Conservative sister former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, “We forget in the United States how long it has taken us to make ‘We the People’ mean people like me. And indeed, I do think that America was born with a birth defect; it was slavery.” The descendants of slaves an...
As an abolitionist who walked his talk, Forten chose to not work with any slave trade-connected companies and individuals. Forten was brave to adopt this business practice. However, as a man who was aboard a ship that was once captured by the British and he risked being sold into slavery...
We also ate at a traditional Saudi restaurant on the floor with great food, all kinds, amazing types of bread, vegetables, we even tried camel meat which was OK but a little strong for me! Then we flew to Dhahran, which is in the Eastern Province, so we are near Kuwait and Bahrain ...
When faced with the lack of direct eyewitnesses to prove his valor, Roosevelt claimed that was because he was so far out ahead of his fellow soldiers: “I don’t know who saw me throughout the fight, because I was almost always in the front and could not tell who was close behind me...
Any disruption causes the Caterpillar Effect Traffic Jam, all down the supply chain and ripples upward into markets, restaurants, consumers. Not only is the supply chain disrupted the food source is destroyed because there isn’t anything you can do with that many animals in a short time. One...
It became my reigning name throughout my secondary-school years and gave me a newfound swagger that went with a wild, awakening interest in girls. A part of me adored the country that had sent me this new, heady, gun-flaunting name. There was a strange music to it, the same way ...
Already the allure of meals in restaurants had begun to pall.饭店里的饭菜已经不像以前那样诱人。 I find his books begin to pall on me after a while.我发觉他的书读过一阵子就开始对我失去吸引力。 38 plunged v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降 参考例句: The train derailed ...
This was in contrast with more mundane and spontaneous encounters—like being invited into the home of a Palestinian family in the Old City of Jerusalem threatened by eviction, or getting particularly friendly service in various Palestinian restaurants and businesses. While visits to holy sites were ...