Posted Kent State Shootings - Forty Years Later to ESLBEE.COM News and Views
This message contains information about a site update in the ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY section of ESLBEE.COM. May 4, 2010, is the FORTY YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the Kent State Shootings, an event in which the Ohio National Guard shot 67 rounds into Kent State University Students over a period...
Posted Parallel Structure in Extreme Surfing Video to ESLBEE.COM News and Views
I have recently seen an extreme surfing video of Laird Hamilton who is considered the best big wave surfer of all time. The video itself is incredible as is the dialog that accompanies it. Listening carefully, the dialog contains many examples of parallel structure such as (1) ...I'm arriving at...
Posted Why I Use "Writing for Peace" by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o in All my Composition Classes to ESLBEE.COM News and Views
Writing for Peace (PDF file will open in new window) is a chapter from Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya by Ngugi Wa. Thiong’O. In this brief essay, Ngugi describes the economic, political, and cultural imperialism that dominated Kenya 22 years ago (during the Ronald Reagan...
Posted Why I Use "Why Write?" in All my Composition Classes to ESLBEE.COM News and Views
Some essays are made for English Composition classes, and Why Write? (PDF file will open in new window) is such an essay. Why Write? is Chapter Two of the book, Teaching English Composition, Principles and Techniques, by Jane B. Hughey, et al., and I first became acquainted with the book about 1993-94...
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