The Woman

father is American. His father taught at the American University of Lebanon and was also a dentist. His family was a Lebanese family Greek orthodox that’s why he had a catholic education. He grown up with the French culture and resorted the Pères Jésuites School. At the age of 20 years old, he got his Bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Lyon in France. Thought, he did an internship, in 1949, in the sector of the actuarial with the professor Jecklin at Zurich in a reinsurance

Valentine’s Day comes from the legend of the priest Valentine in the second half of the third century after Jesus Christ. The emperor Claude the second the gothic had abolished the marriage’s sacrament. This emperor thought that the married was bad soldiers because of their dependence to the family. The clergyman Valentine, him, married couples secretly, but one day, he was unmasked and arrested. He was beheaded in Rome on the fourteenth February Two hundred sixty eight. Since the fifth century, he is

Elements of the Gothic Novel Historians used it to refer to the gloomy and impressive style of medieval architecture common in Europe. The cathedrals were covered with a profusion of carvings depicting humanity in conflict with supernatural forces—demons, angels, gargoyles, and monsters. Like Gothic architecture, Gothic literature focuses on humanity’s fascination with the unknown, and the frightening, inexplicable aspects of the universe and the human soul. Gothic literature pictures the human condition

bound up in the woods and hills and meadows around it,if I had not been jerked away from all these and thrown out into a country as bare as a piece of sheet iron. » Jim,looking out of the wagon on his first journey cannot pray because of the emptiness : »There was nothing but land : not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are mde. » Willa Cather returning as she describes Jim returning,when the land had been formed and the roads built,met again Annie Pavelka, the woman who was the

that France is right to ban the face veil" For the motion: * against equality: symbol of oppression, submission of the woman and a disparity between the sexes. It is thus against the values of France, country of equality and human rights. * denial (déni) of citizenship : the burqa affects" citizen's " idea because it is a denial of identification and especially an undifferentiated depersonalization. With the burqa: it is nobody; she is never recognizable in the civil space. * against

1. The narrator is a Jamaican female teacher. 2. The scène takes place in England (l.31 «  you’re not qualified to teach hère in England ») 3. A) This place could be a school office or a job center B) She has come there to apply for a job as a teacher in a English school. 4. It refers to the other woman who may be a secretary or headmistress 5. The narrator expects her to take them and read them through. 6. She feels these letters proe she is a comptent and fully qualified

that people should be encouraged use to public transport in the city, to One advantageof I Another advantageof I One other advantageof I The main advantageof I Thegreatestadvantageof I Thefirst advantageof havingyour own business that you d.onot is have to take orderc. To list advantages and disadvantages: one disadvantageof I Another disadvantageof I one other disadvantageof I The main disadvantageof I Thegreatestdisadvantageof I The frrst itisadvantageof havingyour own business is that you

anglais This workcontributesto a semiotic reading of the book of Revelation, which is one of the most disputed biblical texts.We recognizethe importance of the chapter 12, its narrative particularity and the significance of its figures whicheventually lead to the figurative journey of the Woman in the whole of the Revelation.In the field of the biblical studies, it is a matter of renewal of the reading and of the interpretation of the text.In the semiotic then, it is a question of exploring certain

THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN ABSALOM, ABSALOM ! 1 - Ghostly and Fantastic figures: identities in crisis ⇒ What is particularly striking in AA is that he stereotype of the Southern Belle* is subverted and that women are given other characteristics than those usually attributed to the Southern Belle : culture, conversation skills, charm, beauty, good manners, naivety, chastity, humility, but also seducing skills. At some point, Ellen Sutpen could match the Southern Belle description, but she is definitely

Introduction Top Girls was first staged in 1982 at the Royal Court Theatre, in London. However, ideas for the play began in the late 1970s, as states Amelia Howe Kritzer in her book ‘The Plays of Caryl Churchill’: In the mid 1970s, [Caryl Churchill] developed an integrated socialist-feminist political analysis which has become increasingly explicit and consistent […] Churchill’s originality as a dramatist is matched by an unusual ability to perceive and analyse the basic patterns that maintain an oppressive