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"A Greek Hot Dog !"
The moveme nt of the Outraged people has been broadcast all over the world during the past few months. A new generation of people -who fear that the financial crisis will compromise their future and refuse the excess of globalization implies- has emerged....
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The Experience of Being an Au Pair
As this blog is mainly read by students, I thought it could be a good idea to write an article about a quite different way to learn English and to go in a foreign country to get to know a different culture than the traditional Erasmus program. Even if...
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Colombe
Paris le 16 février 2010 Comédie des Champs Elysées Etant de passage à Paris j’ai profité de cette occasion pour me divertir et quoi de plus divertissant qu’une pièce de théâtre surtout lorsque les personnages de la pièce sont interprétés par de grands...
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Anna Karina, icône intemporelle
Bande à part, 1964 « Les films doivent montrer des filles comme nous les aimons, des comme nous les croisons tous les jours, bref, les choses telles qu'elles sont » déclarait François Truffaut en 1959, aux débuts de ce qui deviendra une révolution dans...
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Everyone's a Journalist
Once upon a time journalism was an elite profession. You began your career as a cadet journalist writing stories on local sporting matches and getting the coffee, then climbed gradually to the top to be writing about the big stories. Now everything has...
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Is new media ruining television?
One thing that I have observed over the past decade is how television is constantly changing its format. When I was young I used to watch comedy sitcom programs with my family. We would all sit around the television and laugh to shows such as ‘Everybody...
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Create your music,“Frenchies” will handle the video clip
One of the first the French directors to make his mark in the music industry was Michael Gondry. With as many as 80 video clips, Gondry is the one who launched the “French touch”. Since 1988, he has been working with artists like The Whites Stripes (“The...
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* LOGORAMA *
I think and hope that I don't make any mistake saying that everybody knows that, for the first time since the beggining of the creation of the Oscar Academy Award in 1929, French directors won the Oscar for the Best Short Film. Indeed, it is about Logorama...
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New season? Read this you little worms!
I don't know if there will be a new season of blogging here for I have not had any news from Prof for quite a while nor have I given news. Anyway I'm going to give a piece of advice _not too long_ to the potential new contributors: _First: this is obvious,...
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Le transport en commun en Europe
Je crois que le transport en commun en Europe est beaucoup mieux à celle de l'Australie. En Australie il ya toujours eu un tollé du public contre le gouvernement et notre transport en commun mauvaise. Mais jusqu'à ce que je suis arrivé en Europe, je n'avais...
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Cher John
J’ai vu la bande annonce de ce film quand j’étais en Suisse et récemment ressenti le désir de voir le film immédiatement. En dehors de mon amour des deux précédents des principaux acteurs Channing Tatum et Amanda Seyfried et l’auteur du roman dont le...
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Australie, un pays dangereux?
J’ai quittée l’Australie pour la France à la fin du mois de décembre. Depuis mon arrivée, j’ai entendu beaucoup de stéréotypes au sujet des Australiens et de l’Australie. Parfois, l’idée que les Européens ont de l’Australie est si drôle que quand j’y...
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saser aryen
"saser aryen". Annulation par sms, par l'interessé lui-même, des deux heures de soutien français, payées au noir et qui financent ma grave addiction au tabac. Les adolescents sont des êtres anguleux et stupides; la nouvelle génération de parents, molle...
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EXIT festival!
Blinding lights. Earth shattering sound. Ground-breaking dancing. Petrovaradin fortress. Novi Sad. Serbia. Europe. Here I am describing the annual summer music festival... EXIT! I have two friends who last year attended this festival and let me just say...
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Good Luck!
Hi Boys and Girls!! Today is examination day.... Some of you might say that I'm crazy, I should probably focus on the political institution exam....Well, you're probably right, but, those who know me well, know that I'm not like that... Anyway! I wanted...
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Convergence Culture
Living in a developed country such as Australia, I have always had almost every type of technology and media outlet available at my fingertips – mobile phones, laptops, the Internet, computers, every version of PlayStation that has been released, iPods,...
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The End ou The Début
Nous voilà à l'aube des examens de fin d'année, je dirais même nous voilà à la fin du premier round du cursus LMD! En effet, c'est notre licence qui nous attend au alentours du mois de juin! Trois ans, ça passe vite. Et si nous faisions un petit récapitulatif...
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Facebook peut faire les amis mieux, ou simplement plus d’amis ?
Ce n’est pas souvent qu’on rencontre quelqu’un dans la société actuelle qui ne possède pas un compte de Facebook. Avec plus de 110 million d’utilisateurs dans le monde, surtout des adolescents et des jeunes en cours, on se demande ce qui est si attrayant...
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Culture Shock...
I remember sitting in a meeting at the University of Wollongong before I left for a semester studying abroad in France and being delivered a very serious and detailed lecture about ‘culture shock’. I was even given a detailed document about it, where...
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Where is the L.O.V?
Do You Remember? Hey guys! For my first article, I wanted to tell you a story...But, finally, I changed my mind, because, you probably all know what the story is about... Okay... I will refresh your memory... "Once upon a time, in the University of Tours,...
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"Across the Universe"
I have absolutely no idea what to talk about for my final blog, so I am going to follow trend and do a movie review. Thus I am going to discuss a film I watched recently called “Across the Universe”. This film, for those of you who have not seen it, is...
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Welcome
This blog is just a tool for a class at the University, designed to train students to write regularly on whatever (or nearly whatever) topics they choose . We do not pretend to be professionals (for the simple reason that we are NOT professionals...)...
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Reportage sur le graff et sur Les Grabouilleurs de Tours
Je vous invite à regarder ce petit reportage sur le graffiti et sur l'association Les Grabouilleurs de Tours, dont j'ai récemment eu l'occasion de rencontrer un des membres. Le reportage est très interessant et explique bien les bases du graffiti.
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So what? Are we in 2012?
Hey guys! Happy new year to you all, best wishes, hope we'll all have luck, success, money, love, sex... whatever! No need to sign this. XOXO