American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists on April 3, when the group released a tape of Patty saying she had joined the SLA and had adopted the nom de guerre “Tania.”
This book investigates and analyzes the way in which factors such as communication apprehension, self-perceived communicative competence and group dynamics influence the communicative behavior of a foreign-language learner. It also focuses on interpersonal communication, group communication and public speaking. Using selected models it characterizes and analyzes all types of communication with reference to communication in the language classroom, with a particular emphasis on the foreign-language context.
A mixed group of people attend an Italian evening class in Dublin organised by school teachers Aidan Dunne and Nora O'Donaghue, known as Signora. The members of the group all have their own reasons for learning Italian, and their lives may never be the same again. Maeve Binchy was born in Dublin in 1940 and is one of Ireland's most successful writers.
Afghanistan's Heroic Artists: Footprint Reading Library 8 (Hampton-Brown Edge: Reading, Writing, & Language ©2014) Level C1When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the religious group aimed to destroy any artistic expression that violated their strict interpretation of Islamic rules. A group of Afghan artists risked death by disobeying the Taliban to preserve the artwork.
