Both are two aesthetes who are part of aestheticism and Decadentism.

They go on searching for pleasure in a material sense, and their works “The portrait of Dorian Gray” by Wilde and “Il Piacere” by D ‘Annunzio are almost autobiographical.

The characters of Dorian and Andrea Sperelli are very similar.

They are two aristocratic poets (in fact Wilde is a “dandy “), however, he loves giving importance to clothing, appearance, frequented places, love for beautiful women and handsome boys.

D’Annunzio enjoyed a series of privileges due to the  his fame in the age in which he lived because he lived in luxurious houses, he squandered his money in their style both focus on the detailed description of the aromas, sounds, sensations, objects and states of mind.

Wilde lived his whole life searching for its meaning and at the same time trying to catch the joys of life itself.

Because of his sexual preferences not understood at the time he was forced to hide his passions and after detention to take the path of exile from his country.

Unlike D’Annunzio, his life was a descending parable, the last few years left to live, he spent himself in hardship and in constant need of money.

They love art as they both accept the theory of “the art pour l ‘art” and also want their own life to become a work of art.

Oscar Wilde and Gabriele D’Annunzio were two famous poets and writers who lived in the second half of the nineteenth century, respectively in England and Italy.

Both of them represented the leading exponents of the artistic and literary movement of Aestheticism, a product of late Romanticism with a tendency to Decadentism.

The fundamental principle of Aestheticism was “Art for Art’s sake: they believed that art shouldn’t have any didactic or moral aim.

Aesthetic artists hated the hypocrisy and the increasing uniformity of the industrial society because they couldn’t stand the vulgarity of mass production. For this reason they kept away from the masses and lived a life of refined sensations professing the cult of beauty and transforming their life into a work of art, surpassing moral laws in the search for pleasures and vices, often through the use of drugs and alcohol. They were also dandy, which means that they led and an intense and spectacular social life and adopted extravagant poses.

Wilde and D’Annunzio were similar because they tried to find the pleasures of beauty and they thought that the beauty was the most important thing in a life. In addition, both of them were eccentric, non-conformist and loved to give scandal.

The main characters of their most famous novel, that are Andrea Sperelli in “Il Piacere” by D’annunzio and Dorian Gray in “The portrait of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wide are similar too: both of them are dandy and devote their lives to the pursuit of pleasures of any kind, intellectual as well as material.

However, they present differences due to literary influences and different belonging societies: Sperelli was Italian, while Dorian Gray was English.

Sperelli was more devoted to the pleasure derived from love affairs, without mystical complications, with a provincial Decadentism, despite European experience and fame. This reflected the Italian society at that time, that was ruled by the Fascism. Italy was a provincial nation, but it wanted to emerge as a political, economic and cultural power.

Dorian Gray spent 20 years in a compromising and sinister existence, experiencing exaggerated and even “diabolic” pleasures as England was influenced by the Utilitarian and moralistic Victorian empire.

Our teacher took us to see a show called “cyber kids”. This show, in my opinion, could talk about more important topics such as cyber bullying, but, by removing this detail, the show was very beautiful and interesting. Cyber ​​bullying is a widespread phenomenon on social networks and there are many people who do and many suffer from it. Those who suffer or have suffered from cyber bullying, will always have an indelible scar on their heart, time will allieved the pain, but can never completely disappear. Usually the people who bully people are the most insecure, and very often they are afraid of the judgment of others, and to feel accepted they hurt people even without realizing it. Technology is ruining us because we can no longer do anything except behind a screen. We spend the rest of our time in front of a screen, maybe waiting for that long-awaited message or maybe living the life of others. Today we tend to post on the social networks only the beautiful things we do, hiding all the cries done by ourselves and in silence behind a fake smile. Many people, seeing the mock life of people on social media, tend to envy them and consequently do not appreciate the beautiful things that life offers them. Today, when we walk in the street, we no longer see people looking into each other’s eyes while they walk, but they have their eyes fixed on their mobile phones, busy living their fake life, not enjoying the real one. I think we should turn off mobile phones and enjoy our real life and not the fake one because time passes and there is no way, then, to, go back.

It is the most serious genetic disease. It’s recessive and chronic. It’s a disorder that affects many organs, mostly the lungs, pancreas, liver, kidneys and intestine. It’s due to the mutation in the CFTR gene that causes an overproduction of mucus. That leads to a respiratory infection, it blocks pancreas preventing the enzymes to reach the intestine. That’s why food cannot be digested and assimilated. Even if there are many different degrees of symptoms, the casting lung infection is the main cause of death.

The typical manifestation of this disease are:

• Difficulty of digestion 
• Difficulty of breathing and too much cough
• Overproduction of mucus
• Production of swet 
• Poor growth 
• Chronic diarrhea
• Emotional difficulties such as depression

Avarage CF incidence in Italy

Nowadays there are 6000 affected people in Italy. It is estimated that every 2500-3000 children born in Italy, 1 is struck by CF. Thanks to treatment progress, the living expectancy can overcome 36 years of life.

CF causes

CF appears in a child when both parents are carries. In Italy one out of 25/26 people is carrier. The two carrier parents have ove in four chance to give birth to a CF baby.

Claire Wineland

Claire Wineland, a youtuber affected by Cystic Fibrosis, tells her fight in front of the camera. “…so grateful for everything this month. I’m grateful for all the people who donated to help me get through transplant. I’m grateful for the doctors that’ll be scooping out these lungs and giving me some more life to work with. I’m grateful for the change to keep being a person. I’m grateful for my own had and for all the weird things in it. I’m just really overwhelmingly grateful for all of this. There is no passionate rant to be had here I am just happy and thought I would let you all know”. With this quotation Claire says bye to her followers before getting a lung transplant. The surgery was successful, but unfortunately a complication came into being that forever ended her life. In her youtube channel she always uses a direct and carefree language, daring to be ironic about her disease and death.

The story of Claire has inspired the film “Five Feet Apart”

Five Feet Apart

Stella is a Cystic Fibrosis patient who uses social media to cope illness and tries to live a normal life. She meets Will, another CF patient , who is at the hospital in order to get rid of his lungs infection (B. Cepacia). Little by little they fall in love. CF patient are kept  six feet apart to reduce the risk of the cross-infection at first Stella stick to the rules, but as soon his best friend Poe dies, she decides to live her life less strictly. There for she leaves the hospital with Will and grabs his hand, but with her gloves on. As they are working on a frozen lake, she gets to know that a lung transplant is available for her but she ignore it is suddenly she falls into the water and despite the risk of infection, will helps her with the mouth-to-mouth and she wakes up! An ambulance takes them back to the hospital. Will learns that Stella did not contract his infection. When Stella wakes up from the surgery, they must say goodbye.

Interview with my cousin Marco, who is fighting with CF

Marco is a 20-yer-old kid, tall and very thin, he’s got a beautiful and always smiling face, ready with jokes, but he i salso reserved and solitary.
Hi Marco, i’ve never asked you about your desease… do you feel like talking about it?

Me: When have you learnt to be affected by Cystic Fibrosis?

Marco: Good or bed, since i was a child i always knew about my desease, as i had to do specific checks for my health. I indeed realized what it was, when i was about 10/11 years old.

Me: How did you feel when you became aware of your desease?

Marco: Well, actually i don’t know because i was grown with what this desease concerns. There was not a real shock when i discovered my condition… it’s something i worked out little by little

Me: What are the CF symptoms and which are the treatments you need to receive?

Marco: The main symptoms are my intestinal difficulties such as severe stomachaches and breathing problems. For example when i get shortness of breath, when i walk faster or when i do some sports. Plus, i get easily sick as i catch colds or flu
As regards therapies, i have aerosol and also a kind of physical therapy called “autogenic drainage” which consist in a forced respiration, while opening my throat and pressing down my rib cage with my hands in order to squeeze my lungs and expel mucus. Obviously i have to take many medicines like antibiotics, vitamins and lactic ferments and so on…

Me: How did you describe your relationship to CF? do you hate it? Do you ignore it? Do you fight it?

Marco: I do not hate it because it’s not a person, it’s something i have in my body and i have to deal with it. Ican’t ignore it because symptoms are always there, even if i don’t do anything! It would be wrong if i ognore it because that would mean to feel even worse. I fight it every day by therapies. That’s it!

Me: have you ever thought about the positive aspects of CF?

Marco: Knowing me, i’m a very lazy person, so actually CF helps me to be more active. In fact i go to the gym since 1 year already and i have a hard work out. All that it’s something positive because it helps to start stepping me up!

Me: What is your typical daily routine?

Marco: I wake up early in the morning; after breakfast i have my aerosol for about 20 minutes; after that, i go on with my physical therapy which takes about 30/40 minutes. In total i spend an hour an half. Next, i study or i go out for some errands. Later, i have my lunch and than i go to the gym. At night i have my physical therapy and aerosol again.

Me: What do you do to keep the right weight?

Marco: First of all i eat a lot, trying to do it even if i don’t feel like; i try to eat many times a day, especially at lunch and dinner, i eat a big quantity of food that i like the most, in order to be faster since i’m very slow at eating!

Me: how much CF has influenced your life?

Marco: Of course a lot! Everytime i do something i have to put out with  collateral difficulties like:

• When i go out i have to pay attention to charge my oxygen and i have to be careful not to stay without it or at list to make sure there is a place to charge it
• Everytime i make commitment, i have to take into account the time necessary to the therapies 
• When i go to sleep at friend’s home, i have to remember al the stuff for the therapies

So there are many constraints, it’s only a matter of handling them!

Me: How are your relationship with your friends, relatives and school? How far has CF influenced them?

Marco: Actually my relationships are great. Being sick, has never affected them in a negative way. But instead, I was always supported by my relatives and friends. In this respect, I count myself lucky and grateful.

Me: Are there things you really would like to do but you can’t?

Marco: Actually there is nothing i can’t do as a normal person. Things are only more difficult for me. For example i like to go for excursion in the mountains buti t is too much complicated both for the breathing effort and for the oxygen handing.

Me: What’s your secret drem or your future project?

Marco: Now, my plains are obviously to finish university and then to work in the word of cinema.

Me: What are your hobbies?

Marco: I like cinema very much, in particular i prefer horror films, science fiction and western

Me: Do you trust the research to treat your desease? 

Marco: Kind of yes… there are always new medicina products in commerce but I don’t believe in an ultimate drug to heal CF…

DAI RESPIRO ALLA RICERCA (give breath to the research), is the slogan sponsored by the CF research centers in order to raise awareness in people to donate their contribution. The focus is to develop research projects with the aim to find solutions to this disease. Moreover the research stands to provide CF patients to live a normal life.

Una tua donazione oggi, può cambiare il domani di molte persone (your donation today, can change the future of many people)

-> https://www.fibrosicisticaricerca.it/dona-ora/

I couldn’t do without the theatre today.
I could say it became my second home. In fact, the theater is like a family where they teach you to live the magic of the stage according to the rules and a discipline necessary for the success of a show.

The first time I went on a real stage, it was in fifth grade. To say goodbye to the last year of elementary school with our teacher and theater teacher, we staged “L’avaro”by Moliere. When they did the “auditions”, I was chosen to play the part of Harpagon, or the stingy. It was a success. I’m sure it was from that show that my passion for theatre began.

So I decided to go for a theatre course at the parish near my house, at the “Piccolo teatro San Pio”. The first show I did with them was “The wizard of Oz”; I played a double role, that of narrator and that of the witch. The following year we staged “Grease”, and finally I took part at the invitation of the director Francesco De Filippo, even to a show of the company, my first serious show: “Orilio Orilio”, a comedy adapted also to insert my part directly by the director of the theater.

It was on that occasion that, working with adults, I realized that the theatre is not only a game, but also commitment and dedication. Respect for one’s companions is fundamental and is demonstrated by the punctuality, preparation and study of the memory of one’s own part. The success of a show is in fact achieved through hard work and harmony that can be established with the other actors.

As time passed, my experience and passion increased; until I decided to raise the bar looking for a new theatre school. . .
During the summer between the first and second grades, my parents and I went all over the place to find a theatre that offered me the chance to cultivate my passion and at the same time improve myself. We found a theatre in the Torrino district: the “Teatro del Torrino”; which had hosted and hosted many important actors, and whose teacher and director (Luca Pizzurro), was a pupil and friend of the famous actor Arnoldo Foà.

So I started a new adventure.

Although I’m not a beginner, I decided to do my first year in this theater by enrolling in the basic course. That year I had a fantastic teacher who raised me to the next level. We staged for the essay “L. P. Nome e Cognome”, a work entirely written by Luca Pizzurro, which narrates the life of Luigi Pirandello. For the performance I did during the year, they decided to move directly to the advanced course, so this year I started a new journey with new friends and with a new teacher: the director Luca Pizzurro. Not even two months, and I found myself doing a show with other classmates and with the permanent theater company. That meant to me that maybe I was really good.

We have staged “A Christmas Carol”, which is performed every December.

In January Luca called me back with my immense joy to do another show (in my opinion the best I’ve done so far): “Oliver Twist”. Then we made an essay in the middle of the year: “videoclip”, entirely to musicals with monologues between one “videoclip” and the other.

I thought that the shows with the adults were over, but not; in April I found myself doing “The Little Prince”.

In a week’s time we will be doing the end-of-year essay: “Dante Restart”, based on the life of Dante Alighieri, while on the 30th of June I will always go on stage with the company with “Coco Chanel”, a story based on the life of the famous French stylist. In a week’s time we will be doing the end-of-year essay: “Dante Restart”, based on the life of Dante Alighieri, while on the 30th of June I will always go on stage with the company with “Coco Chanel”, a story based on the life of the famous French stylist.

For all this work, you obviously need a lot of commitment and dedication without which you can’t act in the theater. I would never have gone all this way if I hadn’t really liked the theatre.
For me, theatre is fun, it’s an outburst. For me, theatre is like having a second life, a different reality from everyday life.
For me, theatre is life.

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The school is almost finished, three years are passed but to me seem past one day, it seem to me yesterday when we went for the first time in our classroom, we met for the first time our teacher, the first time that we did the institute tournament, the first test, the first group exit, last day of school of sixth and seventh grade, but I never forget also last test, the last competition of physical education, the last week of school, the last day of school that we will spend together also after two o’clock pm till midnight, and the exam, my, our fist exam that we will do together, with you, with my true friends, the best.

Thanks to you, teachers, that have raised us almost like parents in only situation, good or bad.

But the biggest thanks I devote to you, my friends that always helped me for only thing, you let my pass three years more beautiful of my life. You always will have a place in my hear. Thank you.

The school is almost finished, three years are passed but to me seem past one day, it seem to me yesterday when we went for the first time in our classroom, we met for the first time our teacher, the first time that we did the institute tournament, the first test, the first group exit, last day of school of sixth and seventh grade, but I never forget also last test, the last competition of physical education, the last week of school, the last day of school that we will spend together also after two o’clock pm till midnight, and the exam, my, our fist exam that we will do together, with you, with my true friends, the best.

Thanks to you, teachers, that have raised us almost like parents in only situation, good or bad.

But the biggest thanks I devote to you, my friends that always helped me for only thing, you let my pass three years more beautiful of my life. You always will have a place in my hear. Thank you.

Rosa Parks was an African-American civil rights activist. She was called “the mother of the Modern-Day American civil rights movement ” and ” the mother of the freedom movement “. Parks in best know for what she did in her town of Montgomery ,Alabama on December 1,1955 .While she sat in a seat in the middle of the bus ,the bus driver told her to move to the back of the bus so a white passenger could take the seat in the front of the bus . She was a member of the local chapter on National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) . She was arrested . This led to the Montgomery bus boycott. The boycott lasted 381 days.

EARLY YEARS

Her father left home to find work when Rosa was 2 years old. Her mother taught school in another town . Rosa and her brother Sylvester were brought up by their grandparents . Rosa started the school in 1919 when she was 6 years old . At that time , schools were segregated. There were black schools and white schools. In 1924 she went to the Montgomery Industrial School for girls .After 5 years ,she left school and went to work in a shirt factory . On December 1,1955 , Parks got onto a city bus to go home after work . The bus driver ordered Parks and three other black people to give up their seats so the white people could si down . The driver stopped the bus and called pollice. Two pollice officers arrested Parks and took her to jail for violating Alabama’s bus law . The local NAACP had been looking for a test case to challenge the bus segregation la. Parks was a respected working domani. On Monday ,December 5th ,Rosa Parks had to appear in court. This was also the first day black rider would stay off the Montgomery buses . The streets of Montgomery were filled with people walking to work and black children walked to school .

Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5^th 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the fourth son of Elia’s Disney and Flora, and he had three brothers, Herbert, Raymond and Roy, and one sister, Ruth. In 1906 the family moved to a farm in Missouri. Here Walt developed is interest in drawing, when he was paid to draw the horse of a retired doctor. His father worked in a newspaper and Walt practiced drawing by coping the front page cartoons; he also developed his ability to work with watercolors and crayons.

In 1917 they moved back to Chicago where Walt became the cartoonist of his high school newspaper, drawing patriotic pictures about the World War and he also took night courses at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In 1918 he joined the Red Cross as an ambulance driver and he returned in 1919 in Kansas City where he drew commercial illustrations for advertising.

In 1920 he started to work at the Kansas City Film AD Company where they used the cutout animation technique. Disney preferred to draw cartoons; with a book on animation and a camera he began experimenting at home and he came to the conclusion that cell animation was more promising. He moved to Hollywood in 1923 where he founded the Walt Disney Company with is brother Roy.

In 1928 Disney developed Mickey Mouse, that first appeared in May of the same year. Disney signed a contract with the Universal Pictures and developed the Silly Synphony series and in 1932 he added the color. In 1933 Disney produced The Three Little Pigs, one of the most successfull short animations of all time. He won his first Accademy Aword in the short subject category, one of a long series to come.

In December 1937 Walt produced Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was a worldwide success. During the next five years he completed Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi. Cinderella was released in 1950, Alice in Wonderland in 1951, Peter Pan in 1953, Lady and the Tramp in 1955, Sleeping Beauty in 1959 and 101 Dalmatians in 1961.

One of Disney’s majior successes had been the motion picture Mary Poppins, released in 1964 which mixed live action and animation. It has been a real revolution for cinema animation. Walt Disney died in 1966 with lung cancer.

His film production firm didn’t stop after his death, and after the fusion with Pixar, in 2006, the Disney Production released the first ever computer-animated feature film: Toy Story

SIGNIFICANCE OF WALT DISNEY

When we hear the name of Walt Disney most of us can’t help to make a little smile: he brought fantasy to all the lives of all of us, parents and children. But Walt Disney has been unique also as a man and here are some important aspects of his life and personality that can be an example to all of us

• He dared to dream big: he had a big dream and went after it.
• He had been a living example of perseverance through difficult times and of  the possibility to still stay positive
• He didn’t hide the fact that life is hard: in fact in every movie he put a character who has to face adversities to reach is dream
• He recognized the importance of family: Mary Poppins was born from a book he read to his daughters
• Money was not his ultimate goal, the fulfillment of his dream was his first aim
• He appealed to the child in all of as remembering to everyone that that sprinkle of magic must never be abandoned even in the darkest of times and even in the elder ages.
• He saw the best in people and he tried to bring this best out of them.
•  He recognized the importance of people: his work is bonded to people, to their dreams, their desires.