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A great citizen science site where users can upload and view photos of animals or use the free Apple device and Android Apps. It's a great way to do real science with what you already have in class. Check out the education section for more ideas. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
- - By Martin Burrett
This is a lovely downloadable programme to compose pieces of music on a digital stave which will play you creations back to you. Just drag the note and rests into the positions you want. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts
- - By Martin Burrett
This is a wonderfully designed site to learn Mandarin Chinese. It uses a huge collection of Chinese TV programmes and movie clips with interactive and dual-language subtitles. Click on a Chinese character is see the translation and hear the pronunciation. You can set your ability level and also what sort of media you are interested in. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Mandarin+%26+Chinese+culture
- - By Martin Burrett
South Korea To Get Its First Female Leader : The Two-Way : NPR
"And during the campaign, Park apologized for human rights abuses committed by her father."
- - By hyungyul kim
- Park's father, Park Chung-hee, was a military dictator who seized power in 1961 and ran the country for nearly two decades. He was known as a ruler who suppressed democracy, but also oversaw Korea's rapid economic rise from a mostly agricultural society to a global industrial powerhouse.
- - By hyungyul kim
- And during the campaign, Park apologized for human rights abuses committed by her father.
- - By hyungyul kim
South Korea elects first female president - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English
"South Korea elects first female president"
- - By hyungyul kim
- The election was marked by a high turnout of more than 75 per cent, compared to 63 per cent in the 2007 presidential poll.
- - By hyungyul kim
- Park is the daughter of one of modern Korea's most polarising figures, the late leader Park Chung-hee, who is both admired for dragging the country out of poverty and reviled for his ruthless suppression of dissent during 18 years of autocratic rule.
- "middle ground" voters
- "This is still a divided country in terms of generations, party lines and regions. People have stuck to quite long-held party allegiances."
- - By hyungyul kim
- "economic democratisation"
- - By hyungyul kim
- "I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to. You, the people, are my family and your happiness is the reason that I stay in politics," Park, who has never been married, said in a televised press conference on Tuesday.
Park Geun-hye, Daughter of Dictator, Wins South Korea Presidency - NYTimes.com
- anti-establishment sentiment
- - By hyungyul kim
- Critics say the party is too soft on North Korea and too radical in its plans to rein in the country’s huge family-controlled business conglomerates
- - By hyungyul kim
- “I have no family to take care of,” she said. “I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics. And if elected, I would govern like a mother dedicated to her family.”
- “Is everything all right along the border with North Korea?”
- as the country rapidly democratized and her father was vilified as a dictator
- she was “married” to the country.
South Korea Elects First Female President (VIDEO)
- The association with her father helped her overcome some deeply held prejudices among male voters.
- - By hyungyul kim
- a nation with the developed world’s highest level of wage inequality between men and women
- Park faces not only a threatening presence in North Korea, but also a slew of economic issues, which voters said were of even higher importance than their northern rival.
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