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I.B. HL English Mrs. Goldberg Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, and A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, both have very prominent male characters. In Things Fall Apart, the protagonist is a man named Okonkwo, who is part of the Ibo tribe, in what is now Nigeria. He has always lived in shame of his father, who he considered to be weak, feminine and sentimental. In A Doll’s House, the main male figure is Torvald, the protagonists Nora’s husband, a man who is so set in trying to conform to society’s

Madame Lantier!" Gervaise leaned out. 5 "Ah, is it you, Madame Boche! Yes, I am up early, for I have much to do today." "Is that so? Well, things don't get done by themselves, that's sure!" And a conversation ensued between the window and the sidewalk. Mme Boche was the concierge of the house wherein the restaurant Veau à Deux Têtes occupied the rez-de-chaussée. Many times Gervaise had waited for Lantier in the room of this woman rather than face the men who were eating. The concierge said she had

post-war period, theirs was a big and powerful industry making lots of money, and controlling just about everything - recording artists, publishers, distributors and retailers. By 1982, music had gone digital. (The first CDs went on sale that year.) So recording studios converted the sounds made by musicians into bitstreams - long sequences of ones and zeroes - while, at the consumer end, CD players converted those bits back into high-fidelity sound. The problem was: how to get the bitstreams from

my book. 2. I _______________ (not/use) the computer at the moment so you can use it. 3. Mary is ill so Sue _______________ (teach) her 1essons today. 4. Excuse me, I _______________ (look) for a hotel. Is there one near here? 5. _______________ (you/wait) for someone? 6. Jack, you are very careless. You _______________ (always/forget) to do your homework! 7. The cost of living _______________ (rise) very fast. Every year things are more expensive. 8. What _______________ (you/do)? I _______________

‘The Landlady' is a short story by Roald Dahl. It was first published in ‘The New Yorker' magazine in 1959, and has since appeared in many anthologies of Dahl's stories, the first of which was ‘Kiss, Kiss' (published by Michael Joseph). Billy Weaver, a young man visiting the City of Bath for the first time, is looking for accommodation. He is inexplicably drawn to a house where the landlady seems to be expecting him. The house and the landlady seem friendly and welcoming, and he looks forward to

wich is consolidating. After seeing the installation of this system, we can wonder now, how is it organized and what are its effects on the population? So let’s see the global organization of this system (I), after the reality generated by this system (II). I) ORGANISATION OF THIS SYSTEM Health care in the United States is provided by many separate legal entities. According to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and others, the U.S. is the only wealthy and industrialized

for our health. Smoking is restricted or banned in almost all public places and cigarette companies are no longer allowed to advertise on buses or trains , billboards , tv , and in many magazines. Smoking can shorten your life by 14 years or more ; and that the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year. So how come people are still lighting up ? the answer , in a word , is addiction. 2. History Some write that tobacco use began 2 000 years ago , others mention that it began 8 000

PRINT EDITION A long way from the football terraces FOR Britons wondering how their country will earn its keep in a world that is tilting eastward, some sectors offer cause for optimism. Newly prosperous foreigners will probably want at least a few things that Britain supplies better than most: higher education, financial services, popular culture. Another, sometimes underestimated strength is fashion: the country boasts influential street stylists and vibrant chain-stores (such as Top Shop), plus

the discovery of the drowned body. Tom notices a bruise on the body, finds a telltale beer bottle in the rushes, and Tom's girlfriend Mary insists Freddie was killed by Dick, Tom's mentally retarded brother. The narrator then embarks on one of his many explorations of the nature of history, before flashing back to a time in 1942 when Tom and Mary, both fifteen years old, first begin to explore each other sexually. They are careful to meet at times when they will not be discovered either by Freddie

sisters. The choice of narrators, a group rather than an individual, using the first person plural is an unusual one. Here men recall a time when they weren't yet fully formed as individuals, when experience was communal, shared and puzzled over together. So the narrator is one or all of a group of adolescent boys who obsessed over the Lisbon girls from a distance in their youth, and now, as middle-aged men, continue to try to piece together the girls' story. The Lisbon are a Catholic family, the