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  • I oppose the belief of psychological egoism

    I oppose the belief of psychological egoism

    On September 11, 2001 an Islamic terrorist group called Al-Qaeda hijacked 4 airplanes with the intentions of attacking major buildings. They successfully attacked the Twin Towers in New York City, and the Pentagon in Virginia. They attempted to attack Washington, D.C. but ending up crashing into a field in Pennsylvania after the passengers on the plane tried to overcome the hijackers. In the attack of the Twin Towers, 343 firefighters and 72 law enforcement officers

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  • Places and Exchanges: the diversity of cultures in Britain

    Places and Exchanges: the diversity of cultures in Britain

    This is Britain Spaces and Exchanges Places and exchanges The notion I’m going to deal with is “Places and Exchanges”. The subject of my oral presentation will be “The Diversity of Cultures in Britain”. In my first part, I’m going to underline the fact that Britain is a multicultural country; then I’ll show that Britain is a sporting nation. 1. Britain is a multicultural country In the 1960’s and with the massive waves of immigration

    551 Mots / 3 Pages
  • The smell of apples

    The smell of apples

    PROMPT #1 DAYLY OF AFRIKANER RACIST After the second world war, the colons decided to stay in South Africa and live there. Those invaders are mainly divided between two ethno-cultural groups, the Afrikaners, descendants of mainly German-Dutch pioneers and French (Afrikaans) Boers and Anglo-South African English-speaking from England. The colon trades the colonization but maintained the racism that leaded to apartheid. The Smell of apples is a story written by Mark Behr 1995.The story of

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  • Do technological progress lead automatically the world to be a better place?

    Do technological progress lead automatically the world to be a better place?

    Notion of Progress Introduction : The idea of progress can be defined as an improvement, a development or a change – a technical, scientific or social advance which contributes to making the world a better place. Are technological progress lead automatically the world to be a better place? I- Yes when they permit social advance Sometimes, technological progress allow social advance provided that they are properly used. -For example, the Space Race promote empowerment of

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  • The Memorial to the Few

    The Memorial to the Few

    Memories of an event, of a war are propagated through social media, museum, but also monument and memorial. It is the case for the National Memorial to the Few which is dedicated to the heroic deeds of the men who fought the Battle of Britain in 1940. The Memorial was opened by the Queen Mother Elizabeth on July 9, 1993 at Capel-le-ferne located near Folkestone, on the coast of Kent. The Memorial site includes numberous elements :

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  • What are the benefits of equality between men and womem

    What are the benefits of equality between men and womem

    What are the benefits of equality between men and women ? There is a lot of benefits in having equality between men and women, first there is the fact that people feel better if they can do what they want, so the World would be a better place for everyone can do what pleases him. Second if the woman and the man in a family both have a job then the family will earn more

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  • Fiche Oral Anglais - The idea of progress

    Fiche Oral Anglais - The idea of progress

    Notion 1 : The idea of progress Intro : The world progress can have 2 main meanings : the evolution of something for the better or just the idea of change, a movement forward. It can be scientific, social or economical progress. In class we studied scientific and social progress concerning human reproduction. In the late 20th and in the early 21st century, science has made huge progress in the field of genetics and the

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  • The notion of spaces and exchanges, Canada

    The notion of spaces and exchanges, Canada

    The notion of spaces and exchanges deals with the geographical and symbolic areas where people live on one hand and the interactions between the different societies that live together on the other. The different cultural, economic, sociological and language interactions have shaped and characterize our modern-day world. I would like to illustrate this notion through the theme of the Inuit population and mainly the Inuits from Canada also known as the first people in Canada.

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  • The idea of progress

    The idea of progress

    The idea of progress The idea of progress in India can be defined by an improvement of the living conditions, a change of mentalities, social advances that contribute to make the country a better place. We will see through two texts – ''The village population, painter of signs, Narayan, 1976'' and ''changing India, Farewell to an India I hardly Knew, 2006'' – and an audio document – ''Two stories, India's Economic Contrasts, CBS'' – the

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  • Vivienne Westwood The woman of a thousand influences

    Vivienne Westwood The woman of a thousand influences

    Table of contents Introduction............................................................................................................. 3 The Punk subculture............................................................................................. 4 The origins ...................................................................................................... 4 The culture ..................................................................................................... 5 “Queen Viv” and the Sex Pistols ................................................................. 5 The punk esthetic by Dame Westwood .................................................. 8 Updating the past to create the future............................................................ 10 The Renaissance inspirations................................................................... 11 The Baroque inspirations ........................................................................ 12 The Rococo inspirations ........................................................................... 13 Social involvement............................................................................................. 16 A soldier of the environment.................................................................... 16 ... and humanitarian causes ......................................................................17 Save the artic collection ............................................................................ 18

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  • Spaces an exchanges : to which extent has immigration helped to shape the America nation?

    Spaces an exchanges : to which extent has immigration helped to shape the America nation?

    Spaces and exchanges To which extent has immigration helped to shape the America nation? The caricature What we have here is a caricature drawn by Joe Heller and published in 2010 which shows the statue of Liberty at the wheel of a convertible in the middle of Arizona desert. A fat policeman wearing sunglasses has ordered her to pullover and is asking, I quote: "I can tell by the colour of your skin you're not

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  • The American Dream truly turned the US into a space of unity and exchange?

    The American Dream truly turned the US into a space of unity and exchange?

    The US is a nation defined by immigration as it is composed of colonies and the first Americans were in fact British colonists. We call the nation a “melting pot” because of many cultures and ethnicities are represented. Nevertheless, has the American Dream truly turned the US into a space of unity and exchange? To answer this question, I will first show that the American dream allowed exchanges and unity before explaining that in fact

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  • English Oral, the idea of Progress

    English Oral, the idea of Progress

    We are going to tackle the idea of progress. To begin, I’d like to give a definition of what progress is. It is a steady evolution toward a better stage, it is an improvement, a development or a change toward advanced condition. Progress is thus the idea that the world can become a better place to live in terms of science, technologies and living conditions even though it is sometimes used in a negative

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  • What do the new Americans aspire to?

    What do the new Americans aspire to?

    We’re going to be interested in the notion of spaces and exchanges. This notion can also represent areas of activity thanks to the term « spaces ». The term « exchanges »refers to commercial or migratory flows, for example, between two countries . The term that we study allows you to learn about the evolution and integration of migrants within America, a coveted territory. The term of the migrants is the main topic of the

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  • Anglais lele The world of imagination

    Anglais lele The world of imagination

    WORLD OF IMAGINATION : The notion that I will present to you is “The world of imagination”.This is the ability to think about things that do not exist. The imagination is the function that the mind sees, it can be represented by concrete things, people or situations never experienced. Imaginary worlds are a recurrent theme in the imagination of men for a multitude of reasons: to try to understand the world around them, to

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  • The value of money

    The value of money

    The value of money 1. What is Money? Despite the fact that we are handling money every day, if we ask people, very few of them would be able to describe it properly. When we hear the word “money” what we have in mind it might go from pleasure to pain. It might be an amazing car, the house of our dreams or an endless vacation in a paradisiacal beach surrounded by Daiquiris. On the

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  • The Turkish financial crisis of 2018

    The Turkish financial crisis of 2018

    The Turkish financial crisis of 2018 The Turkish financial crisis of August 2018 is a currency crisis with international repercussions due to financial contagion. Over this crisis the Turkish economy has been caught up in a perfect storm. The inflation was high (almost 18%) and the deficit continued to deteriorate (6.5% of Gross domestic product “GDP”), also the stock market has also fallen 17%. The lira started to fall sharply on 10 August, as the

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  • The notion of progress: crime

    The notion of progress: crime

    Enzo Deronzier T7 Notion 2 Hello, I’m going to talk about the notion “The idea of progress”. First of all I would like to give a definition of the idea of progress. The Progress is a gradual betterment; especially: the progressive development of humankind. To illustrate the notion we'll talk about prohibition in the USA. Thus, we can ask ourselves how has Prohibition backfired and led the nation to crime ? In the first place

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  • Compte rendu "The spread of counterfeiting"

    Compte rendu "The spread of counterfeiting"

    Compte Rendu « The spread of Counterfeiting » Cet article publié le 6 mars 2010 dans le journal britannique « The Economist » aborde la prolifération de la contrefaçon ces dernières années. On assiste aujourd’hui à une démocratisation de la contrefaçon, en effet elle ne touche plus seulement les produits de luxes mais aussi les cigarettiers, les produits pharmaceutiques ou les composants informatiques. Plusieurs facteurs ont contribué à l’essor de la contrefaçon, notamment le déplacement

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  • The idea of progress : In what way can we say that the workplace will be evolved in the future?

    The idea of progress : In what way can we say that the workplace will be evolved in the future?

    Hello, my name is Bruno Kubiak The notion I’m going to deal with is the idea of progress. To begin I’m going to give a definition of the idea of progress. The word "progress" derives from the Latin "progressus" and suggests an improvement, a development or a change – a technical, scientific or social advance which contributes to making the world better. The progress allows the development of the society and the mentality. I would

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  • The idea of progress : How has the internet changed today’s world?

    The idea of progress : How has the internet changed today’s world?

    I am going to talk about the idea of progress. First of all I would like to give a definition of this notion: The idea of progress can be defined as an improvement, a development or a change – a technical, scientific or social advance which contributes to making the world a better place. This year in class we studied several documents about the idea of progress. I will talk about : • the web

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  • The Effects of Exercise on Taste and Food Preference

    The Effects of Exercise on Taste and Food Preference

    There are five basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami (Brown, 2015). Sweetness is perceived in foods containing sugars such as sucrose, fructose and glucose (Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care [IQWIG], 2016). The salty taste perceived in foods is due to the salt crystals made of sodium and chloride (NaCl) (IQWIG, 2016). Bitter taste comes from different compounds including caffeine, theobromine found in chocolate and phenolic compounds (Brown, 2015). Sourness is

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  • The Idea of Progress : The New Frontier

    The Idea of Progress : The New Frontier

    According to Sidney Pollard, “a belief in progress implies the assumption that a pattern of change exists in the history of mankind, that it consists of irreversible changes in one general direction only, and that this direction is toward improvement.” In the United States, progress is namely illustrated by the search for the American Frontier. How did its search evolve over time? This evolution can be best understood by considering three distinct definitions of the

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  • The idea of progress

    The idea of progress

    FAMILY PROGRESS L'idée de progrès consiste essentiellement à croire que le monde peut devenir meilleur The idea of progress basically consists in believing that the world can become better en termes de technologie, de liberté et de qualité de vie et a façonné la majeure partie de la vision in terms technology, liberty and quality of life and has shaped most of civilisation vision de l'histoire de la civilisation . Le progrès implique des changements,

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  • The history of Skype

    The history of Skype

    THE HISTORY OF SKYPE “Sky Peer to Peer” is the full name of Skype. This software was launched fifteen years ago which was in August, 2003. The founders of Skype are the Estonian developers Zahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu and Jaan Tallinn, Danish developer Janus Friis and Sweden’s Niklas Zenntrom. These founders met for the first time at the Swedish telecom company called Tele2. Niklas Zenntrom and Janus Friis were employees at the company and the

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