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Robots for sick children

For sick children who spend long weeks in a sterile room, the feeling of isolation can be devastating. Recently, there are robots that are used to help find their daily lives. The principe is simple : the young patient runs away from his hospital room, using a computer or a smartphone, a telepresence robot the size of a big child, found home, in the classroom or other place of his daily environment.

• What do you think of these robots?
• If you were to place these children would you be happy to have the oppotunity to have
  one of these robots?

One girl under 15 married every seven seconds

Hello everyone,

October the 11 was the International Day of the Girl and at this occasion, the organisation Save the Children issued a report about child marriage that affects millions of adolescents in the world.
According to Girls not Brides, an other organisation, 15 million girls are married before the age of 18 every year.
Do you feel concerned about it ? What is your opinion about child marriage ?

Hear are links to more complete articles:
article from "Save the Children"
website of "Girls not Brides"

The uniforms to school

In some schools, it is compulsory to wear a uniform.
This is not the case of our school.
If we propose to wear a uniform in high school, would you be for or against? Why?

Hello! Have you read "Black Beauty "? I have a subject for you: Which one of his Master did you like? (50 words)

The privileges of the former presidents of the French Republic

Yesterday, the President of the Republic, François Hollande, established a degression of resources granted to former presidents of the Republic, with a reduced number of employees beyond the fifth year following their departure from the Elysee.
Before the reform, a former president was receiving an annual grant of 65.000 euros, but also enjoyed a service apartment, a car with driver, was entitled to seven employees, two personal home and train tickets and free aircraft.

What do you think of the reform that made François Hollande?
Do you agree

Discuss "Fiction" and "Non-fiction"

For example, biopic movies : 
We can speak about it in this case because it arise from the life of a particular person, they are thus supposed to represent the reality but not the total imagination of the director.  However, in these movies, the fiction hold an important place, indeed, actors are not generally people with whom the movie deals. So there is a contrast between the fiction and the non-fiction, furthermore, the movie is the work of a person, who very often did not know the person involved. The movie, although it is not the purpose has practically always the imprint of the director. We can thus notice that the reality is something that cannot be transmitted such as it is, whatever the domain: autobiographies, biopic movies...
Nathan