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...challenge before the new government is to help the poor overcome the desperate situation they are in. Technology helps but cannot feed people. India's technological advancements have not changed the traditional patterns of economic exploitation in rural areas in India. Neeraj Nanda Melbourne...
...wanted to get away. I went to a rural school in a rural town,” Honeyman says. “I just wanted to be in a different situation. Since I was really young, I had this general interest in places that had experienced conflict and war between ethnic groups and religious groups.”During that year abroad, Honeyman became impressed with what she describes as the positive and socially conscious ethic of the Baha’i students at her school and converted to the Baha’i faith...
Since the mid-20th century, the South African Nationalist government had implemented an official policy of racial segregation and white supremacy, forcing over a million South Africans to move from urban to designated rural areas...
...important and kids should master English - but they should also be taught that vernacular black culture has worth. Certainly Zora Neale Hurston, who wrote such vernacular classics as Their Eyes Were Watching God - understood that. "Zora chose to write in dialect because she thought the language of ordinary, rural, self-educated black folk was beautiful," Valerie Boyd, author of the Hurston biography Wrapped in Rainbows told me. "She thought this language - the language of her youth, her primary language as a storyteller - was poetic and rich and full of vivid imagery and worthy of being celebrated and immortalized in literature...
...anchors. More important, his efforts to introduce more aggressive standards of journalism have resulted in sharper news coverage. Last month, Terenzio sat in the reporting team's cluttered office to review a series called China's Challenges, an unusually frank exploration of issues such as environmental damage and poor rural health care. One episode on China's growing number of heroin addicts included footage of a dazed druggie lying in a puddle of vomit. "That's a powerful image," Terenzio says. "That's just what a piece like this should show." Another, on China's disastrous traffic snarls, pleases...