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Not FoundThe requested URL /mpr/3.txt was not found on this server.top5result.com Just a few days after the recent school shooting in Ohio, someone at a school in Georgia reported a shooting threat that caused that school to be locked down for several hours. Here’s the threat as it was reported to the authorities: Gunman be at west hall today. Here’s the message typed by the sender: Gunna be at west [...] Today on Jeopardy there was a category on homophones, words that sound alike, but have different meanings. Here’s the clue that threw me: a homophone that can mean either a high-ranking member of a Mafia family, or the rising of the sun. No wonder I missed that one. In the dialect of standard English that I speak, the [...] The barbarians are not at the gates. They are inside the gates — and have academic tenure…What has failed is accepted without question by so-called ‘thinking people’ and what worked is disdained as being out of touch with the times. I read a jaw-dropping essay in my local paper the other day. It was [...] Charles Dickens, born February 7, 1812 Born this day in 1812, Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870, having producing dozens of novels and short works, many of which are still read today. Here’s a list of his works at Every Author. Great Expectations is the novel now taught ad nauseum in the schools, but the book [...] With the emphasis on test scores in something called “literacy,” literature and the habits of mind it fosters have become casualties of bureaucracy. [...] |
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