The cows and the rain

English writing : Superpower

2007-01-08T10:34:00.000-08:00

THOMAS

Nicolas

Beaux Bâtons

English writing

Topic 3 of the 2OO5 Toeic : about my new superpower

We were the first january of 2007 at midnight, the new years had just begun. It was not an important new year, for example the first january of 2007. But it was a particular evening for me. After one of my friends threw a bottle at my head (I hope it wasn’t unporpose), I got unconscious. When I waked up, I didn’t know that my life was changed. For this event, I have had a superpower: I have the capacity to seduce anybody, but only women. How does this seduction take place? How do I use this weapon? I use only my eyes, and with a simple wink, it works immediately.

At first, if I knew in the evening that I could do that, I would have used it at once with a girl in the party. But it was not the case, and after the party it became an unvalued weapon to conquest girls. I had to take advantage of the situation, because I must say I wasn’t fortunate with the girl before 2007 (it’s a story, not the reality). But at last I said me : ”all will be suddenly different”. I could start from scratch. How did I realise I had got this power? It spent two weeks later in a party. I was dancing beside a girl. After seeing her during twenty minutes, I was fed up and I decided seeing her. When I was in front of her, she looked at me in eyes. Although I was completely scared, and I looked no more of Casanova, I did her a wink. I couldn’t get it over; she caught my hand and kissed me. I leaved immediately the party by thinking it was a misunderstanding. However in the following party, I would retry this experiment, and after another wink, the girl was again charmed. For this evening I ‘ve known of my superpower.

After this discovery I tried to look for my new prey. But I didn’t intend to conquer several girls. I was interessested just in a girl. She was beautiful and very cute. For one year I’ve dreamt she was my girlfriend. However that became for me a double problem. At first I had no interest to hope a girl if I was sure to obtain her. Eventually this superpower was useless. It was too easy. What I wanted actually was the capacity to seduce women. I wanted a kind of power where whole the work depends on me. If I’ve never known the defeat in front of a cute girl, I would not appreciate my success. The second problem I knew was the lack of ethic. If the girl who pleases me was in love with another man, I could change this charm with only one wink! And if this anoter man loved her as well, it would be worth ; it would be sad for them. Therefore I could become a horrible man, able to break the couple due to my selfish superpower! That’s why, after thinking over, I prefer not to seduce the girl, who pleases me. This superpower finally prevented me from to seducting women. I lost the taste of the seduction. And after thinking over, I realised that a such power entails most drawbacks than advantages.

But this conclusion was true with the girl. But I could use this in another estate. Thanks to this power, I could look nice for my colleagues. If I work indeed with a woman, I could use my superpower so that she likes me. I can even imagine having a job interview with a woman, and with an easy winck, she would be seduced and the job would be for me. If I’m clever, I will choose a job interview where a woman is the interviewer. Then, when I am in the compagny, I would either improve my job thanks my skills or by using a wink if there is a woman. If there is a woman who decides and who works in a superior level, I could have her recommendations and she would trust me. Women are indeed like men in this estate. We tell men can prefer a woman to a man since he finds her pretty, while a man is better for this job. Therefore it’s normal to think that women are the same mentality. Moreover, in this case, there is no problem with myself, because I will not sure to succeed my job (if there is no woman in the compagny), it’s just to give me a hand. The success will depend especially on me, the defeat will be possible. But there is still a problem of ethik. If another man is better than me. I will indeed able to take a job thanks to my power, although this man should have the job. My succes would miss morale. This question gets difficult for me. I could answer easily: ‘Business is business’, I would be a bad man. I think eventually this power also is difficult for my job, because I should decide in fact each time if it’s good to use my power for this job, and if it’s completily bad for another man. Do I merit this job? Does nobody merit it as well? Even if we must have least feeling as possible, it would be too inhuman not to think about this.

To conclude, I would say my superpower seems great at first. But I think we are not allowed to want the love of a girl by preventing her from loving somebody else. Moreover, about the work in a company, this superpower will prevent me from succeeding only by myself. But it’s not completely useless; this power can give me a hand. On the other hand I will have the duty to use it with morale. I hope actually to have another bottle in my head so that this superpower gets over … and maybe to have another new superpower.

Presentation of my english subject for the second semester

2006-11-17T07:37:00.000-08:00

THOMAS Nicolas

Subject and bibliography for the evaluation of the second semester

Henry James : His vision of the various behavior between the USA and the old continent

Subject :

Literature and culture

Topic :

¨ The study of the differences of mentalities and sensibilities between the USA and the old continent.

¨ Understand Henry James's work during his entire life, by studying its obsessions, his hopes, etc.

studied books:

¨ Author, Author of David Lodge (2004)

¨ The Europeans of Henry James (1878)

Websites:

¨ Wikipedia very complete article, about the life and the complete work of Henry James

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James

¨ Wikipedia article : Study of Henry James's studied work

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Europeans

¨ Summary and commentof Author, Author of David Lodge, by Guy Savage, literary expert

http://www.mostlyfiction.com/history/lodge.htm

¨ Interview of David Lodge about his book : Author, Author

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/author_author.html

¨ Whole text on the book The Europeans of Henry James

http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/european.html

I researsh only the performance

2006-10-17T10:21:00.000-07:00

The other day, I try to know me better by doing a test of personality. The result wasn't really a surprise, because I'm actually an achiever, not surprising for an future ingenior. That's mean that I always want that my actions are the best as I can.
Then, this test shows me particulary points of my personality. For example, my worth fear is to send me without any value. If I don't feel an utility in my actions for a cause or for people, I lost all my capacities, and I'm hardlyless. Contrary, when I realise a project with succesfull I have a very big trust of me, and I feel me very hardly.
The test goes now farther, because it explains what are the my methods to win. I use my charme ( Little which I have of it, of course) and I try to have a professional attitude. That's mean I try to have a goog feeling with my partners and I must to show a professional attitude so that these partners trust me. This two ingredient together are the recipe of success for an achiever.
I agree with this test. The questions were very handbook, that explains the good result. If I'm not surprised with the result, I'm really surprised with the big truth of this.

From Brittany to english class in Saint Etienne

2006-09-20T09:05:00.000-07:00

Two weeks ago I was in Brittany in the land with eternal rain, and the life was easy if a little boring. Now I 've arrived in Saint Etienne in Ecole des Mines, and begin a new year, where I will must work more, because the last year was so quiet :-).
Today I am in english class, I must prepare the TOEIC this year with my new professor M.Yukna. I take advantage of the tutorial to create a new (my first) blog.

Thanks this new class, I've the honnor to participate at the very select school Beauxbatons Class of 06. It's very difficult to enter in this way, but I think it's my very good english level, which help me to participate of this class. This web site is a desktop to bind links beetween each member of the class and our teacher. I suggest that you go to this web site if you want to follow the work of our class.