Shadow trees fly by and another village appears. I shift down, slowing in anticipation of the many potholes a village brings, and a small animal suddenly bursts into the road. A rush of adrenaline prepares me for hard braking, for swerving or impact. I hold my ground, trusting my instincts...
hard cash.The appeal of such programs is obvious,but the consequences of tying grades to goods are still uncertain.It's been a common tradition in middle-class families to reward top grades with cash as a way to teach that success in school leads to success in life.But for many ...
All they wanted to do was to put it off for a while, which they did for 4 years, although with a little more attention to detail perhaps they could have lasted a little longer.Josh O. • January 6, 2011 7:29 AM @blackmarker The funniest bit was they tried to take down sites ...
【题目】I was walking along the main street of a small seaside town in the north of England looking for somewhere to make a phone call. My car had broken down outside the town and I wanted to contact the AA Company. Low grey clouds were gathering across the sky and there was a cold...
Out on the street, it was just another manic Monday. People were streaming out of their high-rises to start the hour’s journey to work downtown. Snowflakes danced in the air. There were plenty of cars glutting the streets, but more people were headed for the bus that would take them...
we fixed it up and it was ascreamer. My friends worked down the street at the world’s largestDairy Queenall week long and came home with less money then I had just made inoneday. I knew then that I would not work for anyone else, unless it was another entrepreneur," Folkening said...
the centre of Cork city was burned down by Auxiliaries and other British forces as a reprisal for other incidents that day. It seems likely that a long planned reprisal had degenerated into an all-out orgy of drink and looting sparked off by the bombing of an Auxiliary convoy almost at the...
“the quiet before the storm” motif: Just when the plot has settled down and things seem to be at last going well for the characters of a particular book or film, the book reader/film viewer should suspect that a catastrophe is imminent. (Caution: Plot Spoiler) In the case of Naruse...
Tell me what everyone's so afraid of down here. You might be surprised at how open-minded I can be. [Gilberto sighs and braces himself for the story as he sets down the cash on the center console] GILBERTO: It began with a mass murder. [Gilberto continues to tell his story in ...
Furthermore, this “cash back” cannot be redeemed for actual cash. I think that when it’s time to pay my bill, I should pay in “Cash.” I’ll give them a $10 credit towards me paying my bill every month for 15 months. Adding insult to injury, the form clearly states that re...