Marco+Rossi

My name is Marco Rossi, i'm from Italy and actually i live in Athens to study english.

04 - 09 -2012 The most important celebration for my family is Christmas, on 25th of December. Normally we went to the church on 24th evening to celebrate the birth of Christ. The next morning we have breakfast with the whole family and kids can open the gifts that Santa Claus had brought during the night. Around 12 o' clock all the aunts and uncles and cousins come to my house to have lunch all together. We eat many different food, but there is always the turkey filled with vegetables and meat, because is a tradition of Christmas. In the afternoon we play games, especially with kids, and we talk eating cakes and cookies. It is really a fun day and most important it is an occasion to meet all the family.

04 - 10 -2012 can open the gifts that Santa Claus had brought during the night. We eat many different food, but there is always the turkey filled with vegetables and meat, because is a tradition of Christmas. In the afternoon we play games, especially with kids, and we talk eating cakes and cookies.
 * Hook** - The most important celebration for my family is Christmas, on 25th of December.
 * Backround** - Normally we decorate the house with the Christmas tree and balls of many different colours.
 * First Paragraph** - The celebrate Christmas day the first thing we do is to go to the mass on 24th December. This is an important tradition and the whole family participates.
 * Second Paragraph** - Then in the morning of 25th December we have breakfast with the whole family and kids
 * Third paragraph** - Then at 12 o' clock all my aunts and uncles and cousins come to my house to have lunch all together.
 * Conclusion** - It is really a fun day and most important it is an occasion to meet all the family.

Exercise 1 part B

The first thing is to check with your counselor for avaible scholarships, then you select three or four of them that are appropriate for you. Before you request an application form, go to the Internet and review the requirements. Next, complete the application, and finally submit the application and wait for response.

Exercise 2

Take off your shoues before you enter a Japanese tea house. Before you enter a Japanese tea house, take off your shoes.

After you sit in the proper position, begin the ceremony. Begin the ceremony, after you sit in the proper position.

As soon as you pour hot water into the tea bowl, stir the mixture. Stir the mixture, as soon as you pour hot water into the tea bowl.

Admire the design of the bowl before you taste the tea. Before you taste the tea, admire the design of the bowl.

Pass the bowl to the next person after yu drink the tea. After you drink the tea, pass the bowl to the next person.

Exercise 3

Baseball players are idolized by fans.

Tickets can be bought by fans on the Internet.

The games are often sponsored by large corporations.

A special vest must be worn by the umpire.

Baseball is watched by millions of viewers on tv.

Exercise 4

The changes to the schedule must be approved by the principal.

The electrical drill must be plugged in.

On national holidays, banks and other businesses are closed.

In Idaho, Potatoes and other vegetables are grown.

A weekend edition is published by the //New York Times//.

Happiness:

Everyone has a different way to reach happiness. I try to be happy every day, indipendently from events and things around me. The problem is that, even if I know that happiness can't be found in material things, many times I feel happy for material stuff. For example, when I eat good food or when I buy new stuff. This is not good, because the real happiness doesn't depend on material things, and the achieve a real happiness we should reach it by ourselves, searching for and finding it inside us. When I'm happy I can do everything with a smile on my lips, and this deeply affects people around me, making their time better. The same thing happens to me, when I'm sad and I meet a friend who is happy, his or her happiness is shared with me and makes me feel better. I'm convinced that happiness is something that increases itself by sharing it with other people. This is wonderful, because we can find happiness everywhere and everytime.

Copyright Movie industry would like to send to the jail people who download copyrigthed files. Everyone should agree that using copyrighted files must be illegal but I don't think that for a crime like that people should go the the jail. In some cases law intervened and closed peer-to-peer websites but thanks to technology it is quite impossible to stop this phenomenon. The only things that governments can do is to educate people in order to reduce the number of people who download copyrighted files. It is true that potentially law can close all the websites that promote free sharing, but when they did it for megadownload, a famous websites, in the next three ours hackers from all over the world attached federal websites and caused many problems.Moreover the next day there already a copy of the megadownload website. I'm not saying that law should be threatened by hackers, I'm saying that at this time is really hard to completely stop this phenomenon and the most intelligent way to reduce it is to educate people.