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28 janvier 2012

TIME

What's the Time ? It isn't just the hour we can read on our watch. The Time can designate the action of ageing; predictions, things which will be released in the future; space ... In the greek mythology, the personification of Time is Chronos. There are...

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Tags: english, evolution, next generations, time, time capsule

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9 octobre 2011

Frankenstein, the summary of the extract we studied

Volume 1 Chapter 4 of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley ( 1818 ) Paragraph 1-2 : The action takes place in November, on a dreary night. Victor F. finished his creation, the Creature. This Creature waked up, and its eyes opened. The atmosphere is disturbing....

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11 octobre 2011

Steve Jobs, chained to a rock.

He was the co-founder of the Apple Computer Incorporation. The world of computer is so sad because a genious pass. Indeed, he died on Wednesdayn the fifth day on October. The reason of Steve's death is a pancreas cancer. He was a friend of Lance Amstrong...

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8 novembre 2011

The appointment ...

This text is taken from the story The millionaire in Journey of the Mind written by Alan Pemberton, in 1983. The action of this extract takes place in the Millionaire's house, in his office, who is called Dr Richter. He was sitting quietly at his desk,...

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28 janvier 2012

Like a Hobo

Like a Hobo it's a song from Charlie Winston. In the clip we can see the singer who poses as a tramp, accompanied by a strange man. They walk and arrive in a little village of the middle west, where people don't warmly welcome them. The Charlie Winston's...

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12 mars 2012

Poster

I did the poster you gave us to do. But, even if you have canceled this project, I still did it. Here the poster and his description : I decided to take Ronal Mc Donald, of the short film named Logorama, because he's the logo of Mc Donald, the famous...

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1 octobre 2011

Frankenstein is not the creature but the creator !

Frankenstein is a Gothic novel published in 1818 by Mary Shelley. The full title of this novel is Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus. Frankenstein is the story of Victor Frankeistein creating a monster : the Creature. This monster became crazy because...

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11 octobre 2011

Cutie, the most intelligent robot ever made !

Cutie is a robot, the most intelligent robot ever made. Our subject of analysis was an extract of this novel, the scene takes place in a space station. These stations were created to feed energy to the planets. Two humans work in this station. But, the...

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31 octobre 2011

Bloody Mary

In the 1600's, in England, in a deep and dim forest, near a small village, lived a healer named Mary. She made herbal remedies, for the villagers. But, one day, a young girl disappeared near Mary's house. The villagers didn't find the girl's corpse and...

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20 novembre 2011

Voice Recognition in a Lift !

On Friday, we saw this video, which talks about 2 scottish men who take a lift where there aren't any buttons to change floors, but above them, on the ceiling, there is one kind of box : a speech recognizer ! So they selected the floor they want to go.....

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2 décembre 2011

Freegans

We saw a video ( a TV report on CBS News ) which talked about the Freegans ( a mix between free and vegans ), a non-profit organization. They are volunteers activists who take out vegetables ( no meat or rotten food ) of the trash of restaurants or supermarkets....

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2 décembre 2011

Geico's Caveman

The mascot of Geico, an insurance, is a caveman. He is a symbol, which implements the slogan of Geico : "so easy, a caveman could do it !"... So, in first, we see a video in which there are the best of Caveman ads, and we had to answer at these questions...

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7 janvier 2012

Logorama !

Logorama is a french short story, realised in 2009 by François Alaux, Hervé de Crecy, and Ludovic Houplain. The action takes place in a city ( Los Angeles ) which is entierely contituted by logo. The people, the buildings, the cars, the animals, and even...

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30 avril 2012

The 100th Anniversary of the Titanic sinking.

Two weeks ago, that was the 100th anniversary of the Titanic (the famous luxury liner boat) sinking, which was adapted into a film in 1997. But what is the Titanic, what is its frightening story ? The titanic was a huge luxury liner boat, which could...

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12 mai 2012

W.E.

"W.E" is a new film, realised by Madonna. It's an historical movie, based on true facts. It talks about a love story between a king ( Edward VIII ) and a simple woman ( Wallis Simpson ), so an impossible love story. Edward VII and Wallis Simpson Indeed...

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18 novembre 2011

Franklin's Fear

With Sarah we heard an interview of Yuri, an artist who realised this painting. Yuti wanted to contrast the colors, he often chooses color by going with a feeling. He painted it on a piece of wood, and wanted to play with the colors, the shape of the...

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15 octobre 2011

The island of doctor Moreau

To close the topic we studied : new Prometheus' stories, I suggest to talk about The Island of Doctor Moreau, written by Herbert George Wells, a famous English novelist. This story is a fantastic novel, in whitch a doctor creates monsters, a mix of humans...

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4 octobre 2011

A Space Odyssey ( or the Modern Prometheus )

Today we studied a movie : this film is "Space Odyssey" and it is interesting to compare this film with the story of Frenkenstein.. Stanley Kubrick : He is the screenplayer of this film. He is famous because his movies are surrealist. He was born in New...

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20 mars 2012

A play about the 50's life

Before the holidays, you asked us to do a play, in group, about the 50's life. I was with Pauline, Lola and Bettina. In our play, we staged two girls ( Pauline and Bettina ), who are drinking Coca Cola, and two people, a boy ( me ) and a girl ( Lola )...

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20 mars 2012

The Road

I was absent when the class saw this Trailer, but I'll try to do a summary of the lesson and the exercice about it. The scene takes palce in the 50's. It's not an epic journey in this film. Indeed, the passage deals with chaos : everything is destroyed...

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31 octobre 2011

Thriller ...

Thriller is the most famous Michael Jackson's music and clip. Realised on second December 1983. In the start of this clip, Michael Jackson is in the cinema with his girlfriend. They see a horror film, and MJ's girlfriend want to go out because she's scared....

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2 janvier 2012

Ohh it's already the new year !

And ... the time to back to school. I give you just a little joke, to begin the new year with humor and courage ! See you tomorow ! ( clik on the photo to see better, in a larger format )

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3 octobre 2011

Frankenstein's creature, you're so beautiful !

Thank you and see you ! :-)

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16 avril 2012

Podcast about Dame Ellen MacArthur

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10 octobre 2011

My own Space Odyssey Trailer, with intertitles !

There are two little errors in my trailer. And I can't correct them on the video. The errors are : mankind* and no "manking" ( on the end of the video ), and can't* instead of "can" ( on astronauts' passage ).

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