Review: “J’Accuse !”

    I found this letter absolutely shocking.  Not for the content, as I already knew the history of the Dreyfus Affair, but for the incredible way that Emile Zola denounces pretty much the entire French government, from the military to the President himself, as guilty of covering up the truth.  I did not know that Zola sent this letter to the Aurore knowing that publishing it was illegal, and would land him in mortal danger (or not mortal, thanks L.BelleTriste for your comment on that point…).  Very good reason for Fabienne B. to name her dog J’Accuse!!

Thank you again, librivox.org!

“Merci, librivox.org !

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Shira

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B5, Hakan:Muhafiz/The Protector, Sihirli Annem, Lupin, or La Casa De Papel/Money Heist Reviews,

Holistic College Algebra & GED/HiSET Night School Lesson Plans,

           or My Nonfiction  & Historical Fiction Serial Writing

Thoughtful Readers, please consider reading and sharing about #ProjectDoBetter.

Shira

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Book Review: Arséne Lupin, After Seeing It Omar Sy Style

The common good, or the general welfare, might just become more fully inclusive for all of us with a little help from our new Gentleman Bandit/Burglar, Omar Sy.

  I might even have to erase this review, ahem:

Je suis navrée, mais je n’aimerais pas ce livre. Pas du tout. Depuis le commencement jusqu’à l’arrivée du Sherlock Holmes volé, et là, il devenait encore pire. Au moins pour moi.

and

in English:

I’m sorry, but I really did not like this book, at all.  From the start, up to the arrival of the stolen ‘Sherlock Holmes’ it just got worse, and worse, at least for me.

and write it all over again, from a different point of view!  After all, that is what Adults do, no?

So, it turns out that updating a classic series with a new perspective can really put a different spin on things, and maybe even make a difference in this world.

Action Items:

1.) Share two different sources related to the Arséne Lupin series, and to the Holocene Epoch and to the Holocene Calendar.

2.) Share your thoughts on how a calendar based on the Holocene Epoch might help, or hinder, inclusive thinking,

3.) Write a story, post or tweet that uses it.

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B5, Hakan: Muhafiz/Protector,  Lupin, or La Casa de Papel/Money Heist Reviews

Holistic College Algebra & GED/High School Lesson Plans,

           or Long Range Nonfiction, or Historical Fiction Writing

Thoughtful Readers, please consider reading about #ProjectDoBetter.

Shira Destinie A. Jones, MPhil, MAT, BSCS

 

 

   Salût ! 

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French Fridays, and One Lesson from Lupin, Ch. 10 (P2e5) about Authority

 

                 Fun with Languages Friday  (mostly in English this week!): Lupin #10 !

  The lesson in this last episode:   The police are not always corrupt or incompetent.  No authorities are either bad nor good, but must be judged individually, based upon their actions, as should we all.

     Like Ganimard, in the original stories, Guédira is reasonably intelligent, reasonably competent, and a good man, who wants to do the right thing.   

       French Fridays with Lupin, Omar Sy style, presents the last episode of Part 2, and the incredible finale:

 

 

    La musique va parfaitment avec le drame !

    The concert is perfectly matched to the action!

 

   Et, en fin, les polices ne sont ni incompetents ni corrumpus !  Merci !!

   And, at last, police who are neither incompetent nor on the take!  Thank you!!

 

 

  Il a, en fin, fait tomber Pellegrini  !!    He has finally brought down Pellegrini!!

 

   Or at least, so it seems…

 

       

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Chapter 9 aka Part 2, episode 4, was last week.

I look forward to Part 3 (if I have access to Netflix, still…) and to your thoughts.

Shira

Action Prompts:

1.) Share your thoughts on how language learning may encourage empathy-building cooperation, and might help, or hinder, inclusive thinking.

2.) Write a book, story, post or tweet that uses those thoughts.

 

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Science Fiction/Fantasy Shows,  Lupin, or Money Heist

Holistic High School Lessons,

           or Long Range Nonfiction, or Historical Fiction

     Thoughtful Readers, if you are on Twitter, please consider following   #ProjectDoBetter.

Shira

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French Fridays, and Lessons from Lupin, Chptr 9 (P2e4)

 

                 Fun with Languages Friday  (mostly in English this week!): Lupin #9 !

  1.)   Never give up.

   2.)  Trust your friends.

French Fridays with Lupin, Omar Sy style!

   This episode review has a few spoilers, but mostly translated French. 

 

We have the small fish, so we let the shark go, because the corrupt official orders us to.

 

 

And the dog of a dead woman torturing the poor friend of Assàne.

 

I love those busts from the stories of Lupin where the original Gentleman Cambrioleur has a thief stealing identical busts for something hidden inside one of them.

 

Well, her father has definitely thrown spanner in the works for Assàne now.  And for his loyal friend, too.

 

 

Excellent saving of Ben!!  And the two maps of the catacombs.

 

But he is not a murderer!!

 

 

How easy it is to break most people’s passcodes because they use easy to break codes.  Wow what an excellent getaway or hiding spot.

 

I won’t be surprised if a little accident happens to Mrs. Pelligrini.

 

Et il ne lâche pas !

 

Excellent planning ahead, by 20 years!!

Like the Professor in La Casa de Papel!!

 

Wow, yes, they did use it one day!!

 

And they gave the map back: a few years later!!

 

Mais non l’argent n’est pas à l’origine du monde !!

No, money is not at the origin of the world!!

 

Nice hiding place for a USB!

 

But now is the time to turn in all of the evidence, on everyone…

 

And then, we finish off Pelligrini.

Yes!!

 

 

      

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Chapter 8 aka Part 2, episode 3, and

next week,

which will be  Part 2, ep. 5 , aka Ch. 10, is the last episode, thus far: French Fridays, and One Lesson from Lupin, Ch. 10 (P2e5) about Authority .

I look forward to your thoughts.

Shira

Action Prompts:

1.) Share your thoughts on how language learning may encourage empathy-building cooperation, and might help, or hinder, inclusive thinking.

2.) Write a story, post or tweet that uses those thoughts.   

 

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Click here to read, if you like:

Science Fiction/Fantasy Shows,  Lupin, or Money Heist

Holistic High School Lessons,

           or Long Range Nonfiction, or Historical Fiction

     Thoughtful Readers, if you are on Twitter, please consider following   #Project Do Better  on Twitter.

Shira

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French Fridays, and One Lesson Lupin, Ch. 8 Teaches us about Black History

 

                 Fun with Languages Friday  (Spoilers left untranslated !): Lupin #8 (P2e3) !

French Fridays with Lupin, Omar Sy style!

   This episode should be called “Inter-generational Revenge… “

 

    Lesson:  Racism matters, and history matters: repair your damage…

Why would he allow Juliet to play with him like that when he knows she’s a player? 

 

 

Oui, il vise la fille.   …  Yup, he’s targeting the girl.

 

And I suppose there’s no better way to get a teenager to do something then to prohibit the teenager from doing it.

 

But he can’t actually be doing this for her reasons.

 

Et en visant la fille parce que le père a visé son fils il va la faire croire qu’il est tout prêt il est prêt à tout pour elle pour qu’elle soit prête à tout pour lui.

 

And he is not obsessed with her father, her father is an outright racist.

Oh, so he had to gain her confidence in order to get her to talk to her mother, who knows where the bodies are and they get her to tell the police where the bodies are.

 

Yup, all that for a coffee!

 

I wonder if she knows yet that her father has been stealing from her foundation.

 

I love how they keep going back to that same Pier on the Seine where he was being treated badly by the kids the loosest kids and now you see that racism being not exactly undone but partly in this kiss at that same place.  Very well done.

 

        

 

—

 

 

Chapter 7 aka Part 2, episode 2,  was last week, and then

        Part 2, ep. 4 , aka Ch. 9: French Fridays, and Lessons from Lupin, Chptr 9 (P2e4) .

I look forward to your thoughts.

Shira

Action Prompts:

1.) Share your thoughts on how language learning may encourage empathy-building cooperation, and might help, or hinder, inclusive thinking.

2.) Write a story, post or tweet that uses those thoughts.

 

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Click here to read, if you like:

Science Fiction/Fantasy Shows, or Lupin

Holistic High School Lessons,

           or Long Range Plans, & Historical Fiction Serial Stories

 

Thoughtful Readers, if you are on Twitter, please consider following   #Project Do Better  on Twitter.

Shira

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French Fridays, & Two Lessons Lupin, Ch. 7, Teaches About Trust

     French Fridays with Lupin, Omar Sy style!

  (all in English this week, but listening,  and using the CCs for the Hard of Hearing to catch ‘swallowed’ words, is excellent practice for learning a language…)

   This episode, p2e2, should be called “When not to trust authority… ”

 

 

        Wow, 

   So,

       1.)  Assàne is right not to trust even a good-hearted police officer under the command of a bad one.

     2.)  He is also right to have a backup hiding place, even at the home of his son’s mother.

     We see that the police officer being given orders by the commissioner who is completely on the taken in the hands of the really evil bad guy, makes Assàne right: They are either all incompetent or directly or indirectly on the take. Because even our good guy fan of Lupin police officer who’s  has rescued the kid, still has no choice but to obey the order of his commissioner, who is in the employee of the filthy rich lying manipulative abusive scumbag.

 

     Soon, poor Raul is caught in the middle of all this, rescued by the police officer who then has to turn him over to the bad guy, who also has a backup plan for when Assàne manages to get Raul free.

 

     Great scenario, and extremely good, if sad, commentary on our society. Racism is alive and well, and so is classism. And how do you root out corruption??

 

—

 

 

Chapter 6 aka Part 2, episode 1, was the first episode in Part 2. 

Next Friday, Chptr 8, aka Part 2, ep 3: French Fridays, and One Lesson Lupin, Ch. 8 Teaches us about Black History .

I look forward to your thoughts.

Shira

Action Prompts:

1.) Share your thoughts on how language learning may encourage empathy-building cooperation, and might help, or hinder, inclusive thinking.

2.) Write a story, post or tweet that uses those thoughts.

 

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Click here to read, if you like:

Science Fiction/Fantasy Shows, or Lupin episodes

Holistic High School Lessons,

           or Long Range Plans, & Historical Fiction Serial Stories

 

Thoughtful Readers, if you are on Twitter, please consider following   #Project Do Better  on Twitter.

Shira

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Fun with Languages Fridays: Lupin: Chptr 6

 

                 Fun with Languages Friday  (mostly in English this week!): Lupin #6 !

 

French Fridays with Lupin, Omar Sy style!

   This episode should be called “Everybody makes mistakes, even Assàne…”

 

 

        Wow, the teaser for part 2 is great but the trailer for part 2 is absolutely unbelievably amazing!

 

 

Passons à la magie…         Yes!!

Let the magic begin…

 

    Wow, what an episode. This episode was basically about Assàne’s mistakes as he learned to emulate Lupin, and the mistake he makes this time when his son is taken as a hostage used as bait against him. What a horrifying ending. And what incredible cruelty and incompetence on the part of the female police officer not to check the car because she assumes that he’s lying.  And then to withhold the information because she still thinks he’s lying.   He’s basically right and it seems the majority of the police officers are either on the take or incompetent.   Let’s hope that his buddy the fellow Lupin fan, is not.

 

 

—

 

     I think we learn, in this chapter, that everyone makes mistakes, and needs a Plan B (or Plan C).

 Part 1, episode 5, was the last episode in Part 1.   

then,

Part 2, ep 2, aka Chptr 7,  posts.

I look forward to your thoughts.

Shira

Action Prompts:

1.) Share your thoughts on how language learning may encourage empathy-building cooperation, and might help, or hinder, inclusive thinking.

2.) Write a story, post or tweet that uses those thoughts.

 

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Narrative and Prose Nonfiction,     

Holistic High School Lessons,

           or Historical Fiction Serial Stories

 

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Shira

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Fun with Languages Fridays: Lupin, 1:5

 

                 Fun with Languages Friday is French Fridays with Lupin, Chptr 5 !     Omar Sy style!!

     ***Spoilers!!  ( episode 4 was last week…)

 

   This episode should be called “I Know Everything: about Raul !”

 

 

     They name Lupin’s  son Raúl  because, of course , the son of of Arséne Lupin, in the books is named Raúl. They have a very close connection, but he always lets her down even though he makes up for it stolen jewelry.  He is a gentleman, but not the classic type. So of course we go from Raúl’s conception to the present day with his birthday and then tragedy strikes. This is a very good episode : showing Claire and their son and how closely connected the three of them are in an unconventional way. And of course the festival of Maurice Leblanc on his birthday at the fort from the story of L’aiguille Creuse. 

    And finally there is a connection with the books in terms of characters: the child of a maid who is wrongly accused of theft ends up stealing jewelry in order to support her in her old age, and as the theft is actually committed the by child, a prodigy, the mother is accused.   

  

   Nice social commentary from that time to ours.

 

(for those who like the commentary (mostly) in French:  (I listened to the story on https://librivox.org/aiguillecreuse-by-maurice-leblanc/ but via the phone app…)

”

 

page 4

 

4.44%“J’adore le nom du Chen de Fabienne : J’accuse !!”

 

June 12, 2021 –

 

page 5

 

5.56%“Omar Sy seems to take the character of Arsène Lupin up from chaotic neutral to chaotic good.”

 

June 12, 2021 –

 

page 5

 

5.56%“From neutral chaotic, to, as given new background but Omar Sy, good chaotic, Lupin evolves…”

 

June 15, 2021 –

 

 

33.0%“Je commence le 3e chapitre de l’arrestation d’Arsène Lupin commencement du l’évasion d’Arsène Lupin. Il est plutôt beau ce livre maintenant et comme j’ai trouvé un autre lecteur qui est qui me plaît beaucoup mieux que le premier de Libivox.org, ça c’est bien. Toujours rien a voir avec le scénario de Omar Sy, mais je l’attends…”

 

June 24, 2021 –

 

 

36.0%“Donc on a vu l’arrestation d’Arsène Lupin et après ça l’évasion d’Arsène Lupin. Il n’avait pas du tout un coup de suicide mais il a quand même évadé du prison, et ensuite on a vu aussi le coup de fameuse d’ailleurs coup de voyager mystérieus et ensuite on a vu qu’il a vraiment , Arsène Lupin fait àrester un tueur . ça c’est très bien déjà mais maintenant on va écouter la collier de la reine.”

 

June 25, 2021 –

 

 

39.0% “Un fils de nom :. Raul !!
Et, bien sûr, vol de collier de la reine !!”

 

June 25, 2021 –

 

 

40.0%“Et aussi le fils d’un parent accusé à tort…”

 

June 25, 2021 –

 

 

41.0% “Et aussi on a l’ancien famille propriétaire qui des années après la collier de la reine de nouveau.

C’est chouette comme ils ont fait la série d’Arsène Lupin avec Omar Sy !”

 

June 26, 2021 –

 

 

41.0%“Adore changes: #OmarSy series!!”

 

June 27, 2021 –

 

 

45.0%“Je suis navré mais l’histoire du coffre-fort et le 7 du cœur ma semble assez proche à une histoire de Sherlock Holmes. même on a les papiers de la navale.”

 

July 3, 2021 –

 

 

46.0% “Miss Nellie, autre fois, dans le château !
Quelle continuité !!”

 

July 7, 2021 –

 

 

47.0%“How would Arsène Lupin deal with idle neighbors smoking under his window at night?”

 

July 19, 2021 – Finished Reading

“)

 

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     I hope that this review series will move you to learn more ways to help use our history to build new tools.

Part 1, episode 4, was last week, and Part 2, ep 1, Ch. 6,  will post next Friday.

I look forward to your thoughts.

Shira

Action Prompts:

1.) Share your thoughts on how language learning may encourage empathy-building cooperation, and might help, or hinder, inclusive thinking.

2.) Write a story, post or tweet that uses those thoughts.

  Thoughtful Readers, do you have ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness,  #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind? 

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Click here to read, if you like:

Narrative and Prose Nonfiction,     

Holistic High School Lessons,

      or Historical Fiction Serial Stories

Shira

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Fun with Languages Fridays: Lupin, 1:3

 

                 Fun with Languages Friday:  mostly English, and a little stream-of-consciousness…

     ***Spoilers!

French Fridays with Lupin, Omar Sy style!

   This third episode is all about how Assàne kidnaps Commissair DuMont, brilliantly.  And Dumont eventually asks his forgiveness.  And the school, paid for by the “generous donatrice” where this kid did not lack courage!  Launching at three kids all by himself!  🙂   So there we see his history of bravery, already shown back in the 2nd episode!   I’ve not yet read LeBlanc’s story  where Lupin kidnaps a person and never leaves the building, but the policeman afficcionado of the stories references it as he figures it out, leading his colleagues to Dumont.

 

Poor Guidira:  “Patron… Pas Lupin encore!”   He’s right, but no one believes him!  His middle name should be Cassandra!! 

 

And Dumont should have stuck to his guns, 25 years ago!!

Before he went back to smoking…

 

—

 

 

    And now, Dumont’s wife knows he’s a liar, and so do the police.  And best of all, Assàne knows that Pellegrini is implicated…

 

 

     I also have a short historical fiction series called  Ann & Anna, about two women and a small girl escaping slavery through 1855 Maryland.  I  hope that this series will move you to learn more ways to help use our history to build new tools.

  Chapter 2 was last Friday, and Chapter 4  will post this coming Friday. 

(See all of my Lupin reviews on this list.)   (Part 1: ep1, part 1: ep2, part 1:ep3, and part 1:ep4 from previous Fun French Fridays…)

I look forward to your thoughts.

Shira

Action Prompts:

1.) Share your thoughts on how language learning may encourage empathy-building cooperation, and might help, or hinder, inclusive thinking.

2.) Write a story, post or tweet that uses those thoughts.

Dear Readers, do you have ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness,  #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind? 

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Click here to read, if you like:

Babylon 5, Hakan: Muhafiz/The Protector, or Lupin Reviews

Holistic High School Lessons,

           or Long Range Nonfiction, or Historical Fiction Writing

Thoughtful Readers, if you are on Twitter, please consider following   #Project Do Better  on Twitter.

Shira

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Fun with Languages Fridays: Lupin, 1:2

 

                 Fun with Languages Friday:  English translation right after the French!

 

French Fridays with Lupin, Omar Sy style!

 

   Wow!!

Bon il a bossé son technique d’évasion.

 

C’est vrai. Elle n’est pas innocente.   Et son fils, il sait déjà distinguer.  Mais pourquoi allait-il en prison?  !!

Son père était très attentive al ortographie quelque chose que seulement son fils  soura.  Mais non il n’y a pas de hasard dans la vie.  Sûr tout quand on avais une lettre, un mot de suicide comme ça. 

Évidemment il va utiliser les mêmes techniques qu’a utilisé Arsène Lupin en allant en prison lui-même.  Comme dans les histoires.   Le coût de menottes !  Chouette !!

Et voilà la fille de la Mère dans sa cage dorée parce qu’elle savent Ou son les cadavres.

 

Et le pauvre policier qui sait qu’il est en train de voir les histoires d’Arsène Lupin dans la vraie vie mais personne ne le croit.

 

Et le drame le plus haut et honorable possible :   nettoyer le bon nom de son père.

 

 

 

He has definitely improved his technique of getting away. It’s true she is not innocent and his son already knows how to distinguish. But why is he in prison?  !!

 And his father was very particular about spelling. That’s a detail and only his son would know. Nice.  And there is no such thing as coincidence when it comes to a letter like this a suicide note.

And obviously he’s going to use the same techniques, going to prison, as Arsène Lupin did in the stories.

 

Oh god, the Foster /orphanage place was just like the prison!

Ah, right, the one the daughter of the one who knows where the bodies are hidden.

 

Poor policeman!

And the best highest noblest drama possible to clear  the good name of his father.

 

 

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    Wow!

 

 

     I also have a short historical fiction series called  Ann & Anna.  I  hope that the series about two (or three!) young women escaping bondage will move you to learn more ways to help use our history to build new tools.

  Lupin Chptr 1, and Chptr 3…  (and all of these reviews will be listed on the Lupin page…)

I look forward to your thoughts.

Shira

Action Prompts:

1.) Share your thoughts on how language learning may encourage empathy-building cooperation, and might help, or hinder, inclusive thinking.

2.) Write a story, post or tweet that uses those thoughts.

Dear Readers, ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness,  #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind? 

Support our key #PublicDomainInfrastructure  & #StopSmoking at least for CCOVID-19:
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-we can learn from the past Stayed on Freedom’s Call for free,

         by Teaching and Learning (Lesson Plans ) in the present, to

                         We can  Do Better: a project for a Better World to create a kinder future

 

( 5 month GED lesson 25 of 67 plans),

   and narrative  Babylon 5 review posts, from a Minbari Ranger’s perspective: story inspires learning…

Toward Peace,

Shira Destinie A. Jones, MPhil, MAT, BSCS

Shira

the year, 2022 CE = year 12022 HE

Stayed on Freedom’s Call
(free: https://archive.org/details/StayedOnF…)
includes two ‘imagination-rich’ walking tours, with songs, of Washington, DC. New interviews and research are woven into stories of old struggles shared by both the Jewish and African-American communities in the capital city.

Shared histories are explored from a new perspective of cultural parallels and parallel institution-building which brought the two communities together culturally and historically.

Please do let us know here that you’ve read it!  🙂

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