My dog My dog is called Star. She’s a beagle and she’s six years old. When she arrived at home she was one years old and she wasn’t as joker as the other dogs of the same age. She was depress and scared that someone could hit her. She considered a simple movement as a threat. We thought that perhaps the earlier owner often hit her and so she was so sad. But in a few weeks she completely changed: she started to bark, she barked when she was hungry, and she was happy to take a stroll with us. And she still is now. She loves exspecially eating and hunting lizards. She eats dry food for dog every day, but we sometimes give her a few biscuits, when she deserves it of course! But she’s crazy about food and she even eats junk from the rubbish bin! If she saw a huge beef she’d eat it till finish every single piece. When she’s in the garden she spends het time hunting lizards. But she likes also hunting cats: for example she is able to go up into a wall when she see a cat. And this is very dangerous because she isn’t a cat and she has not the same agility. She learnt lots of games: she can give the paw, run and take the ball or remain firm for a biscuit. What a good dog!

A Biography: Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprio, one of the most famous actor alive, was born in Hollywood in 1974. He was an only child whose father was a cartoonist of Italian origin. His mother was a German secretary. The actor was called as Leonardo because he gave his first kick when his pregnant mother was looking at Leonardo da Vinci’s painting at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence. When he was a child his parents broke up, so he had to live with his mother on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Because of some problems about money they had to move several times. He studied at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and after the high school diploma he began to study acting. But he appeared for the first time on TV when he was only three years old. When he was child he took part on a TV show for children and he was asked to shoot a TV commercial. In 1991 arrived his first acting in the cinema and when he was 16 years old he was selected to play a movie with Robert de Niro. In 1997 the movie Titanic, directed by James Cameron, transformed DiCaprio into a superstar: the movie had a huge success and became the highest-grossing film.

GREENHOUSE EFFECT Most radiations emitted from the Sun have short wavelenght. Only some of these are able to penetrate the atmosphere and reach the Earth’s surface. Then the Earth absorbs these radiations and heats up. After, the Earth’s surface emits energy in the form of heat. Some gasses of the atmosphere absorb the heat radiation and emit heat toward the space and the Earth. This phenomenon is called the Greenhouse effect. It’s responsible for the heating of the temperature of our Planet. Indeed without greenhouse gas the temperature’s Earth would be colder about 10-20 degrees. Water vapor, carbon dioxide and ozone are the most important greenhouse gas because they’re able to absorb the heat radiation. Especially water vapor is a greenhouse gas with the highest concentration and it’s the most effective about the greenhouse effect. But what happens to Earth’s climate if concentration’s greenhouse gasses increases? According to scientific researches and statistical calculations if concentration’s greenhouse gasses increases, the Atmosphere’s temperature will get hotter and hotter. What happened in the last 150 years? Since the industrial revolution to today, annual emissions of carbon dioxide from human activities have increased from 5 to 7 thousend cubic tonnes. Concentration’s carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased from 0.028 % to 0.040 %. If the growth rate remains constant by the end of the 2100 the concentration’s carbon dioxide will raise to 0.080 %. Another greenhouse gas, the methane, it has doubled in the last 150 years. What about temperature changes in the Earth? Facts about atmposphere’s temperature could be collect in two different ways. Since 1850 we have been able to measure the temperature directly with instruments. Before 1850, when the man hadn’t the instruments, we can indirectly collect data. For example we can analyse the rings of the trees or we can analyse the isotopes of the elements from the ice of Antarctica. An important study has focused the temperature by the year 1000 to today. This study is called hockey stick because the temperature had remained steady for 900 years and suddenly the temperature has increased since the last 100 years. This jump is too strong and abnormal compared to the 900 years before. This phenomenon has led to an important and intense dibate in the universities and governments.

SMARTPHONE: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES Many people today have a smartphone like an iPhone or a Samsung. Today there are milions of phones around the world, so it’s impossible to find a person without a smartphone. But is it a great invention? I think there are both advantages and disadvantages. The first advantage is that we are always connected each other. Infact we can chat or send a photo every moment. For example we can share a special situation in real time with other people through social networks. Secondly, people can create new bigger networks that before smartphone’s age they can’t make. This is really important in the working life. Thirdly, we keep in touch with many people, also old school classmates, and this was very difficult in the past. But on the other hand, there are also disadvantages. Firstly, people spend more time texting or sharing things on the social networks. According to scientific surveys, many children are getting less sociable because they spend less time talking to each other. Secondly, people spend less time doing more creative things like reading or spending time outdoors. Especially children prefer playing with their tablet and smartphone instead of playing football or something. In conclusion, this new electronic device is one of the greatest invention of our days. In my opinion today it’s unrealistic that a few people refuse this technological revolution because the advantages are far too important. But we should just learn to turn the smartphone off when we spend time with our family or other people. And also we should educate children how use this device and teach them at staying with other people. In fact if children spend all time using electronic device they will not able to chat with other people and also to stay in the modern community. According to scientific research, they eventually might have anxiety disorders and other psychiatrich disorders.

Describing a house The house in perfectly situated in the heart of the city. It’s a big, cosy house: it has a huge living room where there’s a pianoforte and two sofa. This room is lovely because there’re glass walls which you can see the garden. There’re two kitchens and two living rooms: one of these is very cosy in winter because it has a fireplace. There is also a big hall where you can invite your guests. There’re four bathrooms, two double bedrooms and four bedrooms. In the garden there are a lot of trees and some bench where you can sit in the shadow. Behind the house there’s a backyard with a barbecue. There’s even an amazing terrace with a spectacular view of the city and it has got plenty of room where you can have a party. The house is ten-minute walk from the Underground station, so you can visit the city very easily. It’s also a twenty-minute drive from the airport.

A film review: A beautiful mind Part 2 The next day, while a Nash’s speech in a conference at University, some suspicious men enter in the hall. Nash thinks that he’s surround so he starts to run away but they follow him. Then they succeed to catch him, so Nash tries to ask someone for help but nobody helps him. The boss of this gang is Dr. Rosen and they take him at the psychiatric hospital. While Dr. Rosen tries to interrogate him, Nash sees his closer friend Charles who is seated in the room. Nash believes that Charles has cheated him with Russian agents, but Dr. Rosen realizes Nash is having hallucinations. Dr. Rosen tells Alicia that her husband has paranoid schizofrenia and Charles, Marcee (Charles’ niece) and Parcher don’t exist but they are only fruits of his imagination. Alicia is upset, but she wants to investigate about Nash’s life because he has never told her about his secret job. Infact Alicia goes to see Nash’s office where she finds out thousands and thousands of articles cut out by magazines and stuck on the walls. She discovers also where Nash had delivered all his secret letters believing Pentagon’s agents would have read them. Nash is given an insulin shock terapy and eventually released. Nash seems to feel better but when he’s fed up with psychiatric drug effects he secretly stops taking it. Thus allucinations come back and Nash meets Parcher again: Parcher tells him that his schizofrenia is false and so Nash starts searching patterns in magazines and newspapers again in his garage. But Alicia finds out what her husband is doing and when she fells her and their child life are in danger, she calls Dr Rosen. In that moment Nash realizes that Parcher, Charles and Marcee exist only in his imagination and ask Alicia not to come back into the hospital because he want to try to solve his problem by himself without psychiatric terapy. Nash returns to Princeton where his old rival rival Hansen is head of the University. Hansen understands this circumstance and Nash can start again his academic activity. Allucinations don’t stop, but Nash tries to ignore and control them. In the end Nash becomes teacher at Princeton and in 1994 he wins the Nobel in Economics for his revolutionary game theory. I strongly recommend this movie because it has drama, love and turns of events.

A film review: A beautiful mind Part 1 The film A Beautiful Mind is based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard and it stars Russell Crowe as John Nash. The film won four Oscars in 2002 as Best Movie and Best Director. The film is set in the USA in the 1950s. It was filmed when Russell Crowe had just won the Oscar for Best Actor in Gladiatore. The film is about John Nash who is a young math student. He’s a person rather strange and unsociable. When he arrives at Princeton University to get a Ph.D., his friend is only Charles who is his roommate. During his studies, Nash thinks about only his theory named as Game Theory which it will award the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics many years later. After the Ph.D. Nash works as professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. But brillance and talent’s Nash are known not only by academic people, but also by some Pentagon’s agents. In fact, he is invited to the Pentagon to decipher codes mentally: we are in the Cold War’s years so Nash’s capability is very crucial to decipher enemy Soviet Telecommunication. Nash considers his usual duties at MIT uninteresting and a waste of talent, so he is pleased to land a hand at a mysterious supervisor, William Parcher of the Departement of Defense. Now his job is look for patterns in magazines and newspapers to discover a Soviet attack and stop it. Meanwhile, a student, Alicia, ask him to go out for dinner. Then they fall in love, he proposes to her and they marry. The searching of patterns in magazines and newspapers becomes harder and harder, and Nash becomes increasingly obsessive because he believes Russian agents are following him everywhere. Once night, while he’s working, Parcher pick him up and they go away by car because some Russian agents are following them. It starts a car chase and the Russian agents try to shoot them. When Nash gets home, Alicia sees Nash is really terrified because he believes that his and Alicia’s life are in danger.