As so named, you can't spell Lantern Festival without lanterns. Rituals and customs vary in different parts of China, but lantern always plays a crucial role. Lantern shows are also commonly held, dazzling revelers with stunning displays of light and art. The paper lamps represent w...
elements to add, and the principles of persuasion to consider using for a better effect. We’ll also mention how to write a persuasive speech for students, as its specifics are critical for argumentation and presentation in academic writing. ...
My indoor birds remind me every morning that the sun is coming up, we are all still here and somehow life continues to amuse and sometimes amaze us. Spring being what it is, instead of the post I was writing, I am going to recap the last few days. But first, speaking of the ...
"It’s cheating, they don’t count… I would rather catch them on the bottom. It never ceases to amaze me when anglers discount surface fishing either based on its merits or because it’s something they don’t understand. Surface fishing provides an opportunity to turn... ...
Or so Millicent the agency screener must surmise from how many of those submissions apparently have not been spell-checked. Or grammar-checked. Or even read through since the last revision, because how else could the writer not have noticed that several words seem to have dropped out of that...
If you want to amaze an audience and pack the house, whether it’s a Las Vegas show lounge or a college campus, invite a stagehypnotistto perform. Before TV reality shows hit their current all-time high level of popularity, it was these reality-based audience participation demonstrations that...
she cited some of the work we’d done together thinking it might have helped her get the role. She’s now a grown woman living in New York but she still took the time to think back on some work we did while she was in college. It warmed my heart to hear that maybe I’d had ...
To understand what makes a good password, we need to appreciate what makes passwords vulnerable, which means understanding a couple of the ways hackershack. Along the way, I’ll also discuss “hashes” and why a “saltedhash” isn’t breakfast food, but a critically important approach websit...
They don’t go online to share what they had for breakfast, or to slag off the competition, or whine about their girlfriend or the lousy customer service they received. They go online to delight and amaze people. Even when it is about you, it’s not about you. ...
Used sarcastically to express disapproval of something. Wow… good job using all of our supplies on the first day. To amaze or awe. He really wowed the audience. (audio) A relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) which can affect both gramophone records and tape recorders. ...