Annunciation

* Antonello, who until the accident had been an unquestioning believer, would never again willingly walk into a church. When the Bridge fell so did God and the possibility of God and for as long as Antonello lived, and he lived a long time, he would never again turned to God. Other survivors recounted praying to God as they swam through the muddy waters to the bank, as they crouched behind some structure to avoid the flying debris, as they watched the Bridge fall. They wanted to tell Antonello,…

In Italy the monuments, statues, and even the houses on the corners scream of past lives and stories, the raw emotions and struggles of times before us. Italy has the mindset or at least the outward appearance of seeming to be steeped in the arts, but is this really the case? Do all the Italians care about the Fine Arts? After having lived with and among them for three weeks, it would be safe to say that there are those who do in fact revel in the arts and fully enjoy being surrounded by them,…

The pleasures and the power of reading are many and varied and from the time human beings have learnt to etch a line on any surface, the art of reading has taken root and for the most part become integral to society. Reading provides to its consumer the power of education and knowledge and even as this is one of the most important aspects of the knowledge oriented society of modern times, the importance of reading and its power in achieving social status was seen especially in the mediaeval…

identify words. Once Shinia begins to increase in speed and accuracy our hope is that she will be able to comprehend texts. Conversely, to become a fluent reader, she needs to be able to automatically identify words, and then apply the appropriate annunciation features that include rhythm, phrasing, and intonation of phrases, passages, and sentences (Birsh, 2011; Wood, Flowers, and Grigorenko,…