Bonfire Night

All over the United Kingdom, Bonfire Night celebrates the anniversary of the Gunpowder plot and therefore reminds the story of Guy Fawkes... it's tomorrow, November 5th !

But let me tell you about the graphic novel created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd : "V for Vendetta" consisted of a series of comics, issued from 1989 to 1990. It told a story whose hero got inspired by Guy Fawkes.

The novel was adapted into a film (same title) :

click on the logo to read Wikipedia's article on the film.

Below, Evey's words are a kind of leitmotiv in the film : click on the first line to view a short video taken from the beginning of the film :

Remember, remember

The fifth of November

Gunpowder, treason and plot !

We see no reason why

Gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot !

Guy Fawkes wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament to kill King James.

Learn some more here ⇓

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Bonfire photo by Fir0002, licensed under CC BY-SA

Parliament photo by mookiefl, licensed under CC BY-NC

Midterm elections <<<

  Understand & learn with a few illustrations !

Here ⇓ you can see the reactions of these regions inhabitants

to a few questions on the election issues :

- The consequences of a reorganization of the White House  staff on Obama's policy.

- Are Charlie Crist's motivations sincere... or is he an opportunist ?

- Has the notion of "American Dream" been knocked out by the Great Recession in a globalising world ?

- Can new Wall Street regulations  prevent another financial failure ?

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This infographic ⇑  shows the Americans' reactions nationwide to questions on seven major issues (more than 1.6 million answered the  survey.) :

Culture media / Economy / Energy environment / Immigration / National Security / State of the Union / Justice -courts.

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The midterm elections give the American voters the opportunity to have their say on both the Senate and the House trends.

This infographic gets you to visualise what is  at stake : the first two graphs show the Democrats (their symbol is a donkey, but it's not on their new official logo) and the Republicans (their symbol is an elephant)  seats at the Senate. Some are leaning seats : seats leaning towards one of the 2 parties (= seats favouring one of the 2 parties).   [still in progress]

Another haunted house... 

and yet this one is quite different : it will show you a website

that "compiles a big collection of Halloween advertisements from the past 60 years or so." Most of he products brands are American... but I'm sure you know many of them !

This video clip aims at telling you all you've ever

dreamt of knowing about pumpkins ;o)

Watch it once...

then, try to answer the QUIZ :

Have you ever heard                    of 'PUMPKINS' ?! 1) Pumpkins originally came from...   Central America   South America   Ireland   Italy

SYD  MATTERS' website

"Hi life"

I like the animation film that features the song as much as "Hi Life" itself. It's been inserted here thinking of all the students who have both studied and struggled to defend their opinions, especially before the holidays... you surely deserve a little rest and poetry ;o)