Post from Rakil Zazza (not from Prof. Dixon)

"the universities in Morocco. "

the universities in Morocco and job markets does not go in equal way
due to the system of universities don't prepare students for job
markets.
first of all universities graduater have hopeless chance after yeas of
studying and struggling to get certain degrees it,because of a lot of
obstacles which are the real problem as lack of advanced among systems
and companies. for instance  that systems of teaching  had been taught
for many years before which mean there is no new knowledge that
students can benefits from, furthermore, when it comes to curriculam
which does not meet the job markets need, so they still suffer from
lack of necessary skills and less knowledgeable about careers which
they apply for but they get refused. on the other hand,  most
universities have made small changes toward equality of systems of
education and jobs by engaging some communication course so students
learn how to deal with other, also some other courses teach job search
skills so they can know how to apply for it or how to deal with job
interviews.
finally, most students have apprehension of lack of job opportunities
which need better connection with universities.

Freedom

In my own time. In my own way_ That is one of my personal motto. 

We should all have the freedom to move and grow and

develop at own pace. Micheal Scofield

HOPE

Since I was a child, I have been looking for a real meaning or even meanings to this word" HOPE"

I asked a great deal of people, but the answers were different. In fact, I tried as much as I could to define" HOPE" just as I have understood it. As a consequence, this was all what I have understood from those people:

"Hope only hope can break down the obstacles that prevent one from moving forward.

 Hope builds bridges between you and your abilities, and all what it takes is a ruthless determination"

I hope I was able to give its real meaning.

Post about "Beatbox", by Salah eddine El Abbar.

Hello friends, I would like to share something I like a lot, it's a talent that is not that famous. I'm talking about "Beatbox"...
Beatboxing (also beatbox) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of producing drum beats, rhythm, and musical sounds using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice. It may also involve singing, vocal imitation , and the simulation of horns, strings, and other musical instruments.
Sometimes, beatboxers will use their hand or another part of their body to extend the spectrum of sound effects and rhythm. For example, some have developed a technique that involves blowing and sucking air around their fingers to produce a very realistic record scratching noise, which is commonly known as the 'crab scratch'. Another hand technique includes the 'throat tap' which involves the beatboxer tapping their fingers against their throat as they throat sing.
Beatboxing today is connected with hip-hop culture, being one of "the elements", although it is not limited to hip-hop music.
Here is my favorite Beatboxer, I consider him the best in the WORLD.
His name is Alem and he is from France.

Thank you for your attention !

Post from Meryem Yazidi

  I have been really keen on it since I was 4 years, as it frees me from the prison of sadness and lonlyness, everytime I am pushed into it.  It's a symbole of freedom to me, particulary, when the pencil starts to surf smoothly on the paper like a bird flying freely in the sky, so this is how I feel towards my passion which is "Drawaing".

Post from Yasmine Semlil

Creativity has no limits ,and when you combine it with science, you get this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3oItpVa9fs

Post by Khadija Nidrahou

Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry. She lived with autism since the age of 4. She is a real source of inspiration to all of us, she has a very unique ideas and point of view, she challenged everyone and she is now a professor at colorado university and a doctor in science of animals. She has lots of works(hugging machine), books about her life, and their is a film about her named Temple Grandin.i would like to ivite all of you to watch and read about her.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFP7ubENTAM

united states history

       

history of the United States   

When to date the start of the history of the United States is debated among historians. Older textbooks start with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 and emphasize the European background, or they start in 1600 and emphasize the American frontier. In recent decades American schools and universities typically have shifted back in time to include more on the colonial period and much more on the prehistory of the Native peoples ^]

Indigenous peoples lived in what is now the United States for thousands of years and developed complex cultures before European colonists began to arrive, mostly from England, after 1600. The Spanish had small settlements in Florida and the Southwest, and the French along the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast. By the 1770s, thirteen British colonies contained two and a half million people along the Atlantic coast east of the Appalachian Mountains. In the 1760s British government imposed a series of new taxes while rejecting the American argument that any new taxes had to be approved by the people. Tax resistance, especially the Boston Tea Party (1774), led to punitive laws (the Intolerable Acts) by Parliament designed to end self-government in Massachusetts. American Patriots (as they were called at the time as a term of ridicule) adhered to a political ideology called republicanism that emphasized civic duty, virtue, and opposition to corruption, fancy luxuries and aristocracy.

All thirteen colonies united in a Congress that called on the colonies to write new state constitutions. After armed conflict began in Massachusetts, Patriots drove the royal officials out of every colony and assembled in mass meetings and conventions. Those Patriot governments in the colonies unanimously empowered their delegates to Congress to declare independence. In 1776, Congress created an independent nation, the United States of America. With large-scale military and financial support from France and military leadership by General George Washington, the American Patriots won the Revolutionary War. The peace treaty of 1783 gave the new nation the land east of the Mississippi River (except Florida and Canada). The central government established by the Articles of Confederation proved ineffectual at providing stability, as it had no authority to collect taxes and had no executive officer. Congress called a convention to meet secretly in Philadelphia in 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation. It wrote a new Constitution, which was adopted in 1789. In 1791, a Bill of Rights was added to guarantee inalienable rights. With Washington as the Union's first president and Alexander Hamilton his chief political and financial adviser, a strong central government was created. When Thomas Jefferson became president he purchased the Louisiana Territory from France, doubling the size of the US. A second and last war with Britain was fought in 1812.

Encouraged by the notion of Manifest Destiny, federal territory expanded all the way to the Pacific. The expansion was driven by a quest for inexpensive land for yeoman farmers and slave owners. The expansion of slavery was increasingly controversial and fueled political and constitutional battles, which were resolved by compromises. Slavery was abolished in all states north of the Mason–Dixon line by 1804, but the South continued to profit off the institution, producing high-value cotton exports to feed increasing high demand in Europe. The 1860 presidential election of Republican Abraham Lincoln was on a platform of ending the expansion of slavery and putting it on a path to extinction. Seven cotton-based deep South slave states seceded and later founded the Confederacy months before Lincoln's inauguration. No nation ever recognized the Confederacy, but it opened the war by attacking Fort Sumter in 1861. A surge of nationalist outrage in the North fueled a long, intense American Civil War (1861-1865). It was fought largely in the South as the overwhelming material and manpower advantages of the North proved decisive in a long war. The war's result was restoration of the Union, the impoverishment of the South, and the abolition of slavery. In the Reconstruction era (1863–1877), legal and voting rights were extended to the freed slave. The national government emerged much stronger, and because of the Fourteenth Amendment, it gained the explicit duty to protect individual rights. However, when white Democrats regained their power in the South during the 1870s, often by paramilitary suppression of voting, they passed Jim Crow laws to maintain white supremacy, and new disfranchising constitutions that prevented most African Americans and many poor whites from voting, a situation that continued for decades until gains of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and passage of federal legislation to enforce constitutional rights.

song covered by me

i'm a rifian and i'm so into singing , it feels good when i do and so i covered this song and thought i'd share it with you , i hope you guys like it

A poem of friendship

A Friend

A friend is one who stands to share Your every touch of grief and care He comes by chance, but stays by choice Your praises he is quick to voice No grievous fault or passing whim Can make an enemy of him And though your need be great or small His strength is yours throughout it all No matter where your path may turn Your welfare is his chief concern No matter what your dream may be He prays your triumph soon to see There is no wish your tongue can tell But what it is your friend's as well The life of him who has a friend Is double-guarded to the end.

Poem by Chaimae Sami

A young man 17 years old Popular in school A friend to all Broad-shouldered Strong as an ox Olympic torch bearer Cross country runner Dance competition winner State champion wrestler Completely selfless Always helping others who are Less fortunate Rarely discouraged Always smiling and laughing Positive about life Why does this seemingly average boy stand above the rest? Why do I admire him so? Because he has done all this And carries on Living life to its fullest And never asks "Why me?" 'Tho he has had No legs Since age six If only we could all be more like Kacey.

Post by Amina Chabib

"Smile"

"

Smile, though your heart is aching

Smile, even though it's breaking

When there are clouds in the sky

You'll get by...

If you smile

With your fear and sorrow

Smile and maybe tomorrow

You'll find that life is still worthwhile 

If you just...

.

.

.

.

.

That's the time you must keep on trying

Smile, what's the use of crying

You'll find that life is still worthwhile

If you just smile"

A Song called "Smile" by Micheal Jackson. I have been listening to Micheal Jackson since I was a kid, but none of his songs has ever affected me as much as this one. This song helped when I was having a hard time. It helped  me to overcome my depression ,and gave me the determination to stand up again when I wanted to give up, and to have faith in myself. I learned that life is not always about winning and that it s full of struggles. One should not give up no matter what happens.

Post by Hanae Ouk

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

This quote was given to us as an assignment in our public speaking class but I didn't get the chance to talk about it .so I’m taking this chance to share my thoughts with you.

The meaning of this saying is quite simple it is so similar to the saying   “united we stand, divided we fall” so from its meaning this quote can be used in different situations and as an example I would like to talk about family .

A family can not be stable and strong to itself when divided and here, the division refers to the various mentalities and perceptions of the different members of the family .so if they all think alike and there is tolerance ,acceptance and good understanding they will be united forever and no one could do anything to break it, however if they keep fighting and disagreeing with each other all the time  the family will eventually break.

Meryem Labdi

The Last Tree

In a small town two old ladies, Khadija and Samira, lived together in their cozy country house. Khadija was bed ridden and since she was superstitious, she believed she would die when the season of figs ended. Her friend Samira tried to reason with her, but the stubborn woman had her mind made up. So her only choice was to go to Mr. Brahim, the town vegetable seller. He told her that the fig season lasted only seven days, they were in the last days, and unfortunately he was all sold out.

Samira returned home hopeless but a few days later, someone knocked on her door saying that he had a package from Brahim to Lalla Khadija and Samira and it was a box of figs. Surprised but happy, she went to Khadija to give her the good news. After a week and after Khadija became surprisingly better, they went to Mr. Brahim to thank him for his kindness, only to find that he had died from a bad fever he caught when he went to the last fig tree on top of a mountain to bring the last figs of the season.

Post by Sara Eddoubi

The Glass Castle by Jannette Walls : 

     The Glass Castle is a memoir writing by Jannette Walls in which she reveiled her own story and the truth about her roots after two decades of hiding them .It is a book I couldn't put down. an unbelievable story of poverty, dysfunction and survival. The book tells the story of Jannete's dysfunctionnal family , and discribes  the struggles she faced throughout her childhood with an alcoholic father and a self-interested mother who cared more about her art and happiness than her children.
As I was reading the book, I felt extremely angry at Jeanettes father for making his family victim of his irresponsible stupidity and not holding a steady job; I was extremely angry at her mother for living in a made-up world. However I was so amazed by how in the end  the children - including Jannette- succeeded and used their experience for the better.

Post from Chaimae El Hachimi

It s about why english is important in Morroco, and also in different countries .Although that video is very usefull because it illustrates a few points of views.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz4HKP_1NDU#t=315

Post by "Mitch Lucker"

The Violence

Video === https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=736885929735708

-The shock features admixed with alot of the fury were approaching to fill whole my face

while i was watching it. The first question that i asked myself is it real woman needs to stay at

home after her opening the motherhood door ?

   At the last mounth in Uganda, the landlocked in East africa has lived one of the vilest

crimes. After parents left the camera to observe the nanny while they were at work ,the

camera has filmed how the little girl "Aneela" about 3-4 years old was close enough to catch

her last breathe by that furious divel , At first i said this is just another silly joke or something

like that things which we start seeing everyday on set-webs, but as i watched the video i

couldn't trust what my eyes have seen is that really happening to this beautiful baby girl, i

wished if it was just a trick but it looked real because there was nothing fake in it.

   An evil babysiter was beating the kid without mercy the devil himself  can't be this evil or

even commit what she had done to that kid who apparently was sick which made her refusing

to eat more of food while the nanny forced her to eat choking and smacking her on her face

with such ferocity that one can actually hear the sound echoing around the room,then

moments after that,the poor child threw up while the devil was watching tv and eating the

food that girl didn't want it with cold blood, during that the babsiter got completely mad so

she snaped,flung the baby from the settee onto the ground exactly above the vomit to clean it

by the baby's body and beating her by something so harmful on down of her back then and

finally stomped on the kid's back and head repeatedly .

   As we know whenever people saw and read about like that event are talk too much, there's

some rumors saying that when her father back saw the video he couldn't stop himself of

beating her so that's why she is now reportedly confined to a wheelchair and feeding through

tubes due to the severe beating which she received from the baby's father, and there's also

other rumorse saying that the little girl dead the reason why her mother asked for prayers to

do not let this rumorse burst and become truth

I created this video in a programe which I participated in it , its name is 'ACCESS4' . The video is about Music and Facebook which are topics for our days .

   

 

HUDA KATTAN.
Huda Kattan is an award winning blogger and hollywood trained celebrity makeup artist in Dubai.In 2010 she founded her blog,Huda beauty, to help teach women everywhere how to enhance and embrace their natural beauty with easy steps,prodect reviews, and tutorials.

Enjoy this video of hers:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0izKYPm1670&list=UURSvEADlY-caz3sfDNwvR1A

Morocco flash floods cause casualties in south

A girl of nine was among those who had been swept away by the raging waters of the Tamsourt River, media reports said.
Around 100 mud-brick homes were partly or totally destroyed and 100 roads, including six national highways, were cut off in the floods, officials said.
Flash floods are fairly common in Morocco, which is popular with tourists.
Flooding around the ancient city of Marrakesh left tour buses briefly stranded, local media reported.

Vehicles have been washed away by the floods and roads cut off

Rescue workers are trying to reach people by boat or helicopter

The floods are in the south at the foot of the Anti-Atlas Mountains

Morocco is often hit by flash floods

Rescue operations saved "200 people in danger, among them 40 helped by army and royal guard helicopters", the AFP news agency quotes an interior ministry statement as saying.
About 130 all-terrain rescue vehicles and 335 inflatable boats and other vessels were being used to search for the missing, the ministry said.
In the southern city of Guelmim, 24 people were killed by a flash flood that swept through a dry river bed.
Many of the dead and missing came from families that were trapped in vehicles swept away by the waters, the Associated Press news agency quotes local media as saying.

About 100 roads are said to have been cut off

the source of the article http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30180239