This feature makes English fairly adaptable – which is a good thing for a world language – but it causes irregularity in spelling and pronunciation. I: English spelling baffles me, too.P: English also has the largest vocabulary. Often there are words for the same thing, one is Anglo-Saxon...
I have a good friend. 【1】 He comes from America. He comes to China because his parents work in China. He has a sister and they are in the same school but in different grades. 【2】 Ben speaks English very well, but his Chinese isn’t good. I often help him with his Chinese ...
When the girls arrive at the family home in Whitesboro, New York, Abby makes their situation clear: “You are the unwanted, unfortunate products of my half-sister’s ill-advised marriage and are only here temporarily, to humor my father.” She then shuttles the girls to an empty, unheat...
you do not have to be Ayn Rand to question whether the government is up to managing such an ambitious set of projects. For example, because American environmentalism has put preservation first, it takes more than a decade to
And the croissants are so rich that we don’t manage to eat them all – that’s lunch sorted then. Our first decision is to take it easy, spend the day in the Capital Federal, investigate our options of getting to Uruguay, and stay another night in our hotel, as the building, the ...
Across the continent, Indigenous peoples are methodically reasserting control over their land, laws, and how they live.
For protected area size and land and forest degradation, we found a statistically significant and positive coefficient indicating that land and forest degradation is greater in larger protected areas. Looking more closely at the data, there are two opposite trends: larger protected areas are more lik...
A wide range of right-wing movements are bound together by their adherence to a nostalgic vision of the United States as a “Christian nation,” yet there are meaningful differences in the specific narratives promoted by these groups that are not fully u
Because Central America is beautiful, filled with history, affordable, and much safer than it used to be. While there are still regions where you need to be vigilant, people have realized that it’s not the place the media makes it out to be. The region’s rainforests are filled with un...
For those who want an alternative to running on the roads without losing their fitness, deep water running, or aqua jogging, could be a useful cross-training exercise. Many runners turn to deep water running as the last resort ...