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étrangère, intérieure, militaire. (On a parlé de lui lorsqu'il a été mis en cause pendant l'Iran-Gate pour avoir autorisé des ventes d'armes illégales à l'Iran). - le White House Office C'est l'état-major personnel du Président. Il est composé de personnalités politiques sans mandat. NOTA : le rôle croissant du Bureau et du White House Office conduit à un phénomène grave : le Gouvernement américain se trouve court-circuité. (cf. l'Irangate). §2 le Congrès Le Congrès est un Parlement bicaméral

missed him terribly. At the moment, I'm at RADA studying to be an actor. In spite of many changes, the UK remains a monarchy. She is planning a class trip to the museum. The big attraction in Berlin is the nightlife. I have two pots of orchids, one white and one purple. Liam's work was brilliant, but it lacked organisation. She organised a concert to raise money for charity. She was so well organised, you could tell exactly when she was going to arrive. The original plan was to catch the ferry.

traditions are. 3. The Kikuyus live in a hot and humid country, in the savannah; some are Muslims. They worked for white European settlers who came to Kenya to own plantations at the beginning of the twentieth century. 4. Utiliser les structures comparatives. Karen Blixen is well-dressed, elegant, sophisticated, she seems quite wealthy whereas the Kikuyus are lightly dressed and poorer. They speak a different language and have different living habits. notions / fonctions Exprimer ses goûts, comparer

public accommodations. Today, African Americans constitute 12.3 percent of the total U.S. population. In recent decades blacks have made great strides, and the black middle class has grown substantially. In 2001, 38 percent of employed blacks held "white-collar" jobs -- managerial, professional, and administrative positions rather than service jobs or those requiring manual labor. That same year 56 percent of black high school graduates were enrolled in college, compared to 38 percent in 1983. The

crisis, “there seems to be a strong consensus that diverse groups perform better at problem solving” (Lu Hong and Scott E. Page). That is the reproach made to companies like Enron or WorldCom: their management teams were too homogeneous: middle class white males, between 55 and 65, with the same background, from same schools… And other studies emphasized that in sectors like finance or banking, women presence would be highly beneficial. For example, in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, a study

emancipation of Tunisian women, for example. It can also play an important role in the preservation of a culture (tourism in Bali). In addition, it should be noted that the travel itself impacts on tourists (in cultural terms, clothing and food). Today, we speak of "tourist consumers" but not enough of the tourist traveller. It begs the question of how globalization has it distorted tourism by providing all its positive sides. Thanks to globalization, we can return more destinations and businesses. To achieve

général I like nature ; I like music very much. mais I like the music of this film. • Ex. : • Ex. : Ex. : devant les noms de sport, de jeux et de repas I like tennis ; I like games ; I like French food. • devant les noms de langue (Ex. : I speak French), de pays (SAUF "the USA" et "the UK"), de lacs, de rues, de jours, de mois, de couleurs, de bâtiments • devant un titre suivi d'un nom propre Queen Elizabeth. • devant "next week/next year/next Monday" et "last week", etc. ATTENTION !

vintage. Mr Merino insists the earthquake will have no effect. Others disagree. Mr Sánchez thinks that adverse weather—frosts in November and rains in January— meant that this year’s grape harvest was anyway going to be small. The drop in output of white wine, much of which is made farther north in the Casablanca and Leyda valleys, could reach 40%, he says. Wine producers in the Colchagua valley say that damage to irrigation systems meant that some fields could not be watered for up to two weeks after

of: malgré nevertheless: néanmoins or: ou that is why: c’est pourquoi whereas: alors que Présentation du texte The text is taken from, is an extract from, comes from An article, a newspaper, a professional document, a website The text deals with, speaks of, is about, is on (le texte parle de, traite de) The text can be divided into …. parts, from line … to line …. In the first part, the second part, the third part, the fourth part (firstly, secondly, thirdly …) In conclusion, to conclude Analyse de

least a Dostoevsky novel, is a “work of poetry”—that is, a simultaneous composition on multiple planes—and the critics can therefore be forgiven their perplexity about where to take hold of it, since the first perplexity of criticism is that it must speak monosemantically of the polysemous. But besides that, these were novels of a new kind, their multiple planes so divergent and even contradictory as to all but baffle definition. So much so that one line of criticism, rightly noting the dramatic