Our planet Earth is only a tiny part of the universe, but nowadays it's the only place where we can live. People always polluted their surroundings. But until now pollution was not such a serious problem. For thousands of years people lived in harmony with environment and it seemed to them that natural riches were unlimited. But with the development of civilization man's interference in nature began to increase.

Our ecology becomes worse and worse with every new day. People destruct wildlife, cut down trees to make furniture. They forget that people can’t leave without trees and plants, because they fill air with oxygen. The thing is the deterioration of the environment is telling heavily on people. They are paying for this with their health. And it is obvious what all people need is a healthy environment.

If I were a famous designer I would create fashion bags. This bags would be with name «Save the Earth» I have some examples of bags.

They are able used many (for) many times. They will be a lot of kinds of my ecobags. For example for shopping, Lunch, Printed, Produce, Spa and Travel Bags. If you are intresting of it u may visit this site http://www.ecobags.com/. In this site u have a possibility to buy ecobags. It is not very expencive. If my memory south me right the price is 3 dollars.

There are many negatives of using packets. For example: there are many animals and birds who it pacets and then died. If you use ecobag you limit about 10 gr. a year.

 Though the role of people in the solution of ecological problems has greatly increased, we can't say that we are doing all in our power, to stop harmful processes in preserving the environment. The folowing radical measures must be taken: 1. The replanting of trees that have been cut down; 2. Nuclear tests should be stopped; 3. Purificution systems must be installed at plants and factories; 4. Natural resources should be used more rationally; 5. Rare and dying out birds, animals and plant's should be protected; 6. Precaution measures should be taken against the destruction of the ozone layer.

Of course, people are working to make the earth cleaner, but they must do more. What can people do to make earth cleaner? Factories must stop polluting air, rivers and lakes with waste products and chemicals. They must work on it more. Lakes and rivers must be cleaned and kept clean. Environmental problems concern everyone. We should remember that everyone can do something to solve them. We all want to live in a clean world. We have the time, the money and even the technology to make our planet a better, cleaner and safer place. We can plant trees and create parks for endangered species. We can recycle litter. Individuals and groups of people can work together to persuade enterprises to stop polluting activities.

People all over the world are fond of sports and games.

Sport makes people healthy, keeps them fit, more organized and better disciplined.

It unites people of different classes and nationalities. Many people do sports on their personal initiative. They go in for skiing, skating, table tennis, swimming, volley-ball, football, body-building, etc.

All necessary facilities are provided for them: stadiums, sport grounds, swimming pools, skating rinks, skiing stations, football fields.

Sport is paid much attention to in our educational establishments. Gymnastics is a part of children's daily activities in the kindergartens. Physical culture is ч compulsory subject at schools and colleges.

Professional sport is also paid much attention to in our country. In city, where I live, there are different sporting societies, clubs and complexes.

Practically all kinds of sports are popular in our country, but football, gymnastics and tennis enjoy the greatest popularity. As for me, I go in for table tennis (ping-pong). It needs mobility, liveliness and much energy. It keeps a person in a good form. I have been playing tennis for five years, but the more I play, the more I like it. I get a real joy taking part in competitions or simply playing with my friends. Sometimes, I go to tennis courts.

Certainly, there's a great distance between my manner of playing and such favourites as Jim Courier, Stephan Edberg, Pete Sampras, Boris Becker, Per Korda, but I do my training with great pleasure and hope to play as well as our best players do.

Sport is probably as old as the humanity itself. It has been developing with the developing and growth of the mankind. All over the world people of different ages are very fond of sports and games.

Sport not only helps people to become strong and to develop physically but also makes them more organized and better disciplined in their daily activities. It makes for a healthy mind in a healthy body. Sports help people to keep in good health.

We all need to exercise. Even if you don't plan to make a career in sport you still have to practice. Regular exercises give you more energy. That is why many people who suffer from general tiredness should take more exercise than more rest.

Exercise makes you feel and look better.

The best exercise is one which involves in repeated movements, those are: walking, jogging or swimming. Bending and stretching will add flexibility and feeling of lightness.

Among the sports popular in our country are football, basketball, swimming, volleyball, ice hockey, tennis, gymnastics, figure skating. A person can choose sports and games for any season, for any taste.

Let me tell you about my own attitude to sports and sportsmen.

To begin with I must say that sport is one of the things that always keep people fit. 1 think that everyone must do all he can to be healthy. Physically inactive people get older earlier than those who have plenty of exercises. If you do daily exercises regularly you feel refreshed, have a good posture and that makes you feel well.

Wise people say that good health is a great blessing. Everyone should do all possible to stay healthy. Being in good health means having both body and mind in good working order free from diseases and pain.

There is a truthful Latin proverb: "A sound mind is in a sound body". If you want to keep yourself fit, you are to go in for sports.

Sport is very popular in our family. Together with my father we do our usual morning exercises at home and twice a week we have our basketball training in the sports club and in summer we like to swim most of all, because swimming makes a man healthy and strong.

I'm a hockey fan, too. I try to watch every hockey match on TV. Moreover I take part in different sports competitions which our school organizes from time to time. The most popular kinds of sport in our school are football, basketball, gymnastics, and wrestling. Some boys are also fond of boxing. Among girls callisthenics is very popular. All these sports have their strong supporters.

My favourite kind of sport is tennis. I have been playing it since I was eleven years old, and the more I play it, the more I like it.

Mona Lisa

  Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo) is a portrait by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is a painting in oil on a poplar panel, completed circa 1503–1519. It is on permanent display at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

The painting is a half-length portrait and depicts a seated woman, Lisa del Giocondo, whose facial expression has been frequently described as enigmatic.The ambiguity of the subject's expression, the monumentality of the composition, and the subtle modeling of forms and atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work. The image is widely recognised, caricatured, and sought out by visitors to the Louvre, and it is considered the most famous painting in the world

Leonardo Da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 or 1504 in Florence, Italy.According to Da Vinci's contemporary, Giorgio Vasari, "...after he had lingered over it four years, left it unfinished...."It is known that such behavior is common in most paintings of Leonardo who, later in his life, regretted "never having completed a single work".

He is thought to have continued to work on Mona Lisa for three years after he moved to France and to have finished it shortly before he died in 1519. Leonardo took the painting from Italy to France in 1516 when King François I invited the painter to work at the Clos Lucé near the king's castle in Amboise. Most likely through the heirs of Leonardo's assistant Salai, the king bought the painting for 4,000 écus and kept it at Château Fontainebleau, where it remained until given to Louis XIV. Louis XIV moved the painting to the Palace of Versailles. After the French Revolution, it was moved to the Louvre. Napoleon I had it moved to his bedroom in the Tuileries Palace; later it was returned to the Louvre. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) it was moved from the Louvre to the Brest Arsenal.

There has been much speculation regarding the painting's model and landscape. For example, that Leonardo probably painted his model faithfully since her beauty is not seen as being among the best, "even when measured by late quattrocento (15th century) or even twenty-first century standards." Some art historians in Eastern art, such as Yukio Yashiro, also argue that the landscape in the background of the picture was influenced by Chinese paintings; however, this thesis has been contested for lack of clear evidence.

Mona Lisa was not well known until the mid-19th century when artists of the emerging Symbolist movement began to appreciate it, and associated it with their ideas about feminine mystique. Critic Walter Pater, in his 1867 essay on Leonardo, expressed this view by describing the figure in the painting as a kind of mythic embodiment of eternal femininity, who is "older than the rocks among which she sits" and who "has been dead many times and learned the secrets of the grave."

Aesthetics

Leonardo used a pyramid design to place the woman simply and calmly in the space of the painting. Her folded hands form the front corner of the pyramid. Her breast, neck and face glow in the same light that models her hands. The light gives the variety of living surfaces an underlying geometry of spheres and circles. Leonardo referred to a seemingly simple formula for seated female figure: the images of seated Madonna, which were widespread at the time. He effectively modified this formula in order to create the visual impression of distance between the sitter and the observer. The armrest of the chair functions as a dividing element between Mona Lisa and the viewer.

The woman sits markedly upright with her arms folded, which is also a sign of her reserved posture. Only her gaze is fixed on the observer and seems to welcome him to this silent communication. Since the brightly lit face is practically framed with various much darker elements (hair, veil, shadows), the observer's attraction to it is brought to even greater extent. The woman appears alive to an unusual measure, which Leonardo achieved by his new method not to draw the outlines, "mainly in two features: the corners of the mouth, and the corners of the eyes" (Gombrich), as firmly as that had been the use, before (sfumato)There is no indication of an intimate dialogue between the woman and the observer as is the case in the Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (Louvre) painted by Raphael about ten years later, and undoubtedly influenced by the work.

Detail of Lisa's hands, her right hand resting on her left. Leonardo chose this gesture rather than a wedding ring to depict Lisa as a virtuous woman and faithful wife.

The painting was among the first portraits to depict the sitter before an imaginary landscape and Leonardo was one of the first painters to use aerial perspective. The enigmatic woman is portrayed seated in what appears to be an open loggia with dark pillar bases on either side. Behind her a vast landscape recedes to icy mountains. Winding paths and a distant bridge give only the slightest indications of human presence. The sensuous curves of the woman's hair and clothing are echoed in the undulating imaginary valleys and rivers behind her. The blurred outlines, graceful figure, dramatic contrasts of light and dark, and overall feeling of calm are characteristic of Leonardo's style. Owing to the expressive synthesis that Leonardo achieved between sitter and landscape it is arguable whether Mona Lisa should be considered as a traditional portrait, for it represents an ideal rather than a real woman. The sense of overall harmony achieved in the painting—especially apparent in the sitter's faint smile—reflects the idea of a link connecting humanity and nature.

Mona Lisa has no clearly visible eyebrows or eyelashes. Some researchers claim that it was common at this time for genteel women to pluck these hairs, as they were considered unsightly. In 2007, French engineer Pascal Cotte announced that his ultra high resolution scans of the painting provide evidence that Mona Lisa was originally painted with eyelashes and with better visible eyebrows, but that these had gradually disappeared over time, perhaps as a result of overcleaning. For modern viewers the nearly-missing eyebrows add to the slightly semi-abstract quality of the face.

I have a best friend=) And I would like to tell u about her.

We study at the sаme school and form.

Now, some words about her appearance.

Her figure is slim and her face is round and pretty.

Her hair is fair and wavy. She has got freckles. She has beuatiful eyes. They are blue. I like how she smiles, becouse her smile is nice and pleasant. 

And some words about her style.

She does not like sport style of clouthes. She prefers casual style.

I would like to tell u about her interests. She likes english lessons so much. We both like to play computer games and cook.

I think u have the idea who it is ??

Myrhorod

Myrhorod is situated on the picture-sque banks of the Khorol River in Poltava region, in the centre of Ukraine. The first mention of Myrhorod dates back to the 15-th centery. Myrhorod district was formed in 1923.
The territory of our district is rich in oil, gas, peat, clay and curative mineral water. Our town is famous for its health-resort.  The health-resort was founded by I. Zubkovsky.  Along the banks of the Khorol river there are buildings of sanstorium.
Modern Myrhorod is a small town with a population of 43 thousand people. Myrhorod is a famous historical town. That's why many people visit it every year to go seightseeing. Many famous people and outstanding writers lived and visited Myrhorod. There are many monuments to prominent people. Myrhorod is the homeland of an outstanding writer M. Hohol. The centrel street is named after Hohol. It is wide, beatiful and a straight streer, fukk of green trees. flowers, bushes and chestnuts.
Myrhorod is also a cultural center. There are 4 museums. 2 chuches, many monuments, 7 schools, ceramic college and several libraries.
I am proud of my town. Day by day it becomes more beatiful.

My Jerry

I want to tell the story aboutcat Jerry. He is very playful. Lumps of fluffy golden-white with blue eyes. But gradually the magical little kitten become a trained adult cat. Now he does not subordinated: he was an independent and important. We jokingly nicknamed him "the intellectual". When the spring we brought him to the grandmother in the village, he experienced a shock - sat on settee more days.

 Before my arrival two months already feel at home. Later, my grandmother told me how his neighbor's cat drove at the very top branch of a pear tree. Woman awakened by screams and ran to help Jerri .He taking a leap of wood, but sprained leg. I had my grandmother take care of Jerry. He passed a week. There was a day of rain, the streets were dirty, and Jerry had come to the walk. One had to see this picture as he exposed forward bandaged paw, jumping in the rain on ridges - walks.

 There are many funny stories happened to Jerry. He drove from its territory all strange cats. He also learned to catch mouses.  I decided to leave Jerry with my grandmother. There a better and more fun for him.

New Year's Party

Hallo Max!☺

How are you? Do you have already festival mood? In a few days will be a New Year and I want to organize a party. Could you help me with it? I want to organize this party at my home. So I have to do many things. Such us: decorate house and New Years tree, cook different tastes dishes, clean the house and send-out invitations to our friends and classmates. Do you help me to cook food, because I must to clean house and buy a New Years tree.I have many interesting games for this party. Can you by a new CD’s with New Years songs?

Write back soon.

Best wishes,

Anna