Q: Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as "Washington", "the District", or simply "D.C.", is the capital of the United States.

The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria. Named in honor of President George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District.

Washington had an estimated population of 681,170 as of July 2016. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's population to more than onemillion during the workweek. The Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is the principal city, has a population of over 6million, the sixth-largest metropolitan statistical area in the country.

1. Washington, D.C.
2. Yes
3. onemillion
4. Maryland and Virginia
5. No
6. The signing of the Residence Act
7. Georgetown and Alexandria.
8. Yes
9. George Washington
10. Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia
11. 681,170 as of July 2016
12. the sixth-largest metropolitan statistical area

Numbered questions:
1. what city is being talked about here?
2. is it the capital of the US?
3. how many people are there during a work week?
4. what states do they commute from?
5. is D.C. on the west coast?
6. what happened in 1790?
7. what settlements that was already there?
8. Was D.C. named after a president?
9. which one?
10. who returned the land and why?
11. what's the current population?
12. what's the rank in the US?

Q: Do you want to know something about children in Africa? What to they do for fun every day? Find out here: Education School is expensive for many African children. Lots of families can't afford school uniforms or exercise books even though they don't have to pay for school. For those lucky enough to go to school , they have a lot to learn. Some take two language classes: English or French, and their first language. There is also math, science, history, social studies and geography. _ take up much of children's time after school. They have to get water and firewood for the family every day. Also there's cleaning , washing and helping Mum with the meal. Daily fun It's not all work and no play. Sports are very popular. Children can make goals with twigs ( )and their own footballs with plastic and bits of string ( ). They play in the country and the streets of old towns. There're many football teams for teenagers in Africa. Internet It's really expensive to get on the Internet. To surf the net for 20 hours costs over 600yuan. This is more than the average monthly pay per person. Egypt and South Africa are the top two users of the Internet in Africa. All of the capital cities there can get on the Internet. Some schools offer computer lessons but few students can enjoy computer fun at home.

1. Education School
2. they don't have to pay for school
3. There are eight possible subjects
4. yes
5. Five
6. their mother
7. football
8. the internet
9. no
10. no
11. no
12. twenty hours for 600 yuan
13. Yes
14. footballs and football goals
15. twigs, plastic and pieces of string.
16. English and French,

Numbered questions:
1. What is expensive for many African children?
2. What is this in spite of?
3. How many subjects do they attend?
4. Do they have time to study after class?
5. How many chores are there?
6. Which parent do the pupils help with the chores?
7. What sport is there much of?
8. What is another example of a service that is very expensive?
9. Do all educational institutions have technology sections?
10. Is it cheap to websurf?
11. Does it cost 700 yuan?
12. What does it cost?
13. Is that more than the weekly salary?
14. What sort of things can the kids construct to amuse themselves with as sport?
15. What did they construct these from?
16. What are the typical languages these youth study outside their own?

Q: Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over acceptance of dogma or superstition. The meaning of the term humanism has fluctuated according to the successive intellectual movements which have identified with it. Generally, however, humanism refers to a perspective that affirms some notion of human freedom and progress. In modern times, humanist movements are typically aligned with secularism, and today humanism typically refers to a non-theistic life stance centred on human agency and looking to science rather than revelation from a supernatural source to understand the world.

Gellius says that in his day humanitas is commonly used as a synonym for philanthropy or kindness and benevolence toward one's fellow human being. Gellius maintains that this common usage is wrong, and that model writers of Latin, such as Cicero and others, used the word only to mean what we might call "humane" or "polite" learning, or the Greek equivalent Paideia. Gellius became a favorite author in the Italian Renaissance, and, in fifteenth-century Italy, teachers and scholars of philosophy, poetry, and rhetoric were called and called themselves "humanists". Modern scholars, however, point out that Cicero (106 43 BCE), who was most responsible for defining and popularizing the term humanitas, in fact frequently used the word in both senses, as did his near contemporaries. For Cicero, a lawyer, what most distinguished humans from brutes was speech, which, allied to reason, could (and should) enable them to settle disputes and live together in concord and harmony under the rule of law. Thus humanitas included two meanings from the outset and these continue in the modern derivative, humanism, which even today can refer to both humanitarian benevolence and to scholarship.

1. teachers and scholars of philosophy, poetry, and rhetoric
2. (106 43 BCE)
3. a lawyer
4. speech
5. it enabled them to settle disputes and live together
6. unknown
7. humanitas
8. a favorite author in the Italian Renaissance
9. The fifteenth century
10. Two
11. no
12. unknown

Numbered questions:
1. In Italy, who called themselves humanists?
2. What years was Cicero alive?
3. What was his occupation?
4. What did he say was the difference between man and beasts?
5. What did he say the benefit of that was?
6. What was Gellius attitude?
7. What did he term as being nice to people?
8. What did Gellius become?
9. When?
10. How many different definitions did we end up with on the topic of discussion?
11. Does the topic include God or not?
12. Was what uneducated people's opinions included?