Reading 02/28/2011 : Summary

Man has 39 wives, nearly 100 children

1. Website adress : 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/22/us-india-family-idUSTRE71L4VH20110222

2. Summary : 

This reading is about the Ziona Chana’s life, an Indian man who has 39 wives and nearly 100 children. They all live in the same building in the Northeast of India near the border with Myanmar and Bangladesh. Ziona Chana is 66 years and he met his first wife when he was 17 years old. Nowadays he heads a local Christian religious sect, his sect his about polygamy. They all live with their own resources in fact wives and daughters do the housework and sons work outside like farmer. They need lots of resources because they consume average 200 pounds of rice and 130 pounds of potatoes every day.

3. Vocabulary :

- Willing : (Adjective) disposed or consenting; inclined: willing to go along.

- Donation : (noun) an act or instance of presenting something as a goft, grant or contribution.

- Polygamy : (noun) the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, especially wife at one time.

4. Interresting sentence:

" "I once married 10 women in one year," he was quoted as saying. "

It's totally unbelievable, It is almost 1 new wife each month !

"He heads a local Christian religious sect, called the "Chana," which allows polygamy."

His name's sect is Chana like is own name, he supports his own way of life, it's logical.

5. Questions :

How is it possible to assume 100 children correctly ?

Is it the record of the bigest family or it exist a bigger family ?

Writing 02/25/2011: Journals

My future Home,

I am 23 years old so it is time for me to think about my future home. In fact, I often think, dream about my independence with a future apartment. To begin, the first apartment is very important in the life of somebody, it is the beginning of lots of things! I am going to tell you about my future home.

I imagine my first home like a modest apartment, two rooms maybe three. I will live with my boyfriend in France in the beautiful city: Annecy. Annecy is located on the east of France. It is very close to Switzerland (30 minutes) and Italy (50 minutes). Annecy is in the Alps, there is one lake and around this lake there are many mountain and ski stations. The landscape is very beautiful. This city is not too big not too small; it is the perfect size for me. I imagine my house’s inside with very pure color like white and black-- and a touch of color like red or orange… I already imagine my living-room with a wonderful black sofa, a big television, a big and modern bookshelf with lot of books because I love to read and in my opinion books are a very good decoration. In the kitchen, the furniture will be red and the domestic appliance will be stainless steel.  About the bedroom, I would like a big bed especially a fantastic dressing room. In this place, everything will be very organized and with lots of clothes, lots of shoes… (Sorry I am a girl). To continue, I would like to have a terrace to enjoy the sun during the summer. Can to read, to eat, to get a tan outside. I already dream of my future home and future everyday life.

Like a child who dream about his future toys, a teenager who dream about these first love stories, motorcycle… I Dream about my first and future home. I know it is dangerous because I can be disappointed if in reality it cannot be like in my dream for some reasons. We need dreams to advance and to advance to realize our dreams.

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My life in 10 years,

Everybody wanders one day: How will am I in 10 years? It is difficult to be realist because we can imagine how we want to be but we cannot know. It is my situation so I am going to tell you about how I would like to be in 10 years.

            In 10 years, I will be 33 years old so I hope to be married with my boyfriend. I would like to have a big and wonderful wedding with all our family and our friends. I will have 2 children. In my heart, my perfect family is to have for first child one son and for second one daughter like in my own family. Of course, I will be happy too if I have two sons or two daughters. I will live in a house with a garden for children. My major is Business but I also studied management, communication, etc… I worked 1 year like sales assistant so I would like to become sales or maybe in 10 years sales manager. I think it is possible because I will have lots of experiences and a time to show my ability. My boyfriend is real estate agent and he loves his job so I think he will continue in this domain. My brother will have children too so I will be aunt and I am already impatient to organize big family’s parties.

            In my free time, I hope to continue my actuals activities and try other. I wish to have lots of opportunities to travel around the world. I will try to organize my schedule to continue to play to volley-ball and make lots of exercises. I would like to continue to improve my English to have a perfect English and why not to learn others languages because now I realize the importance and a pleasure to learn new language. Moreover I would like to learn and try several news things like guitar, theatre…

            To finish, I hope to become this person, this family like in my dream. I will do my possible for that. Thank you for these topics which bring lots of dreams.

Writing : 02/21/2011

What are the most important things to consider when choosing a future career? Money? Job satisfaction? Other things?

Do you have a career dilemma? If so, explain.

It’s difficult to choose a career because we must make a choice very young about study but we don’t still know what we really want to do in the future.  Moreover, everybody would like to find a good job which permit to earn a lot of money and a job what we like to do. Since the youngest age we have dreams and sometimes it’s difficult to realize all our dreams. I am going to tell you about the most important things in my opinion for a future career and my career dilemma.

In my opinion, we need a long time of reflection before to choose a job. In fact, it is very important to like our job because in a life we spend a lot of time to work so if you don’t like your job, each morning it will be difficult to go to work and you cannot be satisfied.

Of course, money is important too, If we want have a comfortable life, we need money… For example, I love travel so I need to earn lot of money if I want enjoy my vacation by travelling. I think we should choose if possible a job with these two criteria.

I have one older brother, he was a very good student. My parents are very proud of him and I always have been jealous by that but I love him. My plan was to do everything like him to have admiration of my parents too. Maybe it is stupid because my parents are certainly proud of me too but I want to be proud myself. So my brother has master’s degree and I want to be graduate too. We have not learnt the same domain, his domain is computer science and mine is business, management and communication.

Actually, his English is good so when I will came back in France I wish to speak better than him. Today, I have the bachelor’s degree so I would like to continue my studies with a master. I found one: European course in business studies. It means each semester is in another European country. It seems a very good program but it means too I must continue my studies for 2 years again.

I have two career dilemmas. The first is about my boyfriend. He disagrees with me about my studies because it means I must be far of him for 2 years again. I need his encouragements to find motivation, to continue my studies so it is difficult to make a choice.

The second is for after my studies, my parents have a company. I worked with them during my last year of bachelor. I would like to continue with them but it is difficult to work with family and I would like to change lot of things about management in their company and my parents see me again like a child so it is difficult to be credible. I know they would like I work with them.

Moreover if I continue in this company, it means a must stay in my native city, so it is a little city and I want to live with a boyfriend in another city.

So, I need to make a lot of decision and I have not a time to think because my time is count. I hope choose best thing for my future.

Reading 02/18/2011 : Summary

Paris Fabulous: Le Shangri-La Hôtel

1. Website adress : 

http://www.time.com/time/travel/article/0,31542,2045946,00.html

2. Summary : 

This reading is about a new hotel/restaurant in Paris. This hotel belong to asian group precisely Hong Kong based group. Usually, it's difficult to emulate parisian hotel. This hotel is in the ancient residence of Napoleon Bonaparte and now we can find 81 rooms and suites. Lot ofs rooms are decorated with the european and chinese color. It means blue,white and red. The restaurant serves tow kind of food French and Southeast Asian. Today, it is the first asian hotel/restaurant with this success but maybe not the last if others asian group try their chances.

3. Vocabulary :

Landmark : (noun) a prominent or conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide.

Feature : (noun) something offered as a special attraction

Cupola : (noun) Italian Architecture

Frescoes : (noun) a picture or design so painted

4. Interresting sentence:

"Most rooms are decorated in blue, white and ecru, evoking at once European empire and classic Chinese color palettes."

It's the french color too ! I think it's good they find a similar things between France/europe and China/Asian !

"It will be Paris' first gourmet Cantonese establishment but presumably not, if the Asian invasion gains momentum, its last."

-> There are maybe an opportunity for others Asian group !

5. Questions : 

An Asian hotel in Paris, is it really a parisian hotel ?

Others Asian group can find a success in Paris ?

Reading 02/16/2011 : Magazine article

http://www.time.com/time/travel/article/0,31542,2045946,00.html

Writing homework, 02/14/2011

College can be one of the most exciting times of your life. Certainly college brings stressful times, happy times, tearful times and life-altering times. College can also lead to a more rewarding future. The book Understanding (1999) reports that men with a bachelor's degree earn US$21,984 more than male high school dropouts and women with a bachelor's degree earn US$17,527 more than female dropouts. It does not mean that the only reason for attending college is to make more money, this is a secondary reason, many other considerations are as important as money to a person's decision to attend college. Knowledge, sports and parental pressure are any of these your reasons for attending college.

Reading and Writing homework 02/09/2011 : My brief autobiography

My name is Maud Masciotra. I am 23 years old and I am from France. Right now, I live with a American family. We live together in Baldwin, a town in 30 minutes of Towson. I arrived in America one month ago. I study in ELC center just for the spring semester.

I have one brother, his name is Arnaud and he is computer engineer. I speak French, my native language and I learnt English and Italian at school. My major is business and I need to improve my English to find a good job. I already have to work as banker and sale assistant. I would like to be sales manager.

About my hobbies, I ski and play volley ball. I love travel, see new countries, new culture, etc... I love go kart and I would like try a race track. I like read novels, my favorite french author are Marc Levy and Guillaume Musso, they wrote a lot of best sellers. I love photography in particularly Portrait and landscape. To finish, I like go out with my friends and make activities.

Writing homework, 02/04/2011

1. If you could be any celebrity for one day, who would you be ? Explain why you would want be this person, and what you would do if you got to be this person for a day.

If I could be a celebrity, I would like to be Angelina Jolie because she's beautiful, famous and she's a good actress, she lives with Brad Pitt and she has 5 child from different countries.

First, Angelina Jolie is a very pretty actress and in movies she has always a good role, it's usually action's movies. This actress is famous for her physique and her talent. During one day I will appreciate her celebrity.

Moreover, Angelina Jolie lives with Brad Pitt, it's a couple very famous in the world. In my opinion he is beautiful and a good actor too. So it's a dream of a lot of person, be famous and live like celebrities.

To finish, Angelina Jolie is famous too because she has 6 child from different countries. In fact, Maddox from Cambodia, Pax from Vietnam, Zahara from Ethiopia and Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox her real child. It's a very cute family who show a diversity.

During this day, I wish to live a shooting. The actor's job is very an interesting job, we can be somebody else and change your personality, character, live during the shooting. It's a dream for me.

To conclude, if I could choose to be a celebrity for one day I will choose her but for a whole life I prefer to stay in anonymity. In my opinion it's too tiring to be famous, there are always somebody who follow you or take pictures so you can't live as you want.

2. "Even though a Bird can fly, it must land on earth". What do you think this saying means ? How does it relate to our lives ?


"Even though a Bird can fly, it must land on earth" : In my opinion this quotation mean, someone can do or live great things but he have prepare his landing in the reality. We can be scientist or lucky, at the beginning every body is equal and during our lives we live a good and bad moment. So we can know a celebrity one day, we have need to find our base of live ( Family, friends...)

I can relate this quotation to my live with my actual adventure in the U.S.A. Today we can imagine I am flying, I am in a new country, I learn a new language, I meet wonderful people, I live one of my dream but I must organize my landing in my country in five months where I should come back in France, in the reality and find a job, etc...

To conclude, this quotation is beautiful and true, we have enjoy each moment and stay always ready to land in the real life.