Une pile de papiers, de livres et de puzzles sur une table présentant la nouvelle technique de Virginia Woolf à travers le concept de temps.

Time and Virginia Woolf’s novel technique

This is post 3 of 4 in the series “Mrs. Dalloway” Comprehensive literary analysis articles delving into the depths of the modernist masterpiece ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ by Virginia Woolf, exploring its innovative narrative structure, themes, and the intricacies of its characters. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: A Modernist Novel Time on the surface level of Mrs. …

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Une peinture représentant un groupe de personnes dans une pièce, dont un vicaire de Wakefield.

Structure and Plot in The Vicar of Wakefield

This is post 2 of 2 in the series “The Vicar of Wakefield” All literary analysis articles about the classic novel “The Vicar of Wakefield” by Oliver Goldsmith. Characters and characterization in The Vicar of Wakefield Structure and Plot in The Vicar of Wakefield “The Vicar of Wakefield” is a classic novel by Oliver Goldsmith, …

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Un collage de femmes et d'hommes côte à côte, représentant le progrès et la diversité de la civilisation britannique aux XIXe et XXe siècles.

British Civilisation and Literature: 19th and 20th centuries

This is post 6 of 6 in the series “Literary Movements” The 18th Century: the Age of Enlightenment The Gothic and the Fantastic The 19th Century : Romanticism in Art and Literature English Romanticism (1798-1832) 19th Century Literary Movements : Realism and Naturalism British Civilisation and Literature: 19th and 20th centuries The Victorian Period: 1832-1900 …

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An image capturing the exploration of a man in a boat against the backdrop of stars, creating a Voyage Imaginaire.

Le Voyage Imaginaire : l’exploration des mondes

This is post 1 of 10 in the series “Du Voyage Imaginaire aux Mondes Perdus” Ce thème littéraire, qui connut son heure de gloire entre 1864 (Le Voyage au Centre de la Terre de Jules Verne) et 1933 (Les Horizons Perdus de James Hilton), relève de la tradition modernisée du “voyage fantastique”. Il s’agit de …

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An English Romanticism painting of a landscape with trees and hills. William Turner, Dawn in the Valleys of Devon.

English Romanticism (1798-1832)

This is post 4 of 6 in the series “Literary Movements” The 18th Century: the Age of Enlightenment The Gothic and the Fantastic The 19th Century : Romanticism in Art and Literature English Romanticism (1798-1832) 19th Century Literary Movements : Realism and Naturalism British Civilisation and Literature: 19th and 20th centuries English Romanticism began in …

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Resolve error 526 with Cloudflare and NginX.

Résoudre l’erreur 526 entre Cloudflare et NginX

Dernièrement, je me suis apercu qu’une requête curl sur le domaine skyminds.net (sans www donc), donnait une erreur 526 sous Cloudflare (avec le proxy activé, mais aussi sans): Sous tous les navigateurs par contre, une brève page d’erreur s’affiche (quelques millisecondes) avant que finalement la redirection vers le sous-domaine www ne s’effectue. Je me suis …

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The Handmaid's Tale: Chapter 41 analysis photo, Offred, June, Nick

The Handmaid’s Tale: Chapter 41 analysis

I WISH THIS story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, then at least more active, less hesitant, less distracted by trivia. I wish it had more shape. I wish it were about love, or about sudden realizations important to one’s life, …

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The Handmaid's Tale: Chapter 25 analysis, red and white tulips in a garden

The Handmaid’s Tale: Chapter 25 analysis

That was in May. Spring has now been undergone. The tulips have had their moment and are done, shedding their petals one by one, like teeth. One day I came upon Serena Joy, kneeling on a cushion in the garden, her cane beside her on the grass. She was snipping off the seed pods with …

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The Handmaid's Tale saison 1 photo

The Handmaid’s Tale: Chapter 5 analysis

A group of people is coming towards us. They’re tourists, from Japan it looks like, a trade delegation perhaps, on a tour of the historic landmarks or out for local colour. They’re diminutive and neatly turned out; each has his or her camera, his or her smile. They look around, bright-eyed, cocking their heads to …

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The Handmaid's Tale : Chapter 2 analysis photo, Offred in her room

The Handmaid’s Tale: Chapter 2 analysis

A chair, a table, a lamp. Above, on the white ceiling, a relief ornament in the shape of a wreath, and in the centre of it a blank space, plastered over, like the place in a face where the eye has been taken out. There must have been a chandelier, once. They’ve removed anything you …

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Scottish flag and the Union Jack

Scotland: the Road to Independence

This is post 6 of 6 in the series “Scotland's Road to Independence” Explore the intricate weave of Scottish politics and devolution from historical struggles for autonomy to the modern debates on independence, dive deep into Scotland’s quest for self-governance. Scotland: the State, the Nation, Home Rule, and Devolution The Act of Union of 1707 …

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The Handmaid’s Tale: incipit analysis

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. The floor was of varnished wood, with stripes and circles painted on it, for the games that were formerly played there; the hoops for the basketball nets were still in place, though the nets were gone. A balcony ran around the room, for the spectators, and …

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Eddy B and Tim Gunter - Underdog photo

Eddy B and Tim Gunter – Underdog

A young nigga with a dollar and a dream And these Nikes on my feet, tryna stay up out the streets So I’m rhyming pulling 187s all on these beats Stead of on the concrete Cemeting my future while they were focused on what they chief But shit, I’m like a chief, head honcho Tell …

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MySQL: résoudre l'erreur

MySQL: résoudre l’erreur “Incorrect datetime value” lors d’opérations sur les tables

Depuis le passage du site sur le nouveau serveur, ORION, j’utilise MySQL 8 en lieu et place de MariaDB, histoire de tester les les gains de performance. Or, avec la nouvelle configuration de MySQL par défaut, vous pouvez obtenir cette erreur lors de simples opération de maintenance comme l’optimisation des tables: Cela est dû à …

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Death of a Salesman: Tragedy versus Social Drama photo

Death of a Salesman: Tragedy versus Social Drama

This is post 3 of 4 in the series “Death of a Salesman” Comprehensive literary analysis articles delving into the depths of the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Death of a Salesman : an extended introduction Family in Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman: Tragedy versus Social Drama Death of …

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The Great Gatsby: characters and characterization photo

The Great Gatsby: characters and characterization

This is post 2 of 6 in the series “The Great Gatsby” All literary analysis articles about The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Introduction to The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald: from the Lost Prairies to the Realist Jungle The Great Gatsby: characters and characterization The Great Gatsby: the Romantic Quest Structure and …

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The Great Gatsby : the Romantic Quest photo

The Great Gatsby: the Romantic Quest

This is post 3 of 6 in the series “The Great Gatsby” All literary analysis articles about The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Introduction to The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald: from the Lost Prairies to the Realist Jungle The Great Gatsby: characters and characterization The Great Gatsby: the Romantic Quest Structure and …

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The Great Gatsby: an American novel photo

The Great Gatsby: an American novel

This is post 6 of 6 in the series “The Great Gatsby” All literary analysis articles about The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Introduction to The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald: from the Lost Prairies to the Realist Jungle The Great Gatsby: characters and characterization The Great Gatsby: the Romantic Quest Structure and …

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Introduction to The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald : from the Lost Prairies to the Realist Jungle photo

Introduction to The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald: from the Lost Prairies to the Realist Jungle

This is post 1 of 6 in the series “The Great Gatsby” All literary analysis articles about The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Introduction to The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald: from the Lost Prairies to the Realist Jungle The Great Gatsby: characters and characterization The Great Gatsby: the Romantic Quest Structure and …

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Analysis of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood photo

An analysis of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Introduction Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer born in 1931, who studied literature in Toronto. In the 1960s, she was a graduate specialist in Harvard and then came back to Canada to teach literature. She was a well-known poet with The Edible Woman (1969), Surfacing (1972), Life before man (1979), The Robber Bride (1993). Margaret …

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19th century literary movements : Realism and Naturalism photo

19th Century Literary Movements : Realism and Naturalism

This is post 5 of 6 in the series “Literary Movements” The 18th Century: the Age of Enlightenment The Gothic and the Fantastic The 19th Century : Romanticism in Art and Literature English Romanticism (1798-1832) 19th Century Literary Movements : Realism and Naturalism British Civilisation and Literature: 19th and 20th centuries Introduction Realism and Naturalism …

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The American Civil War : 1860-1865 photo

The American Civil War: 1861-1865

This is post 7 of 11 in the series “From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877)” From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877) Introduction to Puritanism and Expansionism Antebellum South Life in the Plantations USA: North and South O’Sullivan’s Manifest Destiny The social context of America in the early …

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Black Mirror saison 3 photo

Black Mirror saison 3

Voici le retour tant attendu de Black Mirror sur Channel 4 avec la troisième saison de la série. Episode 1 : Nosedive L’histoire se déroule dans un monde où chaque personne note les autres de 0 à 5, les mieux notés ayant accès à de meilleurs services. Lacie ne vit que pour améliorer sa note …

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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, an oil painting composed in 1818 by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich

The 19th Century : Romanticism in Art and Literature

This is post 3 of 6 in the series “Literary Movements” The 18th Century: the Age of Enlightenment The Gothic and the Fantastic The 19th Century : Romanticism in Art and Literature English Romanticism (1798-1832) 19th Century Literary Movements : Realism and Naturalism British Civilisation and Literature: 19th and 20th centuries Definition of Romanticism Romanticism …

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Serveur dédié : mettre à jour Apache et configurer le mod_h2 pour HTTP/2 photo

Serveur dédié : mettre à jour Apache pour HTTP/2

C’est sur toutes les lèvres : 2015 aura vu l’arrivée de PHP7 et de la révision du protocole HTTP qui passe à la version 2, en remplacement du mod_spdy de Google. Tout cela promet pas mal de gains de performance donc il est très tentant de le vérifier par nous-mêmes. HTTP/2 : une évolution du …

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Andre Antunes - Get Lucky joué dans le style de 10 guitaristes célèbres photo

Andre Antunes – Get Lucky joué dans le style de 10 guitaristes célèbres

Andre Antunes, guitariste portugais, vient de reprendre la chanson “Get Lucky” de Daft Punk en s’inspirant du style de jeu de dix guitaristes très célèbres. Nous avons droit aux styles de jeu caractéristiques de Carlos Santana, Steve Vai, Kurt Cobain (Nirvana), Angus Young (AC/DC), Slash (Guns’n’Roses), Brian May (Queen), Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits), Tom Morello …

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Rules of the Internet

Introduction Il n’existe pas vraiment de règles pour régir Internet, à part les quatre règles standard qui mettent tout le monde d’accord (règles 1, 2, 33, 34, et 35) plus quelques autres règles inventées d’on ne sait où. Les règles 12 et 13, cependant, sont appliquées universellement et sans pitié, que vous soyez d’accord ou …

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Serveur dédié : optimiser toutes les images JPG et PNG avec OptiPNG et JpegOptim

Je classe volontairement cet article dans la série Serveur dédié, étant donné que nous allons utiliser la ligne de commande exclusivement. Si vous souhaitez faire la même chose sur votre machine personnelle, il vous suffit d’utiliser Trimage (qui en plus possède une GUI). Si vous possédez un site, blog ou une galerie d’images, il peut …

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The Hollow Crown saison 1

Voici The Hollow Crown, une série historique produite par Sam Mendes pour BBC 2. Elle adapte les quatre pièces de la seconde tetralogie historique de William Shakespeare, “the Henriad” : Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 et 2, et Henry V. Richard II King Richard finds himself having to try and settle a dispute between …

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Jon Lord, claviériste de Deep Purple, est mort photo 2

Jon Lord, claviériste de Deep Purple, est mort

Jon Lord – Jonathan Douglas “Jon” Lord aka ‘Hammond Lord’ – co-fondateur et claviériste du groupe de rock britannique Deep Purple est décédé lundi 16 juillet 2012 à la London Clinic d’une embolie pulmonaire à l’âge de 71 ans. Le musicien luttait contre un cancer du pancréas depuis le mois d’août dernier. Né en 1941 …

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ACTA, un accord négocié à notre insu : la fin de nos libertés sur Internet? photo 3

ACTA, un accord négocié à notre insu : la fin de nos libertés sur Internet?

Qu’est-ce qu’ACTA ? ACTA est une offensive de plus contre le partage de la culture sur Internet. ACTA est l’Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ou accord commercial anti-contrefaçon), un accord négocié secrètement entre 2007 et 2010, dans l’ombre et en gardant le public dans l’ignorance plutôt que débattu démocratiquement. Jusqu’à 2010, toutes les informations relatives à ACTA …

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Serveur dédié : sécuriser Apache 2 avec ModSecurity photo

Serveur dédié : sécuriser Apache 2 avec ModSecurity

Aujourd’hui, on ajoute une couche de sécurité supplémentaire avec l’installation du module ModSecurity pour Apache. ModSecurity est un firewall pour les applications web (WAF) pour Apache. Il permet de se prémunir contre pas mal d’attaques (connues/inconnues, injections SQL, failles XSS…) et permet de surveiller le traffic HTTP en temps réel. Très utile pour un serveur …

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Concert de Suzanne Vega au Théâtre Marigny photo 2

Concert de Suzanne Vega au Théâtre Marigny

Je suis allé voir Suzanne Vega en concert au théâtre Marigny, situé dans le carré Marigny des jardins des Champs-Elysées, en compagnie de Julia et Jack. Pour s’y rendre, il a fallu jongler avec différents métros vu que plusieurs sorties de métro ont été fermées à cause de la visite à Paris du Premier ministre …

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Arcade Fire - The Suburbs photo

Arcade Fire – The Suburbs

The Suburbs est le titre phare du nouvel album éponyme d’Arcade Fire : La vidéo n’est pas officielle, c’est l’œuvre d’un fan qui a utilisé des images provenant d’archive.org. La chanson est superbe et le travail sur la vidéo excellent.

Obama song : Will.I.Am - Yes We Can photo

Will.I.Am – Yes We Can (Obama song)

Pas de politique ici mais par contre je trouve cette chanson, Yes We Can par Will.I.Am, plutôt pas mal : It was a creed written into the founding documentsthat declared the destiny of a nation.Yes we can.It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as theyblazed a trail toward freedom.Yes we can. Yes we can.It was …

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Disposable Registrations Killer

Disposable Registrations Killer est un plugin WordPress qui empêche vos visiteurs de s’enregistrer avec une adresse email jetable. Au moment de l’inscription, le domaine de l’email est vérifié contre une liste. Si l’email est considérée comme jetable, l’utilisateur doit entrer une adresse permanente. Le but est de réduire les inscriptions “fantômes”. Disposable Registrations Killer is …

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Concert de No One is Innocent à La Cigale photo

Concert de No One is Innocent à La Cigale

Hier soir, c’était le concert de No One is Innocent à La Cigale, à Paris. Comme j’aime bien quelques chansons, j’ai pris ma place il y a de cela deux semaines. Je sors donc du collège, non sans expédier la mère tutrice d’élève insupportable : voiture jusqu’à la gare RER, métro jusqu’à Pigalle. Petit panini …

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La Bourse en 30 Questions-Réponses photo

La Bourse en 30 Questions-Réponses

Quelles sont les heures d’ouverture de la bourse de Paris ? 9 h – 17 h 30. Horaires complets. A quoi sert la pré-ouverture (7 h 15 – 9 h 00) ? Durant cette période, les ordres s’accumulent sans qu’aucune transaction n’intervienne. A l’ouverture, à 9 heures, le système informatique calcule en fonction des ordres …

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Thin Lizzy photo

Thin Lizzy

Thin Lizzy Thin Lizzy are a hard rock band formed in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969. Their music reflects a wide range of influences, including blues, soul music, psychedelic rock, and traditional Irish folk music, but is generally classified as hard rock or sometimes heavy metal. Two of the founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass …

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Rory Gallagher photo

Rory Gallagher

Rory Gallagher William Rory Gallagher (/ˈrɔːri ˈɡæləhər/ GAL-ə-hər; 2 March 1948 – 14 June 1995) was an Irish blues and rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer. Born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, and brought up in Cork, Gallagher formed the band Taste in the late 1960s and recorded solo albums throughout the 1970s and 1980s. His …

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Metallica photo

Metallica

Metallica Metallica is an American heavy metal band. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, and has been based in San Francisco for most of its career. The band’s fast tempos, instrumentals and aggressive musicianship made them one of the founding “big four” bands of …

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Megadeth photo

Megadeth

Megadeth Megadeth is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1983 by vocalist/guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassist David Ellefson. Known for their technically complex guitar work and musicianship, Megadeth is one of the “big four” of American thrash metal along with Metallica, Anthrax, and Slayer, responsible for the genre’s development and popularization. …

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Organized Crime: Repression and Censorship

This is post 5 of 5 in the series “Prohibition and Organized Crime” This series delves into the historical context of Prohibition in the United States (1920-1933), its impact on society, and how it catalyzed the rise and establishment of organized crime. Organized Crime in America Evolution of Organized Crime Organized Crime : Expression and …

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Evolution of Organized Crime photo

Evolution of Organized Crime

This is post 2 of 5 in the series “Prohibition and Organized Crime” This series delves into the historical context of Prohibition in the United States (1920-1933), its impact on society, and how it catalyzed the rise and establishment of organized crime. Organized Crime in America Evolution of Organized Crime Organized Crime : Expression and …

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Organized Crime : Expression and Repression photo

Organized Crime : Expression and Repression

This is post 3 of 5 in the series “Prohibition and Organized Crime” This series delves into the historical context of Prohibition in the United States (1920-1933), its impact on society, and how it catalyzed the rise and establishment of organized crime. Organized Crime in America Evolution of Organized Crime Organized Crime : Expression and …

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Organized Crime and the Prohibition photo

Organized Crime and the Prohibition

This is post 4 of 5 in the series “Prohibition and Organized Crime” This series delves into the historical context of Prohibition in the United States (1920-1933), its impact on society, and how it catalyzed the rise and establishment of organized crime. Organized Crime in America Evolution of Organized Crime Organized Crime : Expression and …

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Organized Crime in America photo

Organized Crime in America

This is post 1 of 5 in the series “Prohibition and Organized Crime” This series delves into the historical context of Prohibition in the United States (1920-1933), its impact on society, and how it catalyzed the rise and establishment of organized crime. Organized Crime in America Evolution of Organized Crime Organized Crime : Expression and …

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O'Sullivan's Manifest Destiny photo

O’Sullivan’s Manifest Destiny

This is post 5 of 11 in the series “From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877)” From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877) Introduction to Puritanism and Expansionism Antebellum South Life in the Plantations USA: North and South O’Sullivan’s Manifest Destiny The social context of America in the early …

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The Reconstruction photo

After the American Civil War: The Reconstruction

This is post 9 of 11 in the series “From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877)” From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877) Introduction to Puritanism and Expansionism Antebellum South Life in the Plantations USA: North and South O’Sullivan’s Manifest Destiny The social context of America in the early …

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Ante Bellum South photo

Antebellum South

This is post 2 of 11 in the series “From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877)” From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877) Introduction to Puritanism and Expansionism Antebellum South Life in the Plantations USA: North and South O’Sullivan’s Manifest Destiny The social context of America in the early …

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West to the Pacific photo

America: West to the Pacific

This is post 10 of 11 in the series “From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877)” From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877) Introduction to Puritanism and Expansionism Antebellum South Life in the Plantations USA: North and South O’Sullivan’s Manifest Destiny The social context of America in the early …

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Years of Growth

This is post 11 of 11 in the series “From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877)” From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877) Introduction to Puritanism and Expansionism Antebellum South Life in the Plantations USA: North and South O’Sullivan’s Manifest Destiny The social context of America in the early …

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The New Nation photo

America: The New Nation

This is post 8 of 11 in the series “From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877)” From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877) Introduction to Puritanism and Expansionism Antebellum South Life in the Plantations USA: North and South O’Sullivan’s Manifest Destiny The social context of America in the early …

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Introduction to Puritanism and Expansionism photo

Introduction to Puritanism and Expansionism

This is post 1 of 11 in the series “From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877)” From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877) Introduction to Puritanism and Expansionism Antebellum South Life in the Plantations USA: North and South O’Sullivan’s Manifest Destiny The social context of America in the early …

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USA: Birth of a Nation

This is post 5 of 5 in the series “From the Reformation to the birth of the American nation (1534-1776)” From the Reformation to the birth of the American nation (1534-1776) The Reformation in the British Isles English Expansionism The Glorious Revolution of 1688 The American colonies : Religion and Politics USA: Birth of a …

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The American colonies : Religion and Politics photo

The American colonies : Religion and Politics

This is post 4 of 5 in the series “From the Reformation to the birth of the American nation (1534-1776)” From the Reformation to the birth of the American nation (1534-1776) The Reformation in the British Isles English Expansionism The Glorious Revolution of 1688 The American colonies : Religion and Politics USA: Birth of a …

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The Glorious Revolution of 1688

The Glorious Revolution of 1688

This is post 3 of 5 in the series “From the Reformation to the birth of the American nation (1534-1776)” From the Reformation to the birth of the American nation (1534-1776) The Reformation in the British Isles English Expansionism The Glorious Revolution of 1688 The American colonies : Religion and Politics USA: Birth of a …

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English Expansionism photo

English Expansionism

This is post 2 of 5 in the series “From the Reformation to the birth of the American nation (1534-1776)” From the Reformation to the birth of the American nation (1534-1776) The Reformation in the British Isles English Expansionism The Glorious Revolution of 1688 The American colonies : Religion and Politics USA: Birth of a …

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The Reformation in the British Isles photo

The Reformation in the British Isles

This is post 1 of 5 in the series “From the Reformation to the birth of the American nation (1534-1776)” From the Reformation to the birth of the American nation (1534-1776) The Reformation in the British Isles English Expansionism The Glorious Revolution of 1688 The American colonies : Religion and Politics USA: Birth of a …

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Politiques conjoncturelles et structurelles

I – Les politiques conjoncturelles A – Définition Une politique conjoncturelle est une politique à court-terme, son action est donc limitée dans le temps. C’est l’ensemble des interventions de l’Etat susceptibles de modifier à court-terme l’évolution de l’économie. L’objectif est de maintenir les 4 grands équilibres du carré magique : croissance, stabilité des prix, emploi …

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La théorie de l'échange photo

La théorie de l’échange

La théorie du libre-échange insiste sur les bienfaits de l’ouverture sur l’extérieur. Elle est en réaction au mercantilisme. Depuis 1945, le libre-échange n’a cessé de progresser et d’entraîner le développement du commerce mondial. Pourtant lorsque l’activité économique ralentit, le protectionnisme s’installe. I – Les analyses théoriques de l’échange international ou les théories du libre-échange A …

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Le progrès technique

Le progrès technique au sens strict est l’ensemble des éléments qui permettent d’améliorer les méthodes de production et d’augmenter la productivité. Le progrès technique se manifeste par des changements de machines, des nouvelles organisations du travail. Le progrès technique est facteur de croissance. Au sens large, on étend la notion de progrès technique aux innovations. …

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L’organisation du travail

Avec la révolution industrielle, la division du travail s’est développée (cf. Adam Smith). La notion d’appareil productif ne se limite pas à sa dimension économique et technique (progrès technique, innovations, investissements, profits…), il faut aussi tenir compte de la dimension sociale de l’entreprise. Toute forme d’organisation du travail présente aujourd’hui 4 objectifs : produire le …

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Le marché du travail et le chômage photo

Le marché du travail et le chômage

I – Les composantes du marché du travail L’offre de travail (la demande d’emploi) est faite par la population active (cf. démographie, durée des études, départs à la retraite, taux d’activité des femmes, solde migratoire). La demande de travail (l’offre d’emploi) est faite par les entreprises (cf. croissance : consommation, investissement, exportations). L’offre et la …

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Evolution à long terme de la population active et des structures sociales photo

Evolution à long terme de la population active et des structures sociales

I – Définitions La population active totale = population active occupée + personnes à la recherche d’un emploi (chômeurs) La population inactive = étudiants + retraités + femmes au foyer (sans travail et n’en recherchant pas) Le taux d’activité = ( population active totale / total des personnes en âge de travailler (17-64 ans) ) …

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The Affluent Society : poverty rediscovered ? photo

The Affluent Society : poverty rediscovered?

This is post 8 of 12 in the series “Inequalities in Great Britain” This series dissects the various facets of inequality, including economic disparity, social divides, and regional imbalances, offering a comprehensive view of contemporary British society. The Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) Victorian philanthropy in 19th century England Electoral inequalities in Victorian England: the …

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The Welfare State : an end to poverty and inequality ? photo

The Welfare State: an end to poverty and inequality ?

This is post 7 of 12 in the series “Inequalities in Great Britain” This series dissects the various facets of inequality, including economic disparity, social divides, and regional imbalances, offering a comprehensive view of contemporary British society. The Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) Victorian philanthropy in 19th century England Electoral inequalities in Victorian England: the …

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The Beveridge Report : a revolution ? photo

The Beveridge Report: a Revolution?

This is post 6 of 12 in the series “Inequalities in Great Britain” This series dissects the various facets of inequality, including economic disparity, social divides, and regional imbalances, offering a comprehensive view of contemporary British society. The Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) Victorian philanthropy in 19th century England Electoral inequalities in Victorian England: the …

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More electoral inequalities : the Road to Female Suffrage photo

More electoral inequalities : the Road to Female Suffrage

This is post 5 of 12 in the series “Inequalities in Great Britain” This series dissects the various facets of inequality, including economic disparity, social divides, and regional imbalances, offering a comprehensive view of contemporary British society. The Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) Victorian philanthropy in 19th century England Electoral inequalities in Victorian England: the …

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Ante Bellum, Inter Bella : Legislation and the Depression photo

Ante Bellum, Inter Bella : Legislation and the Depression

This is post 4 of 12 in the series “Inequalities in Great Britain” This series dissects the various facets of inequality, including economic disparity, social divides, and regional imbalances, offering a comprehensive view of contemporary British society. The Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) Victorian philanthropy in 19th century England Electoral inequalities in Victorian England: the …

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Electoral inequalities : the Road to Male Suffrage photo

Electoral inequalities in Victorian England: the Road to Male Suffrage

This is post 3 of 12 in the series “Inequalities in Great Britain” This series dissects the various facets of inequality, including economic disparity, social divides, and regional imbalances, offering a comprehensive view of contemporary British society. The Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) Victorian philanthropy in 19th century England Electoral inequalities in Victorian England: the …

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The Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) photo

The Poor Law Amendment Act (1834)

This is post 1 of 12 in the series “Inequalities in Great Britain” This series dissects the various facets of inequality, including economic disparity, social divides, and regional imbalances, offering a comprehensive view of contemporary British society. The Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) Victorian philanthropy in 19th century England Electoral inequalities in Victorian England: the …

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Scottish Home Rule photo

Scottish Home Rule

This is post 3 of 6 in the series “Scotland's Road to Independence” Explore the intricate weave of Scottish politics and devolution from historical struggles for autonomy to the modern debates on independence, dive deep into Scotland’s quest for self-governance. Scotland: the State, the Nation, Home Rule, and Devolution The Act of Union of 1707 …

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The Act of Union of 1707 photo

The Act of Union of 1707

This is post 2 of 6 in the series “Scotland's Road to Independence” Explore the intricate weave of Scottish politics and devolution from historical struggles for autonomy to the modern debates on independence, dive deep into Scotland’s quest for self-governance. Scotland: the State, the Nation, Home Rule, and Devolution The Act of Union of 1707 …

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The plot in Regeneration by Pat Barker photo

First dialogue between Rivers and Sassoon in Regeneration

Study of the passage p11-12: from “What kind of questions did they ask..” to “with quite a bit of his leg left inside“. This is the first real dialogue between Rivers and Sassoon. Sassoon is presented as shell-shocked. This passage is composed of a dialogue and 12 lines of narrative. Most of the narrative comments …

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The plot in Regeneration by Pat Barker photo

The plot in Regeneration by Pat Barker

Is Regeneration a novel with a plot ? It is not as obvious as in a detective story. I. Sassoon’s transformation Must be seen in the changes that occurred between the beginning and the end of the novel. At the beginning, Sassoon has just protested against fighting the war. In the end, something has changed: …

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The plot in Regeneration by Pat Barker photo

The setting in Regeneration by Pat Barker

A hostile nature Use of an adjective of color (yellow) The sun and the light are described as yellow, which is a warm color not normally applied to natural light. p.175, l.2: “fading to yellow“. Yellow not presented as a bright color, paradox. p.128: “yellowing of the light“, “sulfurous“. Attribute of Lucifer, negative connotation. p.199: …

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Introduction to Regeneration by Pat Barker photo

Introduction to Regeneration by Pat Barker

Regeneration has to do with World War One (WW1) and it is visible right from its cover. The novelist, Pat Barker is one of the first women writers who have written about the Great War. Pat Barker is a university-trained historian and this is confirmed by the presence of very reliable sources in the “Author’s …

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World War One poetry : a problematic issue photo

World War One poetry: a problematic issue

Introduction War poetry is not a school of poetry in itself but it played a tremendous part since it inspired a new birth of inspiration. It was a totally new experience: nothing like that before in poetry, no war like WW1 before. War had already been a subject for poetry but never with such feelings. …

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Richard III : the ambiguity of Richard's evil photo

Richard III: the ambiguity of Richard’s evil

This is post 2 of 2 in the series “Richard III” Comprehensive literary analysis articles delving into the depths of the tragedy Richard III by William Shakespeare. Richard III : Order and Disorder, the Elizabethan problem Richard III: the ambiguity of Richard’s evil I. The Vice The Vice was the favourite character in medieval morality …

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Introduction to A Midsummer Night's Dream photo

Background of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Introduction The characters are set in a given space and time. Shakespeare draws his material from a large body of social background, historical facts and myth: let us see the Greek background, the May festivities, and the fairies and spirits. I – Greek background The play is set in early Greece, in Athens. It is …

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Introduction to A Midsummer Night's Dream photo

Introduction to A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Place of the play in Shakespeare’s work A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of the most famous and successful nplays by Shakespeare. The play is part of the early work of Shakespeare (1554-1616), it was written and performed in 1595-1596, just after The Taming of the Shrew and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. There is …

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Political questions in

Political questions in Macbeth

Political questions are typical of the Renaissance: it is due to the inheritance of rulers by divine right. Malcolm, the oldest of Duncan”s sons, is declared heir to the throne and Prince of Cumberland. Like Richard III, Macbeth wants to disrupt the natural order of things. At the end of Macbeth, just like in Richard …

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Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad :

Lord Jim: how is Conrad’s first-hand experience of seamanship perceptible throughout the Patna episode ?

Conrad was a sailor and gave us a flavour of seamanship: read ch1-20, there are segments that should not be missed. In Youth (1828), Conrad wrote a fiction based on his first-hand experience as first mate on board a ship called the “Palestine”. He was directly involved in an incident: the Palestine caught fire and …

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Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad :

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad : “A free and wandering tale”

Introduction “A free and wandering tale” about “the acute consciousness of lost honour”. Lord Jim is not a simple book that could be called novel: this is too reductive. From a technical point of view, it is an idealistic image, a Jamesonian novel. Conrad tries to innovate by rejecting Victorian methods of writing and patterns. …

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Structure and Narration in

The ordering of events in The Great Gatsby

This is post 5 of 6 in the series “The Great Gatsby” All literary analysis articles about The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Introduction to The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald: from the Lost Prairies to the Realist Jungle The Great Gatsby: characters and characterization The Great Gatsby: the Romantic Quest Structure and …

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The American Renaissance photo

The American Renaissance

This is post 4 of 5 in the series “History of American Literature” History of American Literature Puritanism : a New World Vision An authentically American Literature American Literature: a Declaration of Literary Independence The American Renaissance American Modernism in literature Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson’s literary and philosophical importance in the American Renaissance and after …

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Jeux abandonware : les FPS des années 90

Dans l’univers des jeux-vidéo, il y a une petite règle, non formulée mais tacite, qui dit que lorsque un jeu n’est plus commercialisé, il devient abandonné et peut, théoriquement et sous réserve d’avoir l’autorisation des éditeurs, être redistribué gratuitement. On appelle ces jeux des abandonware, contraction de abandon et de software. Cela s’applique principalement aux …

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iGraal : vos achats Internet rémunérés

Ceux et celles d’entre vous qui surfent sur le net depuis disons… 1997 se souviendront sûrement des systèmes de publicités rémunérées sous forme de barres qui vous mangeaient le quart de l’écran ou alors l’internet 56k gratuit avec Oreka et sa barre de pub (aujourd’hui décédée). Mais la bulle Internet a crevé dans les années …

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Compte Google AdSense désactivé : l’arnaque par Google

J’ai reçu ce message de la part de Google ce matin : Bonjour Matt, Nous avons constaté que des clics incorrects ont été générés à partir des annonces Google diffusées sur votre site. Nous avons par conséquent désactivé votre compte Google AdSense. Cette mesure a été prise dans le but de protéger les intérêts des …

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Plugins pour Wordpress photo 1

Plugins pour WordPress

Voici quelques plugins pour WordPress que j’ai écrit pour mes propres besoins. Je développe également des plugins WordPress pour d’autres sites. N’hésitez donc pas à me contacter si vous avez un projet concernant un besoin de plugins WordPress. Sky Login Redirect Sky Login Redirect redirects users to the page they were reading just before logging …

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