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What Activates And Deactivates Reading? 47 Things.

Annie Cook — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:19:25 +0000

What activates reading? What do we read? When do we read? Here are 47 things: Blog Articles Songs Poetry Drama Advertisements Billboards Television Brochures Grocery packages Grocery receipts Bills Bank Statements Notes Text messages Emails Magazines Tabloids Newspapers Timetable: school, examination Bus routes, tickets Train routes, tickets Street directories Recipe books Novels Storybooks Textbooks Invitation [...]

The Love Of Silence

Hanifa K. Cook — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:57:37 +0000

Silence is golden and ignorance is bliss. How are we to understand the real meaning of silence if it were not for the presence of noise? This is a blog about silence. On a cold winter night, the fireplace in the family room at home would be the perfect place for sharing the quiet ambience [...]

Spanish Lessons Review

Hanifa K. Cook — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:29:47 +0000

My page on ning is giving me good Spanish learning experience. It offers most of the variables needed to learn language for adults of any age. You get time, space and lots of friends to mingle with. I am through my first week in the site and am learning more each day. It is a [...]

How Do Children Construct Knowledge?

Hanifa K. Cook — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:38:04 +0000

Childhood formula is by far the most intimate and priced possession of a person. It does not matter who you are, where you live, or what background you come from; every person has a childhood history. The growing up formula which we carry into adulthood, are the necessary ingredients which fashion our behaviour towards our [...]

My Aussie Blog

Hanifa K. Cook — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:00:58 +0000

When I first visited Australia, I was pleasantly surprised and amused at how different English sounds. All along, we are taught to pronounce our English like it is the only way it is suppose to be. Australian accent is so different I could hardly understand a word especially when they speak so fast. I have [...]

The Blog Address: Modern History Of Childhood Social Environment

Hanifa K. Cook — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:27:37 +0000

I was thinking as I watched my child played pretend game with her cousin. The topics they chose ranged from working in an office, ordering meal at the restaurant, marriage ceremony and going to the beach. I noticed they were quite strong in their vocabulary, using words such as appointment, menu, order, email address and [...]

BlogAction Day 2008 Poverty: Legatum Prosperity Index 2008

Hanifa K. Cook — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:32:26 +0000

October 15, 2008, 12 thousand bloggers banded together to discuss a single issue, Poverty. Here is the same post published on this site to keep the action going. Here is a confusing question? Would you call a country poor by the dictum or maxim that it is not prosperous? There are a few indices used [...]