of civilisation. 34. Preppers tend to come from A) all over the U.S. B) the suburbs. C) remote parts of the country. D) inner cities. 35. The U.S. government A) would like to eradicate prepping. B) does not know how to deal with preppers. C) is encouraging the prepping movement. D) shares some of the concerns of preppers. 36. Prepping is considered by many Americans as A) a business opportunity. B) a lunatic sect. C) a threat to social order. D) a politically divisive