NEWS ITEM 1: Jerome Jarre: The Making of a Vine Celebrity

LINK: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/style/jerome-jarre-the-making-of-a-vine-celebrity.html

Jerome Jarre is 24 year-old boy that grew up in Albertville, France, just with his mother. He went to Chine and Toronto for business but he failed. Then he went to New York and discovered an app named Vine. He started making vines because it makes him happy and because he thought that it could be a way to make people smile. When he went to New York he had a basic level of English he had learned with an audiobook he listened to.

At first he wasn’t so famous but as the time went by he gained more and more followers. An ad agency offered him one million dollars to help them with an advertisement but he said no, he didn’t wanted to be under nobody’s orders. 

When he walked by a public place teenagers stopped him to take selfies with him. Mr Jarre calls his fans “friends” because he thinks the term “fans” sounds too hierarchical.

Jerome transmits happiness to his fans and he also transmits the spirit to do what you want when you want. He says that everyone should have a purpose in life, and when a journalist asked him which was his purpose, a teenage girl ran up to him and then he said: “My purpose is helping people find their purpose.”

I think Jerome has a special way to see the world and it’s amazing to see that one single person can get across to people so easily. He understands people’s minds in a way nobody does and that makes him special. The thing is that he arrived there in New York with nothing and increased himself, it’s simply amazing.

VOCABULARY : stunt, hierarchical, snowbaled, hiatus.

FILM REVIEW: EXPELLED

The name of the film is Expelled and it’s an American film.

It’s a teenage film about the story of a bad boy mixed with a little love story and it’s a great movie to see with your friends.

This film is about a boy who is expelled from high school and he didn’t tell his mother. Then he start to act like a “bad boy” and his brother recues him from the jail, where he has been sent in consequence of his multiple troubles. Then he fell in love with a girl.

I liked the plot because it’s related to teenagers and it reminds me to the actual teenagers and their behaviour. The love story was so short but enough to understand the film. The costumes were good and actual and great.

I didn’t like the way they made the film because if the story have developed more the characters, it would have been better. The actors were so young and a little bit inexperienced and that made it a little bit bored.

TRAILER:

I will recommend it to people who like films but it isn’t an amazing film, it was OK, not bad. 

CREDIT CARDS

Credit cards were invented so that people didn’t have to carry their money around. At the beginning it was an exclusive thing, but nowadays nearly everyone have a credit card.

This card is a great element because people can have it in the wallet instead of an amount of money. It’s easy to use, because you put it in a machine, that is private, and that’s all. You don’t have to give them money but put use the credit card and pay exactly the price.

In my opinion credit cards are a good invention, but when you buy with them you spend an amount of money that you don’t control much. That happens because you don’t see how much you spend, and that’s a problem because then you see the amount you have spent and…you are surprised.

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Even though you don’t know what you spent its more comfortable to carry it. Nowadays you can personalize tor credit card as you want, even if you want to put a photo on it.

A lot of people have many cards, sometimes because of business; but that’s because if you have many cards you can spend so much money (normally) because you have it at your reach.  

EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN

For a long time children have been used to work hard, in such so bad conditions and with a miserable salary. That’s because, back in time, families were large in number and if only the parents worked, they couldn’t fed all the people in the family. The children started to work to bring money home to have the chance to buy food.

It sounds incredible but that still happens nowadays in some under developed countries. That’s so unfair because people have to play, run… or go to school if they have the opportunity.

When people make abuse of children it’s because some families just need to have children working or who knows where just to bring money home, like before. I am totally against the exploitation. Children don’t deserve that type of treatment and madness at a very young age.

Children should enjoy the moments and have fun with each other because that’s what it means to be young. There’s no need to exploit anybody, if people were fairer with others, all this kind of bad actions would disappear. 

ORAL PRESENTATION

In our oral presentation we've talked about jewish rites of passage. We chose weddings, bar mitzvah and funerals. 

NEWS ITEM 3

Miley Cyrus has been a rebel surprise for everybody. Last year on VMA she appeared in a strange way dancing with Robin Thicke, as if they had a lot of confidence. People started saying that her performance was disgusting and the audience disliked it. This year she has appeared cuddling a British singer (Sam Smith) and it has caused another sensation.

However “Wrecking Ball” has had more than 715 views on YouTube.

Ms Cyrus’ and Mr Thicke’s trajectories were amazing even people made comparisons to other artists.

Twitter and Instagram helped Miley Cyrus’ popularity a lot. Bu although something sexuality arrived and they made a rebellion (smoking pot, partying with friends…)

All this happened, in my opinion, because Miley wanted to change her Disney-girl image. I like her and I think she’s not that bad because she’s natural and shameless. A lot of people have criticised her because of her behaviour and image change.

Only because she’s not a little girl anymore you can judge her. She has been the real change between Disney and reality. It’s true that her behaviour, apart from being original or different, has been “bad” but, people shouldn’t let themselves be influenced that much. 

Vocabulary: collide, soared, dazzling.

Link of the new: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/24/fashion/24MILEY-TIMELINE2.html#/#time353_10478

DREAMS

Dreaming is one of my favourite hobbies. I knew dreams can’t be controlled, but even though I love them.

Dreams appear in different situations: while you are sleeping, when you get fascinated looking at something… there are different occasions, sometimes I dream while I’m awake, and that’s not something people do, but I do.

I really love listening to music, and for me music is so related to dreams. When I go to bed, before I go to sleep, I take my earphones and I turn on the music. That makes me feel more relaxed even if it’s rock music, or dubstep, or anything else.

The most incredible thing about dreams is that when you have them while sleeping, most of the times when you wake up you can’t remember them. That feeling of happiness or angriness caused by a dream you don’t remember, it’s finally a feeling of frustration.

Even though I love dreaming and sleeping, hey are a great activity of imagination and development of your ideas.