Meghan Markle’s Speech at the United Nations Conference (March 2015) We can hear the famous African-American actress Meghan Markle giving a speech at the UN conference. She shares an experience she went through when she was 11 years old. She saw a commercial for a dishwashing soap with a tagline that said: “Women all over America are fighting...

Banksy’s shredded piece of art The document under study is a video published in 2018 by Good Morning America. It deals with an artwork made by Banksy that self-destructed during an auction art in London. It was sold to private collector for $1.4 million. However, the canvas shredded in tiny strips. Banksy’s aim through this action was to...

Underground Art – Banksy The document under study is the trailer for a documentary about Banksy, a famous British anonymous street artist. It was released in 2019. We have learned that Banksy created a global movement through his outlaw art. It is interesting to note that any movements have in common the fact that they came out of...

 Ketanji Brown Jackson breaking glass-ceiling. Ketanji Brown Jackson made history by being the first black woman nominated to the Supreme Court. Indeed, she is one of the only judges that is not a white man. In fact, throughout the years, there have been 150 supreme court judges and 108 of them were white men. She was nominated by...

The Power of Fire and Ice The document under study is news report from PBS News Hour, published in 2019. It deals with two American eco-artists. The first one is Jeff Frost, who is seen as an alarmist because his goal is to warn people about the danger of global warming on forests. Indeed, there are more and...

 The Blue Whale The document under study is an article extracted from Albuquerque Journal, published in 2019. It is about a piece of art made out of plastic from two eco-artists from California. This sculpture was created with polyethylene. This sculpture has the same weight and height as an adult blue whale. Indeed, the artists wanted people to...

 Kamala Harris, First Female Vice President of the USA: She Put another crack in that glass-ceiling” The document under study is a video from ABC News published 2021.  It deals with the new vice president at the time who was the first black female vice president and first of Asian Indian descent. We have learned that she was...

 (At the following of what we did last time)She could reconcile both her private life and professional career by having the support of her family and mainly her husband. Indeed, her husband decided to stay at home to take care of their baby. Moreover, she also decide to take her baby with her for professional traveling but also...

Sugar Tax The document under study is a news report from CGTN Africa, published in  2017. It deals with a South African eco-artist whose name is Mbongeni Buthelezi who created pieces of art from plastic cuts that he took from junk food (plastic packaging from sugary drinks or snacks). The name of his exhibition is called Sugar Tax....

Melting Away, Camille Seaman a photographer eco-artist. The document under study is an interview of Camille Seaman an eco-artist and a photographer. The scene takes place in Alaska, North America. It is considered as being America’s ground zero for climate change, meaning it is the place where we will see the real impact of global warming. We have...

Dear Students, It is indeed almost the end of the year, but we are not there yet! I wish you to spend a nice break! Take some time to rest and take care of yourselves. Meanwhile, organize yourselves to make the best of this break to do the work you need to do before going back to school! I count on...

An Unfulfilled Dream Group 1 The document under study is a song extract entitled “Like a King”, sung by Ben Harper, released in 1992. In this song, the singer is denouncing police brutality on the African-American community, especially on Rodney King, a black man who was a victim of police brutality in 1991 in Los Angeles. Group 2...

We’ll make it work! The document under study is an extract of an article from the British newspaper the Guardian, published in 2018. It deals with Jacinda Arden, New Zealand Prime Minister at the time who had a child six weeks before going back to work. Her life partner/husband is Clark Gayford, they had a daughter named Neve....

 An Unfulfilled Dream Group 1 The document under study is an extract from a song entitled “Like a King” by Ben Harper, released in 1992. The people mentioned in this extract are the famous African-American pastor, Martin Luther King Jr. and Rodney King, an African-American man who was a victim of police brutality in Los Angeles in 1991....

 A Silence That Speaks Volumes (Part 2) The document under study is a news report from Al Jazeera English published in 2017. It is about the famous African-American NFL player Colin Kaepernick who protested during the national anthem by putting a knee down to denounce police brutality against African-Americans. To do so, he had to be very courageous....

Artists’ thoughts The document under study is a collection of different quotes from eco-artists. They explain their vision of art and its impact on the society. All these artists are working towards a greener future by collecting waste to use in their art in order to raise awareness on global warming and other environmental issues. These quotes illustrate...

Art + Sustainability The document under study is an article from a website entitled “Incandescent Cloud”, published in 2014. It deals with an artwork entitled “Cloud art” created by Caitlind Brown and Wayne Garrett. They are Canadian from Calgary. They exhibited their piece of art in Singapore.To create their artwork, they used sustainable, recycled materials such as burnt out light bulbs...

 #HeForShe The document under study is a video for the campaign #HeForShe, published in 2014. In this video, men are interviewed to talk about the way they perceive gender inequalities and the way women are treated. The advice that is given is that, one should be able to put themselves in someone else’s shoes and imagine if they...

 #HeForShe The document under study is a video for the campaign called #HeForShe, published in 2014 by heforshe.org. It is an organization mainly composed of men who defend women’s rights In the video, we can hear the opinions of several men who explain why it is important to defend women’s rights. Moreover, they are denouncing the existing inequalities...

 A Silence that Speaks Volumes (Part 1) The document under study is a news report from CBS News, published in 2016. There is an interview of the famous African-American track and field athlete Tommie Smith. In fact, him along with his colleague, John Carlos, had been invited to the White House to be honored by Barack Obama nearly...

 Artists and Waste: Doc 1: Dereck Gores  The two artworks under study are pieces made by the American artist Dereck Gores. The first one, Blowing Bubbles, represents a young boy lying on the grass blowing bubbles. The second one, called Full Volume Tokyo, represents a woman in Tokyo. At first, when you look from afar, they could almost...

 (At the following of what we did last time)Their strategies was to organize their sit-in at a five and dime, because everyone could afford having lunch there. Besides, not welcoming people at a lunch counter of a five and dime was legally and morally indefensible. They organized a diversion with a group of people outside to divert the...

 Raising Awareness for Equality (Part 1) The document under study is a video for the campaign #BalanceForBetter, in 2019 promoted on the occasion of International Women’s Day. We can hear the opinions of several women and men: they are saying that women should be hired to more higher positions and they should be more respected in their leadership....

 (At the following of what we did last time)Their strategies were to go to a five and dime because everyone could afford it, no one was usually unwelcomed. First, they put in place a diversion outside the diner to allow the Tugaloo students to go inside and be able to sit at the counter without being bothered by...

 Seizing Opportunities: Yes, She Can! The document under study is a news report from CBC News published in 2018. It deals with new representatives elected during the US midterms. It was the first time that there were several women from different ethnic groups that were elected to the US Congress in that same year. They made history. The...

Seizing Opportunities: Yes, She Can! The document under study is a TV report from CBC News published in 2018. It deals with the US midterms of that same year, when for the first time several women from different ethnic groups and religious confession were elected to Congress. They made history. The first one mentioned was Rashida Tlaib, she...

 Counter Histories: The Sit-in Movement The document under study is a video in which several people are interviewed. There are Rev. Ed King, Joan T. Mulholland, Colia Clark who were former activists, veterans of the Civil Rights movement; Bill Minor was a reporter at the time who photographed the event and Daphne Chamberlain, a teacher at the University...

Unhappily Ever After Series, Jeff Hong The document under study is an extract of a video of an interview of Jeff Hong, an eco-artist, published in 2014. Jeff Hong has been an animation artist for 20 years. He worked at Walt Disney Feature Animation on movies like Tarzan, Mulan, Hercules… Now, through his project “Unhappily Ever After Series”,...