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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.
Lessing's childhood involved going out into nature and enjoying it as best as she could until her mother would tell her to stop and be a proper woman. Lessing lived after World War I from which his father suffered injuries that prevented him from walking again.
Answer:In this poem, written anonymously, the speaker gives her opinion on the position of women in society during her time. In the past, female poets and authors often signed their writing as “anonymous” in order to get it published.
Skill Focus:
In this lesson, you’ll practice analyzing structure and how it contributes to the poem’s meaning and impact. This means paying attention to when and how the author chooses to reveal crucial information, and how she chooses to begin and end the poem. As you read, take note of what the author chooses to focus on in each stanza, the differences between the stanzas, and how these contribute to the poem’s overall meaning.
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It was one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important ecumencial COUNCILS. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.
