11.Internship

This post we should write about internship, based on two texts. The first one is “Take This Internship and Shove It” and the second “No Pay?  Many Interns Say, ‘No Problem’”. These texts support two different points of view: should the internship be paid or unpaid. I think that both opinions are partly right.

Firstly, during work students get many very useful skills and knowledge required for their future work. So this experience even without salary is profitable for students finished internship. Secondly, I suppose that students after internship get higher salaries, than students who finished magistracy and decided not to continue their education. So, in my opinion it is right that internship is unpaid, because it will pay off itself in future. 

From the other side, when employers choose which student to hire: a magister with quite high salary or a magister studying in the internship without salary, I think, employers will choose seconds, because it’s more profitable for them. The author of the first text writеs the same thing about this problem: “They create an oversupply of people willing to work for low wages, or in the case of interns, literally nothing”. 

I think, that unpaid internship has as advantageous as disadvantages, so I can’t support at all any of these points of view.

10. The New Year

If you ask Russian which holiday is his or her favorite, he or she with a high probability will say that it is the New Year. In my opinion, it's the most popular and famous holiday in Russia. As you guess the New Year is celebrating at night from 31^st December to 1^st January, and unlike Christmas in Europe or America it has nothing common with religious holidays. 

At the New Year all Russians buy a fir-tree and put on it many different colorful toys, those toys are mostly are made of glass, but sometimes you can find even a wooden toy on a fir-tree. There is also a luminous garland on it. The New Year is considered to be a family holiday. The whole family gathers around the table, eats different tasty things, communicates and decides was the last year good or not. After that, at 12.00 pm whole family listens the president’s speech and counts punches of one of Kremlin’s towers clock. When there were twelfth punch, all drink a full glass of champagne, make a wish and congratulate each other. There are many beautiful fireworks at the streets, so most people go out and shoot their own fireworks and watch fireworks of others. There is also another one nice New Year tradition. If there are little children in family a Father Frost and his granddaughter Snegurochka is invited (in Russian he is called Ded Moroz). Father Frost asks children to sing him a song, or to tell a poem, or to dance. Then Ded Moroz and Snegurocka give children their presents (of course, if they were good and obedient children this year).

So, the New Year is very cool holiday and everyone likes it very much.

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Unfortunately, I've never been in the USA, so I decided to compare Russia and Italy. 

1. People. When you arrive to Italy the first thing that you mention is always smiling and very emotional people. They talk loudly, with expressive intonation and many gestures. It’s a bit strange for Russian people, because in our culture it’s considered that people with good manners speak quietly and patiently; it’s very impolite to speak in a raised voice with others, of course, if they are not your friends.  Also in Russia it’s difficult to find a smiling man in Russia, especially in metro. All people are gloomy, tired and dissatisfied there. But in Italy you can see many smiling people in the streets, even if they are walking along.

2. The weather, climate and landscape. I like Italian climate very much. In summer it’s warm, sometimes hot, and always sunny. Winters are not as cold as Russian’s. Also there is a sea in Italy, and that’s why the air is wetter and fresher there. In European part of Russia the landscape is very flat, everywhere are plains. Of course, there are many plains in Italy too, but the terrain is hillier, and in north and west part of the country you can see quite high mountains.

3. Cities and towns. There are so narrow streets in Italian cities, except Rome. Also there is too little space and, as in others Europeans cities, there are no roads between buildings. Buildings in Russia more modern and mostly higher than in Italy. In Italy you can see many beautiful historical buildings preserved from Roman times.

I love Italy very much, but I think Russia is more suited to me.

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