Monday, March 12, 2012

Being RESPONSIBLE !!!

responsible is very important..

Meaning of responsibility
  • Responsibility is taking care of your duties.
  • Responsibility is answering for your actions.
  • Responsibility is accountability.
  • Responsibility is trustworthiness.
Why is being responsible important
  • Responsibility is a core value for living honorably.
  • Responsibility is being accountable for your behavior.
  • Responsibility is being dependable when yo have things to do
More quotes on responsibility
  • Responsibility educates. (Wendell Phillips)
  • The price of greatness is responsibility. (Winston Churchill)
  • No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. (Gerald Johnson)
  • Man is still responsible. His success lies not with the stars but with himself. (Frank Williams)
Examples of responsibility
  • You complete your chores at home without being constantly reminded.
  • You take good care of your personal possessions.
  • You come home on time.
  • You call your parents if you are late.
  • You eat healthy food, get plenty of exercise, and take good care of yourself.
  • You take care of your lunch money and don't lose it on the playground.
  • You keep a promise.
  • You put part of your allowance into a savings account instead of spending it all.
  • You complete your school assignments on time and to the best of your ability.
  • You take care of your pet.
  • You return library books on time.
Responsible children
  • Understand and accept consequences for their actions and try to correct their mistake
  • Complete assignments and tasks
  • Clean up after themselves
  • Do the "right thing" and apologize if wrong
  • Help others in need
  • Follow through without giving up
  • Understand the effect they have on others
Proverbs and maxims
  • Ideas don't work unless we do.
  • He who is not ready today will be even less so tomorrow.
  • If everyone sweeps in front of his own front door, all the world would be clean.
  • What is popular is not always right. What is right is not always popular.
Steps to making responsible decisions
  • Define your goal. What do you want?
  • Explore all the choices and options.
  • Gather information and facts.
  • Write down arguments for and against each choice.
  • Take time to think through the consequences of each choice.
  • Make the decision.
Put responsibility into action
  • Clean your room without being asked.
  • Throw away your trash and pick up some litter.
  • Practice self-control when you feel angry.
  • Clean up your area after lunch and encourage your friends to do the same.
  • Follow through on all assignments at school and chores at home.
  • Do your chores at home without being asked.
  • Look for something extra to do at home or in your community that is helpful.
  • Organize a park cleanup.
  • Keep a promise even if it is hard.
  • Express your anger with appropriate words and actions.
Community service ideas
  • Clean up your own back yard by collecting rubbish and recycling items around the school and home.
  • Organize a graffiti cleanup party.
  • Volunteer at a local community center helping younger students with recreation, crafts, and other activities.
  • Sponsor a canned food drive at your school.
Many types of responsibilities
  • MORAL RESPONSIBILITY to other people, animals, and the earth. This means caring, defending, helping, building, protecting, preserving, and sustaining. You're accountable for treating other people justly and fairly, for honoring other living things, and for being environmentally aware.
  • LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY to the laws and ordinances of your community, state, and country. If there's a law you believe is outdated, discriminatory, or unfair, you can work to change, improve, or eliminate it. You can't simply decide to disobey it.
  • FAMILY RESPONSIBILITY means treating your parents, siblings, and other relatives with love and respect, following your parents' rules, and doing chores and duties at home.
  • COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY. As a part of the community, you're responsible for treating others as you want to be treated, for participating in community activities and decisions, and for being an active, contributing citizen. Pick up trash to keep the community clean. Read local and community newspapers to stay informed. Vote in elections when you're old enough.
  • RESPONSIBILITY TO CUSTOMS, TRADITIONS, BELIEFS, AND RULES. These might come from your family, your community, your heritage, or your faith. Learn what they are and do your best to respect and follow them.
  • PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. It's up to you to become a person of good character. Your parents, teachers, religious leaders, scout leaders, and other caring adults will guide you, but only you can determine the kind of person you are and ultimately become. So get organized, be punctual, and honor your commitments.
How to plan to carry out obligations
  • Write a list of all the things you need to do.
  • Write down when each task or jobs needs to be done.
  • Write down what you'll need to accomplish each task or job.
  • Always have a backup plan - a "plan B."
More activities
  • Tell about an experience where you exhibited or did not show responsibility.
  • Think of a new skill or talent you'd like to develop. Practice and share.
  • Write a poem, jingle, paragraph, or saying about responsibility.
  • Research discoveries and inventions that have had both positive and negative consequences.
  • Consider whether math makes you more responsible. Cite examples.
  • Research responsibility in advertising.
  • Research responsibility toward indigenous people. Choose a country that was taken from natives by invaders, setters, or foreign governments.
  • Survey your neighborhood to see who needs help.
  • Write a skit that demonstrates your school's rules.
  • Find a job or start your own business such as a yard service or babysitting.
  • Make a family jobs chart.
  • Create a responsibility tree to show what you are responsible for doing.
  • Make your own daily planner.
  • Find examples of popular music that promote responsibility, dependability, and perseverance.
  • Examine the role of responsibility in sports.
  • Playa "What's Their Responsibility?" game for various careers.
  • Read stories about responsibility.

10 secret to success !!!

silver trophy
What is it that makes people successful and I mean really successful compared to you or me? Are they smarter or do they work harder? Are they risk takers or have powerful and influential friends?
The financial newspaper Investors Business Daily (IBD) asked these same questions a few years ago and started a multi-year search for the answer. They studied industry leaders, investors and entrepreneurs to understand the traits they all had in common that contributed to their success. Reproduced here is their list of 10 Secrets to Success along with my commentary on each no-so-secret, ‘secret’.
I decided to reproduce the list here and comment on each of the traits in hopes of motivating you and myself in the process. It’s time for me to take my own advice and start on the path to my dreams. I hope to motivate you, by using myself as an example.
I originally came across this list when I was staring at some papers on a refrigerator owned by someone who was very successful – both personally and financially. My family and I had just spent the night as a guest in a great house in the suburbs of Boston. We were living life large as we played pool in the rec room, drank wine from the wine cellar, and enjoyed a dip in the hot tub. The problem was, neither of the couples in the house owned the property or the life we were pretending to have. You see, my friends were house sitting for the original owner and they had invited us to stay for the weekend.
It wasn’t until the morning after our little ‘party’ that I noticed something taped to the refrigerator – something that impacts me each time I read it. It was the IBD 10 Secrets to Success. Once my head cleared, I quickly copied them down and read them over and over again. After our vacation I made copies and posted them in my home office and inside a journal I decided to keep.
The problem was, after a couple of months I forgot about the secrets and they fell by the wayside. And so did my actions towards my goals. At the time the articles 7 Ways to Grow the Action Habit or How To Motivate Yourself – Self Motivation didn’t exist and I lost my motivation. Well, I re-discovered the list and want to share it with you now. I hope you take these not-so-secret, secrets to heart and realize your dreams – whatever they may be.
1. How You Think is Everything.
Always be positive. Think Success, not Failure. Beware of a negative environment.
This trait has to be one of the most important in the entire list. Your belief that you can accomplish your goals has to be unwavering. The moment you say to yourself “I can’t…”, then you won’t. I was always given the advice “never say I can’t” and I’d like to strike those words from the dictionary.
I’ve found that from time-to-time my attitude waivers. A mentor of mine once said “it’s ok to visit pity city, but you can’t stay and there comes a time when you need to leave”. Positive things happen to positive people.
2. Decide upon Your True Dreams and Goals:
Write down your specific goals and develop a plan to reach them.
Write down my dreams and goals? Develop a plan to reach them? You mean like a project plan? Yes, that’s exactly what this means. You may have heard the old adage: A New Years resolution that isn’t written down is just a dream, and dreams are not goals.
Goals are those concrete, measurable stepping stones of achievement that track your progress towards your dreams. My goal is to start a second career as a freelance writer – what are your goals?
3. Take Action.
Goals are nothing without action.
Be like Nike and “Just do it”. I took action by reaching out and started writing. Every day I try to take some action towards my goals. It may be small, but it’s still an action. Have you taken action towards your goals?
4. Never Stop Learning:
Go back to school or read books. Get training & acquire skills.
Becoming a life long learner would benefit us all and is something we should instill in our kids. It’s funny that once you’re out of school you realize how enjoyable learning can be. What have you learned today?
5. Be Persistent and Work Hard:
Success is a marathon, not a sprint. Never give up.
I think every story of success I read entails long hard hours of work. There is no getting around this and there is no free lunch. But, if you’re working towards something that you’re passionate about, something you love – then is it really work?
6. Learn to Analyze Details:
Get all the facts, all the input. Learn from your mistakes.
I think you have to strike a balance between getting all the facts and making a decision with incomplete data – both are traits of successful people. Spend time gathering details, but don’t catch ‘analysis paralysis’.
7. Focus Your Time And Money:
Don’t let other people or things distract you.
Remain laser focused on your goals and surround yourself with positive people that believe in you. Don’t be distracted by the naysayer’s or tasks that are not helping you achieve your goals.
8. Don’t Be Afraid To Innovate:
Be different. Following the herd is a sure way to mediocrity.
Follow through on that break-out idea you have. Ask yourself “What would I do if I wasn’t afraid?”
9. Deal And Communicate With People Effectively:
No person is an island. Learn to understand and motivate others.
Successful people develop and nurture a network and they only do that by treating people openly, fairly and many times firmly. There is nothing wrong about being firm – just don’t cross the a-hole line. How do you deal with people?
10. Be Honest And Dependable:
Take responsibility, otherwise numbers 1 – 9 won’t matter.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Learning Partners -- Being Responsible

We all want our children to grow up to be responsible adults. We want them to feel, think, and act with respect for themselves and for others. To do this, children need lots of help from parents. Learning to be responsible includes learning to:
  • show respect and compassion for others,
  • practice honesty,
  • show courage by standing up for what we believe,
  • develop self-control out of consideration for others,
  • maintain self-respect.
Here are some things you can do at home:
  • Watch for the chance to teach your children responsible behavior through everyday situations. Share your moral and religious values with them.
  • Show compassion and concern when others are suffering.
  • Read stories together that teach lessons: the courage of David standing up to Goliath, or the value of persistence from "The Little Engine That Could."
  • Talk about complicated decisions. Help children understand how the choices they make will affect them and others.
  • Visit with teachers to discuss ways parents and the school can reinforce the same lessons about good character.
  • Talk with other parents and agree on acceptable behavior for children's play and parties. Take turns supervising to show that all the parents agree on the standards of behavior.

Responsibility Builders

Honesty, the Best Policy for young children

  1. Tell the story about the boy who cried "Wolf!" He did it so many times to get attention that when the wolf did come, no one believed him.
  2. Ask your children if anyone had ever lied to them. How did that make them feel?
  3. When you make a promise to your children, try to keep it. It may seem small to you, but it means a lot to them.

Helping Out for older children

  1. As children grow older, think ofadded ways they can help at home.
  2. Discuss the new duties with them.Avoid making the duties seem like a punishment. Instead, you might say they require more ability which your child now has.
  3. New tasks should stretch a child's abilities and make him or her feel satisfied with doing good work. Praise a job well done, especially a new challenge.

Getting to Know Others for children of all ages

  1. Set a good example. Act with respect toward others. Always make clear that prejudice is wrong and that all of us are equal, no matter what our color, gender, or background is.
  2. Show an interest in learning about and from others--neighbors and relatives, and from books about our own and other civilizations.
  3. Encourage your child to learn about many different lands and people, to learn another language, and to read stories about children from all over the world. Show your child how you try to see things from others point of view.
  4. Listen carefully when your child wants to tell you things they have discovered about history, geography, religions, art, and ways of life.

Appreciate what you have !


One day . . . a wealthy family man took his son on a trip to the country, so he could have his son see how poor country people live.
They stayed one day and one night in the home of a very humble farmer.   At the end of the trip, and when they were back home, the father asked his son, "What did you think of the trip?"
The son replied, "Very nice dad."
Then the father asked his son, "Did you notice how poor they were?"
The son replied, "Yes."
The father continued asking, "What did you learn?"
The son responded, "I learned that we have one dog in our house, and they have four.  
Also, we have a fountain in our garden, but they have a stream that has no end.  
And we have imported lamps in our garden . . . where they have the stars!  
And our garden goes to the edge of our property.   But they have the entire horizon as their back yard!"
At the end of the son's reply the father was speechless.  
His son then said, "Thank you dad for showing me how poor we really are."
Isn't it true that all depends on the lens you use to see life?
One can ask himself what would happen if we give thanks for what we have instead of always asking for more.
Learn to appreciate what you have. Wealth is all in one's point of view.

about me quotes :)

Life is an eternal quest about knowing oneself. It's time to challenge yourself, to rediscover your hidden traits, talents, and tendencies. Several inconvenient questions, which you have swept under the carpet, might resurface. Here is a collection of "about me" quotes. Each noted author has revealed her or his unique qualities. When you read these "about me" quotes, you will find the inspiration to ask yourself "Is that true about me?"
Oscar Wilde
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Frederick Perls
I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.”

Princess Diana
I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

Pablo Picasso
I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba 
I am you; you are me. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.

Bertrand Russell
I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

Marie Bashkirtseff

I am my own heroine.

Catherine the Great
I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Lao Tzu
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Winston Churchill
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Albert Einstein
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”

Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Margaret Thatcher
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Henry David Thoreau
A friend is one who takes me for what I am.

Ayn Rand
To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."

Louis XIV
I am the state.

Muhammad Ali
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Leo Tolstoy
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Buddha
I am the miracle.

Albert Einstein
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

wolf facts :)



Wiping out Wolves - getting serious.
The change from a hunter/gatherer way of life to one based on farming and herding started about 12,000 years ago, and since then wolves and humans have been colliding in many parts of the world. In Europe, many forests were cut down during the Middle Ages to be replaced by forms and fields, and wolves lost their natural homes, driven to seek prey in human areas of habitation.
When European settlers came to North America in the 1500S and 1600s, they found wolves inhabiting the deep forests and wide plains of the continent. Here there might have been room for both human and animal predators to live their separate lives in peace, Instead, North America became the scene of the human race's most successful killing campaign against the wolf.
Inspired by the traditional European hatred of the wolf, the early settlers attacked the wolf using pits, traps, and poison. Bounties - cash rewards given by authorities to anyone who brought in the hide or some other part of a dead wolf helped things along. The American war against the wolf did not really get under way until the 1800s, when people began to move onto the great plains in the center of the country. Here there were enormous herds of buffalo, which served as a food supply for Indian tribes and for large numbers of wolves. All three of these - Indian, buffalo and the wolf were doomed to be brought almost to the point of extinction by 'civilization'.

At first wolves were hunted for their thick winter fur and a good price in European markets. Then as cattle and sheep grazing became common, wolves were killed because they preyed on the herds of domestic animals. (Their natural prey, the buffalo were wiped out during another concentrated massacre of wild life, but that's another story..)
The most common way to eradicate wolves by the American wolfers or wolf hunters, was to use Strychnine, it was placed in the carcasses of dead buffalo, cattle, or sheep. Wolves feeding on the animals would die, painfully. And so would any other creature - coyote, dog, bird, even human - that ate the poisoned flesh. It did not discriminate.









No one knows how many animals were killed during the last half of the 19th century, when the anti-wolf campaign was most active in the western part of the United States. Perhaps 1 or 2 million wolves died, and thousands of other creatures fell victim.
By 1900, there were not many wolves left in the western United States. The few remaining animals were still being pursued by wolfers rancher, and herders eager to eradicate the species completely from existence in America, In 1919, the government joined the antiwolf campaign, passing a law that called for the extermination of wolves on federally owned lands. By 1942, when the law was abolished 25,000 more wolves had been killed by the government plan.

This was the last phase of the organized campaign to eradicate the wolf. By this time, it had been virtually exterminated in most parts of the country.
The situation remains almost unchanged today...
Today the wolf is classified as an endangered species in most parts of the United States. This classification means that the killing of wolves is strictly controlled by federal law. For most wolves, such protection has come too late. The killing has already taken place, and the millions of animals slaughtered in the past cannot be brought back to life. Ironically, most people now agree that the world is a poorer place because of their loss.

The Wolf Pack

Wolves are an extremely social animal. They exist as a social unit called a pack.

Wolves travel and hunt in a group and perform almost all other activities in the company of fellow wolves.
The pack, the basic unit of wolf social life, is usually a family group. It is made up of animals related to each other by blood and family ties of affection and mutual aid.
The core of a pack is a mated pair of wolves - an adult male and female that have bred and produced young.
The other members of the pack are their offspring: young wolves ranging in age from pups to two and three-year-olds.
Pack sizes vary, most packs have 6 or 7 members, although some may include as many as 15 wolves. The size depends on many variables including the current numbers of the wolf population, the abundance of food, and social factors within the wolf pack.
Within each pack is an elaborate hierarchy. It may consist of a single breeding pair, the Alpha male and female, a lower group consisting of non-breeding adults, each with its own ranking, a group of outcasts, and a group of immature wolves on their way up. Some of the younger wolves of the pack may leave to find vacant territory and a mate.
Individual wolves in a pack play different roles in relation to the others in the group. The parent wolves are the leaders of the pack - the alpha male and alpha female. (Alpha is the first letter in the Greek alphabet.)
The alpha male and female are the oldest members of the pack and the ones with the most experience in hunting, defending territory, and other important activities.
The other pack members respect their positions and follow their leadership in almost all things, The alpha wolves are usually the ones to make decisions for the pack when the group should go out to hunt or move from one place to another.
The other Pack members all have positions in the hierarchy inferior to those of the alpha male and female. The young adult wolves, who are the grown-up offspring of the alpha pair, have their own special roles under the leadership or their parents. Some of them me able to "boss around," or dominate, their sisters and brothers because they have established themselves as superior in some way. This superiority might be physical-larger size or greater strength - but it can be based on personality Dominant wolves in the pack usually have more aggressive and forceful personalities than their relatives of the same age.
The juveniles and pups-wolves under two years old do not occupy permanent positions within the pack hierarchy. They all take orders from their parents and older brothers and sisters, but their relationships with each other change frequently. During their play and other activities, they are constantly testing one mother to find out who will eventually be "top wolf" in their age group.
Wolf Facts Photo © Monty Sloan
Wolf Communication



Wolves use body language and facial expressions to communicate with each other. Dominant wolves will freely look other animals directly in the eye, this declares and reinforces their superior rank.

Snarl

A subordinate wolf will cringe towards the leader with tail low and bent legs, ears back and down, in a submissive nature. At other times, active submission involves a group of subordinate wolves surrounding the dominant wolf with their noses up against it. Sometimes the pack will howl.

Various facial muscles, eyes, ears and the nose are extremely important when wolves are expressing their feelings. Bared teeth, an open mouth, ears erect and pointed forward indicate a threat by a dominant wolf.
Wolves are also very territorial animals
 and do not readily share it with wolves who are not members of their pack.

Grab


Wolves communicate and mark their territories by scent. They often do this by urinating near the edges of their territory, and on stumps, rocks and logs that are within their territory. Most of this is done by the dominant wolves, usually the alpha male.

classification :)

Kingdom - Animalia (all animals)

Phylum - chordata (animals with notochords)

Subphylum - Vertebrata (animals with a skeleton of bone or cartilage)

Class - Mammalia (Mammals)

subclass - Eutheria (placental mammals)

Order - Carnivora (carnivores. Eg: cats, dogs,bears.)

Family - Canidae (dog family)

Genus - Canis (dogs)

Grey Wolf - Canis Lupis

Red Wolf - Canis Rufus

Domestic Dog - Canis Familiaris. (Some believe the domestic dog is the same as the Grey Wolf (Canis lupus))

Dingo - Canis familiaris dingo
Coyote - Canis latrans
wolf diet :)


What do wolves eat?

Wolves are carnivores (meat eaters) but they will eat other foods as well. Their diet ranges from big game, such as elk and moose, to earthworms, berries and grasshoppers.

To avoid using too much energy catching their food, wolves prey on weaker members of a herd, such as old, young or sick animals. In summer, when the herds migrate, wolves eat mice, birds and even fish. They may also eat carrion.

Wolves eat their food very quickly, probably to protect it from being stolen, and to decrease the chance of attack from other predators. They eat the best parts first, and come back later for the remainder, as they can't afford to be wasteful. They will hide food in the snow, or icy soil, which helps to preserve it, and protect it from scavengers.

Wolves can eat every 5-6 hours when there is plenty of food available, or they can fast and live on scraps for 2 weeks when there is less food around.

Their digestion is very efficient, with all but 5 percent of large meat feeds able to be digested. Any splinters of bone that are not broken down somehow become wrapped in undigested hair, which protects the intestines from injury.

Pups are fed by the adults who disgorge fresh meat from their stomachs, or carry back fresh pieces of meat to the den.

Biologists learn much about the diet of wolves by studying their waste products, which are called 'scats'.


Wiping out Wolves - a history.


By means of hunting with horses and dogs or trapping in pits, traps and cages, wolves were completely wiped out in England by the early 1500s. Scotland killed its last wolf in the mid-1700s. Most European countries eventually finished off their wolf populations soon after. A few still live in eastern Europe, India, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Middle East. No one knows how many survive in Russia and China. Most wolves in North America are found in Alaska and Canada and hunters, from whom most of our knowledge of this shy creature comes from, say they are now almost impossible to find...
This extreme attitude toward wiping out wolves can be seen to the fables and legends about the animals that originated in the Middle Ages and still survive today. In the Middle Ages, wolves were also thought to be in league with the forces of evil, many legends connected the wolf with Satan and the dark powers of the supernatural world. See the tales area for some more information on Wolf Tales.
















In America, Wolves served as models for hunting and played a significant role in the religious lives of the plains tribes and other groups of North American Indians.


The powerful and courageous wolves were seen as representatives of important natural forces or spirits.


Images of wolves often appeared in religious ceremonies and Indian healers included wolf skins in their medicine bundles, the collections of sacred materials that they used used for curing illness.
Other native American hunters who have known the wolfintimately are the Eskimos. Today as in the past, groups of Eskimos share their homeland on the cold northern tundra with wolf packs, hunting the same prey and leading the same kind of nomadic life.


Indians of earlier times and the Eskimos of today, respect the wolf for its skill as a predator. They also admire the wolf's dedication to the welfare of its companions, a model of social behaviour for humans as well as animals.


Eskimos like Indians, sometimes kill wolves for their skins or for other specific reasons, but they believe that they are taking the life of an equal, not slaughtering an enemy. 
Such coexistence between wolves and humans is possible only when there is no conflict between their ways of life.
Conflict quickly arises when humans begin to produce their own food instead of hunting wild animals and gathering plants. Wolves have no choice but to continue their way of life, but now they may find their prey limited except for the herds of sheep and cattle.

When this happens, their image in human eyes changes they are up longer considered admirable and courageous hunters but dangerous predators to be controlled or exterminated...



Sunday, February 26, 2012

the city of love

Paris had always been a destination for traders, students and those on religious pilgrimages, but its 'tourism' in the proper sense of the term began on a large scale only with the appearance of rail travel, namely from state organisation of France's hments, did much to make the city itself the attraction it is today.These, in addition to the Capital's 2nd Empire embellisrail network from 1848. One of Paris' first 'mass' attractions drawing international interest were, from 1855, the above-mentioned Expositions Universelles that would bring Paris many new monuments, namely the Eiffel Tower from 1889. 
Eiffel Tower

Paris' museums and monuments are by far its highest-esteemed attractions, and tourist interest has been nothing but a benefit to these; tourism has even motivated both city and State to create new ones. The city's most prized museum, the Louvre, sees over 8 million visitors a year, being by far the world's most visited art museum. Paris' cathedrals are another main attraction: its Notre-Dame cathedral and Basilique du Sacré-Cœur receive 12 million and 8 million visitors respectively. The Eiffel Tower, by far Paris' most famous monument, averages over 6 million visitors per year and more than 200 millions since its construction. Disneyland Resort Paris is a major tourist attraction not only for visitors to Paris, but to Europe as well, with 12.4 million visitors in 2004.
The Louvre
The Louvre is one of the largest and most famous museums, housing many works of art, including the Mona Lisa (La Joconde) and the Venus de Milo statue. Works by Pablo Picasso and Auguste Rodin are found in Musée Picasso and Musée Rodin respectively, while the artistic community of Montparnasse is chronicled at the Musée du Montparnasse. Starkly apparent with its service-pipe exterior, the Centre Georges Pompidou, also known as Beaubourg, houses the Musée National d'Art Moderne. Lastly, art and artefacts from the Middle Ages and Impressionist eras are kept in Musée Cluny and Musée d'Orsay respectively, the former with the prized tapestry cycle The Lady and the Unicorn.

Many of Paris' once-popular local establishments have metamorphised into a parody of French culture, in a form catering to the tastes and expectations of tourist capital. Le Lido, The Moulin Rouge cabaret-dancehall, for example, are a staged dinner theatre spectacle, a dance display that was once but one aspect of the cabaret's former atmosphere. All of the establishment's former social or cultural elements, such as its ballrooms and gardens, are gone today. Much of Paris' hotel, restaurant and night entertainment trades have become heavily dependent on tourism, with results not always positive for Parisian culture.

One of my favorite facts about Paris France is that it’s known as the most romantic city in the world. 
It’s fun to learn basic French love phrases and get in the Parisian mood of the romance.


french golf holiday Medocfacts

French Golf and Culture Tours            Notre Dame de paris




 
The Gallo-Roman baths Thermes de Cluny at the Musée de Cluny, in Paris'sLatin Quarter.
The Château de Vincennes, with its 52 m high keep, was built between the 14th and 17th century
Galeries Lafayette department store inboulevard Haussmann during Christmas
Panorama of Paris which shows some of its landmarks
The Hôtel de Ville, Paris.
The Opera Garnier
City of Paris :)

Place de la Bastille (4th, 11th and 12th arrondissements, right bank) is a district of great historical significance, not just for Paris, aussi goal of all France. Because of ict symbolic value, the square has beens HAS Often site of Political demonstrations.

Place de la Concorde (8th arrondissement, right bank) is at the foot of the Champs-Élysées, built as the "Place Louis XV", site of the infamous guillotine. The Egyptian obelisk is Paris' "Oldest monument". On this site, you Either side of the Rue Royale, There are Two identiques stone buildings: The eastern one houses the French Naval Ministry, the western the luxurious Hôtel de Crillon. Nearby Place Vendome is famous for fashionable and deluxe hotels icts (Hotel Ritz and Hôtel de Vendôme) and Its jewelers. Many famous fashion designers Have HAD Their rooms Located here.

Champs Elysees (8th arrondissement, right bank) is a 17th-century garden-promenade-turned-avenue Connecting Place de la Concorde and Arc de Triomphe. It is one of the tourist attractions and has Many major shopping street of Paris.
Les Halles (1st arrondissement, right bank) Were formerly Paris' central meat and Produce Market, and, since the late 1970s, are a major shopping center around important metro connection station year (Châtelet - Les Halles, the biggest in the world). The old Halles Were Destroyed in 1971 and mittal by the Forum des Halles. The central market of Paris, the biggest wholesale food market in the world, WAS Transferred to Rungis, in the southern suburbs.

The Marais (3rd and 4th arrondissements) is a trendy Right Bank district. It is architecturally very well-preserved, and Some Of The Oldest houses and buildings of Paris Can Be found there. Culturally it is a very open place. It Is Also Known for ict Chinese, Jewish and Gay Communities.

Avenue Montaigne (8th arrondissement), next to the Champs-Élysées, is home to luxury brand labels Such as Chanel, Louis Vuitton (LVMH), Dior and Givenchy.

Montmartre (18th arrondissement, right bank) is a historic area on the Butte, home to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. Montmartre HAS HAD always a history with artists and studios and cafes HAS Many of Many great artists I'm his area.

Montparnasse (14th arrondissement) is a historic Left Bank area famous for artists' studios, music halls, and café life. The large Montparnasse - Bienvenue metro station and the lone Tour Montparnasse skyscraper are Located there.

Avenue de l'Opéra (9th arrondissement, right bank) is the area around the Opéra Garnier and the location of the capital's densest concentration of Both department stores and offices. A Few examples are the Printemps and Galeries Lafayette department stores (department stores), and the Paris headquarters of financial giants Such as BNP Paribas and American Express.

Quartier Latin (5th and 6th arrondissements, left bank) is a 12th-century scholastic center formerly stretching Between the Left Bank's Place Maubert and the Sorbonne campus. It Is Known for ict lively atmosphere and bistros Many. Various higher-education Establishments, Such as Sciences Po Paris, the Ecole Normale Superieure, Mines ParisTech and the Jussieu university campus make it a major Educational Centre in Paris

Faubourg Saint-Honoré (8th arrondissement, right bank) is one of Paris' high-fashion districts, home to labels Such as Hermes and Christian Lacroix.