i vote for talking about l' herbe. time is running out and we can't make up our mind on a subject. maybe "experiences" is too broad? we have been talking about families in class and the idea of different raising. i like this subject too. but can we all get on AIM or MSN messenger and talk extra nights to make up for in class randomness?? you all are so interesting and i want to talk about EVERYTHING! but i am getting a little stressed because deadlines are coming up! its probably my fault we get off topic but i want to know all about you all and your culture! it is so interesting! my AIM screen name is WILDFLOWER016. tell me what you guys think! love you all. see you soon! hope to talk to you soon!
je t'aime- annie
jeudi 19 avril 2007
lundi 16 avril 2007
I Guillaume's suggestions
If we could talk about:
1) obesity: eating as an excess
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Excess_Weight_Linked_to_90000_US_Cancer_Deaths_Annually.asp
2) society values:
capitalism, liberalism, chacun pour sa peau, a quel point peut on faire ce que l'on veut,
l'intéret de tous par rapport à l'intéret de soi
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9005216
3) une synthèse sur l'aclcool
II Thoughts about drugs
USA:marijuana
The laws in the United States vary from state to state, some having
decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana although
it is still a federal crime.
In recent decades, a movement to decriminalize cannabis has arisen
in several countries. 12 US states have passed by majority vote of
the citizenry, laws allowing some degree of medical use, while a
further 6 states have taken steps to decriminalize it to some degree.
This movement seeks to make simple possession of cannabis punishable
by only confiscation or a fine, rather than prison.
In Alaska, cannabis was decided legal for in-home, personal use
under the Ravin vs.
France:cannabis
"S'il existait un gouvernement qui eut intérêt à corrompre ses
gouvernés, il n'aurait qu'à encourager l'usage du cannabis".
Cet adage de Baudelaire (1821- 1867) est parfois cité en France comme
réponse à la question "pourquoi l'usage du cannabis est-il sanctionné?".
La loi en matière d'usage de cannabis
La loi du 31 décembre 1970 s'applique à l'usage de drogue, parmi
lesquels le cannabis. En vertu de l'article L-628 du Code de la Santé
Publique, tout usage de drogue est interdit, et par conséquent
répréhensible.
Le débat persiste.
Tunisie:Hashish
Interdit par la loi.
L'autorité lutte contre la production et le traffic de cannabis.
Sur un forum de jeunes: ils sont à 70% contre et 30% pour la dépénalisation.
Argument contre: risque d'excès
Arguement pour: raison économique + comparaison avec la consommation de l'alcohol
Question: Should excess be controled by gouvernment?
In tunisia: the majority (including youth) agrees.
In the states?
In france?
waiting 4 your comments , answers: Is excess an experience? Once done, we can draw conclusions and that's all. Can we live with excess?
If we could talk about:
1) obesity: eating as an excess
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Excess_Weight_Linked_to_90000_US_Cancer_Deaths_Annually.asp
2) society values:
capitalism, liberalism, chacun pour sa peau, a quel point peut on faire ce que l'on veut,
l'intéret de tous par rapport à l'intéret de soi
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9005216
3) une synthèse sur l'aclcool
II Thoughts about drugs
USA:marijuana
The laws in the United States vary from state to state, some having
decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana although
it is still a federal crime.
In recent decades, a movement to decriminalize cannabis has arisen
in several countries. 12 US states have passed by majority vote of
the citizenry, laws allowing some degree of medical use, while a
further 6 states have taken steps to decriminalize it to some degree.
This movement seeks to make simple possession of cannabis punishable
by only confiscation or a fine, rather than prison.
In Alaska, cannabis was decided legal for in-home, personal use
under the Ravin vs.
France:cannabis
"S'il existait un gouvernement qui eut intérêt à corrompre ses
gouvernés, il n'aurait qu'à encourager l'usage du cannabis".
Cet adage de Baudelaire (1821- 1867) est parfois cité en France comme
réponse à la question "pourquoi l'usage du cannabis est-il sanctionné?".
La loi en matière d'usage de cannabis
La loi du 31 décembre 1970 s'applique à l'usage de drogue, parmi
lesquels le cannabis. En vertu de l'article L-628 du Code de la Santé
Publique, tout usage de drogue est interdit, et par conséquent
répréhensible.
Le débat persiste.
Tunisie:Hashish
Interdit par la loi.
L'autorité lutte contre la production et le traffic de cannabis.
Sur un forum de jeunes: ils sont à 70% contre et 30% pour la dépénalisation.
Argument contre: risque d'excès
Arguement pour: raison économique + comparaison avec la consommation de l'alcohol
Question: Should excess be controled by gouvernment?
In tunisia: the majority (including youth) agrees.
In the states?
In france?
waiting 4 your comments , answers: Is excess an experience? Once done, we can draw conclusions and that's all. Can we live with excess?
mardi 27 mars 2007
Questionnaire for my study
Here you can find a test, it takes around 15 minutes. It's called a purity test. It aims to give you a score that expresses at whitch point you are pure.
Many of the questions deal with drugs alcool and sex, and could be offending to some people, if you feel unconfortable with it, do not follow this link
here!
I'll try to collect the scores anonymously (on my website, comming soon) so remember your score! You can also give it to me by email at deacken@enseirb.fr . Thanks!
Why such a study. I think this score is a good representation of the youth beeing excessive (or not). I expect to get highest scores here because of the law but we may have some surprises!
Many of the questions deal with drugs alcool and sex, and could be offending to some people, if you feel unconfortable with it, do not follow this link
here!
I'll try to collect the scores anonymously (on my website, comming soon) so remember your score! You can also give it to me by email at deacken@enseirb.fr . Thanks!
Why such a study. I think this score is a good representation of the youth beeing excessive (or not). I expect to get highest scores here because of the law but we may have some surprises!
mercredi 21 mars 2007
Okay our teacher said that it was good, but that it still needs to be precised.
Introduction:
Youth is that particular and complicated period where one has to redefine one's aspirations, one's ambitions, and build a social status that corresponds to it. Nowadays many sociologists agree that becoming an adult is more difficult that it once was. In the past, we could only find two categories, adults and children. You got married, you left your parents to live with your partner, and you became an adult. The frontier was much more clearer, there was no turning back.
The evolution of our societies has led to the creation of a new social status to represent youth. In France the average age when one leaves one's parents has significantly increased. One may keep emotional contact and come back home seeking for parental care. The morals have changed such that both the relationships between parents and children and the ways of becoming adult are different.
Our study aims at underlining the differences between how French and Americans handle the transition to the adult age. More precisely, the way we, students, test what we have learned from our parents and our society to build our own aspirations and our own values.
We will, in a more pragmatic approach, tackle this question focusing on the excesses of youth as a good indicator of the way we test life.
Quotations:
C'est un tort égal de pécher par excès ou par défaut. Confucius
(it as wrong to sin by excess as to sin by default)
La sagesse a ses excès et n'a pas moins besoin de modération que la folie. Montaigne
(Wisedom has it's excesses and needs as much moderation as madness do.)
The best things carried to excess are wrong. Charles Churchill
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde
Questions:
What kind of experience do youth in those different countries wish for or have?
Why and how could childhood affect the experiences teenagers have?
What are the roles of the society during this span?
What do the youths learn from its excess and how much can we expect it to be part of our adult life?
Question number 1:
Subjects to deal with: the discovery of alchool, driving, sex, financial independance, smoking, leaving our parents, food and obesity or anorexia..
Question number 2:
Subjects to deal with: parental education and values, the parental monitoring of children, money given to children, religious education. What kind of influence do your parents have on you now that you've left, how long will it last according to you? How long do wish it to continue? If had the choice to live exactly like your parents did would you do the same? Why? What are the limits imposedby parents?
Question number 3:
Subjects to deal with: The law, the media, politics, excess in society, social role models, wealth of society, the different possibility of evolution your society grants you or doesn't grant you. What are the limits imposed by society?
Question number 4:
This part is likely to be a more personal part, and an transition to what we will conclude after the study. The benefit from a life of excess and the advantages of wise behaviors or vice versa. What we've learned from personal experiences, the wise ones and the excessive ones. What do we think would be our life with more or less excess. Do people we that have been excessive usually have good situation in society. To what extent is this adult life the consequence of our discoveries and past experiences.
Introduction:
Youth is that particular and complicated period where one has to redefine one's aspirations, one's ambitions, and build a social status that corresponds to it. Nowadays many sociologists agree that becoming an adult is more difficult that it once was. In the past, we could only find two categories, adults and children. You got married, you left your parents to live with your partner, and you became an adult. The frontier was much more clearer, there was no turning back.
The evolution of our societies has led to the creation of a new social status to represent youth. In France the average age when one leaves one's parents has significantly increased. One may keep emotional contact and come back home seeking for parental care. The morals have changed such that both the relationships between parents and children and the ways of becoming adult are different.
Our study aims at underlining the differences between how French and Americans handle the transition to the adult age. More precisely, the way we, students, test what we have learned from our parents and our society to build our own aspirations and our own values.
We will, in a more pragmatic approach, tackle this question focusing on the excesses of youth as a good indicator of the way we test life.
Quotations:
C'est un tort égal de pécher par excès ou par défaut. Confucius
(it as wrong to sin by excess as to sin by default)
La sagesse a ses excès et n'a pas moins besoin de modération que la folie. Montaigne
(Wisedom has it's excesses and needs as much moderation as madness do.)
The best things carried to excess are wrong. Charles Churchill
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde
Questions:
What kind of experience do youth in those different countries wish for or have?
Why and how could childhood affect the experiences teenagers have?
What are the roles of the society during this span?
What do the youths learn from its excess and how much can we expect it to be part of our adult life?
Question number 1:
Subjects to deal with: the discovery of alchool, driving, sex, financial independance, smoking, leaving our parents, food and obesity or anorexia..
Question number 2:
Subjects to deal with: parental education and values, the parental monitoring of children, money given to children, religious education. What kind of influence do your parents have on you now that you've left, how long will it last according to you? How long do wish it to continue? If had the choice to live exactly like your parents did would you do the same? Why? What are the limits imposedby parents?
Question number 3:
Subjects to deal with: The law, the media, politics, excess in society, social role models, wealth of society, the different possibility of evolution your society grants you or doesn't grant you. What are the limits imposed by society?
Question number 4:
This part is likely to be a more personal part, and an transition to what we will conclude after the study. The benefit from a life of excess and the advantages of wise behaviors or vice versa. What we've learned from personal experiences, the wise ones and the excessive ones. What do we think would be our life with more or less excess. Do people we that have been excessive usually have good situation in society. To what extent is this adult life the consequence of our discoveries and past experiences.
lundi 19 mars 2007
mardi 13 mars 2007
dimanche 11 mars 2007
great pictures
really nice, some beautiful pictures !! :)
thank you ! It seems that boys where not allowed, but I wish I were there with you! You must have enjoyed it.
I'm currently filming my parties and interviewing people with one of the school camera. I've some great things, but it seems that nobody I've already asked really like USA lol. Too bad. I'll keep trying!
HaVe nIcE HolLyDaYs !
GuIlLaUmE
thank you ! It seems that boys where not allowed, but I wish I were there with you! You must have enjoyed it.
I'm currently filming my parties and interviewing people with one of the school camera. I've some great things, but it seems that nobody I've already asked really like USA lol. Too bad. I'll keep trying!
HaVe nIcE HolLyDaYs !
GuIlLaUmE
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