Death is a part of life, but do you have the vocabulary you need to talk about it? In this lesson, I teach you everything you need to know to talk about death and dying, so that you can express yourself fully when you have to. Youll also learn some cultu
dealers will scratch a tusk with a knife or hold a lighter under it; ivory is a tooth and won’t melt. My tusks will have to act like ivory. “And I gotta find a way to get that shine,” Dante says, referring to the gloss a clean elephant tusk ...
“I don't know what to say but I am so sorry to hear this news.” “I am so sorry for your loss – you are in my thoughts.” “I'm so sad to hear this and I'm here if you need to talk.” What do u say when someone passes away? Here are some commonly used things to ...
Ways," about a recluse who died in seclusion, in which the narrator drops a hint that he may have been her unrequited lover.) The subjects rated the passages on how poetic they seemed and whether or not the last lines led them to reappraise the meaning — a measure of literary awareness...
Additionally, you should think about thetone. Because people perceive death in more than one way, the tone of an obituary can vary depending on who you’re speaking for and who you’re speaking to. Some families prefer the solemnity of a formal funeral announcement, while others prefer to ...
A good way to think of poetry is to consider it word play. Like a painter uses paint or a sculptor uses clay, a poet creatively uses words to make a poem. In that sense, a poet is an artist of words. And, like other art forms, creating poetry can be an enjoyable or moving exper...
Peter Van Sant: Seven stab wounds … did that suggest what kind of a killing this was? Rhonda Prast: To me, this was a very personal attack. To stab someone in such a short time viciously seven times, with no warning. A concerned neighbor found German's body hidd...
to carry out the delivery of their consensus in formal, institutionally arranged, professional and impersonal public settings. I investigate the conditions and presuppositions that make it possible for a research consortium to contribute indirectly to public discourse beyond the presentation of empirical ...
Here, “Garfield” and “a cat” are the same thing, so “is” acts as a linking verb. A linking verb—also known as a copula or copular verb in formal linguistics—connects the subject not just to other nouns and adjectives, but also to prepositional phrases and other verbs in the ...
Once we are more comfortable with the first two disciplines, then, we can move to refine our understanding of “impressions,” interrogating them whenever they arise, in a way made memorable by another Epictetean quote: “Practise, then, from the very beginning to say to every disagreeable ...