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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defends, persuade, think, believe. evidence
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other words fit as well but I think these sounded best in the sentence
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B
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sad means pretty much the opposite of happy
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The razor represents the power the barber has over the Captain. The barber realizes that with just a little more pressure on the razor he could murder the Captain. Yet he also realizes that this razor has the power to transform his destiny and mark him as a murderer for the rest of his life.
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Well, all you need to do is fill in the words. i dont know if you want me to write the whole thing or only the exact words but lol-... ill do both ig?
Whole poem:
O captain my captain! our fearful trip is done, the ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, the port is near, the bells i hear the people all exulting, while follow eyes and steady kneel the vessel grim and daring, but o heart! Heart! heart! o the bleeding drops of red, where on the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and dead
Just the fill in the blanks:
Captain Captain fearful trip done
ship weathered rack prize sought won
port bells people exulting
follow eyes steady keel vessel grim daring
heart heart heart
bleeding drops red
deck captain
cold dead
