The bridges of London

The city of London didn't exist until the first bridge was built. The Romans built the first wooden crossing here, which was the center of Londinium and it survived for 600 years.

London's new concrete structure was opened by the Queen in 1973, the Tower Bridge. It is now the symbol of London. It was built with a simple design and it lets river traffic go up and down to the center of London. Tower bridge celebrated its 120th anniversary in 2014.

Another important bridge is the Millennium bridge, that it's called "The wobbly Bridge" because of its swaying movement, and it opened in 2000. 

The busiest bridge in the city is Blackfriars bridge. The original opened in 1769 and it was replaced a century later with the Victorian bridge we see today. 

Giraffe Hero

Irena Sendler
We are studying what are heroes nowdays. They are not people with superpowers, just people with humanity. My favorite hero is Irena Sendler. She was a nurse during the Second World War, she was born in 1910 in Poland and she died in 2008. She led a secret rescue of 2.500 Jewish children from Warsaw Ghetto and those hiding in the Warsaw area, during the Holocaust in the Second World War. She provided them with false identity documents and shelter outside the Ghetto, and saved them from sure death. The German occupiers eventually discovered her activities and she was arrested by the Gestapo, tortured, and sentenced to death, but she managed to evade execution and survive the war. In 1965, Irena was recognised by the State of Israel as Righteous among the Nations. She also earnt the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honor, for her efforts. Today, just a few people know her, but I think she deserves to be remembered.

Gelert: story of a loyal friend

Once upon a time, in the Middle Age, lived the prince Llywelyn and his little son. He had a very loyal friend too, a hound called Gelert. One day, the prince went hunting, and since his wife died of childbirth, Llywelyn left the dog to watch after his baby. When he returned, it was very late. He walked in the room and found a total mess. The baby wasn't in the cradle, and there was blood everywhere, even on Gelert paws and muzzle. The prince thought that he killed his son, so he killed him.

After that, he heard a baby crying, and turned to the left. There was a body of a dead wolf in the corner, and the baby was hidden, safe and sound. The story end when the prince realizes his mistake. He would never forgive himself for that. Gelert was buried near the lake, and his story is now remembered.

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Politically Correct

Politically correctness is a new trend of the United States. It allows you to talk and write without offending anyone. They have even created a dictionary: "The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook". For example, an ugly person is called "cosmetically different", or a prostitute "sex workers". The aim of this book is to lead people to reflect before talking, and watch what they say, so that they don't offend people. The Politically Correct dictionary also try to deal with life's serious problems, infact it suggest to call a person with AIDS just "person living with AIDS", not "AIDS victim". Despite the book contains good suggestions, it is also full of silliness. For example, according to it, a dog should be called "nonhuman animal companion", a person with glasses "optically challenged" or a plant "botanical companion". Some of them are even more offensive, like "horizontally challenged" for an overweight person, or "hair disadvantaged" for bold people.

My Multiple Intelligences

My favourite tv series

My favourite tv series is Teen Wolf. 

The protagonist is Scott McCall. This guy got bitten by a werewolf in the first episode and after the bite, he slowly started to become a werewolf himself. Next, he found out that he is a "true alpha". An alpha is the leader of the pack, and a beta becomes an alpha when he\she kills the alpha in charge. But a "true alpha" was born to be an alpha. Scott has a best friend, Stiles. He's my favourite character because he's very smart but yet so funny, he makes everyone laugh with his jokes. Throught the seasons, Scott will have a girlfriend, Allison, and he will find out more about his nature. There will be more villains to defeat and problems to solve. I really love this series because it deals both with supernatural (which I love) and teens problems, so it is just perfect.

Chocolate

Chocolate is a very famous and good food loved from many people. But most of them ignore his origin.
Chocolate comes from the seeds of Theobroma cacao fruit (that means "fruit of God"), which has a shape of a football ball (pod) and it could be yellow or purple.

These fruits only grow in South-Est Asia, Central-South America and West Africa. Farmers collect the fruits by hand and they cut them in two, taking the seeds from the inside.

The seeds are white, they are left of banana's leaves and covered with the same leaves. After a period of fermentation, the seeds, before white, take the color brown.

They are put in bags and they are sent to factories. 

Black History Month: Jesse Owens

James "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic gold medalist.  As a boy, he took different jobs in his spare time: he delivered groceries, loaded freight cars and worked in a shoe repair shop. In this period he discovered the passion for running. Owens first came to national attention when he equalled the world record of 9.4 seconds in the 100-yard (91 m) dash and long-jumped 24 feet 9 ¹⁄₂ inches (7.56 metres) at the 1933 National High School Championship in Chicago. In 1936, Owens arrived in Berlin to compete for the United States in the Summer Olympics.  Adolf Hitler was using the games to show the world a resurgent Nazi Germany. Owens won the 100m sprint with a time of 10.3s,  the long jump, the 200m sprint with a time of 20.7s. On August 9, Owens won his fourth gold medal in the 4x100 sprint relay when the coach replaced Marty Glickman with him.  Adolf Hitler viewed Olympic games as an opportunity to show his country and prove to the rest of the world that his Aryan race was superior. On the first day of competition, Hitler shook hands only with the German victors and then left the stadium. Olympic committee officials insisted Hitler greet every medalist or none at all.  Jesse didn't care much for Hitler's politics, he just wanted to show his skills.  Hitler viewed African-Americans as inferior and chastised the United States for 
stooping to use these "non-humans." Despite the endless racial epithets and the constant presence of the red and black swastika, Owens made Hitler eat his words with four gold medals.

Hitler left the stadium furious that his Ayran supermen had been beaten by their supposed racial inferior.

 ¹⁄₂ inches (7.56 metres) at the 1933 National High School Championship in Chicago.^[8]

Religions and their symbols

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

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