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Tech and the Dreams of Tomorrow

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What do you think cities will be like in the future? In this video you can see some ideas about how we might be living in the future. But people have been trying to imagine how the future will look for a long time. This is what people though we would be living like now in 1900 an artist in France tried to imagine what life would be like in the year 2000. This is the results: What do you think is a problem we have today that could be solved in the future by a machine?  You assignment for today is to draw and/or describe that machine.  Cities in the future may be greener that the above images show Flight is a major theme in future predictions. Getting off the ground in controlled flight is a sign of the present age. But we ahve only had powered flight (as opposed to balloons, gliders etc.) since 1903. Not very long really in the scale of human history.   What will powered flight look like in the future? Maybe using jetpacks?   How will our houses look in the fut...

Autobiography - Who Are You?

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Autobiography is the writing about the self, or yourself. It is a particular type of writing that needs you to use a certain set of rules. These include how the reader meets the narrator (the person telling the story, which is always I in the telling of your own story) and how time works - it is mostly in the past tense. One of the most famous autobiographies is by Malala Yousafzai , I am Malala (You can download the book from the link).  Sayeeda Warsi, writing for The Daily Telegraph, giving the book four stars out of five, wrote "Malala has turned a tragedy into something positive". Entertainment Weekly gave the book a "B+", writing "Malala's bravely eager voice can seem a little thin here, in I Am Malala, likely thanks to her co-writer, but her powerful message remains undiluted." Metro lists the book as one of the "20 best non-fiction books of 2013", praising that Yousafzai's story as "one of idealism and stubborn courage"...

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.  (born  Michael King, Jr. ; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an  American   pastor ,  activist ,  humanitarian , and leader in the  Civil Rights Movement . He was best known for improving  civil rights  by using  nonviolent   civil disobedience , based on his  Christian  beliefs. Because he was both a  Ph.D.  and a pastor, King is sometimes called the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. (abbreviation: the Rev. Dr. King), or just Dr King. [a]  He is also known by his initials  MLK . He was the pastor of the  Ebenezer Baptist Church  in  Atlanta ,  Georgia . King worked hard to make people understand that not only black people but that all  races  should always be treated equally to  white people . He gave speeches to encourage  African Americans  to  protest  without using  violence . Led by Dr. King ...