Talk About Tennis 2.0

mmmm8 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 3:25 pm Yesterday, an article came out in Vanity Fair about the late author Cormac McCarthy. It is presented as a "love story" about his lifelong muse.

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/ ... -exclusive

1. This was one of the most ridiculously overwritten pieces I've ever read.
2. The story romanticizes McCarthy's relationship with a then 16-year-old vulnerable girl. Complete with a road trip, this reads like Lolita from the narration of Humbert Humbert

i've never read McCarthy, but I'm just questioning how VF let this be published with that tone and without further editing.

Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, collaborated with Germany during WWII, promoting Nazi propaganda in the Middle East and recruiting Muslim SS soldiers. After the war, he fled from Berlin to Egypt, where he is infamous for demanding Arabs leave Palestine before the 1948 Arab invasion.

plenty-sunshine1111
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The Husseini family opposed two important families, Nashashibis and Khalidis, who would have supported negotiation with Zionists. Another Palestinian nationalist for coexistance was Anwar Nuseibeh. imo it is unfortunate that the Husseinis won the internal power struggle.

Being_A_Cat
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Anwar Nuseibeh

Interestingly, he mantained that Jews were fellow Arabs and thus dialogue was possible, and also refused to be a founding member of the Ba'ath Party by claiming that he had always opposed fascism.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 10:28 pm It is the most under-appreciated career there is.
A great teacher can make such a difference in somebody's life. And when they do, you seldom hear anything.

When I did my GCSEs in 2023, we had a digital exam clock instead of a normal analogue one because apparently the kids in my school have no idea where to start or how to look at it and quickly interpret the time. My mum told me that her friends son (aged 17, same as me) got a new watch as a birthday present but never knew what time it was because he never figured out how to read a clock so only used it for jewellery and decoration purposes. I learnt when I was a kid however as my mum taught me and in exams I can easily look at a clock and think ‘oh, I can afford to spend 15 more minutes on this section’ or whatever.

My mum said when she was in school back in the late 70s to early 80s it was one of the first things she learnt but now technology is only digital clocks and time and most people have smartwatches is it likely that the future generations will rely on digital time only?

If so is this going to be an issue related to other life skills that won’t be taught due to an over reliance on technology such as basic spelling or tying your shoe laces or whatever. I have a 7yr old nephew who’s obsessed with YouTube and Fortnite and although I’ll make sure he’s fully literate, my sister never makes an effort to help him read and write and according to his reports he’s below expected level.

Gold_Repair_3557
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It is pretty common. It’s interesting because I know full well that my school’s 1st and 2nd grade classes teach how to read a clock, but just a couple grades later it’s like those lessons never happened. At some point, being able to know the 12 is the hour mark, the 6 is the half hour mark, and everything in between is just five minute intervals got pretty complicated for them.

flooperdooper4
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Write your name on your paper
Yes, I'm noticing this as well. We teach units on time in first, second, and third grade, along with a unit on elapsed time and measurement conversions in 4th grade. For some reason, none of it sticks. It's not as though we don't have analog clocks in every classroom, either!