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"West Side Story" is Back!

West Side Story – the stage musical and the film – is already a classic. Steven Spielberg wants to make it a more authentic classic for the 21st century. After many delays due to COVID, it's finally arriving in cinemas.

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Josephine Baker Enters the Panthéon

On 30 November, Josephine Baker will become the sixth woman, and the first black woman, to enter France’s Panthéon, where the country honours its greatest heroes. The Franco-American dancer and singer was an active member of the Resistance in WWII and civil-rights activist in the U.S.

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Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Found Liable for Defamation Over Sandy Hook Shooting

Controversial U.S. broadcaster Alex Jones has been found liable in defamation cases brought in Connecticut and Texas by parents of children killed in the 2012 mass school shooting. Jones has spread conspiracy theories for years saying the shooting was a government hoax aiming at promoting gun control. Twenty children and six adults were shot dead by a lone gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut on 14 December 2012. The gunman also killed his mother, and took his own life. Jones, a talk-radio host, businessman and founder of right-wing websites such as Infowars and Newswars, was sued by parents who are horrified by his claims that they were actors and the tragic events never really happened. The bereaved parents have been victims of trolling and harassment by Jones’ followers. The parents also accused Jones of making financial profit from his claims. In cases judged in Connecticut, and Texas, where Jones is based, judges found him liable of defamation. However, in all of the cases, the judgements were by default, because Jones and fellow defendants refused to provide the court and the families’ lawyers with documents demanded by the court, including financial records. His lawyers claimed that Jones’ statements were protected under First Amendment free speech, but the default rulings mean that those claims were not tested in court. In a bizarre twist, Jones actually admitted in an official deposition for a 2019 case in Texas brought by Sandy Hook parents, "And I, myself, have almost had like a form of psychosis back in the past where I basically thought everything was staged, even though I've now learned a lot of times things aren't staged." Juries in both Connecticut and Texas will now decide the amount of damages Jones will be ordered to pay to the plaintiffs. His defence team has indicated he will appeal. Fake News This is far from being Jones’ only farfetched conspiracy claim. He also says the 2018 Parkland shooting was another gun-control motivated hoax, that 9/11 was perpetrated by the government and the “Pizzagate” hoax he helped spread about Democratic Party officials including then Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton being involved in a child-trafficking ring based in a pizzeria basement is believed to have affected her election results. Jones was banned by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in 2018 for hate speech and abusive behaviour. But he still hosts a popular talk radio show on the GCN network as well as running websites. Much of his funding is believed to come from selling dubious but unregulated health supplements according to reports by the New York Times. This article is an update on the documents on Alex Jones in Shine Bright AMC File 7 Media on screen, page 69. You could also use it as an example in connection with the section on freedom of speech in Shine Bright AMC File 13 The land of the free.  

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Intertextes symbolistes

Après avoir étudié un extrait d' Hamlet , la séquence s'attache à la figure d'Ophélie, très présente dans la poésie de la seconde moitié du XIX e siècle. On la retrouve chez Baudelaire, Hugo, Rimbaud, Banville, mais aussi dans les tableaux de Gustave Moreau et Odilon Redon.

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Orphée et Eurydice, une histoire pour la culture

Le mythe d'Orphée est à la source de nombreuses œuvres littéraires, picturales, cinématographiques. La séquence revient sur le récit qui constitue le mythe d'Orphée, et évoque un grand nombre d'œuvres qui s'en inspire.

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Death of F.W. De Klerk: Last Apartheid-Era South African President

F.W. De Klerk, South Africa’s last President of the apartheid era, and instrumental in ending it, has died aged 85.

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Anti-Bullying Week

It's Anti-Bullying Week in U.K. schools from 15 to 19 November. The theme is kindness, how saying one kind word can potentially break the cycle of bullying. It lends itself well to a language activity on expressing kindness.

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Une nouvelle façon de s'informer pour les jeunes

9 jeunes sur 10 se déclarent avoir de la curiosité pour l'information. Où s'informent-ils ?

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Littérature et rapports de force

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L'Afrique du Sud face à la transition énergétique

L’article évoque les défis de la transition énergétique en Afrique du Sud alors que se tient la COP26. 

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Chine, États-Unis : vers la transition énergétique

COP 26 : la Chine et les États-Unis veulent s'orienter vers une indépendance vis-à-vis des énergies fossiles.

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Un marathon de lecture pour faire entrer dans nos classes la littérature

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