REPUBLIC Day is a national holiday all of us look forward to every year. Growing up, we all have fond memories of the holiday – from flag hoisting, march pasts at school, enacting plays, history lessons and most importantly feeling that infectious patriotic zeal in our hearts. For kids, ...
India Republic Day, celebrated on 26th January, is an occasion for celebrations in all schools. Students would require a well-prepared welcome speech for this occasion. The speech written in an excellent manner is provided by Vedantu. Students can refer to the speech to get familiar with what ...
So I am glad to see movement back toward phonics in schools, as this approach has served children well for a very long time. But I hope that at some point we will be able to go even farther in our reforms and provide children with the warmth, safety, and patience that they also need...
Indeed, my wife and I once visited friends who took us to the campus of the respectable private university where the husband teaches. Our friends thought the kids might enjoy the billiards and foosball in the student union building. Our plans quickly changed when we realized a young man was ...
In the aftermath of the Six-Day War, some leftists had begun to see Israel as an imperial power. The black youth group SNCC circulated a pamphlet depicting the Israeli defense minister Moshe Dayan with dollar signs covering his epaulets. Peretz and Walzer wrote an essay in Ramparts, the ...
he wrote that melancholic but determined essay, titled “Deprived of Indulgence, but Granted an Edge.” It is mostly in the first-person plural—a defensive posture for a guarded young man—and describes how students at the school coped “by working harder or doing more activities, distancing ...
(an essay written at seventeen on C.S. Lewis contains the sentence: “Lewis predicts that we as human beings are on our way to becoming dehumanized supermen, forgetting God and putting all our faith in science.”); trainhopped; made various involving river trips (and “first descents”)...
Scott Russell Sandersin his well-loved essay “The Inheritance of Tools” expounds on the allure of old tools: “All of these tools are a pleasure to look at and to hold. Merchants would never paste NEW NEW NEW! signs on them in stores. Their designs are old because they work, be...
In parting, one example of such intellectual engagement: Susannah Black’s essay “Port City Confidential,” one of the most lyrical and thoughtful contributions inLocalism in the Mass Age. Black confronts the problem which cities pose for conservatism–and, by a not-too-strained extension ...
writing in his essayOn the Art of Tragedy,asserted that “the combination of means through which a literary genre achieves its purpose is called its form…Since every literary genre pursues a purpose peculiar to it, it will distinguish itself precisely for this reason from the rest by virtue ...