Othello.

Othello is a Moor who serves the Venetian republic; he has been tasked with commanding the Venetian army against the Turks of the island of Cyprus. At the beginning of the drama we find Othello who, together with Lieutenant Cassio, leaves Venice. He should be followed by Desdemona, his wife, escorted by Iago and his wife Emilia.
Othello and Desdemona were secretly married but the truth is revealed by iago.Once they arrive at their destination they discover that the Turkish fleet is no longer there, destroyed by a storm. At that point I, the deceitful bishop, tried in every way to remove Cassius with a petty stratagem that worked also thanks to Roderigo’s help. Emilia, unsuspecting accomplice, helps iago to get Cassio a handkerchief of Desdemona;discovered this - alerted by iago - Otello is convinced that Desdemona betrayed him.
Iago has done nothing but falsely defend Cassio, pretending openly and deceiving, and this is at the heart of the tragedy: that persuasion that drives the Moor to yield to a furious and uncontrollable rage. Othello, overwhelmed by uncontrollable jealousy, kills Desdemona in their bed by smothering her with a pillow. The epilogue sees Emilia reveal that Desdemona’s betrayal was nothing more than a lie, the invention of her husband Iago.
The latter kills her immediately for revealing that truth. Devoured by the remorse of his gesture Othello decides to commit suicide, letting himself fall on the body of his wife.Iago, for his part, is taken away and condemned to torture while Cassius takes the place of Othello in his role as servant of the Venetian republic.

The flourishing of Medieval Drama

In the 15th century it can be see the flourishing of medieval drama developed from liturgical ceremonies. After music was introduced into churches in the 6th century and words were later fitted to the melodies, and a dramatic dialogue began to emerge. 

Little by little other effects were added and all of this produced an evolution from liturgical drama to Miracle and Mystery Plays.

Mystery Plays tells about Gospel events while Miracles talks episodes from the lives of Saints. Miracle are grouped into four cycles adapted from the Bible, now know by the names of the towns where they were perfomed: Chester, York,Coventry and Wakefield.  

In this period Latin was replaced by the vernacular English and the perfomances inside churches became more and more difficult because of the growing size of the audience. So the plays were removed from the churches and began to be perfomed in the church courtyard or in open spaces of the town. These were represented on a pegeant, a carriage on six wheels in the form of a small house. 

The second great literary product of the time, the Morality Play, were focused on the conflict between good and evil. Also they gave a lesson that people should be learn. The best Morality Play is Everyman. Then Moralities were replaced by Interludes very brevity, their rare use of allegory, the introduction of humor or satire. The best example of Interlude is The Four P's by John Heywood. 

Beowulf and Canterbury Tales.

The only long epic poem in Old English ( germanic language) is Beowulf. This poem tells about the adventure of a Scandinavian prince, called Beowulf. He's a traditional hero and he's the most famous warrior in the land of Geats, territory in Southern Sweden. Beowulf crossed the sea to the land of Danes to save it of mortal enemy: Grendel. He won the battle and he returned triumphant and he took the power for 50 yars as king. Then a dragon invaded the land and Beowulf killed it but after that he died.

In this epic poem the character represents the braveness, the goodness and the salvation for the society while the Dragon represents the fear of people during that time.

Canterbury Tales and Geoffrey Chaucer.

Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London into a wealthy family of wine traders in 1343. He can be considered like the father of the English literature.

His poem most important is Canterbury Tales. It's a long narrative poem set in spring that tells the story of thirty people (men, women, monks, nun and Chaucer himself) who are going on a pilgrimage. They are travelling to Canterbury in Kent to the shrine of Thomas Becket. They meet at the Tabard Inn in London.

During the pilgrimage every pilgrim should tell two stories while going to Canterbury and two coming back. The best stories receives a prize while the worse a penality.

In this work Canterbury represents the holy city while London the terrestrial city.

Also, the pilgrimage was famous because it was the only way to travel for normal people but also to save their souls.

With this work Chaucer wanted to give a portrait of English society that is corrupted by the religion and the middle classes.

Important in this period is also Thomas Becket, He was an archbishop that fought against his best friend called Henry II (the king of England) because the king wanted to limit the church powers.

                        
                       The Prioress

This tales talks about of a nun that proves to be rich and not humble. She spoke french very well, she wore a coral trinket on her arm, she had a seat of beads with green gaudies and she fited her dogs whit meat and white bread (very expensive in this period). Chaucer with this poem do a parody of church.

                             The Wife of Bath

The Wife of Bath is a storyteller who recites her autobiography of her travelling around the world as a pilgrim. She confesses that she got married five times and she had many lovers when she was young. 

She seems proud of it and she represents worldly qualities as well as a female.

Her name is Dame Alice and Bath is the town she came from and it's a city that Romans built in England. 

The Feudal System.

                                                                                           

In this period the society was divided into four social classes.

At the base of pyramid there were the peasants that worked for the vassals in exchange of lands and protection.

Then there were the knights that gave protection and military service to nobles and they received glory and fame by the king.

Nobles were the class more rich than other two classes and they gave money to the king to get landed.

To the vertex of the pyramid there was the king that had the control of all territories and he had the absolute power. 

 

                                                                                

The Castle is the most famous building in the middle ages. It wad built on a mountain or hill and was surrounded by huge moats and big walls. These were used as residence of the king but also from far away to see the arrival of enemies.

Middle Ages.

Middle ages began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 a.c. and ended with the conquest of America by Cristoforo Colombo in 1492.

This period is know like a Dark Period because there were a lot of caresty, wars, illnesses and especially the corruption of the church that used religion as a weapon of manipulation, en fact the pope was accused of nepotism. People started to think that natural events were consequence of God's punishment.

Middle Age is divided into three parts: Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages and Late Middle Ages.

First inhabitants of England were:

• Celts: They were a population of artisans and they lived in tribes, they were very strong in wars and they had bronze and iron weapons. 
• Romans: They arrived in England in 43 AD with the Emperor Claudius to conquest Scotland. They started to built a lot of bridges, walls, roads to facilitate the travels around England.
• Anglo-Saxon: They were germanic people and they didn't speak the language of the place and for this they were considered barbarian also for their ways of living.
• Vikings: They came from Scandinavia and they were good in  sailing and navigational skills
• .Normans: They were man of the North and they came from France. The norman conquest in 1066 in the battle of Hasting is the most remarkable English event because after that England changed. Led by William the Conqueror they brought the french culture and language. Important it's the creation of the Domesday Book in which were written all the properties that the people had. In this way people payed the taxis for the first time.

Globalization..!

Globalization is the process of interaction and integration between people, companies and governemets worldwide. Globalization grows to advances in transportation and communication technology. However conflicts and diplomacy are also parts of the history of old and modern
globalization.





 
Economic globalization is the process of increasing economic integration between countries, leading to the emergence of a single world market. 

Political globalization can refer to the increasing and conviction that all people should be governed by their own consent and a rule of law. It may also refer to the increasing number of inter-governmental organizations with global scope.


















Cultural globalization refers to the transmission of ideas, meanings, values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social relations.










Very important in the Globalization is the E-Commerce.
E-Commerce, also know as electronic commerce io internet commerce, refers to the  buying and selling of goods or services using the intenet.
The E-Commerce more used is Amazon, an internet services where you can buy all like electronic objets, books, clothes and other.

Artificial Brain Ten Years Away

A top British professor presented in a conference his building of replica human brain. Professor Henry Markham told that this it's not impossible and we can do it in 10 years. He is director of the Blue Brain project, which aims to engineer mammals' brains from laboratory data. He has already had success with creating parts of a rat's brain. Markham said that the human brain was an almost frithtening organ. Professor hoped his research would lead to new treatments for mental illnesses. Markham believes that a technology brain reduce the need of experiments on animals. He provided a simple explanation of his work: "It's a bit like going and cataloguing a bit of the rainforest.. But it is a bit more because you have to describe and discover all the rules of communication and connectivity."

Adidas to make shoes from ocean garbage.

Adidas has made sports shoes from ocean garbage. The trainer is part of a project to raise perception of the big problem of ocean pollution. Adidas collaborates whit an organisation called Parley, which protects and preserves the Earth's oceans.
This is the demonstration that the plastic can be transformate into something cool. Garbage in the ocean is a very big problem and UNESCO says that there are 30.000 pieces of plastic for every km of ocean. Plastic kills many marine animals every year.
Another project to help the enviroment is the elimination of plastic bag in every Adidas shops.

Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel was born in Saumur, city of the Loire, on 19 August 1883 and she was a famous French stylist, capable of revolutionizing the concept of femininty.
She founded her fisrt fashion home and she transformed the color black, used for funerals, into something elegant and beautiful. She liked drawing and always making new clothes: her clothes  became famous in all over the world. Her life was difficult since childhood, she had to over come many obastacles like the life in the orphanage.
A quote very kind is: Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

   

Carnival!

                                  RUGANTINO


Rugantino is a mask of the Roman Theatre, he is an arrogant young but in the end lovely and good. His characteristic appearance is "Ruganza", roman word that means Arrogance.
Ghetenaccio, the most important roman puppeteer, was famous for his representations that had as protagonist Rugantino.
This makes us think that the mask dates back to the end of 1700.
His custom has a red hat, red frac, a waistcoat, a jacket, red trousers and a pair of orange and red socks and to the neck has a handkerchief.

Matt Harding..!

Matt Harding was born on September 27 of 1976 in Connecticut. He is an Amercan traveler, video game designer and Internet celebrity known as Dancing Matt for his viral videos that show him dancing in front of important monuments in various international locations. Matt was known by his friends to have a particular way to dance and during a video in Vietnam, friends advise to add dance. The videos were loaded on his page to have fun family and other people, becoming so popular.

Origins of Candy Cane!

Candy Cane is so popular that is one of decorations for Christmas or not. It has many flavors but the better are peppermint and cinnamon.

Candy Cane became famous thanks a German-Swedish immigrant in 1847. His legend tells about that candy cane first was straight as a stick and then it became a J-Shape thanks to a German choirmaster. It is said that during service one evening, the children were very noisy and they don't give attention at choirmaster. To keep them quiet he gave them a long, white, sugar candy stick. Since giving sweets at church was considered sacrilegious but he bent these sticks to make them look like a Shepherd's cane and attached a religious significance to them. It is a representation of Jesus because the white color is the purity of Christ, the stripes represent his sacrifice and the color red symbolizing his blood. 

   

Samuel Johnson..!!!

Samuel Johnson was born on 18 September in 1709 and he was a British poet, writer, biographer and lyricist. He was classified like the most important literate of the English history because he invented the first English Dictionary. In 1746 an publishers group proposed to him the creation of the dictionary in three years old. Johnson not finished it in the established time but in nine years old. Despite his difficult study for the lack of  money and his strong the Dictionary was pubblicaded in 1755 on April and the page was hight 46cm and it had a width of 56cm, another the book gathering 42.773 words.

                             

Invictus Games.

The Invictus Games is an international multi-sport event, created by Prince Harry, for disabled and sick people. Sports including wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball and indoor rowing. The first Invictus Games took place in March 2014 at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.
In 2017 games were held in September in Toronto, Canada and 2018 there been in October in Sydney.
Their "motto" is I AM.

Pink Stinks.

In 50s the color pink was devoted to male children because it is derivative to red, a strong, lively, aggressive color typical of the male character while the blue, quiet and tranquility color, was for females.
Now pink is a color only for girls. Pink Stinks means "il rosa puzza" it is a campeign create of two sister Emma and Aby Moore. They have seen that pink has the absolute monopoly on females and they tried to stop this belief but they didn't succeed.

Zorbing.

Zorbing is an extreme sport that consist to rolling in a big transparent plastic sphere down of hill. This sport is created of David and Andrew Akers in 1994. Generally this sport is executed along a relief but it can be made on flat surface too.



   

The colour Green..!

My favourite colour is Green.

It ralates to balance and harmony. It is the great balancer of the hearth and emotions, creating equilibrium between the head and heart. Green is the color of spring, nature and hope but also of possession and envy. In Ireland the color green is very important because it is the national colour associated with good luck and Saint Patrick's Day.

              

Pinterest...

First Facebook, then Twitter and now Pinterest.
Pinterest is one of the world's most popular social networks. It's a virtual Pinboard where the people use a pin and so they "pin" the notes and photos to the board. The word "Pinterest" ia a combination of "pin" and "interest". Pinterest's mission is to "connect everyone in the world through the things they find interesting". As Facebook and other popular social networs, you can "Like" photos. The difference whit Pinterest is that you use the "Pin It" button. Statistics show that around 1.5 million users are visiting Pinterest and spending at least 15 minutes on the site.




               

My Surname..!!!

My surname is Dell'Uomo. The origins is not clear and surnames that are similar to Dell'Uomo are:
-Of Man in English that means "from the alder grove"
-De Leon in Spanish refered to someone from the Leon region of Spain.
In Italy there are also 272 family Dell'Uomo especially in Lazio.

                 

The History of Surnames...!!!

For a long time people didn't have family names. People have first name only. This custom slowly change, the Romans introduced a combination of personal and family names. They usually used three names "Prenomen, Nomen and Cognomen". In England people started to use surnames in 13 centuries. Many family names came from jobs like Baker, Cook, Carpenter, Miller show an occupation. People used places for family names like River, Hill are some examples. Other surnames come from personal names, for example Stevenson, Richardason. Lots of Gaelic names are preceded by MC or O' like O'Brien, some surnames from Nicknames.