The Berlin Wall

by Herminne Tonita - Just after midnight on Sunday, August 13, 1961, trucks rolled through the silent streets of East Berlin. At the border with West Berlin soldiers jumped out and blocked the streets with coils of barbed wire. By morning they had closed off all but twelve of the eighty crossing points to West Berlin. Within days workmen were replacing the barbed wire with a lasting barrier of...

Crash And Depression

by Herminne Tonita - In the heart of New York lies a narrow street enclosed by the walls of a high office building. Its name is Wall Street. One Thursday afternoon in October 1929, a workman outside an upper floor window of a Wall Street office found himself staring into the eyes of four policemen. They reached out to catch hold of him. “Don’t jump!” shouted one of the policemen. “It’s not...

Classrooms with the Writing on the Wall

by Cristina Nuta - Maintaining classroom discipline is a growing problem for many schools. Some children seem incapable of following the rules perhaps because they fell they are unreasonable or unclear. Some teachers have to spend almost half of their course just to make children pay attention or be silent, because some of the classmates behave badly during classes. But there cannot be...

Hadrian's Wall

by Monique Barb - The Roman armies built a massive wall across northern England in order to keep out the Picts who lived in Scotland and Northumberland. The wall was built to the orders of the Emperor Hadrian. By the time Hadrian became Emperor in 117 AD the Roman Empire had ceased to expand. Hadrian was concerned to consolidate his boundaries. He visited Britain in 122 AD, and ordered a...