I am ten years older than Suey Park, and, like her, I grew up in a suburban Korean household, read critical theory in college, and now make my living peddling words on the Internet.
"Father Mars, I pray and beseech thee that thou be gracious and merciful to me, my house, and my household," read the Latin prayer (8 ).
In other words, 70.9 percent of area households read or viewed The Buffalo News in the last month.
But the persistence of the brutal and dangerous custom, despite an official ban and public-awareness campaigns, is disturbing.A government survey this year found that, apart from school textbooks, 88% of Egyptian households read no books, and three-quarters of families do not read any newspapers or magazines either.
In 2010 a study by Egypt's government found that, apart from school textbooks, 88% of Egyptian households read no books.The degree to which a government keeps control of the textbooks used in classrooms is a good, if imprecise, guide to its commitment to ideological control.
My mother was addicted to such lending habits, and spent hours after her household chores reading.
The total time American households spend reading, watching television or listening to music increased only slightly from 3,324 hours in 1992 to 3,380 hours in 2000.
Growing up in a liberal, not particularly religious household, I read the Qur'an on my own for the first time when I was twelve.
As a result, some material will not work on certain devices, whereas some remains unavailable even for legitimate uses, such as handing off to a member of the same household to read, or copying snippets for use in an academic paper or even in an email to a friend.
The language and ethnic self-identification variables ask if the respondent (i) speaks Spanish at household, (ii) reads and/or writes in Spanish, (iii) self-identifies as indigenous, and (iv) speaks an indigenous language.
