This is a continuation of extracts from a post by Pamela Snow and my comments. This blunderbuss approach no doubt explains why university lecturers grapple with the frustration of trying to teach first-year students who do not know the basics of how to construct a sentence, in spite of the fact that they have studied English for 13 years and have passed Year 12. My comment: I have said this to Pamela and it appears to fall on deaf ears. Many of the kids in university started learning to read after figuring out how to read when they were in grade 6 or later. By this time, they have missed out on many things that they would have learned had...
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Subtitles are one of those things many people sneer at. But once you start using them to better understand what’s going on, it’s hard to stop using them. And if you’re watching a foreign-language movie, you might have no choice but to use subtitles. In this article, we’ll show you how to add subtitles to movies or TV series on your computer. It’s quick, easy, and totally free to do. Reasons to Start Using Subtitles If you’re hard of hearing. subtitles are a lifesaver. They allow you to follow the plot or a movie or TV show without having the volume turned up to room-shaking levels. If you’re watching a movie in a foreign language, you need to use translated...
Michael Ramirez is a Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist who works for the Las Vegas Review Journal. And I am sure he has definitely read Mary Shelley's classic novel, Frankenstein (or, the Modern Prometheus), as evidenced by his latest cartoon, titled "LIBERALS CITIES ABOLISH AND CUT FUNDING FOR POLICE DEPARTMENTS." LIBERALS CITIES ABOLISH AND CUT FUNDING FOR POLICE DEPARTMENTShttps://t.co/2sTypDz8dPLike @ Facebook:https://t.co/WeX1G9jwDlBOOK:https://t.co/eqyzRdz8nS pic.twitter.com/qIPQCcIiL1 — Michael Ramirez (@Ramireztoons) July 1, 2020 See, given the choice between: a heavily-armed and heavily-entitled mediocre white guy with a boner for power and violence; or a miracle of science who was famously gentle and misunderstood, despite the angry assumptions of a mass mob who viewed him as subhuman just because of his appearance and conditions forced on him...
Riverside County’s Democratic Party is calling for a police review commission “with real community oversight” as it criticized Sheriff Chad Bianco’s plan to form a community review panel following recent protests against police brutality and racial injustice. The party proposed the commission in a June 11 statement responding to the Board of Supervisors’ passage of a resolution condemning George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis, Minnesota, police. The death of Floyd, an unarmed Black man, sparked nationwide protests and fueled calls to end systemic racism and reform policing. To the dismay of Black Lives Matter activists, the board failed to vote on a proposal from Supervisor V. Manuel Perez to review Riverside County Sheriff’s Department procedures and bolster community...
