A Collection of Thought-Provoking Articles

Are Love-Locks on Bridges Romantic or a Menace?

- because it was a romantic thing to do.

- follows an Italian tradition.

- padlocks are attached mainly on historic bridges.

- when part of a historic bridge fell because of the weight of the locks.

- to prevent the damage that the locks cause.

- are making profits from this epidemic.

- can now be found in a variety of places.

- to assign a place for people to attach their locks.

Esperanto and Universal Communication

- The inventor of an artificial, neutral language.

- an idealist in favour of international understanding.

- creates barriers to common humanity.

- not enthusiastic about a new international language.

- it had been created by a Jewish person.

- it is not the language of any particular community.

- help save a great amount of money.

- shown little interest in the use of Esperanto.

The Right to Vote

- thanks to two women who took legal action for it.

- Women in rural areas had more advantages than urban women.

- the majority of male voters rejected it.

- had been fighting for their rights since the nineteenth century.

- women started taking political posts in local government in the 1960s.

- refused to sign the parts on sexual equality.

- gave equal rights to both men and women.

- in the 1971 referendum, with more than 50% of male voters.

Why Bilinguals Are Smarter

- have better cognitive skills than monolinguals.

- language interference is good because it makes the mind stronger.

- found it similarly easy to classify the figures according to colour.

- bilingual kids were faster at solving the problem.

- Giving directions to people who drive.

- makes you observe the changes around you.

- German-Italian bilinguals did their monitoring tasks better and more efficiently.

- bilinguals developed some mental diseases at a more advanced age.

The Teacher Who Changed My Life

- quite recently.

- was hardly mentioned on the Internet.

- to his strong personality.

- provided the students were at their best.

- he was passionate about educational values.

- He was intolerant with his students’ low standards.

- demanded the best from his pupils.

- on his own in a modest apartment.

Why Kids Bully: Because They’re Popular

- for no apparent reason, just because it is accepted.

- increases with the kids’ popularity.

- in principle any kid may become a bully.

- psychological or background influences are also relevant when considering bullying.

- does not imply a rise in popularity.

- bullying was more frequent between girls than the other way round.

- tended to be more aggressive than other students.

- lies in changing the minds of the majority of kids at school.

Nomophobia: The Biggest Phobia in the World?

- more people are afraid now of being without their mobile phone.

- a big percentage of men have two phones.

- One third of people older than fifty-five are nomophobic.

- has better communication with her family on the phone.

- we should prioritise people over mobile phones.

- lots of people use a phone for business purposes.

- there will be lots more nomophobes in the future.

- Charging the phone’s battery all the time.

The Day I Met the Strange and Inscrutable Steve Jobs

- Steve Jobs hardly ever granted interviews.

- Jobs was a very strict person.

- him quite different from what he had expected.

- still influenced by the incident with the fans

- Jobs simply repeated the same explanation he always gave.

- simply did not answer.

- followed a well-established routine

- difficult to define

Death Sites: How to Log in Your Afterlife

- keep your online profiles safe after your death.

- any kind of personal online information that is kept after your death.

- the user’s beneficiaries can access his/her online profiles.

- is sent by the website to certify the user’s death.

- allows your authorised friends access to your online messages.

There is no site that gives out the passwords of deceased users.

- makes all your digital posthumous legacy available to allowed people.

- divided.

Living in Harmony with the Land

- a dry region badly communicated.

- play an important role in processing food.

- had to face many adverse circumstances.

- has improved in many ways.

- has recovered her old way of life.

- to preserve wildlife and traditional farming.

- to become more autonomous.

- hardship and survival.