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DEAR ( Drop Every thing And Read ) is a kind of program which can be used as improving the students reading ability especially for Junior High school students. I got this program in Burwood Girl High School in Sydney Australia when I visited that school in 2004. I saw DEAR program is very interesting for our students in developing their reading skill.We know that it's difficult to invite the students in doing reading especially in Indonesia, reading is very hard habit to do. So DEAR

Have you heard of Seth Godin? He is a blogger with a huge fan base. People enjoy his style of writing and his mission to motivate. He wants people to be doers.

Seth Godin has great advice for business people, marketers, and anyone who has a creative idea. Why is Seth Godin a good model for bloggers? He carefully chooses every word. 

For this month's writing challenge, we are going to work on a writing skill called paraphrasing. We are going to borrow some of Seth's blog posts to practise this sk

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY WINNER:  Ranu who wrote: "This little girl is a future scientist. So she says (the caption):

"Do you know that there are more than 100 products made from pork?"

I chose this one because this is something she would probably say. This kid knows far too many facts for her age because she memorizes every word she reads! 

Hello, my dear friends!

I want to tell you about school exam's time in my country - Russia. This time was starting 26.05.2011 and it will be in progress one month - to 25.06.2011.

Do you want to feel yourself a student? Example, a student of Russian elementary school? I can help you with that! :-)

I work in a school as a teacher of Russian language and literature and know very well what kind of tests are brought forward for students of different forms.

 I bring forward a real literature exam's test,

happy even single until now:)....

An angel whispered to me to choose this caption, submitted by Ida, Congratulations!

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One of my drawings ...

Could you give your comments or captions here? Please and I will glad to accept them, thanks!

-Nadiyah-

Dear Papa,

Today, I was driving to work when suddenly, I thought of you.

The last few years have been difficult for me.

Where were you?

My heart started feeling empty, yet heavy.

I began to wonder if you're thinking about me too.

It's been a long while, hasn't it?

Have you been well?

Happy?

I pray so.

I know this is unexpected of me to write to you.

It's something I've never done in the past.

It's a pity that we never got a chance to be together at all.

You weren't there to hold me when Mother gave birth to

In the last few years, economy in Belqium has badly declined. In Wallonia, steel companies went out of business, as in Flanders, those making cars, as Ford, laid off a large number of their employees. In both cases, those companies were the pride of Belgium.

The minimum rate wages before income is about 1250 euros per month. To answer Expector's question, the average taxes rate is around 43% but it can go up to 70% ( for people who make A LOT of money) Most of us work the 6 first month of the y

There are many ways to celebrate birthdays. Generally they have a party and which would by attended by family or friends by inviting them to eat together at a restaurant. Convenience as the availability of a birthday cake, and other delicious food, cards, candles and all that goes to celebrate. 

Far different from them, I celebrated my birthday, staying on the bed, cell phone in my hand and I sang a birthday song to myself, remembering past years I have passed. only that ...  no special celebrat

I decided to create this pattern to challenge myself because I agree that wordiness often becomes a tomb of the idea.

Photos of Belgium's capital : Brussels.


Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium is situated in Western Europe, between Germany,
the Netherlands, France, Luxembourg and the North sea. It covers a area of about 30 500
square kilometers and has a population of about 11.000 000 inhabitants.
In my coutnry there are two main languages, in the northern part, people speak Flemish, in the
south we speak French. In addition, we also have a tiny little part just at the South East of Wallonia
where inhabit

Type...type...eat...type...bathroom...type...eat...type...eat...type...bathroom...type...sleep...type....!!!

Sometimes, I feel like my fingers are about to fall off (just like now)...yet I still manage to keep on tapping my keyboard.  

But this is how I usually spend my day...and night....except when I'm playing with my kid or out running errands.

Thinking about it...I was reminded of the first time I was learning how to use the typewriter.  

I had a STENO/TYPING class back in high school.

I rememb

How the Empire will Prevail: Will Washington Foment War Between China and India?

This article is not written by me. It is not written by any crackpot conspiracy theorist. It is written by Dr Paul Craig Roberts who was Assistant Secretary to the US Treasury in the Reagan Administration, Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal, Senior Research Fellow in the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International

I've noticed some members just keep writing blogs/blog posts, but don't really like to read or leave a comment on blogs from other members. Don't get me wrong - I mean we do encourage you to write blogs, but we also encourage you to leave a comment on blogs by other members.

Would you like others to comment on your blog?

It seems that everyone wants others to comment on their blog. So many people still remember how excited when they saw a comment on what they just wrote. Some members may wonder w

Yesterday me and my friend went to Darband which is the one of famous climbing destinations in Tehran . In Iran we have 2 mountains , One of them is called Zagros and the other is called Alborz and Darband is the one of mountain at Alborz .

During the climbing i decided to take some photos in the way of climbing and share it here with my dear friends because this beauty deserves to be seen with anyone .

It was hard to climb with rope but we had to use it because our destination was Shirpala wh

Wow! Great! Congratulations to Li Na, a Chinese woman tennis player!

"A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn't have an air force."

Source: KillingHope.org

USA Bombings Of Other Countries Since World War 2

• Korea and China 1950-53 (Korean War)
• Guatemala 1954
• Indonesia 1958
• Cuba 1959-1961
• Guatemala 1960
• Congo 1964
• Laos 1964-73
• Vietnam 1961-73
• Cambodia 1969-70
• Guatemala 1967-69
• Grenada 1983
• Lebanon 1983, 1984
• Libya 1986
• El Salvador 1980s
• Nicaragua 1980s
• Iran 1987
• Panama 1989
• Iraq 1991 (Persian Gulf War)
• Kuwait 1991
• Somalia 1993
• Bosnia 1994, 1995
• Sudan 1998

                            Animals born in this world with the nature.Water,food,even our breath also given by the nature.It is provide things to satisfy our basic needs.Human is the animal who never satisfy with anything. Because of that human change the nature in unnecessary way by cutting trees and build various kind of buildings etc.

                                But nature also may felt that changes.Before human harm for the nature ,there wasn't much problems to the animals from the natu