Friday, December 21, 2012

The Amish way of life



     The Amish is a religious community, they live like American pioneer. They live in North America, they are Christians and their beliefs are very strong. They settled in America and Canada around the XVIII century. They keep themselves away from the American society because of their religious beliefs; they think that if they stay away from the rest of their fellow citizens, they will avoid sins. Not only they separate themselves from American but also from the rest of the world, in fact, they don’t use modern technology: they don’t have TVs, electricity, computers, modern clothes, phones, etc….

They try to live exactly like their ancestors were living. They try to respect religious rules. Family is extremely important for them. This is why it is common to see an Amish family of fifteen persons. Also they don’t use contraception because it is forbidden by their religion. Divorced is forbidden too. Amish men can have several wives and they can’t decide who they are going to marry because the leader of every community decides for them. They speak a dialect cold “Pennsylvania Dutch”. They refer to non-Amish as “English”.
 
 

My opinion, is that their way of life must be really difficult, they are not allow to use technology and their religious beliefs bereft them from a lot of things. I think that they should try to make coexist their religion with the evolution of our society. Also, according to me Amish women are bereaved from liberty, for example they can’t use contraception and I think it’s already a lot. But in another way if they are happy in their faith, they should be allowed to live their lives as they want.



In November 2012, some people of the Amish community were victims of attacks by fundamentalists. The causes of those attacks were spiritual differences. If they want to be safe should they keep living this way??



Friday, December 14, 2012

A story from Greece




From Persephone to Hades
 
 

Dear Hades, it's been a long time since i have seen your beautifull face. I miss you so much, i can't wait to see you again. Every second i spend away from you is like a torture. I'm not complete without you, when I have to leave you i feel like I'm leaving a part of me. I feel so lonely, minutes seem like hours, and hours like days when we are apart.
I think about you all the time and I'm scared that one day you would forget me. I love you more than my own life, I would give everything just to spend one night with you.
When I'm away fom you everything seems insipid.
As the days continue to pass, my love for you continues to grow, I never thought I had the capacity to love anybody as much as I love you. Waiting for those four months has become the purpose of my entire life, I'm not alive without you, you became the reason why I breath, you make my heart beat, you are my life.
But I keep in my mind the thought that we will soon be together, and I know all the moments i will spend with you, will make me forget the pain of being without you. Don't be sad my love, we will see each other soon.
Entirely yours
Persephone.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

what's wrong with our education system


what's wrong with our education system



    1/ According to Katherine Birbalsingh, the problem with UK's education system is that it lets children blaming the system for their fails, they don't take responsabilities, they think that the teacher is responsible for absolutely everything that happen at school : bad grades, bad behaviour...
    Kathering think that adults always make excuses for children, they don't let them being responsible for themselves. She says for example : « we created a culture where children would turn up to exams without a pen and they expect to be given one ! »

    2/ According to thi teacher, the problem exist because of the lack of freedom speech for teachers, if they criticize the system, they necessary implicate their school, so they stay quiet and the situation stays the same. She alson says that th UK created an « excuse culture » where we always try to find excuses for children's behaviour.

    3/ The minister government doesn't think that government is to blame for the problem, he thinks that their is a problem of discipline and education, he thinks that discipline, quiet places and good education are present in some schools and not in others, he agree in the fact that sometimes they are genuine reasons why children behave in a particular way, but he insists in the fact that teacher must be suported. He doesn't say who is to blame for that but he affirms that the governement is not to blame for that.
     
    4/ To improve the system, Katherin thinks that the excuse culture that they live in must change, children have to be responsible for themselves.

    5/ She woud want to empower teachers to be able to do what's necessary to bring back discipline in their schools, by giving them freedom, she thinks we need to trust teachers more.





In my opinion the education system in my country has several problems. The problem that

Katherine Birbalsingh talks about is also valid for france, we live in a country where, when a child makes a mistake, the parents come to blame the teacher ! Kids in france don't take responsabilities for what they do, and parents support them in that way. Last month, I heard on the news that a mother slapt a teacher in the face because she gave her child hours in detention.

Finally the children are not to blame for that, they just are victims of the eduation their parents gave to them, the solution would be to educate parents, to make them understand that teachers are not there to punish their kids, but to teach them, not only mathematic, history, or science, but also how they should behave .

This is not the only problem that exist in the education system in france, a problem that I personnaly had to face, is orientation ; in france when you are graduated from high school you find yourself completly lost, because the orientation counselor didn't do his job properly. I have the feeling that each counselor say exactly the same thing to every students who belong to the same spinneret. And I'm not the only person who thinks like that, every students whom i talk with, think exactly the same.

The solution to this problem would be to stop putting students in boxes and to really be interested by who they are and what they like, not just by what they study, i personnaly studied economy and today i study languages.




Tuesday, October 9, 2012

The bad word that starts with an E

The bad word that starts with an E


I/ Mr Bean writting exam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocd1D8fwdjU&NR=1&feature=fvwp


When he arrives at the examination hall, mr Bean sits next to a man that he obviously does't know, they both seem to be a little bit nervous and shy, so they just smile at each other. The man start the conversation, he asks mr Bean about the revisions, mr Bean wants to destabilize him, so he takes a confident voice and he tells him that yes he has done the revision and that he concentrated on trigonometry, and when the man tells him that he concentrated on caclculous, mr Bean lies and he says that caclculous was last year subject ! The man looks a little bit nervous, and mr bean is quite happy about that, he laughs !

The examinator tells them that the exam will commence in two minutes, everybody looks impatient and stressed, even mr Bean. The man next to mr Bean starts to prepare himself so he pulls out a pen, mr Bean looks at him and he does the same thing ! The man pulls out a pencil, and mister bean pulls out a bigger pencil, he looks really proud of himself. He wants to be the best in everything, and he also wants to intimidate the stranger next to him so he pulls out five other pens ! He doen't realize that this is completely ridiculous and useless, so he pulls a handful of pens and pencils out of his jacket, and toys and a clock from his bag ! The man next to him is shocked, but mr bean doesn't care.

The exam finally starts, and when we see mr Bean's face, it's easy to understand that the subject is not trigonometry ! He looks devastated, he literrally can't believe his eyes ! The man next to him doesn't seem worry at all. After choosing a pen mr Bean finally decides to start his exam, but the only thing that he can write on his copy is... his name ! He panics, he is even about to cry when he suddenly realises that his comrade has all the answers, he tries copy him and when the man sees him, mr bean pretends to be innocent, he even makes him believe that he has the right answers !

He tries absolutely everything to cheat, he coughs to distract his neighboor, but sadly for mr Bean, the man realises that the answers that he wrote were false, mr Bean is upset, all those efforts for nothing !

He tries to get closer from his neighboor, so he slowly slides his chair... and he hit the man ! Mr Bean is not really discrete ! He goes back to his place and acts like nothing happened, the man stares at him, and mr Bean lookd scandalised ; how dare him, he tries to copy me !

Anyway the man get his little game so he hide his copy from mr Bean. Mr Bean doesn't give up, he squarely steals the man's copy ! The man starts to be angry, he violently take his copy back, and continue his work, mr bean still doesn't know the answers, so he tries to cheat again ! And this is ridiculous again ! He pretends to drop his pen, and when he goes down to pick it, he crawls till the other side of the table, so he can have a better vision on his neighboor's copy. His neighboor catch him once again, and mr Bean still lies, he pretends that he's just picking his pen !

Back to his chair, he realises that all his attemps to copy his neighboor were a complete fail, and he knows that he is not able to finish the test alone, he starts to cry and moan and he calls for his « mommy ! ».

When it lefts two minutes before the end of the examination, the examinator tells everybody that the test is almost over and he says to put the green calculous paper in the green box, and the white trigonometry papers in the white box.

Mr bean is shocked, there was a trigonometry test inside of the enveloppe and he didn't knew ! He spend hours on a calculous exam when he had revised trigonometry, and there was a trigonometry test !! He panics and he tries to start the trigonometry exam, his pen doesn't work so he steals his neighboor's, forgetting that he had a bunch of pens and pencils right next to him ! But it's too late, the examinator ask everybody to stop writting, mr Bean continues his test, the examinator ask once again , mr Bean keeps writting, until the examinator yells at him ! He finally stops writting, his clock rings and he's really angry, he stupidly failed the examination !

After i watched the video, i can say that mr bean's behaviour before and during an exam is really different from mine ! Before the examination he is arrogant, he tries to scare the other students, he is not focused on his work so he forgets important things and during the test he cheats !

II/ My own behaviour during an examination:

To explain you how I feel or behave during an examination I must talk about what I do and how I feel before an examination.
An hour before an important examination, I re-read my lesson, even if I know that it's absolutely useless, it makes me more comfortable and self confident, then I ask my classmates if they learned the lesson even thought I don't really care! fifteen minutes before the exam, i start to panic, and my body starts to feel a lot of strange sensations and feelings; I'm thirsty then I'm not, I need to go to the restroom but I don't want to be late, I sweat...
But when the teacher opens the door of the examinations room I weirdly start to feel better, I sit on my chair, and I'm calm. I try to turn off my brain for a few second so i don't think about anything. When I got my copy I start the test really calmly, I think about how I'm going to manage my time and I keep a clear mind, I don't panic until the end of the exam. 
This is how I feel and behave before and during an examination.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Me, myself and I

My name is HANANE, in arabic حنان means "tenderness". My friends laugh at me sometimes about that because they say my name doesn't represent me. I think it does in a way...
Anyway, I'm 22 years old, I was born in Echirolles and I still live their.

HOPITAL SUD: the place where I was born.









 I'm the youngest in my family, I have three sisters. I live with two of them and my mom. I am a student at "Université Sthendal" in Grenoble in LEA.


Unviversity of stendhal











A picture that summarize my daily ritual in the morning is:










I study languages: arabic and spanish mostly. I study english too, but just a little.
When I'm not at school, I love sport, shopping,listen to music and partying... I'm a normal girl! I love food too, to eat is one of my hobbies. I love to eat but not everything for example I hate shrimps and sea food in general, but I love chocolate and chicken.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkk7wKHGFRI: This song makes me in a good mood.



I haaaaaaatttttttttttteeeeeeeee them!!!!!








                                          
                                                             mmmmmm!!!! I love this:













I'm a really romantic girl: I love flowers, gifts and candlelight dinner. I think love is important in life.
I don't love lot of people because I think love is something you must deserv.





 I love my parents, my sisters and my niece so much. My family means the world to me.
Like everybody, I have defaults and qualities. My main qualities are probably: I'm funny, kind, generous, loyal and intelligent. Obviously I'm not humble. I probably have more defaults than qualities but I'm going to tell just two, so I don't break the beautiful picture that you figured in your mind ha ha ha. I'm nervous, so when I get angry it's really hard for me to calm down and I'm a little bit impatient.
I don't know what I want to do with my life yet, I know that I want to travel and discover the world and to be able to do that I need to speak more than one language. That's propably one of the reasons I'm here.




 


Where should I go first????











Anyway I don't want you to be bored so I'll stop here. Bye