I, too have read all of neatorama. I can read a 500 page book in a day, though, so it didn't take too long. I wish it did, because I was sad when I reached the end.
I work with produce all day, and I am a word nerd.
A berry is a small, pulpy fruit with a pit(i.e. seed) in the center. Therefore, a grape is a berry, and a strawberry is not. Melons are not berries, they're not small.
Furthermore, the cucumber is a member of the melon family, it's just elongated. A cucumber is a fruit because fruits have seeds, vegetables do not. A watermelon is NOT a vegetable. (Even seedless ones have smallish seeds.) A tomato is a fruit (it has seeds).
The second webster's definition is the abstract concept, i.e. the fruits of your labor, fruits of the harvest.
I must agree here with Pudifoot, and say that the majority of these kids recorded themselves being disrespectful. The last teacher was the worst, I must say, and was teaching the youngest children.
That being said, I was taught before everyone had cell phones, and if it were not for one student's tape recorder, there would be a teacher employed who should not have been. What did we catch him saying? That all people who have AIDS deserved it. He was a substitute, along with the sub who slapped a boy with a metal ruler and cut him.
Not substitutes were the two tenyered teachers who molested students. I endured this in middle class suburbia in K-12 schools. I can only assume that Urban schools fare far worse.
I would have to disagree and say, yes, this is a neat topic, in as much has this is still the FIRST article on the neatorama page and there are over 40 comments posted. Also, I disagree on how Al Gore never gave us options on what to DO for the environment. The movie just gave evidence that we need to do something, his books give us plenty of how-to's.
Remember books? If people read more, maybe he wouldn't have had to make a movie.
So, yes, I would have to say that he deserved the peace prize. You know, having promoted fraternity between nations. Kyoto anyone? Many of our nations are now fighting a common enemy: ourselves, and our pollution.
I am going to vote for NeatoramAZ.
A berry is a small, pulpy fruit with a pit(i.e. seed) in the center. Therefore, a grape is a berry, and a strawberry is not. Melons are not berries, they're not small.
Furthermore, the cucumber is a member of the melon family, it's just elongated. A cucumber is a fruit because fruits have seeds, vegetables do not. A watermelon is NOT a vegetable. (Even seedless ones have smallish seeds.) A tomato is a fruit (it has seeds).
The second webster's definition is the abstract concept, i.e. the fruits of your labor, fruits of the harvest.
That being said, I was taught before everyone had cell phones, and if it were not for one student's tape recorder, there would be a teacher employed who should not have been. What did we catch him saying? That all people who have AIDS deserved it. He was a substitute, along with the sub who slapped a boy with a metal ruler and cut him.
Not substitutes were the two tenyered teachers who molested students. I endured this in middle class suburbia in K-12 schools. I can only assume that Urban schools fare far worse.
I would have to disagree and say, yes, this is a neat topic, in as much has this is still the FIRST article on the neatorama page and there are over 40 comments posted. Also, I disagree on how Al Gore never gave us options on what to DO for the environment. The movie just gave evidence that we need to do something, his books give us plenty of how-to's.
Remember books? If people read more, maybe he wouldn't have had to make a movie.
So, yes, I would have to say that he deserved the peace prize. You know, having promoted fraternity between nations. Kyoto anyone? Many of our nations are now fighting a common enemy: ourselves, and our pollution.