About those who saved the world…

by Katarzyna Sosna
Gimnazjum nr 2 im. św. Walentego w Bieruniu

        Holocaust has been spoken a lot, but those who saved its potential victims seem to be forgotten. I’d like to present you a few people who, hazarding their own lives, rescued the others.

Jerzy and Irena Krępeć

Irena and Jerzy Krępeć were the heroes, as they hid the Jews on their farm. The Jews were employed there and earned money. Their children could illegally go to school together with village children. The married couple organized them fake IDs. They gave them all the necessary things, as food, clothes, accommodation and psychological support. Their neighbours knew about the hidden Jews but they didn’t bring them out and 30 Jews survived the war in this way.

'Hanysy' and their region

by Aleksandra Józefczuk
Gimnazjum nr 2 im. św. Walentego w Bieruniu

Bieruń is in Silesia, which is quite dissimilar to the rest of Poland. In Silesia people celebrate birthday but in the rest of Poland name day, but they are Gorole, we are Hanysy.
And we’ve got the coal –our blessing and course.

A hundred years old movie

by Natalia Nowak and Dagmara Blacha
Gimnazjum nr 2 im. św. Walentego w Bieruniu
 

The history of radio had been explored during our first mobility in Spain. The works, which were exhibited in Ferrol, are available on the blog.

History of radio

New sports disciplines

by Karolina Łosoń
Gimnazjum nr 2 im. św. Walentego w Bieruniu


       Each of our project international meetings involves games and sports competitions. Are you aware that though, there is a wide range of sports disciplines, the number is still increasing? For example, in the Olympic Games in Tokyo (2020) five new categories are going to be introduced:
baseball (very popular in Japan), karate (with Japanese origins), skateboarding, climbing and surfing.

Earthquake in the center of Italy

by Sara Cippo e Clara Mancino (Palermo)

 In the last three months Italy has been struck by a series of powerful earthquakes, that caused many victims and destruction.

On the 24^th August 2016 an earthquake of 6.0 magnitude hit the central of Italy. The epicentre was between the regions Lazio and Marche, however the tremor was felt across whole central Italy. The earthquake was followed by at least 2500 aftershocks. The villages of Amatrice, Accumoli and Pescara del Tronto  were destroyed, causing the death of 299 people and at least 365 people were injured, many others were pulled alive from the rubble. In addition to the loss of human lives, many historical monuments were destroyed and damaged. 

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AN IDOL IN MY LIFE: Javier Gómez Noya, five times World Champion in triathlon.

By Lucía Loureiro Cela (4th year ESO).

Javier Gómez Noya was born in Basilea (Switzerland), in March 25th, 1983, but he moved to Ferrol, Spain, when he was 3 months old.
Javier studied and started practising sports in Pontevedra.

He discovered triathlon in 1998. He made his debut in the Olympic-distance triathlon at the age of 15. Javi's evolution was extremely fast; he won practically all the triathlon contests in which he participated in his category.

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However, he has gone through more than one obstacle on his climb to the top.

Missing children: an unsolved major issue today. Diana Quer.

By Eli Tatyanova Petkova (4th year ESO)

In the United States, about half a million children disappear annually. More than 100,000 children disappear in England each year too, although some say that the figure is much higher. The former Soviet Union reports tens of thousands of missing children. In South Africa, it is said that the amount exceeds ten thousand. In Germany, it's not any better, and an estimated 100,000 children are reported missing every year, according to the data of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children. Millions of children suffer the same fate in Latin America and all over the world. The statistics about the problem can't be considered as very reliable mainly because of the lack of a common definition of 'missing child'.

    

INTA AND UAVS: New Technologies for the Future. Unmanned aircrafts.

By Pablo Rodeiro Rañales and Sergio Dopico Arnoso (4th year ESO)

(After a visit to the INTA facilities in Rozas, we're presenting the second part of the article published on June 8th 2016, called 'The Drone Industry in Galicia')

Since the taking off of the first aircraft by the end of the XIX century or beginnings of the XX until now many things have changed. The first aircrafts used to fly just a few metres from the ground, were piloted at least by a pilot and they were very little self-sufficient concerning fuel. Today, the situation is completely different and the models which are trying to get a place in the world of aviation are unmanned aircrafts, which can travel long distances and don't even need any crew on board to be piloted.

In a recent visit to the INTA installations near Lugo to investigate this new centre of development that the Xunta de Galicia, together with private enterprises, has promoted, we became aware that the future of aviation is probably in the hands of these aircrafts.

Freak Culture

By André Rey Vidal (4th year ESO)

 

In many places in the world, even in the core of this “sub-culture”, Japan, it’s impolite to go out with the T-Shirt of your favourite anime, saying you play “Dungeons and Dragons” or shout 'Avada Kedabra’ with your friends. But, let’s go back to previous times, how have we got to this almost irrational hatred?

 

THE ELECTION OF THE 45th USA PRESIDENT

by Sara Cippo e Clara Mancino (Palermo)

In the last months the whole world has been talking about the U.S.A. Presidential Election of 2016, that will take place on Tuesday the 8th of November.
The candidates are two: the Republican Donald Trump and the Democratic Hillary Clinton.

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WHEN REALITY SURPASES FICTION.

By Elisa Rodríguez Rodríguez (4th year ESO), Aïcha Mª Pato Romero (3rd year ESO, P-MAR) and Judith Vilariño Gómez (3RD year ESO) .

It's been fourteen years since the premiere of 'Lilo & Stich', fifteen since the terrorist attacks to the Twin Towers in New York. Surely, everyone remembers the movie that thrilled its young viewers as much as the adults who accompanied them to the cinema. The story of friendship recounted by Disney through cartoons is touching to everyone. The film depicts the friendship between an orphan Hawaiian girl and a blue very naughty alien. So far so good. But, before the film was released, many substantial changes were made to delete the violent scenes that the original version contained.

Sects in Spain: The Power of Persuasion and Manipulation.

By María Roca Pérez and Carla Gago Castro, 4th year ESO.

Sects in Spain

Youth are attracted to sects because the elements you can find in them fascinate young people. Youngsters believe in astrology, in UFOS, healers and so on...

According to the report prepared for the Interministerial Commission on Youth, young Spanish people disappointed by the official religion and the political and social movements, seek 'a sense of life and death' in the sects and hence their interest in the esoteric, mystical and transcendent.

 

Banksy: 'The New Generation'

  

By Bella Jasmin Kahia González, 4th year ESO.

When we think about street art, the first name that comes to our mind is the name Banksy.

There are a lot of great talents in the streets at present, but undoubtedly, this guy has marked urban art forever and he's and he will be a role model for a whole generation of young artists in the world of graffiti.

'His Hidden identity'

Banksy is an England-based graffiti artist, political activist and film director of unverified identity. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed by a distinctive stenciling technique.

His works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls and bridges of cities throughout the world. Banksy's work grew out of the Bristol uderground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.

Observers have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris. Banksy says that he was ispired by 3D, a graffiti artist who later became a founding member of Massive Attack, an English musical group.

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Life in the Galician mountains: Ancares, Biosphere Reserve.

Ancares, in the north-west of Spain, is an amazing mountainous area located on the Galician border. It shares its territory with with three different autonomous regions: Galicia, Asturias and Castilla-León. It was declared a Biosphere Reserve on 27th Ocotber 2006 by UNESCO under the name: Os Ancares Lucenses y Montes de Cervantes, Navia y Becerreá.

Because of its isolation and location, in a complex orographic zone which mingles characteristics of both the Euro-Siberian and Mediterranean biogeographic regions, it displays an extraordinary and complex biodiversity. Its environment is well-preserved and contains some species in danger of extinction, such as bears or capercaillies.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE WORLD HERITAGE SITES.

By a group of participants from IES de Catabois in the project.

World Heritage Sites are patrimony of humanity. And what does that mean? It means precisely that: patrimony of all human kind, something that is important or relevant to any human being on planet Earth, something that has been inherited from our ancestors and that we must preserve. Why are there places which are catalogued like that? Its just because of their importance or relevance through history. They are usually beautiful outstanding monuments or traditions which our ancestors from different cultures have built with big effort, which have survived in good conditions to the passing of time and which deserve being preserved for future generations so that our descendants get to know what the world was like in previous times.
 

UNESCO is the international organization which is in charge of the World Heritage Sites. It belongs to the United Nations organism and its acronym means United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. 195 countries form it and other 9 are associates.