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Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa http://overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/unit.php?id=65-24E-4 Post-apartheid South Africa faced mammoth tasks: to consolidate democracy, to lessen the harsh legacies of a century of segregation and apartheid, and to improve the day-to-day lives of the people. Enormous strides have been taken in these directions with the final burying of  apartheid  and major political, social, and economic transformations. The country is respected across the world, where before it was a pariah. It has become a major leader of the African voice in world forums. The  Constitution  has proved to be a success, and the Constitutional Court has won wide acclaim. Despite these substantial gains, the country still faces deep economic inequalities and acute problems such as high rates of unemployment, homelessness, and violent crime; slow progress on land reform; a dysfunctional education system; a burgeoning health crisis mainly due to the H...

Post 9: The US gun culture. First document: The brady campaign to prevent gun violence. Description: This document is a poste r published in 2010 by the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun violence.  The  Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence  is  affiliated American  nonprofit organization   that advocates for  gun control   and against  gun violence .  The mission of the Brady organization is to create a safer America for all of us that will lead to a dramatic reduction in gun deaths and injuries.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Campaign) The poster deals with a much-debated topic which is death related to gun violence in the United States, as far as the title is in one year, guns murdered. Below the title, it includes a list of figures representing murdered people because of gun attacks in different countries. A motto closes the list and says God bless America.  At the bottom of the poster, a gun with the co...

About Tim Burton: Director, producer and screenwriter, he is known for visualy striking films which blend themes of fantasy and horror. This famous film-maker was born in California in 1958. He has a son in 2003 and a daughter in 2007 with his wife Helena Bonham Carter. Concerning his career, he studied animation at  California Institute of Arts and, upon his graduation, worked as a disney animator for less than a year. After, he decides to create his personal one. His most famous work: After forming his own production company, Burton directed the lavish production  Batman  (1989). The following year, Burton directed the bizarre but touching film  Edward Scissorhands . In 1993  he produced the animated musical  Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas . In 1994, Burton cast Johnny Depp as the title character in  Ed Wood —a black-and-white portrait of a middling filmmaker and his all-consuming passion to succeed. After produ...

Tim Burton Fill in the gaps in this biography of Tim Burton Tim Burton was born in 1958, in the city of Burbank , California He remains without question one of the most original film Director working in Hollywood  today. Indeed, his talent and originality have kept him at the top of the profession where he occupies a very special place, somewhere in the mainstream and the avant-garde, in that region of cinema occupied by artists ______ worldview is _______ unconventional that it attains popular appeal. In 1989, Tim Burton directed the hugely famous Batman which, although his third personal film, was one of the most known movies of all time and gave him unprecedented success in Hollywood, considering the originality and adventurousness of his extraordinary films (for example Beetlejuice in 1988). Edward Scissorhands (1990), another hit, saw him at the peak of his growing powers and established a fruitful working relationship with the actor J...