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SUJET 1 Thématique : « Arts et débats d’idées » Partie 1 : Synthèse du dossier, en anglais (16 points) Prenez connaissance de la thématique ci-dessus et du dossier composé des documents A, B et C et répondez en anglais à la consigne suivante (500 mots environ) : Paying particular
SUJET 1 Thématique : « Arts et débats d’idées » Partie 1 : Synthèse du dossier, en anglais (16 points) Prenez connaissance de la thématique ci-dessus et du dossier composé des documents A, B et C et répondez en anglais à la consigne suivante (500 mots environ) : Paying particular attention to the specificities of the three documents, show how they interact to reflect the link between artistic productions and Northern Ireland’s history. Partie 2 : Traduction, en français (4 points) Traduisez en français le passage suivant du document C (lignes 19 à 24) : Cities are simple things. They are conglomerations of people. Cities are complex things. They are the geographical and emotional distillations of whole nations. What makes a place a city has little to do with size. It has to do with the speed at which its citizens walk, the cut of their clothes, the sound of their shouts. But most of all, cities are the meeting places of stories. The men and women there are narratives, endlessly complex and intriguing. 24-LLCERANME3 Page 2/9 Document A Many Americans of Irish extraction turn their lineage into romantic tales of deep roots, bygone suffering, and picturesque desperation. Unfortunately for me, the story of the Joneses in Northern Ireland is awkward, unglamorous, and short. The family moved there from England in the mid-1950s, when my grandfather started working at a British naval base 5 in Derry, a mid-sized city near the border with the Republic of Ireland. He died when my dad was a teenager […]. My dad went to England for university; on break he met an American girl who was in art school in Wales. When she got into visa trouble, they moved to the U.S. and got married, which is where I showed up. […] Still, Derry remains the closest thing my father has to a hometown. As a child, I was terrified 10 and entranced by his stories about the place, most of which involved masked men knocking on your door in the middle of the night and shooting you in front of your family, and all of which could not have seemed further away from my own sunny, Clinton-era youth. Now, the rest of the world seems to have caught my fascination. Somehow, someway, Northern Ireland is in the Zeitgeist1 again. […]. 15 And then there’s Derry Girls, the critically acclaimed Channel 4 comedy whose