A mother describes her child"s hastily made table as "Perfect!" even though it moves unsteadily on uneven legs. An- other way is to shift blame. If John fails science, his teacher is unfair or stupid. When one of my daughters was ten, she decided to raise money for charity by ...
By 1975, a group of producers of the popular garnish proclaimed: “there is no such thing as a ‘natural’ maraschino cherry.” Thankfully, the traditional Maraschino cherry has been revived and is relatively easy to find in spirits shops and specialty grocers. When talking about cherries ...
Second, there is no denying that our government should strive to perfect related systems and regulations, such as building cozy nursing homes and providing elderly-friendly services, to make sure the elderly live in comfort in their old age. ...
Most Prof. Prattle posts are freewheeling, digressive, madcap. Once in a while, though, we prefer to temper the tangential tendency and train our eye on a single subject for an in depth analysis of anHISTORICAL HOMIE. The firstHISTORICAL HOMIEpiece (declared as such retroactively) was the co...
After more than a year of chemotherapy, Trish was in partial remission but the treatment hadn't worked as well as doctors had hoped. She was given a break while experts decided what treatment to try next and she and Paul took a holiday in Turkey. While there, they spotted a pair of go...
Often I have found myself telling my students, co-workers, interns, and assorted horror movie fans that before diving head first into any media that has been described as “depraved” or “disturbing,” it is important to remember one thing: once you watch something, you can never un-watch...
Before a sea of “Union Yes” posters, leaders from six of the largest labor unions championed Vice President Kamala Harris’ record with organized labor. The Biden-Harris administration signed several laws that directly benefited union workers in the trades and construction, as well ...
Pro Tip: There are other resume formats, such as functional resume and combination resume. However, the reverse-chronological tends to work best. 8. Write a Cover Letter to Boost Your Chances Here’s the thing—About 83% of employers want to see your cover letter along with your job applic...
NOBODY’S PERFECT – but that doesn’t stop some of us from trying to be. And that’s the curse of perfectionism: putting yourself under enormous pressure to meet impossibly high standards, striving to keep everything in perfect order, beating yourself up for any little error. ...
Both shampoos do the same thing, but one is sold as a product that women use to pamper themselves, while the other is sold as something practical —€” so practical, in fact, that its slogan is: "The original. If your grandfather hadn't worn it, you wouldn't exist." Roeser ...