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Monday, January 29, 2007

ITALIAN ENTRY: BRASILE; I GOOL
This story is about Joao, a 17 year old boy who lives in Copacabana where life is really brutal and scary. During the year, the best soccer players played in teames that play on the Copacabana beaches and the most talented ones were called to play in professional teams. Everybody thought Joao was a great soccer player and the voices spread out around the country. One day a scout from the professional Brasilian team, came to watch Joao play, and understand if he played really well as people said. During the game Joao played superbly but he didn't think it was enough to make the scout remain amazed. So he tryed to make a back flip jumping over the goalie. He was able to do it but unortunately the goalie fauled him hardly and made him fall. He broke his leg! As he got to the hospital, Vittorio Zucconi the narrator, couldn't understand why Joao was so happy if probably he wouldn't be able to play in the Brasil, but the reason was that the scout gave him a ticket with on written that as soon he would get better he could play with the Brasil!

Friday, January 26, 2007

History Entry: Goebbels
Josef Goebbels had a sad childhood because he met a serious illness that deformed his body and for this reason wasn't accepted as a military, instead he was really good at school. After some time he became a giournalist but didn't have any success because all the articles he wrote were against Jews and editors didn't want to publish such things on their newspapers. For this reason he was thrown out from the buisiness. Then, through some friends, he got to know Hitler which convinced him of many things he thought wern't true. Sequently Hitler nominates him leader of Nazi Propaganda, and this job came to him perfectly. Then he was nominated "Reich Chancellor". Abbreviateing, after Hitler killed himselfe because Americans came to get him also Goebbels killed himslefe and his whole family. He ruined his whole family and life because he made himself be influenced by Hitler.
Science Entry: Generators
Mr. S assigned me a project on generators. Since i have a boat with a huge generator i thought of filming the video of the project there, in Croazia, where Nokolas Tesla started distribuiting a system of alternating current that is really important for generators. Many people probably think that generators work in a really complex way but it's not really true. A generator converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. It uses motion to create an electric current. There are two types of generators but work almost in the same way: AC generators and DC generators. I based my project all on this. There are some generators that are really simple like the ones in our science book. Whilst there are some others that are really complex which arn't easy to understand. This last type of generators are used for example in cruise ships. If you are in a place with no electricity, a generator would be perfect if you wanted to cook or have just some lights on.

Monday, January 22, 2007

ARTS BLOCK: FLUTE
In the Mid Summer Night Dream i play Flute. Flute is a very funny character. He is a joung man with short hair and broun eyes, he also is a bit dumb. In a cetain scene in the play inside the play he acts dummie and makes it fun whilst it should be a sad love story. In a cetain scene of the play Flute recites the part of the girl, she should be a very sad character but Flute recites her in a very funnny way. He is Thisby, aa joung lady which should be desperate because her love killed himslef but she esagerates. When Piramus, Thisbi's boyfriend, killed himselfe was reciting (as Thisby did) esagerated. He shoued to different ways in which he suicided, and this made lough everybody watching the play in the play. Another thing for which it was really easy to lough from was the voice Flute had trying to imitate the voice of a joung lady. As a character Flute is also a bit dummie and funny and if he tries to do it even more it would be impossible not to lough.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007


SYNOPSIS 7:NUMBER THE STARS
This story takes place in Denmark, during Hitler's reign. Jews were all brought in concentration camps to be killed and the same thing happened to people which helped them escape. Annemarie is the protagonist of this book, she is Danish and is neighbour of Ellen Rosens, a Jews. Annamarie discoveres that nazis are looking for the Rosens to bring them into concentration camps. Annamarie and her family decide to save the Rosen's life bringing them with a fisher boat to Sweden. Peter, the last boyfriend of Annamarie's dead big sister brught the Rosens to Sweden. (Unfortunately in the end also he died) People at those times developed many methods to distract the nazi dogs trained to find hidden people: with some drugs they were able to temporarily destroy their smell. Annamarie saved the Rosens because she gave them a handkerchief with that drug for the dogs just five minutes before the soldiers arrived with their dogs. She saved the Rosens from sure death.