Grammaire et langue anglaise
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Phonologie et prononciation de l'anglais
Améliorer sa prononciation avec les cours de phonologie adaptées et ludiques. Les étudiants et professeur trouveront également des ressources plus détaillées.
You will also find lessons about the different dialects and varieties of English.
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Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguistics is concerned with the nature of language and communication, and with the study of particular languages and dialects. It includes many subareas / fields of research : grammar, phonology, syntax, morphology, etc.. In this section you will find a lot of lessons regarding linguistics.
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Accepting the Republican nomination for the Senate in 1858, Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous speech in which he stated, “A house divided against itself cannot stand I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free…. It will become all one thing, or all the other." The line “a house divided” is drawn from the Bible:
“And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.
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The South was mainly a rural region with a warm climate which made it ideal for large-scale farms and crops like tobacco and cotton. Cotton was the most important product / commodity (merchandise) in international trade because it was one of the main raw materials used for making cloth during the Industrial Revolution. Indeed, Cotton amounted to 50% of the American export, and thus became the backbone of the Southern economy. In order to remain competitive the United States had to produce cheap cotton and, as a consequence, resorted to enslavement.
By 1860, The South’s “peculiar institution” had become closely tied to the region’s economy and culture. Enslaved people in the South constituted about one-third of the southern population. US pop : about 31 million (the total population included 3,953,762 slaves.) |
The northern soil and climate favoured smaller-scale farms rather than large plantations. The north was a region of big cities like New York and Boston, and industry flourished in these urban areas. There were two main industrial areas in the north:
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Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass was born into slavery sometime around 1818 in Maryland. After escaping from slavery, he became one of the most famous intellectuals of his time. He also supported women’s rights and Irish home rule. Women were also heavily involved in the abolitionist movement. Many women became aware of their condition and they made a parallel between the condition of slaves and their own conditions. It is important to remember that there were not citizens either. Furthermore, a married woman had to give her wages to her husband. Women identified with slaves and wished to join forces with abolitionist activists to fight against inequality.
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