Celebrate Hanukkah with a diverse collection of poems and stories filled with history, humor, and hope. Cheer on a young baker as he tries to make sufganiyot from a family recipe. Learn about code breakers in England during World War II. Imagine hosting a refugee cousin or finding long-lost...
The former “Paul Brown’ was born in West Virginia, and studied acting at West Virginia University, before heading to New York City and a new career as Paul Dooley. He did stage work, stand-up comedy and the New York City version of The Second City. He got his big break in the ...
Dahlthe intrusive narrator(a technique, not an insult) steps in at this point and tells us what these men are like, as a class. Namely: They hang around big cities and ‘have a terrific urge to make themselves still wealthier than they already are’. This aspect of wealthy people baffles...
History warns us … that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions; and, as matters now stand, it is hardly rash to anticipate that, in another twenty years, the new generation, educated under the influences of the present day, will be in...
(1)Where may the boy live according to the passage? A.In an orphanage.B.In a big prison.C.In the school dormitory.D.In his home.(2)What grade should the boy have got in the math test this time? A.D-B.EC.DD.B+(3)The underlined word "tucked" in the passage most ...
‘The Innocents’, which is based on 1898 novella 'The Turn of the Screw' by the American novelist Henry James and focuses on a governess who watches over two children and comes to fear that their large estate is haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.During an ...
Henry: I have a big tattoo of a sun on my back. Reporter: Some lady saw some old footage of you and couldn't believe how violent it was. Are you becoming a kinder, gentler person? Henry: (*backfists reporter into swimming pool; laughs, calls him "faggot"*) ...
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say th
However abstruse these ideas may once have sounded, they are far from seeming difficult in comparison with modern theories of energy. Indeed, measured by that standard, the only striking feature of Saint Thomas’s motor is its simplicity. Thomas’s prime motor was very powerful, and its lines...
"We mean the word 'red' literally because we shall shed such floods of blood as will make all the human losses suffered in the capitalist wars quake and pale by comparison. The biggest bankers across the ocean will work in the closest possible contact with us. If we win the revolution, ...