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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY |
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MAKING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY -
VOA English
March 8th honors girls and women around the world and
brings attention to issues affecting their lives...
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MAYA ANGELOU: A WISE MESSAGE
Maya Angelou is a
remarkable
poet,
educator,
best-selling author,
actress and
civil-rights activist.
Interviewed by Oprah Winfrey, these were her wise words...
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FEMINISM: A HUMOROUS EXAMINATION -
Think in English
"Women
speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to
speech by something outside himself - like, for instance..."
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PODCASTS |
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RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Many years ago, a young
man named Giovanni Guasconti left his home in Naples to study in
northern Italy. He rented a small room on the top floor...
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SHORT STORIES |
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DRAGONHEART -
Patrick Read Johnson and Charles Edward Pogue
In the king's castle,
Queen Aislinn sat in her room. She looked out of the window with
sad eyes. She couldn't see the battle, but she could hear the...
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THE WAXWORK -
Alfred Burrage
Raymond
Hewson wanted
to stay the night in the famous Marriner’s Waxworks,
and write a newspaper feature about the Murderers’ Room...
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RAILROAD GHOSTS -
Robert Kent
It is
night. In the small town of Gurdon in Arkansas, USA, railroad workers see a
strange yellow light hovering above the railroad track. The light seems to...
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THE SECRET AGENT -
Joseph Conrad
Published in 1907, the events in this novel concerning a group of
spies and anarchists who meet in a Soho shop are really exciting...
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FEATURES |
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SOCIETY |
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ALIVE AND FREE - Voice
of America
More than
half of young black men in the United States do not finish high school.
Many grow up without fathers and in neighborhoods with gangs...
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SCHOOL DESERTION IN THE U.S. - Voice
of America
Many young people in the United States never finish high school. Recent studies
of dropout rates have had conflicting results...
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MOVIE STARS |
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JULIA ROBERTS -
Marina Katz
From Steel Magnolias to Erin Brockovich:
After
a lost decade,
Julia Roberts could finally develop
as an actress.
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GEORGE CLOONEY: A HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITY -
Robert Kent
Born
in Lexington, Kentucky, George Clooney grew up doing commercials
for his father’s TV show in Cincinatti...
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JOBS AND EMPLOYMENT |
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BUSINESS MANNERS -
Kesta Allen
You
may have the business qualifications or even an
excellent
record
of good education and work experience. However, without good
business manners...
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PLANNING YOUR FUTURE -
Martha Lucia Guevara
Schooling is still the basic key to progress and a better job. In
that sense, the
United States job scene is the best it has been in more than a
decade...
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TUTORIALES PRACTICOS |
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SECRETARY AND TELEPHONE - OM Personal
Tutorials
A useful bilingual tutorial
for secretaries and personal assistants.
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