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TERMINALES - TOPIC 2: PLACES AND FORMS OF POWER - JACOBANGLAIS, le blog d'anglais du Lycée Jacob Holtzer. How would you define the word "power"?

TERMINALES - TOPIC 2: PLACES AND FORMS OF POWER - JACOBANGLAIS, le blog d'anglais du Lycée Jacob Holtzer

Try to explain what a counter-power is? What are he different powers you know? The first three powers are legislative executive and judicial powers. For many years, new powers have influenced people. There are known as the fourth and the fifth power. A. B. C. Document 1. Document 2 WikiLeaks is an international online not-for-profit media organization founded by Australian activist Julian Assange that has published and made available to the public a huge number of classified, uncensored and highly sensitive documents from various anonymous news sources. Document 3: Oral documents about WikiLeaks Document 1: What is WikiLeaks? Document 2: What is WikiLeaks? Greenpeace is a non-governmental and non-profit organization which was created in the late 60's and early 70's after a US plan to realize a nuclear weapon test in Alaska. Nowadays, Greenpeace offices are settled in over forty countries. Community newspaper article about head lice with photo of Indigenous girl sparks outrage - CBC News.

A member of Paul First Nation in Alberta said he was outraged to see a photo of an Indigenous girl displayed along with an article about head lice in a community newspaper.

Community newspaper article about head lice with photo of Indigenous girl sparks outrage - CBC News

The article, titled 'Tis the season for school and lice, was published in the Sept. 1 edition of the Stony Plain Reporter/Spruce Grove Examiner community newspaper in Alberta and is sparking heated discussions on Facebook. According to Rod Burnstick, the outrage is because Parkland County, just west of Edmonton, is a predominately Caucasian community but the newspaper ran the story with a photo of an Indigenous child, which associates Indigenous people with lice. "[When I saw it] I really felt for our children — our children that attend the County of Parkland schools — because our children already face oppression when attending county schools [outside of reserve]," said Burnstick, who posted a photo of the article on his Facebook page. 'Get some education,' Maskwacis mom writes 'Now we can deal with the subtle racism' Matilda: Catégories de cours. Silicon Valley : critique du libéralisme numérique.

Le livre se veut en fait une analyse de la contagion des idées : cette silicolonisation, qui est en fait une « self colonization », une poussée que se sont imposées les démocraties occidentales à elle-même, fascinées qu’elles sont par le génie exalté par les icônes de la Silicon Valley et s’auto-situant dans le sillon d’une doxa encouragée par « les industriels, la majorité des économistes, les universités et grandes écoles, les agences de prospective, les think tanks et organes de pression […] » ainsi que par la classe politique (p.25).

Silicon Valley : critique du libéralisme numérique

Cette contagion naît dans un creuset cyber-utopique dont on connaît aujourd’hui bien les contours, grâce à des auteurs tels qu’Evgeny Morozov et surtout Fred Turner[+] NoteFred TURNER, Aux sources de l’utopie numérique, éditions C&F, 2012 [1] NoteFred TURNER, Aux sources de l’utopie numérique, éditions C&F, 2012.

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