First,using a variety of words can make your writing more engaging and interesting for the people who are reading it.In some types of writing,like poetry, repetition is used as a strategic stylistic device. In lots of cases, though, writers repeat the same word because they don’t know it...
Instead of being known for something he repeatedly promised he would not do (and that is the definition of personal self-interest), Biden could go out with a bang by pardoning America’s longest-serving political prisoner, American Indian Movement activist, Leonard Peltier. Words against injustice...
Or the story called Whistle, one of the best here, in my opinion: the dirt poor farmer couple who burns their furniture in a rage, for firewood. These two show that there might be much more than average `Southern Gothic' coming up, later.In other words, all in all I expected more....
My diary was detailed for the first three days of the trip, then abruptly stopped cold after I wrote the words: “Debbie and I conserved our body heat together last night on the bus.” At the Bahia de la Concepción, we built our own structure a slight distance away from the main grou...
But he tells a good tale. At 33,000 words, this page-turner is a lean, mean, sword-swinging machine. It hits the ground running and doesn’t let up until the final scene. I don’t often find that quality in epic fantasy novels.Wilder Fireis fantasy for people who don’t have the...
The strangest part of this whole experience was watching Ava internalize the pain this rapist continued to inflict upon her for two months. She refused to leave the youth group as she still thought of them to be her “friends.” All the while, the pedophile bragged about his conquest to ...
Newton, meanwhile, bragged about the benefits of celibacy. When he died in 1727, he had transformed our understanding of the natural world forever and left behind 10 million words of notes; he was also, by all accounts, still a virgin (Tesla was also celibate, ...
The boy blushed and turned to the proprietor, who promptly intervened: "This is a fine boy, Sam. Smart as a whip. Knows words you and me never heard of." Radclif was annoyed. "Here, Katz," he ordered, "fillerup." After the proprietor trundled away to fetch a second beer, Sam sa...
time, Laimbeer stood tall at 6-foot-11, making him one of the league's biggest players. For this, Laimbeer was famously nicknamed "prince of darkness" – a name he willfully lived up to. "I don't fight. I agitate, then walk away," he bragged in a 1990 interview withSports ...
A physician who treated Trumpledor later said that his last words were: "It's good to die for our country." This sen- tence, whether or not it was ever actually uttered, became a part of the educational ethos and a rally- ing cry for national unity during the first 50 years of ...