Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Artistes Français


Je connais Monet. Je ne le connais pas personnellement mais je
connaîs ses peintures.

Je sais que Monet est né à Paris






Je connais Degas. Je ne le connaîs pas personnellement mais je connais ses peintures.


Je sais Degas est célèbre pour des peintures, des sculptures et des dessins.


Je connais Matisse. Je ne le connais pas personnellement mais je
connais ses peintures.

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Je sais que Matisse est mort à Nice.




Wednesday, September 30, 2015

le cinéma et mon quartier (blog 1)


Aujourd'hui, Ruby et moi allons au cinema. Nous allons aussi au cafe pour dejeuner. L'adresse pour notre appartement est le 18 Rue D'assas dans le 6arr. Il ya un café à quatre minutes de notre appartement s’appelle Café du Métro. Le cinema est trois minutes de notre appartement et le théâtre s’appelle L’arlequin. Pres de la cafe est un magasin tres populaire en Amérique, Brandy Melville. Nous marchons au cinema pour la seance de Life, un film Americaine avec  Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Ben Kingsley, Joel Edgerton, et Alessandra Mastronardi au sujet d’une photographe qui a été affecté à prendre des photos de James Dean. Le film est une heure et quarante-deux minutes.
Apres le film mais avant dejeuner, nous arretons à Brandy Melville.J'achète une chemise noire et un pull gris. C’est le temps pour dejeuner alors nous marchons au Café du Métro pour des sandwiches et une pâtisserie. Nous parlons sur le film. Ruby dit “J’aime le film!” J’aime le film aussi. J’achete un croque monsieur pour dejeuner et Ruby achete le meme. A treize heures et demi, nous finissons dejeuner et marche retour à notre appartement. C’est une bon jour avec mon amie.












Friday, January 16, 2015

Je Suis Charlie

Dear Mom and Dad,
I am currently in Marseille, France. You have probably heard the news of the recent shooting in Paris. My apartment is in the 6th Arr., close to where the shooting happened but I am fine and am spending some time in Marseille. The tradgedy has impacted everyone around France. Yesterday at noon, there was a moment of silence all around France for the victims of the shooting at Charlie Hebdo. Around France, the words Je Suis Charlie are displayed on many signs and posters when people gather to remember the victims. These signs also appear in windows, on trains, and in the hand of the citizens of Paris. The signs look like this:
Twelve cartoonist from Charlie Hebdo were shot by what we believe to be two extremists of the Islamic religion. Everyone around Paris is shocked and there have been many gatherings and ceremonies in the streets of Paris and around France commemorating the victims and their families as well as the issue in general. French people of the Islamic religion are speaking about how this is not their religion and how they are just as shocked and sad as everyone else. Leaders of the religion in France are saying that these people were terrorists and their Prophet and religious beliefs were centered in hate. Everyone is grieving from the loss of these twelve cartoonists.



I have many thoughts about the issue. My initial thoughts were why would we antagonize these fragile extremists when we know what their capable of. Why would we cause issues around such a fragile group of people. I wondered why the people at Charlie Hebdo created these cartoons, making fun of a Religion is not okay and even if we disagree, we should know that things like this can cause major reactions such as the shooting of twelve cartoonists. On the other hand though, a reaction of the extemists breaks the freedom of religion beucase even if the images shown were offensive in the Islamic people, they are not offensive in other religions and their reaction is imposing that we have to have the same beliefs as they do. We should have our freedom of speech and freedom of press and be able to say whatever we feel but we should also take into consideration what may happen because of our actions. This brings me to think about The Interview, the American film that was recently released about South Korea and their leader. I feel that maybe the release of the movie was a mistake because even if we disagree with a political figure or religion, we should not make fun of an issue that is so fragile and capable into turning into something potentially dangerous because we know that it can.