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...penitence or to accept the responsibility of choosing one’s own destiny. Jean-Paul Sartre adapted the myth into a play in 1943 to create an allegory about life in France under the Nazi occupation. Broadwater rewrote the dialogue to reflect the way that modern college students speak and chose to rethink the play as a western in the style of “No Country...
...After being introduced by Bush, Obama will speak on community service before 2,500 people in Rudder Auditorium on the campus of Texas A&M University. Obama is expected to pay tribute to Bush's Points of Light Initiative, a community-service and charitable works program he launched in the early days of his presidency in 1989. Joining the two men on stage will be Robert Gates, the Secretary of Defense and former president of the university, who has worked for both Presidents...
...don’t think people are as curious about Canada as they are about other countries,” said Amy Wang ’12. “People assume that I can speak French; so when I started French A, they had that puzzled expression on their face...
...While it may be extra difficult to talk the talk, it’s good to know the official languages of each country and how many people actually speak them. There are nearly 30 different languages spoken in both Botswana and South Africa. In fact, South Africa alone has 11 official languages. Don’t assume that people speak English — but never assume that they don?...
...which he shared writing and directing chores with Matthew Robinson, Gervais is at it again. His character, Mark Bellison, describes himself as a "chubby little loser." Mind you, that's what everyone else calls him too; for the movie posits a world in which people are compelled to speak the truth, however harsh it sounds, because they haven't recognized either the social utility of telling folks what they want to hear or the potential for career advancement--not to mention bank-robbing--in bending the facts. So Mark's colleagues at the film studio where he's a writer...