The phantom of the Opera:
The Opera of Paris is a great Opera where every night we can find amazing shows but not only, we can also find there a ghost who hunt every night the Opera. The entire artist who work there fear him but this ghost has a feeble point, he is in love of the most great singer of the Opera, Christine Daée, who has been taught by him how to sing well. Christine thought that the ghost was the angel of music, who was narrated in the stories of his father. But the night when Christine made a success on stage, her childhood friend, Raoul, was there. When she saw him she fainted, after that she didn't want to recognise him, because she knew that the ghost love her and if this ghost, whose name is Erik knew something about the love between she and Raoul, he will kill him. After this night Christine send a letter to his lover to explained to him all this strange story, but the ghost discovered the relationship and get angry, he threaten her that if she don't marry him he will burn the all theatre.
dimanche 26 avril 2009
The phantom of the Opera:
Informal letter
23 Backer street, London
1st April 2009
1st April 2009
My dear Sarah
You know that you're one of my best friends, and that we usually have a great fun together, but if I'm writing to you today it's to tell you something that unfortunately I'm not able to tell you face to face.
Well, in fact I have a big problem with you, you're a good person but you spend your time complaining, sometimes when we discuss you0re only explaining your problems, which they have no solutions. I mean that you're always talking about you, you want to be the centre of the attention and most of our friends are unable to stand you anymore. You need to see further that yourself. I'll add that you're too jealous, for how long have you been accusing me a relationship with your boyfriend ? which it's not true and you know it. So please try to change a bit your behaviour cause our friendship depends on it and if you continue this way I'm sure that pour relationship will break.
Before ending I want to tell you that we all have our bad and good sides so I'm not judging you, I'm just giving you an advice which in my opinion could help you in the future.
See you later,
Bye
Well, in fact I have a big problem with you, you're a good person but you spend your time complaining, sometimes when we discuss you0re only explaining your problems, which they have no solutions. I mean that you're always talking about you, you want to be the centre of the attention and most of our friends are unable to stand you anymore. You need to see further that yourself. I'll add that you're too jealous, for how long have you been accusing me a relationship with your boyfriend ? which it's not true and you know it. So please try to change a bit your behaviour cause our friendship depends on it and if you continue this way I'm sure that pour relationship will break.
Before ending I want to tell you that we all have our bad and good sides so I'm not judging you, I'm just giving you an advice which in my opinion could help you in the future.
See you later,
Bye
vendredi 10 avril 2009
Dialogue with a farmer
Hello, my name is Linda and today I'll try to talk about a topic which is less questioned, which is the difference between the jobs people used to do before and now.
In our modern times, there is no place for ( traditional jobs) like Shepherd or farmer, those works which made and cared the first materials to produce food. If you ask most youngsters what they'll want to do in the future they will probably tell you: a singer, and actor or a business man but few of them will tell you their dreams is to be a shepherd and carry the animals in the field.
Linda: what do you think Mr. Collins, when you were young did you want to be a farmer?
Mr. Collins: yes, sure. Actually all my family worked in the field, it became an old tradition. It was clear for me to be a farmer, I didn't have to choose or think a bout any other job.
Linda: but if your family was from the city and your father a lawyer would you work as a farmer?
Mr. Collins: well, I have to admit that I would probably make another thing.
Linda: so your family and the place you grew-up influenced your future, right?
Mr. Collins: yes, but anyway in my time being a farmer was a very important job, because without our work people couldn't have food.
Linda: do you think that the technology put this kind of jobs as an old and not trendy work?
Mr. Collins: Oh yes, I think that since technology appeared and helped to have a better life, people emigrate from the field to the city to work in the industry. And a lot of other jobs have appeared one after the other letting the most basic ones in the last position.
Linda: but this technology has also helped you to increase your production and make it better and healthier.
Mr. Collins: that's sure, as you know for my parents the work in the farm was very hard, they didn't have the tools and materials that we own now.
Linda: so we can consider that technology has been a good factor to progress in all the fields of life. And also our way of thinking.
In our modern times, there is no place for ( traditional jobs) like Shepherd or farmer, those works which made and cared the first materials to produce food. If you ask most youngsters what they'll want to do in the future they will probably tell you: a singer, and actor or a business man but few of them will tell you their dreams is to be a shepherd and carry the animals in the field.
Linda: what do you think Mr. Collins, when you were young did you want to be a farmer?
Mr. Collins: yes, sure. Actually all my family worked in the field, it became an old tradition. It was clear for me to be a farmer, I didn't have to choose or think a bout any other job.
Linda: but if your family was from the city and your father a lawyer would you work as a farmer?
Mr. Collins: well, I have to admit that I would probably make another thing.
Linda: so your family and the place you grew-up influenced your future, right?
Mr. Collins: yes, but anyway in my time being a farmer was a very important job, because without our work people couldn't have food.
Linda: do you think that the technology put this kind of jobs as an old and not trendy work?
Mr. Collins: Oh yes, I think that since technology appeared and helped to have a better life, people emigrate from the field to the city to work in the industry. And a lot of other jobs have appeared one after the other letting the most basic ones in the last position.
Linda: but this technology has also helped you to increase your production and make it better and healthier.
Mr. Collins: that's sure, as you know for my parents the work in the farm was very hard, they didn't have the tools and materials that we own now.
Linda: so we can consider that technology has been a good factor to progress in all the fields of life. And also our way of thinking.
vendredi 27 mars 2009
News. News-News
PARIS -26/3/09
In France police has arrested an old woman helped to recharged cell phones for illegal immigrants
The 59-year-old volunteer with a lot of groups in the Calais region of northern France was put behind bars and interrogated for three hours before being free.
The French government forbids helping illegal migrants and sets quotas for arrests of those who do it. To try to control growing clandestine immigration. This year 5,000 have been arrested.
vendredi 13 mars 2009
The evaluation of my second oral presentation
1- watch your presentation and answer the following questions:
NAME & TOPIC: English universities
Presentation:
-Did you use any resources? Were the recources elegant and attractive?To do this presentation, we've needed to surch some information on the net about the most famous and great universities in England. The resources were elegant and attractive at the same time. Both of us were interesting to talk about this topic, first because it our dream to go study there.
Body lenguage and eye contact:
-Did you look at your audience most of the time? I think that I've done it, but this time, I think that I was less prepared thanI should be and I was so stressed that I was often watching my information paper.
-Did you read from your notes? Yes I do most of time because.-Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience? I made a lot of gestures with my arms, it's a way to make me understandable.
Structure:
-Did you organize your ideas in order of importance? Yes we've start explaining of what our presentation consisit after we explained with more details four universities: Oxford, the Imperial of London, Lincoln and Cambridge.
-Did you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear? Yes I do, like '' then, finally, so, first...''
Content:
-Did you introduce interesting, NEW information to your audience? I think that we've done it , because we've talk about something that should interest a lot of student of our class because next year we'll have to go to the universities, and the English universities are the most great and important.
-Did you look up information/facts/ideas in the internet/books...? we've look for informations and idees in internet.
-Was your information more superficial or more detailed and original? I don't think that the information was too detailed, we gave a general informations but we've specified it when we've talked about each four universities.
Language:
-Did you use check your grammar? yes for a few word that I didn't understand
-Did you use rich vocabulary looking up the dictionary? yes
-Did you use sentences linkers? yes
-Did you use fillers?
Pronunciation & Intonation:
-Did you know how to pronunce all your words? Did you ckeck a pronuntiation with a dictionary, a classmate, or a teacher?
I think that I've improve my pronunciation but I had a dificulty to pronounce the word ''engeenary''
-Did you change your tone of voice or use monotone tone all the time? did you speed in a fluis continuum or with breaks and interruptions? I think that I've used a monoton voice, I've try to talk slowly, but it's true that because of stress, I had some difficulties to remember some things so I've let some informations.
Self-evaluation:
-You are your teacher! what mark did you get? for this time I don't think that I was in my best day so I'll put a 7 honestly.
NAME & TOPIC: English universities
Presentation:
-Did you use any resources? Were the recources elegant and attractive?To do this presentation, we've needed to surch some information on the net about the most famous and great universities in England. The resources were elegant and attractive at the same time. Both of us were interesting to talk about this topic, first because it our dream to go study there.
Body lenguage and eye contact:
-Did you look at your audience most of the time? I think that I've done it, but this time, I think that I was less prepared thanI should be and I was so stressed that I was often watching my information paper.
-Did you read from your notes? Yes I do most of time because.-Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience? I made a lot of gestures with my arms, it's a way to make me understandable.
Structure:
-Did you organize your ideas in order of importance? Yes we've start explaining of what our presentation consisit after we explained with more details four universities: Oxford, the Imperial of London, Lincoln and Cambridge.
-Did you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear? Yes I do, like '' then, finally, so, first...''
Content:
-Did you introduce interesting, NEW information to your audience? I think that we've done it , because we've talk about something that should interest a lot of student of our class because next year we'll have to go to the universities, and the English universities are the most great and important.
-Did you look up information/facts/ideas in the internet/books...? we've look for informations and idees in internet.
-Was your information more superficial or more detailed and original? I don't think that the information was too detailed, we gave a general informations but we've specified it when we've talked about each four universities.
Language:
-Did you use check your grammar? yes for a few word that I didn't understand
-Did you use rich vocabulary looking up the dictionary? yes
-Did you use sentences linkers? yes
-Did you use fillers?
Pronunciation & Intonation:
-Did you know how to pronunce all your words? Did you ckeck a pronuntiation with a dictionary, a classmate, or a teacher?
I think that I've improve my pronunciation but I had a dificulty to pronounce the word ''engeenary''
-Did you change your tone of voice or use monotone tone all the time? did you speed in a fluis continuum or with breaks and interruptions? I think that I've used a monoton voice, I've try to talk slowly, but it's true that because of stress, I had some difficulties to remember some things so I've let some informations.
Self-evaluation:
-You are your teacher! what mark did you get? for this time I don't think that I was in my best day so I'll put a 7 honestly.
lundi 2 mars 2009
samedi 28 février 2009
Human rights as a social contract
Human rights refer to the "basic rights and freedom to which all humans are entitled"Examples of rights and freedoms include civil and political rights, right to life in liberty, freedom of expression, and equality before the law, the right of be a member of a cultural group, the right to food, to work or to receive an education.
''All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood''
To explain how and why human rights become part of social expectations, some theories trend to designate the influence from part of some philosophers. Hume for example says that the human rights point to a moral behaviour which is a human social product developed by a process of biological and social evolution. Philosophers like Hobbes, Locke or Rousseau remark that we need a social contract to live with a minimum of security and to own economic advantages but we have to be subordinate to some rules from a legitimate authority to made respect the law.Socrates and his philosophic heirs, Plato and Aristotil also posited that a natural justice or natural rights exist (dikaion physikon, δικαιον φυσικον, Latin ius naturale).
The development of this tradition of natural justice into one of natural law is usually attributed to the Stoics ( a kind of philosofy wich defend that we have to control our desires and accept the rules of nature and the destiny)
In the XIX th century Thomas Hobbes founded a social contract theory of legal positivism on what all men could agree upon: what they want or look for (happiness) was subjected to contention, but if the most important fear of men is a violent death at the hands of another, a natural law was how a rational human could assure them to survive and prosper. In Hobbes' s opinion, the only way which could prevail or persuade them was to submit men to the commands of the sovereign. In this lay the foundations of the theory of a social contract between the governed and the governor.John Locke incorporated natural law into many of his theories and philosophy.
Locke didn't agree with Hobbes' prescription around, saying that if the ruler went against natural law and failed to protect "life, liberty, and prosperty," people could justifiably overthrow the existing state and create a new one. Locke defend that all human have rights and possesions, the first possession of every men is of course his body, and all men inhere in his work and have the possibility to take advantage of the payoff.
The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau suggested the existence of a hypothetical social contract where a group of free individuals agree for the sake of the common good to form institutions to govern themselves. This repeated the earlier postulation by Tomas Hobbes that there is a contract between the government and the governed - and led to John Locke's theory that a failure of the government to secure rights is a failure which justifies the removal of the government. But Rousseau believed and trust in the kindness of men wich Hobbes and Locke desapoint it.
violation:
Depending of the different kinds of cultures, some didn't and still don't agree for the acceptance of some human rights rulls, wich in fact, give place to some international conflicts.For example female genital mutilation occurs in different cultures in Africa, Asia and South America. The most surprising is that it is not mandated by any religion, but has become a tradition in many cultures. It is considered a violation of women's and girl's rights by much of the international community, and it's outlawed in some countries.
Human rights violations occur when any state or non-state breaches any part of the UDHR treaty or other international human rights or humanitarian law. In regard to human rights violations of United Nations laws is the only tribunal that may determine UN human rights violations.
Human rights abuses are controlled by United Nations committees, national institutions and governments and by many independent NGO, such as Amnesty International, World Organisation Against Torture, International Freedom of Expression Exchange...These organisations collect documentation of doubtful human rights abuses and apply pressure to enforce human rights laws.
Only a very few countries don't commit significant human rights violations like the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Costa Rica. They are the only countries that did not (in their opinion) violate at least some human rights significantly.
Which are the rights missing?
Even if it's not so evident, there are some missing rights such as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Trans gender rights. Some issues like same-sex marriage, gay adoption and protection from discrimination are considered to be human rights. There are some organisations which fight for them but it's very difficult to find and accord because this questions is used to be considerate as ambiguous.
At least, for me the most important and basic human rights are those which defend the equality between men and women, the freedom expression, the education, cause I remember that my grand-mother couldn't go to school in her childhood, because she was living in a war conflict, and she really want to own it just for being able to read and write but she couldn't because she had to work.
''All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood''
To explain how and why human rights become part of social expectations, some theories trend to designate the influence from part of some philosophers. Hume for example says that the human rights point to a moral behaviour which is a human social product developed by a process of biological and social evolution. Philosophers like Hobbes, Locke or Rousseau remark that we need a social contract to live with a minimum of security and to own economic advantages but we have to be subordinate to some rules from a legitimate authority to made respect the law.Socrates and his philosophic heirs, Plato and Aristotil also posited that a natural justice or natural rights exist (dikaion physikon, δικαιον φυσικον, Latin ius naturale).
The development of this tradition of natural justice into one of natural law is usually attributed to the Stoics ( a kind of philosofy wich defend that we have to control our desires and accept the rules of nature and the destiny)
In the XIX th century Thomas Hobbes founded a social contract theory of legal positivism on what all men could agree upon: what they want or look for (happiness) was subjected to contention, but if the most important fear of men is a violent death at the hands of another, a natural law was how a rational human could assure them to survive and prosper. In Hobbes' s opinion, the only way which could prevail or persuade them was to submit men to the commands of the sovereign. In this lay the foundations of the theory of a social contract between the governed and the governor.John Locke incorporated natural law into many of his theories and philosophy.
Locke didn't agree with Hobbes' prescription around, saying that if the ruler went against natural law and failed to protect "life, liberty, and prosperty," people could justifiably overthrow the existing state and create a new one. Locke defend that all human have rights and possesions, the first possession of every men is of course his body, and all men inhere in his work and have the possibility to take advantage of the payoff.
The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau suggested the existence of a hypothetical social contract where a group of free individuals agree for the sake of the common good to form institutions to govern themselves. This repeated the earlier postulation by Tomas Hobbes that there is a contract between the government and the governed - and led to John Locke's theory that a failure of the government to secure rights is a failure which justifies the removal of the government. But Rousseau believed and trust in the kindness of men wich Hobbes and Locke desapoint it.
violation:
Depending of the different kinds of cultures, some didn't and still don't agree for the acceptance of some human rights rulls, wich in fact, give place to some international conflicts.For example female genital mutilation occurs in different cultures in Africa, Asia and South America. The most surprising is that it is not mandated by any religion, but has become a tradition in many cultures. It is considered a violation of women's and girl's rights by much of the international community, and it's outlawed in some countries.
Human rights violations occur when any state or non-state breaches any part of the UDHR treaty or other international human rights or humanitarian law. In regard to human rights violations of United Nations laws is the only tribunal that may determine UN human rights violations.
Human rights abuses are controlled by United Nations committees, national institutions and governments and by many independent NGO, such as Amnesty International, World Organisation Against Torture, International Freedom of Expression Exchange...These organisations collect documentation of doubtful human rights abuses and apply pressure to enforce human rights laws.
Only a very few countries don't commit significant human rights violations like the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Costa Rica. They are the only countries that did not (in their opinion) violate at least some human rights significantly.
Which are the rights missing?
Even if it's not so evident, there are some missing rights such as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Trans gender rights. Some issues like same-sex marriage, gay adoption and protection from discrimination are considered to be human rights. There are some organisations which fight for them but it's very difficult to find and accord because this questions is used to be considerate as ambiguous.
At least, for me the most important and basic human rights are those which defend the equality between men and women, the freedom expression, the education, cause I remember that my grand-mother couldn't go to school in her childhood, because she was living in a war conflict, and she really want to own it just for being able to read and write but she couldn't because she had to work.
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