For ESP, Freire transformed "innocent illiterate people into illiterate communists".
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If they are illiterate, it's more likely the children will be illiterate too.
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Too many black kids are functionally illiterate because their parents were functionally illiterate.
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According to Barefoot College, they are primarily illiterate and semi-illiterate grandmothers undertaking solar engineering training within their communities.
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This created a loophole that made sure illiterate white people weren't prohibited from voting in the way illiterate black people were.
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An estimated 85 percent of all juveniles who enter the court system in the U.S. are functionally illiterate, with more than 60 percent of all prison inmates considered functionally illiterate.
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My mother is illiterate - she didn't go to school.
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Do you really want to live as an illiterate expatriate?
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Over half of those who finish school are functionally illiterate.
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Her mother is illiterate, and her father drives a truck.
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Almost 40% of the women in Gorkha District are illiterate.
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Over half of those who finish school are practically illiterate.
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Millennials might not be as financially illiterate as you think.
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His father, also named John D., was an illiterate carpenter.
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Advertising is a tax the poor and technologically illiterate pay.
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Few women have been to school and most are illiterate.
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Elizabeth Warren was "economically illiterate" for opposing the trade deal.
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Statistics show about 65% of the Haitian population are illiterate.
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The topic makes me feel stupid and uneducated and illiterate.
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Essentially illiterate, the women talk through their grief and trauma.
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David is politically chaste and Mr. Nixon is scientifically illiterate.
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His grandfather was illiterate but understood the value of education.
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Two thirds of the 774 million illiterate adults are women.
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Arturo's mother, who was 17 and illiterate, died in childbirth.
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Bonded laborers are often illiterate and not aware of their rights.
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They leave their children with grandparents, most of whom are illiterate.
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In many cases, they were illiterate in their own mother tongue.
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My mother is illiterate, not by any choice of her own.
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Xia's mother was illiterate, and his father barely finished first grade.
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It states that she is illiterate, because she cannot read Arabic.
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Satouf, who is illiterate, does not send her daughters to school.
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That's the Michael Wolff, with the extreme, like, he's semi illiterate.
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They were illiterate, but knew everything about surviving in the desert.
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I have to admit that I'm sort of a Marvel illiterate.
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Her mother was illiterate, and the paperwork was daunting and expensive.
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Unfortunately, the victims are farmers, and most of them are illiterate.
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I was "bad with money" — financially illiterate, underemployed, drowning in debt.
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"I feel illiterate," said Aleman, 55, who works at a travel agency.
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The ability to leave audio notes makes it popular among illiterate people.
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The researchers didn't just get these results among science-illiterate respondents, either.
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With the students being illiterate, the teaching method relies on muscle memory.
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"There are no written records, because our ancestors were illiterate," he explained.
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"Either she lied or she's truly illiterate," Suketu Mehta told BuzzFeed News.
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And likely speaks to how tech illiterate so many politicians still are.
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A quarter of Congolese are illiterate and are likely to require assistance.
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How do self-described evangelicals accept a candidate who is scripturally illiterate?
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Some immigrants were unfamiliar with paper and pencil tasks, many were illiterate.
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"He loves to say that his literary agent is illiterate," she said.
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Democracy cannot function with an ill-informed, ignorant and politically illiterate electorate.
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Mr. Ahmad estimated that about 40 percent of his students are illiterate.
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Result: As of 23.5, more than three in five Afghans remained illiterate.
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The U.S. Department of Education says 32 million American adults are illiterate.
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She was illiterate, but he saw her as his first spiritual genius.
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Many of the 162,000 former fighters it registered were illiterate and needed education.
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His oldest sisters are illiterate, but his youngest sister is bound for college.
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Is said to be semi-illiterate, receiving no formal education beyond third grade.
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More importantly, they said he's illiterate, and didn't know what he was reading.
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For the Fortnite illiterate: Battle Pass is the heart of Epic's Fortnite monetization.
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His second-wife Concetta was illiterate and took ten years to learn English.
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Illiterate women, often from society's poorest segments, have little choice but to work.
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Blackwell's mother was illiterate; she was determined that her children would be educated.
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In total, an estimated two-thirds of the world's illiterate people are women.
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"They did this to us, peasant women, because we were illiterate," she said.
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For the financially illiterate, freedom of choice means the freedom to be fleeced.
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He was illiterate and incapable of leading units and organize killings, he added.
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He is historically illiterate, so the rest of us must be as well.
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More than half of Pakistani women are illiterate, and many suffer domestic violence.
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Illiterate Synth Pop is out now via Pandora (US) and The 405 (EU)
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"'Tipping points' is a propaganda slogan for the scientifically illiterate," the comment reads.
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As far as I know, Private Carlile, an illiterate, did not own slaves.
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His mother started a small concern writing and reading letters for illiterate neighbors.
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In reality, Iranian women were largely illiterate and less politically active before 1979.
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Campaign symbols are mandatory because more than a quarter of Egyptians are illiterate.
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He said he was illiterate and did not have a school certificate, either.
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Carrie's point is proven: The scrunchie is only for the dumpy fashion-illiterate.
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Nearly nine in 28500 Afghan women are illiterate and have no formal education.
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Some may be functionally illiterate or have no access to job retraining programs.
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Lead photo: Someone who is not illiterate, reading a book to a child.
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Mr Trump's doctrine that trade must be balanced to be fair is economically illiterate.
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It's the type of outfit even the fashion illiterate can tell is effortlessly stylish.
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It's a clandestine horror show for the single most technologically illiterate man left standing.
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Kroening told Business Insider the eventual goal was to allow illiterate people to program.
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The first miracle of Islam is that an illiterate man is able to read.
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But in reality, many of the witnesses were simply old, confused, disabled, or illiterate.
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The method was adapted for illiterate people using voice and video materials, he added.
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As recently as the 1940s, fully half of Brazilians were illiterate, malnourished, and barefoot.
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Young borrowers and financially illiterate people with low incomes were particularly vulnerable, it added.
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If you were poor you died young, you were illiterate—no travel, no technology.
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The family is illiterate and the program was not explained to them, he said.
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Born to illiterate parents in Kerala, Ms. Ammini described her childhood as perpetually unstable.
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But being illiterate, she had trouble selecting her favorite songs on the karaoke machine.
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Even illiterate health workers can do this, employing materials that use drawings and colors.
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There were a lot of folks in Cuba at that point who were illiterate.
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Not only are many of Uber's drivers here unfamiliar with smartphones, some are illiterate.
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I think being an illiterate war puppet helped his cause on both those fronts.
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Most of the workers are illiterate, paid a pittance, and held in debt bondage.
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Illiterate people — almost everyone over 40 — dismiss the internet as not intended for them.
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Nearly half are illiterate, and only one in four has access to a toilet.
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"Our hypothesis is that this is relevant and consistent across populations of illiterate adults."
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Pena also testified that he was illiterate and couldn't read the statement he had signed.
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Think about what an automated AI spear-phisher could do to tech-illiterate government officials.
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Also, an important protip for the football illiterate: definitely start Miller in all your games.
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Meanwhile, one-third of all 15-year-olds nationwide are functionally illiterate, the report said.
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George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, has called his pro-Brexit colleagues "economically illiterate".
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Most Afghan migrants are unskilled, often illiterate, workers who travel illegally, the World Bank said.
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Few of the new arrivals spoke English, and many were illiterate in their native languages.
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Mr. Rasraj, who is illiterate, appears to be a pawn in someone else's dangerous game.
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Blaming Ivanka Trump for the situation in Gaza isn't just politically illiterate, it's utterly immoral.
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Yet they are functionally illiterate — they comprehend very little of what they can sound out.
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She is fortunate, she said, because her father is educated, though her mother is illiterate.
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WhatsApp is also invaluable because you can send voice memos to people who are illiterate.
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Mr. Tosyali said that his father, Serif Tosyali, was illiterate and deeply ashamed of it.
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I believe advertising has become a tax that the poor and the technologically illiterate pay.
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The older women were illiterate, and those Gutierrez's age had only a grade-school education.
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In popular culture, swamp folk are depicted as not only illiterate but also nearly unintelligible.
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Violet's illiterate father (Danny Wolohan) gently urges caution, though, when he suspects she's having sex.
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Often traumatized by war and illiterate, many struggle to find jobs and reintegrate into society.
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Immigrants, often illiterate, arrived with large numbers of children and lived in crowded transit camps.
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But unfortunately, because they were illiterate, they could not understand Islam like an educated person.
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"For a while I thought he might be illiterate, maybe he's just deaf," Meyers said.
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Ms. Palladino died nearly 50 years before the manifesto was published, and she was illiterate.
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No one wants an illiterate teenage mom, but no one wants to hand out the condoms.
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Yet most children get fewer than six years of schooling and one in nine is illiterate.
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Many of them went from the mostly illiterate edges of the Islamic world to industrial cities.
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Since most of the pupils' parents are illiterate, they are unlikely to be aware of that.
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And class was largely irrelevant; the prestigious written language was spoken by educated and illiterate alike.
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Her illiterate neighbor Laili was barely able to hold her voter certificate the right way up.
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Even if the labeling was Lao, some Hmong and Khmu are illiterate and can't understand it.
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Abedin's crime changes from her acting as if she's above the law to being technologically illiterate.
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I was virtually illiterate, but I was very good with my hands and became a patternmaker.
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But with the church lady—a grandmother, retired schoolteacher, volunteer with illiterate adults—Matt couldn't detach.
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Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers Lego Is Making Braille Bricks.
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Anna, whom Blight describes as "largely illiterate," could be of little help with her husband's journalism.
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The funniest thing for my friends with that movie was that I am social-media illiterate.
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Unfortunately, the sad reality is that most Americans are financially illiterate, and not just about taxes.
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And just about every journalist who profiles her cannot help mentioning that her husband is illiterate.
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Gail: As a technological illiterate, I have long worked under the code of Beware the App.
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With limited alternatives for education, my mother did not finish middle school and today is illiterate.
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His mother is illiterate, and his father, who worked in construction, has a primary-school education.
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They reported that out of 750 million illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women.
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He had been worried that it was too late, that they would be illiterate like him.
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"I learned about honesty from an illiterate woman," Mr. da Silva said, his eyes welling up.
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It was by no means easy: The family was impoverished and many of them were illiterate.
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Now fewer than 15 percent are illiterate, and fewer than 10 percent live in extreme poverty.
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The details: The scientists taught a group of 21 illiterate Hindi-speaking adults how to read Devanagari script for 6 months, comparing the changes in their brains before and after the tutelage, along with a sample of 9 illiterate adults who did not receive any teaching.
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Poor and illiterate, Ahmed says he agreed to sign-up without understanding the consequences of his decision.
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India contains a third of the world's illiterate population, the most in a single country by far.
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" In the interview, she addressed her comments about why she called Cardi B an "illiterate untalented rat.
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They inadvertently kick-started a revolution that lifted up black, immigrant, poor and illiterate consumers around America.
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At Kurauni Primary School in Lucknow, the head teacher, Pradeep Pande, says that most parents are illiterate.
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" He also reposted other posts on Gab that called the people in the caravan "illiterate brutal murderers.
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That is a big hurdle for poor farmers and itinerant workers, especially women, many of them illiterate.
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But many parents may not have understand the forms because they spoke indigenous dialects or were illiterate.
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In some rural areas, where nine in ten women are already illiterate, schooling makes little economic sense.
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Again, Hawley is either illiterate when it comes to reading laws or he's simply being intentionally misleading.
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Fatima, who is illiterate, struggled to explain the legal mess that she had been in for months.
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But the fact is, many Americans are science illiterate; the majority cannot name a single living scientist.
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George Osborne, the chancellor, called Brexiteers who claimed there would be no costs in leaving "economically illiterate".
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It's all fun and games until Daisy tries to make the illiterate Andy read her exam question.
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About a third of the population is illiterate, and just 4% of households have access to electricity.
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Many residents are illiterate, unemployment is high and few have electricity or running water in their homes.
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And if you are young, chances are much higher, since many of today's illiterate people are old.
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Poor, illiterate and unable to understand English, Sabella was accused, without proof, of murdering her abusive husband.
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According to a survey by the Global Finance Literacy Excellence Center, 63% of Americans are financially illiterate.
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At least 73% of the Samburu community is illiterate, a majority of them girls, the NACC says.
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Most of them are illiterate and are forced to beg or rely on humanitarian aid for survival.
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A smaller share of the world's people were hungry, impoverished or illiterate than at any time before.
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I was far from illiterate, but the importance of actually reading was never prioritized in my world.
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Obviously many of them as has been reported many times are illiterate, obviously they don&apost speak English.
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According to Olan, William was also illiterate, keeping John around to help with bills and other complicated paperwork.
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Chen's journey starts with his illiterate grandmother, who helped his father go from rural poverty to university graduate.
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According to a World Bank report, about 76 percent of women aged over 15 in Afghanistan are illiterate.
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Now, you'd have to be almost completely web illiterate to not find your way around the new Twitter.com.
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Many previously illiterate Cubans learned to read during a literacy campaign launched at the beginning of the revolution.
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Astonishingly, in Egypt's broken system university graduates are more likely to be jobless than the country's near-illiterate.
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Johnson's judgment came after attorneys for Kelly claimed the singer is illiterate and couldn't read the lawsuit documents.
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Her parents, weavers who earned less than $8 a week laboring on a government-issued loom, were illiterate.
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The bullies ruling over us, were illiterate, oppressive, and preyed upon even our few small moments of joy.
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But even cars produced domestically will rise in price thanks to the president&aposs economically illiterate trade interventions.
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Beyond the blinding stupidity & accidental great argument for firing all cops, this was punctuated by an illiterate. pic.twitter.
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No. What does it for me is Charlie Kelly, the illiterate, grimy, cat food-eating, literally stinky character.
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The English inhabitants are illiterate savages who cower as colonizers from Africa motor up and down the Thames.
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About a quarter of the population is illiterate and thus may not be as aware of the danger.
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High school seniors would volunteer to teach how to read and write to illiterate elders from the community.
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They are as young as 17 and as old as 70, urban professors as well as illiterate farmers.
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Before the bewildered, illiterate woman could find her way home, she was thrown in another jail in Damascus.
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They are the "real Americans," as the historically illiterate Sarah Palin loved to say many times a day.
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She took on causes like the exploitation of illiterate Italian laborers and the sexual enslavement of young girls.
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The emir was illiterate, so the boy was responsible for saving numbers and reading the caller ID aloud.
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Her son Jesus made straight A's in school, a source of pride for Ms. Ramirez, who is illiterate.
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But what power, she asked, does an illiterate farmer like her have in the face of China's might?
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Some pages are filled with Arabic, lessons in journalism and poetry that Mr. Omari taught an illiterate prisoner.
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Since they are an illiterate lot, they cannot differentiate between a real piece of news and a rumor.
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According to a survey by the Global Finance Literacy Excellence Center, 63% of Americans are considered financially illiterate.
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Until the 1960s, a majority of humans had always been illiterate; now, 85 percent of adults are literate.
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In Queen of Katwe, a Christian missionary brings opportunity to illiterate children in the slums he came from.
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As recently as the 1960s, a majority of humans had always been illiterate and lived in extreme poverty.
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Conor continued to rail against Floyd -- saying he's illiterate and stupidly blows his money on boatloads of strippers.
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I went from being illiterate to being way above grade level, and today I'm a grad student studying English.
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Even by the low standards set by the Labour Party under Mr Corbyn's leadership, the policy is economically illiterate.
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On the latest episode of Full Frontal, Bee attempted to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Donald Trump is illiterate.
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According to UNESCO, around 45% of women and girls in Nepal are illiterate, almost double the rate for men.
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Of course, after such tweets I get flooded with thousands of replies, many of them nasty, illiterate and hateful.
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We are well aware that the culture industry is driven by intellectual fashion and is often art historically illiterate.
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There were more than fifty such girls, all of them poor, many illiterate—none connected to a prominent family.
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Gambian officials say the system is designed to avoid spoiled ballots and to simplify the process for illiterate voters.
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Such idealism lives beside the reality of a society that's largely digitally illiterate, where consent is not fully understood.
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These poor and often illiterate women could earn an amount equivalent to ten years' wages for a single pregnancy.
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Machines made voting easier for illiterate people, which reduced by a tenth the number of blank and spoilt ballots.
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Most of these women are illiterate and are now paving the way for their daughters to go to university.
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But with many farmers illiterate, less than half of village farmers check the weather station readings like Anjaiah does.
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Many are illiterate and have few skills beyond knowing how to fight and survive in remote forests and caves.
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So when you think about being cut off from that because you are illiterate — think how marginalized you are.
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But despite ongoing government initiatives, drop-out rates are high and almost one in two women are still illiterate.
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It's statistically illiterate to imagine that most people are bad, when most of the people you know are good.
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Her mother was illiterate, but she urged her daughter to pursue an education and become independent of volatile men.
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Many whose citizenship is under scrutiny are poor and illiterate, unprepared to deal with the tribunals' opaque legal process.
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Miles said there was no evidence to say the LIA had been "financially illiterate" when it made the investments.
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Even though most of his audience may be illiterate they maintain the ability to "read an act," he posits.
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Gulaban's husband, Harjilal, recalled how people in Thar would taunt him when his "illiterate" wife drove their small car.
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The campaign is meant to show the other 80 percent of people what it feels like to be illiterate.
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When the country unified in 1861, 90 percent of the population was illiterate and spoke only the local tongue.
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"The latest survey results, from 2014, showed that most Indian children in Class 5 are functionally illiterate," Sengupta writes.
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I didn't have the capacity to process that my mother was illiterate, and no one explained it to me.
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It is possible that said person is in their early sixties, and is chronically illiterate in all things 'tech'.
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My grandmother, she was illiterate, but she raised my father, from a countryside child, to be a university graduate.
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A financially illiterate journalist who is writing McCreadie's biography has no understanding of how the entrepreneur built his fortune.
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"My mom was illiterate, she didn't speak any English," said Jimmy Hiem, who was deported to Cambodia in 2016.
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During his hearing, Mr. Matabor described growing up illiterate in a Bangladeshi orphanage until a family informally adopted him.
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Those who signed consent forms in Spanish were illiterate and spoke only the indigenous Quechua language, rights groups say.
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Even among those who do, many can't read it; a quarter of the population in Assam state is illiterate.
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Despite always having a job and being taught (and reminded regularly) to live within my means, I was financially illiterate.
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Lea Michele hit back Thursday at rumors circulating the internet this week that she's illiterate by, well, reading and writing.
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But generations of women have been left behind, with women accounting for almost two-thirds of the world's illiterate adults.
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E-readers get a bad rap—probably because there are a lot of illiterate assholes out there who hate reading.
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Hired help might be illiterate, so one should be certain to instruct staff verbally rather than with a printed schedule.
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Other parents who were illiterate or spoke only indigenous languages said they could not understand the forms they were signing.
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Until the 1960s, a majority of humanity had always been illiterate; now, fewer than 15 percent of adults worldwide are.
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An illiterate peasant, this Lucía leaves a female work brigade for love of a self-regarding, insanely proprietary truck driver.
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His eldest son, born in 1003, was also illiterate and lacked a birth certificate and a school certificate, Singh said.
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A day earlier, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton sparked criticism by warning that "illiterate and innumerate" refugees would steal Australian jobs.
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Illiterate people, however, did not show a faster rate of decline in skills than those who could read and write.
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Activists say these women - many of whom are illiterate and speak little Spanish - are particularly vulnerable to being sexually exploited.
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Blippar co-founder and Chief Executive Ambarish Mitra has said in the past that its product could help educate the illiterate.
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Eyelashes are "black as the legs of flies"; the letters of the alphabet resemble "nurse's stitches" to his initially illiterate eyes.
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Many of the jobs created by the gas finds go to highly skilled expatriates, not to locals, who are mostly illiterate.
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Roger Cohen The time has come for a painful confession: I have spent my life with words, yet I am illiterate.
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Mukesh, an illiterate cab driver in Mumbai, uses Uber's ride-hailing app through a combination of voice input and audio direction.
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Among the women refugees there, about one quarter are illiterate, according to a recent study by Turkish women's rights foundation Kamer.
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We have 70% of the prison population in the United States reading at a fourth grade level; people are functionally illiterate.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez targeting the wealthy are "economically illiterate," a top economic advisor to President Donald Trump told CNBC on Monday.
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Though their ranting is often nonsensical, talk-show hosts sway opinion in Egypt, where over a quarter of people are illiterate.
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About 122 million young people are illiterate, showing that literacy skills for younger generations are still in need of dire attention.
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" Meanwhile, many tech experts and privacy advocates have already given their unsolicited input, calling the proposal "ludicrous, dangerous" and "technically illiterate.
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"Most of these women are illiterate and dependent on daily wages to survive," said Indhumathi Radhakrishnan, a coordinator with the CFCA.
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Gambian officials say the system is designed to avoid spoiled ballots and to simplify the process for the many illiterate voters.
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But the current presidential election may yet prove that an even bigger part of the citizenry is politically illiterate — and functional.
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In a study we did last year, we found that Mom and Dad are nearly as financially illiterate as their kids.
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The country's electoral body praised the saying it was "more transparent, credible, and fair," allowing the country's illiterate citizens to vote.
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Illiterate until Castro's friend Ernesto "Che" Guevara taught him to write his name, Lopez went on to train as a mechanic.
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Part of this story is the history of Jim Crow, the system of segregation that kept Harriet impoverished, illiterate and disfranchised.
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Now, read the article, "Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers," and answer the following questions: 1.
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They were mostly illiterate; since I could read and write, they asked me, a 9-year-old, to keep the books.
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Currently 45 million Americans are functionally illiterate and cannot read above a fifth-grade level, according to the Literacy Project Foundation.
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If the parent is illiterate, he or she is advised to turn the pages and tell a story using the pictures.
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Had Ms. Gebre accepted that fate, she would most likely have led a life of drudgery as an illiterate farm wife.
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When I was a boy, a majority of adults had always been illiterate, but now more than 85 percent can read.
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However, as so many of these "leaders" are scientifically illiterate, they are incapable of understanding the precipice that we are approaching.
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The kids are demanding that their teachers do something to prevent another generation of politically illiterate citizens from coming of age.
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She was helping him prepare for the G.E.D., a major undertaking as he was "somewhat illiterate" when they started studying together.
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When I was born in 1959, a majority of the world's population had always been illiterate and lived in extreme poverty.
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Signs often relayed such basic details, but their clever forms also enabled those who were illiterate to navigate the many storefronts.
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It is estimated that about 1.3 million people in the U.S. are legally blind, and the majority of those individuals are illiterate.
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How smart are you if you don't know that the meaning of illiterate means to not know how to read or write?
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You also reveal in the book that you were functionally illiterate until the mid-90s, when you were in your early 40s.
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Officials gave the parents forms to sign in English and Spanish, but many of the parents spoke indigenous dialects or were illiterate.
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But he's illiterate and wouldn't have known about all this if Imad hadn't been there to read the documentation sent to him.
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Eight years later the national government banned most office construction in central London, in an economically illiterate effort to spread wealth around.
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Even tech-illiterate viewers have probably at least heard of Candy Crush, or played a round of Angry Birds way back when.
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"I worry for my brother, his father, and his mother, who are illiterate and don't even speak Arabic or Spanish," says Fatima.
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It would seem parents must force politicians to spend into bankruptcy or else doom their illiterate, innumerate children to a menial existence.
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Antiques In ancient times, scribes churned out documents — love poems, prayers, lawsuits — for clients who were illiterate or too busy to write.
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But he's also an immigrant, the grandson of an illiterate rice farmer who did not have indoor plumbing until the late 1990s.
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Polling staff have reportedly gone house to house in villages explaining the process and to residents, many of whom may be illiterate.
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Rather, they insisted that because Ms. Robinson was not illiterate or disabled, she had not been entitled to even minimal verbal assistance.
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In India, where many users are illiterate and don't have access to the wider internet, this means WhatsApp rumors spread like wildfire.
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Throughout the many revisions, the conceit was always clear: the novel would be a letter addressed to Vuong's mother, who is illiterate.
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The net result: High school students are virtually illiterate on the subject, and this has had severe consequences for our national life.
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JALORE, India (Reuters) - Bhawri Devi, an illiterate Indian laborer, thought she was dying when she started to lose her hearing last month.
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Illiterate, religious, and from a working-class Irish family, Burns has actually experienced the proletarian existence about which Engels can only pontificate.
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Ihsan's mother is illiterate; Ihsan's father can read, but didn't go through his statement—he just signed where Dhiya told him to.
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Many of us have been groundlessly accused of being politically illiterate, of having a conscience and of being idealistic for expecting fairness.
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Heinz has released a new bottle that attempts to teach us, the unwashed and ketchup flow illiterate, how to finally pour correctly.
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A half century ago, a majority of the world's people had always been illiterate; now we are approaching 90 percent adult literacy.
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They were illiterate because they were never allowed to attend school, so there was no trove of letters for me to mine.
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"If you don't study hard, my today is your tomorrow," Genxi, who is illiterate, tells his daughter, now close to completing high school.
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The education system is broken, so much so that the jobless rate is actually higher for university graduates than for the near-illiterate.
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She was looking for painting work, but said it had become more difficult for older laborers, many of them illiterate, to land jobs.
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Most workers are young women from poor, illiterate and low-caste or "Dalit" communities, who often face intimidation, sexually offensive remarks and harassment.
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Her mother, who was illiterate, was a "crazed creative figure," Ms. Applebroog recalled, who added fur accents to her daughter's hand-sewn clothes.
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More than 2,000 units employ an estimated 300,000 people, most of them young women from poor, illiterate and low-caste or "Dalit" communities.
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" This use of the word "illiterate" is an echo of the James Baldwin quotation in the first essay in the collection, "Black Body.
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As the youngest of seven children of an illiterate mother, he never went to the capital until he was in his late teens.
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Her family said she had been teaching illiterate women to read while finishing her own high school degree, and sewing dresses at night.
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How did you get such phenomenal performances out of a 12-year-old, who was illiterate when you started shooting, and an infant?
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Compounding his problems is that he is illiterate because, as a farmer's son, he was expected to stay home to work the land.
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"All my family members up to eight generations were illiterate, and I was the first one who can read and write," he said.
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Such government-issued documents in the countryside often contain spelling or numerical errors, as the illiterate depend on others to write down details.
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Much of the commentary after last week's hearings focused on just how technologically illiterate members of Congress, particularly the senators, showed themselves to be.
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Most are illiterate, keep no records, are paid a pittance and do not know how long it will take to pay off their debt.
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In some ways, the choice was even harder for Donald Trump, a religiously illiterate figure who nonetheless won the votes of many religious people.
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"You're illiterate, you're baby mama 4/5 to [a] man who has women crawling out of the woodworks with kids," she wrote on Twitter.
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In 1870, 79.9 percent of African-Americans aged 14 or older were illiterate, and by 1952 that number had only fallen to 10.2 percent.
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One of its cleverest ideas was to give illiterate children free access to computers in order to see how easily they could master them.
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Young people have a narrative of their own: Boomers are technologically illiterate, the beneficiaries of an unusually prosperous era they lucked their way into.
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So when Facebook says — caught fencing Kremlin lies — "we just didn't think of that" it's a truly illiterate response to an age-old problem.
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I personally know how life can treat you when you don't have an education — I've seen the cost my mother paid for being illiterate.
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But they may struggle to afford even a simple feature phone, and the illiterate and innumerate especially may find using it daunting at first.
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Many of the students are boarders whose poor, illiterate parents give them up for long periods to the religious charities that run such schools.
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But London-based financial consultant Ali Baruni, who advised the LIA between April and September 2007, described Layas as "illiterate in terms of investments".
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Ignorant of basic facts and lacking a functional language of politics, we wander blind and illiterate, hopelessly ill-equipped to appraise current political institutions.
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Those who are financially illiterate are less likely to have a checking account, rainy day emergency fund or retirement plan, or to own stocks.
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X is also the traditional signature of an illiterate, so it is both precise and general: anyone can use it to make one's mark.
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Illiterate all her life, she remembers hiding behind a tree and weeping as she saw her friends trot off to school six decades ago.
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The people who support such sports, they're mostly poor and illiterate, or rich people who got their money by bad means, like the militias.
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The case study authors explain that one challenge for the company was that parents were largely illiterate and therefore saw little difference among schools.
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Donald Trump is mocking the historic Oscars wins for "Parasite" ... and the movie studio is clapping back in epic fashion, calling the President illiterate!!!
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Totally illiterate, he remains wary even of the basic cellphone; he will speak on it only if someone holds it up to his ear.
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Singh said he was illiterate but he could clearly read signs on the New Delhi metro rail system and emails on his mobile phone.
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Some of the women involved in the project were previously illiterate but can now read and have their own source of income, she said.
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Some of the women involved in the project were previously illiterate but can now read and have their own source of income, she said.
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At the same time, using "they" to refer to a single person does not make one look "progressive" or "woke," just illiterate and uneducated.
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His parents are illiterate farmers, and it looked as if Rafi's education would end in the fifth grade, when he was sent to a madrasa.
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In last Tuesday's Nevada Caucus, Cruz trailed not only twice-divorced, Biblically illiterate Trump among that key demographic, but also the proteanly Christian Marco Rubio.
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Mainly young village women from poor, illiterate and marginalized communities toil in these factories, working long days to produce garments destined for leading global retailers.
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By any measure, Ann Lee, the illiterate daughter of a Manchester blacksmith, led one of the most audacious and improbable lives of the 18th century.
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Half of them are illiterate, while a staggering 87% are forced to earn a living working as rag pickers and street vendors or by begging.
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"My parents are illiterate, but when I was singing they were encouraging me, so I believed that I could win people's support," he said backstage.
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"Public libraries are on the frontline of helping the digitally excluded and digitally illiterate who wish to claim their right to Universal Credit," he notes.
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Most deliver by caesarean section, and the vast majority are poor or illiterate women who may have only a weak grasp of their contractual rights.
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Yan describes her as "the most traditional countrywoman you'll meet"—illiterate and lacking even basic arithmetic skills, but possessed of an inviolable sense of propriety.
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High schools graduate functionally illiterate students, forcing them and their families to spend an estimated more than $1 billion a year on remedial college classes.
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"And yet to the historically illiterate left, a man who opposed both slavery and secession has come to symbolize both slavery and secession," he continued.
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In the countryside, children left with extended family — usually uneducated or even illiterate grandparents with onerous jobs — are at risk of not getting adequate care.
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While much of the country's population is unemployed and illiterate, the BBC reports that thousands of Liberians were killed by Ebola between 2013 and 2016.
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Bai, who is illiterate, said after the holiday - which welcomes the Year of the Pig - she would look for work washing dishes in the city.
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As a village leader, he said, his duties include serving as judge, tax collector, legal scribe for the illiterate and general keeper of the peace.
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Some people on social media reported on Saturday that campaigners stationed inside polling stations were telling voters, including some who are illiterate, to vote yes.
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In El Salvador, similar networks facilitate the successful use of misoprostol, even among those who are illiterate and living on less than $5 a day.
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It notes over 70% of lawmakers and parliamentarians and managers are men and nearly 123,000 women and girls over the age of 15 are illiterate.
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The System Perpetuates Disabilities Most people would agree that when an illiterate boy in Appalachia attends a free literacy class, that is a good thing.
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He told her that she was too illiterate to be allowed to speak, and he forbade her to attend the weddings of her own siblings.
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Women also comprise two-thirds of the world's 28503 million illiterate adults, a product of social hierarchies that limit educational opportunities for girls and women.
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There is, for example, the illiterate chaiwalah, or "tea boy," who, photographed at work, becomes an overnight internet sensation thanks to his striking blue eyes.
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In sixteenth-century Venice, diplomats were instructed to employ illiterate valets, who would be unable to read any secret documents they were asked to carry.
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Tom Sayers was a nobody, an illiterate builder who lived in a slum with London's other labourers, in cheap houses they had built for themselves.
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Lesson 9: There are all kinds of other alarming and mildly concerning things going on Since this is a primer for only the most cricket illiterate, written by the just-slightly-less cricket illiterate, we won't get into overs, which are sets of bowls, or the fact that after so many overs the batter and the teammate across the pitch from them switch sides.
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The rapper recently poked fun at the boxer for being illiterate (again) ... and the 2 have had some issues over 50 being sued by Teairra Mari.
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Skaryna was an excellent engraver, too: his vivid woodcuts, featuring Biblical figures in traditional Belarusian costume, meant that illiterate citizens could begin to grasp religious ideas.
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When Floyd Mayweather says Donald Trump's "locker-room talk" is A-OK, no one should listen ... CAUSE HE'S ILLITERATE -- this according to "Shameless" star Cameron Monaghan.
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"Macbeth", "Steve Jobs" and "X-Men" actor Fassbender portrays the fast-driving and illiterate Chad, who wants to break away from his father Colby's criminal ways.
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Law enforcement is frequently biased against people who are poor, illiterate, and from discriminated caste groups, while legal cases go on for years, if not decades.
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China's women are taking advantage of their scarcity value to marry men from wealthier backgrounds, leaving many poor, illiterate rural men on the shelf (see chart).
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According to a 2015 S&P Global Financial Literacy Study, the U.S. ranks 14th in financial literacy; nearly half of the population rates as financially illiterate.
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Many are illiterate, if not most, but they have a really rich oral tradition so even though they are uneducated, they are good at telling stories.
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The enduring image of the typical moonshiner is a poor, illiterate ne'er-do-well who is constantly trying to stay one step ahead of the law.
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A survey of about 6,300 FARC fighters by NRC this year showed about 10 percent are illiterate and only two in five have finished primary school.
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Instead of a military career, Conroy became a teacher on isolated, impoverished Daufuskie Island, where many of his students were illiterate and direct descendants of slaves.
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The judge changed course Wednesday after Kelly's new attorneys, Raed Shalabi and Zaid Abdallah, argued that Kelly never responded to that lawsuit because he is illiterate.
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She was steeped in service from an early age, observing her mother and aunt educating illiterate girls in Dhaka, where she spent part of her childhood.
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He was known for his passion to protect wildlife and lived on the 50,000-acre ranch that his great-grandfather acquired from illiterate Masai cattle herders.
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His parents slipped him into Thailand, in the hopes that proper schooling would provide him with a better life than that of his illiterate, impoverished family.
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"The population is illiterate and even its elite is uneducated, and therefore they have been taking it lightly until now," says the Observer Research Foundation's Joshi.
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"Only the visually illiterate could mistake [Walker's work's] post-modern critiques for realistic portrayals," he said in the International Review of African American Art in 1997.
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One girl's great-grandmother had been illiterate; the grandmother had gone to primary school and learned to read; and the mother had been to ninth grade.
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Well, advertising and targeting, especially advertising, this isn't a new thing, have become the tax of the poor, and the technologically illiterate have to pay. Yep.
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The advocates' concern is that these religious schools provide so little in the way of a traditional academic curriculum that students often leave ignorant and illiterate.
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For example, Truth, in fact, had only five children, not 13 — an embellishment attributed to those who later transcribed the speech for the illiterate former slave.
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The film's meanspirited tone picks on both creatures and humans, like construction workers for being illiterate, animals almost too dumb to survive and the wicked rich.
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Deeply religious and mostly illiterate, smoldering with class resentment, they became the foot soldiers of a violent insurgency led by the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1970s.
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In June, his first novel, "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous," written as a Vietnamese immigrant son's letter to his illiterate mother, came out to much fanfare.
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Hiaasen said he thought the culprit was an illiterate criminal, because the box containing the urn was clearly labeled with the name of the funeral home.
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Many recruits are illiterate and from the same rural backgrounds as the Taliban, which has taken advantage of that fact to seed the force with infiltrators.
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In addition, nearly 15 percent of Salvadoran women over the age of 15 are illiterate, which can increase dependency and make appearing in court seem extra daunting.
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We diminish the fact that this illiterate former slave lectured throughout the United States in a time when even white women encountered significant obstacles to public speaking.
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Married young and illiterate -- now learning to read During the 10 days I was in Rojava, I was taken care of by the Kongira Star women's organization.
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" Not to mention the "embarrassment," Buttigieg said, of watching prominent politicians, illiterate in technology, who were "more or less incapable of holding tech executives accountable at hearings.
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One is the development of cheap biometric systems allowing even the illiterate with no papers to establish a unique digital identity that a financial institution can use.
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"These are poor, illiterate people who have been ruled by land owners for generations," said Jagat Basnet at rights group Community Self-Reliance Centre (CSRC) in Kathmandu.
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Most of the workers are illiterate, keep no records, are paid a pittance and do not know how long it will take to pay off their debt.
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The largest challenge the government will face is incorporating back into society the former guerrillas, the vast majority of whom are illiterate and lack basic job skills.
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I was so poorly traveled — and so geographically illiterate — I could not pick out the state of Pennsylvania on an unlabeled weather map on the evening news.
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Ms. Chand was raised in Gopalpur, a village in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, by illiterate parents who earned less than $8 a week as weavers.
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He was a Roman Catholic who led a largely Muslim nation, and a French-educated scholar of distinction with powerful support from the largely illiterate rural population.
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But for many people, finding the right documents — and reading them, in a state where a quarter of the population is illiterate — is challenging, if not impossible.
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He was a Roman Catholic who led a largely Muslim nation, and a French-educated scholar of distinction with powerful support from a largely illiterate rural population.
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Forceful, large, illiterate, an inveterate quoter of proverbs and traditional wisdom, she can come and go as she pleases among higher-born women, protected by Sulayman's favor.
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The founder and CEO of language-learning app Duolingo, Luis von Ahn, on his plans to help the 750m illiterate adults in the world learn to read.
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"You see this illiterate?" he snapped when a French speaker from Ivory Coast dropped by and started complaining about the living conditions without first greeting the Anglophones.
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Mr. Rodríguez began attending his local union meetings after school with his mother when he was 9, reading out the meeting minutes to the mostly illiterate members.
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Most from the long-persecuted community who live at the camps are illiterate, and the few who did manage to study in Myanmar often only speak Burmese.
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Best example: The MIT program that gave iPads to illiterate kids in Ethiopia, and they taught themselves to use it, program it, and read it in English.
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The order of the boxes was continuously shuffled to ensure that that illiterate people couldn't get help in advance to place their ballots in the proper order.
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An effective tool of the propaganda machine, photography disseminated the staged triumphs of these new regimes to populations who (especially in the case of Italy) were often illiterate.
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Rather than find and prosecute illegal immigrants, Assam has instead tasked its 53m people, many of them poor and illiterate, with proving to bureaucrats that they deserve citizenship.
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Khan has promised to create millions of jobs and build world-class hospitals and schools in a country where more than 40 percent of the population is illiterate.
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Many women - often poor and illiterate - are conned into surgeries by quacks masquerading as doctors or hospitals seeking compensation for treatment from the state's funds for the poor.
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According to research from the Global Finance Literacy Excellence Center, 63 % of Americans are financially illiterate and while becoming financially savvy requires effort and attention, it is doable.
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Fifty kilometres east of Lucknow, in Bedaru, villager Rampyari, illiterate and unsure of her age, is seeing the seeds of change that the BJP hopes will win votes.
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The fact that programming classes are now required for many elementary and high school students is enough to make any coding-illiterate millennial feel... well, sort of inadequate.
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"I can say without exaggeration that this draft bill is the most ludicrous, dangerous, technically illiterate tech policy proposal of the 21st century so far," Bankston told Motherboard.
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Investigators say the 13 workers, some of them illiterate or homeless, were tricked into thinking they were agreeing to come to Italy for properly paid jobs and housing.
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Even if they win asylum in the United States, both are illiterate, with little experience living or working beyond the potato fields of their home in Bamian Province.
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Shadbolt said that this doesn't mean everyone will need to code, but those that are "data illiterate" will be at a disadvantage when looking to find a job.
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"If an illiterate local Taliban commander in Helmand makes a million dollars a month now, what does he gain in time of peace?" one senior Afghan official said.
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While many of the people he met there had almost nothing and were illiterate, he says they were incredibly wise, and you would be ignorant to underestimate them.
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Eric Williams, the curator of religion at the Smithsonian's Center for the Study of African American Religious Life, considers the book particularly revelatory, given that Tubman was illiterate.
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Less publicly touted was the newfound ability to disenfranchise illiterate voters, like, for instance, many of the former slaves who had been granted Constitutional voting rights in 1870.
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As it turned out, there were at least a few other schools that accepted illiterate grandmothers because they could no longer fill their classrooms with school-age children.
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The Florence exhibition "helps Italians understand that Islam is not something attributed to primitive and illiterate people, but a great civilization that had relations with Italy," he said.
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Others expressed thanks for my being "a good and consistent questioner," for writing for the "financially illiterate," for pushing to make the rules for investing fair and firm.
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Caal has taken her case to the courts, but not in Guatemala, where Mayan villagers like her, illiterate and living in isolated areas, have had little legal success.
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With increasingly severe droughts, population growth and the enclosure of public lands, many traditional nomads, who are often poor and illiterate, do not have grass for their animals.
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African-Americans, the majority of county residents, were largely illiterate, living in unpainted wooden shacks insulated with newspapers, their children shunted to squalid schools with no instructional materials.
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There's been a little bit of research about that so far, especially refugee populations because some of them are illiterate, or they don't have keyboards that support their languages.
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You can rest in the comfort of the medieval illiterate that you know what all the pictures and panels mean, that this shared meaning holds you securely in place.
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Tilonia is home to the Barefoot College, which was set up by Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy to train illiterate women from remote areas across the world to become solar engineers.
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More inspiring is Marina Silva, a former environment minister who was born into an illiterate rubber-tapping family in the Amazon and learned to read when she was 16.
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For a full 40 minutes, the hosts of the pop culture podcast take viewers through an extensive PowerPoint outlining their conspiracy theory that actress-singer Lea Michele is illiterate.
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For the pregnancy illiterate, this means a pair of jeans affixed with what is essentially a piece of shapewear that attaches where normal pants would have a normal waistband.
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"Eighty-five percent of the prisoners are poor and illiterate," Mr. Mtengano said, adding that many were convicted even though they did not comprehend the proceedings at their trials.
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He's one of the 2000 percent of children who are either homeless or spend their days working on Lebanon's teeming streets that are illiterate, according to a UNICEF study.
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The message is clear to everyone from Gulf monarchs to illiterate conscripts in the Iranian army, and marks a clear improvement in two big elements of Middle East policy.
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They wonder how their families, their own lives and their homeland might have developed differently if their forebears, many of them unskilled and illiterate, had been rejected by America.
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How could the anthropologists link bones disintegrating in the ground for 30 years to Maya families, many of them illiterate, reluctant to trust outsiders and scattered in isolated mountains?
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The burden of defining the exact threat of the long-term effects the community faced was left to a largely illiterate community with no knowledge of heavy metal poisoning.
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Over the past few weeks, Georgia, Alabama and several other states have passed restrictive, medically illiterate abortion laws that allow the procedure if the mother's life is at risk.
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So much has changed over 17 years, and yet so much has not: More than 60 percent of adolescent Afghan girls are illiterate, and could not read this letter.
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The state of Mississippi didn't provide education for black children, and so his illiterate father never attended school; his mother's schooling at a black church ended after third grade.
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"Craig Kelly is an excellent example of a scientifically illiterate person with a public platform," said Joëlle Gergis, a leading climate scientist and writer at the Australian National University.
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Liberalism faced a new test among a great majority of the world's population: Could newly sovereign peoples, largely poor and illiterate, embrace free markets and minimize government right away?
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Most were men ages 18 to 24, and almost a third were illiterate, and many hailed from communities with little state infrastructure and few public services, said Alves Viana.
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When a gallant, albeit illiterate, young butcher's apprentice offers Anne a romantic escape hatch, it comes as no surprise that her contrarian father has alternative marital plans for her.
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In a democracy that is home to 287 million illiterate people, the simple party symbols that appear on ballots often matter more to voters than the candidates' names do.
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It's like an illiterate person who may be very intelligent, but just never learned to read, and many times leads a successful life because they learn ways around it.
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Of course, Trump seems illiterate about health policy at times, making comments that suggest he has no idea what health insurance actually costs, as Vox's Sarah Kliff has noted.
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Yet, the social and educational disparity in the Tlaxiaco district is high and affects women the most: 75 percent of women are illiterate, according to oficial data from 2010.
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For India's illiterate, who account for nearly a fifth of the population, systems like Aadhaar become less a development tool and more a potential source of frustration and abuse.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dutch entrepreneur Jack Stuifbergen hires disabled and illiterate people who struggle to find work because he wants his cleaning company to have a positive social impact.
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Only a sliver of the caseload concerns sexual or marital disputes, he argues, and only jirgas in illiterate backwaters produce the sort of decisions that end up making shocking headlines.
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BAML's report indicated that there are 263 million children globally who are not in school, as well as 758 million illiterate adults, meaning that there is definitely room for investment.
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Since then, about 50,000 people have been freed from slave-like work, according to government figures, most of them men who are either illiterate or have not completed basic education.
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Listen up, football crazed guys (and some girls) ... Erin Andrews is about to tell you how to teach your pigskin illiterate significant other all about the nuances of the gridiron.
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In Thailand, a middle-income country of 6803 million people, about 2680 million live in poverty and one-third of 2450-year-olds are illiterate, according to the World Bank.
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Her crew included a highly regarded captain, an illiterate but gifted first mate, and the usual roster of harpooners, sailors, and able-bodied seamen—but not the intended ship's surgeon.
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More than a quarter of Egyptians are illiterate, and the rate is significantly higher among women, who are less likely than men to be in environments where fusha is used.
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Many of those whose names did not make it on the official registry are poor and illiterate; they lack identification papers to certify the duration of their residence in Assam.
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Roughly 30 percent of the jail's population is more-or-less illiterate, and dozens of prisoners suffer from tuberculosis and syphilis, officials in the jail's educational and medical wings said.
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Since then, the absence of prevention programs and severe language barriers — many Warao are illiterate and do not speak fluent Spanish — have allowed ignorance about the disease to flourish. Msgr.
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Having grown up in West Virginia as the granddaughter of an illiterate coal miner, Ms. Gibson said she found Mr. Trump's policies — and her family members' posts — to be callous.
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"You're illiterate, you're baby mama 4/5 to [a] man who has women crawling out of the woodworks with kids," she added, targeting Offset, who has three children from previous relationships.
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Read more about Kangpe on TechCrunch Dost Education – Making literacy affordable There are 133 million illiterate women in India who have trouble educating their children, leading to a cycle of illiteracy.
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In a blog post announcing the release, Microsoft says you can use the feature for on-the-go meetings, helping tech-illiterate relatives with their phones, or shopping online with friends.
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This, he said, was one of many consequences of insecurity that "are less headline-grabbing, but are still evil omens for the future of a desperately poor and largely illiterate country."
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The video shows Nix claiming to an undercover reporter, who was posing as a prospective client, that his firm had avoided intense scrutiny from American lawmakers because they were technologically illiterate.
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The country has one of the largest illiterate populations in the world, where only 74 percent are able to read, according to a study by ASER Centre a few years back.
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Whereas poor, illiterate women have little choice but to work, those with secondary schooling tend to marry into families of higher social standing, who insist that they look after the children.
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They shared their fathers' trade—both men had been shoemakers, though Harry Crick's Northamptonshire version of the business had been more comfortable than that of Morris Brenner, an illiterate Lithuanian immigrant.
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Khadka, who is illiterate and was married at just 9 years old, was happy to show off the cattle that have made her a respected businesswoman in her remote Himalayan village.
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During his 1992 murder trial in the killing of an off-duty correction officer, John D. Bunn, then an illiterate 15-year-old, took his lawyer's advice and did not testify.
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One woman had been getting death threats via text message, which she couldn't read since she was illiterate, so she had to ask her young son to read them to her.
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"I took a computer course here not because I was computer illiterate, but I took the computer course because ... sometimes I could never get my kids on the phone," he said.
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Like a politically illiterate asshole yelling "fake news" at every disagreeable opinion coming from the TV, Bright fans have decided there must be something rotten at the core of film criticism.
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"I am illiterate, I cannot read, but I know now how to talk to officials and the developer and tell them what we want, and make sure they deliver," she said.
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Old and frail but vibrantly alive in Fesperman's penetrating portrait, Danziger charges a modest fee to write letters for illiterate clients frantic for news of their relatives back in Eastern Europe.
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The most popular was Guignol, created in 1808 by Laurent Mourguet, an illiterate silk weaver-turned tooth-puller in Lyon who used marionettes to attract clients in the city's central square.
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"We're going to raise a generation of kids who are scientifically illiterate," said Mr. Nye, who debated Mr. Ham at the Creation Museum in 2014, a matchup watched online by millions.
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"I made it clear to him that he had been duped, as he was neither an artist nor a critic and was illiterate when it came to aesthetics," Mr. Neizvestny recalled.
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Malnourished as a child, she was just 4 feet 11 inches tall and weighed 90 pounds, and she was basically illiterate in all three languages she spoke (Russian, Yiddish and English).
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Modi's new policy might be revolutionary, but at a high price: it has left behind millions of Indians who are unbanked and digitally illiterate in its bid to push transactions online.
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Both his parents were illiterate, but his mother prized education, cajoling tutors to work with her son every day after school, including an English-speaking cousin who taught him the language.
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As a practical matter, this will not have much impact for the Rohingya who are suffering in Myanmar, many of whom are illiterate and shut off from educational and technological opportunity.
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Mr. Dim Sok, 19803, was a nearly illiterate farmer when he became a revolutionary in 1970, fighting in the jungles with the Khmer Rouge for five years before they seized power.
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Illiterate in the language, I pretended to read it as I sat there alone, between the wall and a display case of macaroons, looking at medieval illustrations of the 10 plagues.
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But many rural residents don't have birth certificates or other papers, and even among those who do, many can't read them; a quarter of the population in Assam state is illiterate.
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And then the other issue is that for the people who are remaining out of the labor force, they tend to have real challenges connecting to it, so maybe they're illiterate.
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Two thirds of adults globally are financially illiterate, according to Standard & Poor's Global Financial Literacy Survey, and one in four teenagers are unable to make even simple decisions on everyday spending.
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But it used to mean something very specific in FYAD, which was specifically pretending to be kind of an illiterate, really serious teenager, and just occupying that persona in your posts.
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An illiterate, underbred book, it seems to me; the book of a self-taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating.
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However, they face problems convincing some Afghan commanders who are not comfortable with new methods that require more sophisticated systems and place heavy demands on a force where many soldiers are illiterate.
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During World War II, her illiterate grandmother and a group of villagers on their tiny island of Erikousa (population 200) had risked their lives to save a Jewish family from the Nazis.
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Some are highly educated, have university degrees or have even worked as engineers or doctors, and there are also others who are illiterate even in their mother language, and it's very different.
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Whatever the case, Shelton told the brothers that Harriet, an illiterate laundress, was dead; in fact, she would spend more than thirteen years seeking their return, and a lifetime fighting Ringling Bros.
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In a country where 60% of girls are married by 16, and 85% remain illiterate, she's doing all she can to widen the horizon of opportunity for Afghanistan's next generation of women.
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The percent of patients who were illiterate in these prisons was far greater than among the patients Bill treated in a public hospital which had a similar demographic as the prison population.
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"They were the old illiterate people who would say that our daughters will not go to schools," Ali said, recalling two mortar shells landing in his street, often patrolled by the Taliban.
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Ms. Antonio de Pascual, who is illiterate, said she could not remember what forms she signed or questions she answered when she spoke to United States officials near the border last year.
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Yéyé had no education and is illiterate, but her brilliant 13-year-old daughter, Fedline, rose to be No. 1 in her class of 64 students — and then Yéyé developed cervical cancer.
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Even so, we see the tired caricatures all the time: the ignorant sheriff whose vowels stretch from here to Mississippi, the illiterate hick whose grammar is almost as rotten as his teeth.
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These are the equivalent of signatures from 400 Rohingya women and girls, most of them illiterate refugees who were driven out of Myanmar last year after thousands of Rohingya Muslims were massacred.
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There was almost no Western medicine available in the 1960s, and most of the population was illiterate; as many as half of all babies and a third of mothers died in childbirth.
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Hieroglyphics was a complete written language, and while even an illiterate person could recognize and understand some basic symbols, the scribes worked according to strict rules and had to be highly skilled.
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Illiterate men and women were 2.65 times as likely as the literate to have dementia at the start of the study, and twice as likely to have developed it by the end.
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Years later, AIDS patients in Henan are still shunned — scorned by their families, denied care by certain hospitals and made to fill out complicated forms for reimbursement (even though many are illiterate).
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Harvey Keitel is the illiterate settler who acquires the instrument after it is abandoned on a beach, then offers to return it to Ada in exchange for lessons — one for each key.
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In 2011, journalist Tim Crothers wrote a story for ESPN about Phiona Mutesi, an illiterate 14-year-old girl from a slum called Katwe, located just outside Kampala, the capital of Uganda.
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Campaigners say workers in the industry are mainly young women from poor, illiterate and low-caste communities, who work up to 12 hours a day, and often face intimidation, sexual remarks and harassment.
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Clinton could also be wary of pissing off financial sector donors, and it bears mentioning that rich people all over America hate Elizabeth Warren and regard her as a dangerous economically illiterate charlatan.
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Lesson 103: There are different kinds of cricket CIAs (Cricket-Illiterate Americans) may hear stories of cricket matches that last entire days, and sometimes stretch on for the better part of the week.
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The case was also "unfair", Suyianka said, because the judge asked the Samburu, many of whom are poor and illiterate, to pay for helicopters to take the court to see the disputed land.
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The son of an illiterate soda-pop vendor from small-town South India, he had limited his visit to the capital to 48 hours, and this appeared to be 46 hours too long.
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He believes in a more restrictive immigration policy because he says too many "illiterate" people are coming over to "sit on their fat behinds" while they take advantage of the country's social services.
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Hundreds of thousands of young volunteers, mostly high school and college students, went into the countryside where literacy rates were lower and taught illiterate people how to read at basic levels, Leogrande said.
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"Most of them are illiterate women from the rural world who were scared to talk, so we had to put in place a strategy very specific to this category of women," she said.
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The collective finger-jabbing doesn't deter the illiterate Joan, who hears voices and continues the impassioned crusade that in life resulted in her grim death, being burned at the stake at age 19.
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That includes stripping 1.9m poor and illiterate residents of the state of Assam of their citizenship, for example, if they do not have the correct paperwork to prove that they are Indian citizens.
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There were anonymous writers: a landowner from Ravenna, wealthy but illiterate, used a symbol that looked like a star inside a wagon wheel to sign a nine-foot-long papyrus real-estate deed.
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"She came from bondage, was illiterate in the traditional sense; she experienced mental and physical abuse from a young age; and she suffered from debilitating seizures caused by a head injury," she says.
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" Judy Chicago regularly exhibits all over the world, proving perhaps, what Levin quotes her as saying years earlier, "Our culture is illiterate about women; what better way to teach them than through art.
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She's the real unsung hero—an illiterate black maid during the harshest era of Jim Crow segregation, living in a city where the top cop was the founder and leader of the KKK.
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That outcome, of course, does not remotely reflect the ability I have witnessed over and over again in needy, homeless, or previously illiterate students whose short lives have already been disrupted in multiple ways.
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Through this lens, social class began to come into sharp focus again in Britain, and as the year went on, the pedophile-behind-every-tree delusion was joined by another: the illiterate lynch mob.
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This is historically illiterate: "meat" has for centuries meant not just animal flesh but solid food in general, hence "sweetmeats" and Mercutio's description of an egg as "full of meat" in "Romeo and Juliet".
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According to BuzzFeed, the final essay question of the exam, which was based on "America the Illiterate," a column by progressive writer Chris Hedges, asked how much of a role "artifice" plays in politics.
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"Basically, this boat is a church raising scientifically illiterate children and lying to them about science," noted Jim Helton, the leader of an atheist group called the Tri-State Freethinkers, in the LA Times.
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At first, Trump was attempting to pitch a border closure as an affirmatively good thing for the US, saying it would benefit the American economy because of the trade deficit (which is economically illiterate).
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To add to this, the functionally illiterate Bradley had to learn how to read and write to contribute lyrics to his music and as his career started to take off, his brother was murdered.
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"We have to move away from the idea of the gram sabha as illiterate people plotting to derail development," environment lawyer Ritwick Dutta, representing community organizations against Himachal Pradesh, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Yet it remains one of the poorest countries in the world — more than 10 million people live below the poverty line, and three-quarters of the population is illiterate, according to the World Bank.
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Men confused the distinction between woman and animal, not only through rape, but by keeping women illiterate, pregnant, and exhausted, tasked with the menial labor of keeping the colony fed and clean and clothed.
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The decades long trend away from defined benefit pension plans to defined contribution retirement plans means that individuals, who are largely unqualified and financially illiterate, are now responsible for their own retirement planning decisions.
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Bangladeshi officials have circulated a draft repatriation agreement, specifying how to verify that Rohingya refugees, many of whom are illiterate and do not have a piece of paper to their name, are from Myanmar.
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Played with exquisitely clouded radiance by Saycon Sengbloh in the Signature Theater's first-rate revival of this genre-mutating 1999 drama, the illiterate Hester would probably never presume to talk in such highfalutin terms.
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When a private school that miseducates students with scientifically illiterate and historically inaccurate theories claims a public subsidy, or a Medicare-supported retirement home turns away a lesbian couple, that isn't religious liberty, either.
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JL: While the current stereotype of Asian-Americans is that they are smart, competent and hard-working, a century ago, Asian-Americans were perceived as illiterate, undesirable, full of "filth and disease" and unassimilable.
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Half of Muslim women in India are illiterate, and only 235 percent have ever worked outside the home, according to a 22015 study by the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, a Muslim women's advocacy group.
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Nearly half of Pakistanis are illiterate, and many of the rest speak Urdu, or one of the local languages; the audience for journalism and fiction in English is an impassioned but relatively tiny élite.
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It takes a lot of precision to make, and its intricacies can be a bit subtle, if you're a numerically illiterate philistine like myself, but it's a shrine to puzzlecraft and an enjoyable solve.
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We also learn that he has been pilloried by campus feminists for having an affair with a college janitor, an illiterate 34-year-old woman who has a history of being victimized by men.
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About one in three women in Assam is illiterate - a higher proportion than for men - and many marry young, moving away from home and losing access to any documents that might prove their origins.
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Until this week, Mathieu Kilapi Kasiama, an illiterate palm-nut cutter and sculptor from an impoverished region in the Democratic Republic of Congo, had never left the area, let alone flown in an airplane.
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When she was an infant, her father died of cancer, leaving her mother, who was illiterate, to support six children by growing and selling papaya, sal seeds to make flour and home-brewed liquor.
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At that time, most Italians would not have understood English, and many were illiterate and unable to read subtitles, so the major film studios in the United States sought ways to colonize the market.
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Eventually, the rise of the sea does contributes to global warming through a cascading effect, but this absolutely illiterate and unscientific page is so questionable, I'm surprised that you would even allow its publication.
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At the time of Louie's death, Fatima was twenty-six years old, responsible for six children under the age of ten, uneducated, illiterate, unaccustomed to so much as leaving the house on her own.
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Its scores have deteriorated since a previous assessment in 2012, when researchers found that almost one-third of the country's 15-year-olds were "functionally illiterate", including almost half of those studying in rural schools.
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Those who are illiterate — still 20 percent of the world's population — cannot take advantage of the Internet at all; and in the developing world, the technology industry employs barely 1 percent of the work force.
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"There is a stigma around social enterprises working with people with disabilities," said the chief executive of Breedweer, which employs about 600 people, many of whom have a physical or mental disability or are illiterate.
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From his vantage point, Parks shows us three people: the barefoot husband, the observing wife, and their safari-hat wearing mailman, who, we discover, is reading them their mail because the elderly couple is illiterate.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's immigration minister brought border security and immigration to the center of the 2016 election campaign, warning that resettling "illiterate and innumerate" refugees would strain the social safety network and take Australian jobs.
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Caroline Lucas, co-leader of the Green Party, said the plan not "just economically illiterate, it's plainly cruel too", while London Mayor Sadiq Khan said it was "a blueprint on how to strangle our economy".
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Sam Zimmer: It was an artistic decision, we're all actually highly educated sophistos, Just slumming it as illiterate rockers You are from Portland but you seem to have a strong Clevo nihilistic vibe going down.
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UNESCO's latest data says that in the developing world two-thirds of illiterate adults are women, depriving them of a basic prerequisite to participate in all kinds of employment and closing the door to opportunity.
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In response, some counties are working with the central government's National Land Commission (NLC) to implement new land transfer systems that are more transparent and aim to protect illiterate farmers from being taken advantage of.
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" Baldwin, reflecting on his stay in the white-peopled Swiss village of Leukerbad, was moved to write that "the most illiterate among them is related, in a way I am not, to Dante, Shakespeare, Michelangelo. . . .
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Critics called it ludicrous and technically illiterate—and these were the kinder assessments of the "Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016," proposed legislation authored by the offices of Senators Diane Feinstein and Richard Burr.
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Directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky set their sights on the strange story of the illiterate Ward brothers for this compelling, realist documentary about a family in a rural farming community in Munnsville, New York.
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Or, after being barraged with Goose Game chatter at work all week, I thought this could have been a portmanteau of quacking scuffle (I guess that makes me goose illiterate, lumping honkers in with ducks).
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Why it matters: Health care costs are increasingly unaffordable not just to low-income or financially illiterate people, but also to those who are comfortably middle class with a proven track record of money management.
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His father's story is mythic in their family: Ruilin Yang grew up in a straw and mud hut in an arid, rural part of China, just south of Mongolia, with illiterate parents, according to Bowen.
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"My grandfather was progressive and was illiterate until he went to college and became an engineer," Ms. Jimenez said recently from her company's headquarters, in a house in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Peruvian Nobel Prize-winning writer Mario Vargas Llosa praised centrist President Martin Vizcarra on Tuesday for dismissing the country's right-wing opposition-dominated parliament and labeled its former lawmakers as "semi-illiterate swindlers".
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Sons and daughters of illiterate plantation workers became doctors and teachers and contributed to large gains in human development, while corrupt officials and robber barons who had drained the old Cuba were forced to leave.
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Related: Ignoring the Facts, Australia's Immigration Minister Calls Refugees 'Illiterate and Innumerate' Either way, the results will almost certainly mean that the smaller parties and independents will come to play kingmakers in the eventual results.
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For decades, the closely guarded story of how "Eko" and "Iko," as they were called in the circus, became George and Willie once again was only known to family members—many of whom were illiterate.
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And in a country that has more poor, illiterate, and hungry people than any other country in the world, they are disproportionately represented among the more than 250 million people who live below the poverty line.
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Third, it could amplify concerns of more vulnerable data users, including elderly or tech-illiterate citizens — and even refugees and international migrants, as Andrew Young and Stefaan Verhulst recently argued in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
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Of Sheeran's "grill" tattoo, she told Corden: "Ed got up on stage like two days after we did it and said I had made the mistake, and it makes me look illiterate," she told the host.
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Given asymmetry of risks created by the fourth industrial revolution , we cannot afford to be security-illiterate To succeed in this digital revolution we need to learn to deal with asymmetric approaches to warfare and business.
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For attendees, many of whom were illiterate and didn't understand Church Latin, the church was the Bible—stations of the cross along the nave or in stained glass, important characters represented as statuary in the transept.
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A pending visit from a severe education commissioner (Han Yanbo) prompts the group to pressure an illiterate coppersmith (A Runa) into masquerading as an English teacher — the title character — to impress the official and secure funds.
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More Refinery29 News and Politics:A Remarkable Life: One 95-Year-Old Shares Her Hope For Fellow Trans PeopleHow My Illiterate Mother Inspired Me To Become A Writer10 Former Child Brides Tell Their Own Stories — In Photos
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We have close to 800 million people who are illiterate, who can't read and write; in other words, they don't have access to the most important tool in the 21st century for coming out of poverty.
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In an ad that aired during the Super Bowl in February, instead of going after its corporate rivals, T-Mobile, which calls itself the "Un-carrier," poked gentle fun at tech-illiterate fathers and oversharing texters.
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In an ad that aired during the Super Bowl in February, instead of going after its corporate rivals, T-Mobile, which calls itself the "Un-carrier," poked gentle fun at tech-illiterate fathers and oversharing texters.
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The rare and unlikely marvels among the show's objects — a Ramírez Madonna; the word "place" as communicated visually by the illiterate James Castle; a monumental quilt by Mary Lee Bendolph — assert their own reasons for being.
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Born during the height of World War I to poor, illiterate Russian immigrants living in upstate New York, the legendary actor pulled himself out of poverty to become one of the most famous men in the world.
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Later that year, the Glasgow Herald, a Scottish institution and the longest-running national newspaper in the world, bemoaned the "hysteria over alleged sex offenders," and cited the "illiterate lynch mob" that had attacked a pediatrician's home.
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Now there is "Queen of Katwe", which tells the feel-good true story of Phiona Mutesi, a Ugandan chess prodigy who learnt the game while she was an illiterate girl in the Kampala slum district of Katwe.
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An optimist might argue that more women are not working because India is still paying for the sins of the past, when so many of them were illiterate and high fertility rates bound them to the home.
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Emu said he hopes to become a sports teacher, something that would be impossible for many Yi. Thirty percent are illiterate, compared to 4 percent nationally, and many do not speak Mandarin, the main language in China.
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Saeni told reporters later that she had seen the paper notice from the police taped to the wall informing stall owners not to sell food during Ramadan, but she's illiterate and could not read what it said.
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More than 2,000 units employ an estimated 300,000 people, most of them young women from poor, illiterate and low-caste or "Dalit" communities, who are offered lump sum payments at the end of a three-year period.
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Imagine you're an illiterate single parent in an impoverished Central American city that is rife with violence (the situation is different for Mexicans, despite northern stereotypes, who have better access to the middle class and to education).
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Her mother dead, her father in prison, Franchina was placed in a state-run orphanage as a toddler, remaining illiterate year after year and seemingly destined for a hard life in the Western Hemisphere&aposs poorest nation.
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But she's old enough to remember the infamous Tuskegee Institute syphilis study, during which hundreds of mostly illiterate black sharecroppers were assured they were being treated for "bad blood" even as doctors withheld effective treatment over decades.
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After starting "Downton Abbey" as a scheming, Machiavellian mastermind, season six saw Thomas undergo a change of heart, playing with the children of Downton and even attempt to teach an illiterate footman how to read and write.
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Australia's immigration minister has described refugees as "illiterate and innumerate" people who would both "take Australian jobs" and "languish" in unemployment — comments swiftly denounced as xenophobic and offensive by opponents but backed by the country's prime minister.
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Portrayed in the press as "Shoeless Joe," an illiterate country bumpkin who was taken in by gamblers, he could count on fingers and toes well enough to create several profitable businesses in the years remaining to him.
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A more civilized sensibility survives in the old, frail man on the Lower East Side who charges a modest fee to write letters for illiterate clients frantic for news of their relatives back home in Eastern Europe.
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Lack of funding for public education ensures that Guatemala remains one of the most illiterate countries in the Americas, and failing health care and social security systems undercut what scant social safety nets exist for the poor.
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And in a day so accustomed to believing that one needs credentials for everything in order to do anything, we are confronted with a woman who was not only poor and oppressed, but illiterate and (formally) uneducated.
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For instance the work of an illiterate cowherd called Caedmon who composed hymns based on his dreams, and is often recognized as the first English poet, appears scrawled in English in the margins of a Latin manuscript.
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In short, it is becoming increasingly clear that when it comes to the internet and social media, a critical mass of people—many of whom are also tasked with regulating and reporting about it—are functionally illiterate.
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" Davuth remembers "educated people begging for their lives from armed illiterate children by burning roadsides and he had not forgotten the looks on their faces, the way they had tried to explain why their palms had no blisters.
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Many fewer people, however, have braved the 1,500-page novel itself — not because Americans are lazy or illiterate, but because holy hell, that is many, many pages about 19th-century France, and we all have things to do.
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"Trump may be an economic illiterate, but he means what he says, and the message that has been coming for quite a while is that European auto producers will be hit with higher tariffs as well," Erixon added.
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And while there might have been something uncomfortably thrilling in watching professional club kid/Paris Hilton–hanger-on Brandon Davis call Lohan a "firecrotch" — what kind of media-illiterate rich dumdum would blurt out such a thing today?!
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With more than 170m eligible voters to register—some 85% of them illiterate back then—it took tens of thousands of workers two full years just to compile the rolls for India's first general election, conducted in 1951.
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The groups also received formal advising from "a local government employee, teacher, or community leader" who helped put together the written application, partly to help applicants who were functionally illiterate and couldn't compile an application on their own.
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People who are non-literate or illiterate are often perceived to be unintelligent, but it's essential to debunk this myth and realize that those with first-hand knowledge of a problem often know how best to address it.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, in the midst of a tight election campaign, came under fire on Thursday for backing his immigration minister over claims resettling "illiterate and innumerate" refugees would strain the social safety network.
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Born poor in 22011 in the Brazilian northern state of Pernambuco, the seventh son in a home of illiterate farmers (according to his official biography), Lula da Silva's life reflects Brazil's painful transformations over the last seven decades.
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It brought many grim realities to our national attention: More than 10% of 17-year-olds were essentially illiterate, 40% were incapable of reading a text and making inferences and a mere 20% could compose a persuasive essay.
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Some had never heard of Canada until shortly before coming here, and a significant number are illiterate in Arabic, which makes learning English — or reading a street sign or sending an email in any language — a titanic task.
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Born in 1947 to a loving but illiterate and impoverished mother, who at times resorted to prostitution to make ends meet, and an absent father, Woodfox admits that his mother's wretched position obliterated any authority in his eyes.
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Synopsis: A well meaning but burned-out high school teacher tries to maintain order against the backdrop of a pending lawsuit against his school district when it comes to light they gave a diploma to an illiterate student.
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Illiterate and weary of wandering, Chad wants a better life for his two kids — you can tell because he has plastic covers on his couch — while Colby prefers to fill their heads with primitive beliefs and gutter yearnings.
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There's a pattern here — harm yourself, blame the other — and it deserves to be highlighted amid the torrent of morally blind, historically illiterate criticism to which Israelis are subjected every time they defend themselves against violent Palestinian attack.
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Peter Sellers stars as Chance, an illiterate gardener mistaken for a genius and transformed into a national hero in this comedy, directed by Hal Ashby and adapted by Jerzy Kosinski and Robert C. Jones from Mr. Kosinski's novel.
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Globally, women and girls make up 220006 percent of people living in poverty, 2202 percent of those experiencing chronic hunger, two thirds of those who are illiterate, are 2628 times more likely to die in a natural disaster.
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Parmley criticized "economically illiterate calls" of those who want to put up cross-border barriers - Britain opposes plans by Brussels that could force the clearing of euro-denominated trades to move from London to the EU after Brexit.
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That sends him on a quest to find his mother and siblings — but because he doesn't even know the name of his home village, and because his mother was illiterate and thus left no paper trail, it's virtually impossible.
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"Many of our members are illiterate and have no clue about the epidemic that the entire world is talking about," Durai Raj, coordinator for a rescued bonded labourers association in southern Tamil Nadu state, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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His parents pulled him out of school in fifth grade to marry — his wife was 10 — and though he can read and write in Hindi, his school transcript brands him illiterate, foreclosing any opportunity to get a government job.
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Because they were often illiterate and couldn't write their names, they would leave their baby with some kind of identifying talisman — a hazelnut shell, a key, a splinter of bone — in hopes of coming back to reclaim them someday.
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In May, she criticized Cardi B, calling her everything from a "caricature of a black woman" to "an illiterate, untalented rat" after she broke onto the scene, and attacked her marriage with rapper Offset, who has three children from previous relationships.
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Indian parliamentarian and renowned author Shashi Tharoor wants museums to be built to chronicle Britain's "two centuries of looting and exploitation" of India, its erstwhile colony, that reduced the country to one of the "poorest, illiterate and diseased places on earth".
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So long as politicians remain most comfortable outside the digital world, and so long as they need to raise money to finance their own re-election campaigns, we'll get technologically illiterate laws being proposed, either from out-and-out stupidity.
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Towards the end, you realize that Nicolas Cage and Hellboy are both illiterate because neither can read the spell to vanquish the demon; this is the only part of the film that is not explained to the viewer several different times.
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"We're pretty sure that Jay Powell does not want to go down in history as the Fed Chair who was pushed around by an economically illiterate president," Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, wrote to clients earlier this week.
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Researchers measured brain activity before and after teaching illiterate adult women how to read over a six-month period and found learning to read changed activity in the thalamus and brainstem, evolutionary "older" brain regions humans share with other mammals.
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Skimming money from funds, which in Mali could be as much as $20,33 at any given time, is relatively easy because the service members are often dealing with sources who are illiterate and cannot sign their names to a receipt.
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Sixteen per cent of its residents are illiterate, a number that is four points higher than the state average, and jobs are scarce; the biggest employers are the local colleges, a hospital, and an immigration-detention center (which attracts occasional protests).
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One of the lesser-known entries is this 220 work by Hiroshi Inagaki starring the silent-film legend Tsumasaburo Bando as an illiterate, exuberant brawler and rickshaw puller who becomes a father figure to the son of a young widow.
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That Muslims continue to organize protests that turn out such large numbers nearly a month after demonstrations first began is remarkable, considering the fragmented nature of the community, among the nation's poorest and most illiterate, and its limited political power.
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To Mr. Daniels, the harrowing role of Precious, an obese and illiterate teenager who had been sexually abused by her father and was drawn partly from the author's real-life experience, had seemed out of reach for most Hollywood actresses.
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Many of those excluded are illiterate and poor, and some are victims of a spelling error in their names or a mistake in their age in documents offered for proof of citizenship, according to a review of their documents by Reuters.
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In 2007 he apologized after pointing to a cameraman during the live Muscular Dystrophy telethon and referring to him as an "illiterate fag"; he also was known for racist and misogynistic remarks throughout his comedy routines in his later career.
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The agency has recommended that everyone across the US throw out their store-bought chopped romaine (or any lettuce, if you're vegetable-illiterate like me and can't tell what kind it is), and avoid purchasing or eating chopped romaine from Yuma, Arizona.
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"There's nothing more dangerous for online free speech than when technologically illiterate politicians are screaming at web platforms to 'just do something' about a problem that's actually quite difficult to address," said Fight for the Future's Evan Greer, a longtime political organizer.
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A default judgment against Kelly had initially been entered after he failed to respond to the suit — but now his lawyers claim that he didn't respond because he's illiterate and was therefore unable to read the documents when he was served with them.
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Status: Completed 20013-year sentenceGuevara's alleged misconduct: Coerced confession Sanchez, who was 22001 at the time of his arrest, said in interviews with BuzzFeed News the detective pressured him to sign a confession that the boy could not read because he was illiterate.
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To his critics, Disastrous Donald has been a catastrophe, a man whose abuses of power and divisive rhetoric threaten the fabric of American democracy; whose transactional and bullying approach to America's international leadership is economically illiterate, morally bankrupt and geostrategically short-sighted.
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The lack of books and newspapers has led at least one writer to speculate that most people in the Star Wars galaxy are totally illiterate, but you don't need literacy to consume television or radio, and there is very little of either.
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Trump's plan to tap Jeff Sessions—who in the '80s prosecuted civil-rights workers for helping elderly and illiterate voters fill out their ballots—as his attorney general suggests that the Justice Department will scale back its enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.
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PONNERI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When police raided the brick kiln in southern India where Siriya Banchor had been conned into a life of bonded labor - along with hundreds of other poor, illiterate migrants - the 2300-year-old seemed more bewildered than relieved.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Top decision makers at Libya's $67 billion sovereign wealth fund were "illiterate" in terms of investment with little knowledge of the derivatives instruments purchased on the advice of Goldman Sachs, an adviser to the fund told a court on Thursday.
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Whether this dog-and-pony show was inept because lawmakers are beholden to corporate interests or are digitally illiterate is beside the point: Either way, it is time for our politicians to act, as Zeynep Tufekci wrote in the New York Times.
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KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Immigration officials at Nepal's international airport may be colluding with traffickers to send thousands of poor illiterate women to work illegally in Gulf nations where they are exploited and abused, the head of a parliamentary panel said on Friday.
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The truth is that before the show aired, I got a call from my mother — a tiny, illiterate woman who has the toughness that comes from being abandoned at an early age by her own mother and married off at 14 years old.
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The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the Cook County Judge Moira Johnson on Wednesday reinstated the lawsuit after Mr. Kelly's lawyers said the singer never responded to it because he's illiterate and couldn't read the documents when he was served with them.
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In northwestern Haiti, local community members have stories of foreign companies stripping their land rights using nefarious tactics: papers delivered to landowners already bearing their signature, illusory promises of new hospitals, and requests for illiterate villagers to "sign" agreements with a fingerprint.
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Unskilled workers had not been included in the strike, and these workers, though frequently illiterate and utterly unschooled in statecraft, provided the Bolshevik delegations with much-needed information about the offices where they worked, such as the home addresses of their bosses.
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Several parents, some who are illiterate or who only speak indigenous languages, told attorneys they were given just minutes to decide whether to get their kids back and be deported together, or leave their kids in the U.S. and be deported alone.
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Public health officials admit that action wasn't fast enough, that misinformation spread quickly among a largely illiterate population, that foreign policy makers lacked a cultural understanding, which allowed the disease to spread, and that governments in the most affected countries used too much force.
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And while it was jarring in both cases to see a Biblically illiterate, divorced billionaire win over such a sizable portion of America's conservative faithful, an equally curious phenomenon has unfolded in the shadows of Trump's victories: evangelical voters' relative ambivalence toward Ted Cruz.
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According to the Digital Skills Crisis report, published by Parliament's Science and Technology Committee, some 12.6 million adults in the U.K. are digitally illiterate, and almost 6 million people in the country have never used the internet – close to 0003 percent of the U.K's population.
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The idea is to make it easy enough for to use to split a bill or shop for clothing online — even for the crypto illiterate — by building a layer atop the blockchain that requires a lot less processing power by the humans who use it.
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His imprisonment was an ignominious turn in the remarkable political career of Mr. da Silva, the son of illiterate farmworkers who faced down Brazil's military dictators as a union leader and helped build a transformational leftist party that governed Brazil for more than 13 years.
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It's also worth noting that the launch of this ADHD facetrap came in tandem with Fox's long-fraught relationship with soccer: a sport the corporation views as so boring that they need to slap on a soccer-illiterate Gus Johnson to spice things up.
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A prominent leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination, Moore knew that some of the faithful were falling for Trump, a philandering, biblically illiterate candidate from New York City whose lifestyle and views embodied everything the religious right professed to abhor.
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In response, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other champions of the program say that Aadhaar is India's ticket to the future, a universal, easy-to-use ID that will reduce this country's endemic corruption and help bring even the most illiterate into the digital age.
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Of the three-quarters of the population classified as peasants by a government census in 1897, the vast majority were illiterate — very conservative people with a long tradition of highly centralized rule for whom drastic change mainly in the urban centers was deeply destabilizing.
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"They are quick to turn around and call twenty-year-old students the N-word, and monkeys, and illiterate uneducated toddlers, and tell us to go back to Africa where we came from, and that Martin Luther King would be ashamed of us," she says.
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Hsiao's grandmother, although illiterate and widowed by the age of 26, singlehandedly raised a son who later emigrated from Taiwan to the United States and became the lead researcher in an electronics company that helped create the first laptop to use Intel's 386 processor.
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But it's also true that since modern humans emerged about 200,000 years ago, 2019 was probably the year in which children were least likely to die, adults were least likely to be illiterate and people were least likely to suffer excruciating and disfiguring diseases.
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Telling an illiterate farmer that a food-in-kind scheme he has used for decades is being scrapped to finance a programme that will put him on par with Mukesh Ambani, a tycoon who lives in a 27-storey house, will not be a vote-winner.
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Penn clearly made an earnest effort to cover his digital tracks, and it's easy for even the most skilled operators to make costly errors, but the self-described "single most technologically illiterate man left standing" details a litany of seeming operational security mistakes in his communications.
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It's about 15 minutes away from a steel mill that has been shuttered and restarted multiple times over the past decade, where some of the white supervisors in the 1970s were illiterate and required their lower-paid black employees to read the safety instructions on dangerous equipment.
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Oppose him because you think he "stole" Merrick GarlandMerrick Brian GarlandLaw professor: Court-packing should be 'last resort' Here's how senators can overcome their hyperpartisanship with judicial nominees McConnell campaign criticized for tombstone with challenger's name MORE's seat, even though that is a constitutionally illiterate construct.
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Recalling, however, that the German government is now de facto able to issue debt and get paid to do so through zero coupons and negative interest rates, it would be financially illiterate of the German government not to issue new debt to finance a new stimulus.
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The case heard by the Inter-American Human Rights Court last week involved 503 men aged 15 to 40, mostly poor, illiterate and of African descent, who activists say were lured under false promises to work on a vast cattle ranch in Brazil's northern state of Para.
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At a time when the era had been reduced to the D. W. Griffith fable of illiterate blacks conspiring with opportunistic whites, Du Bois wanted to assert the lasting value and significance of what had been achieved in the all too brief period of black political enfranchisement.
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It had been established that the boxer was illiterate, earlier in the film he hadn't been able to read the cue cards for a local commercial and as such lost a chance at cashing in on his valiant but losing effort in that first championship fight.
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Ambroise Dakouo, an analyst from the Alliance to Rebuild African Governance, said that the low turnout during elections reflected disillusionment with the political establishment, consisting of a rotation of "the same elites" who are unaccountable to their constituents, the majority of whom are poor and illiterate.
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In line with this year's theme — "literacy in a digital world" — educators and policy makers will convene at Unesco's headquarters in Paris to discuss ways to help 750 million illiterate adults (two-thirds of whom are women) catch up in a world where many are communicating online.
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For all its ribaldry and banter — including some fairly cheesy jokes at the expense of the German language — the world is clearly pressing in on the illiterate and impoverished Woyzeck, who has a partner, Marie (Sarah Greene), and a newborn child, but who cannot find peace.
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For 19703 weeks, she regaled admirers with reminiscences — of a mother with blackened teeth and a bejeweled nose, and a father of such rank petitioners approached him only on their knees — before she was exposed as a cobbler's daughter and illiterate servant, born Mary Willcocks in Devonshire.
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It begins in the fishing village shack on the East China Sea where her illiterate grandparents raised her, and brings her to a rapidly changing Beijing, full of contradictions: a thriving underground art scene amid mass censorship, curious Westerners who held out affection only to disappear back home.
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The charge was an attempt to undermine my credibility on supporting genetic engineering: the line of attack was, if you don't believe the science and consensus about man-made global warming, you are a scientific illiterate who has no business speaking in defense of other scientific issues like biotechnology.
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Because, man, I've seen slippery slopes before, but this one might be the slipperiest:Now that Zika fear is being hyped up by the corrupt, scientifically illiterate mainstream media, most people just stand aside as governments throughout the Americas spray all sorts of toxic, deadly chemicals all over the place.
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Related: United Nations Condemns Australia Over 'Inhuman' Treatment of Asylum Seekers Australia's immigration minister has described refugees as "illiterate and innumerate" people who would both "take Australian jobs" and "languish" in unemployment — comments swiftly denounced as xenophobic and offensive by opponents but backed by the country's prime minister.
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DONKEY' (No rating, 211983:214) This bleak farce from Zhou Shen and Liu Lu (adapted from their play) concerns a rural Chinese school in the 2118s and its faculty members' efforts to raise funds by convincing a visiting official that an illiterate local bumpkin is an English teacher.
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General Dostum's return from exile is the latest episode in the tumultuous career of the Uzbek leader, an illiterate former Communist enforcer turned warlord who at one time or another was allied with every side in Afghanistan's long war — including the Taliban — and turned on most of them.
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His father, Seepersad, was a newspaper reporter for The Trinidad Guardian and an aspiring fiction writer who as a child was luckily allowed to go to school; his older brother was sent to work in the cane fields for eight cents a day and his sister remained illiterate.
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"Look, if I'm black and I live in a town and every day I have to walk past a monument to someone who died in a battle in order to keep my grandparents and my great-grandparents illiterate slaves, I got a problem with that statue," he says.
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In line with this year's theme — "literacy in a digital world" — educators and policy makers will convene at Unesco's headquarters in Paris to discuss ways to help today's 750 million illiterate adults (two-thirds of whom are women) catch up in a world where many are increasingly communicating online.
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DONKEY' (No rating, 2118:2116) This bleak farce from Zhou Shen and Liu Lu (adapted from their play) concerns a rural Chinese school in the 21165s and its faculty members' efforts to raise funds by convincing a visiting official that an illiterate local bumpkin is an English teacher.
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This lifeline — of access to college and careers — is critical to reversing the historic neglect of public education in the city's most deprived areas, where half the adults are functionally illiterate, according to The State of Adult Literacy report published by the D.C. State Education Agency in March 2007.
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