The School of the Air

Since World War II, Autralia has established a unique kind of school: the School of the Air, a technological vision of school to help children scattered on the huge Autralian territory to have access to teaching and knowledge. The students used radio frequencies and now the satellite to attend their courses.

Consult the Australian gouvernment site about the School of the Air

Consult the School of the Air site

 

M.A.S.H. : a satirical view of US relation to war

On February 28th, 1983, it was the final episode of the MASH series. At the beginning, MASH was a movie released in 1970 before inspiring a popular and critically acclaimed TV series which ran from 1972 to 1983. The movie and the series narrated the satirical adventures of doctors from a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (or MASH), caught in the Korean conflict.

Caribbean Writers

Time for the site to pay tribute to the English Caribbean Writers!

  Derek Walcott, born in Saint Lucia, Literature Nobel Prize

  Sir VS Naipaul, born in Trinidad and Tobago 

George Lamming, born in Barbados

Jamaica Kincaid, born in Antigua

Rabamai Espinet, born in Trinidad and Tobago

Neil Bissoundath, born in Trinidad and Tobago

Edwige Danticat, born in Haiti 

Joanne Gail Johnson, born in Trinidad and Tobago

Toni Morrison

The widely acclaimed author of Beloved, Tar Baby and The Bluest Eye was born on February 18th, 1931. An American novelist, profesor and editor, she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1993 and an impressive list of awards.