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Portugal Champion!

 

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Finally did it! Finally also the Portugal has an international title! In fact, exactly six days ago, Portugal won its first European against favored France. But let's take a step back in history: the Portugal participated at the European Championships seven times, and the first debut was in 1984. Among these seven, exactly twelve years ago, the Portugal managed to lose his first final in 2004 against the sfavoritissima Greece. The final was played on 4 July 2004 against Portugal and Greece housewife. Already 22 days before these two teams met in the opening race of the tournament won 2-1 by the Greeks, but this time the prize is the title of European champion. Again to get the better was the Greece squad, Thanks to goals from Angelos Charisteas in the 57th minute after a very tactical race. Thanks to this victory the Greece graduates for the first time European champion for the first time in history. It had never happened before the home team of the European final defeat came. In 12 years after this final in Portugal will play his second final in its history by playing against the housewife is favored France. The final was played on Sunday 10 July in Saint-Denis (Paris). The final for the Portugal side in the bad way by making several mistakes in defense and risking more times by conceding a goal in the initial minutes. As if that wasn't enough the Portugal to 24 minute loses his star Cristiano Ronaldo because of a tough entry on his left knee felt about from Dimitri Payet, forcing him to abandon the field in tears. The first time you close then only 0-0 with a very purposeful France. To try to rock the boat Deschamps takes Payet and puts the former juventino Coman. The France insists, but just when presented a real opportunity by gol, La France takes a pole at 91′ minute with Giroud.
From here the Portugal seeks to advance as much as possible thanks to the boost of the Portuguese coach Santos and CR7 who appears almost as an Assistant Manager. At 108′ minute the Portugal becca a sensational cross on punishment with Guerreiro, but at 109′ Edér retrieves the ball goes towards the Middle from the left, and produces a great goal from long range, putting the ball in the bottom corner, making it impossible to French goalkeeper Lloris Jack. France are on their knees and try to go for broke by throwing into the mix the young Martial, but the heart is not enough… the Portugal was stronger, the Portugal's European champion!

David Aimar (11 years)

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The great history of Europeans

 

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Since currently taking place in the European Football Championship, I wanted to make a “Roundup” throughout the history of Europeans and most significant moments.

This League is also, rarely, known as Coupe Henri Delaunay, which is the name of its creator, It takes place every four years. To challenge the best teams in Europe. At the beginning, from 1960 at 1976, the number of teams was limited, because only four teams took part, but from the 1980 the number increased to eight teams and so it remained until 1992. From 1996 until 2012 the formula was introduced with sixteen teams, but from this European 2016 you switch to 24 teams. The team that has the record of investments in Germany is the European, that is also the most titled team along with Spain.
The competition formula in the final phase takes place with pool tables “the Italian way”. The new formula includes six initial groups with different criteria for any draws of two or more teams:

1. Most points in the direct matches;
2. Best goal difference in direct matches;
3. Highest number of goals in the direct matches;
4. Revival of the first three criteria applied exclusively to contests between the teams in question;
5. Best goal difference total;
6. Greater number of goals scored in total;
7. Best fair play conduct.

Also interesting is to know the choice of host country, in the past it was decided with one of the four countries whose national team had failed to qualify: from 1980 It is no longer so, Since each Federation may submit their applications.

It is also important to know the Gunners who were and are the best protagonists from the first European of 1960 to date (also included are the qualifications). Here's the TOP 5:

· in pole position we find Cristiano Ronaldo, with 28 networks;
· in second place is Zlatan Ibrahimovic, with 25 GOL;
· in third place we find Robbie Keane, with 23 networks;
· the fourth place is Jan Coller, with 21 GOL;
· Finally, in fifth position, We find Wayne Rooney, with 19 centers.

As a last “frivolity”, I wanted to mention the mascot of Italy that from 1980 Today accompanies us in every race: This is Pinocchio, with its long nose tricolore!

David Aimar (11 years)

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The faith in man, between enlightenment and Republic day

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Every phenomenon or fact has its own beginning, in recent times and easy to locate, remote and sometimes for this difficult to trace or to remember. If today, 2 June 2016, We are celebrating the Republic day a beginning we must trace. It was a Republic, our, founded on the blood of a civil war in the mid-20th century has disrupted our country leaving him poor, destroyed and reduced to fame. It was thanks to the merit of men who, by rolling up your sleeves, together they have decided to rebuild a country, brick by brick, House after House, hope after hope. Within a few years, the Italy has been able to give himself a Republican form, a Constitution and restart the economy of the State. There was the desire not to forget, to remember, to learn of what happened because in the future, the new generations are not fighting the same wars and to relive the same fears. Was hope in the power of man United with the idea of freedom. It was as if that wind of hope and liberty had returned to blow on Europe after decades of totalitarianism and oppression. It was a wind from ancient origins. It was the same belief, in the same strength and same freedom, that had pushed, a century before, our people to fight for freedom of the country from "foreign oppressor.". In The 19th Century, convinced of being right, believe in the power of man and the idea that freedom was the most valuable asset at man's disposal, We won back those that we believed to be our lands and we created a State. A State that had joined with territorial, but not humanly, It was like geography, but not as a people. Once again the strength of hope together with the idea of freedom was enough to hold the destiny of this state until the advent of fascism. But if even in the second half of the nineteenth century vigevano the ideals of hope in man and in the idea of freedom, to investigate the sources we have to downgrade again over time. In this route backwards we find many industrial revolutions, social and political. The strength in the hope of man caused unprecedented technological advances, the idea of freedom was pushing the poor masses to take up sticks to revolt to absolute monarchs. It's a wind, that of freedom, that blows throughout the nineteenth century, that comes from the 18th century. It's a fresh wind, new, pushing to believing in the potential of man. This is our point of arrival, that is the starting point from which hope and freedom are rooted in the idea that man can be at the center of the world, It can by their own efforts to become judge of your own future. In The Eighteenth Century, was the enlightenment to end the middle ages and open the doors of the modern age. Thanks to this movement of men and ideas he set the focal point man, in its entirety, placing under the scrutiny of reason all aspects of human life, religion including. For the first time the man had no more excuses, excuses of a God that predestined her future, I was driving along a path already written. The end of the dark age, the man had the idea of himself, ends when you turn on the light of enlightenment. Enlightenment is the man with the light of reason. The secularisation that followed and which involved the appropriation of man in the world, in the century just, with the crisis of religious movements has come the times with the winds of hope and freedom giving way, only in modern times, to globalisation. The latter phenomenon, like the previous mass, caused the unification of man-mix spegnando standard hope and reducing the freedom of a space on social networks. But the winds of hope and freedom in humans continue to expire, driven by an ideal that in the 18th century it never faded, just today rather than continuing to ride them you prefer to close them out the window.

Roberto Rossetti

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Salvatore Riina declares war

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And’ Sadly obvious that, during the centuries-old struggle between the State and the mafia now, COSA nostra has always won because her rival has never been able to look beyond their nose or, even more daunting, didn't want to do it: just like in these days of popular uprising against the television program Porta a Porta, guilty of having invited to study the third child of Salvatore Riina. Once again the old lion caged, for a quarter of a century, attracted attention to himself. Trying to get past the emotion of anger (justified) against the initiative of WaSP, It would be interesting to focus on why this book was written by Ragsdale jr. We make order. No one in the family Riina would have taken the initiative, let alone the responsibility, to write a book that refers to the head of Cosa nostra without the endorsement of the latter, Toto Riina. According to the "rules" of mafia boss, Although in prison, is always the Riina. In recent times it is happening a new fact: in prison, during the hour of fresh air, Ragsdale speaks with his cellmate, vindicating massacres and execute mode, real and alleged. The man who made of silence and silence one of the pillars of their lives, It is now a raging river: the stories follow one another so incessant. Especially, Riina sort, without success, the death of the judge s involved in conducting the process Negotiation State-mafia. But his orders remain in vain, Fortunately. And’ a Ragsdale disoriented that in prison, that no longer recognizes his Cosa nostra, that of the years ' 80 and ' 90, one that when it was decided an ambush “It was out of, without thinking more″ (CIT. S. Riina), that organization who could be scary to the State and that, in some ways, the commanding and forced him to come to terms. Today, the mafia, outside, has changed., is undergoing reorganization: the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro, He who with a grand gesture should take over the reins of the Organization, It looks good from doing sensational attacks for fear of a genuine State action directed to his capture (for example, the capture of Riina after massacres 1992 Capaci and via d'amelio, following the popular uprising that invoked, claimed and yelled the task of capturing the massacres, that was in January 1993). The mafia is trying to regroup by spreading from below, the so-called mandates, from the stump hard which has always guaranteed in history people loyal and heinous "soldiers": However, Thanks to the courageous action of palermitani magistrates, This reconstruction is regularly cleared, making ever more scorched earth around Messina Denaro. Yet. La Cosa nostra in the new Millennium, on the set he had given Bernardo Provenzano in late 1990s, is an organization that talking about the economy, Finance, investments, joint-stock company, forgetting the language "Riiniano" of bombs, Mitra, massacres, blood, dead. The first is a setting that allows criminals to operate in silence, While the second has always caused a strong media focus as a result of massacres that have become historical now. All this cannot be accepted by the capo dei capi, which not only no longer recognizes the "organization", but neither the company: in the years ' 80 and ' 90, precisely, to the anger of the days immediately following to crimes, for example in Capaci and via d'amelio, It made almost never followed an action lasting popular protest. Today, Thanks to the numerous organizations throughout the area, Italian and the goodwill of many citizens, all inspired by the teachings of Falcone and Borsellino, the company took to the streets as at the time, but not only, It poses itself as a guarantor, as a shield against judges, of magistrates, of law enforcement officials, of officers. And’ a company that, in some ways, replaces the status on the request and claim to a total and permanent elimination of the mafia, though unfortunately does not have, as the State, the means to perpetrate such action. The game then continues its course. Despite his age, the harsh prison, the weight of the anonymity of many years, Salvatore Riina has lost the will to fight and take back what he claims: his role as head of the Organization: However, the boss is aware that, If it can't be him, This role can and should move on to someone you trust, given that even those off the following more. Then from prison Salvatore Riina thinks, While the State, as sang De Andrè, “…you are, You unworthy, undertakes, then throws in the towel with great dignity. "

Roberto Rossetti

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Deviant culture: the problem of female circumcision

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The 6 February marks the international day against female circumcision, or female genital mutilation.
The term comes from the Latin female circumcision fibula, brooch. It is a practice that has exclusively cultural origins and non-religious, Although it is mostly common in Islamic countries.
Infibulation is practised on girls in adolescence, often without any type of anesthesia. The operation consists in exporting of clitoris, the labia minora and part of the labia majora, and ending with the seam of the vulva; It is "torn" only at the time of marriage to allow sexual intercourse and childbirth. After birth, the vulva is sewn up.
The history of this practice is very ancient and shrouded in mystery; born probably in ancient Egypt, It was also practiced in Rome as a measure to control the sexuality of the slaves. They were and are the women to practice female circumcision to other women, This is essentially a practice that is passed from mother to daughter. Mostly it is lived as a kind of initiation rite, and mothers, Although they have tried to turn physical and psychological pain that involves this operation, they want their daughters will be subject because otherwise they would not be accepted by the company, because it would be considered "impure" beings, Unable to marry.
In the world are more than 100 million women who undergo this treatment, in more than forty countries, and with peaks that reach the 100% of the female population in Egypt and Somalia. Even in large western cities registering hundreds of thousands of women infibulate, and only in Italy are more than forty thousand.
Even proponents of multiculturalism can remain indifferent to this custom and tradition so little justifiable, whose meaning is synonymous with only the loss of individuality and of their fundamental rights, In addition to countless sacrifices and sufferings.

Maria

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