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Warm Up media the Internet to broadcast / to defuse entertainment Washington Post -> Watergate -> whistleblower -> Deep Throat partisan information / media moguls George Soros / Ariana Huffington / Rupert Murdoch

Warm Up Life Of David Gale 2003 -> two thousand three OR two thousand and three fake crime  -> it's a crime that never took place / never happened. accused of a fake crime   -> wrongly accused an inspector   ->  a person who's inspecting / checking things out an investigator (to investigate -> enquêter) an innocent    ->  to prove someone innocent. spoiled -> gâché, moisi, pourri "beat on the brat with a baseball bat." Joey Ramone. The Ramones After Warm Up we had a talk about death penalty in the US, and we tried and thought about pros and cons. First, we learnt that few crimes in the US can be punished with death penalty, and that it requires a second trial ( procès ).  We also considered another movie entitled Dead Man Walking with Sean Penn that follows the life of a criminal who had a death penalty sentence. Even in the face of his terrible crimes, a nun tries to help him and keeps on denouncing c...

Warm Up the most haunted place in the USA to commit suicide / to kill oneself "as it was not enough" atavism "it's in the blood" / "it runs in the family" Lovecraftian Frank Miller's Interview LEAVE A LITTLE ROOM FOR THE LESSON PROPER Q&A 1. Vocab Foe -> enemy To be up against -> to oppose something / someone collapsing -> to fall apart spoiled brats -> a horrible little kid that has everything sensible -> logical (sensitive=delicate) 2. What is the "State of the Union Speech?" This is a yearly speech by the US president. In our text, that's G.W. Bush Axis of Evil Speech . 3. Who's the existential foe? For Frank Miller, the "existential foes" are Muslim countries. 4. Why does the text mention "Barbarism?" Give three quotes. - "enslaved woman" - "mutilation" - "decapitation" ("saw people's heads off") 5. Who are the t...