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Bonjour, quelqu’un pourrait me corriger cet exercice svp ? (je pense que j’ai fait pas mal de fautes)
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Trouver la somme suivant : S= 3+5+7+ ...+ 197+ 199+201 je pense que c’est la somme allant de 1 jusqu’à 100 (2i+100) mais ensuite je n’arrive pas à calculer. Merci d’avance Bonne soirée
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Bonjour, voici mon oral d'espagnol, j'aimerais savoir s'il y a des fautes, merci d'avance ! A lo largo del ano hemos estudiado el tema de «espacios e intercambios». Por eso voy a dar una definicion de la nocion. Los espacios pueden ser geograficos como las fronteras entre diferentes pais o virtual como Internet. Ademas hay diferentes formas de intercambios como el intercambio de cultura, de persona (turismo o immigracion) y tambien de informacion. Entonces, voy a presentar esta nocion a través el tema de la ciudad y de los desplazamientos de los hombres. Asi para tratarla he escogido mi reflexion en el tema «Expansion urbana» y me preguntaré si el desarrollo de las ciudades puede crear o acentuar desigualdades. Para empezar voy a hablar de los motivos que incitan a la gente a vivir en las grandes ciudades, después de los problemas provocados por el crecimiento y for fin de las posibles desigualdades generadas. Primero, cada vez mas personas quieren salir del campo para vivir en la ciudad, es el éxodo rural. Gracias al documento «2030 Nuestras ciudades, nuestro futuro», vamos a ver los motivos de la gente. Este foto es en realidad un montaje que da una idea de lo que podria ser el barrio de La Boca de Buenos Aires en 2030 : un lugar con colores vivos y muy agradable. En este montaje el disenador ha dado cierta importancia a la presencia de zonas verdes. En el fondo, detras de las casas, unos arboles marcan una especie de frontera natural entre este barrio y lo que esta mas alla. Ademas , a la izquierda veo una zona con césped. Noto también la ausencia de medios de transporte contaminantes. En el centro hay una hilera de bicicletas, seguramente ecologico como lo sugiere su color verde. Asi, quiere poner de relieve una impresion agradable. Es como si este barrio fuera un sitio ideal donde la vida es agradable y placentera y donde la gente puede vivir en armonia y en un ambiente muy relajado. Representa una vision un poco ideal de lo que espera a los habitantes de este barrio en el futuro. En cambio, este no es el caso de las ciudades de hoy. En efecto, hay problemas provocados por el crecimiento (vivienda, transportes, medio ambiente). En la cancion «En la ciudad», casi todo en la letra nos da una vision mas bien negativa de las grandes urbes : «poco saldo, mucho banco». Aunque se ven bancos por todos sitios, la mayoria de la gente cobra poco. Es en la ciudad donde se ha desarrollo la sociedad de consumo : todo se paga con tarjeta, el consumo y el derroche estan presentes en cada esquina. La ciudad esta muy contaminada : demasiados coches circulan, originan atascos, ruido, contaminacion. También, hay menos posibilidades de trabajo de lo que que uno cree, y se te contretan te pagan poco y en negro. Por ultimo, no hay solidaridad, a pesar de la muchedumbre muchos padecen soledad. Luego, en el documento «Prioridades para el futuro de Lima», Victor Guerrero entrevista a Susane Villaran, alcaldesa de Lima, capital de Peru, que es una ciudad de ocho millones de habitantes. La alcaldesa va a hablar de los tres problemas principales de Lima, segun ella. En primer lugar, habla del medio ambiente, dice : «va a sufrir estrés hidrico», es decir que va a carecer de agua. También habla del aire y del verde que hay que sembrar. Luego senala problemas de criminalidad y convivencia. Lima es menos peligrosa que Caracas, por ejemplo, pero la criminalidad va aumentado. La ausencia de oportunidades para los jovenes y de politica de infancia originan problemas de convivencia. Hay muchisimos problemas de trafico, de transporte, de movilidad urbana. Lo entendemos cuando cita el chiste : «En Lima a toda hora es hora punta» Finalmente, vamos a ver las posibles desigualdades generadas. En el documento «México desde arriba», el narrador esta en un helicoptero y esta observando México D.F desde arriba. Describe dos barrios, el de los pobres y el de los ricos. Lo que nos choca aqui, obviamente es el contraste entre la abundancia, la desproporcion de las casas en el barrio de los ricos y los materiales de recuperacion, la fragilidad de las viviendas en el barrio de los pobres. Lo que llama la atencion del narrador es la division de la ciudad en dos colores : el verde y el gris. Por un lado, el verde corresponde al barrio de ricos donde las casas son tan maravillosas que remedan castillos medievales de ensueno con cerros boscosos y lagos artificiales. Por otro lado, el gris corresponde a los suburbios construidos con materiales reciclados donde se apilan los pobres. Por lo tanto, la construccion urbana evidencia una separacion de la poblacion ya que las avenidas dividen los barrios y las bardas impiden que la gente de los dos barrios se vea, por consiguiente los ciudadanos no pueden ni relacionarse ni tampoco convivir o mezclarse. Ademas, los barrios ricos disponen de tuneles secretos y viven en una zona protegida por la policia privada mientras que los suburbios carecen de infraestructuras como carreteras para acceder a sus casas por eso solo pueden desplazarse andando con dificultad y asi estan expuestos a todos los peligros. Para concluir, cantidad de gente abandono los pueblos para irse a vivir a capitales. Pero el atractivo de las ciudades que explican el exodo rural puede extenderse a otra escala. Existe también grandes movimientos migratorios del mundo, sobre todo desde los paises en via de desarrollo hacia los paises desarrollados. Los motivaciones son a menudo la huida de la miseria, la falta de recursos necesitados, las guerras, la criminalidad… El problema es como encontrar el equilibro adecuado entre aceptar los immigrantes para ofrecerles la suerte de una vida mejor y hacer frente a las problemas que provoca una superpoblacion.
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Merci pour vos corrections! C'est enfin mon dernier texte! Encore merci et bonne journée.
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Bonsoir, voici mon oral, j'aimerais savoir s'il y a des fautes, merci d'avance. Today my presentation is going to deal with the theme «Meeting other people, love and friendship», but especially with the notion of love. Love is a feeling everyone experiences but not always in the same way, it has many forms. Literature, as a reflection of life, is full of love stories. We can wonder what are the different forms of love. First and foremost, we’ll see love declared through Shakespeare’s work and then unrequited love. As a starter, let’s tackle some Shakespeare, a renowned English poet and playwright born in 1564, who wrote the greatest love scenes of all time. My first document, Shakespeare’s greatest love poem, Sonnet 18, is the best known and most well-loved of all his 154 sonnets. It is also one of the most straightforward in langage and intent. His sonnet 18 focuses on the loveliness of a friend or lover, the speaker initially asking a rhetorical question comparing her to a summer’s day. He then goes on to introduce the pros and cons of the weather, from an idyllic English summer’s day to a less welcome dimmed sun and rough winds. Moreover, according to Shakespeare, poetry seems to be endowed with an eternal quality and the written words will remain whereas human life cannot last for ever. We can see different forms of love in this poem : there is passion. Indeed, the poet celebrates a beauty which is beyond description. He glorifies his muse and her extreme beauty and his love for her. He will immortalize her and her beauty in his poems. On the other hand, there is also self-celebration, the poet is proud of himself for preserving the beauty of the loved one for ever in his poems. My personal document, another poem from Shakespeare, Sonnet 116 is a poem about love in its most ideal form. It is a sonnet with 14 lines and a couplet written for a lover. Love should not meet obstacles when the two lovers agree to start a relationship based on trust and understanding. The first quatrain insists on the poet’s pleasure in love that is constant and strong and will not «alter when it alterations finds. Therefore, this means love will resist hardships. Besides, in the second quatrain, the lines proclaim that true love is indeed an «ever-fix’d mark»: «a star», this is a metaphor for a light that guides lovers and the light which guides the «bark», through the voyage of life. Eventually, in the last quatrain, the poet believes that time will not have any influence on love, even if love is doomed by fate and death. The metaphor of the «sickle» is the symbol of the passing time, the final judgement is death. However, love is not always reciprocal,this leads me to my second part where I’m going to talk about unrequited love. In fact, this means a love-hate relationship when one is in love but there is no response from the loved one. My third document is an excerpt taken from a novella entitled The Ballad of the Sad Café written by Carson McCullers in 1951 who is an American playwright and author. It is a story of unrequited love. Indeed, Marvin Macy is deeply in love with Miss Amelia who married him but she refuses to consummate the marriage. She deliberately adresses a man and ignores her husband from the very first day of her marriage. The eccentricity of the characters is underlined. This is nothing like a classic wedding. The roles are reversed as Marvin Macy and Miss Amelia did not spend their wedding night together. We have a story of love illustrated through the romantic longings and attractions of Marvin Macy and Miss Amelia, both eccentric characters. The different characters’ behaviour, which is never revealed by the author, indicates that feelings of love and attraction are not necessarily reasonable or understandable to others. In fact, his new wife does not share his views of «Love» and he has to keep his love to himself. She is unable to love and he will suffer because of this. In a nutshell, we have seen three different situations and three different relationships : passion in Sonnet 18, romantic love in Sonnet 116 and unrequited love in the excerpt of The Ballad of the Sad Café. The writers both use personification and other literary devices to breathe life into their creations.
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Bonjour, voici mon oral d'anglais, j'aimerais savoir s'il y a des fautes, merci d'avance ! Today my presentation is going to deal with places and faces of power. Power can be defined as the abilty to influence or to control people, events, environment or resources. It’s also the ability to make things happen despite obstacles, resistance or opposition. There are as well counter-powers. Indeed, a counter-power is a force that can be used by the oppressed to counterbalance or erode the power exercised by someone. We can wonder if counter-powers are really effective. First and foremost, we’ll talk about the haves’ power and then the social and political activism exercised by the have nots. To begin with, according to The Independant, we live in a world where the «combined wealth of the world’s richest 1 per cent will overtake that of the remaining 99 per cent by 2016». In recent years, much attention has focused on the question of the distribution of wealth throughout the world and throughout society. In the excerpt from Gavin Esler’s novel A Scandalous Man, we’ll see how the power is exercised by the wealth holder, how it manifests itself and its consequences. The scene takes place in London. The narrator Harry is British and works as an interpreter for an arrogant New York corporate lawyer. Actually, the narrator feels guilty about helping the corporate lawyer put thousands of Czech workers out a job. Indeed, the lawyer wants to buy Czech companies. He is quite insensitive, he is venal for he appears to be motivated solely by the greed for more money and also amoral as he lacks a moral sense. On the contrary, Harry is both frustrated and angry, he considers that the corporate lawyer is an arrogant, evil man whose only aim is to make a fortune whatever the cost. Working for such a man makes him feels ill-at-ease . He clearly has grudge against a who is rolling money and who has just ruined the lives of so many people in the stroke of a pen. He must feel that he has betrayed his principles by helping a man that he despises. Thus, this document shows us that there are two sorts of people in our society : those who are successful, the winners, the sharks and those who fail, the losers, those who are left aside. However, some people have decided to stand up for equality and moral values. This leads to my second part where we’re going to study the counter-powers. From los indignados of Spain to the Occupy Wall Street! Movement, a number of rencent protest movements have sought to raise awareness that the world is increasingly divided between the rich and the poor and have tried to restore a measure of social justice. «We are the 99% is a political slogan chanted by the protesters of the «Occupy Wall Street Movement», referring to the 99 % of Americans who have almost nothing compared to the wealthiest 1 % who have everything. On the cartoon «OWS arrest» we studied, a policeman is arresting a demonstrator. The scene is set in the street before the New York Stock Exchange. The arrested man has a sweater with «Occupy Wall Street» written on it. The policeman is trampling over a placard with the word «GREED» barred on it, which the man must have been holding, so it indicates that the demonstrators are protesting against greed. In the background, there are a few masked robbers standing in front of the Stock Market. Each of them is carrying a bagful of money. The cartoonist’s message is clear. The demonstrator is being arrested simply for occupying the street and disturbing the peace. Meanwhile, the thieves go unpunished . They can go on stealing money without being disturbed or arrested.the thieves obviously stand for the world of finance, bankers and traders, who can make huge profits by speculating and sometimes even by mounting fraudulent or illegal activities. In fact, the cartoonist has chosen to use pale grey to show that their activities go unnoticed. Therefore, he wants to show that those who are in positions of political or financial power tend to slip through the net as opposed to the rest of population, who work hard for a living and have no choice but to take to the streets to bring about change. The contrasting colours underline the unfair situation. Similarly, Greenpeace has been a visible presence and influence in our society, making its voice heard in favour of the environment, using direct action tactics to counter moves by industrialists or the military that could harm or impact nature. Indeed, in the document Watchdogs of the sea, a big boat is about to be stopped by two smaller inflatable boats. The men on the inflatable boats are holding a giant net or banner on which the word «STOP» is written in block letters. These men are Greenpeace activists who want to stop the boat from taking part in oil exploration operations off the Alaskan coast. Thereby, their goal is to stop oil exploration in that region at all costs. In addition, the message « STOP » seems to be adressed to the viewers, via the photographer. By staging a photo op, Greenpeace are obviously making use of the media to convey their message. Hence, they can raise environmental awareness. They are called watchdogs since every time they find evidence of wrong-doing, like a good watchdog, they try to alert the public in any way they can. Even though many people think that today it’s no use even trying to fight big polluting multinationals, if there is no counter-power to fight against greed,, things will get worse. Here we have a perfect illustration of powers and counter-powers working on different levels. The picture shows an archetypal situation which reminds us of the fight of David against Goliath. It seems the boat of big business can only win against small inflatables of Greenpeace. Nevertheless, the real battle is being fought elsewhere. The dinghies can’t stop the boat but maybe the photo can. The power of big business and big money is being countered by the Citizen power of a non-governmental-organization and the media, and on this terrain, the balance of power is more equal. In a nutshell, we can see that powers are vey present in our society today. Yet, thanks to counter-powers, we can see stability. Indeed, it can be dramatic of one them becomes too powerful. We can delve into a dictatorial regime or anarchy.
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Merci pour votre réponse, je voulais être sure que ce soit correct, très bonne soirée à vous et encore merci de m'avoir corrigé tous mes textes. Amandine
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Bonjour à tous, voici mon oral d'anglais, j'aimerais savoir s'il y a des fautes, merci d'avance! Today my presentation is going to deal with the myths and heroes through the theme of witches and scapegoats, in other words, a person or group that is made to bear blame for others during the 17th century in America. First, we’ll define the terms of the notion. A myth is a popular story or belief that evolves over time and that conveys the ideal of a given society. A hero is someone who performs extraordinary feats or admirable actions. Therefore, we can wonder how myths and heroes influence American society. First and foremost, we’ll study through the historical and cultural context, the values and beliefs at this time and then the repercussions this has caused. To begin with, in the 1620’s and 1630’s the Puritans were English Protestant fundamentalists who, discontent with the church of England, sought to live according to their rigorous doctrine in the newly founded colonies of New England. According to the document Puritanism in 17’s century New England, it was based on a very strict moral code in which the notion of pleasure was a sin. The way Puritans dressed also revealed their moral code, since the only colour which was acceptable to them was the black or dark. Actually, colours were considered devilish. Hence, those who didn’t respect the Puritan code were rejected and sometimes imprisoned or put to death. Besides, Puritans believed in predestination and the « elect », which means that God chooses from birth whether someone is to be saved or damned. Adultery was not tolerated by Puritans. Thereby, adulterous relationships were punishable, sometimes by death. Puritans also believed that the forest was the home of the devil and a place for witches. Beyond that, when faced with difficulties he thinks are overpowering, man has a tendency to find someone else to blame. By doing this, he unifies his group and attempts to reassert his own failing power. In Salem, for instance, life was very hard and people were living in conditions of stress which caused a number of physical and psychological disorders. To make sense of this, and try to explain (and hence control) what was happening they resorted to old stories and myths : the demon was at work on earth, subverting people to his will. At the centre of this explanation was the mythical supernatural figure of the witch. This leads to my second part where we’re going to focus on the tragic consequences and especially towards the witches in America. The picture of The Crucible shows a woman dressed in black and wearing a white cap looking up with fear on her face. A group of five people are pointing accusing fingers at her. Judging from the bench behind her, the scene must take place in a courtroom. The woman must be on trial, suspected of witchcraft and has probably been charged with being a witch. She has no doubt been accused of conjuring up the devil or other evil spirits, casting spells and cursing people. Besides, in the background, to her left, we can see what looks like a rag doll which is often used in black magic rituals to cast evil spells on people. The woman looks terrified and helpless. This is emphasized by the use of a high angle shot that underlines her powerlessness. Witchcraft carried a death penalty and if she were sentenced, she could be hanged or burnt at the stake. In America, Salem, which is located in Massachusetts is the main home to etheral occurrences, tragic trials, and strange rumors of the supernatural for centuries. In the document «the witches of Salem», the picture shows one of Salem trials with a young intent-looking girl standing before what must be a judge wearing a skull cap. She must be bearing testimony to some of the visions she had or is having and is pointing at creatures that only she can see. This illustrates the fear and hysteria of the people at that time, grounded in ignorance and superstition. Indeed, first, when American colonists sailed to the New World, they brought over their belief in witches and in the devil with them. Thus, in 1692, when a group of girls fell sick in Salem, the whole community was baffled and thought they had been bewitched. The girls, who claimed that those responsible were within their own community, suffered convulsions, physical pain, fever, horrible visions and blasphemous screaming. Unable to explain the symptoms, physicians concluded that the girls were under the influence of the devil and this led to a Puritan inquisition. As a result, twenty people were hanged and two hundred were accused of witchcraft. To this day, the Salem witch hunts remain as a testimonial and a warning about the powers of the irrational over social sanity and reason. They reveal how a society, in a short length of time, can fall prey to irrational destructive behaviour. False accusations, prejudice, ignorance religious and social bigotry all validated by a biased judicial system had conspired to reduce countless lives to misery and ended in the deaths of 25 people. In a nutshell, scapegoating and witch-hunting have many painful resurgences throughout history and its victims have always paid a heavy price even if they weren’t guilty. It is why it’s necessary to cast the light of reason on such happenings so that the monsters of superstition and prejudice can disappear forever. The myth of witches is very much alive in Salem today. There are museums, haunted houses, guided tours. A whole economic infrastructure depending on keeping the myth alive as it constitutes a major source of revenue for the town. The events are remembered with a mixture of venality and financial exploitation and a measure of shame and regret too.
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Bonsoir, voici mon oral d'anglais, j'aimerais savoir s'il y a des fautes, merci d'avance! Today my presentation is going to deal with the idea of progress. First, one needs to say that it has elvoved during the past centuries, and is still a matter of debate today. Progress is globally seen positively but the unwanted effects it sometimes triggered also revealed its possible excesses. Progress has therefore absolute faith, however, it has also met complete distrust and been seen as potentially dangerous and destructive. When science intervenes at the very roots of life and mankind, moral questions are raised and need to be answered for progress to be agreed upon and social advances be made. Here we’re going to focus on the progress of machines. Should we impose limits on technological progress ? First and foremost, we’ll talk about the advantages of progress in science, then the disadvantages and the risks for humankind. Robots were the stuff of science-fiction until some fifty years ago. They are no longer content to live in our imaginations but have begun to occupy our world. Robots have already begun to appear in our homes, hospitals and workplaces. Robots could improve our quality of life by increasingly taking over boring, monotonous and dangerous tasks. They can already perform household chores (some vacuuming robots are already on the market). In the future, they could help to look after the elderly. They will probably entertain and take care of children. Robots already increase workplace safety. Workers are moved to supervisory roles, so they no longer have to perform dangerous jobs in hazardous settings. Besides, thanks to the technological progress, we can also advance medicine. Indeed, in the article My Body, my laboratory, it is explained that Kevin Warwick, a professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, decided to carry out experiments on himself. In 2002, he had a silicon chip with 100 electrodes implanted in his arm. His aim was to see whether a humain being could respond to stimuli generated by a computer, in other words if man and machine could interact. Thereby, the experiment proved successful as, by means of the implant, Warwick was able to control an electric chair and move a distant robot arm just by his thoughts. Therefore, Kevin’s research is most likely to find applications in the medical field. It could lead to the invention of medical tools for treating patients whose nervous system is damaged : blind or disabled people for instance. In addition, here another example : during an interview, according to the professor Hugh Herr, bionics either replace or enhance human function. This is achieved thanks to electromechanical devices, by either attaching them to or implanting them into the human body. When he was a young man, he had a terrible montaineering accident. As a result, his doctor could not save his legs which had to be amputated. Despite his tragic accident, he dreamed of climbing again and he managed to do so by using biomechatronic technology. Nevertheless, risks do exist, if we come to depend too much on these internal bio-mechanical devices, could they not be hacked or compromised ? If the system fails, we don’t know what would happen. Implanting foreign substances into the body is not without risk either. This leads me to my second part where I’m going to talk about the risks of such progress.In the article from the Huffington Post, an american online newspaper which says that two champions were surpassed by a computer, named Watson during a game TV show. Watson victory was hailed as a fantastic breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence as nobody expecteda machine to outwit very clever and learned human players. To compete in «Jeopardy!», Watson had to have an enormous knowledge base but a far bigger challenge for the machine was understanding the clues which can be obscures. So not only was the computer able to solve tricky riddles faster than its competitors but also it was able to understand enigmatic clues or subtle puns which previously only a human brain had been capable of doing. The fact that computers could become smarter can be quite scary. If computers keep getting smarter, there might come a moment when they are capable of competing with human intelligence and getting beyond our control. Moreover, we saw previously that more and more advanced home applicances are being invented and can make our lives easier but the main drawback of using robots in the workplace is that human beings are made redundant. Robots, which are fast, accurate and never get tired, already replace factory workers on automated assembly lines. Another downside, concerning robots is their cost. In addition, robots can’t think and adapt to changing circumstances, so they need to be supervised. To sum up, on the one hand technological progress is essential to the evolution of the world and has become indispensable to our comfort, yet, on the other hand it can put us in jeopardy, we have to draw up laws for robots behaviour to protect people from harm and prevent robots taking control over human beings.
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Bonjour, voici mon oral d'anglais LV1, je voudrais savoir si je n'ai pas fait de fautes. Merci d'avance! Today I’m going to deal with the notion of spaces and exchanges and to this notion, I am going to give a political view. First, the terms spaces and exchanges refers to geographical and symbolic areas occupied by societies as well as the interaction between the individuals in their society. I am therefore going to talk about a recent topic which is the Brexit. It is a referendum launched on June 23rd 2016 by the former Prime Minister David Cameron that allows all citizens of voting age decide if they want Britain to remain or leave the European Union. We can wonder why Brexit has led to so many fractures. First and foremost we’ll talk about the geographical divide, then the social divide and in my last part the generational gap. To begin with, the Prime minister John Cameron had promise to hold the referendum to placate the Eurosceptics in his party. Nevertheless, as we can see on the referendum results map, turnout was 72,2% with the leave side winning against the Remain camp by quite a narrow margin (only 4 points) : actually, until the next day, nobody was really sure who had won. Looking at the map, we can note stark contrasts between the Remain bastions of large cities (London, Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff) and the richer South Eastern areas which voted overwhelmingly in support of remaining in the EU as opposed the the rural areas of most England which were Eurosceptic and stood against Remain position. Another striking contrasts is the fact that both Scotland and Nothern Ireland stood strongly in favour of Remain.Besides, this divergence of opinion creates several issues between citizens and that’s what I’m going to talk about in the next part. Indeed, in the Globalism cartoon, Joe Heller has depicted globalism. The fact that the whole world has become a vastly internconnected space with business operating on an international scale and increased population mobility as a big fish with a worried expression on its face. Normally, big fish are at the top of the food chain, but here the big fish of globalism is being attacked by a fish-shaped larger school of voracious fish. Leading the attack are three smaller fishes in the front : one is called «hate», the other «racism», and the third simply bears the colours of the Union Jack. Globalisation and its cousin globalism have created serious imbalances in national economies and nation states. On occasion, theses protests, particularly in Europe and the USA, are tinted with racism and xenophobia. This is clearly a commentary on Brexit, which Joe Heller sees as the triumph of nationalism and xenophobia over the efforts of states and people to work together. Moreover, the chart published by the British Home Office reveals that in the month just after Brexit, the number of hate crimes rose sharply and at one point actually doubled. This does seem to confirm Joe Heller’s view of Brexit as the triumph of a nationalistic and xenophobic dynamic in society. For instance, the victims of racism are very often recent immigrants who have not acquired a place in society. Differences like skin colour, religion, cultural practices often make people the targets of racist behaviour. Thus, these are the two main reasons that explain the vote : fears about the number of European migrants coming to Britain, as well as fears over globalisation and the loss of sovereignty, the feeling that Britain was being controlled by the European Council and could no longer decide for itself. However, a part of the population couldn’t speak their mind so they were appalled of the result since they will have to put up with the consequences of this decision even if they didn’t choose it. This leads me to my last part where we’re going to study the generational gap. This is explained by an article from the british daily newspaper The Independant. The article deals with a post-Brexit protest rally led by young people outside the British Parliement. The young demonstrators are protesting the fact that they had no say in the decision as most being under 18 yo were not allowed to vote and they are the ones who will have to live with and bear the consequences the most. At 16, Britain considers that people are old and mature enough to get married but also join the army. Hence, they should be considered sufficiently mature to vote on something that will concern them directly. Yet, the demand was turned down by parliament due to its cost, estimated to be 6 million pounds even though those teenagers wished to vote «Remain» because the first and main reason is they feel European and secondly they are concerned that this decision will impact their future. Other young voters aged from 18 to 25 yo overwhelmingly chose to remain in the EU as opposed to the group of older voters who strongly supported Brexit. In a nutshell, Brexit has been the source of troubles and discontent all over the country. The brexit vote revealed deep divides within British society : political, geographical, social and generational. As a result to the vote, the very next day, David Cameron, the pro-EU conservative prime minister resigned from office to be replaced a fortnight later by Theresa May. Between 2017 and 2019, the UK will have 2 years to renegotiate treaties. After these two years have passed, in 2019, the EU Parliement will consent to this agreement. At this point, the UK will have become independent from Europe. Today, the withdrawal of Britain is still debated.
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Bonjour, j'ai écrit mon oral pour la littérature anglaise au bac, je voudrais savoir s'il y a des fautes etc... Merci d'avance pour l'aide I’m going to talk about the theme : «voice and experimenting with language ». The voice could be the author’s voice so it’s an autobiography. It could be a first person narrative, it’s a text where one of the characters is the narrator or even a third person narrative, here, the narrator is outside the story. Besides, « experimenting » means that writers often have fun by playing with words, they play with the setting of the text. I’m going to show you how do the documents illustrate that notion through the idea that a writer uses words to paint pictures and imaginary universes. First, we’ll see special characters and then the style of the artists. Let’s start with the characters. Lewis Carroll, a writer of world-famous children’s fiction from the 19th century notably Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a novel written in 1865. He was noted for his facility at word play. We studied an excerpt of this work which is called « A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale ». The characters come out of the ordinary. Indeed, Alice meets many weird and wonderful animals. Here a mouse is actually telling a story to Alice and a group of animals. Lewis Carroll uses personnification by making his creations speak. They are rather phantasmagorical but they all share something in common : they all have human traits. This serves to make the characters come alive. Benjamin Zephaniah, a british writer, dub poet and rastafarian still alive today uses the same trick to make the humble turkey take on a life of its own. In his poem Talking Turkeys, Zephaniah imagines what a turkey’s thought might be if it could talk. He comes up with the idea that maybe the bird would not want to end up on people’s Christmas dinner tables. It would rather be friends with us. Once again, it doesn’t look as if it comes from our planet since the turkey comes to life, it is given human characteristics through the poet’s use of personification. My last and personal document is an image with scenes from Tim Burton’s movie Alice in Wonderland released in 2010, largely inspired by the eponymous novel by Lewis Carroll that we’ve already talked about. In my opinion, this document perfectly illustrates this aspect of the theme first of all thanks to the characters. To begin with, like others documents, animals are personified. In the foreground, a rabbit is wearing a coat and he’s holding a clock. In the center, a caterpillar is smoking and in the background, we can see a cat’s head in the sky which is smiling. Moreover, the other characters are not typical too. Right in the middle of the picture, there is a man whose clothes and makeup are extravagant. The three female characters all wear a long dress as in fairy tales. Besides, the two women on the right hand side have a crown which hightlights this fairy-like appearance. This leads me to my second part where we’re going to talk about the way artists created their work. In fact, some poets do not stop at manipulating words. They also manipulate the form of their poem. These are called visual poems. Lewis Carroll included one in the extract we studied. The Mouse’s story takes on the shape of a mouse’s tail. The calligram adds even more to the visual effects of the writing. The author here literally uses words to paint pictures. Lewis Carroll is also making puns throughout the text on many level including personification. For instance, when Alice says «it is a long tail», she’s talking about the mouse body part instead of the story which is also called «tale». These are homophones. In Talking Turkeys,Zephaniah by using a common vocabulary, makes his poem easy to understand. He spells words the way he pronounces them. Therefore, it becomes simple to visualize the scene. He includes details that are visual and tangible to paint picture for the readers. Eventually, the fantastic universe of Lewis Carroll is faithfully adapted in Tim Burton movie. Everything on this picture is unrealistic : the mushrooms are much bigger than humans, in the bottom left hand corner we can see a kind a human face in roses. This world is clearly imaginary and unearthly. Thus, these 3 documents show that a writer can, thanks to words, metaphors and stylistic devices create wonderful new creatures for the reader’s entertainment, creatures that stay in our imagination as they jump out from the writer's pens and off the paper and take on a life of their own. However, they can also influence the reader to view things in a diffenrent way, to feel empathy for the subject of their work.