The end of free education ?

Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French far-right National Front party has called for an end to free education in France for children of undocumented immigrants.

"I've got nothing against foreigners but I say to them: if you come to our country, don't expect that you will be taken care of, treated (by the health system) and that your children will be educated for free," Le Pen said.

"That's finished now, it's the end of playtime," she told an audience at a conference organised by a polling group in Paris.

Opinion polls suggest the leader of the National Front (FN) will finish second in next year's presidential election but she is hoping for new momentum after Donald Trump's victory in the United States

Speaking to AFP afterwards, she clarified that she wanted to block education for immigrants who are in France illegally, not all foreigners.

Such a move would contravene current French law which guarantees school places for all children.

She also said that any foreigner using the public education system without paying tax in France would have to contribute.

"We're going to reserve our efforts and our national solidarity for the most humble, the most modest and the most poor among us," Le Pen told the conference.

The staunchly nationalist FN sees itself as part of a global revolt against immigration, established political parties and globalisation epitomised by Trump's victory last month.

Its leaders regularly criticise the use of France's chronically over-budget social security system for foreigners, arguing that needy French people should be prioritised.

Le Pen falsely claimed on Thursday that anyone aged over 65 could arrive in France and start claiming old-age social security payments.

Polls currently show her qualifying for the second-round of May's election where she is forecast to face -- and be defeated by -- rightwing Republicans party candidate Francois Fillon.

Few analysts see her as likely to take power, but it has been an unpredictable year in politics and France's sickly economy and immigration are top issues for voters.

The country last ran a federal budget surplus in the 1970s and has a national debt approaching the equivalent of one year's economic output, or 98.4 percent of gross domestic product.

Le Pen wants to withdraw France from the eurozone and has called for a referendum on the country's membership of the European Union.

Illegal and condemned

Trump made controlling illegal immigration a key part of his pitch to American voters, regularly railing against crime committed by foreigners and the country's "open borders."

Immigration was also crucial in swinging Britain's referendum on the European Union in June when many voters backed the Leave campaign to gain control over their borders.

Le Pen's proposals have echoes of plans reportedly drawn up by the interior ministry in Britain in 2015 when it was headed by Theresa May, who is now prime minister.

Leaked documents revealed by the BBC last week showed that her department had argued for immigration checks in schools and suggested headteachers could withdraw places for the children of illegal immigrants.

French Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem immediately attacked Le Pen's proposal as shameful and unworkable on Thursday.

"With these words, which I condemn with the greatest force, Madame Le Pen proves... her complete indifference to the terrible human circumstances faced by young children," she said in a statement.

She underlined that France guaranteed free education for all school-age children on its territory under its national laws and the international conventions it has signed.

"I remind you that it's a matter of honour for the French republic to guarantee to children, to all children, the right to an education -- in other words, the right to a future," she said.

After a string of terror attacks over the last two years and the biggest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II, hardline rhetoric on immigration is seen as a vote-winner on the right.

Fillon has talked tough on newcomers, promising to reduce immigration to a "strict minimum."

Giraffe extinction

Wild giraffes are not just dropping in numbers at an alarmingly high rate–they’re doing so without much attention from governments and other protective agencies, according to a new report.

The population of wild giraffes has dropped by 40% over the last 15 years, according to a new survey by the Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF). The organization calls the problem a potentially “silent extinction” due to a lack of public awareness, which revolves around African elephants, rhinos and gorillas, Mother Nature Network report.

“Giraffes are the forgotten megafauna,” GCF executive director Julian Fennessy told scientific American. “They’re really not getting the attention they deserve.”

The giraffe population has fallen due to habitat destruction by humans repurposing land for agricultural uses, according toMNN. Giraffes have also historically been hunted for their durable, patterned skin, a process that has reportedly increased in Tanzania due to a myth that giraffe brains and bone marrow can cure HIV.

But giraffe conservationists hope the wild giraffe population can be restored with some intervention. When the West African giraffe nearly went extinct in the 1990s due to human causes and droughts, conservationists won legal protection for the animals, and their population has since increased five-fold.

The roman medicine Part. 1

Thanks to the work of the historians, we know that Romain was more moved forward regarding medicine than we could believe it.

In Rome, there were several types different from doctors, specialized in tasks or different parts of the body and having neither the same qualifications nor the same place in the hierarchy. The medical techniques used by the Roman doctors were very sophisticated in numerous domains.

Our knowledge about the medicine of this period are moreover strongly built on the objects which we drilled up to date in Roman archeological sites and which say length on the doctors who used them.

Because the medicine was a part of the everyday life of the Roman people, these people worshiped gods specific to the medicine, gods who possessed their particular legends.

As soon as the medicine spread in Roman Empire, it was necessary to regulate the profession: there were thus laws planned to allow the justice to cut in several situations in touch with the medicine.

But before explain, a little of history...

Since its birth, the Roman people use the medicine. But this medicine, traditional, is based on vague faiths and strange recipes rather than on the scientific truths, what makes it almost always ineffective. It is practised by quacks. At the same moment, the Greek medicine is very developed and follows scientific principles inspired by the researches for Hippocrates and by others.

But it is going to change the end of the IIIth century b. J.C. Indeed, competent doctors, all of Greek origin, make their appearance in Rome, what is one of the facets of the movement of the Hellenism (Greek civilization having settled down in a foreign country in Greece, here Ancient Rome).

The first one who left his track is the deprived doctor Archagathus, of Sparta, in 219 b. J.C. Already, traditionalists, whom famous Cato the Elder, rebel (Cato is an ancient consul appointed supreme a magistrate and Roman writer been born in 234 b. J.C. and died in 149 b. J.C. It is known for its traditionalism, its refusal of the Hellenism, but also for its treaty of agriculture ).

However, more and more doctors settle down, and the medicine eventually spreads almost everywhere

Nevertheless, it is only at the beginning of Ier century b. J.C. that is established the first school (private) of medicine in Rome. It is Asclepiades of Bithynia's work. The first official school of medicine, or scola medicorum, as for it, will be created in 14 af. J.C. at the end of the reign of the Emperor Augustus (63 b. J.C.-14 af. J.C.). Cornelius Celsus, the only one Roman of origin to have left a real imprint in the medical, brilliant domain by its objectivity and its common sense, writes at that time the biggest treaty of medicine of the Roman antiquity named de re medica, drafted in Latin, recapitulating all the knowledge medical - surgical accumulated since the works of Hippocrates.

This work also establishes bases of Latin scientific terminology (all terms associated to a notion). It will be the first one handled with medicine to be printed in 1478.

The Emperor Augustus decides during its reign to join doctors to all the military trainings: they are medici castrenses. At about II th century, the State decides to create a system of social work: so, he sets up hospitals where public doctors, paid by the state itself, provide medical care free in the most deprived. Imperial doctors also exist.

In the IIth century, Claudius Galen's works, generally considered as the biggest Roman doctor, as well as his papers, revolutionize the medicine and the pharmacy. 

Not less than 500 works were written by the hand

The IVth century sees the State trying to regulate the profession of doctor: since the access of the doctors foreign to the citizenship under Julius Caesar, their rights were excessive. So, its establishes a hierarchy between the doctors. This system continues until the fall of Roman Empire.

Different types of doctor

In the Roman society, several sorts of doctors live, which distinguish themselves by their speciality and\or by the status of the patients after which they look.

• The general practitioner is the most wide-spread: it is capable of establishing a diagnosis for any disease and has as its name indicates it general medical knowledge of all the possible affections.
• The Roman surgeon exists: he treats the patients by operating them manually by using surgical instruments. The surgery is extremely developed at this moment by the History
• The ophthalmologist, the specialist of the affections of eyes. He uses eye drops (generally liquid medicine, applied to eyes to handle certain problems of eyes or eyelids). Uses of the corrective glasses is still unknown.
• The dentist can look after caries and put false teeth as bridges. The dentistry is even closer to what we know today that the other specialities in Rome.

The medicine by herbs is very used by Romain. The itinerant doctors sell remedies and creams with herbs as the fennel, the parsley, the sage, the rosemary...

There are some more other specialities.

The types of doctors by type of patients

The Roman doctors can also differ according to their patients.

• The public doctors are taken care by the Roman State. They can look after whoever who appears at them, just like our modern public hospitals. They preside in cities and their number is limited by Antonine's laws Pickets. Some preside in Aesculapia, places dedicated to the medicine and endowed with medical equipments, but also with thermal baths, with temples …

We have not much knowledge on the military medicine during the Republic. But Auguste, during his reign, reorganizes the military apparatus and adds it particularly well trained doctors, them militate medici, that must make a commitment for a duration of 16 years in valetudinaria, military counterparts of aesculapia. There is a hierarchy between them: an administrator, doctors connected with the legion, with the troop, etc. These doctors must be capable of looking after any war wound.

The private medicine is spread in Rome: many owners possess their own doctors, whom they feed and maintain. All the leading characters surrounded themselves with private doctors. To the imperial palace preside medici palatini, particularly endowed and often very well paid by the emperor.

Most of the Roman doctors are slaves or emancipated slaves (the latter are more estimated for important characters) and are native of Greece or surrounding regions. There are also itinerant doctors: these characters are named circulatores in Latin. As their name indicates it, they move of city in town, in the big gatherings of crowd generally, to sell medicine in the form of herbs, of creams … Because of the ineffectiveness of most of these remedies, this type of doctors is badly considered: we qualify them as quacks.

To be continued for the Part 2.

Barcelona

 I have been talking too much to Italy... 

So today I will talk about

Barcelona !

This city is in Spain (noooo ? ) in Catalonia.

Barcelona has his history already since the Roman Empire, and it would be complicated explain everything, so I will just explain the different things we can see in Barcelona.

Barcelona is separated by 10 districts :

First, everyone know that the most impressive monument you have to see is the Sagrada Família 

situated in the district Eixample

But you can see others Gaudí's monuments like la casa Milà o casa Battló

La casa Batlló is in the disctrict "right" of the Eixample like la casa Milà

Another work of Gaudí is El parc Güell 

But the thing you have to visit if your gourmand...

Is the Chocolate Museum !

Where your ticket is just CHOCOLATE

You can visit too el poble espanyol ( the spanish village ) that represent the architecture of all independent comunities of spain

Dead Poets Society

I will talk about a movie very important for me, because it gives a real lesson for everyone...

Dead Poets Society

This story occur in 1959, in USA. 

Todd Anderson, a shy boy, is sent in prestigious Walton Academy ( a fictitious place ), in Vermont, renowned to be one of the most closed and austere of the country and where his brother did brillant studies.

He meets there a teacher of English letters with practices quite unusual-looking, Mr. Keating, who encourages the refusal of the comformity, the blooming of the personalities and the taste of freedom.

Wanting at the most follow the new way which is presented to them,  some students will be breathing new life to the Dead Poets Society, a group of free and dreamlike minds, which Mr. Keating was, at the appropriate time, one of members more influential.

The discovered of a new life will forever be turning the future of this students. In fact, the situations of the diverse characters lend themselves hardly to the exercise of these liberties recently discovered because the mindsets of parents and teachers don't accept that their authority is questioned by these young personalities trying to break for too rigid rules of the time.

Supermoon

The most spectacular supermoon since 1948 will light up the sky, appearing 14 per cent bigger and 30 per cent brighter than usual.

The event on Monday November 14 - described as "undeniably beautiful" by American space agency Nasa - is the result of the moon coming closer to Earth than it has done for 69 years.

Nothing will match it until the moon makes a similar approach on November 25 2034.

On top of the moon's bigger than usual size, they will then be treated to an additional "low-hanging moon" effect.

This is an optical illusion caused by the moon being close to the horizon, where it can be measured against familiar objects such as trees and houses.

But

What is a supermoon ?

The impressive sight happens when a full moon is closest to Earth. It orbits our planet in an oval shape so sometimes it comes closer to us than at other times. To us Earth-lings, the moon appears 30 per cent brighter and 14 per cent bigger. 

By the way, supermoon is not an astrological term. It's scientific name is perigee-syzygy, but supermoon is more catchy, and is used by the media to describe our celestial neighbour when it gets up close.

Of The Times http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/chance-of-supermoon-sightings-wane-as-cloud-and-fog-sweep-in-fwtzcvj8r

Some words :

catchy : likely to attract interest or attention

shape : the appearence of an object

Leonard Cohen, the Blues Rocker

I learnt this morning than Leonard Cohen died this Thursday, he was 82

The singer of "Halleluja" was born in Montreal on Sept. 21, 1934, and grew up in the prosperous suburb of Westmount. His father, Nathan, whose family had emigrated to Canada from Poland, owned a successful clothing store ; he died when Leonard was 9, but this will included a provision for a small trust fund, which later allowed his son to pursue his literary and musical ambitions. His mother, the former Masha Klonitzky, a nurse, was of Lithuanian descent and the daughter of a Talmudic scholar and rabbi. "I had a messianic childhood", Mr. Cohen would later say.

Over a musical career that spanned nearly five decades, Mr. Cohen wrote songs that addressed ( in spare language that could be both oblique and telling ) themes of love and faith, despair and exaltation, solitude and connection, war and politic. More than 2,000 recordings of his songs have been made, initially by the folk-pop singers who were his firsts champions, like Judy Collins and Tim Hardin, and later by performers from across the spectrum of popular music, among them U2, Aretha Franklin, R.E.M, Jeff Buckley, Trisha Yearwood and Elton John.

This singer was one of the most important for me, his songs rocked mi childhood and will continue to enchant me every time I will listen to one.

source : ABC journal

Some words : 

Fund : a sum of money set aside for a specific purpose

Talmudic : of or pertaining to the Talmud

Messiah : The promise deliverer of the jewish people

Oblique : indirectly expressed

United Kindom, new projects ?

As you know, I'm in love of Italy.

I've already visited Roma, Firenze, Lucca, Ostia, Pisa, Bologna...

But I never visited United Kindom... 

And if even the rain is a part of this country.. 

( I hate the rain and the cold )

Will UK be my new target ? 

There is so many things to talk about United Kindom

First, all of us know that UK is composed of four countries :

England, Scotland, Wales and Nothern Ireland.

It's a constitutional monarchy, and the Queen is Elisabeth II

But United Kindom is too a big influence in the fashion.

But that I prefer in United Kindom is his history. It's one of the most important country of the world and I hope I will visit this country soon !

Some words : 

Target : a fixed goal or objective

New Phone Boxes

I finally retuuuuuuuuuuuurned 

( for work... bur anyway )

Today, I'll talk about the new phone boxes in British cities.

So, Why this new phone boxes will interest the people, we are in the age of the smartphones, no ? 

One company is giving a new utility to these booths, as small offices.

Pod Works ( the company ) is hoping to lure people from coffe shops to work on its revamped booths, boast wifi, plug sockets, a phone, a printer, a scanner and free coffee and tea.

Pod Works has lauched its first work station in London's Russell Square in September and it is opening others across the capital soon. It plans to expand to other cities in October.

Complicated words : 

Booth : a small place wich allows privacy for telephoning, for example

Lure : attract

Revamped : renovated

Plug sockets : that we use to have electricity for computer, mobile...

http://www.newsinlevels.com/products/new-phone-boxes-level-3/

Bye bye ESO !

It's the end of the year 2015-2016... And I'll leave ( I hope ) the ESO. 

To have the ESO, it's as have the GCSE in England.

I was in France, and I arrived in Spain in the year 2014-2015. But is in the year 2015-2016 that I developed my capacities, especially in english. 

I've improved, I've grown up

It's surprising how we change in so littler time.

The next year, I'll study humanistic Baccalaureate. 

My options will be Grec, Latin, French ( so difficult ) , and world literature.

Normally, I've to leave this blog, but if I find time, I'll try write, and post something insteresting ( ? )

Anyway, I'm happy to leave the ESO, and Begin to study things really importants for my future.

My animals

Maybe you have animals... or not, but in my case, yes I have animals ( and not only one ! )

So, I'll  present you my (crazy) animals !

Dandy Blue

He's a Birman, he is 9 and his color is blue point ( greyon the extremities) 
He's soft as a teddy bear but with his brother, he's jealous and dominant.

Délice D'Or

He's the Dandy's brother, but him is red point ( sand colour on the extremities ) 

He's kind with me, but he's "frustated" because of his brother.. So he's a little bit... "Tyrannical" with the others animals... But he's cute, no ?

Sylvestre

or M.Gras ( traduction --> M. Fat )

or Bébé chat meugnooooooon ( please, don't try to find why ) 

I've never seen a cat so... ragdoll ? 

We found him on the garbages, he was almost dying...

And now look at this

( cat or not cat ? That is the question, Shakespeare.. )

Yes, he's sleeping like that...  Always ! 

Sometimes I'm thinking that he's human... But he's better than a human, he has a caracter as a human, but he's a cat ! 

So great, no ?

( I just want to be like Siperman.. Bur I'm practising for the moment ! )

( " I love you, slave... )

( But just stop taking photos !.." ) 

But too I've my horses 

( and sorry for the photos, isn't a great quality )

Tessy

( I've arleady talked about her )

Simply The Best With Eva

( this name is really modest)

 

Fakir ( Or Kirou or just Krou )

with Simply

 

Love is beeeeeautiful

 

 

 

Carinya
(I don't have another photo, sorry )

 

Duende

 

 

Ebène

( Sefiiiiine )

 

Eva

Today, I'll present you a person you could see on my photos ; my best friend Eva

When I arrived in Spain ( now 2 years ago ) we knew each other and we never separeted.

She's my opposite : I've Brown hair and she blond, I've Brown eyes and she blue. But there's something we share : we are both mad

A woman, or a ghost ? That is the question !

 

Musical

The week-end on the 28th and 29th May we did a Musical. 

This musical talked about the series Fame 

The grup was very weld and all of us enjoyed working on this theme.

It was difficult but I think we can be proud of the result

Differences between the book and the film Romeo + Juliet

After reading Romeo and Juliet, we saw the film Romeo + Juliet with DI CAPRIOOOOOOO ( Okay sorry ) 

We could see many differences between them, but what are they ?

• First, the story occured on the present, and the original Romeo and Juliet, on the 16th century.

• There isn't swords in the film, only guns.

• Romeo didn't kill Paris in the film.

• Mercutio is black in the film.

• Mantua is a city in the original story, in the film, a desert.

• Romeo didn't take drug to go in the Capulet's party.

 

Italy

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I think you know, now. But I'm so in love of Italy !

Quindi, Benvenuti a tutti ! vi presenterò il mio mundo !

The first thing that we think when we hear the word "Italy", we think at the history

We can think at the Antiquity, this one of the periods the most interesting, because the art and the civilisation was so developed.

The Roman Empire began at 27 before the Crist, and ended at 476 after the crist. 

To see the rests of this antic civilization, I advise to visit Rome, Pompeii, Ostia Antica, Herculaneum...

Between the  Trecento ( XIVe)  and the Cinquecento ( XVIe) There is the Italian Renaissance

This periode changed the Europe completely ; All the "genius" were in Florence and Roma ( especially in Florence ) : Macchiavelli or Petrarca for the literature, the artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci or Rafaello. 

And the architecture was impressionant : Il duomo di Santa Maria Del Fiore  or la Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano

Toscana was THE place of art : no matter where you can see in this city, you will see history, and you will live it as those who were before you there. 

There is too another thing that we think about italy :The Food !

( I'm hungry...) 

Pizza, pasta, risotto, olive oil, parmegiano... 

The food is still a part of the italian's history ! 

I love this country, his culture, his people...

Just leave yourself fall in love with Italy,

you will discover things that you'd ever thought..

And maybe leave your heart there... As I.