significant territorial conflict, of course, with the legacy of American colonialism especially prevalent as the contexts of the Mexican-American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase all starkly indicate. Given such complex and deeply embedded circuits of diverse cultural presen...
For me, I simply made the decision to wait until I was in my forever relationship to have sex. Regardless of how the world had grown to accept sex before marriage in the eighties and nineties, I knew that I was held to a different standard. Let me tell you it was a deal breaker f...
I suspect one of the participants in the discussion was woke before anybody thought to call it that. We all agreed that the stereotypes filmed years ago were now no longer quite as prevalent (no one mentioned “Birth of a Nation,” so maybe the group wasn’t quite as left as I ...
Slang is most prevalent among the young and among such groups as blacks, teenagers, drug users, criminals, carnival workers, hobos and the uneducated. Often, slang is used as a code language to fortify the group and to exclude outsiders. Some criminal slang, called cant, is so highly develo...
James reminds believers that their actions and attitudes are subject to God's scrutiny, encouraging them to live righteously and in harmony with others. The JudgeThis refers to God, who is the ultimate arbiter of justice. The imagery of God as a judge is prevalent throughout Scripture, ...
Before the KJV translated his letters to English, the word for “power” in that language is dunamis (of course, they used a different alphabet then, too.). That’s the word which evolved into the English word “dynamite.” Since Alfred Nobel invented that highly volatile explosive, we ...
I asked an airport employee what it was called but he didn’t know the English word for it and the Spanish one sounded like “ghost”, which must translate differently. We spent our first night at the Hilton Garden Inn, an awesome hotel with super friendly and helpful staff. They have ...
Manju Warrier should actually be called ‘Manju Warrior’ as she chose to be with the survivor rather than the sexism that is prevalent in the Malayalam film industry which actually is more or less a mirror of Bollywood and society as whole. These three links should give enough background kn...
English Revised VersionAnd he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.GOD'S WORD® Translation"Whoever kidnaps another person must be put to death, whether he has sold the kidnapped person or still has him.Good News ...
J.M/ R.M: Both children watch the television and some of the words that come up on the TV they try to translate. They have a better understanding of English and now Irene wants her mother to buy her a dictionary. So even if she guesses a word from the TV she wants to check it ...