1. Important images of the XX-XXI centuries

Our lives have changed enormously since the beginning of the XX century. A lot of different events have happened since then, a lot of inventions and discoveries have been made, a lot of great people were born and died during these 110 years. Talking about the important images of the XX century among the main of them I'd name the ideas of communism, being cultivated mostly in the USSR, the ideas of the world supremacy, held by Hitler, the will of reaching and exploring the space, the idea of developing of the wireless communication. The ideas of socialism and communism were deeply affecting Russia for a long time and putting these ideas into practice is connected with the events of the Great October Revolution in 1917 and the name and activities of V.I. Lenin. Owing to him and his comrades everything was changed upside-down in our country, all the classes, all the people had to start living their new lives in hope for achieving communism and creating the better world. Those efforts were later continued by another important hero of the world history - I. Stalin. From my point of view mostly due to them we live in the country as it is at the present time.

Turning to the world history in whole I can't help mentioning the name of A. Hitler, due to whom the World War Two broke out, what later affected the lives of lots of people and countries. The cities were ruined, the works of art were destroyed, many people were killed -everything had to be started from the beginning thus a painful but rather useful push was given to all spheres of our lives.

Another important achievement of that period is getting to the space by the humanity. The first flight, the landing onto the surface of the Moon, all those satellites, spaceships, space stations - a lot of those was achieved for a comparably short period of time and researching of space still remains one of the main fields of the science activities.

And as one of the latest great images I'd like to present the achieved possibility of wireless communications what includes mobile phones, Internet itself and such special computer services as skype and social networks, so here such names as Steve Jobs or Mark Zukerberg come into mind in terms of being the modem heroes. All of those inventions and gadgets are great from my point of view and have totally changed our lives - communicating has become more convenient, easy and fast. Even though some technophobes don't like such changes and say that these inventions simply ruin our social life and all our social relations, I don't believe it. In case you are able to control yourself and understand what is right and important and what is not, no invention or image would harm you and your social life.

So these are the main images of the latest centuries from point of view and how they affected our lives.

2. Healthy food

Food is one of the most important matters in our lives, many things depend on it: the way we look, the way we feel, a friendly meal helps to gather the whole family around the table at the weekend, a lot of decisions, even important ones, can be made by the business partners during the meal. So it's not just the food itself that matters, but also the quality of what we eat, so I'd like to talk about my attitude towards different types of food.

First of all I'd like to discuss one of the most popular types of food nowadays which is fast food and all those numerous snacks similar to it. Such things are very convenient of course: they are fast and easy to get, they are convenient to eat and, as a rule, they are rather cheap -let's say eating in a restaurant or in cafe everyday would be much more expensive. But no matter how convenient it is, fast food isn something that has proved to be a healthy type of food. Different researches show that fast food, chips, chocolate bars and so on contain great amounts of useless and fatty components, in the batter case, but in the worst one they can even damage your health. For example, there's a lot of salt in all the meals sold in McDonalds which isn't good at all. Though hardly anybody will argue that fast food products are comparatively tasty, so for sure you can afford yourself eating them from time to time.

And now let's turn to our national cuisine, the Russian one. From a distant view it seems to be rather well balanced: there're all the different types of products used in it. Vegetables, fruit, several kinds of meat, fish, dairy products - it seems that Russian people can afford themselves a great variety of different types of dishes consisting of all the kinds of food. But taking a closer look at each of the dishes the picture won't seem so miraculous already: in many dishes a lot of butter, oil, ketchup and mayonnaise are used and that is extremely bad and sometimes even dangerous for your health. So the Russian cuisine isn't something I'd call a healthy thing at all.

And at last, talking about the recipes of some healthy dishes I can't say I really know or fond of any of them. But I'd like to give some advice about cooking healthy, as much as possible. The main point is: try excluding or replacing all the "bad" components as far as possible. Try yogurt or sour cream instead of mayonnaise, use as little butter and oil as possible or replace them with olive oil at least, try not using sugar and salt at all. And try cooking yourself and eating home-made food as often as possible - that's much healthier and tastier that having meal somewhere else, especially in fast food cafes.

So, this is how I see the problem of healthy and unhealthy food, though someone can disagree with my point of view.