#Metoo

Women are posting messages on social media to show how commonplace sexual assault and harassment are, using the hashtag #MeToo to express that they, too, have been victims of such misconduct.

The messages bearing witness began appearing frequently on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, when the actress Alyssa Milano posted a screenshot outlining the idea and writing “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet.”

It follows further allegations of rape against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

More than two dozen women - among them actresses Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Rose McGowan - have made accusations against him including rape and sexual assault. Weinstein insists sexual relations he had were consensual.

Although the #MeToo hashtag is trending worldwide - including in the UK, US, India and Pakistan - other hashtags are also being generated.

In France, Twitter users are using #balancetonporc or "rat on your dirty old man" to encourage women to name and shame their attackers, while #Womenwhoroar is another term being used to encourage victims of bullying or sexual abuse to speak

The #MeToo movement is not the first to use social media to highlight abuse against women. In 2014, a #YesAllWomen campaign drew notice on social media after a man cited his hatred of women as his reason for killing people in Southern California. The activist Laura Bates started the #EverydaySexism campaign in 2012 to document widespread sexism, harassment and assault.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/20/women-worldwide-use-hashtag-metoo-against-sexual-harassment

Roman camp

A camp of stage of eight legions (for 48 000 men, understood muleteers) has a rectangular shape of 655 on 610 meters aside approximately, is a 40 hectare surface. A camp of wintering or permanent would twice more be big.

For tactical reasons, the place is rather chosen in height. But the essential criteria are: the safe and easy access (because the camp is established at the end of the day, thus the troops are tired); the presence of a water source; sufficient meadows for the feed of horses and used beasts of burden; the most close possible ground, with enough slope for the drainage: neither rocks, nor roots. It's better to be near a wood to build the camp. But we know it where everything is stone dry.

The plan is always the same, what allows a very fast construction. The tribune and the centurions in charge of the establishment of the camp measure the ground and fix the location of the prætorium (the tent of the general), squared by 60 meters aside. The white flag crashed in this place serves as mark all around of which gets organized all the camp: ways, tents, forum and surrounding wall.  Behind the surrounding wall, a release of about sixty meters is left free to allow movements of the units, and put the first rows of tents shielded from the opposite jets.

Two main ways, the via principalis and the decumanus, get away themselves with right angle in front of the prætorium. However the number of legions the camp shelters is higher, one via parallel quintana in this via principalis is also drawn.

Crack troops camp on all sides of the prætorium, formed by foot soldiers and by riders who live in long rectangular camps divided into ten barracks, welcoming eight soldiers each. A whole century lives in a camp, established by a succession of copies-rooms. The first one is used as cloakroom to the soldiers to store their weapons and other cumbersome personal effects. The second is the barracks itself, with a fireplace and bedsteads stacked to sleep eight men of the contubernium, placed under the supervision of a leader of barracks. Every barrack consists of a room preceded by an anteroom on the ground of hard-packed surface.

Valetudinaria is medical zones incorporated into the camp from the professionalization of the armies of Auguste at least, and are the military versions of aesculapia.

   

1. Praetorium

2. Via praetoria 

3. Via principalis 

4. Porta principalis ( dexter, right ) 

5. Porta decumana 

6. Porta principalis ( senestra, left ) 

7. Porta praetoria

Domus, Part 1

The term domus is very old : it goes back to an Indo-European etymology *( dom-) which indicated the family on two generations, and fires his its origin of the root dem-, to build. The domus is thus the Roman family house, the head of the family of which bears the name of dominus. Its archaic shape is known by funerary urns found in the necropolises of the old Forum Romain which had the shape of a hut rounded off in only room. The thorough vestiges of huts found on the Palatine Hill and dated the 8th century BC confirm this very modest plan. The Etruscan influence at the end of the period of the Roman monarchy sees being born the domus with a square structure, and several rooms. However the house remains rustic, as shown by the name of the house by the word hortus (garden of plants in Latin) used in the Law of Twelve Tables and translating the still narrow link between the house and its closed garden. 

According to Roman tradition, the Law of the Twelve Tables was the legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law. The Tables consolidated earlier traditions into an enduring set of laws.

The roman way, Part. 1

To -400, Romain used runways to move of Rome towards the surrounding cities.  The raid of the  Gauls of Brennus, which will turn out disastrous for Romain in -390, will so be the first revelation of the ineffectiveness of the defensive system of Rome, owed mainly to the slowness of progress of the troops on the paths of the period. The necessity of a better defense allied to a will of expansion and hegemony on Italy leads a Roman Republic still fragile and threatened from the outside to set up a network of robust stone and relay roads, better adapted to its needs. These axes allowed a faster and easier circulation for the storekeepers), but also the quick transfers of the troops.

The first way was built in -312 by Appius Claudius Caecus to connect Rome to Capua : the  Via Appia, the Appian way. At the end of the Roman Republic, the whole territory of the Italian peninsula was provided with these main trunk roads, every road bearing the name of the consul which had created it. These ways were paved only exceptionally: inside cities and in their neighborhoods ( excepted the  Appia way, who was gradually paved on all her route. Somewhere else sands and aggregates were taken in open quarries nearby. It seems that of the ground  was able to cover pavements to limit the discomfort. Somewhere else, these roads were made by sand or  by gravels, all this in a hole and covered with a stony paving stone.

Writing test

Consumerism is now a part of our lives. If we look carefully, we can see that everything needs to be bougth : food, water, first necessities ; but also animaals, plants and some rocks which are considered "precious".

We have all fallen into consumerism, but, what does mean consumerism ?

Consumerism is the purpose of making the people buy products for their benefities. But, to buy those products, people have to have the sense of need. That is why the adverstising is generally used : to convince to buy.

The economic interest mater all the world forget the consequences of consumerism ; the pollution of our planet, and its destruction.

This is why I agree with this idea, to create the Buy Nothing Day. We don't know yet, but all what we do will have consequences in the future, and if we continue to support the economic market ( I mean, in the extreme ) which I sinceraly think doesn't care about ecology and saving the planet, because they would lose money, and prefer having benefits than helping someone who needs their help.

The act of buying something is not something wrong, but, like all things in the world, the extrems are bad. Buying is not bad, buy anything for anything reason without thinking where the product has been done, without interest if it respects the environment or not, and without knowing if it is really important to you, it is.

Comment quote of Obama speech

Good evening, Lourdes.

I chose this quote ( a bit too long, but I liked and it is why I use it) :

"But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, the best schools in the world, and none of it will make a difference, none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities."

I think this quote is very interesting, and especially real. No matter what the others do for you, if you don't want, if you don't have determination, all those efforts would be useless. Sincerely, I believe we don't know the chance to have all these opportunities and I don't understand yet why some pupils and students ignore it, because they don't know the importance of studying, they are bored by something that they would have to be tankful, because in the past, some people fought for these rigths. But however students let behind the studies so precious and important for them, for their future.
But, in fact, not all of us can, or want to do studies, but perhaps they would want to go in another way. You are not forced to do studies to have success, you can do practice lessons for doing what you want to for example. Studies are not always necessary, but we don't know what will be made the future, and maybe these studies would help you, when, more young, you though they were useless and boring.
So that is my conclusion : do what you want to do, in the condition it allows you to have a future. Study what you want to study, because we are free to have preferences and have a job we like, because there is nothing worse than having a work you hate : you would not feel good and anyone would be. For that, for having a work you like, for having a future, for living correctly for you and your family, don't wait more, and take the chance : study ! 

Cheers,

Marylou.

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/

New Years Resolutions

First, I want to wish you 

a 

Happy new Year !

And I think you known, every new year, we have resolutions ! 

So, I'll present you my resolutolutions ! =D

1. Speak Italian perfectly : 

Cause I LOOOOOVE Italy ! 

I want to live there, and study there...

And for that, i need to speak the language ! 

2. Have the motobike licence :

With that, i'll be able to have the

INDEPENDENCE !
Yeeeeeah 

3. Have better marks :

I've good marks, yeah... but i want BETTER marks !

only solution : study !

4.  DESTROY THE WORLD
No... it's a joke ha ha... NO DON'T HIT ME !

5.  Be better for everything...
Cause it's better when you are the best... 

4. Make my closest friends and my family happy 
See all smilling ! 

The cinema and I

Finally, I can write whatever I want !
MOUAHAHAHAHA...

hem..  Sorry...

If you don't know, I LOVE the theater, and particuraly, the cinema 

For my, is THE purpose of my life. 

The theater is for me a way to free myself, be another person 

It's so entertaining  ( especially if the character is funny )

To do that, I've to study ( Yeah yeah... ) 

So, I'll do the "Cours Florent" in France. A school where you learn the art of the theater, cinema ( actor or director ), the facial expressions, improvisations, monologue...

It's a dream for me, like a lot people. 

But for me, this dream must be real

And I'll do everything  to fulfill it

Such thinks to learn... 

But i've the time and the determination with me 

Kisses and Byyyye 

A Clockwork Orange

This Movie is about the violence in the English society

It is in relatively futuristic England where a young deliquent called Alex spends his nights with his three friends Georgie, Pete and Dim

One evening,
Alex and his Droogs, the gang, meet a tramp whom they beat up.  They left in a stolen car and stop in a villa. the four friends attacked the owner and his wife.

Alex accepted a plan proposed by Georgie to make money. The evening coming, they attacked a manor house

But Alex ended up alone. The young deliquent went out of the house and found his friends who were waiting for him but one of them crushed him a bottle on the head. Alex was arrested by the police. His droogs were already far. Alex went to jail.

When he was to the prison, the scientist tested on him the “test Ludovico” which developped him an aversion to the violence, the sex and the music of Beethoven.

When he went of prison, he was massacred by the tramp and his friends and later by Georgie, who became policeman.

He ended up at the hospital, but the ludovico’s test didn’t have effect anymore, he can again think about sex and violence.

The last sentence he said was :

“I was cured, All right !”

This sentence is for me the best moment.

And I like this film because it’s complex and a controversial subject

Super-Stonehenge - level 3

Surrounded in mystery, Stonehenge is one of Britain's most famous landmarks. 
But now, in an unlikely discovery, a group of archaeologists have found another prehistoric monument, less than 3 kilometres from the original Stonehenge.

It’salready coined the name ‘Super-Stonehenge’ because the monuments at Durrington Walls measured 500 metres in diameter. They would have been built around 4,500 years ago.

The archaeologists at the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project didn't dig underground.

Instead, they made the discovery using remote sensing technologies which showed them evidence of up to 90 standing stones, at 4.5 metres tall.
Forming an arena in the shape of a C, the monument may have surrounded traces of springs.

Paul Garwood from the University of Birmingham has said this discovery fundamentally changes our understanding of Stonehenge and the world around it.

 coin (to invent a new word), 
diameter (a line from side to side), 
spring (a place where water appears from the ground),
 fundamentally (completely).

This new talk about a discovery around the Original Stonehenge, coind "SUper-Stonehenge".
The standing stones at 4,5 metres tall have been buid aproximately 4,500  years ago

Read more: http://www.newsinlevels.com/products/super-stonehenge-level-3/

Multiples intelligences

My 4 top intelligences are :

1- Musical : I can be be musician, music comedy actor, singer...

2-Intrapersonal : I can be artist, philosopher, consultant...

3-Kinaesthetic : I can be dancer, forest ranger, craftperson...

3-Linguistic : I can be historian, comedian, poet...

4-Naturalistic : I can be veterinarian, wildness doctor, nature photografer...

       

My Hero

  

This is my hero : Tessy 

She's my mare

She likes eating, galloping and still to eat

She doesn't like sharing her food and she doesn't like either the water

She's clumsy, responsive, gourmand, stubborn, weird (VERY weird ), cheerful, adorable...

Her challenge is learn to stop ( because she can move forward, but to stop.. )

Her solution is progress with my mother and me

 She's my hero because she learn me to be responsible and she makes me very happy ! 

My bucket list

1. Become a pro-flyer in windoor

2. be an actress

3. defend the animal cause

4. learn to play many instrument ( Violin, Guitar..)

5. Be a great pianist

6. learn to surf

7. go back to Italy 

8. Speak italian, spanish, english, 

9. Visit Canada

10. create a NGO to protect animals