My trip to Turkey by Meena Badran

                       My trip to Turkey

Last summer, I traveled with my family to Istanbul  for a week. We spent beautiful  moments visiting touristic attractions like Topkapi Palace. It’s an amazing and huge palace. There are different buildings and many rooms where the king and queen lived with other royal family members. We also visited many mosques and churches like Hagia Sofya. Hagia Sofya was a Greek Orthodox church later an imperial mosque and now a museum. Istanbul is a beautiful city rich in history and culture. It was an amazing trip and a great experience.  

Meena Badran

3eme1

lebanon by ali ghaddar

Lebanon officially known as the Lebanese Republic is a sovereign state in Western Asia. It is bordered by Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, whilst Cyprus is west across the Mediterranean Sea. Lebanon's location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian hinterland facilitated its rich history and shaped a cultural identity of religious and ethnic diversity.^[9] At just 10,452 km² (4,036 sq. mi.), it is the smallest recognized country on the entire mainland Asian continent.

thanksgiving by ali ghaddar

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated in Canada, in the United States and in some of the Caribbean islands. It was originally celebrated as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Similar harvest festival holidays occur in Germany and Japan. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Several other places around the world observe similar celebrations. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated in a secular manner as well.

christmas by ali ghaddar

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed most commonly on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christianliturgical year, it is prepared for by the season of Advent or the Nativity Fast and initiates the season of Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve daysand culminates on Twelfth Night;^[13] in some traditions, Christmastide includes an Octave. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world's nations, is celebrated culturally by a large number of non-Christian people,^[1][18][19] and is an integral part of the holiday season, while some Christian groups reject the celebration. In several countries, celebrating Christmas Eve on December 24 has the main focus rather than December 25, with gift-giving and sharing a traditional meal with the family.

Apple IPhone sales set to pass 1B milestone by Meena Badran

                                Apple IPhone sales set to pass 1B milestone

In a rare achievement for any consumer electronics company, Apple is about to sell its billionth IPhone. According to Benedict Evans, partner at venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, half of the IPhone’s total has been sold in the past two years. Mr. Evans added that Apple had sold a total of 397m IPods when it stopped reporting sales in 2014, while the IPhone is close to the 1.1bn unit output of the entire Japanese digital camera industry from 1999 to 2015. “The cumulative number of PC sold since 1981 was to pass 5bn this year, while Nokia at its speak in 2010 sold 454m mobile phones in a single years,” Mr. Evens continued.

Always according to Evens, Microsoft wanted to put a computer on every desk, the vision of the smart phone is now a computer in every pocket. Nonetheless, the Apple landmark comes at a time when the drive is flagging for the nine-year-old smartphone. This is said because Analysts expect IPhone unit sales to be about 15 to 18 percent lower than the same time last year. Apple chief executive Tim Cook explained this by saying that by the “strong macroeconomic headwinds, which is causing some customers to hold on to older devices for longer, as well as low-cost competition in Asia and a resurgent Samsung, whose Galaxy S7 is out selling the IPhone 6s in the US.”

Source: THE DAILY STAR, Lebanon

Original article by Tim Bradshaw

Meena Badran, 3eme1

Halloween by Meena Badran

         

           Halloween

 

What is Halloween?

Halloween but also known as Summer’s End and Witches Night Snap-Apple), is a holiday that is celebrated annually on the night of October 31. It originated in Ireland, and is celebrated in quite a few countries including Ireland itself, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden among others.

 What do we do on Halloween?

Halloween, is celebrated in a variety of ways and activities including trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, "haunted house" tours, carving pumpkins (Jack-o'-lanterns) and reading / watching scary stories / movies. So that’s why we enjoy this event.

 Trick or treating:

Trick or treating is a Halloween custom for children in many countries. Children in costumes travel from house to house asking for treats such as candy…

Halloween costumes:

Halloween costumes are costumes worn on or around Halloween. An early reference to wearing costumes at Halloween comes from Scotland in 1585. Halloween costumes have tended to be worn mainly by young people, but since the mid-20^th century they have been increasingly worn by adults also.

History of Halloween Costumes:

The wearing of costumes at Halloween may come from the belief that supernatural beings, or the souls of the dead, roamed the earth at this time.

Halloween costume parties:

Halloween costume parties generally take place on or around October 31, often on the Friday or Saturday prior to the holiday.

Meena Badran

3eme1

halloween by ali ghaddar

Halloween is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It begins the three-day observance of Allhallowtide,^[9] the time in the liturgical yeardedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed.