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...that you come and completely flip out, because you can’t stand it,” he says. “And then there’s another, where you come in and forget your whole past, and then you fail as the person you could have been...
...Language, such concerned citizens fail to realize, is a living organism; languages have always grown, evolved, and eventually died out and will doubtless continue to do so. Today’s French, Italian and Spanish effectively “killed off” Latin. In mainland China, a simplified script and the phonetic system pinyin have replaced the traditional script. Modern English includes “you,” but rarely Shakespeare’s “thee” or “thou...
...Lin’s Econ paper on Project East fail to analyze the cost and benefit of the show? Regardless of the fact that her article makes points barely tangible to the event, Project East believes that the benefits of scholarships given to young children working in sweatshops by the Confucius Foundation far outweighs the problems facing those who “overspend” in East Asia. Charity is a central part of Project East and it is rude at best to trivialize this aspect...
...studies of birth order are too simplistic because they fail to account for an important environmental influence: parents. My younger brother and I are mostly the reverse of the stereotypical firstborn and second-born/last-born. I am more independent than my brother and led a more adventurous childhood. I take after our father, who was a college dropout and more creative. My brother takes after our mother, who was mathematically inclined. Birth order is not the determining factor it once was. Gary Ostrick, LOS ANGELES
...that teach English as a second or other language (TESOL). WorldTeach, for instance, is a Harvard-based NGO of high repute that sends student teachers to developing nations. Many other similar programs have arisen, especially in Asia where the demand for English is particularly high. Such international opportunities, however, fail to consider the broader implications of global language politics. Selma Sonntag articulates the complexities of language policy, describing the global hegemony and “stampede towards English” around the world—to which TESOL programs contribute—which to some degree undermines the agency...