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The go-to resource for all students in UBC's English department. Blog “You, Who Have Devastated the Souls of the Living”: Heroes, Hubris, and the Victorian Gothic in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas and Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol ...
It is said that the young men who played the pennywhistle on street corners also acted as lookouts to warn those drinking in illegal shebeens of the arrival of the cops.kwela-kwela (noun) –Police van, or minibus taxi. From the isiXhosa and isiZulu for “climb on”....
Chinese Spring Festival goes global, holds universal values null CCTV announces Spring Festival Gala hosts Veteran presenters from CCTV, including Zhu Jun, Zhou Tao, Dong Qing, Sa Beining, Li Sisi, Negmat, Zhu Xun, Ma Yue, Li Jiaming and Ren Luyu, along with newcomers from local TV station...
Sam and Penny see the boss a half past one When must Sam and Penny see the boss? They must see the boss at half past one. George take his medicine a quarter past three When must George take his medicine? He must take his medicine at a quarter past three. ...
Social media allows users to experience news events more intimately and immediately while also permitting them to re-share news as a projection of their values and interests. This forces users to be more conscious of their role in passing along information. A survey by Barna research group found...
About the talk Speculative fiction (sf) is an influential mode that shapes how we imagine what technologies and futures we find desirable, feasible, and valuable. But whose values inform imagined techno-utopian futures? How can we draw on the power of sf if we understand the genre not as a...
I have received instruction about the relative values of nests from a little friend of mine named Katie, who knows all about it. If there is any mistake in the order of neatness in the various birds’ nests, I must have learnt my lesson badly....
Buying and experiencing luxury puts a person in a rare group. Many, many people in this world are poor. The World Bank reports that more than 2 billion people live in poverty, and more than 1 billion live in extreme poverty. The United Nations reports that almost half of the world’s ...
Nothing defines a culture as distinctly as its language, and the element of language that best encapsulates a society's values and beliefs is its proverbs. The graphic to the right shows the words that are used in English proverbs, with the size of each word indicating how often it occurs ...