Editorial on guns:

On the 16th April, a student in the University of Virginia, killed 33 people and than killed himself. Later, the news said that that guy was mentally disturbed and used drugs. I believe that, in America mostly, there are too many guns that are sold everyday. I think that the people that buy guns should be controlled and checked and they must say why they need they want a gun.
But this isn't just an America's issue, all the world has this problem of too many guns are sold illegally to thousand of people everyday. In the world there are like 13 billions of people and there are also 12 billions of guns. How many people can you guess can be killed with one gun?
A lot of problems, I guess, are because the media just invite the youth to get or buy a gun. For example the films "Lord of War" or "Dear Wendy".
Guns are only a form of destructionand they are violent for uncivilized people. To use violence is just a childish form of reaction. I believe that guns are and became very technological even if it's not a good thing.
Nowadays, guns are in unhealthy, useless way and people just don't even try to stop this. But again, I believe that the media is conditioning our way of living.

Novel # 10 - The Pirates Pompeii

This third book in the Roman Mysteries series continues the first-century B.C.E. adventures of teen sleuth Flavia and her sidekicks. This title begins in a refugee camp in the aftermath of Vesuvius' eruption. While assisting the camps' doctors, Flavia and her friends discover that many children have disappeared in the chaos. Suspecting a kidnapping plot, the friends investigate, and their inquiries lead them to the opulent villa of a wealthy, charming nobleman. Is he behind the kidnappings? The friends discover the answer in a series of terrifying near-death adventures. As in the series' previous titles, Lawrence combines vivid period details and graceful imagery with a thrilling pace and some gory action scenes, always portraying Flavia and her friends as well-drawn young people whose playfulness, jealousies, outrage, and courage will resonate with a lot of readers. Additional themes of slavery and class issues add depth to the plot, while a glossary defines the many Roman terms used throughout the book.

What I like of Trieste:

I love Trieste because it's my city. I was born hereand I lived all my life here. Not only it's a wonderful and peaceful city but it's even a city that works a lot and has a lot of interesting shows, for example the Festivalbar 2007 and the MTV show.
Trieste is a very peaceful city mostly because 80% of it's population is of people over 70.
If you come out of the city there is the Carso that is absolutely beautiful some Sundays. Not only it's beautiful in winter where there is snow, even in summer it's not very cool... And all plants and flowers are coming out so there are also wonderful smells.
Another major site of Trieste is the wonderful that is very clean and cool even if there is no sand but rocks. Trieste, having a lot of shows, for kids and the youth, is growing every year bigger and with more people.
Trieste isn't one of the major cities in Italy, but it's a beautiful city to live in, because there are so many kind and good people that love this city as much as me, that can't live without it.

Novel # 9:

The title of this book is "When lightning strikes". One day, Jessica and her friend, Ruth was walking home from school. On her way home, a storm occurred while they were on their way home. Thunder struck Jessica. The lightning gave her special powers to know the whereabouts of a missing person. The next day, she knew the location of several missing children; two of them were named Sean Patrick O'Hanahan and Olivia Marie D'Amato. One of them has been missing for several years and the other, dead. After several days, FBI agents came to Jessica to take her to a military base. It seems that they wanted to know more of her special powers. Jessica resisted and her parents agreed hearing that they will get $10,000 for each child found. Everyday she undergoes lots of strange tests and saw many strange types of equipment. She was asked to go to her room every time and was not allowed to wander around. One day she was fed up, she called her "boyfriend" to get her out. One night, her "boyfriend" and his gang of motorcyclists broke down the bars of the window and got Sean and her out. At first, Jessica was fine, but soon she became stressed by her power. Jessica had a choice: to use her power for good or for evil.

Geographical Entry:

The Carso is one of the symbols of Trieste, one of the incomparable beauties of this region. The people of Trieste love this place more than anywhere else, and many people make excursions here on Sundays. The Carso is mainly built of limestone and dolomitic rock. Its formation, which began around 120 million years ago, is due to the sedimentation of microrganisms (animals, vegatables, and molluscs) in a vast sea of which the Mediterranean is just a part. The remains of these microrganisms were deposited on the bottom of the sea and built up layers of white mud which solidified to form stone. The Carso has been modelled into many bizzarre forms because of its exposure to surface water and atmospheric conditions over the last 15-20 million years. Today it is a unique place. The main characteristic of the karstic countryside is that there is no superficial water network. The only visible water course can be found in Val Rosandra. The other short water courses which can be found on the plain, disappear underground and then reappear after having run underground for some time.
There are a lot of caves in this area (some of which have never been explored); the most famous is the Grotta Gigante - it is so big that it could easily contain the basilica of St. Peter's, and it is in the Guinness book of records for this reason.

Historical Entry:

From the 9th to the 11th centuries two basilicas were erected on the ruins of the old church, the first dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption and the second to St. Just (San Giusto). The original design of the latter building was subsequently lengthened. In the 14th century the two basilicas were joined by means of the demolition of one nave of either basilica and the construction of a simple asymmetrical façade, dominated by a delicately-worked Gothic rosette, as ornate as the new bell-tower, using the Romanesque stones found on the site and friezes of arms.
Among the works of historical interest in the basilica are the apsidal mosaics depicting Our Lady of the Assumption and San Giusto, laid by master craftsmen from Veneto in the 12th-13th centuries. The small 14th-century church of San Giovanni (the old baptistry) on the left and San Michele al Carnale on the right, by the entrance to the Museum, complete a fine Medieval churchyard.

Truth or Dare: Celia Rees(Novel 8 Entry)
A room of secrets in a house of lies...When Josh explores his grandmother's house he finds an attic up a closed-off staircase. In it is a collection of strange drawings from his uncle, Parick, who died suddenly in his teens. But he has no grave, and his name is never spoken. And Josh begins to uncover the dark truth that his family has hidden for forty years...
As Josh begins to discover a little more about his uncle Patric, we start to hear the story from another point of view: his mother Joanna. Joanna has decided that she can't keep Patrick's story to herself any longer and so she decides to type it on her computer and we begin to find the truth about Patrick,Paul and Joanna's childhood.
Desperate to find out more of the death of Patrick, Josh breaks in his mother's computer file and starts to read her story. On top of all this, Josh makes a new friend, his grandmother's next door neighbour: Katherine. Togther they try and discover this terrible secret of Josh's famiy.

Science Entry:
For Science we are studying the book "Electricity and Magnetism". Mr.S, our teacher, assigned us a science project in which we do eight to ten minutes video. I am in group with Elena and Stefania.
Our topic is magnetism. In our video we do several experiments and we try to explain how magnets work and how they are made.
Each magnet has it's negative and positive pole . Each negative pole attracts it's own positive pole. If you put two negative poles, they will repel. Instead a negative and a positive pole attract. Magnets have their own magnetic field that are mapped by the magnetic field lines. Magnetic field lines spread out from one pole, curve around a magnet, and return to the other pole. A cluster of billions of atoms that all have magnetic fields that are lined up in the same way is known as a magnetic domain . Every magnet has it's magnetic domain alined to attach to ferromagnetic things.