Today, I want to talk about students and travel. To my mind, students have many of help to travel or to have a job in other countries (this is the aspect that I want to underline) I want to take two examples (or testimonies If you want) a friend who worked before in the Brasserie Le France in Narbonne and the second example which was during long ti

Today I want to talk about stereotypes and particularly the fact that sometimes a fiction's character could represent a country. I hesitated between Hercule Poirot or the movie Crocodile Dundee in which we have a specific vision of australians. When I say that he could be represent a country I think of Hercule Poirot a character who was created by

Iceland / Vienna Today I want to talk about travel, and i've searched some ideas of how can we travel around the world with an original way. There was an website which was interesting because there are a lot of ideas for example the concept of : -> Discover a city with a group of foreigners, all of them with an easily identifiable accessory for exa

Phone and telegraph lines, Vancouver, Canada.1914. Today I want to talk about telegraph lines which refers to the song of Straits Dires (the song that we learn in class) I want to underline the fact that even if it is not in the west of the country, it's interresting to show how telegraph evolve. This picture was taken in 1914 and it shows that dur

The ghost, the room, and an illustration of "Slender Man" Today let's talk about a strange story. I was looking for in the Daily Mirror an unusual article to rest in the theme of Halloween (even if it was last week) So I found an article in this Tabloid talking about the phenomenon of Urbex. Urbex consists to explore lost properties, it's forbidden

DIR: Marianne DeMarco *****MUSIC: "Echoes of Time" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. @kmacleod http://incompetech.com/ ***** Today let's talk about Trump's election. Even if we haven't talk about this in class I think that's a good topic and we can do a link with the segregation during the 50's. Everybody kn

Today I want to talk about how hispanic culture contributed in America. I've chosen an example : Dance with the Tango. I think that for the dancers, the tango gives some new things ; so tango is a partener dance which was born during the XIXe century (1850-1890) in Argentina. As immigrants from Europe, Africa, and ports unknown streamed into the ou

(On left Johnny Depp, on right Gary Farmer) (On left Iggy Pop, on right Johnny Depp) Today let's talk about the movie "Dead Man" which was released by Jim Jarmusch (We can underline the fact that his movies are very weird, "Dead Man" is the only one movie of J.Jarmusch which is the most watchable) Before all, I want to say that this film maker is

Name : Aloysia Country : Ireland Member since : 03.26.2017 Age : 22 Gender : Woman Occupation : Guitarist Languages : -> English -> French -> Spanish Personal Description : I'm going to present myself, so I think that I'm someone who can be shy but when I'm centre stage this shyness disappears.I love to hangout with my friend in bars (particularly

Today let's talk about the segregation during the 60's in the United States. First of all I give you a definition of segregation :the institutional separation of an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group from the dominant majority. During the 60's black people are seperated from the others because they were considered as animals, and no