Brazil : a new eldorado...

..... of Genetically Modified Crops ?

Global Companies

How do they connect some of the world's poorest countries

with some of the wealthiest ?

Globalisation

Three different articles which deal with globalisation (chosen by the students) :

Cadbury fights Kraft takeover (Harold)

American dramas steal the show (Camille)

World divided on globalisation (Simon)

Newspapers

You want to find information about Globalisation
or about the Lisbon Treaty ?

Some interesting links below :

The Daily Telegraph (the highest selling British paper)

The Times (daily national newspaper published in the U.K.)

The Guardian (British daily newspaper)

The B.B.C. (British Broadcasting Corporation)

The Economist (weekly newsmagazine)

Reuters (UK-based news service)

The Christian Science Monitor (international daily newspaper and not a religious one)

Newsweek (American weekly newsmagazine)

Time (American weekly newsmagazine)

Seconde : Elgin Marbles

The Elgin Marbles is a popular term that may refer to the collection of stone objects acquired by Lord Elgin during his time as ambassador to the Ottoman Court of the Sultan of Istanbul. The collection includes sculptures from the Parthenon. You can explore all the scenes here.

The following photos were taken in the British Museum.

Horsemen

Sacrificial Animals

The Peplos

Première : The Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood

The Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of painters, poets and critics founded in 1848.
They rejected the conventions of industrialized England.
Millais painted Christ in the House of his Parents in 1850. It is a realistic portrayal of a working class Holy Family labouring in a carpentry workshop.
The Arts and Crafts movement urged a return to craftsmanship too.

Terminale : Cuban Missile Crisis

You can find a timeline of the Crisis here

Seconde : International Migrations

Hatier 2005