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Since the audience is clearly meant to take her seriously, it seems counterproductive to portray the messenger figure as a New Age hippie, a stereotype even liberal tree-huggers tend to mock. Is this an ironic undercutting of the fable's hitherto sincere message, or an unintentional lack of artistic imagination? The character is thought-provoking but ultimately unclear in intent and frustrating...
...period to the electoral process and register students right in the classroom, is based on a Dade County, Fla., program that registers around 12,000 high school students every year. Meanwhile Channel % One, the advertiser-supported television service that is provided to public and private schools, is planning a mock election in which its 7.1 million viewers, assisted by a teacher-preparation guide, can vote for their favorite candidates a week before the rest of the nation makes its choice...
Following a November try-out session in Washington D. C. which included a written test and several mock games, she was notified in January that she had qualified to compete...
...ridicule the history of Peru is to undermine a national identity and to make fun of a suffering population that strives for subsistence. Such an editorial only reflects the cowardice and self-indulgent nature of an author who mock the history and painful struggle of a sovereign nation. Jose Gavilano...
...least publicly acknowledging its sovereignty. "Any one may yield to temptation," wrote William Hazlitt, "and yet feel a sincere love and aspiration after virtue: but he who maintains vice in theory, has not even the conception or capacity for virtue in his mind. Men err: fiends only make a mock at goodness...