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But the people who fabricated that solar cooker are women, illiterate women, who actually fabricate the most sophisticated solar cooker.
You know, for thousands of years, illiterate generations would pass on their values and their culture from generation to generation, and they would stay intact.
I thought I read that this demographic, young men and women in their 20s and 30s, is largely illiterate in Afghanistan."
Their parents are often illiterate, and then they come to the city, and they, on their own, at night, during the weekends, they'll take a computer class, they'll take an English class, and learn really, really rudimentary things, you know, like how to type a document in Word, or how to say really simple things in English.
For example, it is counterintuitive to have an illiterate study participant, like Celine, sign a lengthy consent form that they are unable to read, let alone understand.
The Aboriginal people who were our bosses and the senior people were most commonly illiterate, so the story had to be told in pictures of what these goals were.
And it turns out that illiterate people are masters of delegation.
And the problem we face today, here in America in particular, but all around the world, is that far too many people are profoundly illiterate in power — what it is, who has it, how it operates, how it flows, what part of it is visible, what part of it is not, why some people have it, why that's compounded.
This is in a village where most of the people are even illiterate.
We were geologically illiterate, unaware of the antiquity of our own planet and ignorant of our connection to deep time.
And like many pirates of that era, he flew a flag that bore the macabre symbols of a human skull and a pair of crossed bones, because those motifs had signified death in so many cultures for centuries, that their meaning was instantly recognizable, even in the lawless, illiterate world of the high seas: surrender or you'll suffer.
He's illiterate, and he communicates with voice messages.
Ask yourselves this: How can 50 percent of the American population be financially illiterate in a nation driven by financial prosperity?
He could understand everybody, but there was no way to respond, even not writing because he was illiterate.
And can you imagine the feeling of a small boy or a girl or an illiterate day laborer standing in front of that school building and knowing that you built this out of the ordinary bamboo and just the dirt underneath your feet, using nothing but your hands?
I learned that a patient of mine who spoke English without accent was illiterate, when he asked me to please sign a social security disability form for him right away.
You see, here's Huck; he's an illiterate kid; he's had no schooling, but there's something in him.
I've met a young man in New York whose illiterate mother in a village in Senegal takes a bus once a month to the capital city of Dakar, just to watch a Bollywood movie.
She's illiterate, so she can't read the French subtitles.
She is an illiterate girl, trained, skilled as a welder.
Child: Our parents are illiterate and we want to teach them how to read and write.
I've seen that we cut girls and we control them and we keep them illiterate, or we make them feel bad about being too smart.
They've been brought up by mothers who are illiterate, who have never ever done homework.
Most of the children there have parents who are illiterate.
Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world, and 70 percent of the people are illiterate.
Not even the biased token black guy or the illiterate jock.
These are aspects not often considered in movies about emigration to America in particular and to to any country more generally and the film vividly and convincingly depicts the nervousness and enthusiasm, if ignorance, that poor, illiterate Sicilian immigrants have in anticipation of their emigration to the United States.
A real sudsy soap opera here as Spencer Tracy tackles the role of an illiterate until the age of 20.
Robert De Niro has to be the most ingenious and insightful illiterate of all time.
Ricky Lake was just another show to entertain the obese trailer park mother with a Marlboro cigarette hanging out of her mouth while breast feeding one of her dozens of toothless, illiterate children.
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