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

Happy Days.

Happy Days is an American television sitcom that aired first-run from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984, on ABC. Created by Garry Marshall, the series presents an idealized vision of life in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s United States. Happy Days is one of the highest-rated shows of the 1970s.
The series revolves around teenager Richie Cunningham and his family.

Other actors are:
- Marion "Mrs. C" Cunningham: wife of Howard Cunningham, mother of Richie and Joanie, and a traditional homemaker;

- Howard "Mr. C" Cunningham: husband of Marion Cunningham, father of Richie and Joanie, business owner of a hardware store called "Cunningham's Hardware", he is a lodge member, and family man;

- Joanie Cunningham: Richie's younger sister;

- Arthur Herbert "Fonzie" Fonzarelli: initially a minor character, he was a hugely popular heart-breaker;

- Warren "Potsie" Weber: Richie's best friend and an aspiring talented singer;

- Ralph Malph: in the first season, he was more of a side character to plots. He is know for saying "I still got it!" after delivering one of his jokes;

- Charles "Chachi" Arcola: Fonzie's younger cousin;

- Al Delvecchio: From seasons four to nine, he became the new owner/cook of the drive-in after Arnold got married the previous season. He is know for sighing "Yeeep, yep, yep, yep, yep" when he was disappointed or when things did not go his way;

- Jenny Piccalo: Joanie's boy-crazy best friend;

- Roger Phillips: Marion's nephew, coach and teacher at Jefferson High;

- Lori Beth Allen-Cunningham: Richie's girlfriend and later his wife;

- Ashley Pfister: divorced mother who becomes Fonzie's steady girlfriend.


The first two seasons of Happy Days were filmed using a single-camera setup and laugh track. The show had two main sets: the Cunningham home and Arnold's/Al's Drive-in, the meeting-place.