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Compréhension Complete the following summary with words taken from the text The narrator, who lives in the state of New Hampshire, relates two stories taking place in the forest of his region. One day a young student got lost there. After his disappearance many people looked for him. His body was found only a few months later. More recently, a quite similar incident happened with a plane. Despite the efforts of the searchers, the aircraft war never seen again. According to the narrator

None of them is named. The story begins as follows: one morning, a man who was having breakfast while his wife was still in bed upstairs beheld a unicorn eating the roses in the garden. COMMENTARY First we will focus on the characterization chosen by the author to depict the couple and build the narrative. Then we will try and identify the literary genre this text might belong to . I - CHARACTERISATION The characterization of the two main protagonists is clearly laid out in the text:

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on gay marriage was condemned by the leader of France's far-right National Front, Marine Le Pen. Fifteen years together The court, or Constitutional Council as it is formally known, reached its decision through a panel of eight judges, six men and two women. While many European states recognise homosexual civil unions, only Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Sweden, Norway and Iceland legally acknowledge same-sex marriage. Ms Cestino and Ms Hasslauer have lived together 15 years, are raising

differences The psychoanalyst is either a psychiatrist or a psychologist by training, even someone who has advanced training in the humanities (philosophy, sociology ..) but meets the first requirement, or to have completed its own psychoanalysis. One could define psychoanalysis as a psychotherapy, very long term (five to ten years), whose goal is to get the customer to minimize its unconscious processes to better understand the real motives of his comportments. By this approach the person hoping

want homosexual couples to adopt because homophobic language and behaviour is still common. People fear that these children might be persecuted or rejected by society. They also fear that they will be considered as outcasts because they have two mother or two fathers. Along the same lines, the world is built for opposite sex couples. It is seen in movies, magazines, advertisements. All kinds of papers including birth certificates and other legal documents have lines for "mother" and "father". Children

different feelings. Friendship and love are a reciprocal feeling between two persons who are alike or not. Certain differences move closer between them to people whereas of the other one take away them. So we can wonder if the differences are inevitably obstacles to love or friendship. We will show why the differences can be a “barrier” and afterwards, on the contrary we will explain the positive points of the differentiation. On the one hand, these differences can be a dam in this society which looks at

'Rappelons que' he was the first american in space the 5 mai of nineteen sixty one during the flight Mercury-Redstone. He 'pilota' the capsule Freedom 7. After any weeks de Youri Gargarine's flight, Alan Shepard realised the dream of the Americans. So it was extrodinary ! But, it was so court,the flight during fifteen minutes. The true first american astronaut will be John Glenn, the two february of nineteen sixty two. The main scientific objective of project Mercury was to determine man's capabilities

create a European Union Since Middle Ages, the idea of creating a European union with a supranational government was emitted. The idea has benn amplified in the 18th century and the 19th century. In the 20th century, the situation has changed : after two world wars which have destroyed Europe in the first part of this century, European peolple wanted to live in peace again and ''forever''. As soon as the WWII has finished, members of European governments began to have ideas of federation, confederation

they are hints to the decay of the South. ⇒ In AA, two worlds are depicted, two worlds that co-exist, or rather one world that dominates and crushes the other. On the one side, that of men (which is reality, with specific codes of honour, specific values…), and on the other side, that of women (which is beyond reality, which appears as a shelter from the harsh reality of men’s world). The discrepancy, in values, in codes, and in morals between those two worlds makes them irreconcilable. When Ellen runs