This is the way to think about writing decades using numbers: they are both abbreviations and plurals. A shorter way of saying “My mother was born in the 1940s” is “My mother was born in the ’40s.” The apostrophe (not an opening single quotation mark) indicates where the two cent...
An open casket with an embalmed body rests in front of the crowd. After the service, a hearse takes the casket to a cemetery for burial. This was a conventional funeral in the 1960s, but this send-off of the dead has undergone adjustments over the decades. Perhaps the most significant ...
Today, the Garden District is the fancy part of town, where some of the city’s most opulent mansions were built in past centuries. In the 21st century, you can still spot many of those historic residences, as well as more contemporary signposts of wealth, such as yoga studios and locavor...
I cannot emphasize how often I have taken refuge and comfort in such extended family, which I have been able to build over decades of my life, picking and choosing from two and a half millennia of great minds produced by humanity. Near the end of his curriculum for Lucilius (and for the...
You won't find it on any official map, and if you're sailing in the Atlantic, you're likely not to even notice when you cross its vague boundaries. Nevertheless, the infamous Bermuda Triangle — also sometimes known as the Devil's Triangle — for decades has been the subject of numerous...
There has been a long history of bans and restrictions on event contracts in the U.S. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries,bucket shopswere where individuals placed bets on stock prices without owning the shares.10These were eventually banned because of concerns about fraud and price mani...
In many cultures, traditional carbohydrates have been staples for centuries: Asia:Rice is a primary fuel source. India:Dal Bat, a combination of rice and lentils, is common. South America:Sweet potatoes and beans are widely consumed. Europe:Potatoes and buckwheat (Kasha) are staples. ...
And in the last few decades, he said, many audiences at opera performances have abandoned pretenses, yelling “Bravo” when they feel like it. F) “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with an audience showing their enthusiasm for a proper moment by applauding, showing their joy,” ...
Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay that begins with the sentence “Nowadays more and more people take delight in offering help t…
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