Mondragone.

Mondragone is a municipality in the Province of Caserta in the region of Campania.
The first historical population of the area was the Aurunci. In 375, during the late Roman Empire, a village known as Petrinum was founded after an earthquake had destroyed the town of Sinuessa. In the Middle Ages, it was occupied by the Normans who built (or re-built) an important castle here.
Mondragone is very famous for the production of a cheese, mozzarella. It is also famous for the Falerno wine, the scrippella (a local sweet fried in olive oil, with a typical spiral form) and the Guappa (a liquor made with hoax's milk).
Mondragone is also a thermal and seaside town. If you came here, you can see and visit lots of monument like: Ducal Palace, la Rocca on Mount Petrino, Tarcagnota, Paladino's tower, the archaeological museum and the Roman ruins. You can see also lots of important churches: S.Anna a Monte's Church, Belvedere's Sanctuary, San Michele's Church, San Franceco's Church and others.

Mozzarella                                               Falerno wine

       


Scrippella                                              Guappa

Ducal Palace             Rocca on Mount Petrino

The archaeological museum

Selfies: a global phenomenon.

Selfie is an internet term for "self-portrait", used to describe self-taken digital photos.

It is unclear where the term "selfie" began, but we know that it was used on the social-networking site MySpace and it was submitted to Urban Dictionary in 2005.

The most common types are:

• No makeup selfie: it is a selfie in which the subject is shown without wearing any cosmetics;

• Selfies at funerals: it is a single topic blog that curates a series of selfies of people taken while attending a funeral service;

• Belfies: Butt Selfie, or sometimes belfies, is a type of selfie in which the photographer takes self-portraits of their backside.

• The pet selfie: a selfie taken with a pet.

• The car selfie: a selfie taken in the car. 

• The duck faces selfies: I think that it doesn't make people prettier. It makes people look stupid and desperate.

The importance of the languages in the world.

In the world there are between 6000 and 7000 languages. We know that the first form of written language is the Cuneiform script. Sign languages come from the Abbé de l'Epée, the first person who recognized the importance of using a sign language for the instruction of deaf children. It isn't universal, because there are many varieties and there can actually be more than one signed language in a country, just as for oral languages. The country with the highest number of languages is Russia, that has from 130 to 200 spoken languages (depending on the criteria). The European Union has, today, 24 official and working languages. The language most spoken mother tongue in EU is German, but the language most spoken in EU is English. We also know that the official language of Azerbaijan is called Azeri. Cymraeg is the name of the Gaelic language spoken in Wales.
Germanic languages are: Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish.
Slavic languages are: Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Serbian and Czech.
Romance languages are: Romanian, Occitan, French and Sardinian.
Hebrew and Arabic are written from right to left. Japanese is written from top to bottom. Maltese is written from left to right.
We can finally say that the words educated people use can reach some 50.000 words; the words they know but do not use is somewhat larger.

The story of Gelert.

This story takes place in a castle in Wales many years ago.
This story is about a dog called Gelert and his man Llewely.
Many years ago, the prince's wife died on child-birth. Llewely always considered his dog his best friend so a day, when the knight went out hunting, he left his son in the care of Gelert. Next, when he returned, he found a lot of blood everywhere. After that, he saw Gelert covered of blood and the knight thought that he killed the baby, so he killed the dog. The knight heard the baby crying and saw a dead wolf. The dog killed the wolf and protected the baby.
Gelert's body was buried outside the castle walls. On the headstone, is written "Brave Gelert's grave".
The author's theme is the friendship between an animal and a man, but also not to judge at the first sight.

My multiple intelligence test.

Naples.

Naples is an Italian city, but also the Campania chief town. The Naples area has been inhabited since the Neolithic period. The oldest traces of the Greek civilization in Naples dated back to the 2nd millennium B.C.. During its history, Naples has been captured, destroyed and attacked many times. The city has seen volcanic eruptions, foreign invasions and revolutions. Naples was also an advocate for Italian unification during the Neapolitan war. Today, it's part of the Italian Republic.

Naples has played an important role in the music of Italy and in the history of western European musical traditions. The vitality of Neapolitan popular music from the late 19th century has made songs like 'O sole mio and Funiculì Funiculà (canzone Napoletana). A Cantautore is a songwriter who sings his own music. Modern Neapolitan performers are Pino Daniele (the best-know Neapolitan Cantautore), Nino D'Angelo, Daniele Sepe...

Some typical Neapolitan foods are: pasta (invented in Gragnano) [1], cheese (like mozzarella di bufala [2], ricotta, provola, scamorza...), sea food, meat (expecially braciole or carne pizzaiola [3])...  But the most popular and best know creation of all Neapolitan cuisine is pizza [4]. There are also some typical cakes and desserts: babà [5], sfogliatella, zeppola, pastiera (an Easter cake) [6] and struffoli (typical Christmas cake) [7]. For the drink, Naples is know in all the world for the coffee [8] and liqueur, like Limoncello.

[1]                                                                     [2]

[3]                                                                    [4]

[5]                                                                    [6]

 

[7]                                                                   [8]

I'm from Naples and I believe that it is the most beautiful city in the world. We say "you see Naples and then you die".

RAK: Random Acts of Kindness.

A RAK is a random act of kindness, that is a selfless act performed by a person or people wishing either to assist or to cheer up an individual person or people.

Some acts that we can do easly are:

-Just smile at one extra person;

-Eat lunch with someone new;

-Give someon special an extra hug;

-Send creative compliments or a positive message to someone in need;

-Donate unwanted or unused clothes to someone in need;

-Make a little monetary contribution or offer to help pay for someone in line.

In Naples there is a very beautiful act, call "Caffè sospeso". This is a tradition in the working-class cafés of Naples where a person who has experienced good luck financially pays for two coffees, but receives and consumes only one, the second being left until a person enquires later whether a sospeso is available.

Rosa Parks.

On a cold December evening in 1955, Rosa Parks quietly incited a revolution, by just sitting down.
She was tired after spending the day at work as a department store seamstress. She stepped onto the bus for the ride home and sat in the fifth row (the first row of the "COLORED SECTION").
In Montgomery, Alabama, when a bus became full, the seats nearer the front were given to white passengers.
Montgomery bus driver James Blake ordered Parks and three other African Americans seated nearby to move ("Move y'all, I want those two seats,") to the back of the bus.
Three riders complied; Parks did not.
After Parks refused to move, she was arrested and fined $10. The chain of events triggered by her arrest changed the United States.

Black History Month.

Black history month is an annual celebration of achievements  by black Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of African Americans in U.S. history. The event grew out of “Negro History Week,” the brainchild of noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans. Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month. The story of Black History Month begins in 1915: Carter G. Woodson and the prominent minister Jesse E. Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. They sponsored a National Negro History Week in 1926, choosing the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. By the late 1960s, thanks in part to the Civil Rights Movement,Negro History Week had evolved into Black History Month. President Gerald R. Ford officially recognized Black History Month in 1976.

Religions and their symbols.

• Judaism;
• Christianity;
• Islam;
• Bahá'í Faith;
• Hinduism;
• Taoism;
• Buddhism;
• Sikhism;
• Slavic neopaganism;
•  Celtic polytheism;
• Heathenism (German paganism);
• Semitic neopaganism;
• Wicca;
• Kemetism (Egyptian paganism);
• Hellenism;
•  Italo-Roman neopaganism.

New year's resolutions.

A New Year's resolution is a tradition  in which a person makes a promise to do an act of self-improvement or something slightly nice.

Popular New Year's Resolutions.

• Lose weight
• Volunteer 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
• Drikn less alcohol

My New Year's Resolutions.

• Lose weight
• Study more
• Save money
• Be more loving and kind 
• Take a trip
• Read more books
• Get fit
• Go to concerts with friends or my dad
• Help others 
• Learn a new language 
• Drink more water 
• Enjoy life
• Make a lot of new friend
• Be happy and smile more

Palindromes.

A palindrome is a word or phrase which reads the same in both directions. The word "palindrome" was coined by the English playwright Ben Jonson in the 17th century from the Greek, meaning running back again. Some examples are: RADAR, POP, MADAM, LEVEL, EYE.

Palindromes as a form of wordplay have been created for many centuries. For example, the ancient Greeks are known to have often inscribed the following onto their fountains. The Romans were also admirers of palindrome.

2D  Palindromes are word squares in which every row and column reads as a word in both directions:

Some well-known English palindromes are: "A man, a plan, a canal - Panama!", "Madam, I'm Adam" or "Madam in Eden, I'm Adam".

Some examples of italian polindromes are:

I TOPI NON AVEVANO NIPOTI.

ATROCE? E DAI L'ILIADE E' CORTA.

ANNA SU! SOPPORTO TROPPO SUSANNA! 

ANNA AMA ALE MA PAMELA AMA ANNA.

Le notizie sono state prese dai seguenti siti:

 http://www.fun-with-words.com/palin_explain.html 

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindrome