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• From Gibbons v.

  From Gibbons v. Ogden In order for the United States to develop interstate and international commerce, the Constitution gave Congress the power to regulate trade between states and foreigncountries. The extent of Congress’s regulatory power remained vague until 1824, when the nature of the commerce clause in the Constitution came into question with thecase of Gibbons v. Ogden . In 1807 Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston acquired a monopoly of steam navigation in the waters of the state of New...

• From Bush v.

  From Bush v. Gore One of the most controversial presidential elections in the history of the United States ended with one of the most controversial decisions in the history of the SupremeCourt of the United States. The Court’s 5 to 4 decision on December 12, 2000, effectively ended the disputed contest between Republican Party candidate George W. Bushand Democratic Party candidate Al Gore and gave Bush the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency. The majority decision, fashioned...

• From Scott v.

  From Scott v. Sandford The Dred Scott case, formally known as Scott v. Sandford , was one of the most important cases in American history. In a 7 to 2 ruling in 1857, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that African Americans could not be considered citizens of the United States and therefore had no right to sue in federal courts. Chief Justice RogerTaney, in denying freedom to a slave named Dred Scott, issued the infamous statement that blacks were “so far inferior that they had no r...

• From Brown v.

  From Brown v. Board of Education Below is the Supreme Court's final opinion on Brown v. Board of Education, which overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 ruling that established the “separate but equal” doctrine in education and public facilities. Certain terms, while appropriate in the 1950s, are no longer considered standard usage. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Decided May 17, 1954 Mr. Chief Justice Warren delivered the opinion of the Court. These cases...are premised on d...

• Are we defined by where we come from?

  Georgyan DAYRON Tle Simone Weil Are we defined by where we come from? Everybody’s life is different is lots of ways. Indeed, some come from notorious families, others from nowhere. However, to my mind, this can change: you can become well-known and wealthy with a lot of hard work and occasionally some luck. Backbreaking work will lead you to Ray Comfort’s quote (a New Zealand-born Christian minister): “Never let the defeat of the past rob you of the...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: Apollo and Hyacinthus - anthology.

• Musical Instruments I INTRODUCTION World Music Tour Click on the instruments to hear music from around the world.

• Louisiana Purchase TreatyIn 1803 the United States purchased a vast interior region of North America from France for $15 million.

  Louisiana Purchase Treaty In 1803 the United States purchased a vast interior region of North America from France for $15 million. This acquisition, called the Louisiana Purchase, extended U.S.territory from the Mississippi River westward to the Rocky Mountains. The first of the following three documents is the treaty of cession, in which France agreed to sell theprovince known as Louisiana to the United States. The other two documents are separate agreements, one for the U.S. government’s payme...

• The Voyage Out (1915)Virginia WoolfChapter IAs the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it isbetter not to walk down them arm-in-arm.

  The Voyage Out (1915) Virginia Woolf Chapter I As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. If you persist, lawyers' clerks will have to make flying leaps into the mud; young lady typists will have to fidget behind you. In the streets of London where beauty goes unregarded, eccentricity must pay the penalty, and it is better not to be very tall, to wear a long blue cloak, or to beat the air with your left hand. One a...

• Metalwork I INTRODUCTION Metalwork, in the fine arts, objects of artistic, decorative, and utilitarian value made of one or more kinds of metal--from precious to base--fashioned by either casting, hammering, or joining or a combination of these techniques.

• SAVOIR PRESENTER SON TEXTEThis document is an extract from....

  SAVOIR PRESENTER SON TEXTE This document is an extract from…. This document is a conversation between… and …. -> quel est le sujet ? : It’s about… it’s deals with…. -> où ça se passe : It takes place -> quand ça eu lieu it happened… -> personnages First the author/the journalist… he describes says asserts (affirme) After describing…… he showx that…. Finally he says…. He concludes that -> ce qu’ils veulent faire He makes us aware that…. He makes it clear that… The author contrast…with… He...

• Sujet national, juin 2006, série L, LV1: Adapted from Jonathan Keilerman, Twisted, 2005.

  Sujet 4 ♦ Sujet national, juin 2 006, série L, LVI Midway through the ninth year oflrma's employment, Dr Marilyn Lattimore came down with an uncharacteristic cold and was home for two days. lt was in the breakfast room that the conversation took place. Dr Marilyn sat reading the paper and sipping tea and dabbing at her red, drippy nose. Irma was in the adjoining kitchen, had removed 5 the covers of the stove-burners and...

• The break up of Yugoslavia in 1991 and Macedonia's unilateral declarationof independence brought a fierce reaction from the Greeks.

  The break up of Yugoslavia in 1991 and Macedonia's unilateral declaration of independence brought a fierce reaction from the Greeks. For them this Slav country could not call itself by this name and therefore was not to be recognised. Thus Macedonia was admitted to the United Nations in 1993 under the provisional name of "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia". Threatened with economic suffocation by a partial blockade by the Greeks and Serbians, Macedonia obtains its supplies from Bulgaria...

• A former Eastern block country, which opposed Soviet power from the1980s, in 1990 Poland moved to a market economy.

  A former Eastern block country, which opposed Soviet power from the 1980s, in 1990 Poland moved to a market economy. This transition brought with it hyper inflation, massive unemployment and a drop in the Polish people's standard of living. Thousands of state-run businesses have been privatised. Isolated since the last elections in 1993, the President of the Republic, Lech Walesa, architect of the Polish transformation, was defeated at the end of 1995 by Alexandre Kwasniewski (former Communist)....

• The 1960’s and the American Woman: the transition from the “housewife” to the feminist

    Introduction:  In 1960, the world of American women was limited in almost every respect, from family life to the workplace. A woman was expected to follow one path: to marry in her early 20s, start a family quickly, and devote her life to homemaking.  Imagine the life of a woman before the 1960s. Her life had been difficult- denied basic rights, trapped in the home her entire life and discriminated against in the workplace. Per example, in the 1960s, a bank could refuse to issue a credit card...

• A Communist regime since 1945 and completely cut off from the outsideworld for thirty years, Albania opened its frontiers in 1990.

  A Communist regime since 1945 and completely cut off from the outside world for thirty years, Albania opened its frontiers in 1990. Tens of thousands of Albanians then tried to flee to Italy and Greece. Little by little Albania is normalising its relations with these countries. It is now the most rural and poorest state in Europe, with an unemployment rate of almost 20%. However, since 1994 Albania has begun its recovery. Its economic growth rate is high (over 8%). The first country in Eastern E...

• Amérique du Sud, septembre 2005, série L, LV1: Bill Bryson, Notes from a Big Country, 1998, Black Swan édition, 1999.

  Sujet 2 ♦ Amérique du Sud, septembre 2005, série L, LVI Ten years ago this month I got a phone call from an American publisher telling me that they had just bought one of my books and were going to send me on a three-week, sixteen-city publicity tour. "We're going to make you a media star," he said brightly. s "But l've never been on TV, 11 I protested in mild panic. "Oh. it's easy. You'll love it," he said with the b...

• Education in Great Britain? Education is compulsory from the age of 5 (4 in Northern Ireland) to theage of 16.

  Educ ation i n Great Britai n Educatio n is comp ulsory from t he age o f 5 (4 in Nort hern Ireland) to t he a ge of 16 . The s ystem of educati on is divided into 3 stag es: 1. Pri mary education 2. Second ary education 3. High er ed ucation  Befo re the st art of for mal schooling , many c hildren a ttend n urse ry sch ools , also kn own as Pre-Schools ( actually 47% of 3 and 4 ye ar ol d child ren). M an y nurse ry sc hools a ctually a l...

• From Roe v.

• From Plessy v.

• Sujet national, juin 2005, série L, LV1:Adapted from jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, 2002.

  Sujet 3 ♦ Sujet national,juin 2005, série L, LVI Shortly after the riots, like many other white Detroiters, my parents began looking for a house in the suburbs. The suburb they had their sights on was the affiuent lakefront district of the auto magnates: Grosse Pointe. It was much harder than they ever expected. In the Cadillac, scouting the five Grosse Pointe (the s Park, the City, the Farms, the Woods, the Shores), my...

• Sujet national, juin 2006, séries ES et S, LV1: Abridged and adapted from Smali Island, Andrea Levy, 2004.

• Sujet national, juin 2005, séries ES et S, LV1: Minette Walters, The Shape Of Snakes, 2000.

  Sujet 8 ♦ Sujet national, juin 2005, séries ES et S, LVI Sam landed a job 1 as overseas sales director for a shipping company which took us in turn to Hong Kong, Australia and South Africa. They were good rimes, and I came to understand why black sheep are so often sent abroad by their families to start again. lt does wonders for the character to eut the emotional ries that bind you to places and people. We produced two...

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• Egypt Facts and Figures.

• Edwin Hubble.

• Lightning.

• Ice Ages.

• Cosine.

• Windmill.

• Stem Cell.

• Immigration.

• THE SIXTH BOROUGH   "Once upon a time, New York City had a sixth borough.

• Acid Rain.

• Radar.

• Seed - biology.

• Neandertals.

• Interstellar Matter - astronomy.

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• Black Death.

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• Diving (sport).

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• Earth (planet).

• Volcano.

• Government.

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• Sailing.