August 8th, 2010
Category: Literacy Programs
Tags: 2004, Just, Obama's, pertaining, Question, Read, Speech
and the following passage struck me:
“If there’s a child on the south side of Chicago who can’t read, that matters to me, even if it’s not my child.”
Why didn’t Obama use some of the $98 million from the Chicago Anenburg Challenge for literacy programs instead of spending the bulk of it on “radicalizing schools” and funding “community organizer” groups?
Wouldn’t that have been putting money where his mouth had gone?
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July 24th, 2010
Category: English Lesson Plans
Tags: Crossroads, Question, Thailand

(Subtitle: “Can you really respect yourself in Thailand now?”)
By Carl “J.C.” Pantejo, Copyright May 2008
(Author “My Friend Yu – The Prosperity Mentor,” Copyright August 2007. Pantejo – Y.N. Vurce Publishing.)
During an afternoon with a fellow Farang (Thai: Foreigner) we talked about how our lives were going in the Land of Smiles. As usual, we talked about our girlfriends and the challenges of trying to understand them.
Somehow we got on the subject of “Love;” specifically, the absence of Love (in the Western sense) in Thailand. The discussion got me thinking. A lot. About a lot of “stuff.”
Many personal questions started to…
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June 5th, 2010
Category: Reading Skills Help
Tags: About, Fluency, Grader, Helping, Improve, Question, Reading, Skills
He is a very slow reader, and will pay no mind to periods when he is reading. Im tutoring him and I am needing suggestions on how I can help him with fluency, as well as comprehension.
Any suggestions are appreciated! Thank you!!
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May 18th, 2010
Category: Technology Literacy HELP
Tags: Christians, Question, repub...WWJD
Where do you think Jesus would stand on the issues facing our time?
- The war in Iraq
- Abortion
- Social Security
- Immigration
- Drug Policy
- The current corruption of the justice department and the EPA etc.
- Global Warming and the Environmental movement
- Globalization
- Guns
- Human health
- Literacy
- Nuclear technology?
These are just some issues..
Would you concider Jesus a democrat or a republican?
Why?
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