Brave girls all over the world

Brave girls are the revolution

Girl Rising 

According to recent statistics, in wealthy countries female students get better marks at school than their male classmates. But what about other countries such as Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Nepal? There are fewer than 35 female students for every 100 male students. A lot of girls have not rights to education yet.

Everyone has already heard about Malala Yousufzai’s story, but she is not the only girl  in the world who stands up for girls’ rights to education. In 2013 it was founded a global movement for girls' education, Girl Rising, based on the homonym film, whose producers  Kayce Freed, Tom Yellin and Holly Gordon tell the stories of nine girls from nine different countries  all over the world and how they had the courage to rise up and to reach their goals against all realities.

Firstly, they had to get married during their childhood (such as Amina, from Afghanistan, that was only 11 years old when her father arranged her  marriage) and they also risked to be raped every day. Giving girls the opportunity of studying is important  because it gives them the chance to get involved  in the society and so it reduces the probability of rapes. Knowledge is power. So it is no wonder that girls cannot often have it because of some barriers that block them from this kind of social progress.

Secondly, another reason why many young women do not study is about money. The opportunity to study is a right, it cannot depends on money. Schools should be free, no matter if you are poor, everyone needs to study: it is absolutely important for social progress. But most of all, studying nourishes passions that is what makes human beings humane. That’s why girls should study: girls are human beings so they need to increase and develop their dreams like boys do.

In conclusion, this film shows how girls should not be seen by what society sees, but  by what every girl  sees into herself. They can be strong, powerful, bright and brave like boys can. Although the nine girls were uncertain about their future, they believed in themselves and in education.  A revolution has just begun and it cannot be stopped.

Stefania Sala IV H

http://girlrising.com/
 

Wilde and his stories

The useless virtue

Bertram was a young, rich and lucky cavalier who lived virtuously, like a monk, far from love and passions. Despite all he was sad, so one day he decided to ask the reason to a holy man able to analyze the people’s souls.

The holy man said he was sad because there was a mortal enemy he had to find and to defeat.

The cavalier didn’t find his enemy for ages, so he returned to the holy man tired and aged.

The holy man, who instead was the same since Bertram had seen him for the first time, showed him his damaged and dying face reflected in the lake.

It was the face of his mortal enemy he had searched for all the time.

Gabriele Lo Cascio - Rokun Uddin - Simone Cordone - Tiziano Bruno - Flaminia La Bella

Oscar Wilde's stories

The cruel charity

A young poet,who did not understand the value of money , quickly squandered his father's heredity. So he started to get into debts and he lost all his heritage. When his friends understood his situation, they decided to help him and paid off his debts. Moreover, the closer one offered to give him 100 pounds if he had gone to Australia to start a new life there. Two months later the friend noticed a familiar face in Piccadilly, it was the poet! He approched him disgusted and asked him why he hadn't gone to Australia. So the poet tried to explain himself saying that no one would have gone there if he had had 100 pounds.

The group is composed bay Carla, Eleonora, stefano and Marco.

Wilde's stories

LOVE AND ART
A great actress was admired by a large amount of people that disturbed her attention from the values of real life. One day she fell in love with a jealous man, who asked her to leave the stage and drama, too. Love meant more than glory and success for her, but day by day her partner started loving her less than he used to. The woman didn't know how to react in front of this situation because she always lived in fiction. One day a famous director offered her to play as an actress being sure of the success she would have got. She accepted, played a role that described her real life and acted beautifully. Coming back home with a bouquet of roses, there was her lover waiting for their appointment, but even if he was in time, she said to him he had arrived too late!

B.BAZAN and her group
IVH