Albert Taperek

  Muammar al-Kaddafi was born in 1942 in the northern part of Libya to a Berber family. After graduating from the Libyan military academy he began plotting to overthrow the Libyan monarchy of King Idris I. Few years later, on September 1, 1969, he accomplished his goal when he  seized control of the government in a bloodless military coup  that deposed King Idris. In 1975 he published a book called "The green book" in which he introduced a new ideology- Islamic socialism that  combined the nationalization  of many economic sectors with a brand of populist  government.In 1986 his agents were responsible for several terrorist incidents in Europe e.g. a  bombing of a nightclub used by US soldiers in Berlin. In retaliation,  US President Ronald Reagan ordered air strikes against Tripoli and Benghazi that nearly killed the dictator himself. In February 2011 the civil war in Libya started, and after 10 months of fights between Gaddafi's supporters and r...

Kim Il Sung was the founder of North Korea , who with help of  highly effective propaganda  system enabled him to rule unchallenged for 46 years over one of the world’s most isolated and repressive societies. Kim Sung-Ju (his real name) was born in 1912 in Pyongyang but shortly after his birth his parents decided to move to Manchuria in order to escape the Japanese rule of Korea. While still being a student, Kim joined a communist youth organization and for his activities with the group in 1929-1930, he was arrested. After the Japanese invasion on Manchuria in 1931, Kim joined a guerrilla faction run by the Chinese communists called “ The Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army”. At that time he decided to change his name from Kim Sung-ju to Kim Il Sung. During the World War II when China was losing to Japan many Koreans had to escape to the USSR. The Soviets retrained and formed them into a division of the Red Army. Kim Il-Sung was promoted to the rank of major and fought for the...

  Idi Amin also known as the “Butcher of Uganda” was a Ugandan president, who during his 8 year old regime was responsible for a reign filled with mass killings and disorder. Idi Amin Dada was born in 1925 in Koboko, northwest city in Uganda. As a boy, Amin spent much time tending goats and working in the fields. His mother, an herbalist and diviner, raised him after his father deserted the family. Amin lacked good education so at the age of 21 joined Amin had little formal education before joining the King's African Rifles of the British colonial army in 1946 as an assistant cook. Amin was 193 cm tall and super strong so he quickly impressed his superiors by being a good swimmer and boxer He won the Uganda heavyweight boxing championship in 1951, a title he held for nine years. Before Uganda's independence in 1962, Amin became closely associated with the new nation's prime minister and president, Milton Obote. The two men worked to smuggle gold, coffee and ivory out of C...

  Since announcing plans for the “super green pass”, which takes effect nationally from 6 December and requires people to prove they are vaccinated or have recovered from Covid-19 to access cinemas, theatres, gyms, nightclubs, ski-lifts and stadiums, Italy has reported a significant rise in the number of bookings for first-time jabs. It’s antivaxxers who encouraged by the health pass decided to get vaccinated but still some of them want to have access to all these things without being vaccinated. An Italian man from Biella tried to dodge Covid vaccine wearing fake arm probably bought on Amazon for couple hundreds euros. This crazy idea could actually work out because initially, the health worker did not notice anything odd, as the silicone looked similar to skin. But after taking a closer look and touching the arm it was obvious that the arm was fake an that the  man tried to outsmart the health service. In my opinion, this behaviour was both hilarious and irresponsible. On t...

 Since the beginning of the previous week, I’ve started to notice a worrying thing. Every time I’m on the bus I see a person, most often young, sleeping. This isn’t something unbelievable because it sometimes happens to me too, but it made me curious what are the roots of this problem and how we can solve it. Basically, the root of this problem is pretty easy to find. Overwhelmed with a great number of homework and materials to study kids don’t get enough sleep. It’s even worse when you have a hobby that takes a lot of time. In my opinion, the best way to deal with it is to simply reduce the number of lessons. I know it might sound ridiculous because theoretically, we would have less time to do the material but sometimes the more doesn’t mean the better. I’m sure lessons would be much more effective if students were well-rested and as a result better concentrated.

  My observation, which I am going to write about today, was made on holiday in Stockholm. The whole capital of Sweden made a huge impression on me but the thing that really stuck in my mind was an amazing traffic movement. Lots of bike paths, expanded metro, fewer cars and as the result no traffic jams. This made me think whether it is possible to do something similar in Poland because as we know in big cities, especially in Warsaw, people often struggle with traffic jams and finding a place to park up.   Obviously, it’s easier to implant those things in Sweden as it’s a richer country so their infrastructure is more developed but if created a well-organized plan, these changes could happen in the next years. In my opinion, this plan should consist of creating new bus lanes, bike paths, subway lines and cutting the price of tickets. I know it would cost a lot of money but wasting less time on transport and lowering the level of fumes in the air seems like a decent deal.