Introduction - KidsOut World Stories is a growing collection of traditional and new stories representing the 21 most commonly spoken languages by children across the UK. These stories can be read, listened to and downloaded in English and their original language. Thanks to the wonderful support of writers, storytellers, translators, broadcasters and actors we are adding new stories, recordings and translations to the collection every week. Benefits Our commitment is to support language skills and encourage cultural awareness whilst also aiming to inspire children to both discuss their responses and get creative. Teachers This website is designed for easy use in the classroom, both in whole class settings and to support guided reading. Families As parents you are your child's most influential teacher.
Speeches - Transcripts Audio Video - Online Speech Bank "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity." "But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. "When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. "We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. Text and Audio of Address
Goodreads | Recent Updates Quotes from the Gel 2011 game, "Restore" At Gel 2011 last week we played a game I designed for the conference, called Restore, which divided attendees into teams and challenged them to restore a quote from snippets shown on their badges. Several Gel attendees have asked for the quotes. Here they are: The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' You can accomplish anything you want in life provided you don't mind who gets the credit. - Harry S Truman Indian proverb: Empathy is not just about stepping into another's shoes. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. African proverb: If you want to go fast, go alone. Beware the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns. - Warren Buffett Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it. - Grace Hopper For us, there is only the trying.
Listen to English around the World. Click on any of the flags below to hear accents from some of the main English-speaking countries. Hear more English accents. One of the best ways of improving your English is to listen to radio news and discussion in English on your computer. Listen to the Bible in MP3 format Listen to film soundclips WEB SITES FOR POLITICAL SPEECHES Collections of Political Speeches; Audio Sites; Generic Link Sites; Specializd Genre Sites; Individual Presidential Sites; Convention Speaking; Political, Vice President, Debates; Miscellaneous Speech Collections Last Modified: Tuesday, 08-Sep-2009 23:33:43 EDT
Mental Heuristics Page A heuristic is a "rule-of-thumb", advice that helps an AI program or human think and act more efficiently by directing thinking in an useful direction. Some of these heuristics are age-old wisdom, bordering on cliche, but most are actually helpful. If you want something done, do it yourself Comment: Obviously true, and doing it is usually very good for your self esteem. Never procrastinate anything you can do right now Comment: Very powerful. When you have several things you could be doing and don't know which to do: Just do any one of them! Comments: If you cannot decide between two or more possibilities, then there is a good chance that the differences don't matter. Always assume that you will succeed Comments: If you don't expect to succeed in an endeavor, then you will not do your best and will not notice possible solutions, while if you feel that you will eventually succeed you will concentrate all your power at the problem. If you can't find a solution, change the rules.
Excellent Quotes from various sources--mostly freethought "Reason is experimental intelligence, conceived after the pattern of science, and used in the creation of social arts; it has something to do. It liberates man from the bondage of the past, due to ignorance and accident hardened into custom. It projects a better future and assists man in its realization. And its operation is always subject to test in experience... "Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire." "In the degree in which life is uneasy and troubled, fancy is stirred to frame pictures of a contrary state of things. "It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are disagreeable and to magnify the enduring quality of whatever falls in with immediate desire. "Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action--an emancipation from chance and fatality. -- Albert Einstein "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did.
Listening Here you will find good exercises to improve your listening skills. Famous Speeches in History - The Speech Archive Browse the Speech Archive A lot of people said a lot of things throughout history. Some of the countless lectures, sermons, talks, discourses, and addresses have been preserved. In other words, No poet or orator has ever existed who thought there was another better than himself. End quote. Image Above Cicero addressing the Senate. The Speech Archive This speech collection is indexed alphabetically by topic, alphabetically by speaker, chronologically, and then some. Terminology Oratory is the art of public speaking. What is the difference between eloquence and rhetoric? The word eloquence stems from the Latin term eloquentia, referring to the readiness, elegance, fluency, and persuasiveness of speech. The word rhetoric is equivalent to the Greek word ritoriki, which in turn stems from the Greek term ritoras, meaning orator. At the end of your oration, you probably want to repeat your message in a nutshell and combine it with a call for action. Outstanding Masters of Rhetoric in History
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