“He was in despair.” “What about?” “Nothing.” “How do you know it was nothing?” “He has plenty of money.” Hemingway’s writing style seeks to dispense the precise amount of information necessary for the reader, without any garnishment. Notice the details he provides: the exact...
(Write these pairs of words on the board:go--went, visit --visited) Ask: Can you point out the words that talk about the past? This activity introduces the key vocabulary. Students raise their hands. And give the right answer: I did. Students raise their hands to answer. Re...
If you can vote, youought. If you have a conscientious objection, sitting it out is your decision, but shut up and keep it to yourself. Those damn Bernie Brats were screaming it from the rooftops and now the right magically use the same bullshit attack tactics that they did. Picking on ...
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. —Ernest Hemingway 9 I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. —Alex Garland 8 The wise traveler learns not to repea...
Were homesteaders who left the big cities of the east to find happiness and their piece of land in the unknown wilderness of the west pursuing these Rights? Were the immigrants who came to the United States looking for their bit of life, liberty,...
After reciting the sentences, the judge looked down at me and said, “Mr. Drexel, you should know that I did consider parole down the line for you both. But it became clear in the testimony that you and your son planned with premeditated intent to continue in the vigilante mode to kill...
Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, and Ernest Hemingway all imbibed. Oscar Wilde stated about absinthe: “After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible ...
“I’ve come a long way since then, and I write in different ways. But ‘White Room’ is a state of mind, as well as a description of a particular place and time.” Chas Newby YouTube Chas Newby Chas Newby, who enjoyed a two-week stint as the Beatles' bassist in 1960, died in...
Key West is where famous writer Ernest Hemingway once lived, where you can snorkel, and the sunsets are ones to remember! Visit the Hemingway House & Museum –The Hemingway House & Museum is in Old Town Key West, and this yellow, airy, many-windowed home is in the French Colonial style...
“This isn’t a policy-paper election,”write Aaron Zitner and Andrew Restuccia, noting that Harris “has in her brief campaign offered a set of ideas and impulses about the course she would pursue as president, but with less detail than many candidates have provided in the past,” while...