A tribute to the late Prof. Chinua Achebe By WOLE SOYINKA AH, Chinua, are you grapevine wired? It sings: our nation is not dead, not clinically Yet. Now this may come as a surprise to you, It was to me. I thought the form I spied Beneath the frosted glass...
This easily ranks as one of my favourite speeches. The arguments are well laid out and presented. Reagan presents compelling arguments against big governments. The Author: Ronald Reagan was born in 1911. He started developing this speech while working for Genera Electric in the late 1950s. He was fired in...
So I chanced on an email forward allegedly written by Bill Cosby. Seemed to be well scripted but sounded like something a Republican would write. The e-mail: “I’m 76 and I’m Tired” by Bill Cosby I’m 76. Except for brief period in the 50’s when I was doing my National...
The 2011/2012 season was the 20th campaign of the English Premier League which is the the most watched in the world. The premier league. Determined by the public and a panel of experts, here are the results. PANEL VOTES Best Player Ryan Giggs (Manchester United) Best Manager Sir Alex Ferguson...
Accent Accent is a form of fallacy through shifting meaning. In this case, the meaning is changed by altering which parts of a statement are emphasized. For example: "We should not speak ill of our friends" and "We should not speak ill of our friends" Be particularly wary of this fallacy on the net, where it's easy to misread the emphasis of what's written.