Nothing Is Bigger Than Life

STEINBECK’S THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS What makes a short story interesting is when the readers are persuaded to know exactly about the certain element of a fiction such as characters and certain symbols. Here, in John Steinbeck’s short story titled The Chrysanthemums, we are offered by such interesting element. The main character in John Steinbeck’s The Chrysanthemums is a woman named Elisa Allen who lost her happiness, frustrated her marital life and being barred from doing certain thing that she wish for and

Hanif Kureishi is a playwright, a screenwriter, a novelist and a film-maker. He was born in Bromley, Kent in 1954. Kureishi's first novel was the semi-autobiographical The Buddha of Suburbia, published in 1990. This book describes Karim's struggle for social and sexual identity, a comic coming-of-age novel and a satirical portrait of race relations in Britain during the 1970s. This extract is taken from chapter six. Jamila's future husband arrives in England, then a party is organized for the

introduction is written in the voice of a childhood friend of Jim Burden, who is the narrator for the remainder of the novel. The anonymous speaker in this introduction tells us that last summer, he unexpectedly met his friend on a train and that they spent the journey reminiscing about their childhood in Nebraska. It is hot and dusty on the train, and it reminds them of the weather growing up on the frontier. According to the speaker, Jim Burden now works for the railroad in New York and is unhappily

McDonald's, we’re lovin' it? Since we have studied MNEs, today we are going to present you one of the biggest. A « restaurant » (if we can call that a restaurant...) that you all know. When you hear the word « fast food » what is the first thing that you think of? Mc Donald's of course! The company was created in 1954 by Ray Kroc. He was inspired by a small but successful restaurant run by brothers Dick and Mac McDonald, and was stunned by the effectiveness of their operation.  They produced

mots dans le bon ordre pour reconstituer une phrase contenant un verbe au conditionnel: 1. rich / would / If / buy / a / house / were / big / I 2. said / like / come / She / would / not / to / she 3. could / I / big / would / if / give / you / a / ring / I 1. If I were rich, I would buy a big house. 2. She said she would not like to come. 3. I would give you a big ring if I could. REPONSES Présent simple ou présent en BE+ −ING ? Choisir le bon présent The train always ________________(1: leave)

-MEMORY AND PLACES- It's been about two months since I'm part of my host family's life. Two months since I left my cute little parent's apartment in the French Riviera for a bigger surface in Minnesota. I know each part of my new room like it's been mine for years. I actually feel like home now. I even have my own ritual in my new room that I religiously respect every morning. I wake up in my king size bed, snooze my alarm clock three times to have fifteen more minutes of sleep and finally turn

-Our presence here does not result from a necessity, everything is fine and we have been married from 14 years. -15 years -14 or 15 years, it does not matter. What we need is the directions for going on 15 years more! -Ok, I see what you mean. So, we must admit that your current type of life will not allowed you to go on 15 years more. -That’s true -First of all, I have to ask you some questions concerning your married life. On a scale from one to ten, how do you feel within your couple

would also like to thank my all my source and target language informants who helped me unravel a difficult text. These included: Myriem el-Maizi, Romain Avril, Carine Cramelet, Tom Dodds, Mary Nicolson and Anne Roberts This translation project is dedicated to my wife Section 1 Source and Target Texts “Traduttore, traditore” – “Translator, traitor” Italian proverb 1. SOURCE TEXT ‘KIFFER sa race’ 1 Y a seulement quand je surplombe ma cite, en haut de ma tour, que

will always attract immigrants because these countries represent a new life. The problem in the United States is the illegal immigration. In fact, there are about 11-12 million illegal immigrants in the United States and the current immigration system is doomed to failure. That is why an US immigration reform is essential. This article “Obama calls for US immigration reform” raises the question of this immigration reform. It is an article written by Kent Klein and extracted from a website called “voanews

pause, Dorothy controlled herself and began consoling them. "All right, it's all right', she said "And now I'm going to put Paul and Jane to bed. You two, Luke and Helen can put yourselves to bed. I'll come up and say good night. And then your grand is off to bed. I'm tired' The subdued children went off upstairs. Harriet did not come down again that evening; her husband and her mother knew she was being sick. Which they were used to.... but were not used to ill temper, tears, fretfulness. When