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illiteracy
1. As reading it wasn't fast, but compared to illiteracy he was flying
2. women in our society, neglect of parents and the elderly, illiteracy
3. had come out of the wilderness of illiteracy and learned to read and write, when he'd made his
4. elevation of poor language skills and illiteracy to cult status; the rap music that pollutes the mind; the ubiquity of violence; the dominance of the drug culture as a model for young men; and the acceptance of a life on welfare as the norm
5. Also, between Deuce’s shakes and near illiteracy, he could probably manage a text eventually, but not that quickly
6. Today we have a lot of millionaires in the world who buy expensive cars, travel by private jet planes, have secret bank accounts in tax heavens (hoarding), and at the other extreme we have poverty, malnourishment, starvation, homelessness, illiteracy, and unemployment
7. The systematic introduction of illiteracy to each; Each one reach one, but no one teach
8. 3 births per 1,000 inhabitants), illiteracy (32
9. They include: a hugely expanding rural population that is moving to the urban areas; illiteracy – especially in regards Information Technology; lack of adequate schooling and medical care facilities; and their constantly escalating states of poverty
10. illiteracy and poverty of the way of overcoming their sorrows
11. Dick’s illiteracy did not make him a failure at living
12. What they had enjoyed in comparison to what this little boy had? What would be his future? Would he be doomed to a life of illiteracy and poverty? Would he, in a few years, be recruited by the Hezbollah, Hamas or some other organization to be a suicide bomber in Israel?
13. Female illiteracy is the single greatest obstacle to cultural changes because of the crucial role of women play in child rearing
14. Even if I could, would I give up my veranda with the view on the Nile, wide and majestic, with rich, modern Cairo along a mile stretch on each side of its banks? Twenty-star hotels, skyscrapers, snazzy government buildings and luxurious apartment houses? They made you forget the poverty of the masses and scruffy middle class, the skinny ten-year-old servant girls, the illiteracy and ignorance, the slums, the beggars, the indignant, malevolent gaze of your workers and the look of their wives and children if by chance you saw them
15. But because it was one of the oldest books to survive Europe’s Dark Age of illiteracy, as a cultural backlash from the insanity of 1,000 years of the Roman degradation and destruction, and dehumanization of humanity: it became worshipped
16. Until they live their lives mostly in a state of continual abject fear, hopelessness, passivity, resignation, ignorance, illiteracy, humbleness… with their self-esteem so destroyed, their psyches so damaged and so brutalized; that they become easy victims for even worse oppressions and degradations and suffering… as the quality of their lives disintegrate into even worse squalor, filth, and Ignorance
17. Societies still steeped in illiteracy, ignorance and fanaticism
18. generation of children growing up in ignorance who would spread the seeds of illiteracy
19. Mother’s cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance
20. Besides, all the energy has flowed out to the new developments, to the semi-rural supermarkets, the outdoor movies, new houses with wide lawns and stucco schools where children are confirmed in their illiteracy
21. Alexandra Mikhailovna Kalmikov, a noted worker for popular education, who turned to Tolstoi with the request that he express himself in regard to the order then given by the Minister of the Interior to close the committees on illiteracy
22. Still, the work done by the Society and by all other agencies—State and denominational—has not kept pace with the growth of population, and official statistics in some portions of the South show that the percentage of illiteracy is steadily increasing
23. While in every way the general work of reaching the masses and saving them from their illiteracy is to be pressed, the time has come to place these leading schools upon a firmer foundation and to make them more conspicuous as centres
24. If the native girls can come from their cabin homes into such an institution and be thus thoroughly trained, the axe is then laid at the very root of the tree of a squalid life of illiteracy, and a life of Christian culture and hope comes in its place, where Christian mothers throw angelic brightness over their households, and families of children are trained to act well their part in this great and growing nation
25. But when he took up the mighty task to which he consecrated his life, and was left to grapple with illiteracy, superstition and the needs of a benighted and down-trodden people, knotty questions in theology no longer vexed him, for he recognized that there was but one all-sufficient solvent for the dark problems which thrust themselves into the foreground, and that was the redemptive power of the Gospel of Christ