During the 16th June and the 17 June there was the culture days in Karl-Franzens University. Students hat to hold a presentation about an American or Irish Culture topic. Moreover, we had to see at least 10 presentations (7 American and 3 Irish topics).
After, I have seen at least 10 presentations during the two culture days, I can present to you my top five.
My top five:
Obama's legacy: drones and secrecy through the eyes of contemporary artists
Afro-Americans and racism in sports: break of color line
Media violence
Monica Loughman - Ballet in Ireland
Homeland
The presentations, which I like less:
The Role of the US in the Korean War
Ellis Island
The Reinvention of Malcom X
Oliver Cromwell - Irish vs British perspective
Irish Intelligence at its peak
My tips for doing a good presentation are:
be passionate by his topic
avoid to walk with heeled shoes
make an easy handout to avoid people to lost time to write
don't speak so fast and emphasize the important point (especially those in the handout)
do not write full sentences or text in your prezi/powerpoint
Finally, I learned and also discovered many things ! :D
Who are the targets of the comic book? American soldiers and American young men
How Steve Rogers gains his capacities? After the Operation: Rebirth
What’s Hydra? A criminal organization
What’s the nationality of the authors of the cover #1? Jewish Americans
Who are described with a red star? The Soviets
Who fight Iron Man in the movie Iron Man? Taliban
TRUE OR FALSE
The costume and the shield of Captain America are inspired of the French flag. False. They are inspired by the American flag.
The character Red Skull is a Nazis. True.
The cover #1 encourages America to intervene against Germany. True.
The character Crimson Dynamo is a Nazis. False. Crimson Dynamo is a Soviet.
The Soviets are described as manipulators, have had high levels in technology and in espionage. True.
“Communist horde” is an expression which serves to show the development of Nazism. False. This expression serves to show the development of Soviet Communism.
The propaganda remains in comic books to this day. True.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo 2014 (E3 2014) was the 20th Electronic Entertainment Expoevent. E3 is an annual trade show for the video game industry presented by the Entertainment Software Association. The event took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA from June 10, 2014 to June 12.
On this page, you can find the 10 best gameplays of this edition:
First, Ubisoft introduced to us Farcry 4. This video presentation sets the tone for the Ubisoft's conference.
Farcry 4's Gameplay
Next they presented Just Dance 2015 and The Division, which was presented earlier in the Microsoft's conference with a gameplay. Ubisoft presented a nice video but unfortunately she didn't explain really the content of the game.
The Divison's trailer
Then, they showed The Crew (a racing video game). The racing video games are not really my cup of tea.
However, Ubisoft presented in more details the new issue of the game Assassin's Creed: Assassin's Creed Unity (this game which I look forward to buying). If you want to know more about this game go to read my other article http://augeranais.blogspot.co.at/2014/03/the-assassins-return.html.
We leaned somthing new about this issue: there will be a cooperative gameplay (until 4 players)!
Matchs of qualification games for the European Championship Final of American Football 2014 were in Wien, St. Pölten and Graz!
It's a continental competition contested by the member countries of EFAF (European Federation of American Football). The tournament also serves as a qualifier for the IFAF World Cup.
My friend Chloé and me assisted to games France vs Danemark and France vs Austria in Graz.
France won against Danemark 0 to 65, more than Austria which won 49 to 7 against Danemark. ;)
Selfie!
Unfortunately, France lost against Austria 9 to 28. Thus, Austria went in Finale but Germany won the European Championship of American Football. It's their second Title.
French Team's entry
It was great games, especially France vs Austria. We have fun, the atmosphere was so great! Except maybe it was raining and hailing. However, a US football players play whatever the weather. This video is a proof :
The instant photographs is a type of photography that generates a developed film image. The most popular types made by Polaroid Corporation. The invention of modern instant cameras is generally credited to American scientist Edwin Land in 1948. To capture a photo in color with a polaroïd we need a polacolor film. The polacolor film is composed of a negative and a positive. The negative is composed of three doubled emulsion layers which are composed of silver halides and dye couplers, which adsorb to the surface of the silver halides, make the crystals sensitive to different colors. In addition to multiple emulsion layers, real films have other layers that are not sensitive to light (top-coated with UV blocking or anti-scratch coatings layers). Each emulsions is sensitive to three colors: the one is blue sensitive, another is green sensitive, and the last is red-sensitive. Below the blue layer is a yellow filter. For example, the blue light affect the emulsion layer which is blue-sensitive and transform the silver halides on this layer to metallic silver (developed silver). All of this without affect the other emulsion layers. The process is the same for others layers. Then, when we pull on tap, a reagent of alkali spills on the negative and the positive. The alkali penetrates the layers of the negative and spills the dye couplers, which will reach the printing paper. The silver halides become metallic silver and the dye couplers is blocked on the layer. Both dye couplers and silver halides exposed intermingle to form colored dyes. The process lasts 30 seconds. At the end, the alkali gets in touch with an acid photographic fixing agent on the printing paper. This acid fixing agent stops others chemical reactions and fixes the formed color dyes. Finally, we obtain a luminous colored picture.
Let me introduce to you one of my favorite manga: "Lady Oscar" or called also "La rose de Versailles".
Type of manga: shojo
Tomes: 10
Episodes: 40
Author: Riyoko Ikeda
Genre: French history, sentimental, war and revolution
Story:
The story of Lady Oscar happens at the end of the eighteenth century in France. Oscar is a young girl raised like a boy because her father was exceeded to have only girls. Military education of Oscar allows her to become the captain of the royal guard, responsible for the protection of the young Dauphine Marie Antoinette. Alongside Oscar, there is Andrew, her childhood friend, secretly in love with her. Together, they will face the first troubles announcing the French Revolution.
Will they survive to the revolution ?
The grade that I give
Music = 15/20
Story = 17/20
Drawings = 16/20
Total = 16/20
My opinion:
This manga which tells the French revolution through soul-stirring characters, is really fascinating. I find it's a good way to revise the French history or to discover with fun (funnier than a course ;P). I really recommend to reading this manga - especially because of the story in which there are many unexcpeted events. Thus, you never become bored! ;)
I'm going to talk about the marvel comics business
and the opposition between Marvel and DC comics.
Marvel Entertainment and Marvel Comics
Marvel Entertainment was created in 1934 (nineteen
thirty four) by Martin Goodman. Marvel entertainment has a catalog more than
5000 (five thousand) characters. The characters were most of the times created
by the scenarist Stan Lee. There are 2 main branches: marvel comics for the
editions and marvel studio for the films and TV. Marvel Entertainment mainly produces
comics and alternatives products.
The branch Marvel Comics was created in 1939 (nineteen
thirty nine) by Martin Goodman. Then it was purchased on August 31 (the thirty
first) 2009 (two thousand and nine) by the Walt Disney Company. The most famous
characters of Marvel are Spider-Man, X-Men, Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Iron
Man, Daredevil, Ghost Rider (and so an) … the scenarist Stan Lee was executive
editor of Marvel Comics from 1941 (nineteen forty one) to 1942 (nineteen forty
two) and from 1945 (nineteen forty five) to 1972 (nineteen seventy two). The
current executive editor is Axel Alonso since 2011 (two thousand and eleven).
The editions of Marvel comics have currently been published in France by
Pannini Comics.
Marvel Comics target an audience of teenagers and
adults. The main topics are: the fight between good and evil; the justice; the
consequences of the existence of super power.
The Marvel universe
Marvel Universe is a place, where Marvel character’s
live. Marvel Universe is a similar world to ours. But in Marvel Universe super
heroes exist, there are also aliens, gods … There are some categories of Marvel
heroes, such as:
Mutants, which have a mutation of DNA.
For example: the X-men are a group of Mutants.
Heroes with powers victim of an
accident. For example: captain America participated in a scientific experiment
to create a super soldier. Spider-Man was bitten by a genetically modified
spider. The fantastic four were exposed to a massive dose of cosmic radiation
during a space mission.
Powerless Heroes. For example: Iron man
with his armor and his high-technology. Hawkeyes is an archer who never misses
his target.
Aliens or gods. For example: Thor is an
Asgardian god. The eternals are a fictional race of super humans.
The competition between Marvel and DC comics
DC Comics was created in 1935 (nineteen thirty five)
by Malcom Wheeler-Nicholson. It is a branch of Warner Bros. Warner bros is the
creator of Looney toons. The main heroes of DC Comics are for example:
Superman, Green arrow, Batman, wonder woman, green lantern … DC Comics is the
same as Marvel Comics. Both are producers of comics. So they are competing with
each other. Especially since the Walt Disney Company has purchased Marvel
Comics, because Disney and Warner are competitors in cartoons and now also in comics.
The difference between DC comics characters and Marvel
Characters is that the heroes of DC comics are only super humans; but the
Marvel characters are heroes with complicated behaviors. They exploit fear and
the questions of teenagers of the time.
With the results of the box office we can observe that
there are more Marvel movies than DC Comics movies. In most cases Marvel movies
have more success than the DC Comics movies.
I would like to introduce to you my favorite
player of ice hockey: “Fabulous Fab”
#33 Fabrice LHENRY
Nationality: French
Height: 180 cms Weight: 82 kgs
Born: June 29, 1972
His real name is Fabrice LHENRY. He is a professional
French ice hockey goaltender. He has played the majority of his career in
France but he has also played in Germany, Italy and Denmark. So he’s an
international goaltender! Fabrice has been a member of France National men’s
ice hockey team from 1992 to 2013. Moreover, he participated at the 2010 IIHF
World Championship as a member of the France National men’s ice hockey team.
Fabrice has played in Ligue Magnus for Dragons de
Rouen from season 2009/2010 to current (we are waiting to know which team he’s
going to join for the next season. I hope that will be Rouen!). During his
career he has won many trophies and personal honors for example he was elected
the best goaltenders of Ligue Magnus in 1996, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005.
It's an excellent goaltender and also a great man!
[Fabrice LHENRY, during the annual bowling, with the Dragons de Rouen and supporters, organised by an association of supporters]
Let me introduce to you my fabulous team: Les Dragons
de Rouen.
Winner of the French Cup in 2011
Rouen Hockey Elite 76, nicknamed the Dragons de Rouen,
is a French club ice hockey playing in Ligue Magnus (highest level of the sport
in France).
There has been a very good atmosphere! :D
Located in Rouen, Haute-Normandie, the team since its
inception in 1982, one of the teams the most successful championship of France
with twelve titel in almost 30 years of existence. After the first three
seasons in the lower divisions, the club reached the elite French hockey since
1985 and not to leave it since. The team is the second team (after Amiens) with
the most number of consecutive seasons spent in Ligue Magnus, another team to
be successful outside the French mountainous areas.
This team is the best!!!
(players and supporters)
The Dragons are driven by Rodolphe Garnier, chaired by
Thierry Chaix and evolve in the arena of Lacroix Island since January 1992. They
were the first French ice hockey club to participate to the Continental Cup and
the first French club to win on January 15, 2012 the Continental Cup.
This day, on the 26th October 2013, some friends and me went to Vienna to celebrate "the Nationalfeiertag". The Austrians celebrate this days to celebrate the neutrality of Austria declared on the 26th October 1955. It was my second time in Vienna - I love this city! This days was all a programm. We visited many things in only one day:
The Parliament
There are so many people in front of the Parliament!
The "Bundeskanzleramt" (The Federal Chancellery)
We have let a little message in the guess book :)
We met Werner Fayman, the Chancelor of Austria!
The park
It's really high!
Many Many soldiers, who are very friendly
It was really a good day! Unfortunately we had not enough time to visit all the buildings, which are opened only this special day.
The instructional text "How to make a camera lucida" is not helpful at all, as there is a lot of information put together without any logical order. In one hand, the sentences are short and the author uses imperatives to make it easier to understand. But in the other hand, the instructions are divided into two paragraphs and not into steps, as it is mandatory in a instructional text. Moreover, there is not a purpose at the beginning of the text, neither the time it takes to build up the camera lucida, nor the list of materials needed. So, we do not know what is a camera lucida for and we do not know what do we need to build it, trying to guess it from the text and the drawings. Furthermore, there are not warnings specified about the use of some materials like the hot glue. The images are not related to the texts so you have to wonder and suppose what the drawings are trying to explain and which materials are represented on them. In summary it can be said that this instructional text is not clear at any point, and with a big lack of cohesion, making it difficult to understand the whole text.
I saw this movie on Thursday 27th March 2014 in UCI (an Austrian cinema) - the theatrical day release in Austria.
Being a big fan of comics, especially Marvel, I’m very critical with the movies about the Marvel Universe. However like usually this movies of Marvel studio was a really good surprise!
I loved in particular the references about other things in Marvel Universe (or not) like:
- Star Wars and Star Strek
- the Avengers Tower
- Brock Rumlock alias Crossbones
- Armin Zola
- Stephen Strange alias the Doctor Strange and Bruce Banner alias Hulk are mentioned.
- The necklace in arrow-shaped of Black Window to refer to Hawkeye
- And in the post-credits sequences: Loki, the Baron von Strucker, the x-men
One thing I didn’t really understand at the beginning:
The first enemy, Patroc, is French but he has a Quebec accent! I’m French so it’s weird for me to believe he is French with this accent, it’s impossible! But I like the “on va voir” of Chris Evans alias Cap.
The cameo of Stan Lee:
Every time I go to see a marvel movie I’m prepared to play at my favorite game "where is Stan Lee?". And I’m happy I found him! :D
The two post-credits sequences:
I like the fact there are some post-credits sequences even if the second is really at the end end of the credits. This method to link the marvel movies together with these post-credits sequences is really a wonderful idea!
The official first trailer for Captain America The Winter Soldier
Ubisoft has announced the release for Holiday 2014 of
"Assassin's Creed Unity".
®For those who don't know the video games
Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed is a video game developed by Ubisoft
Montreal. It's an action-adventure game.
The game principle is based on
"the Animus", a machine capable of reading the genetic memory of a
subject (the memory of his ancestors).
The story focuses
on Desmond Miles, a young American with ancestors belonging to the order of the
Assassins. We discover in the first episodeAltaïr Ibn La-Ahad, an Assassin
Master who lived in the Holy Land during the Third Crusade, and in the second
partEzio Auditore da Firenze,an Italian
nobleman of the Renaissance, in the third part Connor Kenway, an
assassin Native American and English having lived the War of Independence of
the United States. The group is in constant conflict againstthe Templars. In the fourth
partEdward Kenway, a vogue that British pirate in the Caribbean
islands, meet famous pirates such as Blackbeard and Calico Jack.
®The fifth part: Assassin’s Creed Unity
Officially
we don’t yet know much about this fifth part. Many people thought about an
Assassin’s Creed in France, and finally it’s France that has been selected.
Currently known as the Unity code, the fifth part of the series will take place
at least partly in Paris, in the 18th century. The context could be that during
the French Revolution and some sources are already talking about an assassin
named Arno.
Personally, being a fan of these games and French I look forward to this fifth part, which
promises to be very interesting.
®Not just a video game
Assassin's
creed is also a book series containing the stories of the ancestors of Desmond
Miles. Those Books have as successful as video games.
Moreover,
what’s very interesting in the series Assassin's creed it’s this mix between
historical reality and fantasy. In fact, all the stories of Assassin's Creed
are based on historic facts. For me it is both an entertaining and educational
game.
(Extract of Assassin’s Creed Unity)
Our
credo: "Nothing is true, everything is permitted"
The event "L'armada" is one of the most long-awaited in Rouen and takes place every 4 or 5 years. Indeed, this event is a really great party: there are free concert live on the boards of the river "La Seine", some parades of marines, even some party on the ships.
Look at the picture on the right, I don't lie when I say there are so many people.
During this ten days or so the harbor of Rouen is invaded by about fifty sailing ship or military ships. Moreover Rouen welcomes every time more about hundred of visitors, it's important to note that this event is totally free.
There is a super atmosphere. The marines are really friendly, funny and we can really see that they're happy to be here. The Bresilians and the Mexicans are always the first to celebrate.
Certainly the biggest ship in 2013. Look! It isn't completely on the picture!
For me, the most impressive is the military ships: battelships and anti-radar-ships from many different countries.
However, the best moment of this Armada is the arrival and the departure of all the ships. It's really a beautiful stream of ships. For the arrival, we can see your bridge raised to let through the ships. For the departure, we can see marines on masts.
Look at pictures and imagine this moment!
The departure early the morning The arrival during the night
Finally, I hope after read this you would like to come to Rouen to see this event! : )
So what good bloggers do? (hum...) According to me, to be a good blogger there are three basic principles to respect.
ATTRACTIVE TITEL:
First we should to create a really good blog we must to have an attractive titel. The titel is one of the first thing people see when they go on a web site and surely the first thing they read about the post. So if the titel is no interessant people won't read the post. Doing an attractive titel is not really complicated, using a different color is already a good way.
However according to me the best attractive titel are them with a double sense like in advertising. When people need to think about the titel and are not sure about what the post is really. Using humor is a good solution to interpellate people too.
STRUCTURED TEXTE:
Then we need a structured text. The text of the post have to be short and clear (e.g. paragraph, back in the row, ect). A lot of humor is always welcomed. PErsonnally I like in particular the text where there is a kind of implication by the writer. For this effect the best is to write using "I". It's great to question directly to people too. In brief, a good blogger should to be implicated in his post and to implicate the lectors too.
CAPTIVANT PICTURES:
The last but not the least, some captivant pictures are useful. Indeed, people see generally at the first the titel or pictures. Two or three pictures are always useful to illustrate the post and we can use them to interpellate the lectors. Pictures could help to well understand the post. Moreover pictures create often an appreciated pause in the lecture of the post.
So if you want to be a good blogger, respecting this simple principles, you can be sure that your blog will become one of the most famous.
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