“The Fall of France” Topic: Means and places of power – the power of the media By Mathilde Winniger 1ère ES1 We studied an article taken from Newsweek an American quality news magazine which is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., published...
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Dear diary: Friday, 18 November 1896 Today, I lost my bracelet, the bracelet my mother gave to me as a wedding gift, the servants looked everywhere for it, but it seems that it has vanished, I am so disappointed because it was one of the most valuable...
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A valuable object has disappeared By Anaëlle Barbat and Aude Schlatter Monday, January 6th 1914 Dear Diary, I feel so stressed today. Something very important has disappeared : the lady's favourite ring. It's such a beautiful jewel... Made in gold, with...
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Since I wrote the last time, many things have happened. Indeed, some objects have disappeared and theymust have been stolen. The news came when I was being asked by the Master in his room, and all the staff was very surprised! “But, I don’t understand,...
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The nanny's mother has had a serious accident By Elise Blatter 1ère L Dear Diary, Miss Frankie, our nanny, is the best nanny we have ever had. I have never seen anybody who was so kind with Katie and Suzie, my two daughters. She used to take care of Katie...
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THE MASTER HAS DECIDED TO FIRE THE COOK 6 of December D ear diary, Today, our master was very angry, completely out of his mind. The Cook, Mr. Smith, put too much sugar in a cake he had to prepare. He was certainly stressed... Our master had invited people...
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What we can conclude about the development of the relations between masters and servants? On the one hand, we can notice that there are lots of similarities between the rules even though the first ones are a hundred years older! Servants and assistants...
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Masters and servants : Still separate world ? By Sandra Zerez & Vincent Sarbach In the 21 century, equality seems to be a right for citizens who live in democracies, but this was not the case at the end of the 19th century. Even though slavery ended at...
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Now, I'll try to find the evolution of the rules of those two periods. First, in the past, the master needed several servants, nowadays, there's only one personal assistant which is supposed to do everything he's asked by a celebrity and whatever the...
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