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↬ The Japanese educational system was reformed after the second World War and it's a 6 - 3 - 3 - 4 system ( 6 years of elementary school and 3 years of junior high school that are compulsory, and them 3 years of high school and 4 years of University). Japanese has one of the world's best educated populations, 100% enrollment in compulsory grades and zero illiteracy. The school starts in April and ends in March of the following year. Except for the lower grades of elementary school, the average school day on weekdays is 6 hours, but students tend to be busy even after because of homework and activities. Vacations are 6 weeks in summer and about 2 weeks for winter and spring breaks.

↬ The origin of the surname dates back to the ancient Romans, which distinguished people with three names: praenomen  ( our name ), nomen  - that recognizes the family that you belong to - and the cognomen, a kind of family' nickname. The contemporary last name was born just when they felt the need - for the population's growth - to identify people and gather those who were the same lineage's members. My surname should comes from other surnames connected to the symbolic meaning bestowed to the ''source of spirituality and feelings' purity'', but also people who used to live near to a fountain. There are three emblems for this surname:

↬  A Swiss agricultural institute made a revelation of why Swiss cheese has holes in it. A long time ago, people used to put milk into buckets open to the air, in this way small particles of hay  get into the milk, which creates big holes when the liquid matures into cheese. Now scientists have found why these holes are getting smaller or disappearing during the last fifteen years: this happens because of industrial milking systems that make milk cleaner. 

Pancake is one of the typical dishes in England. Someone says that the first recipe has been printed in 1434! There's a story behind this tradition. A woman was cooking some pancakes in her house, but suddenly she hears the sound of the bells that indicate the beginning of the confessions, then she runs toward the church with a frying-pan in her hands, and to not make pancakes burnt, this lady continued to make them jump in open-air. This is how the ''Pancake Race'' was born, it repeats every Shrove Tuesday. There's also the ''UK Parliamentary Pancake Race'', place where even politicians partecipate.

Media literacy is the ability of access, analyse, build, and appraise messages from media in all their forms. Into this ads there is only a piece of pizza on a cartoon, and we can read ''fight for the last slice''. How can we understand it? Actually in the pizza we see: tomato, cheese but also kind of a green stain, that represents the small remaining parts of forests in the earth. Business is killing us with hunger of power, save the planet.

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