One television news show with integrity and the determination to end domestic tyranny brings about a senatorial indictment and galvanizes a nation against government sanctioned witch hunts. Good Night and Good Luck gives an indirect inside look at the media filters that bias the news. The docudrama, set in the 1950s, illustrates the Propaganda Model […]
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When Aleka Titzer was nine months old, her father showed her simple words, like “head”. teeth and arms. His father never said a word, he only showed him the written word and he did each task. At eighteen months, Aleka was then able to say all those words more than most. How is this possible? […]
The capacity for language acquisition in the very young is quite simply astonishing. In just a handful of years, most children in any culture around the world are capable of progressing from knowing nothing about any language to becoming fluent in their native language; proficient enough to make their speech understood in a grammatically acceptable […]