When is it legal to sell your wife?
Constance, from the Lycée Ampère, Lyon, invites you to 18th century Britain to discover the phenomenon of "wife selling" or "wife auctions" as documented in Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge".
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A simple tool for in-depth critical analysis.
Dell Hymes' S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G model offers students seven simple tools for the analysis of any discourse, document or cultural phenomenon. Where does it come from? What is it for? What are the codes and norms involved?
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When the Brits rock the world
by Rachel Darmon and Maria Masterova of the Lycée Ampère, Lyon. We are pupils in a French state high school. We are...
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[VIDEO] England? UK? Great Britain? Commonwealth? What’s what?
The United Kingdom, England, Great Britain? Are these three the same place? Different places? Do British people secretly laugh those who use the terms wrongly? Who knows the answers to these questions? I do and I’m going to tell you right now.
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British tales, myths and legends
Rome Servet and Myriam Bahaffou from the Lycée Ampère, Lyon, France, offer you a potted history of the tales, myths and legends that have been handed down from generation to generation among the peoples of Great Britain.
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We know when you’re lying
Soledad from the Lycée Ampère in Lyon, France, tells us about the new emotion detector that can see when you're lying
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Bob Dylan
Disover the famous film clip that accompanies Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and learn about the social and political context of the song.
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1066 and all that
One man shares his vision of the teaching of British history in UK schools.
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The Cost of 911
The Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks by al-Qaida were meant to harm the United States, and they did, but in ways that Osama Bin Laden probably never imagined. President George W. Bush's response to the attacks compromised America's basic principles, undermined its economy, and weakened its security.
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Thinktanks crush democracy
We know that to understand politics and the peddling of influence we must follow the money. So it's remarkable that the question of who funds the thinktanks has so seldom been asked
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The decade’s biggest scam
The Los Angeles Timesexamines the staggering sums of moneyexpended on patently absurd domestic "homeland security" projects: $75 billion per year for things such as a Zodiac boat with side-scan sonar to respond to a potential attack on a lake in tiny Keith County, Nebraska, and hundreds of "9-ton BearCat armored vehicles, complete with turret" to guard against things like an attack on DreamWorks in Los Angeles.
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The Pentagon’s grip on Hollywood
Title of the article: New projects, including Kathryn Bigelow’s bin Laden film, show rising pressure on filmmakers to please the...
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The French government’s dark side
"The freedom of the press and the lie of the state." The headline Thursday in the influential newspaper Le Monde was bound to make a big splash.
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