Submarine Day - March 17

The submarine day is a day designed to honor and cherish the manned vessel, designed to sail under the sea surface.

On March 17, 1897, Irish engineer John Philip Holland sailed the first submarine in the world off Staten Island, New York. This was not the first time he presented his submarine design. The first was introduced to the United States Navy in 1875, but they rejected his idea because they thought it would not work. He continued to work and improve his submarine, and in 1897 he sailed the first submarine that had the power to sail underwater for a considerable distance, and the first to incorporate electric motors powered by gasoline. Beginning in 1900, the Navy purchased more submarines designed by the Netherlands and the rest is history.

In honor of the submarine day: The Beatles- Yellow Submarine

  

March 17 is also St. Patrick's Day

International Social Work Day - the third Thursday in March

 The International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) 

The Social Work Day was created by the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) and is designed to promote various social issues, strive for social justice, human rights and social development through the promotion of social work, building and using models, best practices and helping to promote international cooperation.

Social work is a profession that deals with social problems and assistance in dealing with them for families, individuals and communities. The purpose of social work is to improve the personal and social functioning of the individual, the family and the community through care, rehabilitation, counseling and guidance.

Social work is based on social values ​​according to which a strong society should help the weak. Social workers represent, mediate and care for people who need help to strengthen them and help them deal with their difficulties.

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The methods in which social work operates are clients from various academic fields such as psychology, sociology, public policy and more.

The history of social work

Social work was created in the wake of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century.

The revolution created a new technological world that required the acquisition of education and new skills to integrate into it. On the one hand, the standard of living has improved thanks to technology, but on the other hand, the cost of living has risen and caused poverty to expand.

Poverty has severely affected society. The extended families who lived together disintegrated into nuclear families (mother, father and children). People moved from the villages to the cities where they suffered from a sense of loneliness and alienation, due to the loss of support of the extended family.

Society became alienated and the traditional family order was violated.

The weak populations were the first to be harmed. Women of the lower working class had to go out to work hard and also take care of the household and take care of their children at the same time. The children had to go out to work to help support the family.

The elderly who were left in villages without their families and communities suffered from loneliness and helplessness.

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Other vulnerable populations that lost support were people with mental retardation, mental disorders and the disabled.

This situation has created a necessary need for frameworks that will take care of the weak and help them. The role was initially taken on by the religious frameworks that cared for charity.

Gradually, voluntary organizations were formed that consisted of middle-class women who helped the weaker sections.

By the end of the 19th century it was already clear that small organizations would not suffice and an orderly profession on behalf of the state was needed. In 1898 the first school of social work was established which turned the volunteers into wage workers on behalf of the state.

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St. Patrick's Day- 17th March

St. Patrick's Day is a Catholic Christian holiday.

Saint Patrick's Day is a holiday of the Irish and their descendants around the world. St. Patrick was a precursor of Christianity in Ireland. He is considered the patron protector of Christians and Irish on March 17th, this is the date of his death more than 1,500 years (he died on March 17, 491), the holiday is celebrated in memory.

Patrick grew up in an ordinary family and at the age of 16, Irish robbers raided his village and took him prisoner along with thousands of other people, to be sold as a slave in Ireland.
Before his capture, he was not observant, but in captivity has strengthened his faith. Over the years he worked in business is especially herders. When he was a loner with sheep, revealed to him according to Christian tradition, religious visions, which encouraged him escape from prison. He escaped from prison and returned to his family at the age of 22. These aromatic UK was chaos. Roman government collapsed, Christianity retreated and the pagan Saxons invaded the island. Patrick appeared in a vision in a dream told him to continue to spread Christianity in Britain. He was able to quickly and determination to organize the few Christians who were on the island, convert the kingdoms of the idols employees, and make the Church of Ireland an integral part of the Christian church in Europe, with headquarters in Rome.

animated gifs for St.Patrick

More St. Patrick's accomplishments:
Patrick founded many monasteries, separated the monks and nuns.
Patrick was among the first who supported the abolition of slavery.
According to Christian belief widely held another extraordinary achievement attributed to Patrick is the expulsion of all the snakes from Ireland, though some attribute this to climate change, and some argue that this is actually the allegory that Druid priests expelled from the island.
 Patrick taught the people of Ireland to the Holy Trinity, according to the common Christian faith, and demonstrated this by cloverleaf triangle, which has since become a symbol of Ireland.

Happy St. Patrick's day greeting cards

March 17 is also Submarine Day

Panda Day - March 16

The panda is a white and black fur ball, with black circles around the eyes and a black tuxedo suit, which when seen really want to hug it tight.

Just kidding, a panda is a bear. A bear that lives in China and likes to eat bamboo.

The history of Panda Day

The announcement of Panda Day grew out of the need to protect these bears. The panda bear, actually called a Giant Panda bear, is a unique and special mammal that lives in mountainous areas in China, such as Sichuan and Tibet.

Towards the end of the 20th century, the Chinese who are not suckers, made the giant panda their national symbol and its figure even appears on Chinese gold coins.

The giant panda is considered a carnivorous animal, but it usually feeds only on plants, mainly bamboo. He can eat everything, including eggs, insects, fish and more, but to be happy he only needs bamboo all day.

How to celebrate Panda Day?

If you are in a place that has pandas, go visit them. Do not throw snacks or soft drinks in cans or bottles because it is really bad. Give them bamboo as they like and a hug.

If you are in a place where there are no panda bears, then remember that there is always a chance that one day you will meet a panda bear at a zoo abroad, or in China, and in the meantime settle for panda bears, or shirts with panda prints, watch cute videos with Panda bears that is plentiful online, draw a panda bear and paint it in panda colors, watch the movie Kung Fu Panda and in short, everything related to panda bears, today is the day to do.

Happy Panda Day greeting cards   
Coloring pages of Panda bears

March 16 is also Freedom of Information Day and No Selfies Day

Freedom Of Information Day- March 16

On March 16, 1751, a man was born who changed the face of the world forever. His name is James Madison and he was the fourth president of the United States and one of the prominent drafters of its constitution.

James was born in Port Conway, Virginia, the eldest brother of 11 brothers and sisters. His parents had a thriving tobacco plantation where he spent his childhood years. After his father's death, he inherited from him the large tobacco plantation, which covered an area of ​​5,000 acres, and became the largest landowner in Orange County, Virginia, and one of the most important citizens of the area.

During the 1780s he joined the politics of the region and worked successfully to establish a committee to draft a constitution for the United States. Madison stood out in his work on this committee, which convened in Philadelphia in 1787, so much so that he was considered by many to be the "father of the Constitution."

The Freedom of Information Act was enacted in the United States in 1966 on the basis of the American Constitution and is one of the important principles of democracy.

 March 16 is also Panda Day and No Selfies Day

No Selfie Day - March 16

No Selfies Day is a day that is celebrated every year on March 16 in order to raise awareness of the epidemic of selfies and its negative impact on our lives. The world we live in is now severely affected by the deadly COVID19 plague that has killed so many lives. But there is another epidemic that is seriously affecting our lives and it is the epidemic of selfies, which is mostly characteristic of young people. This epidemic stems from the development of technology in the field of photography that has taken photography to the next level. As a result, anyone who has a smartphone has ever taken selfies. The advantage of taking a selfie is that you can take a picture of yourself without asking anyone else to do it, and show that you were in a beautiful and special place. You can also take lots of pictures to choose the best one, but the problem is that there are millions of people who are addicted to it and take dozens if not hundreds of selfies a day, which is why they call selfies a plague. Selfie photography has become an addiction that destroys the lives of many people. People take pictures of themselves and then upload the picture to the social network and expect to get attention, and this desire affects their mood because many people get depressed because they have not received enough likes. Another problem is the waste of time of the test if they received enough likes and the comparison to how many likes they received at other times, the test of who did the likes and who did not, and in short - a complete waste of time on nonsense!

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The selfie phenomenon has also claimed lives. More than 330 people from around the world lost their lives in the pursuit of the perfect selfie image - some fell off cliffs, others drowned in rivers and some were run over to death by trains. There were also people who committed suicide because of depression due to the lack of attention they received to their selfies.

Another problem of selfies is what has become the concept of social beauty. Beauty is perceived as a perfect face and to get such a face, we can not use our real photos but add filters or use photo editing software. Filters that thicken the lips, that smooth the skin and keep us away from the truth. This need for falsification of reality is accompanied by a decrease in self-esteem. Because when we are out of selfies, it makes us feel not pretty and good enough.

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The origin of No Selfies Day

It is not known who created the No selfies day and when they started celebrating it, but who created the No selfies day did so for a good reason. He intended to make people addicted to selfies understand the negative effects of the addiction.

A study found that on average girls spend an hour and twenty-four minutes each week trying to take the perfect selfie. It's just the time she spends in photography, but what about the time she spends checking the likes?

The UK and India have the highest rate of Facebook users in the world and as a result also the highest rate of deaths as a result of attempts to take selfies in the world. Authorities in these countries have already declared areas where selfies are not allowed. Two universities, Indian and British, conducted a study among 400 participants and concluded that a real mental disorder can be diagnosed around selfies. According to the study, people who take and upload more than 6 selfies a day to social networks suffer from severe Selfitis, which interferes with daily functioning. Anyone who takes 3-6 pictures still suffers from Selfitis, but one that you can live with.

How to celebrate the day without selfies?

The best way to mark No Selfies Day is to simply not take selfies of the day. If you feel it is affecting you badly, a sign that you are addicted. Be careful not to take pictures of yourself or upload your photos to social media. Encourage other people not to take selfies to stay away from this psychologically devastating disease. If you know someone who is really addicted to selfies, help them get rid of this addiction disorder. Use the hashtag #NoSelfiesDay to spread the word on social media instead of posting your selfies.

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March 16 is also Panda Day and Freedom Of Information Day

World Consumer Rights Day- March 15

Trade has existed since the dawn of human history. Already in the earliest times there was barter between people. For the fruits and vegetables you would grow in your land, you could buy wheat or skins for clothes. The problem was the difficulty in determining the value of the goods, the difficulty in finding buyers and sellers with suitable goods and the quarrels that would appear if goods were not good. Think you would have to go with Capricorn on your hands and walk around with him all day in the market until you would find him a buyer, who holds the goods you need. And what would happen if you found out at home that the tomatoes, for example, that you received were rotten?

The ancient consumer world was a very frustrating world and you needed a lot of luck in it.

Since then trade has evolved and today it is based on innovative technologies. Most of the purchases we make are documented on a computer and it is almost always possible to locate the seller from whom you bought if there is a problem.

Even trade in the modern period was not always simple and many disagreements arose between sellers and buyers, which often ended in front of a judge or by violence.

On March 15, 1962, US President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech on consumer rights that led to the creation of the Consumer Rights Act. Later, consumer rights activist Anwar Pazal, proposed holding the "World Consumer Rights Day" scheduled for March 15. It started in 1983 and since then every year consumer organizations mark this day as the promotion of the basic rights of consumers.

Consumer Rights Day is an annual event of celebration and solidarity within the international consumer movement. We are all familiar with the problems consumers face. To whom did it not happen that he received defective goods, that the sellers made price mistakes, that merchants made promises about products that were not fulfilled? This day concerns each and every one of us who wants to buy safely and get fair value for money.

 March 15 is also Brutus Day  and True Confessions Day

True Confessions Day- March 15

True Confessions Day is a day that takes place every year on March 15, the purpose of which is to confess and discover the truth in order to liberate the mind and reach inner peace. Each of us has secrets that we do not tell. These can be small or big secrets. The secrets gnaw at our psyche and make us feel stressed and guilty. Secrets destroy relationships because they cause us to hide and sometimes lie more and more, until a little secret becomes a pile of lies that undermines trust.

Confession is the best way to stop with the secrets and get away from guilt. When we reveal our secrets, we may be hurt by the results, such as being angry with us or severing ties with us. But on the other hand, the feeling of liberation after we discovered the secret is worth it. Besides, whoever truly loves us will stay with us even after he discovers our worst secrets.

The source of True Confessions Day

True Confessions Day was created by Thomas and Ruth Roy from the Wellcat website. Their contention is that confession is good for the soul. If you're going to work, tell it all. If you are planning to stay home, make an appointment with the mirror and tell it everything.

Not sure they are the ones who invented this day, but its purpose according to all the publications about it is that this day is meant to motivate people to confess guilt or secrets in order to move forward from troubles and clear their conscience.

How to celebrate True Confessions Day?

Celebrating the day of confession of truth is very simple. Make a true confession about the secret that oppresses you in front of your loved ones. This way you will be left without guilt and relaxed by releasing this secret that you have kept in your stomach for so long. Confessing to the secret will create openness in the relationship and make it stronger. In case the discovery of the secret will ruin the relationship, a sign that it was not good for you in the first place. Encourage other people around you to confess to feeling good. If you still do not want to share your secret with others, write it down in a diary or stand in front of the mirror to confess. Share your thoughts on social media using the hashtag #TrueConfessionsDay.

March 15 is also World Consumer Rights Day and Brutus Day