For some time now, so many critical flags have been thrown down regarding the Holocaust, art and film about the Holocaust, allegedly mystifying claims made about the inability to represent much less "comprehend" the Holocaust, the politics of Holocaust memory, and so on.
The US looks shaky, with an ever more dysfunctional government, increasingly unable to carry out its basic functions, much less comprehend and support a sophisticated global strategy.
The popular emphasis on the exterior sculptural qualities of the station is misplaced, Calatrava told me, though he says that he can understand why his over-all plan for the station has been less well comprehended.
Specifically, more contextualized learning activities can provide a concrete context on which to ground understanding of concepts that might otherwise be more abstract and less readily comprehended, which should benefit learning on the whole, but may also be especially beneficial for low spatial students.
Possibly because I was denied "The Untouchables," I became a fan, retaining to this day my original sense of Shakespeare as a foreign language that I could miraculously more-or-less comprehend.
The problem is that low-income students, who begin school with a less-developed vocabulary and are less able to comprehend complex sentences than their more privileged peers, are also less likely to read at home.
Although the studies such as Csikszentmihalyi and Getzels (1971) or Gick and Holyoak (1983) indicated that less effective problem solvers spent less time to comprehend than creative and effective ones, they did not consider the significant variable of prior knowledge in individuals.
A study this year found that people reading on a screen tended to skip around more and read less intensively, and plenty of research confirms that people tend to comprehend less of what they read on a screen.
People who read text studded with links, the studies show, comprehend less than those who read words printed on pages.
It is the colonial mentality that led to poor "natives" being deemed less able to comprehend modern civilisational standards.
Less easy to comprehend was the way their football descended into chaos for those few fateful minutes following Nani's departure when goals from Luka Modric and Cristiano Ronaldo won the game and the tie for Real Madrid.
