Morgane's presentation of Ai Yazawa and « Nana »

I am going to talk about Ai Yazawa a world famous manga Japanese author and especially of her Manga « Nana »

Ai Yazawa was born the 7 March 1967 at Hyogo District in Japan. She invented her pen name with the name of her favorite Japanese singer  Eikishi Yazawa, and   her real first name « Ai » what means love. 

 Ai Yazawa published her first Manga in 1985, in the magazines “Ribon”, which cold  « fifteen years », she was eighteen years old. Butshe became famous in Japan with « I’m not an angel ».  In 1999 she published « Nana », in the magazine “Cookie”, then she became famous in France then world whole.

 Ai Yazawa really loves fashion too. She studied at the fashion designer’s school of Osaka. But  she preferred drawing so she stopped her studies. We can see her hobbies, fashion and music, in her Mangas. Indeed her characters wear her favorite bands (such as Vivienne Westwood in « Nana ») or with the bands that she invented (such as Happy Berry in “Neighborhood Story”), Moreover Nana, one of the main characters of the series, is a singer.

 Yazawa's most famous Mangas are " I'm Not an Angel " (1992–1995); " Neighborhood Story "(1995–1998) ; " Paradise Kiss " (2000–2004) ; and " Nana "( start in 2000).

 Nana is her most successful Manga.

 This is the story of Nana Osaki, a singer who sings with her band, Black Stones (Blast), composed of Ren (her boyfriend), yasu and Nobu. When Ren leaves for Tokyo to become a member of the famous band, Trapnest, however she decides to rest in their little village. She leaves for Tokyo at the age of twenty, to start her musical career with the Black Stones.

Nana Komatsu, the second Nana, is called Hachi or Hachiko by  Nana Osaki. She is very sentimental and she falls in love all the time, so she always need the help of her friends. When all her friends and her boyfriend left for Tokyo, she rests alone. But she decides to join them a year later, as she is having saved enough money, at the age of 20.

Nana meets Hachi in the train by chance, on their way to Tokyo. After a lot of  twist and turns, they come to live together in apartment 707. They have very different personalities and ideals, but they become best friend.

This is the beginning of their life in Tokyo.

 Nana was made into two films, Nana (2005) and Nana 2 (2006) directed by Kentaro Otani, starring for Nana Osaki : Mika Nakashima and for Nana komatsu : Aoi Miyazaki(in Nana)

And Yui Ichikawa (in Nana 2). Yuna Ito ( Reira Serizawa the singer of Trapnest in the movie ) and Mika Nakashima created the songs for their two characters’ group in the movie.

 It has been adapted into an animated series too, directed by Morio Asaka, with the songs of Anna Tsuchiya and Olivia.

 Three video games of Nana were released one for Nintendo DS and two for Play station two.

 I really enjoy this Manga because the drawings are very beautiful, and the story thrilling. I like the others Mangas by Ai yazawa too.

My passion: "Danse" by Alicia

i present to you my passion, danse.
this passion for dance came at age four years old, watching my sister.
Little by little i started going to the MJC of Rillieux-La-Pape.

Hip hop appeared in the seventies in the american city of the Bronx. Clive Campbell is a young jamaican of twelve years old who initiated the public to this dance.
the years following, hip hop become a international dance. there are many ways to dance and foun many figures as a standing, smurf, lock, pop, electric boogie...
and dance floor, headsin, dome, footwook, freeze...
artistics influences break dance are dance floor, african dance, capoeira, salsa, martial arts...
and a standing, african dance, robots, TV series, cartoons...
The famous lame of hip hop are Poping pete which created the boogaloo, pop and robots.
Sugar pop which created lock and Boogaloo Shrimp which created electric boogaloo.
Pokemon is a group of dancer of hip hop who are champion of france and among them the world champion of breackdance Lilou.

But i do not like that hip hop, especially the krump which is a pretty wild dance. It frees bad thought and all the anger that was in us.

i was influenced by the boyfriend of my sister Hassan which is part of the "Cirque du soleil" in Las Vegas for five years.
He began as amateur,and meets in very big dance compagny.
He met many stars as George Clooney, Tom Cruse, Michael Jackson, Hugh Hefner...

Coca-Cola by Bastien.L

Coca cola was invented in 1886 by a pharmacist calles John Pemberton who lived in Atlanta in the south of USA.

The Reason why it's calles coca cola is thath is made with coca leaves and cola nutes.
Pemberton liked testing medical formulas and one afternoon he was searching a remedy fo headaches. He created a perfumes liquid, People found it very special, unique and new.
Pemberton died in 1888 two years after inventing Coke.

After is death a man calles Asa Candler bought the product for the price of 2330$.
In 1892 he lunch an advertising campaign on the market which was a success.
He spent 12000$ on it. Coke has been the most popular soft drink in the USA for 60 years.

In 1923, Robert Woodrukk took the coke compagny. It's thanks to him that the drink is known worldwide. After 75 years of success, the company decided to create news drinks: sprite, orangina, minute maid and other ...

In fact coke is an old drink and it will alwayrs remain the first, the best drink in the world !

Juno's presentation

Juno is a Canadian-American comedy produced by Jason Reitman, released on February 6th 2008 in France.

This is the story of Juno MacGuff, a teenager confronted to an unplanned pregnancy at 16. The father's child is her friend and ling-time admirer, Paulie Bleeker. She decides not to abort and goes looking for ideal parents to raise the future child with her bestfriend's help , Leah. She finds what she wants in a wealthy couple living in the suburbs, Mark and Vanessa Loring. She has got many difficult choices to do, but fortunately, she has got her family. The main character, Juno, is played by Ellen Page, a talented young Canadian actress who was nominated for the Golden Globes and the Oscars in 2008 as Best Actress. In June 2008, she won the Best Actress award at the MTV Movie Awards. Michael Cera plays the character of Paulie Bleeker. He is a Canadian actor and he was nominated for Juno in the Best Actor category. The foster parents are played by Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman.

With a budget of 6.5 million of dollars, the film was shot in Vancouver in Canada ad assembled in Minnesota, USA. The shooting lasted from February to March 2007; within six weeks; 30 days had been planned for the shooting. The majority of the score were performed by Kimya Dawso or her band, The Moldy Peaches.

Juno was screened on 8th September 2007 at the International Film Festival in Toronto and received a standing ovation. It was screened in many festivals and it won awards and nominations on several occasions. The film had a very positive critical reception. Roger Ebert, from the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars and called it " just about the best movie of the year. [...] Has there been a better performance this year than Ellen page's creation of Juno ? I do not think so."

French trailer

Twilight by Jessica

Twilight is a series of four vampire-based fantasy/romance novels by the American author Stephenie Meyer. It follows the adventures of Isabella Swan, a teenager who moves to Forks, Washington DC, and finds her life turned upside-down when she falls in love with Edward Cullen. She eventually learns that he is a member of a vampire family whose members drink animal blood rather than human. Then she meets three other vampires who want to kill her.
The Twilight series is popular among young adults and teenagers, having sold over 40 million copies worldwide with translations into 37 different languages around the globe. The four Twilight books were the biggest selling novels of 2008 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.
The four novels are Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn.

Film adaptation: Twilight has been adapted into a film. The film was directed by Catherine Hardwicke and Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson play the parts of Isabella Swan and Edward Cullen. The movie was released in the United States on November 21, 2008 and grossed $35.7 million on its opening day.

Main characters:
- Isabella Swan (her nickname is Bella)– She’s one of the protagonists. In the first book, she’s 16. She’s a dark brown-haired and a brown-eyed girl. Bella is a perpetually clumsy "danger magnet". She moves from Phoenix, Arizona, to Forks, Washington, to live with her father, Charlie. Many boys are attracted to her when she arrives, but she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious boy she discovers to be a vampire. In an attempt to protect Bella from his dangerous lifestyle, Edward leaves her. Bella falls into a depression and is comforted by her friend, Jacob Black. She comes to love Jacob, but not as deeply as she loves Edward.
- Edward Cullen – Edward was born on June 20, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, and is frozen in his 17-year-old body. He’s a vampire who lives with the vampire Cullen family, who drink animal blood rather than human. Like some vampires, Edward has a supernatural ability, mind reading; it allows him to read anyone's thoughts with the exception of Bella who is immune to his power. He falls in love with Bella soon after she arrives in Forks. Edward knows that he could kill Bella easily, a fact that torments him so much that in the second book he decides to leave Forks so he and his family won't be able to hurt her. He returns, however, because he realizes he cannot live without her.
- Jacob Black – A minor character in the first novel, Jacob is introduced as a member of the Indian Quileute tribe. He has a much larger role in the second novel, becoming a werewolf and Bella's best friend. Although he is in love with Bella, she initially sees him as just her best friend.
The Cullen family - Carlisle has transformed the whole family into vampire. He and his wife have adopted the five teenagers.

The Twilight soundtrack is the official music for the 2008 film Twilight. The Twilight Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album was released on November 4, 2008 The album having sold about 165,000 copies in its first week of release.

New unit-new topic: save our planet!

Here is a new link you can surf on . We will be working on this issue till the end of the schoolyear. Enjoy!!

http://www.goodplanet.org/en/

Moreover this is the Internet site of the National Geographic and you can visit the site too. I find it sooooo interesting, even captivating!!

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Mickael JORDAN

Biography:
-Michael JORDAN was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1963.
-He was a basket-ball player between 1984 and 2003 in the N.B.A which is the National Basket-ball Association in the U.S.A and Canada.
-He played for the Chicago bulls and the Washington Wizard two famous American teams.
-Now he has two sons Jeffrey Mickael and Marcus James and one daughter Jasmine.

His talents:
-Mickael JORDAN was the greatest shooter and the greatest dunker. In 1986 he scored 3000 points in just one saison which was exceptional.

Accomplishments:
-He was declared the best "rookie" in 1985. You are rookie if it's your first year in the N.B.A.
-He won six championships in 1991; 1992; 1993; 1996; 1997 and 1998 with the Chicago bulls.
-he was nominated " best player of the year" in 1988; 1991; 1992; 1996 and 1998.
-He won two olympic gold medals in 1984 in Los Angeles and in 1992 in Barcelona.

Why this subject?:
-I chose this subject because I play basket-ball and for me and many people he is a legend because he has been the best basket-ball player of all times. And he is my idol .

Lilian