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  Democracy Democracy is when the people of the country get to elect who leads them. In a democracy, people have more say and rights, as they get to choose who governs them. No one stays in complete control as law, government and the executive are independent. Checks and balances ensure no one has too much power. However, the voting [...]

Over the holidays, I visited my grandfather in Miaoli and asked him what he remembered from the 228 incident of 1947. He was only a boy back then but he told the story of a widowed cigarette vendor who was beaten by a group for not giving up her shop supplies to the ‘Tobacco Monopoly Bureau’. Outraged by the violence [...]

Pyramids of Giza Built: Completed around 2560 BC (took approximately 20 years to build) Location: The Giza Necropolis (Present Day Cairo, Egypt) Built for who: Pharoah Khufu Significance / Function: Tomb of Pharaoh Khufu Height: 139 meters What: These were 3 pyramids in Egypt. The Great Pyramid was the largest. These pyramids were really a wonderful work of engineering. Machu [...]

  Learning with Art Learning with Art Some students love words and others simply hate them. Learning with art is a way of using pictures to remember important information. You can train yourself to associate images with facts by using this technique. Drawing a picture of an object you are trying to remember or pairing images with certain [...]

Welcome to the fourth issue of Evocation, a magazine dedicated to bettering education of young English students in Taiwan. We have worked hard over the past few months produce a well-rounded set of topics that cover, what we feel can appeal, to the widest audience of English learners. I am proud to present our February edition which will be our [...]