VISIT TO IL GIORNALE DI SICILIA.

Last Thursday 7th April 2016, Il Giornale di Sicilia was visited by a large group of students and teachers from six different countries: Sweden, Poland, Turkey, Romania, Spain and Italy (the host school). The visitors are working on an Erasmus + programme KA2 project related to the media and the news.
At its offices, the guests were explained how a journal is made from its very beginning until we get them in our hands and they had the opportunity of visiting the installations as well. They got precise information about what the work in a journal is like by watching an explanatory video of its history. This is what they learnt after watching it: The history of Il Giornale di Sicilia.

The newspaper was founded in 1860 by Girolamo Ardizzone, whose bust can be seen at the conference room at the journal headquarters. The owners of the journal have been the same family since it was started, which is a unique case in Italy. The actual owner and manager is Antonio Ardizzone, one of the descendants of the founder.

A TRIP THAT CHANGED MY MIND!

By Jonathan Varela Fernández.

A few weeks ago, the long-awaited trip to Palermo (Sicily) was eventually carried out; we had been waiting for two really long years. The trip lasted seven days in total. 

                 
During the first five days, we stayed in Palermo (in the north of the island) and, for the last two days of our visit, we moved to Catania, which lies on a broad plain at the bottom of Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe and is located in the south-east of the island.

3 YEARS..

A poem by Carla Gago Castro.
Some people have the ability to communicate feelings through poems. Here is one written by a young student in 3rd year ESO which can touch you deep inside.

                                
Click on the link below to read it.
3 Years poem

Sicily: An island of contrasts.

Have you ever wondered what a trip to Sicily would be like?
This is what we found on our recent visit to the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an island full of history which wants to keep its rich cultural bakground at the same time as it is trying to meet the new requirements to fit the needs of the modern society of the 21st century we live in.

Through this series of photographs, some of them with comments, you'll discover a little bit of its history as well as some of the most important UNESCO sites on the island, together with their beautiful traditional music and astonishing landscapes and monuments.
You'll also have a look at one of the most important journals on the island: Il Giornale di Sicilia, which we visited as an important part of the project we're working on.

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The Schengen “zone” is in danger

By Dishana Thevantham

Currently, Europe is facing lots of problems and the most discussed is the Schengen agreement, which in 1990 introduced free movements of people in Europe without border checkings among its member states and allowed foreign visitors to travel throughout the area using  visa, since 1995.  But the future of the passport free-zone is now under threat. Why?

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ENNIO MORRICONE: THE MOST FAMOUS FILM COMPOSER OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Ennio Morricone, born in Rome in 1928. He is an italian composer and orchestrator . He composed soundtracks for more than 500 films and tv series.  He became famous thanks to his soundtracks made for western genre, for example  “  A Pistol For Ringo”, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly .
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Locals still eating radioactive food 30 years after Chernobyl: Greenpeace tests

In 1986, the accident occured at the 4th place of the nuclear power reactor in Chernobly city of Ukraine causing the toxic gas release in large quantities.

US scientists discover brain region linked to violence

           Scientists found the center thar determines the tendency to violence in the brain.In the experiment on the mice ,aggressive behaviors were controlled by placing the device in the center.

The Budget Kitchen in Ferrol (1891-2016)

The 'Budget Kitchen' is a charity in Ferrol, which has been offering free meals to the homeless or to people with very low incomes for more than a century now. This year, they are celebrating their 125th anniversary and we want to join their celebration by publishing an interview we carried out at their installations a few weeks ago. Through the interview, you'll get to know a little bit how it works and what its function and needs are today.

Anatolian mosaics to be presented to the world

            

                     Internet site that was established to introduce to the World of Zeugma antiqe city and archaological music .360 degrees virtual tour can be done on 8 cities. According to the written statement made by the Gaziantep Industrial Chamber website was set upto introcuce the Zeugma antiqe city mosaics.

                     Archeoloy museum and Zeugma museum,which are important part of the historical richness of Gaziantep.The site contains all kinds of written visual information about the history off Zeugma Ancient city. Zeugma ancient cities which contains a long history, a strong civilazation, a commercial center at work, a mosaic  land and many other features. In addition to Turkish, there are also photo galleries and mythological stories about mosaics made in English, German, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic.

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Mobile app to ease education for autistic children

The Autistic Children Protection and Guidance Association (ODER) has developed a mobile application that can be used exclusively on tablet computers to educate autistic children as part of the I Can Also Achieve Project. The app's developer, Tuğkan Tuğlular of the İzmir Institute of Technology (İYTE), intends to ease the education process of autistic children, and told Anadolu Agency that children with autism can learn certain skills through this mobile app. He said that the app, which they called Improvement Workshop, is currently being used to educate autistic children in four selected education and rehabilitation centers in İzmir. He stressed that children using the application are very happy and added, "We observed that children are learning faster, as they enjoy completing the tasks within the application." ODER President Engin Güngör said that Improvement Workshop is the most comprehensive software in Turkish that has been designed for the education of autistic children.

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Underground city comes to surface in Cappadocia

                             There are several underground cities in the Cappadocia region in Turkey.They are at Özkonak, Mazıköy and several other places, but the most interesting ones now open to visitors are the ones South of Nevşehir at Kaymaklı and Derinkuyu.

US astronaut nearly 5cm taller after spending a year in space

NASA said Thursday that astronaut Scott Kelly had grown nearly five centimeters (1.5 inches) after spending nearly a year aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Researchers at the space agency pointed out that the growth is due to the lack of gravity in outer space, which causes the spinal disks to expand.

Kelly descended to Earth on Tuesday, landing in the Kazakhstan desert in a capsule with two Russian cosmonauts.

By the time the twins were reunited on Wednesday, the 1.5 inch (3.8 cm) increase in height Kelly experienced as a result of his spine expanding in microgravity had reversed.

The Tragedy from the ”Colectiv” Nightclub

By Ioana Barbura, Coordinating teacher: Tamara Motorga, School: Samuil Vulcan National College

A huge tragedy, maybe one of the biggest tragedies in the last 20 years, happened on 30^th October 2015, at the Colectiv nightclub from Bucharest. A lot of people, more exactly 60 innocent ones, died in blaze through one of the most terrible ways of dying: burning alive. Try to imagine this appalling scene:  your friends burning in flames, everybody screaming, fighting for their lives, trying to escape the nightmarish place. A real horror movie!

A nightmare evening in Paris

By Ioana Barbura, Coordinating teacher: Tamara Motorga, School: Samuil Vulcan National College

       All around the year, France has been suffering multiple terrorist attacks, causing damage and victims. The first important attack was in January at Charlie Hebdo newspaper. The second one was on 14^th of November, claimed also by Islamistes due to the fact that France invaded Syria. Could this be the beginning of a new war? Should we be afraid even if we do not live in France? Maybe the answer for both of these questions is “yes”.