May I Torture You Teacher?

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In Arabic, the word for the indispensably precious stuff of life that is water is, Mayiy. Its a homonym, `May.?` As everyone is a slave to water, so the teacher is perceived not as a water bearer quenching the thirst for knowledge, but as a type of the figure of Jesus, who needs to be given vinegar, while he`s being crucified in the classroom in order to keep him awake; up on his feet during the torture of sleep deprivation: 'May I talk to you teacher?' Resurrected and filled full of vinegar by the summoning spell, the teachers tormented existence is prolonged yet one more sunset until another dawn: 'Eat and drink until the black line can be fully distinguished by you from the white line due to dawn's redness. Koran, Surah 2, Al Baqara ('The Cow'), 187. Many of the articles collected here are to be found in Humanizing Language Teaching online http://www.hltmag.co.uk

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Private Investigator, registered with 2CIIA, Brasil; P.I. Diploma, Criminal Psychology Certificate, Criminology and Profiling Certificate, Forensic Science Level 3 Certificate, and  Criminal Intelligence Analyst (CIA) Certificate.

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