Somebody told me Trump is wanting to see the Death Certificate. ;o)
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Monday, May 2, 2011
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Somebody told me Trump is wanting to see the Death Certificate. ;o)
Somebody told me Trump is wanting to see the Death Certificate. ;o)
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@AncientProverbs: To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. -Ancient Proverb
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Wish I'd said it ...
@michaelstjames: "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy." - Martin Luther King, Jr
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Brain Size of Children Yields Clues to Autism
Children with autism tend to have larger brains than children without autism, a study suggests.
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@Inspired_Ones: When things r against u, remember airplanes takes off against the wind, not with it. -Henry Ford http://twitpic.com/31fy8w
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Death of Cursive Handwriting: Will It Make Historical Documents Indecipherable?
The drumbeat of lamentation of how cursive handwriting is dying continues (It seems like every year we have a post on the death knell of cursive, so why should 2011 be any different?)
Young people rarely use cursive anymore, and that may be fine for their daily communication needs, but consider this report by Katie Zezima for The New York Times: the death of cursive also means that a growing number of historical documents will become indecipherable to them.
Jimmy Bryant, director of Archives and Special Collections at the University of Central Arkansas, says that a connection to archival material is lost when students turn away from cursive. While teaching last year, Mr. Bryant, on a whim, asked students to raise their hands if they wrote in cursive as a way to communicate. None did.
That cursive-challenged class included Alex Heck, 22, who said she barely remembered how to read or write cursive. Ms. Heck and a cousin leafed through their grandmother's journal shortly after she died, but could barely read her cursive handwriting.
"It was kind of cryptic," Ms. Heck said. She and the cousin tried to decipher it like one might a code, reading passages back and forth. "I'm not used to reading cursive or writing it myself."
Link | The Atlantic has the counterargument
Young people rarely use cursive anymore, and that may be fine for their daily communication needs, but consider this report by Katie Zezima for The New York Times: the death of cursive also means that a growing number of historical documents will become indecipherable to them.
Jimmy Bryant, director of Archives and Special Collections at the University of Central Arkansas, says that a connection to archival material is lost when students turn away from cursive. While teaching last year, Mr. Bryant, on a whim, asked students to raise their hands if they wrote in cursive as a way to communicate. None did.
That cursive-challenged class included Alex Heck, 22, who said she barely remembered how to read or write cursive. Ms. Heck and a cousin leafed through their grandmother's journal shortly after she died, but could barely read her cursive handwriting.
"It was kind of cryptic," Ms. Heck said. She and the cousin tried to decipher it like one might a code, reading passages back and forth. "I'm not used to reading cursive or writing it myself."
Link | The Atlantic has the counterargument
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