French Course #2 Greetings & Salutations A typical formal conversation might start with many of these phrases: Introducing in French | Pronunciation | Translation | Bonjour | bohN-zhoor | Hello | Bonsoir | bohN swahr | Good evening | Bonne Nuit | bohN-nwee | Good Night | monsieur | muh-syuh | Sir | madame | mah-dahm | Miss‚ Mrs | mademoiselle | mahd-mwah-zehl | Miss | Je m’appelle | zhuh mah-pehl | My name is (I call myself) | Comment vous appelezvous? | kohN-mahN voo zah-play
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Position of French Adjectives Position d’adjectifs An adjective is a word that modifies a noun by describing it in some way: shape‚ color‚ size‚ nationality‚ etc. French adjectives are very different from English adjectives in two ways: 1. French adjectives change to agree in gender and number with the nouns that they modify‚ which means there can be up to four forms of each adjective: Adjective: joli (pretty) Masculine singular joli Feminine singular jolie Masculine plural jolis
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Using letter 22‚ explore Walker’s use of language to present Celie’s impression of Shug. Examine how the manipulation of language contributes to our understanding of the significance of Shug to Celie. Shug’s significance to Celie plays a pivotal role in the novel ‘The Color Purple. Through Walker’s use of language‚ we understand the importance of this significance‚ which helps to develop Celie’s character throughout and is already prominent in letter 22. Firstly‚ we understand that Shug’s arrival
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Femme Fatale: Feminism versus Patriarchy as portrayed in the movie Chocolat The 2000 film‚ Chocolat directed by Lasse Hallström is not only another food-film in the rows of Hollywood movies but a film that embodies the taking hold of feminism in a patriarchal and repressed society. Set at the fictional‚ repressed village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes‚ Chocolat tells the story of a young mother‚ played by Juliette Binoche‚ who arrives with her six-year-old daughter and opens La Chocolaterie Maya
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He goes off on a weird road journey‚ full of peril and is trying to get to Saratoga Springs to find an artists colony there. He finds a beautiful femme fatale who has the greatest nose. Here is a book unlike anything else a lot of readers have read before it. Very peculiar‚ but still highly enjoyable the entire way through. Fans of the novel find this book to be extremely funny‚ and has a lot of wry
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Kayla Soileau Mrs. Daigrepont English 3-2 27 February 2015 Title I. Introduction A. Thesis Statement: Both Cather and Twain use the archetypical terrible mother‚ river‚ and wise old man in their novels and these usages help to demonstrate the universality of archetypes: a reoccurring motif in literature that is used as a literary device to convey a wealth of meaning. B. In Huckleberry Finn and My Antonia‚ the archetypical terrible mother is used in similar but also different ways‚ where one is an
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Britney spears is a famous‚ well known musician who will be known as one of the best pop stars from the west. At just 8 years old Spears auditioned at the Mickey Mouse Club. It was after that when her talent was noticed by various agents and labels. Spears is well known for her first major song Hit Me Baby One More Time. She lost it when she was using drugs and drinking alcohol in 2007. She was admitted to a rehab center after she went downhill and shaved her head. From an early age‚ Britney Spears
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Screwball women are far from the so called “traditional women” of the time‚ constantly pushing the boundaries of what was considered appropriate behavior for women‚ especially in the 1930s and 1940s‚ a period in which the feminist movement was rapidly gaining popularity in America. In The Fortunes of Feminism‚ Parrish states the emergence of the “New Women”‚ who were firm believers of the idea that “equality meant enjoying the pleasures customarily reserved for men”. These women constantly challenged
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Chelsea Hotel‚ the slightest change to appearance would have turned anyone’s head and get you noticed. Patti did just that. After one night‚ Patti cut her hairstyle to resemble that of Keith Richards and Jackie Curtis asked Smith be in her play Femme Fatale. Artists throughout the Chelsea Hotel noticed Patti’s hairstyle and associated her androgynous look. Even Allen Ginsberg mistook Patti for a “pretty boy” at an automat one afternoon (Smith 123). Bobby Neuwirth was one of the major contributors
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The Czernin case is categorized as a failure by Austrian Counterintelligence to detect and halt a “femme fatale” operation implemented by the Gestapo and foreign office of Nazi Germany with the goal of targeting the Austrian chancellor in pursuit of documents that would have dealt a fatal blow to the Third Reich and Hitler himself (Koehler‚ 1940). There were many reasons for the failure of Austrian CI‚ however‚ the primary reasons can be chalked up to capabilities and failure to recognize indications
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