- Summary
Government of Italy put abundant cultural heritage on the block to help reduce Italy's vast debts.
On offer were a castle, complete with a surrounding park, a convent and a reputedly haunted island in the Venice lagoon. However, all but one of the properties have been withdrawn from sale after failing to attract sufficiently lucrative offers. Italy hopes to raise more than €6bn over the next three years from the sale of another 40 historic properties and almost 500 others of lesser cultural value. The failure of the inaugural auction, however, raises a string of questions about the methods used to value the properties and whether an online auction is really the best way in which to dispose of them?
Unfortunately, the Guardian was unable to answer any of these questions.
Unfortunately, the Guardian was unable to answer any of these questions.
- Persuasive
I think government of Italy should not sell their nation's treasures for three reasons : wrong method valuing nation's treasures, unprofitability of haunted island, incurring a great loss by pursuring a small profit.
First, online auction is not the best way valuing nation's treasures its historical value because it is only considered economic value more than historical value.
Second, if Italy put their heritages on the block, nobody could buy them such as haunted castle because of their unprofitability.
Third, Italy will be penny-wise and pound-foolish because its historical value will increase as the time goes by.
For these reasons, the government of Italy should not sell their heritages.
- Source
John Hooper, "For sale: Italian castle, haunted island and convent. All offers considered", The Guardian, 0
- Link
<URL> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/04/italian-government-online-sale-luxury-property
2. Americans taught how to 'rap' Italian gestures
- Summary
The US consulate in Milan has released a rap video to teach American citizens - often chided for their poor linguistic skills - the art of Italian hand gestures. Americans in Italy have a bad reputation for failing to learn the beautiful language, with some tourists firing questions at locals in English with little care for linguistic differences. Now the US consulate in Milan has stepped in, going beyond the spoken word and offering a lesson in the art of Italian hand gestures.
- Persuasive
It was so funny after saw this video because of various hand gesture of Italian. When I went to Milan 2 years ago, I communicated some Italian but couldn't see any hand gestures. After watching this video, I thought that being careful to express hand gesture is important because same hand gestures could be different meaning to other country. For example, a hand gesture which means okay in Korea means swearing in Brazil.
- Source
"Americans taught how to 'rap' Italian gestures", The Local, 02 July 2014, eb 07 July 2014
- Link
<URL> http://www.thelocal.it/20140702/americans-taught-italian-hand-gestures-in-rap-video
3. Sperm donor services to start in Italy
- Summary
Public and private clinics in Italy is able to provide egg and sperm donation services after a ban was lifted in April. The fertilization treatment is accessible after mid-June following a ruling by the constitutional court in April, which said that the ban on sperm and egg donors was “unlawful” and “unconstitutional”, ANSA news agency reported. The regulation formed part of Italy’s controversial law on fertility treatment, or the so-called 'Law 40', which has been in place since 2004 and also bans fertility treatment for single people, same-sex couples and women over child-bearing age. Opponents described it as “medieval”, while supporters said it respected the right of the human embryo, preserved the family and ended years of unregulated fertility treatment. Opinion polls suggest that most Italians would like to see the law relaxed.
- Persuasive
I think that the fertilization treatment should be accessible to everybody for three reasons : equality of human rights, suffering of not having a baby, existing various forms of families.
First, all human should not be discriminated because of equal rights to have a baby.
Second, not having a baby is painful although they have a family because they can't gain happiness of baby growing.
Third, there are many forms of families such as homosexual couples, singles.
For these reasons, the fertilization treatment should be allowed to every people.
- Source
"Sperm donor services to start in Italy" , The Local, 04 June 2014, Web 07 July 2014
- Link
<URL>http://www.thelocal.it/20140604/sperm-donor-services-to-start-in-italy
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