2023-11-03 17:06
Many people think that reading fiction is better than watching TV. Other people think otherwise. Both sides have their advantages and their disadvantages. But what’s better?
On the… Read More
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2023-10-27 16:06
For this new series we are going to be using a writing prompt to create a communal story. The prompt will be posted here, and in the comments section everyone is going to have a chance to wr… Read More
2023-09-22 16:13
Many families have at least one pet, and some parents think that it’s good for their kids to grow up with it. But what is the truth? Are they right?
On the one hand, it’s dem… Read More
2022-05-28 13:16
Seven stories have been submitted to the Fairytales with a Twist competition and the time has come for you to choose your favorite among them! You can choose one from each device and you are… Read More
2022-05-28 09:48
Once upon a time, there was a Little Tailor called George. He was only twenty and he worked at his father’s sewing shop. He never liked that life, he wanted to gain power and become so… Read More
2022-05-27 15:11
Rocky Balboa is an adventure film based on a man who was fighting at local rings and suddenly became famous. The story is set in Philadelphia 40 years ago. The film was directed by Silvester… Read More
2022-04-26 14:36
Once upon a time there were two young boys who lived at the street because their mum had died. The boys lived at Candy Town, where there were many candy shops which they looked at and felt v… Read More
2022-04-22 14:30
Once upon a time, there was a little boy called John, who lived in a small town with his parents
One day, his father asked john to watch the cars while he was going to the market, and Jonh… Read More
2022-04-20 09:30
Once upon a time, there was a girl with a bright red beanie living with her grandmother. She lived in Los Angeles but after the loss of her parents, due to a car crash, she lived with her gr… Read More
2022-04-16 07:00
Once upon a time a girl was eating Spaghetti and when she finished, seven were left on the plate. The girl washed it and threw the seven spaghetti in the sewer pipe.
The Spaghetti wer… Read More
2022-04-13 07:00
Once upon a time there were three jellybeans. The first one was called Green, the second one was called Gold and the last one was called Red. They lived in a small village called Funtime Vil… Read More
2022-04-10 07:05
Music these days is massive. More than a billion people every day, hear to music. There are music apps, music plays in movies (and there’s even a different genre of movies called &ldqu&hell…Read More
2022-04-07 17:26
A few years ago in Peristeri, there was a girl called Maria. She lived with her stepsister and her stepmother. Her father had died and she inherited all the money and the very big house wher… Read More
2022-04-04 14:50
Who among us hasn’t listened to fairytales and stories in the past, when we were little? Grandmothers usually hold the young ones on their laps and tell them stories from the depth of… Read More
2022-04-02 15:44
Some days ago I watched The Batman in theaters. It is a DC film directed by Matt Reeves and with Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, and Paul Danobeeing as the main Actors. It is a movie that sh… Read More
2022-03-31 15:40
One of the sports events that I will always remember was the 2020 euro final. My friends and I went to a waffle house full of people waiting to watch the match on tv. We got sits and bought… Read More
2022-03-22 19:57
Super Meat Boy is a hard as nails platformer that was released in 2010 by Team Meat. The main developers of the game were Edmund Mcmillen who was the artist and generally the creator of this… Read More
2022-03-20 18:39
The original “The Lorax” book, which was made by Dr Seuss (who also made “Green Eggs and Ham” as well as “A Cat with a Hat”), is amazing for its writing… Read More
2022-03-18 18:01
Museums are places that show exhibits. It is very common for a tourist to travel to a country to visit museums. There are many types of museums, like history, science, art, and war. I have v… Read More
2022-03-16 17:15
Se7en is a 1995 psychological crime thriller directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman are the two lead actors and the film was nominated for… Read More
2022-03-14 14:33
Shopping has evolved a lot over the years. In the past, you were only able to purchase something from the stores that sold it near you. However, after the year 1974, online shopping bec… Read More
2022-02-12 10:00
What is the first thing you think when you hear the word mafia or prohibition in United States? I believe most of you would think about the most popular and one of the biggest gangsters in t… Read More
2022-02-03 13:41
Roberto Suarez Gomez was a Bolivian Drug Lord, one of the main Pablo Escobar suppliers and the bigger cocaine producer in the world with over 400 million dollars per year in his prime.
He… Read More
2022-01-29 18:07
Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur. He made several companies and he was also the first outside investor in Facebook and he acquired 10.2% of the company. His net worth today is e… Read More
2022-01-24 07:04
Thomas DeSimone was born in 1950 to a father addicted to gambling. His grandfather and his uncle were mafia bosses and his two brothers became gangsters as he did. When he was 15 years old… Read More
2022-01-23 17:07
Nowadays many Teenagers claim that they have too busy a program, and that modern society expects too much from them. As a teenager, I would like to write my opinion about it, give some sugge… Read More
2022-01-21 09:06
Goodfellas is a 1990 biographical crime film about the rise and the fall of mobster Hendry Hill and his friends/associates. It is directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Nicholas Pileggi… Read More
2022-01-18 08:16
Nowadays many people believe that students should have an after-school job to gain experience before they graduate. Others believe that students should take care only of school homework and… Read More
2022-01-16 18:33
It is a fact that every kind of sport is very significant for our health and our mind. But now I must compare the team with the solo sports. I have done both and I believe that I would give… Read More
2022-01-14 09:05
Scarface is a 1983 classic crime film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone and with Al Pacino playing the main role. It was a remake of the 1932 film of the same name and the… Read More
2022-01-05 10:56
2022 has arrived and we are filled with hopes for a great new year. Today We had a nice discussion about restaurants and places to rest and relax with friends. So let’s continue this… Read More
2022-01-03 09:00
Many teenagers read blogs and visit websites as do I. They mainly use Youtube, Spotify, and social media platforms like Instagram. I on the other hand read two websites a lot. Pick and Roll… Read More
2021-12-24 07:00
The team of Get up the Nerve wishes you to have the happiest holidays ever! May you be healthy and serene. Warmest seasonal greetings from us all to you!
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2021-12-20 09:00
Castle Crashers is one of the most unique games I have ever played. It was made and published by an indie studio by the name of “The Behemoth” and it is available on Xbox 360/ONE… Read More
2021-12-18 08:12
Yesterday I watched a film on Netflix called Taxi Driver. It came out in 1976 and the main part was played by Robert de Niro. It was directed by Martin Scotsese. The movie is a classic psych… Read More
2021-12-15 08:12
1. 2PAC
2pac is absolutely the king of rap, although he died at the peak of his career. He was one of the best story writers and he could rap in many styles. He had also three classic alb… Read More
2021-12-13 09:10
School nowadays is very responsible for how the students behave and also how it affects them in their working life. However, schools don’t exactly understand how to do it. So I… Read More
2021-12-12 08:00
Many people read comics, books, watch series, and mostly films. Most of us have some favorite characters. Do you know that the people’s favorite fictional characters are mostly ‘… Read More
2021-12-10 15:11
The first third of the month is coming to an end, and as we promised we are trying to keep things interactive. This brings us to the second poll for December 2021. We do have our ideas and y… Read More
2021-12-07 08:47
Today I proudly start a new series about people who bacame famous by criminal activities. Some of them were drug dealers, others mobsters, others serial killers, and others plain thieves. I… Read More
2021-12-06 08:46
Some days ago, I saw the movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood again. I watched it again because after watching so many superhero movies, I wanted to see something different. It is the 9th Tar… Read More
2021-12-04 09:42
Private schools are weird because it seems like an upgrade from public school on the surface, but if you start looking into it, you will notice some major downsides as well.
Private schoo… Read More
2021-12-03 14:54
Welcome readers to the first poll for December 2021. This time the poll is all about languages. As you may have read in previous posts from various Get up the Nerve authors, in Greece lea… Read More
2021-12-02 14:31
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2021-12-01 13:50
Dear readers and Get up the Nerve writers,
Get up the Nerve is gradually getting back on track after a pretty much forced hiatus during the Covid pandemic. We are going to try to be more… Read More
2021-04-23 16:50
Joker is the best supervillian in DC’s universe and Thanos is the best in Marvel’s. The fans of these two bad guys always disagree about who is really the best. So it’s tim… Read More
2021-04-20 17:10
I was recently wondering about our lives in relation with each-other, now with the quarantine and whatnot. We used to be more around other people and that came both with expressing tendernes… Read More
2021-04-13 17:21
Nikolas Plastiras, also known as the Black Rider, was a Greek Lieutenant, General, and Politician. His military action in the Balkan wars and in the Greco-Turkish war made him known all over… Read More
2021-04-03 15:41
Buildings are everywhere nowadays, as the population has grown and the need for more of them came up. So, it’s hard for someone to find a building that really sticks out, a real diamon… Read More
2021-03-30 15:21
During the thousands upon thousands of years the humans were around for, a lot of different cultures popped up and vanished, just like that. But should we pay more attention into keeping the… Read More
2021-03-25 19:25
Konstantinos Kanaris was a Greek revolutionary at the war for independence in 1821. He was born in 1793 in a Greek island called Psara. When he was young, his father died and he started work… Read More
2021-03-13 09:57
Greece is a country in the balkans with 10.600.000 million people. Although the population was never very large, before 2011 the population was constantly growing. But suddenly the last ten… Read More
2021-03-11 16:34
So, today’s subject is about advertising, and about the advertising business overall. I believe that the idea of advertising is great; anyone can put up a poster and gain traction in t… Read More
2021-03-10 07:30
We all know that plastic usage is out of control in our world. Scientists believe that plastic affects the fish in our oceans, it is very dangerous for marine life. In a few years we may… Read More
2021-03-09 16:35
Welcome to the first podcast by the team of Get up the Nerve. We have been working on this web magazine for quite sometime and we have been successful to an extend. When we first began, we h… Read More
2021-03-09 16:03
Art is a form of expression, used to describe a feeling or tell a story. That is also true for theatre, a place designed to tell stories of fantasy and legends. And just like art, every movi… Read More
2021-02-03 16:04
From the invention of writing until now, lots of writers create their own stories, filling every page with action, drama, romance and other emotions and actions. Recently though, people have… Read More
2021-01-28 16:55
What do school children in Greece have in common? We spend at least six hours a day at school.
In my country schools have a variety of lessons, but the main courses are the Greek language… Read More
2021-01-27 11:00
These days many teenagers want to leave school to work. Children who live in poor areas usually think about it. This it is a big problem for our community, because if children don’t go… Read More
2021-01-26 16:21
Nowadays, more and more people want to restrict pollution in the air and keep the air quality at healthy levels. Many others though have asked a really important question. How could that be… Read More
2021-01-21 16:13
Television; the metal wired box that allows every person able to afford it to experience shows, news, sports, everything, from his house. A very new section from programs has risen lately, c… Read More
2020-12-28 15:59
Online shopping has been a part of our lives for quite a while now, supposedly being an easier way to browse through unlimited lists of products such as clothing, games and even food. But is… Read More
2020-12-22 19:58
In 2020 a lot people listen to music and watch movies by paying some platforms like Spotify and Netflix. I think that free streaming will not exist anymore in the future and if you want, fo… Read More
2020-12-18 17:53
Tupac is undoubtedly one of the best rapers worldwide. I have known him for two years. I listened to him on a YouTube video about the best selling rapers. I am writing this article for him… Read More
2020-12-17 16:34
Online advertising is the best way for the common company to show off their product and distribute it to the people. Some company may take advantage of the younger spectators tough, and pay… Read More
2020-12-15 10:57
Three days ago I saw The Karate Kid. This film is about a teenager who moves out to California. It is an adventure film and it has a very good story.
In the beginning the teenager meets t… Read More
2020-12-10 20:18
Good and healthy life are some words we can’t say very easily. We live in a very curious age. In many places in the world, people die because of the pollution, dirty water among other… Read More
2020-12-08 19:35
Something that makes people wonder about it, is what is better; to earn a lot of money, or to have a job that you enjoy and makes your day more interesting every morning that you go. So, le… Read More
2020-12-04 08:38
Rap music in 2020 is one of the hottest music kinds all over the world. In America, hip hop is on the top since the 70s, but in Greece hip hop came on top the last few years, because before… Read More
2020-12-03 17:12
Ah, Paris… Some say it’s the city of beauty, others say the city of the richest history. But what if there was a place in it that could satisfy all of those people at once? Ladi… Read More
2020-06-25 13:34
Titanfall was published by Respawn Entertainment at October 28th 2016 for the Playstation 4, Xbox One and Windows. It is a direct sequel to the first Titanfall game, whuch was published at M… Read More
2020-06-05 13:35
It was dark and I was completely lost. On the mountains of Spain, 4 of my friends and I went out camping two days ago. The blistering sun of the summer made us go out and experience the beau… Read More
2020-06-04 13:09
A lot of parents, especially these days, don’t send their children at school, but they teach them from their homes. It is called homeschooling. Is it a bad thing though? Let’s fi… Read More
2020-05-07 15:19
Everybody involved in language teaching sooner or latter teaches literature, poetry or the classics. Great texts that have influenced our way of thinking or even our societies as a whole. Th… Read More
2020-04-27 11:00
During the quarantine, the only way you can play with your friends is online. But some children play more than they should, or so do parents think. But do they spend too much time? Let&rsquo&hell…Read More
2020-04-10 10:36
Choose the correct answer
Question 1Please view this post in your web browser to complete the quiz.
Question 2Please view this post in your web browser to complete the quiz Read More
2020-04-10 09:49
If you could take some extra-curricular activities at school, what would they be? There are some suggestions here, and we would like to know how do you think they could help you? What could… Read More
2020-04-10 08:10
Two parts in this exercise:
Answer the questions:
When did you last have your hair cut?
Have you had anyone make a sweet for you?
Will you get anybody to buy you something after this situati… Read More
2020-04-09 14:06
Let’s play with words and see who does better! Make sentences and expressions using the following words:
among
beneath
around
beyond
along
within
through
back Read More
2020-04-09 10:40
Hello, again readers! This time we would like you to describe your daily routine for us. What do you do on a work/school day? When do you get up? What kind of breakfast or food do you genera… Read More
2020-04-07 12:35
There is a current school of thinking in psychotherapy and emotion management that claims you can release negative (or even positive) feelings and facilitate therapy through art. Any kind of… Read More
2020-04-07 08:25
Friedrich August von Hayek is one of the best economists in the 20th century. He was born on 8/5/1899 in Vienna, and he died on 23/3/1992 in Freiburg.
Hayek is popular mainly because of his… Read More
2020-04-06 14:10
There is a recent post on this site called: “Writing Prompts 2”, which poses the question “if you could organise a dinner party with five people, who would they be?”… Read More
2020-04-05 22:42
Everyone has dreamed to have a lot of money. It’s real that money can make you buy houses, cars and open companies. But what is better for a rich guy one big house or a great company… Read More
2020-04-04 14:19
So, in a recent post, there was a question; would you rather buy a house or a business? In my opinion, I would prefer to purchase a company, which is a business.
Some might ask: But why woul… Read More
2020-04-03 12:12
Today in most parts of Africa people are dying of lack of water and food. This should stop, but if we want it to stop, we should help. We should make an organization of farmers who would go… Read More
2020-04-03 11:31
Angela Graham, a teacher, addresses the fears of parents who are new to homeschooling: “We are not perfect, and whatever school ends up looking like for your child the rest of this ye… Read More
2020-04-02 14:06
Question time yet again! Please tell us:
If you could stop doing something you consider unhelpful for your personal evolution, what would that be?
If you paused on your track and stopped to… Read More
2020-04-02 14:02
Greetings peasants. I am Mary Tudor and I am here because I accepted your invitation to come to your puny interview. I expect serious questions about my person, Mary I, queen of England and… Read More
2020-04-02 13:09
If you could invite five people to a dinner party, who would they be? What is each guest like? (Any guest, living, dead, historical, fictitious) Read More
2020-04-02 12:19
Time for yet another discussion/exercise. Make the following sentences from direct to indirect speech.
I read Paulo Coelho’s book on the 2nd of April.
Miranda will buy her friend… Read More
2020-04-01 12:17
Today many people destroy forests for commercial or housing use without allowing time for the forests to regenerate themselves. This has many disadvantages and it should stop and the governm… Read More
2020-03-31 12:25
You have enough money to purchase either a house or a business. Which would you choose to buy? Give specific reasons to explain your choice Read More
2020-03-31 12:02
Although the weather was bad, Sam and Chris decided to cycle to the old castle. They went all the way up the hill where it was located.
Once they reached up there, it started to rain heavily… Read More
2020-03-31 11:57
Infinite Tales is a gamified story series open to anyone willing to participate. One of our authors will be posting a sentence, and whoever wants to, can post its continuation in the comment… Read More
2020-03-31 11:33
These days, teens use phones and other portable devices. Lots of them provide them access to social media, like Facebook, Instagram, etc. Some people are against it. Personally, I believe th… Read More
2020-03-30 12:03
Today many people use animals for testing medicine used by human beings. This should stop! Everybody should learn how their medicine is tested. Also, we should make a world team for animal p… Read More
2020-03-27 14:08
Last summer I and my best friend Michael went to Santorini island in Greece. We went on vacation and we stayed there for 5 days. Santorini is a very amazing island with golden beaches, clubs… Read More
2020-03-20 13:38
Free Time Activities (Part 1)
I am pretty sure that the Coronavirus outbreak has greatly changed the way we have fun and enjoy ourselves, especially now that most of us adhere to the directi… Read More
2020-03-20 11:00
Reading books and watching films are good ways to do something in your free time. Most of the people have shelves of books, and some have devices and applications where they can watch films… Read More
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