Reading Jouranal

The Giver is a novel describing a small community where everything is continually perfect. In this community there is no war, no pain, no argue. All the inhabitants of the community live in a perfect osmosis. Jonas who is about to be a Twelve is a perfect boy. Polite, courageous, and serious, he is about to be selected as the future receiver of memory in the next ceremony of Twelve. The receiver of memory is the most honorable, the most respectful status in the community. He must keep in his mind, his hearth, and his body all kinds of feelings, pain…etc. In brief, all what a human being must keep or must be confronted to habitually and what all the inhabitants of the community don’t have. In this perfect community, there are many rules that peoples must respect. If they disobey the rules, they must receive a punishment.

The ceremony day of Twelve arrived. Everybody got his assignment, but the turn of Jonas came, the chief of Elder didn’t assign him. Jonas was very surprised and embarrassed. However, at the end the chief of Elder told him solemnly that he will be the next receiver of memory. Jonas felt very separate and alone because the receiver of memory is a very hard job. The first day of training is about to start. Jonas entered the room where the receiver of memory works and begin his training. Days went by, and weeks. Jonas learned a lot: colors, pain, the sensation of warm and cold, war…etc

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                                                                                                                                                                 A mailman was about to be killed

 

                                        The article ” Two arrested in BB gun attack against a mailman” (The examiner 09/21/09), by Scott McCabe, explains Fairfax County Police arrested two persons who they fired a BB gun at a mailman last week. The article explains also how it happened because, according to the article, the mailman was walking on the 6000 Block of Bellview Drive at about 1 P.M. Wednesday when he received a lot of shots fired, the mailman took cover and colled police which sent a helicopter and K,9 officer to help the man. The police arrested the two men, Horace Jones 18 and Shawn Jones 18. I chose this article because I heard about it when I was driving the day before I read the article in the “Examiner”. I chose it also because I think it’s just a little bit strange to read, see and to hear these kinds of event on TV, radio… etc. The article doesn’t say why the two men tried to kill the mailman. I think that this kind of events are not to be happen. I don’t know why the young men tried to kill the man, but I guess, no one has the right to kill other people, even though the reasons are critical.

My first time in France

Reda Ouamrane

9/29/09

ESLA 1984

Paragraph #7

                                                                           My first time in France

 

                 France is the first country I visited in my life, it is a very beautiful country, and I liked it

because people are very kind and nice and their habits are very particular. First when I was in

France for the first time in my life, people used to be just a little bit strict and serious, it

depends on regions. For example people living in south France, because of the hot weather in

summer and the good days in fall and spring used to be very open-minded and very kind,

however people living in north France, because of the cold weather, are just a little bit strict

and very serious. Second, when I was in France for the first time in my life, people were

accustomed different pots……

1. This week, I read 5 pages of  Charlotte’s web . This is a very interesting, a very exciting book. The vocabulary was sometimes easy, but the main ideas of this book are very deep, very abyssal, we can learn a lot of basic things of the life. And the same time I listened to the CD accompanying the book.

I listened to the radio in the car and watched TV a lot with subtitles in english.

2. This week, I learned some words to improve my vocabulary, some grammar rules. I learned to be careful with the different parts of a paragraph, such as the topic sentence, the support details, and the exemples…etc.

3. I need to learn a lot of words to improve my vocabulary and my grammar, and I finally decided to pass my TOEFL at the end of my ESL class, so I took the manual from the library to improve my english.

4. In class, I would like to read short paragraphs about anything and to do some grammar activities, to write more because I know the more I will write and the more I will learn.

                                                                                                                                                                       

Thank you miss for all your help…

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                                                                                                                                         A big political figure was killed that day

                               The article “Car bomb kills resistance leader on streets of D.C” (The Examiner 09/21/2009), by Scott McCabe, explains on september 21 in 1976 at 9:35 a big political figure Orlando letelier and his assistant were killed because of a car bomb in Washington on  Massachusetts by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. The car bomb exploded  when Letelier, his assistant Ronni Moffitt,  25, and her husband, Michael, were driving to work on Sheridan Circle in Embassy Row. Besides, the article explains also in brief, the most important things that Letelier did in his career, such as he worked for the institute for Policy Studies, taught at American University and became the leading voice of the Chilean resistance.I chose this article because I think that it is very interesting, very exciting to speak about this kind of thigs and this could happen everywhere, every time and to everyone. I chose it also because I think that Letelier is a very big political figure in the United States of America and a lot of people like him. I think that the bombing on Massachusetts avenue is the second most infamous, the second most horrible acts of terrorism after Kennedy.

Mylene Farmer

            Reda Ouamrane 9/22/2009

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                                                                                    Mylene Farmer

                    Mylene Farmer is probably the biggest singer in France of this 25 last years. She was born

Canada September 12. Her parents are French. At the age of 8, she moved with her parents to France,

and at the age of 21, she began her career with some beautiful songs like ‘”Libertine”, “desenchantee’” 

and a lot of other hits.

Mylene Farmer is such a beautiful woman; she has red hair and a white skin like snow with hazel eyes

like a panther  

is perfectionist and persevering like what she does. She

has a very big passion for her work.

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                                                                                                                        Cell phone in prisons

                        The article ” Md. prisons to test cell phone detectors ” ( The Examiner 09/02/2009), Scott McCabe, explains that Maryland corrections officials are about to test technology that can detect cell phones in prisons and that they are lobbying Congress to allow states to use th new technology to prevent criminals from using the phones to organize crimes from behind  and  in the end the journalist explains that the test at Jessup on thursday will only detect cell phone use and not jam them. I hose this article because I think it’s very interesting and because some times the new technology is used only in the wrong way. I hope that the Congress will accept th request and will allow them to use this new technology.