sábado, 19 de novembro de 2011

Word of the day: Censorship


Yesterday I was listening to another The Word Nerd podcast Episode. This time, the theme was Irony and Satire. I’m newbie in English language, so when I listen to a podcast, if I understand more or less about what they are talking, and the subject interests me, I search about it to understand better about what they are talking.
It happens that in a determined moment they started to talk about censorship to comedians. I didn’t know the meaning of censorship word and so I decided to search about.
According to The FreeDictionary, censorship is
deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances.
Knowing about what was it, I treated to go to Wikipedia read some article about this theme.
Two points that attracted me in this article were map censorship and educational sources censorship. Reading Wikipedia article I figure out that Google Maps sometimes doesn’t show some areas in the world because some motive that I haven't identified yet. I’m a computer science men and this call me attention. About educational sources censorship Wikipedia said that “The reporting of military atrocities in history is extremely controversial, as in the case of The Holocaust ( or Holocaust denial), Bombing of Dresden, the Nanking Massacre as found with Japanese history textbook controversies, …” Reading this, I was curious about how Americans teach about Hiroshima Bomb. Certain, it’s a bit controversy.
Well, I intend search about this two themes and show the results here, how a way to train my written. If you met mistakes (I’m certain that you met) in this little text, help me showing me them. Be confortable to comment about the text, I will be very happy! Thanks!

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