French Research Essay

Tim Starman

Rédaction 3

Le 18 Avril

L’effet des Soins

           Claretha Briscoe vient de Massachusetts. Elle est une femme qui n’a pas accès au Obama Care. Elle gagne trop d’argent pour le Medicaid, mais elle ne peut pas bénéficier d’un accès au Obama Care (www.nytimes.com). En France, les habitants ont la couverture maladie universelle, et si on est sans-papiers, ils peuvent demander de l’aide médicale de l’état.  Les deux pays ont des dispositifs différents avec leurs immigrants et leurs sans-papiers.  On regardera les différences et les similarités avec les dispositifs des deux pays.

           La France utilise la couverture maladie universelle pour les habitants qui n’ont pas de la couverture de leur travail. Mais aujourd’hui, les règles ont changé un peu. L’administration française dit : «  En effet, avec la PUMA, toute personne qui travaille ou réside en France de manière stable et régulière a droit à la prise en charge de ses frais de santé » (Service-Public.fr). Lentement en France, les choses gratuites ne sont pas gratuites. Il y a deux niveaux de la couverture maladie universelle, la part obligatoire et la part complémentaire.  Le site officiel de CMU (la couverture maladie universelle) explique bien les deux. CMU parle de la part obligatoire, « Cette part est remboursée par l’assurance maladie (également appelée « sécurité sociale »), et aussi ils parlent de la part complémentaire, « Cette part est soit à votre charge, soit remboursée par une complémentaire santé » (cmu.fr).  La part obligatoire est la première étape; il est remboursé complètement. La part complémentaire est plus spécifique. Les clients doivent payer 6,90€ pour chaque fois

           En France, un sans-papier peut bénéficier d’un accès aux soins, ce qui s’appelle l’aide médical de l‘état (AME). Le site officiel de l’administration française explique tout ce qu’on droit faire. Il faut qu’on satisfasse les conditions avant de bénéficier l’aide. Après les conditions, on a besoin de demander. Le site dit que «  Une fois attribuée, l’AME est accordée pour 1 an. Le renouvellement doit être demandé chaque année » (Service-public.fr). Les gens obtiennent une carte d’admission à L’AME. « Cette carte est à présenter aux professionnels de santé que vous consultez » (service-publiv.fr).

Aux Etats-Unis, Obama a crée un nouveau système qui s’appelle « l ‘Affordable Care Act » L’Obama Care essaie de créer une couverture mondiale pour les États-Unis. L’idée de Obama Care est une extension du « Medicaid ». Aussi, Obama Care aide les gens qui ne peuvent pas se payer leur assurance. L’Obama Care force tout le monde de recevoir un type d’assurance. Cette assurance vient du marché. Un site a dit que « L’obligation d’adhérer et de cotiser à une assurance privée ou au Medicaid rend de ce fait l’assurance maladie obligatoire. » (cleiss.fr). L’Obama Care veut soigneur aux soins le plus de gens possible aux Etats-Unis.

Les deux pays ont des systèmes différents. La France a un système pour les sans-papiers, pendant que les Etats-Unis n’ont rien. Les systèmes français sont plus socialistes que les programmes aux Etats-Unis. Tout le monde a une opinion, mais c’est une matière de santé.  Aux Etats-Unis il y beaucoup de gens qui meurent sans les soins. Ils ne sont pas couverts. Il y a des états qui ne suivent pas les règles d’Obama. En France tout le monde bénéficie de CMU ou AME.

           Il y a pourtant un problème avec l’Obama Care. Il y  a 2/3 des Noirs pauvres qui n’ont pas l’assurance avec l’Obama Care. (nytimes.com).  Les états républicains n’adoptent pas le nouveau système. Le groupe de discussion n’aide pas, tandis qu’en France les sans-papiers bénéficient des soins. Il faut qu’on agisse vite.

           Il est l’heure de changer. Aujourd’hui, on doit avoir une couverture mondiale qui 

marche mieux. Avec les soins pour tout le monde, Claretha Briscoe et sa famille

bénéficieraient des soins. Sans la politique, on a une obligation personnelle d’aider nos frères

et nos sœurs, avec ou sans-papiers.

My Short Story

Short Story

Tim Starman

Creative Writing

         

It was just another Monday morning on Oak St. Everyday started the same, hearing the blaring music every morning at 6:30am. I woke up slower than normal, letting the depression sink in. Here for another classic Monday, filled with constant stares at the clock and complaining.

         

Mom was getting frustrated because I was taking a long time to get ready. I fell asleep fully about three times in the steaming hot shower. I got out just after 7:00, way behind schedule.

“BLAKE!!!!” she cried.

“I’ll be there in two seconds mother dearest”, I replied sarcastically.

         

It took me a good ten minutes to throw my clothes together and hop in my Volkswagen Golf, my one true love. The drive to school takes around 6 minutes if all the stop signs are nice to you.

       

  I arrived to class with a quarter of a second to spare. Being to class early is normality for me, but today was different. Chemistry was one of my favorite subjects. Mixing and doing experiments is what I live for.

“Good morning class!” said Mr. Smith

Nobody replied and everyone might as well of been zombies.

         

In today's class we were starting a new experiment. Every experiment generally consists of mixing two, three, or even four different chemicals together, and then to record the changes (if any). Today was no different.

         

           Today we were working with a chemical called 4-nitroaniline. The experiment was to mix this chemical with various other chemicals to see the change, if any.

“One final rule. Under no circumstance can you mix 4-nitroaniline and sulfuric acid, this would cause a potentially dangerous reaction” Mr. Smith proclaimed with certainty.

         

All the boys in the room go very excited and started chatting amongst themselves, while the cute girls shivered and got nervous.

I was sitting in class bored as always and my wonderful mind started to think. I’m always so bored of class and not being important. I decided to have a little fun today. Blake is most definitely going to mix these two chemicals.

I shoot my hand up into the air; Mr. Smith called on me,

“What would happen if I accidentally mixed these two?” trying hard not to sound too suspicious.

“Well there’s a chance that these two chemicals could cause an extremely large explosion, filling this whole school with smoke, and not to mention an awful smell. I know one time a chemist mixed these two chemicals and something bizarre happened.”

         

The whole class got tense, and leaned in a little closer to hear every word out of Smith’s mouth.

“The smoke cloud was so large that it took a fire crew to relive it. After many hours the smoke desolated, but not only the smoke, but something else did. Does anyone have any thoughts on what else disappeared?”

John Clarke rose his hand gingerly, “Ummmm the school?!”

“No, not the school”

I rose my hand at once, “The chemist himself?”

“This is true, no one knows what happened to him. We don’t know if he ever reappeared or not, let alone where he went in the process.”

Not not only the girls were silent, but even the starting quarterback.

Everyone did their experiment as told. We all saw little to no change in all the different chemicals. Teachers never gave us cool reactions to do, this was the downside of "high school" chemistry. This was going to change today, I knew it.

I grabbed hold of the 4-nitroaniline, and snuck the sulfuric acid without anyone seeing it. We were working with heated water while we mixed the chemicals. I poured in the nitrolliane and slowly added the sulfuric acid.

Out of nowhere, as Mr. Smith had said, there was a loud bang. The room was engulfed with a poignant awful smell of gas.

Everyone was in a state of panic, but I had gone somewhere else....

It was sometime in the way past, I would guess the mid  '60s. The classroom was very similar to our classroom, I’m guessing it’s the exact same room. Wandering around the classroom, I was curious if the other students could see or hear me.

“Hello, my name is Blake” I  said rather shyly.

           I was shooken up to realize the teacher started talking to me. I ended up staying in the class for the remainder of the day. I could get used to this way of life, everything seemed simpler and easier, unlike real life.

………..

           The class was as dark as midnight. Mr. Smith had no idea what had happened.

           Smith ran towards the source of the explosion, and all of a sudden he vanished, like Blake. Instead of the past, he was launched into the distant future, nothing was the same. He was thrown in front of a class full of what looked like students. Instead of a classroom he was on a spaceship, teaching future pilots.

           Not having any idea what just happened he panicked and ran away, the kids just sat there and laughed at him. To them everything was totally normal, but for Smith he was bewildered and confused out of his mind. Eventually, he got a hang of what he was doing, it took him many years to understand piloting himself, let alone teaching it.

The transition from present life to the future was a lot easier than he thought. Technology was way beyond what he thought was possible, everything was simpler. Everyone was smarter and wiser. Every aspect of life was totally different, from the food you eat, to the houses you live in, even the core school subjects were totally different.

It was very hard for Mr. Smith to understand why he had to be stuck in the future. Don’t get him wrong he loved this time period, being a science teacher and all, but he had a family and a life back home. He hated that one of his students changed his life forever.

          

The cloud finally settled, and the class finally settled down. The first think the whole class saw was the disappearance of two people. They saw that Blake had randomly vanished into thin air, but Mr. Smith was also away.

“MRS. SMITHHHH”  A preppy white girl screamed.

           No response was heard.

“What the hell is going on in here?!”  the superintendent and this team rushed into the classroom.

           President Frandel ordered the vice president to evacuate the whole school, this was one of the biggest school crises they’ve ever witnessed.

           The intercom came on over the whole school,

“Attention students and teachers. There has been an accident in Mr. Smith’s chem class. Mr. Smith and fellow student Blake Peters has gone missing. I cannot give you anymore information than that, because we know about as much as you do at the moment. Class is dismissed, you all get home safe now, have a good day, and remember to be safe”

          

           The whole school was absolutely silent. A teacher and a friend had gone missing. Everyone walked out of the school somberly. Girls and close friends of Blake’s were crying, while the rest were holding them back.

……….

           This accident made the front of the paper as well as statewide news. It’s been two weeks after my disappearance.

           The students and faculty of my high school still remember that day, they call it “Smoke Day”. They commemorate the disappearance of Mr. Smith and I.

           We were never able to return to our present life, but we had a wild one. Neither one of us met back up, but I was able to experience the 60’s. Eventually, life felt normal, this era felt like me. I slowly forgot what life was like in 2015, it’s like a distant memory I had when I was little.

           I had to pay for my simple mistake for my whole lifetime, and my poor teacher paid the consequences for his.  Never again did I not go against set rules, I was extremely respectful and loving, being the best man I can be. I worked the rest of my life making sure people don’t get too adventurous, and to think before you act.

Le Petit Prince

Today in French class we had to re write an ending to a well known story. My friend Jessica and I decided to do "Le Petit Prince". It is a very well known French short story. It's about a little prince who travels to different planets and meets many people. A long the way he teaches important philosophical morals and lessons to them. We had to finish the ending and change it. This is what we came up with.....

Le lendemain le petit prince est retourné au Sahara. En arrivant dans le Sahara il a trouvé la rose. Le petit prince a demandé  « Pourquoi est-ce que tu ici?»  «Je suis ici parce que B-612 est top froid pour moi, et je l'aime ici.» dit la rose. « Pour combien de temps est-ce que tu serais ici» le petit prince a demandé. « J'avais habiter pour 5 ans.» dit la rose. Ils parlaient pendant toute le soir.

La rose était jaloux de le renard, parce qu'il était devenir des amis avec le petit prince. Le lendemain le petit prince a tué la rose parce qu'il était enseigner à elle un leçon. La morale de cette histoire est qui ne devenez pas jaloux, sinon g are, vous serez tués!

Careers in Writing

As you all know, I am doing this blog as part of an inquiry that I'm doing in school. One of my big topics of this project is researching different careers in the field of writing. There are three main categories in writing and they are Creative Writing, Business Writing, or Online Writing. All three are fairly specific in what you do. 

Creative writing is what we all dream of becoming. We all grow up wanting to become the new J.K Rowling. Sadly this doesn't happen to the average Joe.  Creative writing can be anything from poetry, fiction writing, plays, screenplays, TV scripts, comedy writing, and etc. This is by far my favorite career path for writing because it always anyone to use there gifts, and write whatever they choose to. It can be about serious things, or wizards and made up worlds. You are fee to be yourself. It's a very stressful field, but if you're luck enough you might just make it. Good luck!

Business Writing is the next main category of writing. This is probably the most realistic and most used types of writing. These writers are journalists, advertisers and promotional people, technical writers, speechwriters, as well as textbook writers (they have to exist, I know). These jobs are very useful and a lot more available to the average writer. The only drawback on Business Writing is that it isn't nearly as fun to write speeches and textbooks, as it is to write your own fiction fairy tale. 

The last main area in the field of writing is Online Writing. This is by far the newest area of writing. This field will soon take over because of the accessibility and ease of computing in the future. Everybody uses the Internet, whether it’s on their mobile devices or at home on the desk top. You read all sorts of things online that you don't even realize it. Someone has to do this and that's what these people are. Online writers often keep up companies websites, and create they e-mails business wide. 

That was a background of all the possibilities a writing major can have. It's a tough major to get successful, but if it's your passion then go for it, what do you have to lose. It would be amazing if we could all be New York Times Best Sellers, but we also need online journalist and bloggers, as well as textbook authors. The options are limitless. 

Mes Vacances

For my next "redactions" in French 4, we had to write a paper describing and explaining a favorite vacation. This could be a real vacation or a made up one. I made one up, because I went to Hogwarts in my story. This paper is a narrative, because I am explaining a story. It is a little bit of discription
work as well. And finally, it is all written in French of course! Enjoy.

Mes Vacances

Tim Starman

French 4

Il y a deux semaines je suis parti en vacances à Hogwarts. Je suis parti en vacances avec mes soeurs. Nous aimons Harry Potter. Il faisait toujours froid et pluvieux, mais formidable.  Hogwarts est un lycée pour les élèves de la magique. Il y a 7 ans des etudes à Hogwarts.  

           

Le matin nous mangions a la grande salle. Il y a beaucoup les nourriture.  Chaque midi je regardais un match de Quidditch. Quidditch était sympa regarer.  Ensuite  j’ai marché à chez Hagrid. Une fois nous sommes partis à Hogsmeade. D’abord nous avons acheté des Butterbeers. Ils étaient délicieux, et souvent, je buvais plus. Après, nous sommes partis à Diagon Alley. J’ai acheté une baguette magique pour moi. J’ai préféré le Diagon Alley plus que Hogsmeade.

           

Une nuit nous avons marché dans la forêt de defend. Elle est terrifian, mais palpitant. Fréqeumment je sautais parce que les bruits. Un jour j’ai visté chez Gryffindor, parce qu’il est mon préféré maison à Hogwarts. La toute salle était couvert dans le rouge et l’or.   Le château de Hogwarts est très beau et mystérieux, je l’aime.  Avant-hier nous sommes rentrés notre maison.

           

Ces vacances étaient très sympa.  J’ai amusé les experience. J’ai eu beaucoup les aventures avec mes soeurs. Je souhaite je n’étais pas un muggle, parce que je veux faire la magique. J’ai aimé mes vacances, et je rentrerai bientôt!

Joining a Blogging Challenge

Today I was having a lot of trouble coming up with new posts to blog about.  A friend of mine told me about blogging challenges. So googled blogging challenges and some really fun ones came up. If you can see on the right of my blog you can see the blogging A-Z challenge.  This blog challenge starts April 1, and I have to post everyday, except Sunday. This will be a great way to get more views on my blog, and to get new ideas for my blog.

The focus of this blog is to post everyday. The special thing about the A-Z blog is that each blog has to use the letter in chronological order. Because my blog is about French I will be doing French topics with each letter. So for example, my first post could be "Airports in France", day two could be, "Bathrooms in France". This same theme goes on until you reach Z.

Reviewing French Tenses

Hello!/ Bonjour!

In post we will take a very simple English sentence, translate that into French, as well as putting it in all the tenses that we've learned so far. I think that it is very important to see all of the tense together in order to easily differentiate them. But the most important part of verb tenses is knowing when to use them. What situations do I match with what.
 
So these are a list of the verb tenses that I have learned so far, and reviewed on this blog:

1. Present tense
2. Immediate Past tense
3. Passé Composé
4. The Imperfect tense (L'imparfait)
5. Recent Future (Futur Proche)
6. Future tense
7. Conditional tense

Sentence: You (talking to a friend) play soccer. In French: Tu joues au foot. Now I will re type up 1-7 and put this sentence in all 7 tenses.

1. Tu joues au foot.
2. Tu viens de jouer au foot.
3.  Tu as joué au foot.
4. Tu jouais au foot.
5. Tu vas jouer au foot.
6. Tu joueras au foot.
7. Tu jouerais au foot.

Now that we can write these 7 tenses, the most important part of all is understanding the purpose of the different tenses. In my opinion the best way to go about this is to directly translate all 7 sentences back into English, this way we can understand the purpose.

1. You play soccer. (This is pretty basic, it's not in the future or the past, it's currently happening).
2. You came from playing soccer/ You just played soccer. (This is past, but shortly after it happened.)
3. You have played soccer/ You did play soccer/ You played soccer. (Past tense, completely happened. This is generally not right right after the event, but later that day, week, etc.)
4. You were playing soccer. ( This a repeated action in the past. Also descriptions, and emotional thoughts, such as "vouloire".)
5. You are going to play soccer. (This is a future event that is shortly going to happen.)
6. You will play soccer. (This is something that is going to happen, could be a year, 10 years, but WILL happen.)
7. You would play soccer. (Conditional is generally paired with an "if" clause. "You would play soccer, if you could". Just remember that conditional is always "would".)

Hopefully this post helped you review your French verb tenses. As I've said before these are extremely important to understand and know if you want to survive Paris.  Please leave a comment if you have and questions, or if you're confused about anything.

Thanks!/ Merci!