I've always been a slow learner and I read slowly.
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I was a slow learner and a late bloomer in painting.
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I'm a slow learner, so it took me more like a decade.
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So look, I'm a slow learner, but God damn it, finally I get it.
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Our 71-year-old president is a slow learner and creature of bad habits.
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You can just say that the kid is a slow learner, or defiant, or disrespectful.
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Either he is a slow learner, or his "world-class" memory has shrunk with age.
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Better yet, it came with a dose of humility — "I'm a slow learner," the Lady of Winterfell admitted.
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Coaching a slow learner on homework after a day of hassles at the office provides a deep experience of delayed gratification.
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When Mary says something like, 'And then we have Maeve over here, a pretty slow learner,' I'm like, 'She likes me!
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Once again, I had to do it twice — I'm a slow learner — and, in the end, I couldn't get it to work.
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It's okay if you can't make up the difference with practice, or if you're just a "slow learner" when it comes to sports.
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According to Politico, Mattis also called Putin a "slow learner" and "someone we simply cannot trust" in an interview with Fox News's Bret Baier.
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But this is a new discipline and I'm very conscious that I'm a slow learner, so it will take me a while to figure this out.
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Like Einstein, who portrayed himself as a slow learner who never let go once he had seized on some question, Dr. Hawking was legendarily, even irritatingly stubborn.
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But the second lesson from the Capone case is more enduring; and justice, always a slow learner, would be well served to remember it: lawlessness is no way to combat lawlessness.
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And to give you just a little bit of background in total, I started straight out of school after about nine-and-a-half years in college — a slow learner, if you will.
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Mattis has described Putin as a "slow learner," but a new tracking project shows him to be an operator who has spent nearly two decades sharpening and deploying a set of asymmetric tools across the Atlantic.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis accused Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday of being a "slow learner" who again tried to meddle in U.S. elections in November, adding that he had no trust in the Russian leader.
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"This methodology addresses the last child in the classroom, even the last child who is a disruptive child, who is a slow learner, who is a regular absentee," explained Rama Anumula, an educator who created the approach with her husband, Padmanabha Rao.
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So I've been in the industry for over forty years, but every morning I get up knowing I'm going to learn something new that day, maybe I'm a very very slow learner, maybe that's what it tells you, but I'm actually very passionate about our industry, I'm very passionate about the people that work in our industry, but it's knowing that we can be good today but even better tomorrow and it's that kind of ambition to be better tomorrow that continually drives me forward.
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One of 11 children in a poor family, he was a slow learner in his youth.D'arcy CP, Brian, "Doing God's Will", Herald of Hope: Reflections on the Life and Spirit of St. Charles of Mount Argus, Ovada Books To those outside his family he seemed quiet and extremely shy. A slow learner, for ten years he walked the two miles to a secondary school at nearby town of Sittard.Duffy, Patrick.
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Pynchon described in the prologue to his 1984 collection Slow Learner an "up-and-down shape of my learning curve" as a writer, and specifically does not believe he maintained a "positive or professional direction" in the writing of The Crying of Lot 49, "which was marketed as a 'novel', and in which I seem to have forgotten most of what I thought I'd learned up until then."Pynchon, Thomas R. Introduction to Slow Learner (Boston: Little, Brown: 1984). .
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They had some bonding moments together. Nyar was not able to perform in shows as she was a very slow learner. She was even put with her father Tilikum sometimes. He was very gentle with her.
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Street Worms is the debut studio album by Swedish post-punk band, Viagra Boys. The album was released on 28 September 2018 through YEAR0001. The song “Slow Learner” was featured in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2.
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Pynchon wrote an introduction for his short story collection Slow Learner. His comments on the stories after reading them again for the first time in many years, and his recollection of the events surrounding their creation, amount to the author's only autobiographical comments to his readers.
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Slow Learner (1984) A collection of Pynchon's early short stories, Slow Learner, was published in 1984, with a lengthy autobiographical introduction. In October of the same year, an article titled "Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?" was published in the New York Times Book Review. In April 1988, Pynchon contributed an extensive review of Gabriel García Márquez's novel Love in the Time of Cholera to The New York Times, under the title "The Heart's Eternal Vow". Another article, titled "Nearer, My Couch, to Thee", was published in June 1993 in the New York Times Book Review, as one in a series of articles in which various writers reflected on each of the Seven Deadly Sins.
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Among the emerging novelists of the 1960s and 1970s, a few were closely connected with Beat writers, most notably Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). Though they had no direct connection, other writers considered the Beats to be a major influence, including Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow)Pynchon, Thomas. Slow Learner. Vintage Classics, 2007. .
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The worst of his bugbears was a fear of inherited weaknesses. His oldest son William was a slow learner, and after much agonising Darwin sent him to Rugby School. While they had inherited wealth, it had to be wisely invested. A large proportion was cautiously put in railway stock, then in a boom but subject to fluctuations.
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Her mother became a seamstress and a maid, and worked in a hotel laundry. Her father was physically abusive towards her half-brother, Andre, and her mother, but nurturing and loving towards Olivia. Chow was raised in a Chinese Baptist household. As a young girl she was a slow learner and had to repeat grade 3.
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Guggenheim was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, into a prominent German-Jewish family, the son of Ruth (Stix) and Jack Albert Guggenheim. His father and grandfather had a furniture business.Encyclopaedia Judaica (2007) He suffered from dyslexia as a child but the condition went undiagnosed and he was thought to be a "slow learner." He did not learn to read until the age of nine.
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In Blake Babies, Dando wrote on tracks and provided supporting music and vocals on the Slow Learner album, released in 1989. He also collaborated on Hatfield's album Hey Babe, released in 1994. In 1999, he recorded a duet with Hatfield for the 1999 album, Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons. The two sang Gram Parsons' "$1000 Wedding".
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She joined the London Aeroplane Club, which was based at the Stag Lane Aerodrome in the northwest of London. Not being 21, Batten required parental consent to become a member, which her mother freely gave. In her memoirs, Batten wrote that she quickly took to flying and had a "natural aptitude for it". However, other students remembered her as a slow learner.
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The captain of the flight was 38-year-old Mohammed Ali Khowyter, a Saudi who was hired by Saudia in 1965. He had flown numerous aircraft such as Douglas DC-3, DC-4, McDonnell Douglas DC-9, Boeing 707 and 737. Khowyter's records described him as a slow learner and needing more proper training. Khowyter had 7,674 flying hours, including 388 hours in the TriStar.
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She was regarded as a 'slow learner', and particularly hated mathematics. Her first published story was "Harry is Bad", written at age seven (published in the children's page of the Bay of Plenty Beacon). She showed it to her class to let them know that they could write stories at any age. She went to the local high school, where she was acknowledged as a talented swimmer.
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However, it's quickly revealed that behind his haughty demeanor, he is actually a very childish person prone to sulking and running away from his problems. He's a slow learner and has an intense hatred of teachers because he was abused by them, though this slowly starts to change because of Heine's influence. He looks up to his older brother Bruno. He is extremely athletic and appears to love torte.
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Oldfield took up the guitar aged ten, first learning on a 6-string acoustic that his father gave him. He learned technique by copying parts from songs by folk guitarists Bert Jansch and John Renbourn that he played on a portable record player. He tried to learn musical notation but was a "very, very slow" learner; "If I have to, I can write things down. But I don't like to".
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Sonea, unable to take the bullying, studies hard and is promoted to the winter intake. The studies are harder and the students more mature, so the bullying does not continue in her new class. However, nor do the children befriend her, except for a slow-learner named Porril. Later, Regin is also promoted to Sonea's class, and with his old classmates from the summer intake continues to bully her.
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43 Their first release was the Nicely, Nicely album, released on their own Chewbud label in 1987.Larkin, Colin (1998) The Virgin Encyclopedia of Indie & New Wave, Virgin Books, , p. 50Mason, Stewart "Nicely, Nicely Review", Allmusic. Retrieved February 9, 2018 In 1989 they released the mini-LP Slow Learner on Billy Bragg's Utility label, Evan Dando of the Lemonheads (who Strohm had previously played with) joining as a temporary bassist.
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Hit Parade is a 1999 album by Spirit of the West. The album is a compilation, and marked their final release for Warner Music Canada. Despite the album's title, not all of the songs on the album were released as singles, and some songs which were notable singles ("Tell Me What I Think", "Slow Learner") are not present. The songs are presented roughly in reverse chronological order, except for "And if Venice is Sinking".
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Ravi Kumar is a plastic salesman working for Opel Plastics who is enduring a failing marriage. He has a son Buddhi, who is autistic and a slow learner. Because of Buddhi, Ravi and his wife Padmini shares a resented relationship, where she blames Ravi for Buddhi's intellectual handicap. One day, Ravi watches an interview of a scientist Dr. Sathya, who invented a controversial drug called "brain booster" which can cure mental problems.
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Slow Learner is the 1984 published collection of five early short stories by the American novelist Thomas Pynchon, originally published in various sources between 1959 and 1964. The book is also notable for its introduction, written by Pynchon. His comments on the stories after reading them again for the first time in many years, and his recollection of the events surrounding their creation, amount to the author's only autobiographical comments to his readers.
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U 336 The runestone U 336 is raised by Ulf of Borresta, in memory of his uncle Ónæmr. Ulf adds that they both lived at Borresta (Old Norse: Báristaðir). The name Ónæmr, which means "slow learner," is also mentioned on two nearby runestones, U 112 and U 328, and so the three runestones are held to refer to the same person.Pritsak 1981:389 This inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style RAK.
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Wittgenstein with his pupils in Otterthal, 1925 In September 1924 Wittgenstein moved to a new school in Otterthal, near Trattenbach; the headmaster, Josef Putre, was someone Wittgenstein had become friends with at Trattenbach. Josef Haidbauer was one of Wittgenstein's pupils, 11 years old and by all accounts a weak child and slow learner. His father had died, and his mother worked locally as a maid for a farmer named Piribauer. Piribauer himself had a daughter, Hermine, in Wittgenstein's class.
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After each programming class, students are required to take a quiz which is a collection of multiple choice questions. Once they submit the quiz, they are presented with a form where they have guidelines to write code( program Eg: JAVA, C) pertaining to the class held. There are usually three programs given to the students as a part of the test. If the student is a slow learner, he/ she might be able to work on a single program.
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Cover art by James Cobb. In April 2006 Boxcar Satan released their first DVD collecting videos for seven of their songs by Texas filmmaker Brant Bumpers along with a 10-song live concert. No One at the Wheel features videos for the songs Calamity Jones, Slow Learner, Traveling Man, Best Be Gone, Ghost of a Chance, Pig in a Dress, and Silent and Automatic. It also includes Boxcar Satan's full performance at the San Antonio Contemporary Art Month's 2004 CAM Carnival.
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Ulf belonged to a clan in what is today the parish of Orkesta, located in present-day Vallentuna Municipality, and he was the paternal nephew and successor of a man named Ónæmr,Pritsak 1981:389 a name which means "slow learner". Ónæmr is mentioned on several runestones, U 112, U 336 and probably U 328 (which is an example of the Ringerike style.Fuglesang, S.H. Swedish runestones of the eleventh century: ornament and dating, Runeninschriften als Quellen interdisziplinärer Forschung (K.Düwel ed.).
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Josef Haidbauer was an 11-year-old pupil whose father had died and whose mother worked as a local maid. He was a slow learner, and one day Wittgenstein hit him two or three times on the head, causing him to collapse. Wittgenstein carried him to the headmaster's office, then quickly left the school, bumping into a parent, Herr Piribauer, on the way out. Piribauer had been sent for by the children when they saw Haidbauer collapse; Wittgenstein had previously pulled Piribauer's daughter, Hermine, so hard by the ears that her ears had bled.
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McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company. His high school transcripts showed him graduating at the very bottom of his class with a low IQ. In the book, Stankard describes the pressure and stigma of being labeled a slow learner by an educational system that at the time was not aware of dyslexia and the steps he took to overcome his low self- esteem and learning disabilities to become one of the foremost artists of his generation. He later graduated from Salem County Technical Institute, in Salem, New Jersey, with a technical certification in Scientific Glassblowing.
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In a paper explaining the system, particular attention was paid by the De La Salle University researchers to censoring potentially insulting words such as gago and ulol. Like many Spanish and Portuguese words borrowed into Tagalog, gago is gendered: the female form for a single woman or group of women is gaga, while gago is used for a single man, a group of men, or a group of men and women. According to the UP Diksiyonaryong Filipino, gago is also used in the sense of mahina ang ulo (a slow learner).
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She is a beautiful and outstanding ninja, but had once been picked on for being a slow learner and Usagi would have to save her. She graduated second-to-last, in front of only Usagi, as she would constantly give into Usagi's demands to play. When she discovers that Usagi is Hanzo's bride-elect, Kame is relieved that someone will care for Usagi when she cannot. While she loves Goemon, Kame becomes Ranmaru's lover in order to learn about the plans for the attack on Iga; she has no compunction whatsoever to seduce any man and kill him to protect her home and Usagi.
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In Vineland, both Zoyd Wheeler and Isaiah Two Four are also musicians: Zoyd played keyboards in a '60s surf band called The Corvairs, while Isaiah played in a punk band called Billy Barf and the Vomitones. In Mason & Dixon, one of the characters plays on the "Clavier" the varsity drinking song that will later become "The Star-Spangled Banner"; while in another episode a character remarks tangentially "Sometimes, it's hard to be a woman". In his introduction to Slow Learner, Pynchon acknowledges a debt to the anarchic bandleader Spike Jones, and in 1994, he penned a 3000-word set of liner notes for the album Spiked!, a collection of Jones's recordings released on the short-lived BMG Catalyst label.
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Bowling was a slow learner throughout school; He spent three years in the ninth grade, and failed health class three years in a row. Bowling's lawyers also argue that there was no physical evidence placing him at the scene of the crime; an eye-witness failed to identify him; ballistics experts admitted the weapon linked to him was one of millions that could have been used in the crime; and while the car used in the crime was his, there was no proof that he was driving it at the time. Further, the state did not establish a motive for Thomas Bowling to kill the Earley couple, whom he did not know and had never met. The lawyers assert that a local family murdered the Earleys.
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Song lyrics and mock musical numbers appear in each of his novels, and, in his autobiographical introduction to the Slow Learner collection of early stories, he reveals a fondness for both jazz and rock and roll. The character McClintic Sphere in V. is a fictional composite of jazz musicians such as Ornette Coleman, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk. In The Crying of Lot 49, the lead singer of The Paranoids sports "a Beatle haircut" and sings with an English accent. In the closing pages of Gravity's Rainbow, there is an apocryphal report that Tyrone Slothrop, the novel's protagonist, played kazoo and harmonica as a guest musician on a record released by The Fool in the 1960s (having magically recovered the latter instrument, his "harp", in a German stream in 1945, after losing it down the toilet in 1939 at the Roseland Ballroom in Roxbury, Boston, to the strains of the jazz standard "Cherokee", upon which tune Charlie Parker was simultaneously inventing bebop in New York, as Pynchon describes).
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In addition to the hundreds of articles, short stories and sociopolitical editorials published by Hamadani over the course of his fifty-year career in journalism, his collected writings and translations number well over fifty book titles published in Iran and abroad. His most acclaimed novels include "Eshgh va Eshgh" (عشق و عشق) Love and Love, "Delhoreh haye javani" (دلهره هاى جوانى) Anxieties of Youth, "Tahsil-kardeh ha" (تحصيلكردها) The Educated Ones" and "Khaterate Neem Gharn Rooznameh Neghari (خاطرات نيم قرن روزنامه نكارى) Memoirs of Half a Century in Journalism. His translations from English, French and Italian include Tolstoy's Anna Karenina ﺁنا كارنينا and his "Selected Letters" نامه هاى تولستوى , Flaubert's Madame Bovary مادام بوارى , Dostoevsky's Poor People (ازردكان), The Idiot (ابله)and The Karamazov Brothers (برادران كارامازوف), as well as numerous scientific works in the fields of history, psychology, sociology and philosophy as partially listed here: Biographies: Stalin استالين(by Emile Ludewig); Napoleon نابلئون (by Louis Madelaine); Nader Shah نادر شاه (by L. Lockhart). Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence روانشناسي كودك و بالغ (by J.A. Hadfield); Discovering Ourselves روانشناسي براى همه by E.A. Strecher and K.E. Appel; Between Parent and Child روابط والدين با فرزندان by Haiim Ginott; Love Against Hate اعجاز روانكاوى by Karl and Jeanetta Menninger; Teaching the Slow Learner كودكان ديرﺁموز by W.B. Featherstone; Personal Magnetism مانيتيسم شخصى by Paul C. Jagot; Secrets of Mind Power حافظه در روانشناسي by Harry Lorayne.
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