WORLD FAIR TRADE ORGANIZATION

The World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO), formerly the International Federation of Alternative Traders ("IFAT"), was created in 1989 and is a global association of 324 organizations in over 70 countries.

The WTFO has over 400 member organisations from more than 70 countries spread across five continents. 

10 Principles

WFTO prescribes 10 Principles that Fair Trade Organizations must follow in their day-to-day work and carries out monitoring to ensure these principles are upheld:

1. Creating Opportunities for Economically Disadvantaged Producers
2. Transparency and Accountability
3. Fair Trading Practices
4. Payment of a Fair Price
5. Ensuring no Child Labor and Forced Labor
6. Commitment to Non Discrimination, Gender Equity and Freedom of Association
7. Ensuring Good Working Conditions
8. Providing Capacity Building
9. Promoting Fair Trade
10. Respect for the Environment

BODY LANGUAGE

Body language, also known as kinesics, is a type of non-verbal communication in which physical behavior. Such behavior includes facial expressions, body posture, gestures, eye movement, touch and the use of space.

Here you can find some examples:

You can understand if someone is lying by these signs: to blink faster, to swallow more and to avoid eye contact. 
Eye contact is an indication of confidence, interest and honesty. Eye contact is also an important element in flirting, where it may serve to establish and gauge the other's interest in some situations.
Instead running your hands through your hair, especially taking hair away from your face, is often a sign of flirting and openness.  

Playing with hair is not always a good sign, though. Holding hair indicates awkwardness and nervousness but some girls twirl when they are tired, others when they are reading or watching television, and some when they feel nervous.

CLIL- STARRY NIGHT LEGO MOSAIC

VAN GOGH 1889/ HALL 2001

The LEGO mosaic represents a famous painting by Vincent Van Gogh , ★☆the Starry Night☆★ and was created in 2001 by Ed Hall.

 It's 45x36 and it's made completely out of LEGO bricks (1x1). It tooks lots of months and approximately ten thousand bricks to complete. 

                 

  

The creatore Ed Hall wasn't using any glu on his project but only the connectivity of LEGO bricks and three screws to keep the mosaic together on the wall. 

He used many brighting colours of the bricks as red, blue, yellow, green but also white and black.

He spelled out the mosaic "Van Gogh 1889 /Hall 2001" 

JUST AS BEAUTIFUL

'Just as beautiful' is a bi-monthly magazine who offers articles on fashion, cooking and lifestyle and the first one for curvy women (plus size-women). This magazine was launched in October 2010 but it has existed since 2007 and it has many readers. The special thing of the magazine is that they never used traditional thin models and photographs aren't modified.

Sue Thominson, the editor, wants to transmit an important message  promoting the self-acceptance: "you don't need to change your body or be thin to be happy". But the magazine also received bad comments: health experts said it promoted obesity, other said it created a division between thin and plus size-women. To answer, the editor said the magazine published articles on all types of women and it doesn't say thin women are ugly, but they are just as beautiful as fat women.

THE ENVIROMENT

Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the Green Party all compaigns for a cleaner, healtier and less polluted enviroment.
Greenpeace operates internationally and is able to embarass governaments and large oil companies through feats for a direct action which attract public simpathy. These may include attemps to block the disposal of radioactive waste at sea or to prevent the sitting the new oil rig.

 Friends of the Earth has branches in many qowns and cities and is known especially for local initiatives such as recycling tins and newspaper, opposition to road- building schemes and attemps to raise people's awareness of Green issues. The Green Party in Britain has never won a seat in parliament. Never the less, the Green moviment as a whole has had an influence on the agendas of the major political parties. Both the redactions in the tax paid on lead-free period and the imposition of VAT  on the domestic heating have been presented as policies to help the enviroment. As more of our streets become jammed up with cars and more of our children suffer form asthma, the need for Freener life-style becomes one of the self-interest, not to mention the protection of other species and their habitants.

                             

NETIQUETTE

                           

Netiquette- network (english) + étiquette (french)- means respecting other user's views and displaying common courtesy when posting your views to online discussion group. The basic rules are these:

1. Remember the human.
2. Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life.
3. Know where you are in the cyberspace.
4. Make yourself look good online.
5. Share expert knowledge.
6. Help keep flame wars under control.
7. Respect other people's privacy.
8. Don't abuse your power.
9. Be forgiving of the people's mistakes.

Who doesn't follow these rules is isolated from the resources or there's the suspencion of some access services. 
           
                 

DOLPHIN LANGUAGE

Humans may not be the only one to use languages. Scientists think that dolphins also use words and sentences to speak to each other and some new researches show that this communication is similar to our conversations. The sound that dolphins make look like sentences that let dolphins send messages to each other, identify themselves, have relations and do something together. We may be able to understand dolphins language and talk to dolphins in the future. Researches discovered that dolphins had their own language after they recorded two bottlenose dolphins. The dolphins listened to each other and then they replaied. A researcher said that resembles a conversation between two people and that indicates a high level of intelligence in doplhins.
             
           

DREAMS

What is a dream? A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions that occurs involuntary in the mind during certain stages of sleep, the rapid-eye movement (REM).
There are many types of dreams. There are some examples:

False Awakeing Dreams: It's when you are dreaming you have waken up and gone about your daily morning routine, like having breakfast or going to school.

Lucid Dream: It's when you're sleeping and you realize you're dreaming and you can controle the development of the dream, but some people wake up when they realize they are dreaming.

Nightmare: It's a disturbing dream that causes you to wake up feeling anxious and frightned.

Reccuring Dream: It's a repeated dream with little variations in the story. When you find the resolution of the dream's problem, you stop dreaming about it.

Prophetic Dream: It's a dream that tells you what is going to happen in your life.

Progressive Dream: It occurs when you when you have a sequence of dreams that continue over a period of nights. 

Mutual Dream: It's when two people have the same dream.

                             

And what about you? Have you ever dreamt about...

Accessorizing yourself? It means you're feeling incomplete.

Being Adult? It suggests you need to be more mature about a situation.

Having A Bad Breath? It indicates that you need to think before say something.

See The Joker Card? It represents the endless possibilities, you can do anything you want about a situation you're living.

But sometimes we have STRANGE dreams. 

Farting → You need to express your feelings in a more direct way.

Seeing King Kong → An impossible obstacle is blocking your progress.

Being Voldemort→ It represents your dark personality. Or you're watching too much Harry Potter.

WHO IS YOUR HERO?

Who is your hero? My hero is my aunt. Her name is Pina, she is about 50 but she looks like a 35 years woman, and she is the sister of my father. She takes care of everyone. She’s always been in my life since I was little. When she was younger she suffered of cancer and I remember my family and I were very worried. After years of cures today she’s okay, she defeated the cancer. My aunt inspired me because she has been very courageous   and thanks to her I know I can deface everything. My aunt baptized and confirmed me and we have a beautiful relationship. I love her and I hope the best for her, I know she hopes the same. ♥

HEFORSHE

HeForShe, found on 20^th september 2014, is a solidarity campaign for gender equality initiated by UN Women. Its goal is to engage men and boys as agents of change for the achievement of gender equality and women's rights, by encouraging them to take action against inequalities faced by women and girls.

THE GUERNICA

The photo shows the chaotic impact of the war in a closed space, maybe a house's room. It's a black&white photo and it's taken by Picasso in 1937. On the left there's a mother with her son between her arms, a dead man and a bull; on the right there's a man that seems as if he's asking help near a little window and in the middle there's  a horse, an arm with a candle, a head that is entering in that room, an arm with a broken sword and there's a flower that might is symbol of purity. The atmosphere is depressing and agitated. I like it because I adore Picasso's paintings.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH & ROSA PARKS

Black History Month,or African-American History Month, is an annual celebration in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom for the memory of important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. Black History Month was created in 1926 in the United States, when historian Carter G. Woodson and the "Association for the Study of Negro Life and History" announced the second week of February to be "Negro History Week", choosed because on February 12^th was the birthday of Abraham Lincoln and on February 14^th was the birthday of Frederick Douglass. The expansion of Black History Week to Black History Month was first proposed by the leaders of the Black United Students at Kent State University in February 1969. 

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Rosa Parks (1913-2005) was an African-American Civil Right activist. Her birthday, on February 4th, and the day she was arrested, on December 1st have both become 'Rosa Parks Day'. On December 1st 1955, Parks refused the obey bus driver's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama. The Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement. In her final years, she suffered from dementia. Parks received The Presidential Medal of Freedom. She died on October 24th 2005

THE HOLOCAUST

The Holocaust, also knoed as Shoah, was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews wew killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime and its collaborators. 

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There's a beautiful quotation of Chuck Palahniuk that says: 

"Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust were vegan? It's because they knowed what it's like to be treated like an animal."

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This is a photo of a man that finally can go away form Auschwitz because everything finished.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY9_8m21k8w

This video shows the Nazi's horrible power . They ordered to Jews to burn dead people and Nazi laughed. It's horrible.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhlvV7mjeJM

This is the soundtrack of La Vita E' Bella, one of the most famous film about Shoah.

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On 27 January 1943 the Red Army liberates the remaining inmates Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. I think it was a horrible and unfair period and I'm very happy that it finished.
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SWIMMING ACROSS THE CHANNEL

Every year people come from the world to try a unique challenge: to swim the Channel. Julie Bradshow accepts the challenge. She  has 20 records and she also swims for 46 kilometres in Manhattan. At the age of 15 she swam the Channel in 10 hours and nine minutes. In fact her nickname is "Madfish". Julie goes at a university that is famous for sports. In her house she has an " Endless pool", in which se swims in an artificial current, it's like a tapis roulant for swimmers. When she swims in the Channel she must be careful at boats and jelly fish. But she also encounters porpoises and seals. Channel swimmers can only wear standard swimming customers.