a billion people, two-thirds of them women, will enter the 21st century unable to read a book or write their names,” warns UNICEF in a new report, “The State of the World’s Children 1999.”
UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, points out that the illiterate “live in more desperate poverty and poorer health” than those who can read and write. The shocking number — 1 billion people illiterate — generated frightening headlines in major newspapers.
Poverty in the poorest countries is indeed something that ought to concern all of us, especially in a season when we pause to remember the less fortunate. But as usual, there’s more to this striking statistic than UNICEF tells us. Consider three points.
The Good News. Bad news sells, news watchers tell us. And 1 billion people unable to read and write — about 16 percent of world population — is certainly bad news. But let’s deconstruct the news.
First, UNICEF’s actual number is 855 million, a figure that did not appear in major newspapers. That’s still a large number, but it is 15 percent less than 1 billion.
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"Daniel, put the chocolate in your backpack", Mom said but Daniel replied,"No mom, I want to eat it now".
But the mother didn't allow him at all.
Daniel looked at the bar of chocolate and said, "If only you were in my mouth right now", but there was nothing he could say or do.
After about three sighs of regret, Daniel put the chocolate in his backpack.
Explanation:
Imperative Mood:
put it in your backpack
Indicative Mood
want to eat it now
Subjunctive Mood
If only you were in my mouth
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wow that was amazing but u didnt include a question sooo if you were to get out id say dig ur way out??
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