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Many children in school classes all over America are taking language courses in Chinese. The concept is easy. On one day they learn everything in English and the next they to Chinese. It is an advantage to learn languages when you are young because small children soak up the language and use it in everyday situations. Chinese has become so popular that some schools even want to offer parents Chinese courses.
Because of China’s economy and influence, is growing so fast, Chinese has become a language many people want to learn. In the United States about 50,000 students from kindergarten to eighth grade are taking Chinese, to only 5,000 in 2004. About 100 million people worldwide are studying Chinese as a second language.
In the Philippines people think that learning Chinese will allow them to get better jobs in the future. In Panama, one government official has even thought about making Chinese compulsory in public schools; , it is so hard to get enough qualified teachers to teach Chinese.
In the future Mandarin Chinese might not overtake English as the world’s number one language but because China is expanding further it will become an important language.
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Bowling for Columbine is a film, produced and narrated by Michael Moore. It explores the main causes for the Columbine High School massacre killed 12 students and one teacher on April 20, 1999. Moore focuses on the background and environment in which the shooting took place, as well as common opinions on why violence is so widespread in America. The film won numerous awards including the Academy Award for the best documentary.
The film’s title refers to what the students responsible for the Columbine shooting – Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold – did on the day they the attacks. Bowling for Columbine starts off with Moore’s visit to a bank in Michigan where he gets a rifle in return for opening up a bank account. The Michigan Militia are shown and interviewed at shooting practice, where they maintain the belief, that only they themselves can protect themselves and their families from danger.
The documentary also highlights the production of weapons of mass destruction that are in wars and conflicts around the world.
Michael Moore’s documentary is aggressive and highly provocative, the reviews were overwhelmingly positive. Critics praised Moore for his insights on the culture of violence in America.
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Dear Greta !
In your last email you asked me about the system in our country. I'm still at school because it is compulsory here up to the age of 15. Most of us go to a kindergarten first, and when we're about five years of age we start primary school, we spend 7 years.
At the moment I am a secondary school, which has about 800 pupils. We have up to 7 lessons every day, and each one is by a different teacher. We have a lot of work to do , including several projects. If we miss an important deadline we have to stay after school to finish it. In the first few years we had to wear a uniform but now I am allowed to wear whatever I want.
At 16 we take some exams. After that we can either leave school or continue for two more years. During the last two years we only have to study three subjects. The school offers vocational courses like sports or drama clubs, I can choose from a wide variety of activities.
That is what education is like where I live. I hope I have given you an insight on how it works.
Greetings,
Mike
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It is known that the for private schools is driven by the fact that most public schools cannot accommodate every student or potential student in a given geographical location, hence the need for private schools.
Private schools are also known in the United States as independent schools, non-governmental or non-state schools are schools that are not by either the local, state or the federal government, hence they have the right to select their students. They are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition fees, rather than relying on mandatory taxation through public (government) funding.
Some private schools have structures in place that offer scholarships to exceptional students which makes the cost cheaper for the student, on the talent; they have sports scholarship, arts scholarship and academic scholarship.
this might seem like a saturated industry, it is still pretty much open to come in and compete. As a matter of fact, if you conduct your research and feasibility studies very well before starting your own private school, coupled with the impressive profile of your faculty members, you are likely going to struggle less to make headway in the industry.
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Valentine's Day is celebrated every year on 14 February. It's the day people show their affection for another person or people by sending cards, flowers or chocolates with messages of love.
The day gets its name from a famous saint named Valentine, who is believed to be a priest from Rome in the third century AD when Emperor Claudius II had banned marriage because he thought married men were bad soldiers. , Valentine felt this was unfair, so he broke the rules and arranged marriages in . When Claudius found out, Valentine was thrown in jail and to death. There, he fell in love with the jailer's daughter and when he was taken to be killed on 14 February he sent her a love letter signed "from your Valentine".
It's thought that as part of the celebrations, boys drew names of girls from a box. They'd be boyfriend and girlfriend during the festival and sometimes they'd get married. Later on, the church wanted to turn this festival into a Christian celebration and decided to use it to remember St Valentine, too. Gradually, St Valentine's name started to be used by people to their feelings to those they loved.
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“The Little Prince” (French: “Le Petit Prince”) is a novella, which tells the story of a child, the little prince, who travels the universe gaining wisdom. First in April 1943, it is the most famous work of French aristocrat, writer, poet, and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
After the outbreak of the Second World War, Saint-Exupéry escaped to North America. personal upheavals and failing health, he produced almost half of the writings for which he would be remembered, a tender tale of loneliness, friendship, love, and loss, in the form of a young prince visiting Earth. An earlier memoir by the author had recounted his aviation experiences in the Sahara Desert, is thought to have been drawn on those same experiences in “The Little Prince”.
Though ostensibly styled as a children's book, The Little Prince makes several observations about life and human nature. For example, Saint-Exupéry tells of a fox meeting the young prince during his travels on Earth. The story's essence is contained in the fox saying that "One sees clearly only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eye." The fox's messages are arguably the book's most famous quotations because they deal with human .