Book Review: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, by Timothy EganSarah A. Norris
The sun can make you take off your coat quicker than the wind, and kindliness, friendly approach and appreciation can make people change their minds more readily than all the bluster and storming in the world Chapter 5: begin by emphasizing things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing that you...
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offering comfort, shared sorrow, cathartic rage, hard-earned insight, refreshing strangeness, absurd silliness, understanding, delight, commiseration, and beauty--and often all of those things all mixed up at the same time. Letter-writing is meant to be enjoyed--so pick up a fountain pen and ...
I finished it because it was short but I disliked its content. I was really grossed out and I’m not sure I needed this book to understand that humans are capable of the worst. Not recommended unless you’re into gore stuff and very very dark humor. ...
The Children’s Aid Society said it was the worst case in Canada’s Hystory. Reply Shreya Modi on January 17, 2017 at 9:14 am Summer knows that she has no say in her life as long as she is surrounded by her so called protectors. She runs away to rescue her brother who is forc...
All of this experimentation is aimed at ensuring people can travel in any weather condition—a Herculean task when winter brings its worst. 28.What’s the purpose of the first sentence in Paragraph 2? A.To introd...
Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge, the headlights are on, the...
第2章 Book the FirstRecalled to Life的内容摘要:I The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belie...
‘I’m sure it’s not as bad as it feels,’ the attacker tells their victim at one point, revealing the self-deception underlying all the worst suffering depicted in the book. Leine presents a powerful anatomy of objectification, showing the way skewed power dynamics warp thinking, feeding ...