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Bob Marley (Robert Nesta Marley, dit) Born in Nine Mile, St. Ann, Jamaica, February 6, 1945, died in Miami, Florida, USA, May 11, 1981 His father, Norval Sinclair Marley, was a white Jamaican of English descent and her mother Cedella Booker, an Afro-Jamaican  Singer and guitarist songs, soul, Ska (Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues,) rock steady and reggae, artistic director, active from 1959 to his death. Bob Marley is the first (and

life, but also in different area like housing and consumption. Segregation was everywhere: there were no Blacks on TV, Real Estate companies were not considering Black people as customers. More than that, during the creation of suburbs, Black and White people were separated. It is only in the late 1960s that a Housing Act put an end of segregation in housing. But here, let’s focus on the consumption market. When mass-consumption started to grow, the agencies had targets in the society, as we saw

and status in the US: they can be Puerto-Ricans, Carribeans from the West Indies (Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti, and Trinidad), and Chicanos from Mexico or Latin Americans (Colombians, Ecuadorians, Nicaraguans...). They are white, black, Indian or of very mixed ancestry. Puerto-Ricans are US citizens from birth, so they are legal immigrants whereas other Hispanics have to apply for American citizenship. Illegal undocumented Chicanos who cross the Rio Grande on foot to work

named Peter Krajiek. The farm and house are not particularly good, and the Shimerdas paid too much for it. In addition, the father knows nothing about farming. He was a weaver and a fiddler in his native land, is dignified and neatly dressed, and has white, skilled hands. The mother has shrewd eyes, and when she sees Grandmother, she points to her dugout house and says it’s no good. She thanks Grandmother for bringing over bread and pies. The oldest son Ambrosch, aged nineteen, looks sturdy and has shrewd

assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. national holiday in 1986. At the White House Rose Garden on November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating a federal holiday to honor King. Observed for the first time on January 20, 1986, it is called Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Following President George H. W. Bush's

to the themes of the novel, such as beauty norms, racial self-loathing, secrets? The most noticeable element of the first prologue is its structure. The fragmentation of the paragraph into short sentences – “Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door.” – makes it look like a children’s primer. The family described in the prologue is said to be “very happy” and seems like a typical middle-class family. However, what catches the eye of the reader is the loneliness which Jane seems

the education of children. -they were doctors. They used medicinal plants like the mistletoe (gui). To pick this plant, the druids needed to respect a ceremonial. They used golden sickle (faucille) or billhook ( serpe), they sacrificed a pair of white bulls. We can say that because we have discovered a tomb of a druid at Colchester, in Britain and in this tomb there were surgical instruments, for exemple a scalpel, needles (aiguilles) and also a saw (scie). -the druids were rulers of nature. They

Aurélie HOARAU South Africa After years of a white-oppressing governance, Apartheid in South Africa finally came to an end as the official ideology and legal system of the country in 1994. At the time, the arrival to the power of the black president, Nelson Mandela, was the guarantee of a national process of reconciliation, reconstruction and development, excluding racism and social segregation. The new democratic country considered itself then, as a “rainbow nation” where everyone would live

languages. More than half of the population of the country is able to understand the Zulu. However, Zulus speak also English, Portuguese, Shangaan, Sesotho and others from among the South Africa’s eleven official languages. - As for Xhosas, they are also their own language. It’s a Bantu language too. Xhosa is spoken by about eighteen percent of the South African population. This group speak Zulu, Afrikaans and English too. - How did you succeed to understand them ? - We had dictionnaries

bus.jpgThis is a Montgomery bus. This is the bus where Rosa Parks did not want to move up for a let a white man. C:\Users\Sana\Pictures\rosa3.gif A French rapper, Soprano, has about Rosa Parks in her last song. The lyrics say that he wanted to be near her when Rosa Parks would not move from his place. In that video you can see this photo and Soprano is sitting to rate it. (His music speaks several wishes he would do if he'll have the power to turn back time.) THE PEOPLE, THE COMMUNITY,