French Section of the Workers' International

compared to some other European countries. Multilingualism expands and promotes change, understanding and appreciation of the new languages of the united and diverse Europe. For small nations as Lithuania it seems crucial to learn English, German and French, but it is not enough. Although English may be the language of business throughout the world, but it is important to think about languages of local minorities. Less widely-used languages, languages of neighbor countries, give access to…

Polish-born French director, screenwriter, and autobiographer. Roman Polanski was born in Paris on August 18, 1933, to Polish-Jewish family. When he was three years old, his family returned to Poland, settling in Krakow. During World War II, when Poland was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany, Polanski's family was forced to live in the Krakow ghetto, a cramped section of the city where all Jews were forced to live. Polanski escaped from the ghetto when he was eight years old after his father…

The Hope for the Hopeless Light in illness Have you ever been so sick that you feel as if you are going to die? All you can do is lay in bed helplessly and wait for your body to heal itself due to our strong immune system. We get to skip school and go to our doctor 's office which is usually within an hour drive. We get diagnosed with a cold or the flu and get prescribed a medication and are on our way home within the next hour or so. We get to go home and fight off the illness. We eventually…

Guru explains how prejudice may construct an environment where a social worker may be affected by these attitudes of suspicion and hostility when working with a Muslim client. Consequently, this would influence the quality of service provided to the Muslim clients and lead to a very hostile working environment. Thus, there is an essential need for workplaces to administer in-service training for social work practitioners to disassemble their own hidden feelings and biases. These biases need to…

French Revolution Annotated Bibliography - Michelle Zhen Thesis Statement: The economic and social needs of the people were not met by the government, thus causing the French and Cuban Revolution. “26th of July Movement.” World History: The Modern Era. ABC-CLIO, 2015. Web. 3 Dec. 2015. This article details the events of the 26th of July Movement following Fidel Castro and middle class rebels. It talks about the reasons why Castro wanted to overthrow Fulgencio Batista. The 26th of July Movement…

The world’s first screening of a motion picture was in the Grand Cafe in Paris, on December 28th, 1895. It was a series of ten films made by the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere, including their first ever film, Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory). This was done with Léon Bouly 's cinématographe device, the rights to which had been purchased by the Lumiere brothers. From here, both the industry and the technology of projecting motion pictures boomed in…

Just thirty years ago, April 26th, 1986, one of the world’s largest nuclear meltdowns occurred in Pripyat, Ukraine. The workers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were running a system test on reactor four and there was a sudden, unexpected power surge. When the workers attempted to conduct an emergency shut off even more power was produced. This caused the reactor vessel to crack and allow air into the core. The core ignited and the fire sent a large plume of highly radioactive smoke. For the…

Chapter-1 Performer’s rights: new dimension of copyright laws INTRODUCTION Performer’s rights with respect to cinematographic films have always been an area of dispute, this is because the producer is considered as the owner of such work and he can exploit the work for his economic advantage. A cinematographic film consists of a different rights associated to it and producer is considered as the holder of the bundle of rights only because he takes the initiative, like in a company’s case a…

project, Robert Tallibert, employed over 10,000 workers every day and night from August 1974 to July 6th, 1976, just days before the opening ceremonies. The stadium itself and roof were not actually completed by the Opening Ceremony, but instead only “mostly” completed and were deemed usable. Additionally, due to the complex design and structure of the Stadium, it continues to cause problems to this day. The roof, the most problematic of the sections, has had an absurd amount of problems. It’s…

The six main parts of the United Nations are the General Assembly, Security Council, The Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, International Court of Justice, and the Secretariat. The General Assembly is formed by all of the member nations, and each nation has a group of five people who make a decision which counts as one vote. This group votes on all major decisions. For instance,…