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Children are motivated to acquire language because it serves certain purposes. Halliday: Instrumental: Express needs. Regulatory: Tell others what to do/Commands. Interactional: Social. Personal: Express feelings, opinions and individual identity. ...
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Social Interactionalist (Bruner) Stress role of interaction by others and their input. For: - Routine/Rituals teach children about spoken discourse structure. - Learning politeness strategies/pragmatics. - Halliday’s pragmatic studies. - Jim (Bard and...
Punch cartoon from 1882, showing the mild mannered Gladstone indulging in a rare burst of militarism
We make our own fortunes and call them fate.
Benjamin Disraeli (via macbeth2013)
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Benjamin Disraeli (via wanderers-journal)
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Benjamin Disraeli (via undeadbioe)
The Left and Right of politics
Apparently, the aphorism ‘God helps those who help themselves’ is a conservative view.
(source: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/left-vs-right-world/)
The Night of the Long Knives or “Operation Hummingbird [Kolibri]”, or, more commonly used in Germany “Röhm-Putsch” was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political executions. Most of those killed were members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitaryBrownshirts. At least 85 people died during the purge, although the final death toll may have been in the hundreds, and more than a thousand perceived opponents were arrested. Most of the killings were carried out by the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei), the regime’s secret police. The purge strengthened and consolidated the support of the Reichswehr for Hitler. It also provided a legal grounding for the Nazi regime, as the German courts and cabinet quickly swept aside centuries of legal prohibition against extra-judicial killings to demonstrate their loyalty to the regime.
Eternal sorrow sat upon his face as he bent down and kissed the forehead of the boys, who from that hour withered like flowers snapt upon the stalk.
Mary Shelley’s introduction to Frankenstein, 1831 edition (via funeral-wreaths)
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley (via chelsuu)
I’m sick of the gun control = Nazis argument. And here’s the historical analysis:
University of Chicago law professor Bernard Harcourt explored this myth in depth in a 2004 article published in the Fordham Law Review. As it turns out, the Weimar Republic, the German government that immediately preceded Hitler’s, actually had tougher gun laws than the Nazi regime. After its defeat in World War I, and agreeing to the harsh surrender terms laid out in the Treaty of Versailles, the German legislature in 1919 passed a law that effectively banned all private firearm possession, leading the government to confiscate guns already in circulation. In 1928, the Reichstag relaxed the regulation a bit, but put in place a strict registration regime that required citizens to acquire separate permits to own guns, sell them or carry them.
The 1938 law signed by Hitler that LaPierre mentions in his book basically does the opposite of what he says it did. “The 1938 revisions completely deregulated the acquisition and transfer of rifles and shotguns, as well as ammunition,” Harcourt wrote. Meanwhile, many more categories of people, including Nazi party members, were exempted from gun ownership regulations altogether, while the legal age of purchase was lowered from 20 to 18, and permit lengths were extended from one year to three years.
The law did prohibit Jews and other persecuted classes from owning guns, but this should not be an indictment of gun control in general. Does the fact that Nazis forced Jews into horrendous ghettos indict urban planning? Should we eliminate all police officers because the Nazis used police officers to oppress and kill the Jews? What about public works — Hitler loved public works projects? Of course not. These are merely implements that can be used for good or ill, much as gun advocates like to argue about guns themselves. If guns don’t kill people, then neither does gun control cause genocide (genocidal regimes cause genocide).
And about that quote gun advocates keep submitting to me:
Meanwhile, much of the Hitler myth is based on an infamous quote falsely attributed to the Fuhrer, which extols the virtue of gun control:
“This year will go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!”
The quote has been widely reproduced in blog posts and opinion columns about gun control, but it’s “probably a fraud and was likely never uttered,” according to Harcourt. “This quotation, often seen without any date or citation at all, suffers from several credibility problems, the most significant of which is that the date often given [1935] has no correlation with any legislative effort by the Nazis for gun registration, nor would there have been any need for the Nazis to pass such a law, since gun registration laws passed by the Weimar government were already in effect,” researchers at the useful website GunCite note.
Besides, it cheapens a horror like the Holocaust to even suggest that a limit on certain types of weapons and/or high-capacity magazines is anything similar to what happened in Nazi Germany. Can we please have this discussion without invoking Godwin’s law? Just once?
“Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.”
Edward Thomas (via whispers-horrible-sanity)
Gladstone and Victoria. Of all the modern relationships of a sovereign and their first minister, none was perhaps as difficult as that of Queen Victoria and William Gladstone. While Gladstone and the Queen enjoyed good relations while Prince Albert was alive, this declined following his death. The Queen found Gladstone laborious and once complained that he; “always addresses me as if I were a public meeting.” Her disdain for Gladstone was only matched by her love for his great rival Disraeli. Of course you’re bound to like someone who makes you Empress of India! When Gladstone died in 1898 the Prince of Wales (future Edward VII) acted as a pallbearer at his funeral in Westminster Abbey. Victoria telegraphed her son asking what advice he had taken in performing this action. He responded by telling her he had not sought any advice and did not know of any precedent. One can ponder if perhaps annoying his mother crossed the Princes mind. Victoria grudgingly referred to Gladstone as “one of the most distinguished statesman of my reign” in a letter to Catherine Gladstone. The very inclusion of the word ‘one’ showed how she had failed to see he was indeed the quintessential Victorian statesman.
The British have invaded all but 22 countries.
The lucky remaining few are Andorra, Belarus, Bolivia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Guatemala, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mali, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Mongolia, Paraguay, Sao Tome and Principe, Sweden, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Vatican City.
These appear to have been missed because either they were too small to bother, or we couldn’t spell them.
