To make the script easier to read, a system of transcribing Chinese into theRoman alphabetwas adopted in 1958. The system was not intended to replace the logographic script but to indicate the sounds of graphs in dictionaries and to supplement graphs on such things as road signs and posters....
The Things They Carried by Tim O’ Brien Read expert recommendations “It’s short stories about Vietnam written by a guy who was there as a very young man. And it really is a book about what it is like to be a regular ordinary American teenager and suddenly find yourself neck-deep ...
Thetaleis much older than the sketch. Basically, the tale is amanifestationof a culture’s unaging desire to name and conceptualize its place in the cosmos. It provides a culture’s narrative framework for such things as its vision of itself and its homeland or for expressing itsconceptionof...
The two things you don’t want to do in the first (and second) paragraph(s) are: Avoid the question entirely and give a general explanation of that time period Start off with the chronological happenings of that time in history. (For example, “This all started when *the person* was ...
As is my way (see the older postThings I Stole from Castles), I took these two circles and put them inSISTERS AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. Quote from the book We hold hands as we walk down and then up the short grassy valley that lies between the two circles. The stones we arrive ...
“It makes the case for India as a major driver of cultural change from about 250 BCE to 1200 CE. It tracks two things: the spread of Buddhism and the spread of Indian mathematics across the region and around the world…while I was familiar with the broad outlines of the story told in...
So off to the cookbook shelf to find Michael Ruhlman’s Charcuterie, where he writes: “Salt pork was one of the most important cured items in Europe, especially so in the age of great exploration because, properly handled, it would last in its brine for up to two years (or even ...
That was a seminal time in terms of record companies realizing, “We do have to put our music on servers eventually.” Likely I was doing one of my spiels about the possibilities of music delivery in the future when things migrate online. Gattis: CD-ROMs moved on. It all kind of ...
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10I miss many things about Taihe Village. I was a dentist and everyone in Taihe Village knew me well. Now, I'm old and I can only sell medicine to people in the street. In the past, there were many stone and wooden houses around here. Also, there were big trees in the village. ...