4 résultats pour "america"

• Guns in America “Places and Forms of Power”

  Synthèse 1 As part of the notion “Places and Forms of Power”, I would like to talk about the right to carry a gun in the USA. With 85 guns for 100 hundred people, the United States of America are the western country with the highest rate of firearms in circulation. I think this topic fits perfectly with the notion “Places and Forms of Power”. First of all, because America is the most powerful country in the world but also because carry a gun gives you an almost unlimited power. Today I wi...

• 1950s AMERICA: SOCIAL ASPECTS

  1950s AMERICA: SOCIAL ASPECTS The 1950s is often viewed as a period of conformity, when both men and women observed strict gender roles and complied with society’s expectations. After the devastation of the Great Depression and World War II, many Americans sought to build a peaceful and prosperous society. However, even though certain gender roles and norms were socially enforced, the 1950s was not as conformist as is sometimes portrayed, and discontent with the status quo bubbled just ben...

• Certeau, Michel de

  Certeau, Michel de (1925-86) Michel de Certeau, a French philosopher trained in history and ethnography, was a peripatetic teacher in Europe, South America and North America. His thought has inflected four areas of philosophy. He studied how mysticism informs late-medieval epistemology and social practice. With the advent of the Scientific Revolution, the affinities the mystic shares with nature and the cosmos become, like religion itself, repressed or concealed. An adjunct discipline, heterolog...

• Repaso Las razones de la migraciones en América Latina

  Repaso Las razones de la migraciones en América Latina - el cambio climático (le changement climatique) : la migración medioambiental (environnemental) / el exilio forzado de los centroamericanos hacia el Norte Una situación muy complicada para los agricultores de la región de Copán en Honduras : padecen hambre (faim) y sed (soif) porque falta agua y hay sequía. Las cosechas (frijol, maíz) son malísimas porque la sequedad es extrema. Ejemplo de Delmi Hernández (una hondureña de la región d...