Young,Sick Bacchus

Young, sick Bacchus is a self-portrait by the Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi called also Caravaggio. It's dated between 1593 and 1594, it's now in the Galleria Borghese of Rome. It represents the artist as the God of agriculture, wine and fertility.

The history behind the painting:

Bacchus was the child of Jupiter and a human girl that is tricked by Juno to ask Jupiter to see how he really was. She was a mortal girl so she was burned up. Jupiter took care of him and gave birth to him nine months later. Bacchus was tutored by Silenus a wine love so Bacchus travelled around the world teaching to people how to grow vines.

Description:

The painting has an autobiographical content because it represents a period in which Caravaggio was sick and he spent six months in a hospital. At the first moment stand out the inclination of the head and the grimace of pain. Caravaggio underlines the illness withe the pallor of the face and the bluish color of the lips that didn't hide the imperfections of the body. Very important is also the naturalistic contrast between the crow in the boy's head, symbol of eternity, and the clusters of yellow grape, symbol of death and frailty.

Snapchat

                                            

Snapchat

There is a new phenomenon among teenagers: Snapchat. This app was created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown former students of Stanford University. It was launched in September 2011. It's a mobile app that allows user to send and receive photos and videos, called snaps. It also allows to draw or insert text on the snap and determinate how many seconds the receiver can view it before the file disappears. Messages can only be viewed once. In this app is included stories that are compilations of snaps that create a narrative and there are also filters. It can create a selfie that distorts his or her image like transform users into dogs or place a crow of flowers on their heads. Snapchat have also competition with instagram, in August 2016 it create 'Istagram stories' that work like snap stories. Despite competitions and accusations it remains one of the most popular and used among teenagers.

Famous people

 J.K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling, best  known as J.K Rowling, was born on July 31 1967 in Yate, England. She adopted her pen name, J.K, incorporating her grandmother's name, Kathleen. She moved to Portugal to teach English and after her marriage ended she moved to Edmburgh with her daughter, where she worked on a book. The idea for which arrived when she was travelling on a train from Mancehster to London. Thanks to this book she had success. Later the books of Harry Potter she wrote some stories like 'The tales of Beedle the bard', Rowling donated all royalties from the book to the 'Children's high level group' renamed 'Lumos', a charity that Rowling found to support Children in eastern Europe. She was important because with her books she created a new world dominated by magic that for generations passionate teenagers.

Hanna Hopko, Giraffe Hero

Hanna Hopko is a journalist that fights against the corruption of Ukraine's president. At the beginning through the published of articles, appeared in the media and speaking at conferences. After she created group of people that protested the government. During a protest the president ran away from the country, the army killed many of the protesters and she was threatened. After her revolutions, she created the RPR with people of highly qualified. With this group she made lows for the independence. The lows have been adopted by the Parliament. The revolution continued and at the end she becomes the spoke-man of the Ukrainian people, even if she had risked her life.

Description of a photo

The picture shows a landscape of the Hogwarts' castle and It's a colorful photo infact the colors used are the light orange, in some part the black and shadows of blue . In the foreground there is a lake and in the background there are some mountains. On the right of the photo you can see the castle. This is a moving photo in which you can see a sunset. The atmosphere is peaceful and I like this photo because represent the landscape of my favourite saga.

The Holocaust

“I tell my story so that they might tell the next generation.”

-Sara Atzmon, Holocaust Survivor

I chose this quotation of a survivor because it tells to transmit some stories of holocaust at the new generations to not repeat those horribles things. People have to know this very bad page of our story.

This once in a lifetime image depicts Holocaust survivors at the moment of realizing they are liberated. This is such candid, raw photo you would think it was taken on a cellphone at the spur of the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-hng2FyQs0

This is a video about some survivors' testimonials

This is the Pianist's soundtrack, one of the most famous film about Holocaust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acgb3w6y-dg

Flatiron  Building

One of the oldest skyscrapers of New York is called "The Flatiron Building" and it's designed like a "flatiron". It divides Broadway and the Fifth avenue at 23rd street. The people in the past thought that "the flatiron building" could fall down, but it resists. From 1980 to 1990 the neighbourhood in which it stays was deteriorated. At the beginning of the 21st century it became one of the most important neighbourhood in New York. This building is sat of many film.