Have new technologies improved communication between people ?  
Each day, after school, a lot of students are connected on MSN or ICQ in order to talk with their friends about the day, what they will do the next weekend, or even about nothing special. For several years, new technologies have taken a big importance in our life. More and more people are connected on the internet, and many of them speak with other...
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How could the USA be changed for the better ?
Most people, at first sight, have the wrong image of the U.S.A. In the poorest countries, but even in European or wealthy countries, a lot of people associate the U.S.A. with the image of "a golden land" that the media brings them. It is, for poor people, a country where they hope to find a new chance, a new life, and for young Europeans, the place...
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Good novels make bad films ?
Anyone who has read J-K Rowling' s novels, the Harry Potter series, has probably been surprised by the movies. Perhaps some of them didn't like the films. Is it your case ?
The problem is that, in our society, and since the twentieth century, all the good novels have been turned into films. It has become a real industry and each novel which is sol...
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Catharsis in Tragic Representation
The reasons why to achieve catharsis or not in tragic representation are a debatable issue. The notion was defined by the fourth-century B.C. philosopher Aristotle as the necessary purpose and effect of tragedy. He defined that genre as "an imitation of an action [...] in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting the prope...
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Coriolanus (Shakespeare)
Coriolanus, Act I, scene 1, lines 93 to 160 (Shakespeare).
It is therefore not surprising that the reader is introduced with the genuine notion of it all -with greater emphasis, as we shall see, on the concept of the body politic- from the very first scene of The Tragedy of Coriolanus. The beginning of a play is like a charm: it must work. The pl...
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Dancing with Dogma (Ian Gilmour)
The document under study here is extracted from Dancing with Dogma. Britain under Thatcherism, a book by Ian Gilmour, a Scottish leading figure on the liberal, or "wet", left-wing of the Conservative party, essentially under the governments of Heath and Thatcher. The piece of writing concentrates on the debate over devolution -that is to say, the d...
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Discuss the qualification of Jane Eyre as a « good person »
Charlotte Brontë is an English author of the XIXth century. Her most famous work is Jane Eyre, published Under the pseudo of Currer Bell in 1847.
It was an instant success, and it brought a renewal in littérature because its main character is a woman, the eponymous heroine.
Grateful and very attached to religion, Jane Eyre is a "good person", ac...
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The computer made me do it
There is a rise of violence in the United States as regards the young people. The Congress tries to get over a law to forbid the video games.
Nowadays it seems that there is much more violence. There seems to be much more violence than 20 years ago among the young people.
We are in a context of election campaign; the politicians have to answer a...
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The new american dilemma
In this article published in June 2005, Harold Evans analyses the complex situation that America is confronted with when it comes to immigration. Here more particularly, it concerns Hispanic immigration. This text deals with illegal immigrants. The main topic is illegal immigration. The countries at stake, involved, in this context, are the United ...
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Strange Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Jekyll's Dual Nature in Stevenson's Strange Case Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In "Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case," the narrator confesses that Dr. Jekyll has remained a composite of good and bad elements while Mr. Hyde is only pure evil. Stevenson wants the reader to observe not only the duality of human nature but also men's inalienable dut...
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Bartleby the scrivener (Herman Melville)
Herman Melville is an american author. He was born in New York on August the first eighteen nineteen (1819) and he was died in the same country on September the thirtith eighteen ninety-one (1891). He considered one of the great americans writers and a major figure in world literature.
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The unity of Canada
The analysis of these three documents will show that if multiculturalism is a way of promoting cultural diversity, its aim is also to integrate minorities into Canadian society. Therefore, support to minority groups has to find a limit, in order not to be prejudicial to its ultimate aim. We will first see what multiculturalism has achieved in promo...
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Le droit de disposer de son corps
Le corps humain fait l'objet d'une protection particulière qu'il convient de bien cerner dans la mesure où, contrairement à ce que l'on pourrait penser, la personne elle-même ne dispose pas toujours librement de son corps.
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Michael Moore
Michael Moore should be "man of the year" 2004, first and foremost because, the 57th Cannes film festival awarded to him the most popular Palme d'Or, secondly because he led actions against the American President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq, at last because his career is a masterpiece.
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Hamlet, Acte 3 scene 1 (Shakespeare)
In our commentary, we are going to analyse the Act III, scene 1. Our extract shows the dialogue between Hamlet and Ophelia. He denies any love for her and advises her not to get married and to enter a convent instead. Will Hamlet's feelings for Ophelia manage to make this scene a love scene ?
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