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 ...
When Aleka Titzer was nine months old, her father showed her simple words, such as “head”. “teeth” and “arms up”. Her father never said the word, only showed her the written word and she did each action. At eighteen months, Aleka then could say all of those words plus many more. 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 ...
“Add a powerful new street drug called DOC to the list of dangerous cocktails that suburban young people in Oakland County are experimenting with.” begins an article in the Oakland Press by journalist Natalie Lombardo. The most troubling part of this article is, it seems as if the author didn’t even bother to do almost ...