The image below stirred up controversy on Reddit, earning over 10,000 comments. The story behind the post is a kid was asked to used the “addition strategy” to solve a multiplication problem. The question was 5×3. The student showed their work as 5+5+5, which equals fifteen. That checks out, but the teacher still took away points, writing “3+3+3+3+3.” Which …
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Mr. O’Neil called Jim into his office and told him to sit down. Then, Mr. O’Neil shut the door and returned to his big desk. He sat in the padded leather chair behind it and ignored Jim, looking instead at a paper he lifted from the desk top. Jim waited patiently for the boss man to speak. He …
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In the past couple of years, online fundraisers for medical bills have sprouted up at an increasingly high rate. GoFundMe — one of the largest online fundraising sites — alone has raised billions of dollars for people crowdsourcing their medical bills and various medications or treatments. The ever-present threat of going into debt because of …
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“Have you seen your father lately?” My mother asked as she poured pecans on a chocolate cheesecake. I resisted the urge to snap Why would I want to see him? The man was an utter fool. He’d never been able to see the truth. Always too busy watching the flowers in public parks. The way …
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Raqqa, destroyed houses on the front line in the Al Dariya neighborhood, Syria, 24 July 2017.Morukc Umnaber/ Press Association. All rights reserved. Thank you for your letter and I am really sorry that it is seven months since I last wrote to you (see "Letter from London, not Raqqa", 4 November 2017). As you will …
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When you saw “Home Alone” for the first time as a kid, you probably just loved it as a thrill ride. You got to watch some kid go full on John Rambo and protect his home against the narrator from “The Wonder Years” and the unhinged guy from nearly every Scorsese film. To put it simply: …
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To earn 50 years in prison, most of the time, one either has to kill someone, move a few kilos of drugs, or swindle rich people out of their money. But a man in Texas was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Friday, April 20, because he simply could not stop himself from stealing fajitas. Employees …
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ELN Guerrilla members. Image: cortesy of pacifista.tv Even though Colombia signed a peace deal with the FARC rebels in 2016, armed conflict in the country is not yet over. Another rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN – Ejército de Liberación Nacional, in Spanish), the country’s now-largest guerrilla organisation, is still alive and kicking. Since …
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Originally published in the Post on May 22, 1920. And Mrs. Curley, who is always so agreeable about doing anything like that, did some of her original child impersonations, in her favorite selections, “Don’t Tell the Daisies I Tolded You, ‘Cause I Promised Them Not to Tell”; and “Little Girls Must Always Be Dressed up …
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The doves stare through the bars of their cage, the opened slats of the blinds, the tight mesh of the window screens, into the dismal, sunless morning. They are mystified, it seems — the world is as much a mystery to them as they are to Anne. She watches them while she waits for the …
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