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A Voice in the Wilderness: Why don't People Read Anymore? - 2 views

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  • Why are there fewer and fewer readers? As soon as we hear the question, most of us tend to point our fingers at the visual media. It is true that visual media has replaced much of print media. But we have only gained by having the visual media in addition to the print media. The two media can work together hand in hand rather than as rivals to create a better life on the planet. Movies and TV serials are an extension of what appears in print, and they let us see with our eyes what we could only see with our mind’s eye.
  • spaper along with a cup of hot tea or coffee. Today the situation is not the same. The number of readers is on decline. Television has replaced newspaper for many. V
  • As Mark Twain joked over 100 years ago, "the man who doesn't read a book is no smarter than the man who can't read one."
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  • If teachers could teach them "read-to-learn" and "learn-to-grow" techniques, a new generation of readers will emerge. They need to be taught how to pick excellent books with valuable ideas, and to find value in them.
  • It leads me to imagine a time when we have become entirely dependent upon electronic servants like iPods, cell phones, CD & DVD Players, Computers, Washers and Dryers, Microwaves, Refrigerators, Automobiles, and such. Thensuddenly something happens to disable the entire electrical gridwork worldwide. What a marvelous trap we are thoughtlessly wandering into! It would make a great sci-fi story, but then, who would read it?
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IN OUR EVERYDAY LIFE: Why must we read ? | Le Mauricien - 3 views

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  • it is material to underscore the role that a good book can play in the training and the development of an individual. I have tried to enumerate some of the reasons, there may be more, behind an intelligent and purposeful reading : 1)     Reading drives away our ignorance to make room for knowledge. 2)     Reading helps us build up a fuller personality. 3)     Reading makes us a complete citizen. 4)     Reading helps us to think and feel more fully. 5)     Reading helps us to visit many places and meet celebrities at second hand. 6)     Reading helps to build up our vocabulary for comprehension and expression. 7)     Reading is a stepping stone to writing. Writing means reading. Qui dit écriture, dit lecture. We must read to write. 8)     Reading provides us with a skeleton key with which we can open many doors. 9)     Reading is sine qua non to succeed at school. It is an integral part of the learning process. A reading child is an asset in class while an unreading one is a liability. 10)     Reading spares us from becoming a pawn on the chessboard of witty and intelligent persons. It is not easy to fool a man of wide reading. 11)     Reading broadens our minds with the pleasures of great literature. It opens new windows on the world. 12)     Reading helps us outgrow our opinions and ideas, and learn other people's points of view. 13)     Reading brings us far into the past, keeps us abreast with the present and prepares us for the future. 14)     Reading is the basis of a child's education and the enhancement of man. 15)     Reading helps to relieve the tedium of everyday life and kill the time.
  • “A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit.”
  • John Milton said
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Uber sparks taxi row in South Africa's Johannesburg - BBC News - 2 views

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  • 8 July 2015
  • Taxi drivers in South Africa have had a fierce reputation dating back to the days of apartheid and have often resorted to violence to protect their routes.
  • In the posh business area of Sandton, a passenger was pulled out of an Uber car a week ago and the driver was threatened with whips and batons. The meter taxi drivers say they are angry with Uber for taking their customers, and making business difficult for them.
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  • Under apartheid the white minority government had neglected to provide reliable public transport for the majority of South Africans. Mostly black individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit took it upon themselves to start an informal taxi service. They have been running it for decades.
  • Now the government wants to regulate it and it is finding it difficult to penetrate the multi-billion dollar industry. Minibus taxis ferry millions of people every day to and from work. They provide an essential service.
  • And it is under this tense climate that the innovative Uber business idea has arrived.
  • customer
  • her Uber driver was too scared to pick her and her husband up from Sandton after being harassed by the metered taxi drivers.
  • Uber in AfricaLaunched in Johannesburg in 2012
  • Uber prices are cheaper and its cars are much cleaner
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      7. How did the current taxi service in SA started?
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      8. Why do people prefer Uber cars to taxis?
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      9. Where is the Uber head office?
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      10. Why do taxi owners feel that Uber gets preferential treatment from SA government?
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      11. What influence did the intimidation of Uber drivers and customers had on the Uber service?
  • a regular Uber customer
  • she has found ways of using the service, undetected by metered taxi drivers.
  • "I ask them to pick me up away from designated pick-up spots in order to enjoy the cheaper service without being intimidated."
  • Its Johannesburg general manager, Alon Litz, said in statement that intimidation was getting worse.
  • "We are in constant communication with the drivers assuring them that their safety is our number one priority. We're looking into ways to reduce cases of intimidation," he said. 'Like third-class citizens'
  • I asked 70-year-old Peter Moloi what problem he had with Uber?
  • that Uber annoyed him because it had jumped the queue for operating licenses.
  • "We are tired of being treated like third-class citizens in our own country."
  • foreign-owned firm received its taxi licence quickly, compared with some of his colleagues who had waited for years.
  • Uber in South Africa had one million rides in 2014 - in the first half of this year it has already reached double that.
  • headquartered in San Francisco in the US
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