Guyane

In this article, I want to talk to you about Guyane, because during the last christmas holidays, I saw my cousin who lives there, in Cayenne. One day I hope I will go in this wild territory... as lot of people I would like always travel !

Guyane is the biggest french departement (a french overseas departement). It's near Bresil. 96% of territory is equator forest. This forest is protect by a natural park and 6 natural reserves.

The Cayenne penal colony stay famous and it was closed since the second world war.

This region is one of the richest region of animal and vegetal : around 5 500 vegetals species, 700 birds species, 177 mammals species, 430 fishs species...

There is a spacial center in Guyane. This center is the launching site of the Ariane rocket. It's in Kourou.

Speed records

Kingda ka For those whose like one's thrills : Kingda ka is roller coaster who is set in Jackson, in Jersey in the USA.

Actually, this roller coster is the highest and fastest in the World.

The name's amusement park where is Kingda ka is "six flags great adventure". This attraction openned mai 20th 2005. The maximum high is 139 meters and speed is 206 km/h. This attraction lasts 28 seconds. The wait time can reachs 6 hours when the park is crowed.

Bamboo

Bamboo holds the record for growth speed. It can overtakes 1 meter a day for certains species.

Some of bamboo reach 40 meters for high. It's very resistant.

Panda eat only bamboo. Bamboo is use in asian country for construction.

Hummingbird

Hummingbird is the smallest bird in the World. It's 5,5 cm tall and it weighs 1,95 gr. Hummingbird has too the wing beat the fastest : 80 a second.

Tennis

An American has the record for the fastest service in tennis. His name is Andy Roddick. The ball was hit of 249,4 km/h. It was during the Davis Cup in 2004.

Equitherapy

Equitherapy is a suitable horseriding.

Objective is to improve well-being, self assurance, comfort, feeling of disabled people.

Two kind of means are use :

- mental : speech, senses, emotion

- bodily : movement, gesture, feeling

Tools use are classical tools of therapy but with horses.

Interest to use horse to understand by his quality as a alive being.

My summer job

I worked in Deauville racetrack.

Journeys began at 11 am and finished around 17h30 pm. I changed of post every day.

My differents posts were :

-to control reserved stand : This stand are reserved for professionals (jockeys and trainers)

-to animate a children stand :

~ "draw me a horse" : to help children to draw horses. I was accompagned by a painter

~ "jockey sensation" : to assist children to ride a mechanical horse

- to control entrance : I took tickets and verifyed that people didn't come in racetrack with ball, pet or bike

- to close fence when horses left stable to come on the track

I enjoyed this job because it was very pleasant. And as I like races horses, I could meet professionals and passionates people.

Death Penalty in the USA

No current death penalty statute
Statute declared unconstitutional
No execution since 1976
Execution performed since 1976

In France, the death penalty was abolished in 1981. Whereas in the USA 38 states out of 50 use it still.
Since 1976, 1099 convicts were executed in the USA. Texas has record with 355 executions.
The convicts are generally detain in a high security prison in special area : The death row.

Women represent 1,58 % of inmates.
Since 2005, it's forbidden to execute a personn who isn't eighteen at the time of events.

The convicts choose the execution type. Lethal injection and electric chair are the most use. There are gas chamber and hanging too.

There are two opinions of the sbject.
- People who are for say : death penalty is a protection for society and it's a kind of deterrence.
- People who are against say : the forgiveness is more important, we can't take a life and an irreversible sentence.

To conclude, you can saw some fims about death penaty : "Dead man walking", "Prison break", "Dancer in the dark"...