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Displaced in China Today we read the last document of the sequence. It was about a Mr. Saragoza, an American Apple employee displaced in China to supervise work in a Foxconn plant. He decided to quit his job because of the long work hours and because he couldn't see his children much. The text also summed up what a Foxconn plant looks like in China, and the magnitude of the numbers involved: 230.000 employees, guided by 300 foot guides, fed with 3 tons of pork and 13 tons or rice a day, working 12 hour work shifts, and producing 40% of the world's consumer electronics ( electronic devices ). This is what globalization is about, and many economists tend to forget that it has a price to pay (. ..that it has a flipside ): to "sacrifice living standard gains made [in] the 20th century [...] that have come to define American middle class." Vocab overnight     -> du jour au lendemain to sump up  -> résumer ( to sum it all up,  pour résum...

warm up i present at you 4 20 to mean 4 hours 20 minutes recreational drugs hippies embarrassing legalization 17 vs 70 it was no legal -> it wasn't legal revolutionaries to voice one's concerns straight edge xxx Planet Of The Phones Today we started studying a text from  The Economist. We tried and divided the document into different parts. Here is the outline ( le plan ): - 1st Part : sta TI stics / future / smartphones in daily life hyperbole to exemplify defining ubiquity growth to miss - 2nd part : supercomputing power on the move ; delivering data is cheaper and cheaper. Connectivity and interaction to drop -> baisser * * * we finished reading that text today.  Ideas from the text: part 1: smartphones outsell computers. They're portable and ubiquitous. It will change society just like the cars or the watch have in the past. Examples: - The Arab Spring (using Twitter to post info about the abuse of dictatorship, documenti...

the iPhone project lasted for (a duré) 6 weeks. Wrong : line 11, " for over two years, the company had been working on a project code named Purple 2, [...] reimagin[ing] the cellphone? " the components in the iphone came from many different countries. Right : line 14, "The answers [...] were found outside the USA, [...] all iPhones countain hundreds of parts, [...] 90 percent of which are manufactured abroad." these components were assembled / put together in China Right : lines 17-18, "And all of it is put together in China." Steve Jobs made a test with an iPhone in his pocket Right : line 3, "Mr Jobs held up his iPhone [...], tiny scratches marring its plastic screen [...], people will carry [it] in their pocket." S. Jobs demanded a glass screen. Right : line 22, "Mr Jobs demanded a glass screens in 2007." S. Jobs didn't want the screen to come from China, so he had it made in the USA. Wrong S. Jobs ...

Apple's Machinery / Manufacturing the iphone Today we scanned an article published in 2012 in the New York Times, and written by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher. Here are the points we think we understood: the iPhone project lasted for (a duré) 6 weeks. the components in the iphone came from many different countries these components were assembled / put together in China Steve Jobs made a test with an iPhone in his pocket S. Jobs demanded a glass screen. S. Jobs didn't want the screen to come from China, so he had it made in the USA. S. Jobs wanted to have the screen come from the USA, but it was too expensive. This text is about the period before the iPhone was released . Warm Up considered a symbol for  he was born on/in he died on/in Black Ark studios there is apple society, wants to reimagine iPhone, wants to... cost... reduce the costs of the iPhone article write in nytimes in 2012 by xxx the text talks about the project of iPhone durant / du...

Warm Up Spaces & exchanges Hyperloop to study [stʌdɪ] Underground / subway the tube where is the train -> the tube where the train is Traveling materials : the iPhone as an item of Exchange  Today we studied a map of the world. There were arrows pointing at different parts of the world, connecting countries together. There were three main groups of countries, North America, Europe, and South-East Asia.  At first, we imagined it could be about traveling by plane, or international trade, or the movement of ressources. But we understood it was about a ubiquitous ( omniprésent ) device ( objet électronique, technologique ) ; a smartphone. Indeed, the iPhone is an device that requires ( recquiert ) a lot of ressources and movement and its parts go from country to country to be finally assembled, and sold. Is Globalization drawing us together, or tearing us apart?

Fighting the Luddites Today we tried to finish what we started last time. We studied two documents that explained how the Luddites worked : they would form a band of about 30 people, go to the house of a machine owner ( Propriétaire ) by night, and break the machines, sometimes hitting the owner. Initial reactions were to try and calm the rioters ( émeutiers ), by appealing ( en faisant appel ) to their patriotism and threatening them ( en les menaçant ), mentioning their families and (underpaid) jobs. Authorities also blamed the Napoleonic Wars for the troubles. Eventually, laws were voted to make machine-breaking punishable by death, and the army was sent against them.

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Workgroup Intro Ned Ludd comes from Sherwood forest, like Robin Hood. The riots (= émeutes ) started around Nottinghamshire [ Notingemshe ]. In the 19th century, there were economic difficulties because of the Napoleonic Wars. The Luddite movement lasted for 5 years : they not only ( non seulement ) broke into factories ( to break into = entrer par effraction ) and attacked the machines, but also ( mais aussi ) employers and soldiers. The British government tried to find a compromise, but it didn't work out, so they punished Luddites: 17 were executed thousands of troops were deployed Luddites were protected by local communities because they had the public opinion with them. Luddites were very effective, because they kept fighting, and they could regroup many people.  

Today we finished studying last time's text. Here's what we found out. According to Thomas Pynchon, there were two main reasons for the Luddites' revolt: 1. The machines were owned by just a few people, they were rich. Each machine was a "concentration of capital." 2. Each machine would replace many workers, "many human souls." People in 1812 had a "love/hate" relationship with these knitting machines: on the one hand , they made clothes cheaper than ever, and they represented technical progress (Good points), but on the other hand , they caused social problems and unemployment (negative points). It's the same with us today, all machines have a price to pay (be it (que ce soit) social, environmental or economical), and the Luddites of today are afraid of losing their jobs to future machines. A very famous English poet and politician, Lord Byron, was against a law in Parliament that projected to punish machine breaki...

"The Blood of Luddites" This article from the New York Time is entitled: Is It OK To Be A Luddite..., and was written by Thomas Pynchon. Here are a few things we understood after scanning the document. The Luddites was a group that flourished in England from 1812 to 1816, it was an organized  anonymous  mass of people,  who were considered as counter-revolutionaries . As we already know, they became synonymous with the destruction of machines. According to the Oxford dictionary, the name Luddite comes from a Ned Lud, who is said to have inspired the movement. His story tells that when he saw machines, he destroyed them. The article also says that they swore allegiance not to the British King, but to this King Lud. The second paragraph is about the origin of the Luddite movement. In the last paragraph, the author mentions Lord Byron, who was a politician who defended the Luddites. Vocab Mostly Whether although to swear allegiance hosiery...

Warm Up Topic exoskeleton Iron Man Black Sabbath futuristic Badass Chest / Torso a mark a brand Who were the Luddites? Today we listened to an audio document. Here's what we found out: - It talks about the violent movement of protest of the Luddites. It took place in England, in March 1811. - The goal of the Luddites was to keep the jobs of the textile workers by destroying the new machines of the textile industry.  - The context was the Industrial Revolution. - Luddites were scared that the machines would replace them, because they were textile workers. They said no to this new technology. - We also heard a excerpt from a 1988 drama, with a Luddite saying: "I don't want to be a slave to a machine for the rest of my life." - We also heard a name, "Ned Ludd." It was the mythical creator and leader of the Luddites. If he was mythical, it means he never existed. - The word Luddite survived, and it means someone who rejects technology. There...

Presentation of the Luddites, an Industrial Rebellion  Today, we started working on the new notion, "Idea of Progress." We studied a few pictures from the 19th century, they looked like drawings. The first document presented people, maybe peasants, with weapons. There was a building on fire in the background, and a huge character on the foreground, called "the Leader of the Luddites."  The second document presented us with a group of angry people with axes. A man tried to stop them from destroying a machine. It was a machine used in the textile industry. The third document was a poster asking for people to denounce Luddites (machine breakers), and rewarded witnesses (témoins) with £1.000. We also noticed that it took place in the early 19th century (in 1812 precisely).  Then the last document compared the Luddites with rats in a cage, like people who reject technology. To sum it all up, we know: - the Luddites were a group of people, - who destroyed m...

Today we talked about exam preparation. We have to prepare notes for next time , one for each notion. We also considered reading questions first, before reading the text themselves. It can help us to understand the topic. Warm Up truth                   -> vérité faith                   -> foi faithful               -> fidèle a liar                   -> un menteur revealed truth    -> vérité révélée Tertullian

An Exciting Jungle: Swiss Family Robinson Today we watched a last trailer inspired by the story of Robinson.  Here's what we thought we understood (ce que nous pensions avoir compris): - it speaks of the arrival of Robinson and a "team of  people." - it's about a family, the Swiss Family Robinson. - After a shipwreck, a family falls underwater, and has to fight sharks, and the angry sea. - After a while (après un moment), they arrive on a strange and lost island. It's uncharted. They eventually (à la fin) transform the hostile jungle into a tropical paradise. That movie was produced by Walt Disney, so it's family movie, it's not very realistic. It looks like a parody.