Editorial Commentary- China's economical growth
China is now the fourth largest economy in the world.

Ever since Deng Xiao Ping (1904-1997) opened China's gates, its economic growth has risen drammatically. Before this, China was closed to the rest of the world, because it was under Communist rule and this was the time of Mau Tse-tung, the famous Communist ruler of China, from 1954 to 1959.
So from 1979, China's economy has risen alot and many people say, that in 2028 China will be a superpower and its language will be as important, if not even more important, than English!!!
Chinese people work really alot and are practically facing their Industrial Revolution.
But unfortunately this industrialising will also leed to massive polluting and other harmful thinges for our planet earth!!

China has mixed economies, such as agriculture, techology....and many many more...

As I already said, Chinese people work day and night. One of the things that proofs this, is that their shops are always opened, no matter what time, what day or what event it is.

I think that the only time when the Chinese people have a break ( and I could be mistaking!!!) is probably Christmas!

In conclusion, by 2025 China will be the world's greatest economy and its language will be teached in all schools.....

Entry: Why do I like Trieste?? What do I like of Trieste??
At the age of four, I moved from Trieste to Hong Kong. This was an interesting, but horrible experience. It was also a great change, living in a small town by the sea side like Trieste and then suddenly finding yourself in a giant, crowded and polluted city like Hong Kong.
But spending eight years of my life in Hong Kong made me realise how beautiful Trieste truly is. Many people say, that Trieste is incredibly boring, but after eight years in Hong Kong I don't think so! Trieste might not be a big city, but you must learn to enjoy it!!
There are many beautiful things in Trieste, but a few of them, are hidden treasures!!

One of them is for sure the ''bomboniera"!! It's an old pastry which was owned by a Hungarian family and which makes the best pastry in Italy, in my opinion!!

Another one is the "Gelateria Zampolli" of via Carlo Ghega, which is the world's best ice-cream, in the opinion of nearly everybody at IST and probably the rest of Trieste!

If you are seeking relax and being beside the sea side, then Trieste is probably the right place: take a walk at Barcola, have an ice-cream and in the summer you might even get to jump on the Australian games, which are eight medium sized trampolines!!
Instead if you are seeking Triesteinian culture, the first place you must go is the castle of Miramare. It was owned by the Emperor of Mexico and brother of the Austria-Hungarian emperor Franz Josef of Hapsburg!!

In conclusion, Trieste is a very peaceful town and its people are quiet nice. It would be for sure a good experience to go there on vacation!!

Entry on Trieste's particular wind: "Se la Bora"
The Bora wind is a particular wind which blows on Trieste.
It's a katabatic wind that blows only in the Adriatic.
The name Bora comes from the Greek mythological figure, Boreas, the north wind!!
Bora is most common in the winter, but it also blows in the fall.
It blows hardest, when a polar high-pressure area sits over the snow-covered mountains and a low-pressure area that lies south over the warmer Adriatic.
As the air grows colder and colder at night, the Bora increases; it can reach the speed of 240km per hour.
Buildings in several towns and villages in Slovenia and Trieste have stones on their roofs to prevent the roof tiles from being blown off. Chains and ropes are occasionally stretched along the sidewalks in downtown Trieste, to facilitate pedestrian traffic...
The bora was much stronger many years ago, but now it is less powerful, with less strength...
there are two types of bora: scura (obscure) and chiara (light, clear).....

Entry on Trieste's culture: Susanna Tamaro

Susanna Tamaro was born on the 12th December 1957.
She is a famous Italian writer. She has a golden heart for animals. Because of this, Susanna Tamaro has many herself;dogs, cats, bunnies, birds, horses, goats...
Karate is one of her passions, just like shopping and cinema!
Her most famous operas are ”Va dove ti porta il cuore” (1993), ”Tobia e l'angelo” (1998) and ”Il cerchio magico” (1994). Tamaro writes books for adults and children.
She has a very interesting writing style: its dramatic, romantic, educational and funny as well.
At the age of 19, Susanna attended the Experimental Cinema Center in Rome and later on, she moved to the capital. Aged 21, she started writing!!
In 1987, she starts to practice Karate and in 1989, Tamaro transfers to Porano, Umbria.
Her 40th birthday, she celebrated at Euro Disney in Paris.
In 1993, her first niece was born, her name is Sophia!!
In 1998, her second niece was born, her name is Greta.
In 2001, her first nephew was born, Nathan.
She published two films, movies: Va dove ti porta il cuore and Nel mi amore!!
They are both great!!!!
October 2003, she starts the filming of the movie Nel mio amore.
Unfortunately, the first February, her mother dies... She, Anna Anzellotti, was 74 years old...
Now Tamaro has just published the followng of Follow Your Heart: Ascolta La Mia Voce!!

Entry 9: Girls out late- Jacqueline Wilson
Ellie is a fourteen year old girl, who goes over all kinds of teen-age problems. In this book, Ellie is starting ninth grade. This year, she wants to start a diet and stick to it, she wants to get a boyfriend and try not to fight with her friends Nadine and Magda...
Ellie meets a guy named Russell and falls in love with him!
He asks her out but Ellie feels uncomfortable, because her father doesn't let her stay out late and she must be home at nine. She's embarrassed and thinks that when Russel will discover she has to be home at nine, he will stop dating her!
She also gets caught in some family problems, because her father starts being jealous of Ellie's stepmother Anna is having a lot of success at work; she makes beautiful baby and children clothes. this makes Ellie angry and her father, Anna and Ellie have a big fight!!
At that time, even her friends Nadine and Magda have a lot of troubles in their lives:
Nadine meets a guy in a chat room and he askes her out (unfortunately, Nadine accepts) !!
Magda fights with Ellie, because she (Ellie) is scared to go on a date with Russell (the guy which she met and liked!!).... POOR ELLIE!!!

Entry on Trieste's History
Trieste is a small city near the border of Slovenia. Trieste is on the coast. It's known as the Pearl of the Adriatic! It has an unique history!

Venice had a very large empire around 1370 and it wanted Trieste too. But the people living there did not want to be under Venetian control and begged to become part of Austria, which was very powerful too at that time!

The Austrians agreed, drove the Venetians away and in 1382 a bond was created between the Habsburgs (imperial family). Trieste became Austria's port.

Trieste remained under the Hapsburgs control until 1918.

By the end of the 1800's the city numbered over one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants.

Great writers and poets such as Italo Svevo, James Joyce and Umberto Saba lived there.

By the end of World War One, Trieste had become part of a united Italy.

In the Second World War, Italy lost the war and Trieste was invaded by Tito's Yugoslavian troops. In 1954, Trieste was finally returned to Italy. It was then that it became the administrative seat of the smallest province in Italy and the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region.

Hello Mr. Pastore,
1.I did all 6 entries
2.I did all 6 rough drafts
3. I think that I should get an A- or an A
a. I did my work on time
b. I did my work completely
c. I used good grammard. I checked and proofread my entries. (spelling, punctuation, etc.).
e. I put my comment on France's, Magenta's, Matteo's, Sofia's and Stefania's blog entries
f. I used my time wisely in class over the last months.
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Sophia

Italian Entry: Alessandro Manzoni

Alessandro Manzoni was a famous Italian writer. His most famous work is called:''I promessi sposi''. In English, it means ''The Betrothed''.

Manzoni was born in Milan in the year 1785. His father Pietro was a count and his mother Giulia was the daughter of the famous writer Cesare Beccaria. At the age of twenty, Alessandro Manzoni transferred himself to Paris. About that time, his father and mother divorced and Giulia went to Paris too.

In 1808, he returned to Milan and there he met Enrichetta Blondel. Later, they fell in love and married. Soon she died and Manzoni married Teresa Stampa, but their love was broken by her death. After that, even six of his eight children died.

After 1856, Alessandro Manzoni lived in Milan, where his life became adventureless, but Manzoni always followed the events of the ''Risorgimento''...

Entry 8: Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz

Alex's adventure starts when he sees Yassen Gregorovich while vacationing in France. Yassen is working for Damian Cray, has been sent to blow up the house Sabina Pleasure's family is renting. The target was Sabina's father. He was injured by the explosion, but not killed. Alex understands that Yassen did this, so he goes Yassen's motorboat. There Alex finds a gun, but before he can use it, Alex is knocked out by Yassen's men and captured! Obviously, he escapes quite easily... In the boat, Alex finds a telephone number and dials it. He hears Damian Cray's voice! MI6 refuse to believe Alex and alone he begins investigating Cray. Alex goes to Amsterdam, where the Cray Software Technologies are. Damian captures him and puts Alex into a life-size version of his first Gameslayer game ''pain synthesis''. Alex steels a USB drive (a vital piece of equipment for Cray's plan ''Eagle Strike'') and escapes!! Back in London, he finds out that Sabina has been kidnapped and will be released only for the drive. So Alex attempts to rescue her, but gets captured too!! Cray takes them on his jet and once on board, he orders Yassen to kill the two friends. He refuses, Cray shoots him, then Alex, but Sabina attacks Cray, who prepares to kill her. Alex gets up (thanks to the bulletproof jersey) and pushes Cray out the window!! :D

Before Yassen dies, he reveals to Alex that his father was a killer and Alex needs to go to Venice and find Scorpia, his destiny.

Entry 7: Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz

In the 3rd Alex Rider book, Alex is invited by MI6 and the CIA to go on a vacation to Cayo Esqueleto (Skeleton Key), an island off the coast of Cuba. They promise him two weeks of relax and he only has to get two CIA agents on the island for a mission. after their arrival, Alex discovers some facts about the mission: the CIA agents are looking for a nuclear bomb. A Russian general living on Skeleton Key, Alexei Sarov, bought some weapons-grade uranium from a salesman. The CIA agents try to enter his hiding, but they are killed and Alex is taken prisoner. He finds out that Sarov wants to adopt him, since Alex is similar to his son, who died young. After he's captured, the Russian president arrives at Sarov's palace for a vacation. Sarov soon reveals his plans: set off the bomb in a nuclear submarine shipyard in Murmansk (Russia)and reunite the USSR. Alex is taken to the submarine yard with Sarov and his men.

At the airport, Alex activates a stun grenade and attempts to escape. But a security guard stops him from calling the police. Sarov's men kill the guard and they proceed. Luckily, when the guard grabbed the phone, he didn't hang up. The police believed Alex's call was a hoax, but they alerted MI6 when they heard the guard screaming. MI6 alerted the Russian authorities and they pulled together an army to take the submarine yard. While the soldiers were fighting Sarov's men, Alex throws the keycard away, rendering the nuclear bomb useless. After Alex says he would rather die than be adopted by Sarov, he shoots himself in front of Alex.

Science entry: MAGNETS
The names ''magnet'' and ''magnetism'' come from Magnesia. Magnesia is in Greece and it's an important city, because 2000 years ago, people living there discovered an unusual rock. The rock attracted materials that contained iron. It contained a mineral called magnetite.
Magnetism is the attraction of a magnet for another object. All magnets have two ends: North and South pole. Opposite poles attract eachother, alike poles repel or reject.

The region of magnetic force around a magnet is called a magnetic field. Magnetic field lines spread out from one pole, curve around the magnet and return to the other pole.

The center (or brain) of every atom is called a nucleus.

Protons are nuclear particles that carry positive charge.

Electrons are nuclear particles that carry negative charge.

To make a magnet, you must aline the object's magnetic domains. To destroy a magnet, you can boil it or through it on the ground, separating the magnetic domains...

Arts-Block entry: DRAMA- A Midsummer night's dream By William Shakespeare

Hermia is a young beautiful Athenian lady, who is in love with Lysander, a charming young gentleman. But their love is ruined by Hermia's father Egeus, an old arrogant man, who wants Hermia to marry Demetrius, who actually should marry Helena, daughter of old Nedar.
during a midsummer night's dream, the fairy queen Titania fights with the fairy king Oberon.
To win her love again, Oberon commands the fairy Puck to bring him a flower, that will make Titania newly fall in love with him. Seeing unlucky Helena, who loves Demetrius (who loves and wants to marry Hermia), Oberon tells Puck to put the flower in Demetrius' eyes, but by mistake Puck puts it into Lysander's eyes and he falls in love with Helena.
At a certain point Demetrius and Lysander love Helena and Hermia starts fighting with her, because she "stole" her love. Obioulsy at the ending of the play, Lysander and Hermia are a couple again, so are Oberon and Titania!! Even Demetrius and Helena marry!

They lived happily everafter...

Social Studies entry: Hitler
He was born on April 20, 1889. Adolf Hitler was the fourth child of Alois Schickelgruber and Kara Hitler. He was born in the town of Braunqu. Hitler served the army in World War One.the Munich putsch was the only time when Hitler tried to seize power using force. After that Hitler decided to seize power constitutionally rather than by force of arms. Using the media , Hitler spoke to mass audiences, calling for the German people to resist the Jews and Communists and to create a new empire which would rule the world for 1,000 years.Hitler's rise to power was based upon long-term factors (resentment in the German people, the weakness of the Weimar system) which he exploited through propaganda, the terror of his stormtroopers (S.A.), and the brilliance of his speeches. On 30th april 1945, Hitler killed his wife Eva Braun (they had no children) and committed suicide...

Entry 6: SCORPIA By Anthony Horowitz
Alex Rider is back and this time he wants revenge!!
The last words of Yassen Gregorovich, an assassin Alex meets in many stories, are to find Scorpia.
When his class goes to Venice on a school trip, Alex goes to a party, were he understands that a woman called Julia Rothman is in charge of Scorpia. But when he listens to a very important conversation, he gets caught by a strong man called Nile and he nearly drowns Alex.
Obviously he escapes!
Days later, Julia invites him to have lunch with her and she tells him that his father was working for Scorpia and was a feared assassin. Julia tells him, that she admired and loved his father.
Alex decides to work with them, because Ms. Rothman tells him that MI6 (the association for which Alex worked in other adventures) killed John Rider (Alex' father).
You have to read to book...

Literature entry: Romeo and Juliet-Relation between Juliet and Paris
By William Shakespeare
The relation between Juliet the only daughter of the Capulets and Paris the kinsman of Prince Escalus is with egoism: Juliet does not care about Paris and does not want to marry him, not even to maintain the Capulet family (not even to help them).
Paris only wants to marry her so he will be part of the Capulets, which are indeed a very rich family and probably to later show off Juliet to his friends, but also to have a really good relationship with the people.
Juliet's parents want her to marry Paris so he will be part of their family and they will be the
the Prince's favourites because his kinsman will be married to their daughter.
Juliet fights with her parents many times because she does not like the arrogant, proud Paris and is married to Romeo.
Friar Laurence is also involved, because he marries Romeo and Juliet and hands her the sleeping potion...

Entry 5: Heartbreakers kiss better By Maja von Vogel
Julia and her sister Nina are flying to her mother (Barbara), who is divorced and now lives with her new lover, Jacques, in a city near Saint Tropez. When the kids go to the baggage claim,Julia's luggage doesn't come. It's lost!!!!
Well, after waiting a while, they go to Barbara and Jacques. Julia dislikes him from the first moment...........
All together, they enter the limousine and drive to the villa. It's giant!!!!
The next day, Rene, Julia's boyfriend arrives. That night, Jacques and Barbara tell the kids that they are going to marry and that they're having a baby soon! Julia is very angry and sad, because she wanted her parents to get together again....
after a series of events, plant by Julia, Barbara believes that Jacques loves their young and sporty neighbor, Cecile.
But when Julia confesses to have done these actions (putting Cecile's lipstick and perfume on Jacques' shirt), Barbara drives to Jacques and in the evening they both return.

Entry 4: Girls under pressure By Jacqueline Wilson

This story is about three teenaged girls named Ellie, Nadine and Magda-three best friends...

One day, Magda, Nadine and Ellie decide to go to a shopping mall. There Magda and Nadine want to join a model contest, but Ellie is told she is too FAT to participate. She runs away and decides to start a DIET!!!!! She is going crazy... Ellie stops eating, starts to exercise and throws out all the food she is eaten........ Then she meets Zoe, a real anorexic girl. She decides she doesn't want to end up like her, but she continues dieting anyway.

In the meantime, Madga nearly gets raped and Nadine fails the model contest but her sister charms the photographer and his crew and takes up her place.

In the end, a new art teacher comes and makes Ellie understand, that it doesn't matter what she looks like, but what she's inside...

Entry 3: The Roman Mysteries- The pirates of Pompeii By Caroline Lawrence
The four friends are at the refugee camp, where all the people that survived the eruption of mount Vesuvius go. After days, the friends hear that some children have gone missing!Later they meet Felix or Patron. He invites them to stay at his villa . Two days later, the friends meet Felix' daughter Pulchra. Flavia, Nubia, Lupus and Jonathan want desperately to solve the mystery!! After a few days, Nubia is gone and Jonathan tells Flavia that it was because she mistreated her! When Lupus, Jonathan, Leda (Pulchra's slave-girl) and Pulchra get captured by the pirates, Nubia and Lupus are their only hope! In fact, Lupus went to see the Patron, but without result. Flavia, Jonathan and the other two girls find all the missing children there. They even discover that one of the kidnappers is Felix' brother!! Finally Nubia rescues them by pretending to be with the pirates. Later they all dine together. The next day, the four friends happily return to Ostia...

Entry 2: The Roman Mysteries-The Gladiator of Capua By Caroline Lawrence
For the inauguration of the amphitheatres, Titus organizes gladiator fights and invites with Flavia, Nubia and Lupus. They accept.
Jonathan is at a gladiator school now. There he learns to fight with the sword.
His friends are at Flavia's uncle house.
The next day they go to the games and see many blood fights. Nubia catches a lottery ball and her prize is A GLADIATOR. In the next fight she sees her brother. That night she goes to see him and asks if he wants to be free again. But he doesn't.
The next morning, they see Jonathan in a fight: he wins!
Then they go and talk to him and find out that he calls himself Ira. But also Jonathan does not want to be free and sends them away. Flavia and Nubia are very sad and cry alot...
If you want to know the ending, read the book...

Entry 1:The Roman Mysterties- The assassins of Rome By Caroline Lawrence
On Jonathan's birthday, a magistrate comes to their house and announces, that an assassin is willing to kill them. That same day, the assassin appears, but it turns out to be Jonathan's uncle. Jonathan hears his father and uncle talk:"...She stayed because of Jonathan...". He thinks his mother is dead because of him! Then he goes to his uncle, who talkes about his mother. The next day, Simeon and Jonathan are gone!! Even Lupus is unfindable and Mordecai is arrested!! the girls and Aristo find a message from Jonathan, saying that he went to Rome, to find his mother.Flavia and Nubia find themselves in Rome. Meanwhile, Aristo found Lupus and they too went in Rome. Jonathan was in the palace now. When he sees his mother she is hugging the emperor! Titus leaves and Jonathan goes to his mother. She's very surprised to see him...