Category: General Resources

May 07, 2012

Businesses and individuals are increasingly concerned with privacy when surfing the Internet. Companies in particular must take measures to ensure their work-related documents are kept private when sending them over the Web. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a low-cost, reliable way to provide companies and individuals security for their electronic communications. A VPN uses… Continue reading VPN Info on the World Wide Web

December 07, 2011

Before the video camera and film, there were far fewer ways to record what was going on in the world. The magic of recorded voices became a historical moment in the world when a phonautograph captured a voice singing “Au Clair de Lune.” This recording dates back to 1860 and is noted as the world’s oldest recorded… Continue reading Now Hear This! A Catalog of Spoken Word & Voice Resources

September 10, 2011

James Joyce is considered one of the greatest writers in the history of English literature. His extensive experimentation of the language had opened doors for many literary possibilities. He is known for his radical style of writing, and some of his works are so complicated that they are not entirely comprehensible to even the most… Continue reading James Joyce Resources

September 07, 2011

There are a great many resources available for people interested in learning the English language. Individuals learn English in a variety of ways. For instance, some learn the language by continually listening to people who are speaking in English. Others learn by reading material that is written in the English language. No matter what a… Continue reading Ultimate ESL Subject Guide

Basque History First, let’s talk history. The Basque region is an area in the Pyrenees where approximately 80,000 Basques live on the French side of the mountains and 580,000 on the Spanish side. The Basques are the oldest group of indigenous people in Europe. One intriguing fact about the Basques is that their language seems… Continue reading The Basque Language and Business

Storytelling is a practice that dates back to the earliest moments of human speech.  It is a way to share ideas, imagination, and to entertain in a way that detaches oneself from the physical world and enters a world with no boundaries.  Stories have been used to teach morals, history, settle arguments, entertain, and honor deities and… Continue reading To Tell A Story

September 04, 2011

German is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages and it is the third most taught language in the world. It’s spoken differently in different regions – meaning that “standard German” actually has several versions! It has two dialects, Low German and High German, derived from Old High German, which in turn originated from… Continue reading Germanic Language Resources

June 09, 2011

The Georgia Rural Telephone Museum is located in Leslie, Georgia. They boast the largest collection of antique telephones and telephone memorabilia in the world. The museum sits inside an old cotton warehouse that dates back to the 1920s. It’s also closely located to the Citizens Telephone Company, one of the only independent phone companies left… Continue reading Georgia Rural Telephone Museum

November 07, 2010

The SPAM Diet and Other E-mail FAQs How many times have we checked our e-mail inbox and found messages that we didn’t expect and didn’t want?   You know the ones I mean, the e-mails with subjects of low cost pharmaceuticals, weight loss pills and a host of others.   Those messages are SPAM messages.… Continue reading SPAM Diet and Other E-mail FAQs

September 19, 2010

A phoneme is the smallest piece of sound heard by the human ear. For example, in the word cat, the emphasis on the “C” is heard by the ear before anything else and sounds the most important. The “ch” sound identified is sometimes confusing for young readers and writers because they associate it with the… Continue reading Language Resources