venerdì 9 gennaio 2015

New Year's Resolutions

A resolution is a promise that you make for the new year. 
The most populare in the world are:

- Lose Weight
- Volounteer to Help Others 
- Quit smoking
- Get a better education
- Get a better job
- Save money
- Get fit
- Eat healthy food
- Manage stress
- Manage Debt
-Take a trip
- Reduce, reuse and recycle
- Drink less alcohol


 
This is the list of my resolution:
- Save money for concerts and trips
- Study more and better
- Learn a new language
- Travel
- Read a book in English
- Eat healthier
- Don't give up on things

mercoledì 7 gennaio 2015

Palindromes!

A palindrome is a word or a phrase which reads the same backward or forward.
The word "palindrome" was coined by the English Ben Jonson in the 17th century from the Greek roots palin ("again") and dromos ("way, direction"). The longest English word which is a palindrome is "detartrated".

 Palindromes date back at least to 79 AD, as a palindrome was found as a graffito at Herculaneum

It is remarkable for the fact that the first letters of each word form the first word, the second letters form the second word, and so forth. It means "The sower Arepo holds with effort the wheels".   
The Romans loved palindromes, this is a sentence they created: "In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni", that means "we enter the circle after dark and we are consumed by fire".
The Greeks are known to have wrote this on their fountains: "Nipson anomemata me monan opsin" that means "wash the sin as well as the face"


The most famous palindromes are:
                     
Madam, in Eden I'm Adam
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!Amor, Roma
Was it a cat I saw?
No 'x' in Nixon