AC/DC

As the title says this post is about my favourite band, AC/DC. This australian rock band, founded in november 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcom Young, is one of the most popular of the world. With over than 50 millions discs sold for a single album (Back in Black) they are the second artists who have sold more in all the discographic history. The name AC/DC is the abbreviation for "alternating current/ direct current" and they wanted that name because they thought that it was a very good way to explain their power. But at the beginnig they were not so famous for three years they get only some succes in Australia . Things changed with the pubblication of Highway to Hell on july 1976. But the singer Bon Scott die after the pubblication of the album for an acute alcohol poisoning. Maybe this was the worst stroke for the band. Only in 1979 they found another singer. Brian Johnson (who is the current singer). IN 1980 for memory of Bon Scott they relased the album Back in Black where there are famous songs like Hells Bells ( made for the old singer) who is the first song, or You shook me all night long, who are the top diamond songs, over Back in Black. And since that album their world popularity was written. Songs like Thunderstruck, Rock n Roll ain't noise pollution, For those about to rock, are the example of the incredible power and beauty of the Hard Rock. Not by chance AC/DC music is utilised in a lot of action movies. No one can express more power and energy.
In conclusion they are the best.

Our passions: TaeKwonDo

In this post I’ll talk about taekwondo. Taekwondo is a beautiful martial art and I start practice it in 2003.

Taekwondo comes from Korea. Tae Kwon Do in Korean means “the way, the art, of strike with feet and fists”. Taekwondo was born 2000 years ago in Korea, when the Korea was divided into three reigns: Silla, Koguryo and Paekche. In this period Koreans start to develop fighting techniques. The most important martial art that they developed was named “Taekyon”; taekwondo origins are in this ancient fighting style. Today taekwondo is divided into two federations: the WTF (World Taekwondo Federation) and ITF (International Taekwondo Federation); I practice the first, WTF Taekwondo, that is national sport in South Korea, and is the Full-contact style. Taekwondo WTF is an Olympic Sport since 2000.

Now stop with the history, I’ll tell you something about taekwondo training. Taekwondo training is very complete, because you train power, speed, endurance and various kinds of athletic ability. When I train myself I ameliorate my fighting style for taekwondo competitions. To do this I kick with various taekwondo techniques: from the kicks more simple to the difficult kicks, for example the flying kicks, that characterize taekwondo. Then I do various fights, to ameliorate my techniques, my speed and my endurance in fight. When you fight your mind is very reactive, and you must attend to the kicks in the face, they are very dangerous! You could finish your fight with a KO when you take a kick in the face. Taekwondo fighting style is characterized by the predominant use of kicks; taekwondo fighters employ in fights the fastest and most spectacular kicks. Another important part of the training is the Stretching , because it helps your legs to kick very high.

Finally I want to say that in taekwondo the most important thing is your willpower: without it, you can’t do anything.

Great Taekwondo video on Youtube

Speak - Summary

Speak tells the story of Melinda Sordino. The people of the high school avoid Melinda because she calls the cops to a house party. The reason of this was that she was raped at the party by a boy called Andy. The rape is a big trauma for Melinda, so that she becomes mute; She doesn’t tell anybody what happened to her at the party. Melinda doesn’t tell anything to her parents about the rape, but they notice her low marks. Melinda doesn’t speak to the people, and she often says only her name or “yes” and “no”. Melinda’s art teacher, Mr. Freeman, is the only person that help her. Melinda expresses her emotions and feeling painting trees. Melinda discovers an unemployed storage in the institute, that becomes her secret room, where she paints her emotions and demons. Melinda write to Rachel, the girl starts dating Andy, the truth about the party. Rachel doesn’t believe Melinda’s story about the party, but she talks with Andy about Melinda, and he becomes angry. Andy finds Melinda in her closet. He wants to hit Melinda. Melinda fight with him, and finally she subdues him. So Melinda finds the courage to pass her fear, and tells the truth about the party, finding the courage to speak. This story, wants to say that you must found the courage to speak to solve a problem, and becoming mute is not a good solution.

Speak

Speak is a movie that talks about the story of a girl, Melinda, who was raped by a senior boy during a party in the summer before her first year of high school. After being raped she was so traumatized, and the first thing that she did was calling 911. But for this reason she became a "squealer" (it was the name that the boys of her school used to call her) because nobody knows that she was raped, on the contrary they thought that she ruined the party without a reason. Since her first day like freshman she used to be mute because she did not want to speak. Before she was a very good girl , she used to study very much, she was nice, she spoke. But her life became completely different. She had no friends and she became a bad student. But there was a subject where she found a differend way to explain her feeling. Art. Infact the art teacher ,Mr. freeman, encourage students expression, and he had a good relationship with his students. So, at last, Melinda found the courage to say that she was raped and she also found the answer to her problem, because she understood that she could not solve her bloblem without speak.