Your child is the hurricane, a breathtaking force of nature. You will shape the person your child becomes like the butterfly shapes the hurricane in complex, seemingly unpredictable but powerful ways. The hurricane wouldn't exist without the butterfly. Wait, you might ask, what about all the ...
After World WarⅡ, we made a major effort to ___ higher education to Americans across the country. But then we changed, in several ways. While racial segregation(种族隔离)decreased, economic segregation increased. After 1980, the poor grew poorer, the middle stagnated(停滞不前), and the top...
as it raged across countries and continents, as millions of soldiers fought from the Atlantic to the Pacific. =>因为它横跨各个国家和大陆,因为数百万士兵从大西洋战斗到太平洋。 It is the moving story of the millions of civilians whose homes were destroyed and lives disrupted . => 数百万平民的住...
Did I want to take a 5 1/2 hour ferry across the ocean and Bay of Fundy when I have motion sickness as quick as you can say, “motion sickness.” I was called Pukey Vickie when I was young and got sick on the school bus every day, so why would I do that to myself? Google ...
There wasn’t too much going on prior to my trip, but Aneesa was instrumental in ironing out the foundational itinerary, especially in regards to our planned group travel to Western Serbia. As a Type-A person who loves seeing my Google Calendar light up with overlapping colors across several...
the younger person moved out and a woman in her 30s moved in. that change has alleviated much of the tension. I’m closer to the older founder than the other four people, and we talk quite a bit. He has always been something of a loner, and that tendency has increased in response ...
The 25-year- old man was tall and good-looking. Charles Lindbergh was one of ___4__ people in the world. He had just become the first person___5__ a plane alone across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Paris. Two years __6_, Anne and Charles Lindbergh were married. Reports...
The now, the year now past and the eternal. That’s what it’s all about this week. You, kind reader, may consider this too much as task for one person but let us not forget my capacity to do a very poor job. Yet. How about my find of the year or rather my daughter’s find...
The warplanes echoed across the heavens. My tired parents walked behind, my father clutching to his chest the keys to our house and to the stable. We arrived at a rescue station. News of the airstrikes roared on the radio. I hated death, but I hated life, too, ...
By June of 1942, the war was well under way, and I knew I had to make a decision; either volunteer in the Army Air Corp, with a chance to learn how to fly, or wait to be drafted and end up in whatever branch of the service that was needed at the time. I choseto volunteer, ...