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 ... Téléchargement payant

Waiting for the Barbarians (John Maxwell Coetzee)   History is written in words and historians are not even sure if what they write is true to what could be called "historical reality". This is at least what John Maxwell Coetzee hints at in the quotation: "History is not reality. History is a kind of discourse…The categories of History are a certain construction put upon reality." We are going to se... Téléchargement payant

The American Constitution   The American Constitution was drafted after the war of Independence, which lasted between 1779-1783 and in which the thirteen american colonies severed their ties with the crowd of England and proclamed themselves independent. 4 July 1776, the declaration of independence written by Thomas Feferson had put an end to English domination and announced ... Téléchargement payant

Narratology on Candide   Voltaire is the most famous philosopher of the Age of Enlightnment. He is remembered as a crusader against tyranny and bigotry. He is famous for his political and social engagement at that time. For instance he cleared the name of the protestant Calas who had been wrongly convicted and executed. But he was also a great writer. In fact, he wrote in ... Téléchargement payant

The identity of Great Britain   On the threshold of the 21st century, it may be asserted that to define the identity of Great Britain because Great Britain is a complex territory with a specific history. To answer this wide-ranging issue, we should first consider the evolution of the founding role held by the royal power in the construction of the British identity, between the 16... Téléchargement payant