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His great wish was for China to become a republic with U.S. style democracy.
With all my respects, this is a kind of pious wish ...From my experience, not in China but in Vietnam, communism has only replaced labels on a pre-existing and still existing feudal system.Between our Western philosophies about democracy and Asian philosophies(Confucianism and Communism), the gap isn't about to be filled or even meet. TMHO
I don't know why but this kind of “improvement” make me think about the Nineteen Eighty-Four of George Orwell … Paranoia ? ???
I assume you are being tongue in cheek here? I can name several "lazy" students that I know personally; one of them is my son who seems to think that knowledge will jump into his brain with no effort on his part. His recent grades prove the fallacy of that notion.
I think I confused about what you meant by student : If it's about High School, College and University students, well I agree that some of them may be called lazy. I was thinking more about "pupils" (even if it's not easier with them, different I think). Lack of vocabulary knowledge , my bad !
There is no “lazy” student. All kids are eager to learn, discover.How to keep their attention without being a "clown" today when everything is a kind of temptation to make people brainless, just consumers ... ?
If you take a example like Ptolemy who published his Almagest circa 150 CE about his system drew on previous Greek theories in which the Earth was the stationary center of the universe. You just need a paper, pencil a desk and … a brain.Few centuries later Copernicus formulated a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.Few years later, Galileo played a major role in the Scientific Revolution with achievements including improvements to the telescope, and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism.In this case, technology was important (and good) , not only about scientific theories or experimentation but also for education : technology can be an excellent educational tool. But like any tool, its use makes its utility.
I was checking an intersting websit about several online exhibitions when I came across some medieval dices ! I might be wrong but those dices really look very close to the dodecahedra. I found other dices from Ancient Egypt as well, same design … http://expositions.bnf.fr/usindex.htm dices are here http://expositions.bnf.fr/jeux/arret/02.htm Egyptian dices belowSo, would that dodecahedra be just a kind of dice ? (Deluxe edition) ???
I don't know much about American History but this may help !! ::)http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810159817/video/23073546
Walls and fences don't stop all traffic but they do reduce it to largely manageable levels. Arent the Egyptians doing something like driving steel plates into the ground to cut off the tunnels used to smuggle stuff into the Gaza strip? Here it is Gazans cut through Egypt's border barrier, Apparently that isnt working too well for the Egyptians, I would flood the space between the steel plates personally. It might drown some smugglers but there deaths would probably deter even more from even trying it.
... At least 17 people have been killed trying to cross the porous 150-mile border into Israel since May, most of them Africans shot by Egyptian police ... (sic)http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/6966502/Israel-to-build-security-barrier-on-border-with-Egypt.html
Perhaps etymology can help ! Berserker : beer – seeker … They were searching for a fresh beer after such an exhausting voyage and got mad
whenonce they realised beers were warm in Anglia ! Just a hypothesis … :-I don't contest your information about the Gaza strip and other occupied territories but this fence project is about the Israeli-Egyptian border. The official reasons for this fence are more about migrants, smugglers and drug traffickers than terrorism.Hence my surprise.
I sent him a PM but didn't receive any reply yet … you might be right about “spammer”. Wait and see 😉
French as the “legal” language emerged in 10 August 1539 with the Ordinance of Villers-Cotter?ts by Fran?ois 1er. Before that day, that kind of French (langue d'o?l) could be compared to any local French languages (Oc, etc.)However some might argue that the Oaths of Strasbourg (between Louis the German and Charles the Bald; 806?877) give evidence about the development of French and German as separate spoken languages and not to the development of diverging Romance dialects. Anyway, it still can be considered as "dialect" until 1539... 😛
1) in April 20062) Belfast3) since late September 2000None of them agreed : 1) 11 Israelis were killed (2006)2) during the bloody 2000-2006 years more than 1,100 Israelis were killed and more than 7,000 injured3) More than 900 people were murdered in attacks carried out by Palestinian terrorists since late September 2000???
