Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel was a French designer. With her patterns she revolutionised  women's clothing. She was the most important designer during the twentieth century. Up until the First World War, women's clothing were characterized by full-length skirts that were impractical for a lot of activities. Coco Chanel helped create women's clothing that was more practical, for example: trousers and suits. She also created her famous Chanel number 5 scent.

                                                                  

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Her real name was Gabrielle Chanel, she was born in 1883 and she didn't love revealing her birth date. Her education was marked by poverty. When she was 12 years old, her mother died and her father sent his three daughters including Gabrielle to a convent. Life in the convent was very difficult, but there she learnt to sew. At the age of 18 she left the convent and moved to Moulins where became a seamstress and started a secondary career singing at cabaret events. Then Chanel began an affair with Balsan, a rich aristocrat. Thanks to financial aid from a lover Capel, Chanel opened a boutique where she makes an innovative use of jersey cloth. In 1919 Chanel opened her first boutique in Paris on 31 rue Cambon. In the post-war, she felt the need for a revolution in women's clothes. She started by liberating women from the corset and encouraged a casual but elegant range of clothes. Then she retired from the fashion business but 16 years later she made a comeback and combined fashion and practicality. She developed "Chanel bag". Her bags had a thin strap allowing hands to be kept free. At the start of the second world war Chanel closed her shops and  her workers lost their jobs. During the German occupation of Paris, Chanel was involved in romantic liaison with a German officer, this helped her to gain a luxury apartment in the Ritz for the duration of the war. After the war, there was the emergence of new male designers, like Christian Dior who started to eclipse Chanel, she returned to Paris and reopened her couture house, she was successful in America and Britain but less in France. Chanel never married or had children, but during her life she had a lot of relationships with influential men. She died when she was 87 years at the Ritz hotel. An important Chanel's quote is "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different".

                         AMAZING MAZES  

The article is about mazes. For a lot of people getting lost can be a frightening experience, but there is a fun way to do it: entering a maze. The most important maze designer was Fisher, he has been responsible for getting millions of people lost during his career, fortunately his designs aren't too difficult to find a way out. Mazes have fascinated humans for many years. The earliest mazes is called Labyrinths and in this mazes there are single paths of stones and it symbolised the path of life, a single way from birth to death. The idea for using mazes with different paths and dead-ends came from the fifteenth century by Giovanni Fontana that was a physician and a lot of his designs were being used in the garden of  Renaissance Europe.

   

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Doctors

A study says female doctors are better than male doctors, but get less pay. The numbers of people who stayed in a hospital a second timo or who died were lower if the dictor was female. Death rates were 15.02% for patients of female doctors and 15.57% for patients of male doctors. One researcher said 32,000 fewer patients will die in USA each year if male doctors work like female doctors.

                                                                            

                           AN IMPORTANT PERSON IN THE WORLD

Maria Montessori was born in 1870 and dead in 1952, she was a teacher, pedagogue, philosopher, doctor and an Italian scientist. A very important woman for her teaching method adopted in a lot of schools, she was the first woman to graduate in medicine in Italy. The Montessori method starts from the study of children with psychological problems and expands on children that haven't problems. In the method there is the freedom that promotes creativity of the child. The freedom must be present in the discipline that the child is studying. In 1907 she found the first "Children's home"destined not only to children with psychological problems but also to normal children that lived in St. Lorenzo, neighbourhood in Rome. Maria Montessori faces the topic of illiteracy and she claims the importance of  alphabet, of reading and of writing for a better world.

Size zero, models have dangerous eating disorders

Models must be very thin to get work. Modeling agencies tell models to be size zero or they will not get jobs. A study looked at the link between eating disorders among models and pressure from modeling agencies and for this in the fashion world there are eating disorders. Researchers found that 81% of models were underweight. They missed meals, used diet pills and made themselves throw up. Over half said their agency would not give them work without losing weight. Eating disorders lead to problems like heart damage, weak bones and death. Sadly, many teenagers copy models.

                                                            LOUVRE

Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, where there are the biggest masterpieces of the old and modern art. There are a lot of departments and works. Louvre was built in 1190 by Filippo Augusto but it originated as a fortress then it became a museum. The works that we can find are: Amore and Psiche, Michelangelo's slaves, The Coronation of Napoleon, The Sinking of  Medusa, Cana's wedding, The Virgin of the rocks Painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, The Gioconda, Milo's Venus. Then there is a room dedicated to the ancient Egypt where we can see Egyptian mummies and objects that the Egyptians used.

 

                   What can we find to the museum
          of Mondragone?

In the archeological museum of Mondragone we can find arceological finds which come from Falerno.
In the first room we can see: objects of prehistoric.
In the second room we can see. objects of the Archaic  period.
In other rooms there are collections of Roman age, the collections of old amphorae and there are 22 types of coins, there there is a plastic which represents the castle and villages of the Rocca.

 

               ROCCA DRAGONIS

Rocca Dragonis was built between the eighteenth and ninght century, it is located on mount Petrino. The castle began to decline in the second century for a earthquake. The structure isn't like in the antiquity  because over the centuries it was modified. The current castle is a square  building consists of 2 floors and the main entrance is located westwards.