I’m still processing how I feel about all this, but more than anything, I feel relieved. As my friends know, I’ve worked my tail off the past nine years and while I’ve had the time of my life, it’s time for the next phase of my life. Now, for a quick trip down memory ...
Finally, Rose yells, “We’re not talking about baseball! We’re talking about you going off to lay in bed with another woman—and then bring it home to me. That’s what we’re talking about. We’re not talking about no baseball.” Now imagine that Troy is one of Rose’s friends,...
What is the major theme of the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson? Explain and give a comment about the passage (Book 1, ll. 427-50; given below) from The House of Fame In which ways does the narrator influence the story in "The Hitch-Hiker" by Roald Dahl? ...
“I have lived in this borough for 40 years and it struck me as odd that charities were getting funding from the local authority, the PCT, the lottery or grant-giving trusts but had no connection with local residents,” he says. “And local residents had very little idea that they were...
We didn’t get to choose where or to whom we were born and we definitely won the birth lottery. We’ve been given the ability to choose the life we want, something that most of the world, including some Americans, have very little control over as they are concentrated on just surviving...
Nearly all of us have dreamed about winning the big prize in a lottery (彩票). We dream about 61 we would do with the money but we rarely stop to think about how the money would change us. For most of us our way of life is closely linked with our economic circumstances. The differe...
Is your brother still angry with you because you【1】___(打碎)his clock? I hope you have【2】 ___(道歉)to him. Today is the【3】___(第十二)of July. It is a sunny day. The sky is blue and the sun is【4】___(照耀)brightly. Now, I’m taking a vacation in the second la...
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s Nicest Coach gets pissed off enough to flip a table and shows some real emotion and fire. Half the time he roams the sidelines like he’s either Walter Mitty or a grizzled coach who was probably going to retire until he won a lottery he didn’t know he entered and ended up with ...