Bite-Size American Literature Audio Clips

Bite-size audio clips available for mp3 download are available on the world-famous Cliff Notes page.

Today's technology meets the canon of literature.

While aimed at US teenagers to the horror of their high school English teachers, anyone who loves literature can indulge!

These podcasts are three to four minute capsules of the great works of literature including Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby and To Kill A Mockingbird and a couple of plays by the Bard.

Load up on your literature today!

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Test scores hurt international recruitment

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Test scores hurt international recruitment

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A city in Entre Rios refuses Buenos Aires’ poor

Please enjoy an Argentine news story translated from Spanish to English.
Courtesy: Buenos Aires Translator

A city in Entre Rios refuses Buenos Aires’ poor

Neighbors fear migrations from towns in Buenos Aires. A history of a crisis full of prejudices

Report by Pablo Calvo, special correspondent

A giant dorado on the side of the road welcomes you to the city of La Paz There are virgin trees along the shoulder of the road, chickens on the sidewalks, and cows tied to trees. The smooth current of the Parana River runs along the camalotes and hides 12 kilogram surubíes.

Life appears to pass by on a post card

Upon arriving in the plaza, an unexpected conflict arises. neighbors in the asphalt streets demand officials to stop the arrival of the poor from Buenos Aires. They speak about a secret plan to “spill” residents from the outskirts of Buenos Aires into the Littoral and met for a month to gather proof to confirm their suspicions.

In the meetings, there are professionals, teachers, nurses, hairdressers, housewives, private school students, drawn by a rumor: that people from Villa 31 of the Retiro, the oldest in the Federal Capital, are possibly landing for these payments.

Official denials do not calm passions : there were complaints on the radio, long list of demands and signs bordering on xenophobia. It is said there have been “strange faces” in the city from “subcultures” which could spark a “clash with local customs” and among the poor exists a possibility of a “contagion.”

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Alfonsin, the president who consolidated democracy, died

Please enjoy an Argentine news story translated from Spanish to English.
Courtesy: Buenos Aires Translator

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Alfonsin, the president who consolidated democracy, died

He suffered from lung cancer and in his final days agonizing in his apartment on avenida Santa Fe in the city of Buenos Aires. He was 82 years old and was the first democratic president after the fall of the military dictatorship.

FAREWELL A crowd mourned Alfonsin’s death.

His body, with scars of decades of political commotion, no longer could endure lung cancer that had worsened in the final hours with pneumonia. Raul Alfonsin at 82 years old, the man who led the country’s return to democracy after the last dictatorship, died last night.

The former leader died at 8:30 pm with the official confirmation a few minutes after 9:00 pm. Dr. Alberto Sadler gave the news with some details.

“Regrettably at 8:30 pm Dr. Raul Alfonsin had died peacefully in his home accompanied by his family. He was sleeping with sensory deterioration and breathing very peacefully. At this time it can be said it occurred peacefully and accompanied by his family as he always wanted to happen” was the brief word by Sadler to reporters.

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