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Paolo Maldini

By Dionysis Stathopoulos Kostas Sorras Nasos Rallis Andreas Anagnostopoulos

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Paolo Maldini is widely regarded as one of the greatest defenders in the history of football. Born on June 26, 1968, in Milan, Italy, Maldini spent his entire professional career with AC Milan, becoming an iconic figure for the club. Known for his exceptional positional awareness, tackling ability, and composure on the ball, he played primarily as a left back or center-back. Maldini’s loyalty to AC Milan is exemplified by his staggering 25-year career at the club, during which he amassed numerous individual awards and contributed significantly to the team’s success.

Maldini’s illustrious career includes seven Serie A titles and five UEFA Champions League triumphs with AC Milan. He captained the side for over a decade, leading by example both on and off the pitch. Renowned for his sportsmanship and fair play, Maldini was a respected figure throughout the footballing world. His defensive prowess and leadership qualities also earned him 126 caps for the Italian national team, participating in four FIFA World Cups and three UEFA European Championships.

Beyond his on-field achievements, Paolo Maldini left a lasting legacy for aspiring footballers. His commitment, longevity, and consistent high-level performance have solidified his place as a footballing legend.Maldini retired in 2009 but remains an influential figure in the sport, serving as a director at AC Milan, continuing to contribute to the club’s success.

 

HOW TO MAKE HOMEMADE BAO-BUNS

By   Christos Kremmidas and Konstantinos Vassios

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Our names are Christos Kremmidas and Konstantinos Vassios and we want to share with you a simple way to make perfect, fluffy bao-buns, a kind of bread with Chinese origin. This type of bread is difficult to make at home, due to the fact that in order to be cooked, it needs to be steamed. Despite this difficulty, Christos managed to find a clever solution which will be revealed later on.

 

To begin with, the ingredients needed to make 12 bao-buns are the following:

  • 500 grams hard wheat flour
  • 8 grams dry yeast
  • 50 grams powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 150 grams cold water
  • 100 grams full-fat cold milk
  • 50 grams heavy cream (35%), frozen
  • 50 grams sunflower oil for greasing + extra 2 tablespoons
  • Water for the steam

 

These are the steps needed to make this fantastic bread:

  1. In the mixer bowl, combine the flour, yeast, powdered sugar, baking powder, and salt, and mix with a spoon.
  2. Add the water, milk, heavy cream, sunflower oil, and beat with the hook attachment at medium speed for 20 minutes.
  3. Transfer the dough to a greased bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and let it rise for 1-1 ½ hours until it doubles in size.
  4. Place the dough on a floured surface and roll it out with a rolling pin to a size of 30×40 cm. If it sticks, sprinkle with more flour.
  5. Cut into 10 cm circles using a cutter and transfer them to a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Cover with a towel and let them rise for 20 minutes.
  6. Now, it is time to reveal Christos’ solution! Because he knows that most people do not own a steamer specially made for bao buns, he decided to make his own and this is the way to do it yourselves. Inside a large pot, put three identical “balls” of aluminum foil and fill the pot with just 300ml of water. After that, place a plate on top of the balls of aluminum foil and let the water boil.
  7. When the water has boiled, oil the circles of dough, fold them in half and place them on the plate inside of the pot.
  8. After 15 minutes, the bao buns are ready to be enjoyed with some meat and vegetables.

We hope that you try our recipe and it works perfect for you as well!

 

European Union Principles

This article presents the project work made by students of our school that this school year have been Junior Ambassadors in the «European Parliament School Ambassadors» programme.

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By Chris Deldimos (B Class)

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By Anna Papachristou (B Class)

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European Day of Languages 2021: 20 years celebrating linguistic and cultural diversity

Throughout Europe, 800 million Europeans are represented in the Council of Europe’s 47 member states and all are encouraged to discover more languages at any age, as part of or alongside their studies. This stems from the Council of Europe’s conviction that linguistic diversity is a tool for achieving greater intercultural understanding and a key element in the rich cultural heritage of our continent. Therefore, the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg, promotes plurilingualism in the whole of Europe.  At the Council of Europe’s initiative, the European Day of Languages has been celebrated every year since 2001 on 26 September – together with the European Commission. [Source: https://edl.ecml.at/Home/tabid/1455/language/en-GB/Default.aspx].

To celabrate European Languages Day, apart from visiting the relevant portal, doing various quizzes and activities and participating in the «logo for T-shirt» contest, this year we participated in an unusual and quite interesting language CHALLENGE!

We invented new words (neologisms/coinages) in English and we have been trying to «advertise/promote» them among our friends and through Social Media, aiming at making them popular and hoping that one day they might be included in the Dictionary!!!

Read our words in alphabetical order in the following link:  https://blogs.sch.gr/marisach/archives/315

Zodiac Signs: their strengths and weaknesses

The Peculiar World of Mental Disorders

  By Koytra Eleni, Pantazopoulou Andriani & Chatzi Aggeliki 

 

A mental disorder, also called a mental illnessor psychiatric disorder, is a disease that causes mild to severe disturbances in thought and/or behavior, resulting in an inability to cope with life’s ordinary demands and routines. The use of the term «mental» (i.e., of the mind) is not necessarily meant to imply separateness from brain or body. There are many different categories of mental disorders, such as:

  • Anxiety disorders: In which anxiety, irrational stress, or fear interfere with the sufferer’s normal functioning. Most well-known of this category are  phobias, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and  post-traumatic stress disorder.
  • Mood disorders: In which certain affective (mood/emotion) processes are damaged. Well-known examples of such disorders are major depression (also known as unipolar or clinical depression), bipolar disorder and dysthymia.
  • Psychotic disorders:  In which patterns of belief, language use and perception of reality can become disordered. Most common are schizophrenia and delusional disorder
  • Personality disorders: In which the fundamental characteristics of a person that influence thoughts and behaviors across situations and time are damaged for a long period of time. There are three main sub-categories of personality disorders:
  • The «eccentric», such as paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders
  • The «dramatic» or «emotional», such as antisocial, borderline, histrionic or narcissistic personality disorders
  • The  fear-related, such as anxious-avoidant, dependent, or obsessive-  compulsive personality disorders
  • Eating disorders:  In which the patient develops a disproportionate concern in matters of food and weight. Some such disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, exercise bulimia and binge-eating disorder.
  •  Sleep disorders such as insomnia, which involve disruption to normal sleep patterns, or a feeling of tiredness despite sleep appearing normal
  • Impulse control disorders: In which the sufferer is abnormally unable to resist certain urges or impulses that could be harmful to themselves or others. Most well-known from this category are kleptomania, pyromania and certain types of addiction.
  • Substance use disorders: In which a person is dependent on/abusing mostly illegal substances, such as alcohol, drugs or cigarettes
  • Dissociative identity disorders: In which the patient experiences severe disturbances of their self-identity, memory and general awareness of themselves and their surroundings. Most common are depersonalization disorderDissociative Identity Disorder (which has also been called multiple personality disorder, or «split personality”), amnesia and dementia.
  • Developmental disorders: They manifest during childhood. Most common are autism spectrum disorders, such as oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
 

  Now we are going to focus on some peculiar and rare mental disorders, which can be so singular and perplexing that they weren’t even accepted as legitimate disorders until recently. Some change the way language is used and perceived. Other unusual disorders do the same to vision or motor skills. And some are so bizarre that they alter a patient’s accent or make them believe they’re an entirely different species. Sufferers of these illnesses can lose control of their limbs, see afterimages everywhere, think their loved ones are imposters, and – in one inexplicable case – are made violently ill by the sound of one TV news anchor’s voice.

  • Aboulomania: This generally unknown mental disorder is characterized by crippling indecision, or as psychiatrists calls it, “paralysis of the will.” Sufferers of aboulomania appear mentally normal in all aspects of life. Yet, when faced with simple life choices like whether to wear a jacket or not, they run into major psychological problems to the point that they experience anxiety and may even find it difficult to regain normal function. Many sufferers say their chronic indecision originates from the need for 100% certainty—hence the sufferer can become paralyzed in the inability to fulfill his own free will when confronted with more than one choice. The condition has also been associated with depressive and obsessive-compulsive disorders.

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  • Cotard’s syndrome (walking corpse syndrome): is a specific nihilistic delusion named after Jules Cotard, a French neurologist, who first described the condition, which he called le délire de négation (negation delirium), in 1880. The affected person holds the delusional belief that he or she is already dead, does not exist, is putrefying or has lost his or her blood or internal organs. It is most frequently observed in patients with psychotic depression or schizophrenias and is managed by focusing on the treatment of the underlying disorder. In 2015 a seventeen-year-old girl from Alabama overcame this disorder with the help of Disney movies. She had thought she was dead for three years and only became convinced that she was alive only because of the warm and fuzzy feeling she got from watching Disney cartoons

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  • Capgrass syndrome: Named after a French psychiatrist who described the illusion of doubles, capgrass syndrome is a delusion of misidentification. which manifests as a reoccurring false perception that an acquaintance (usually a spouse or family member) has been replaced by an identical impostor or group of impostors. Capgras syndrome occurs most often in patients with schizophrenia, although it has also been reported in patients with dementia or epilepsy and after traumatic brain injury. It is also more common amongst women than men. In 2011, a woman refused to pick up her daughter from school because, as she insisted, the teachers should give her her “real child” back instead of the “fake”.

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  • Fregoli syndrome: It’s the inverse of Capgras syndrome, named after the Italian actor Leopoldo Fregoli, who was renowned for his ability to make quick changes of appearance during his stage act. It is also a delusion of misidentification and is characterized by a person’s delusional belief that persecutors or familiar people can assume the guise of strangers, in that different people are in fact a single person who changes his or her appearance or who appears in disguise. As in Capgras syndrome, Fregoli syndrome occurs most often in patients with schizophrenia, although it has also been reported in patients with dementia or epilepsy and after traumatic brain injury.

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  • Alien hand syndrome: Also known as “Dr. Strangelove Syndrome”, after the mad scientist unable to control his Nazi-saluting arm in the Stanley Kubrick film, this rare disorder is the misattribution and belief that one’s hand does not belong to oneself, but that it has its own life. The afflicted person has normal sensation but believes that the hand, while still being a part of their body, is acting autonomously, having «a will of its own.» In effect, afflicted people lose the sense of «ownership» of the limb, while often personifying it, believing it to be «possessed» by some spirit or entity. There is a clear distinction between the behaviors of the 2 hands in which the affected hand is viewed as «wayward» while the unaffected hand is under normal volitional control. Alien hand syndrome is usually caused by stroke or other brain damage, particularly in the areas of the corpus callosum, or frontal or parietal lobes. Such a condition can often be traumatic for the sufferer who is terrified that their rogue arm might start exhibiting inappropriate behavior in public, like groping others or manipulating objects or tools. “I would make a telephone call and this hand would hang up the phone…I would light a cigarette and this one would put it out. I would be drinking coffee and this hand would dump it,” patient Karen Byrne described

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  • Autophagia (Self cannibalism/autosarcophagy/Lesch-Nyhan syndrome): It is a disorder in which a person exhibits self-mutilating behavior or less commonly the consumption of his own body parts in a rare condition called autosarcophagy.  Lesch-Nyhan affects the joints, muscles and brain of the sufferer as a result of the overproduction of uric acid in the body, leading to compulsive lip and finger biting in the majority of cases. Consequently, in 60 percent of cases, patients have to have their teeth removed to prevent them from biting off their lips, cheeks and tongues. The condition, occurring almost exclusively in boys, has been related to impulse control disorders in general and can range from mild to life threatening. One example of autophagia is the case of one man whose condition apparently began by merely biting his own nails—but ended up with such a problem that he severely mutilated his fingers.

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  • Lycanthropy: Sufferers of the psychopathological phenomenon Lycanthropy actually believe they are an animal or at least being transformed into one. The condition is often classified as a self-identity disorder subdivided into various types. Scientists believe the disorder can originate in a dream before enveloping the entire awakened mind of the individual. Boanthropy is an aspect of this strange delusional disorder whereby a person believes himself to be a cow or an ox. Some people think that the disorder usually starts out as a dream and goes on to pervade the waking mind, eventually taking hold as a full-blown delusion. It’s possible that the condition can be induced by hypnotism, provided that the subject is more than a little suggestible. Nebuchadnezzar, King of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, is generally thought to have suffered from this condition—at least according to the Book of Daniel, which states that he “was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen.”

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  • Foreign accent syndrome: Is a very rare disorder characterized by the sudden and unexpected appearance of a seemingly “foreign” accent, which often occurs after some kind of brain injury like a stroke or head injury. The sufferer will begin speaking her native language in a foreign tongue. There have been 50 recorded cases of this syndrome, which apparently has no clear cause or cure, since the 1940s. The condition can last a few hours or become permanent. Imagine being born British only to one day wake up with a Chinese accent. That is exactly what happened to Sarah Colwill, a British woman hospitalized for an intense migraine who after surgery awoke with a Chinese accent, which changed her whole life having to deal with other people’s bewildered reactions and come to terms with her new voice.Linda Walker, 50, recalls waking from a stroke to find that her English Geordie accent had been transformed into a Jamaican one: «I’ve lost my identity, because I never talked like this before. I’m a very different person and it’s strange and I don’t like it,” she told the BBC.

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  • Landau-Kleffner syndrome: Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS) is a rare form of epilepsy, which usually begins in children between 2 and 8 years old and affects both sexes equally, especially children with previous age-appropriate development. The language disorder may start suddenly or slowly. It usually affects the child’s understanding of spoken language the most, although it may affect both understanding speech and speaking ability, or speaking only.

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  • Synesthesia: This neurological phenomenon occurs when stimulation of one sense leads to involuntary experiences in another sense or a “union of the senses,” where for example taste and sound are mixed together. Some people experience colour when they hear sounds or read words and may be able to answer a question like «What color is 4?». This condition is most useful to artists, with Pharrell Williams and Lady Gaga being both famous synesthetes. In some cases, a person may mix sound and taste so that different noises have a taste in any combination. The condition isn’t considered a disease or much of an illness since its effects are not negative. «One thing we have found is that synesthetes are not a different class of people, they simply have more explicit experiences,» Julia Simner, co-author of The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia told the Guardian. «It’s a more extreme manifestation of what all of us experience.”

10  THE DIFFERENT SENSORY AREAS IN THE BRAIN HAVE A STRONGER CONNECTION IN SYNESTHETIC BRAINS  

Here’s an additional explanatory video if you want to get to know more about synesthesia:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEqmNX8uKlA        

 

In conclusion, the human mind never ceases to amaze us with all its complexity. It is the most complex machine ever created; and the most ubiquitous. Although  everyone has one, we still have little to no understanding of how it works. Even its illnesses and flaws can be fascinating. Those listed are only a few of the wonderful yet monstrous things that are likely to happen once something goes wrong with it. We all hope we inspired you to dive further into this peculiar world.    

 

SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/recognizing-warning-signs https://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/rare-psych#4 https://www.alternet.org/personal-health/12-quirky-mental-disorders-you-havent-heard-about https://listverse.com/2013/05/06/10-more-bizarre-psychological-disorders/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPOkuDm7LtM https://www.google.gr/search?q=walking+corpse+syndrome&client=firefox-b-ab&dcr=0&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjf_encyKrYAhVMalAKHY2fDBoQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=635#imgrc=5sWXOMLW4tVQ_M: https://www.google.gr/search?q=capgras+syndrome&client=firefox-b&dcr=0&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi61_aQzKrYAhXQh7QKHRrrABkQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=635#imgrc=WZXewEJw6OQswM: https://www.google.gr/search?q=boanthropy&client=firefox-b&dcr=0&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizlNPQ4qrYAhVIK1AKHRhcBhgQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=635#imgrc=p00p6tB9d6IoeM: https://www.google.gr/search?q=landeau+kleffner&rlz=1C1CHZL_elGB698GB698&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiF8sD607LYAhWJbZoKHXRhDRcQ_AUICigB&biw=1396&bih=690#imgrc=zoYEaDk3-mUIvM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEqmNX8uKlA https://synesthesia.com/blog/index.php/what-is-synesthesia/                

WELCOME TO THE SADDEST SHOW ON EARTH !:(

By Lazana Georgia (A class)

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   One of the most widely debated issues is the exploitation of animals in circuses in order to entertain their audience! Despite the huge applause they get when one of their “impeccable” performances finishes, if people knew about the fact that trainers torture the animals because they want the performance to be perfect, they would never go to circuses again. If they knew that these animals (most of which are illegally taken from their natural habitat to be trained to amuse us) are being seriously harmed every time they are trained, circuses with animals would not even exist. It is highly unfair for animals to participate in such a procedure despite their will. What if the ones who have the title of “trainers” were themselves exposed to such a terrible procedure? What is really hidden under this fake beauty of spectacle? And what can we do so as to put an end to this horror?

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   First of all, they are treated as real “puppets”, because trainers threaten them or make them follow their orders in a violent way, even if they do not want to. The majority of circus elephants are captured in the wild. These wild elephants walk as mamy as 40 miles a day while in their natural habitat. Once captured, they are chained in one place for up to 23 hours a day. Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus brags that its three units travel more than 25,000 miles as the circus tours the country for 11 months each year. Ringling Bros’ own documents state that on average elephants are chained for more than 26 hours straight and are sometimes continually chained for as many as 60 to 100 hours. When the animals arrive at their next destination, instead of being let off the railway cars immediately after arriving at the arena, they are sometimes forced to remain inside for hours despite extreme temperatures. If this isn’t a real torture… We realise that there is no HUMANITY in such practices!

There is something that we have to keep in mind: ANIMALS DO HAVE RIGHTS AND WE HAVE TO RESPECT THEM!

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    In addition, these animals who are too old to “work” or are sick and incapable of completing their trainer’s orders are abandoned, killed or even die before they usually do in their natural habitat. There are many cases when the animals are sold to be used for experiments, or die because of the fact that they are exploited, not fed or given water because their masters are not satisfied.

How unfair is to see these creatures who were born in the nature to be disgraced because they are obligated to follow orders? How pitiful it is to let “humans” torture animals? Sometimes I can see humans but NO humanity!!!

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     Οn the other hand,because of the concern about animal mistreatment, a growing number of communities are banning or restricting the use of animals in circuses. A great idea in order to ban circuses which use animals is for people not to visit them, to organize or attend a protest,
to support legislation protecting circus animals, or to report any possible violations of state and local animal protection laws to the police and animal control groups.

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   Taking all these ideas and arguments into consideration, I personally believe that there is no living organism that truly deserves such a massive pain , such as the one that the circuses’ animals do. Animals have rights and all of us MUST respect them and not exploit them , because we think that we are more powerful , due to the fact that sometimes animals take revenge . I highly take issue with the existence of circuses with animals , but there are no words that can describe the feelings of animals and the are exposed to terrible tortures . So we should perceive their feelings and take meters in order to endorse and protect them before it is too late !

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Source:http://www.lcanimal.org/index.php/campaigns/animals-in-entertainment/circuses

 

 

 

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