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Queen Elizabeth, in this inspiring speech, Is talking about the coronavirus outbreak. Like many countries in Europe, Britain is in a state of virtual lockdown, with people told to stay at home unless it was essential to go out. She is invoking the spirit of the Second World War in an extremely rare broadcast to the nation.

At the beginning of speech, she is thanking people on HNS Frontline, care workers, and those who are staying at home, saying that they are contributing to protect all of us. She hopes that the next generation will say that Britons of this generation were strong, self-disciplined and calm, with their National spirit like they have always been. “Together we are tackling this disease, and I want to reassure you that if we remain united and resolute, then we will overcome it". She also reminds her very first broadcast in 1940, where she spoke to children who had been evacuated from their homes for their own safety, saying that today we are also feeling this sense of separation and pain, but also that we recognise that it's the right thing to do.

I think that Queen Elizabeth wanted to reassure us that if we stay together and work together we will overcome It. As she says "We will succeed. And the success will belong to everyone of us.." "..We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return". I also think that she made a huge impact on people's life with this speech, she knows what to say to make people feel better and hopeful, and she says It with class,dignity and humility.

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"Farewell to arms" Hemingway (topic the war)

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"Farewell to arms" Hemingway (topic the war)

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Compare  Hemingway's  description  of  the  bomb  explosion  to  the  gas  attack  in  DULCE  ET DECORUM  EST  by  the  poet  W.Owen  as  regards  the  soldier's  mood,  his  attitude  to  war, the  imagery  and  the  message.

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Her majesty the Queen,
I would like to thank Your Majesty for the interest and the message of encouragement,  upon this dramatic and difficoult time It Is conforting to know that people are interested and tries to give support.

Here in Italy the situation Is dramatic, and we already changed our normal routines and regular patterns of life to ensure the safety of us all, due to Giuseppe Conte's decree. All our doctors and nurses are doing their best and we also are enormously thankful for their work.

I too as Your Majesty said believe that we people and communities have to stay together, be strong and work as one to overcome this situation. If we are responsible, hopefully this situation will pass quickly.
Yours faithfully,
Andrea Ielo

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"WATCH THE TED TALK AND FIND THE KEY-WORDS AND THE MESSAGES THE SPEAKER GIVES"

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"WATCH THE TED TALK AND FIND THE KEY-WORDS AND THE MESSAGES THE SPEAKER GIVES"

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2 Key messages:
1. Bill Gates five years ago said "If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war- not missiles, but microbes", this because we've actually invested very little in a system to stop an epidemic. In addition to this, during the Ebola crisis in West Africa, he said we were not prepared for the next epidemic. He explained why Ebola didn't spread more: by the time most people are contagious, they're usually already bedridden. "Next time, we might not be so lucky. You can have a virus where people feel well enough while they're infectious that they get on a plane, or they go to a market" he said, and that makes us think that he Is a visionary because it is exactly what is happening.

2. Bill Gates also said how we can prepare for the next epidemic:
-building a really good response system
-medical reserve corps, with lots of people training
-simulations to see how well leaders are prepared
-lots of advanced R&D in areas of vaccines and diagnostics.

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Article- Coronavirus: Italy to close all schools as deaths 

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Article- Coronavirus: Italy to close all schools as deaths 

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The coronavirus Is spreading all over the world, about more than 90,000 people have been infected and about 3,200 have died. Confirmed cases have been reported in 81 countries including Italy, where 107 people have been killed by the virus,most of them in the Lombardy region. To contain the virus outbreak in Italy, all schools will shut for 10 days and the education Minister Lucia Azzolina said that she hopes that students would be able to resume classes as soon as possible. Early measures including the quarantine of 11 towns near Milan, have failed to stop the spread of infections. Also, with cafes and hotels half empty the tourism sector here Is predicted to lose £6.5bn. other countries that have closed schools are: Mainland China and Hong Kong, Japan, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, and France also has closed about 120 schools.

I think that closing schools could be a way to contain the virus, as long as the other directives like washing hands very often, avoid hugging and shaking hands, sneezing in a tissue and then throw It (like It should be) or avoid pubblic transports ecc.., are followed. Taking precautions Is a good thing, as long as people don't panic and start acting not for the common good but for their own, but as we can see people are being xenophobic and racist towards Chinese, japanese, Italians... CNN reported a few weeks ago that a man on a Los Angeles subway was overheard saying that Chinese people are filthy and bring diseases from China. The same CNN report features multiple stories from people of Asian descent who have been attacked or the victim of a physical or verbal assault in the last few weeks.  Personally I'm not scared about the virus per se, because It has 0,3% of mortality, but for the people's behaviour that Is inhuman, and also the hospitals that are being overwhelmed and especially here in Reggio I don't think they are preparare to face this situation.

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Essay- British coloniale policy in India and Rudyard Kipling's work

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Essay- British coloniale policy in India and Rudyard Kipling's work

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The British Empire took over from the East India Company and directory ruled over India, which for the first time in history was united under one single power. In 1876 Queen Victoria became Empress of India- the territori ed controlled actually included today's India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. They obtained a crucial router between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian ocean. Among the Colonia, India was "the Jewel in the Crown", in Prime Ministero Benjamin Disraeli's words, the richest and most exotic parte of the Empire.

The expansion of the British Empire corresponds ti the first examples of Nobel which both came from and were about the overseas colonies. Ruyard Kipling was the first Major writer to explore the relations between the British and the Indian. He never seems seriously to question the right of the British to be in India- the typical attitude of many British people was that they wero to "take up the White Man's burden" in Kipling's words. Kipling however, was seriously fascinated by India.

Kipling's reputation as a poet has suffered considerabily since his death, due in large part to his racist attitude towards minorities. The Anglo-Indians described by Kipling have a strong sense of National identity, for this many liberal intellectuals of the 20 th century regarded him as a reactionary Jingoist, but today the critics are less severe and more varied.

Andrea Ielo

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Read the newspaper, listen to the news,then try to write a text on the effect of war.

War are often started to fight for National freedom or self-determination. They emerge from political conflicts that can start within a country, or those posed by a foreign power, as was the case of the Second World War. Generally speaking, the effect usually include destruction of land and property, displacement of citizens, even post traumatic stress disorder of the people involved, especially soldiers whose experienced war differently than civilians, although either suffered in times of war. War also was certain political and geographical effect that may disrupt people's lives. Border shift and, as in previous wars, nation and former empires have been broken apart or erased altogether. Sometimes these separations are positive but in other instances it can lead to further unrest. So post war effects can be long term or short term and have important indirect negative consequences on infrastructure, public health and social order. Even today we are fighting wars; the us Is fighting a war in Afghanistan: on 11 September 2001, attacks in America killed 3000 people. Osama bin Laden, the head of islamist terrorism group Al-qaeda, was quickly identified as the responsible. The taliban, radical islamist who ran Afghanistan and protected bin Laden, refused to hard him over. So amont after 9/11 the US launched air strikes against Afghanistan. As other countries joined the war, the taliban were quickly removed from power. Another example is Isis that is known for killing dozens of people at a time and carrying out public execution, crucifixions and other acts. They use social media and other modern tools to promote reactionary politics and religious fondamentalism. Fighters are destroying holy sites and valuable antiquities even as their leaders propagate a return to early days of Islam.

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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 -- 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams and plays.

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At his trial, Oscar Wilde is asked about Lord Alfred Douglas's poem "Two Loves"

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Wilde (1997) - Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde - Trial - The love that dare not speak its name

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Read by Stephen Fry.

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THE HAPPY PRINCE by Oscar Wilde read by Stephen Fry FULL UNABRIDGED

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Another poem by John Keats read by Ben Whishaw.

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John Keats Ode to a Nightingale final poem in Bright Star

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A films that shows the love story between John Keats and Fanny Brawne.

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This is probably the most famous sonnet written by the Romantic poet John Keats. He wrote it in 1819 originally, although he revised it a year later. When he wrote ‘Bright Star’, Keats knew that he was dying from consumption or tuberculosis, and the poem is in part about this awareness that he will die young.

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"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art"... | Poetry Foundation

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Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art-

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Ozimandias is a political poem at heart, written at a time when Napoleon's domination of Europe was coming to an end and another empire, that of Great Britain's, was about to take over.

Shelley's poem encapsulates metaphorically the outcome of such tyrannical wielding of power - no leader, King, despot, dictator or ruler can overcome time. Overall, this sonnet paints a picture of an egotistical character who thought himself without rival but who was cruel to his people.

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Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those…

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Daffodils by Willaim Wordsworth, readed by Jeremy Irons

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Daffodils by Willaim Wordsworth, readed by Jeremy Irons

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This is the poem “Daffodils” read by the actor Jeremy Iron that gives us an example of poetry reading in such a beautiful way.

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Daffodils by Willaim Wordsworth, readed by Jeremy Irons

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Top 10 photography locations in the Lake District 

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Top 10 photography locations in the Lake District 

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The most beautiful locations to take photos in the Lake District.

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Top 10 photography locations in the Lake District

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Stuart Holmes, Keswick-based photographer and author of new book Photographing The Lake District, reveals his personal top 10 locations for taking stunning shots in the national park

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This are the places and the landscapes that inspired Wordsworth’s poetry.

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What are the qualities that made Wordsworth's poems rise to prominence?

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What are the qualities that made Wordsworth's poems rise to prominence?

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For some critics, Wordsworth’s ‘Preface’ is a manifesto for British Romanticism, laying out the core principles of that literary movement.
In this video, Professor Sally Bushell discusses what she identifies as four of the main ideas contained in Wordsworth’s ‘Preface’.

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What are the qualities that made Wordsworth's poems rise to prominence?

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This is a summary of the life and the poetry of William Wordsworth ,who was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

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In this video is shown the history of Romanticism and what it is: a historical movement that still hugely colours how we tend to feel and look at the world: it’s responsible for the way we approach love, nature, business and children.

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“Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy?”

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“Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy?”

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This a very passionate and sad scene of Wuthering Heights, where Heathcliff goes to visit Catherine who is really sick, and they talk about how their love is killing her.

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Wuthering Heights(1992)-Why did you betray your own heart,Cathy?

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In this clip Catherine talks with Nelly about her marriage with Edgar, explaining to her how she feels about him and how she feels about Heathcliff.

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A power point of the key ideas of the novel by Emily Brontë.

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A power point that illustrates the most important things about Blake, a 19th century writer and artist who is regarded as a seminal figure of the Romantic age.

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In the second half of the 18th century, a new sensibility became manifest in poetry and a new generation of poeta began to arise. Even if they didn't lay down a precise programme of rules, they established new trends which paved the way for the Romantic generations of poets.

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Pride and Prejudice, Chapter XI of Volume I 

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Pride and Prejudice, Chapter XI of Volume I 

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"Mr. Darcy is not to be laughed at!" cried Elizabeth. "That is an uncommon advantage, and uncommon I hope it will continue, for it would be a great loss to me to have many such acquaintance. I dearly love a laugh."

"Miss Bingley," said he, "has given me credit for more than can be. The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke."

"Certainly," replied Elizabeth—"there are such people, but I hope I am not one of them. I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.—But these, I suppose, are precisely what you are without."

"Perhaps that is not possible for any one. But it has been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a strong understanding to ridicule."

"Such as vanity and pride."

"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride—where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation."

Elizabeth turned away to hide a smile.

"Your examination of Mr. Darcy is over, I presume," said Miss Bingley;—"and pray what is the result?"

"I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has no defect. He owns it himself without disguise."

"No"—said Darcy, "I have made no such pretension. I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for.—It is I believe too little yielding—certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful.—My good opinion once lost is lost for ever."

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The description of Chatsworth house that,in Pride and Prejudice, was used as Pemberley, the residence of Mr Darcy.

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In Pride and Prejudice, Chatsworth was used as Pemberley, the residence of Mr Darcy.

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A map of the key ideas of the novel by Jane Austen.

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My favourite film version of Frankenstein 

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My favourite film version of Frankenstein 

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I really loved this Frankenstein film version because I really like black and white movies, with laugh track and funny scenes so I think it’s a really great and different way to show a creepy story like this one, I also really enojed the scenes where the monster meets someone, and they shout at him because of his physical apperance and it shouts loudly.

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It's Alive! - Frankenstein (2/8) Movie CLIP (1931) HD

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Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), was the daughter of the radical philosopher William Godwin, who described her as ‘singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind’. Her mother, who died days after her birth, was the famous defender of women’s rights, Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary grew up with five semi-related siblings in Godwin’s unconventional but intellectually electric household.

At the age of 16, Mary eloped to Italy with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who praised ‘the irresistible wildness & sublimity of her feelings’. Each encouraged the other’s writing, and they married in 1816 after the suicide of Shelley’s wife. They had several children, of whom only one survived.

A ghost-writing contest on a stormy June night in 1816 inspired Frankenstein, often called the first true work of science-fiction. Superficially a Gothic novel, and influenced by the experiments of Luigi Galvani, it was concerned with the destructive nature of power when allied to wealth. It was an instant wonder, and spawned a mythology all its own that endures to this day.

After Percy Shelley’s death in 1822, she returned to London and pursued a very successful writing career as a novelist, biographer and travel writer. She also edited and promoted her husband’s poems and other writings.

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This scene is when the sweet, gentle family he's been spying on in the forest run away when they see him. This shows that the reaction of people to the appearance of Frankenstein’s monster reflects the importance of it both in Mary Shelly’s day and our own. The only one who gives him any sort of chance, in fact, is blind, and even this opportunity is destroyed when the old man’s son returns. In my opinion, It is a sad fact that many people have prejudices because of physical appearance. This is my favorite scene because for me it’s a very important theme, expecially nowadays, also, I think we’re made to sympathize with the monster during the story, and be frustrated by the reactions of the people when they see him, so I think it’s possible that Mary Shelley may be using this as a tool to challenge the readers, to solve this problem by making us more empathic.

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Some curiosities about Frankenstein.

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Mary Shelley’s life and the plot, main characters and themes of her most important work: Frankenstein.

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A video that shows the important places of the novel.

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A video preview of the Frankenstein Google Lit Trip developed by Mr. Gregory Greenleaf and his 2012-2013 Advanced Placement English class at Greely High School in Cumberland Maine.

Google Lit Trips...
because literary reading brings the wisdom of the ages to the information age
http://www.GoogleLitTrips.com

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 Frankenstein THE MODERN PROMETHEUS Extra Sci Fi

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 Frankenstein THE MODERN PROMETHEUS Extra Sci Fi

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Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus - Extra Sci Fi - #1

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Video SparkNotes: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein summary

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Brainstorm online with Bubbl.us. Easily create colorful mind maps to print or share with others. Almost no learning curve. Millions of people are using Bubbl.us worldwide to generate ideas, map out processes and create presentations.

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Brainstorm online with Bubbl.us. Easily create colorful mind maps to print or share with others. Almost no learning curve. Millions of people are using Bubbl.us worldwide to generate ideas, map out processes and create presentations.

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Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliloquy is probably the most famous soliloquy in the history of the theatre. In this soliloquy it's all about suicide and if Hamlet should continue to exist or not. He contemplates the ups and downs and reveal his inner thoughts to us about it. The main themes are: the incapacity to face life, indecision and irresolution, the fear of the unknown after death. The language of the soliloquy is very rich in images and very refined. It stirs up emotions in the audience to keep their attention.

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My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun- READ BY ALAN RICKMAN

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My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun- READ BY ALAN RICKMAN

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My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun; Read by Alan Rickman

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"Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we ay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hand unclean"
This is the beginnin of Romeo and Juliet, a film of 1968. It talks about Romeo and Juliet that fall in love to each other, but they come from rival families. My favourite scene is the balcony scene. It shows how young and impulsive Romeo and Juliet are and how this impulsiveness leads to their death. My favourite character is Juliet, that is presented as quiet and obedient. However, she possesses an inner strength that enables her to have maturity beyond her years. I like her character because she may be beautiful, but she's also much more than just a pretty face. She's smart and determined. I really enjoyed this film, beacause I think it is an attractive and spectacular piece of work, using real outdoor locations and young actors close to the characters’age.