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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
10:08 pm	How To Learn Spanish Watching DVDs and Movies I've made mine fair share of mistakes inside my life (none severe enough to land me in the slammer... at least they know about!) I do believe that I deserve second chances. You do way too. So why wouldn't Dork? (that's the ex-con's name) I am always ready to cut a guy (or girl) some slack. Including Dave. Positive, he's made some slipups. But he wants a second chance. He NEEDS a second chance. And I was wanting to give it to him. But was my wish to cut the guy some slack the real reason why I drawn that loaf of bread away from the shelf? We explained my dilemma to my aunt and cousin, and asked them once they would let me stay there free for six months so I could take the $20 I gave them every week and invest it in my future. They agreed. So now as i entered the newsroom, I had chicken sandwiches, hot pet dogs, coffee, etc. Here's the big difference. I owned the foodstuff. The price of my own food? Answers to my own questions! It worked since pros "saw" a really dumb go-fer would you not only go get the food, but who would also spend their own money. How could anyone who dumb benefit from what they said? Some of them lied, a few more often than others. That was properly. As I questioned, I began learning a growing number of about the skills associated with reporting, which includes interviewing and double checking what people say. I asked the building's janitor if I could care for the trash cans inside newsroom for him. He agreed of course. I wanted all of the crumpled copy paper reporters threw away so that i could compare what they started with the information finally published. Then with my battered typewriter, I would get up about 5am every day, and rewrite certain stories inside newspaper. When I experienced about two dozen, I took them in a single day to Roger Jolly, the town Editor, and asked their opinion. He said: "How if you'd like to come in on Sundays together with rewrite wire copy? " Afterwards that Spring, I thought I had learned enough, so I went anywhere to the local ebony weekly newspaper and requested a job. Louis Alston, initiator, publisher and editor with the Carolina Times hired everyone, and I wrote for him for a couple of months before moving to Greensboro to jot down for another black weekly newspaper, and by the Spring of 1970, I was back require Durham, and writing to get a black weekly in Raleigh. At every opportunity, I found and learned from specialized journalists. One of these was the News& Observer's features editor, Guy Munger, together with another was Ted Harris, after that, the bureau chief for any capitol office of UPI (Usa Press International). These friendships soon proved to be most fruitful. The editor at the weekly paid me $60 per week, and expected me to report and write info copy, as well as enterprise at least three features weekly. Well, in 1970, the afro hairstyle was the rage among African Americans, and eventually in the barbershop, I listened as barbers shared stories regarding the perils of the afro. Sounded being a good feature. ex offender rehabilitation (Comment on this)
10:04 pm	Help for ex-offenders and excons And if you've got already watched the same movies in English this will confuse you. I offers you example. Last night As i was watching an measures flick called Takers. As i was watching it with the "amiguita" (a feminine friend). You may have already seen the video. With rapper T. My partner and i. and singer Chris Brown. In one of one more scenes of the video T. We. says one of his partners in crime: "Me quitaste a mi perra. " When he said that line my "amiguita" said to me "Yo no vi un perrito en los angeles pel?? cula. Myself encantan los perritos. " (I didn't view a puppy in the video. I love puppies.) I tried to explain to her in real life T. I. is a gangster rapper who has spent time in jail and that in the movie your dog was playing the role of a bank robber and ex-con "de la calle" (in the streets) and that he was speaking with a whole lot of street "jerga" (slang). This must have only confused her even more. Because when I gave her that explanation, her reaction was "tan linda" (which means that cute). She thought it was eventually so cute that the character in the movie would refer to his "novia" (girlfriend) being a "perrita" (little feminine puppy dog). But I told her "no, " he do not refer to his novia or x-novia being a "perrita" or a "little female puppy dog. " He used the term "perra. " "Perra" literally means female dog. I saw it already seen the movie in English so that i knew that the word that he used in English was the word for female dog. Or as my son once described the word to me when we was in the second grade and told me that one of their classmates had called the teacher the "b-word. " Apart from meaning female dog, within Spanish, the word "perra" gets the same negative connotations that this "b-word" has in English. So to look at tried to explain to help my "amiguita" why your actor/rapper playing the role of an bank robber and ex-con from the streets would use the word "perra" as a identity for his novia, she insisted i was wrong and that there was a mistake inside translation of the movie and that they should have used the term "perrita" which would tone somewhat affectionate. She just could not comprehend the idea that someone in the states (even a gangster rapper, traditional bank robber or ex-convict "de la calle") would operate the word "perra" when affectionately speaking about his "novia. " I then told her that the only mistake in the dubbed-over translation is they should have used "novia" instead of "perra" and that they should have had the actor say: "Me quitaste a mi novia. " (You took my girlfriend faraway from me.) I want you to be aware that the Spanish translations, the two audio and written, may not be always very accurate in the movies. And if you're going to use dubbed-over movies to boost your listening comprehension in Spanish, first make an attempt to hear the words and phrases that are spoken. excon (Comment on this)
8:18 am	Rehabilitation for Excons " So what's the point in all this? I just want you to keep yourself updated that the Spanish translations, each of those audio and written, are certainly not always very accurate in the movies. And if you are going to use dubbed-over movies to extend your listening comprehension with Spanish, first try to hear the words and phrases that are spoken. Play how the words are generally pronounced. And do not make an effort to translate lines into English in your mind because the poor translations may only confuse you. . It was a beautiful Spring day in 1983 as soon as for reasons I cannot fully explain even now, I strolled into a newsstand within a Discount Mall in Research Triangle Park, a commercial community just a stone's throw from that Durham City limits. I selected a few my favorite magazines, and then I saw a publication distributed by the Continuing Education Unit at Duke University. You know Duke University, one in the world's most prestigious educational institutions, an institution that assists put Durham, North Carolina on the map. Duke University sports a worldwide reputation from one end with the institution to the other--faculty, study workers, even students. It's a beautiful place, with east together with west campuses, that cover a large quadrant in Durham. That's more than enough! You know Duke University or college. A headline over the front page of that Continuing Education Department's e-book caught my eye--Writers Wanted! Outside the store in the "food court, " I took on page three and see the following ad: "Wanted: writers to teach composing courses to adults who wish to become professional writers. Affect The Continuing Education Unit. Contact Marilyn Hartmann. My own mind twirled with ideas. I wanted to turn into a teacher, and had asked God for open entry opportunities. I had endured that ridicule of neighbors when i stood in an upstairs bedroom in my aunt's house practicing lecturing and speaking in public. Was this the available door? I reviewed the important points. I had been 40-years-old, and had been using prison for 15 years. For almost all these 15 years, I have been a professional writer, you start with three African American every week newspapers, one in Durham, another in Greensboro in addition to a short stint in Raleigh. I had spent two years along with the Morning Star in Wilmington and five years while using the Charlotte Observer. I have been a fulltime freelance blogger since 1980, with job published in local newspapers, as well as regional and national magazines. Currently, I worked as an Editorial Consultant for any Carolina Times, and it's new publisher, Mrs. For a decade and a half now, I had fought these battles with the two forces in me--the confident me, the one who wanted to become a contributing community citizen, along with the negative me, who wanted items to remain as they had been. So here was that battle again. This time period, though, Milton, the beneficial, was larger, louder and more commanding, with often impressive reasoning. Why should I cover teach at Duke University or college? Because, this new me explained, as the Apostle Paul had written about Abraham in the letter to your Romans that Abraham, though he faced the point that his body was dead do not waver in his faith because he knew that God is able to do what He promised. ex offender rehabilitation (Comment on this)