Out of Africa

(Morocco) Overview of the project Contents INTRODUCTION 2 Tangiers-Med port 3 Technical innovation 4 The world's largest ships 5 Harbour engineering 6 Caissons breakwater 6 Birth of a caisson 7 Durable structure 7 Special quarry 8 Facts and figures 8 Illustrations 9 General view of port 9 Construction of a four-cell caisson 10 CONCLUSION 11 INTRODUCTION The Tangier-Med Project will contain the biggest port in Africa. The project is a strategic priority of the Moroccan

Master send him home because he did not speak English well, did not know the strange places Master named? Master came back with a wide piece of paper that he unfolded and laid out on the dining table, pushing aside books and magazines. He pointed with his pen. ‘This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.’ Master picked up the paper and folded it, so that one edge touched the other, leaving a hollow between

death of an infant, baby or as child. The pleasures of life are worth nothing if one is not alive to experience them. Through the twentieth century in the United States and other high-income countries, growth in real incomes was accompanied by a historically unprecedented decline in mortality rates that caused life expectancy at birth to grow by nearly 30 years (Cutler et al., 2006). In poor countries, that is the less developed countries which are mostly in the sub-Saharan Africa about

Séquence 1 Fighting for a good cause Sommaire Objectifs de la séquence 1. Listen to get informed 2. Observe and spot the problem 3. Listen to get informed 4. Get ready to express yourself orally 5. Listen to get informed 6. Read to develop a new point of view and react Copyright Stichting Greenpeace Council Dans cette séquence de cours, vous allez devoir choisir une grande cause et la défendre. Pour cela, des exemples de causes vous seront proposés dans des documents variés (textes, images, audio)

Economic European Community in 1987, even though it first did in 1959. The problem is that the mere fact of opening membership talks with Turkey aroused great reserve among the opponents. The first question which has to be asked is: What « enter the European Union » really means? A clear definition of it would enable an accession, or on the contrary, a non-adhesion of Turkey justified by every piece of answer displaying the European's values and principles. Unfortunately, it is not so simple and the Turkish’s

change Britain? (a) The keystone of Labour policy after the 1945 landside was setting up the Wefare state. This idea of comprehensive social reform, which was one of the key factors in explaining the labour landside in 1945, was not a new concept. The concept's real birth can be situated around the end of the Victorian period and first moves in western Europe towards reform where attempted well before 1945. One could use Loyd George's period as chancellor of the exchequer or Bismarck's reformist

destruction by the Nazis of the european Jews during the Second World War. The « Holocaust » is not only the « Final Solution », and the « Final Solution » is not only Auschwitz and the gaz chambers... Even if the main topic of the Wannsee conference held on January the 20th 1942 was to coordinate the « Final Solution » (Endlösung), this conference didn't give birth ex nihilo to the process in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, an estimated 11

The mass medias shapes our ideas on how, we think, things should be. A massive object is often something big (related to the weight). And when people talk of communication, they are pointing out a way of interaction use to review something. By definition, mass communication is a message created by a person or a group of people sent through a transmitting device (a medium) to a large audience or market. The term media refers to all the modern communications media: television, film, video, radio

has won the Red Bordeaux Varietal Over £10 International Trophy. The award was given out at the Decanter World Wine Awards presentation dinner at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden last night. Judges said the wine was ‘supple, graceful and ripe but not flashy’ and praised its ‘excellent length and four-square tannins’. Only 25 International trophies are awarded at the Decanter World Wine Awards, chosen out of more than 12,000 wines entered. In the final judging category, He Lan Qing Xue was tasted

Exposé d’anglais présenté par Samy HERTZOG et Aida EZZAERHOUNI An airbus AF 447 from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to the airport of Paris Charles de Gaulle has disparated in the Atlantic Ocean. The Brazilian Air Force said they had discovered the debris and an oil and kerosene slick 650km (400 miles) northeast of the Fernando do Noronha archipelago, in the area where the jet is thought to have crashed. The flight disappeared early yesterday after flying into a storm, four hours into its scheduled