8 secrets of success

I saw a video about secrets of success according to Richard  St John. There are 8 secrets. I 'm going to expose to you this secrets :

- Passion : You must be passionate by the work that you want to do. It's necessary to love this work. You must find the motivation. All it's personnal not financial.
- Work : You must work hard to success. If you want success you need work hard because nothing is easy. 
- Good : If you are competent is better. You must to try to be better everyday and everytimes. Give the best of you.
- Focus : concentrate on something and to excel in this field. The practice is the key to success.
- Push : You must to push yourself to success. You need to forget the fears, the stress, the apprehensions...
- Serve : You must serve people. Every work need exchange with other people so you need to serve them if you want to make a good work.
- Ideas : You can to be like bill Gates if you ar a very very good idea. It's the key of success.
- Persist : It's very important. You must always persist despite the difficulties.


I don't know what is the best secret of success. I think all it's necessary. In a first time I think Passion is very importante to success because if you are passionate by something that you love to do you are more motivate. So if you are motivate, you can do anything. After the passion the hard work is necessary because the passion is not sufficient to success. Hard work allows to go up in the hierarchies. After it's necessary to persist because when you work you must face many difficulties and you need to push yourself to face them. So it's very hard to take one secret because all is necessary but I think the first to follow is passion. In fact, most people do a work that they don't like and they are so sad and depressive sometimes. They can't progress in their job because is not passionate. They just want to have money to live but they are not happy so I think it's necessary to be passionate because it's more justifying and you can progress while being happier and by wanting still more to advance.
 So please be passionate and live your passion with perseverance and hard work, practice practice and practice as far as you can it.

How art gives shape to cultural change

          


            I looked a video entitled " How arts gives shape to cultural change " by Thelma Golden. It's talking about black culture through paintings.


            I choose the table of art at the 11.54 in this speech. on this picture we can see that the dominant color is the white. This work represents a hand of a black man who holds snow. In background, we have vast extended from ice or snow with an outline of mountain and a blue sky strewn with clouds. what I like in this work, it is that it appears very pure. The snow in the hand looks like a cloud and it's like the man can touch the sky. It's simply a mark of hope, freedom and change. All this is underlined by contrast between the decoration very pure, very white, very clearly and the arm and the hand with the black skin. That accentuates the attention of the glance.
Moreover, the man tightens his hand forwards that proves that he tightens his hand towards the future, that he believes and he hopes in the future : the worst is behind him.
So I think this picture is just a message of hope and liberty. So i like very much this work.


Now, I'm going to try to answer at some questions :


                 1) How do images work, according to Thelma Golden ?


It's a spectacle with the works made by artists whose instruction was to represent the life such as they see it and to define it by passion. Works represent problems of the life or what the artists would like to see changing. Art makes it possible to be expressed, to be made hear and understand. I think Art gives shape to cultural change. It's like an mark of about history. And it's more effective than a book or a classroom because you can imagine the works and you can interpreted the message alone and it's more interesting.


              2)Which questions does she raise about the role a museum plays in a society ?
              

According to Thelma Golden, museum is very important in society for artists and works. In fact, museum is a public place which gathers and exposes collections of works of art, objects and documents which are of cultural interest. It's a place of questions and answers. Thelma Golden think that museum is " the space for contest of ideas" . In short, the museums make it possible to pose reflexions on cultures and to change them.

I'm agree with Thelma Golden when she says “think about artists not as content providers […] but again as real catalysts” because artists gives their ideas through their works. The work of the artists push us to the reflexion. Indeed, when we are vis-a-vis a work, we put questions and we start to see the point of view of the artist and we conform to this point of view. They share their ideas and they push with the debate what involves changes. That's why the artists are catalysts. They cause the change by striking practices what enables us not to forget the message of it.

Beliefs during school-days

"  The only charm of the past, this is that it is the past. " ( Oscar Wilde )

       When we are child, we have a different definition of "charm" that today. For every children, charm is is related on imagination, the magic and the dreams. Today, when we grow up and when we begin to build our futur the charm is just : Attraction, seduction, characters which like and attract at a person or a thing. In short, it is a sexual attraction.

When I was a child, i believed in magic and everything around magic. Like every child i believed in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy ( in french we say " la petite souris " ). Funniest was that I really believed in it. I believed in it so much that I contradicted all the children who did not believe in it or more and which said to me that it was only silly things. 

After a few years I am in my returned turn account which they were really silly things for children. I was a little sad because I felt a little betrayed by the adults, a little swindled, a little misused.

When we grow up, the life becomes more realistic, the magic dies out. 

I think children need to believe in something because that maintains the innocence of the children and allows them still to dream a little, to preserve them outside world even if the return to reality is hard. I think that remains necessary to the good development of the child. I will dream to fall down in childhood, the moment of unconcern etc…

informal letter

13 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau

38000 Grenoble

France

5 Mars

Dear Beth and John,

I'm writting to say you that i'm coming back in my home in good health. I'm sorry for not writting earlier but between my bags to be arranged and the visit to my family to tell them my travel in your home, I've been incredibly busy !

I'm also writting to thank you for letting me stay with you during this extraordinary  two weeks. This travel will stay engraved in my memory. So many splendid discoveries and trainings of another culture. Since my come back I realize that my english got better so I think that it's gonna be more easier to my english course, I hope ! 

Here, weather is not terrible. The sky is gray and misty but it isn't rain yet. This point remember me London and that make me feel a little nostalgic.

Now I must revise for my exam and it's not funny. I'm very busy and I don't know how I will arrive at knowing all that I must know. Oh! As I will like to be still on holiday at your sides.

If you want to go in France I will be happy to accomodate you at home and to make you the visit of beautiful things to see in my city.

Give my love to your friends Mary and Tiara and thank hers to have been so nice with me.

Please, can you give me some photos that we took in London ? 

I hope I will see you so soon !

Give me some news sometimes.

Best wishes

Elodie

PS I enclose a beautiful photo that I found on the net with the tower bridge by night. It's like I saw it with you.

The Park Mistral

            At first, this park appears to be a park like the others and which is located, moreover, near to the roads and all noise pollutions. It thus doesn't have anything of attracting. However, it is a big park which comprises a great quantity and variety of trees and of plants in any kind. I am in Grenoble since two years and I don't know this city very well. When I arrived, I don't knew anybody and I chose to walk to visit this city to try to adapt me to it. 
I come from a village in the countryside next to the mountains with very little pollution. I wanted to thus find a little place of greenery to breathe a little and to feel me a little more as at home. 
So, I went to the park mistral. When you are at the interior, the unpleasant noises of the cities become more remote and the calm reign. Many ways is offered to you. With the passage, you can see many animals and hear a multitude of chirp of birds. The first time that I entered this park I could follow a small squirrel during a long moment of which is on this photography:

Since, I often turn over to trott me in this park with my boyfriend or my friends for one moment of relaxation and a small return to nature. So, I will advise you to go to make a turn if you like trott them, the greenery and the animals. All this free of course! Why not test then ?


The park mistral is located on secondary road 523 beside the "stade des Alpes" in Grenoble. To go there, you need take the tram C until with the stop " Hotel de ville". And here, you are arrive. Now profit !

Presentation

Hello everybody !

My name is Elodie, I'm twenty one years old. I study the linguistic in the Grenoble's university. I do this licence to become a teacher in primary school.


I come from a little village near Veynes, in Hautes-Alpes. I go to Veynes once a month to see my family and my friends. During the week I live in Grenoble's center town, next to Chavant but, I will move in March next to the tourism bureau. I live with my boyfriend.


About my hobbies : 

• I practice piano since i was five years. I love music it's the most important things in the world to me.
• I like read different sort of book.
• I like go to the cinema. I love kind of film except horror films. 
• I like go out with my friends to shopping or simply to speak with them in a cafe.
• I love music like i said. I love rock and pop music but i can listen different kinds of music.   

Hey it's already the end of my little presentation I hope to see you so soon Good bye ^^   !