A gathering of momentous facts, anecdotes, ideas related to the many aspects of English language teaching and learning - including such related topics as sound, writing, reading, listening, speaking, oratory, silence, literacy, polarities. Sentences share identifiable patterns (or forms) that can be organized into eleven basic categories. This systematic identification and description of those forms opens a door of infinite possibilities for all those who study and use English. This is the answer that writing-across-the-curriculum has been waiting for.
2008.07.20
standing and reading, standing and thinking, walking and talking
Sir Winston Churchill was a war correspondent before he went into politics. He was a writer, as well as a gardener and painter. His (and his wife Clementine's) house, Chartwell, near Westerham, Kent, UK was their abode, their studio, their den, their library, their airspace, their suns pace, their green space. It was also their principal home from when they acquired the property in 1924 for more than forty years till Winston's passing in 1965.
As answers.com records, "he also confirmed an ultimately provocative and untenable policy of recognizing both Jewish and Arab rights in Palestine. Not least, he advocated confrontation with a resurgent Turkey, one of the nails in the coffin of the coalition government. He was a notable casualty of the 1922 general election.
While briefly ‘without an office, without a seat, without a party’, he wrote The World Crisis [6 vols., 1923-1931, an account of World War I] and with the [early] proceeds bought the country house at Chartwell."
So we see that his skill as a writer brought him some renown and recompense, even when he fell out of popularity with the public.
Apart from his lucid historical writings, it is interesting that he preferred a long, "stand-up desk" that would provide ample room for him to browse several books at nearly the same time, reading, comparing ideas, thinking, reading some more, reflecting, mulling.
Here is the only picture I can find on the internet of Sir Winston by his desk: link
I am not sure about his writing desk, or how he did proceeded on that process. But he wrote url=http://www.churchillbooks.com/guide.cfm]a lot[/url].
During World War 2, he used the phrase blood, toil, tears, and sweat to indicate the deep resolve of the British people to gain victory over Germany. Part of the phrase was used as the name of a group in the 60s called Blood, Sweat, and Tears. In this millenium, the phrase reaches new heights (or sub-dermal lows) in the form of tattoos. Witness the new tattoos on the underside of the two forearms of Angeline Jolie: click on pic to read tabloid article,/font>
Read up more on the famous speech here, or listen to the whole speech here
INDIANAPOLIS -- Suspended Perry Meridian High School teacher Connie Heermann says she believes administrators' fear of their school board is one reason why she faces getting fired for assigning a certain book to her students, but it may actually have been due to her impatience after the long delay in hearing back from the board after her request was submitted.
Heermann (pictured) was placed on administrative leave after she assigned "The Freedom Writers Diary," a collection of at-risk teenagers' essays containing swear words and sexual overtones, to her 11th-grade English students in November.
The teacher Erin Gruwell and her true story (plus the student-generated book) were the subject for the movie Freedom Writers Diaries which starred Hilary Swank.
(TREND HUNTER) Architect Julien de Smedt may have had the preservation of rapidly disappearing icebergs in mind when designing this funky, aesthetically-pleasing development. The Iceberg housing project won a competition… [More]
As we tiptoe through the carbon and eco-footprints, let's tiptoe across a real desktop prairie dog:
Mini-miser module
Aleutia computer draws only 8 watts webpage about it
Aleutia’s 4.5 inch E1 could be a good indicator of the future of computers. It’s a solar-powered Linux and runs on 8 watts of power. It has no moving parts and is totally silent. The optional solar panel will add slightly to the low $400 price tag. Even though it has relatively small storage and ram, with computing moving more online and using flash memory, this computer could have lots of applications.
Matt Harding likes to run on the spot (he calls it dancing badly) — with many people and at many spots around the world. He has almost made a career (instead of being a video game designer) out of it.
Here is an interview with Matt:
The music in the background for the interview is "Sweet Lullaby" by Deep Forest (or else it is Nighbird). The blend African Pygmy chants with Euro dance, New Age, and Pop. Here is the audio for a remix of the song, reposted from last.fm.comYou can here an interesting remix over at last.fm:
More on Matt's other music for his videos at his website and . In one video, someone is singing Praan which is a poem or excerpt from Gitanjali by Tagore, the famous Bengali poet. Click here to read the beautiful lyrics (translated into English) for this song/poem, or, much more easily, view them here:
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
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was their abode, their studio, their den, their library, their airspace, their suns pace, their green space. It was also their principal home from when they acquired the property in 1924 for more than forty years till Winston's passing in 1965.
Glacier-Inspired Eco Architecture - The Iceberg (GALLERY)
