from Chongqing What did you do when you were 8 years old? Wang had become a trainee(练习生) at TF Entertainment at that age.He still goes to school like other kids during weekdays.But his weekends were filled with training classes.He learned how to sing and dance.He had to do the spl...
from Chongqing What did you do when you were 8 years old? Wang had become a trainee(练习生) at TF Entertainment at that age.He still goes to school like other kids during weekdays.But his weekends were filled with training classes.He learned how to sing and dance.He had to do the spl...
Susan Sontag’s essay ‘The Aesthetics of Silence’ inAgainst Interpretation(1966) is too well known to summarize, but she was one of the first to sound the ‘postmodern’ note, without using that now current but meaningless term. David Lodge’sThe Modes of Modern Writing – Metaphor, Metony...
And not vainly did they fall from his hand; for all the bloody drops that gushed forth Gaia received, and as the seasons moved round she bare the strong Erinyes and the great Giants with gleaming armor, holding long spears in their hands and the Nymphai whom they call Meliai all over t...
Part lion, part goat, part snake. It seems entirely plausible that the chimera owes its existence to someone viewing three adjacent animals from far away — but who knows? The term chimera is now used to describe anything puzzlingly composed of more than one pre-existing thing. Where to fin...
Another story says that a gypsy curse was placed upon a selfish, young woman after she refused to give food or shelter to the Gypsy. (Note:I am aware that Gypsy is an offensive term and the proper name is Romani for this group of people. I have only tried to present the story as ...
I kept returning to Chiang Mai because it’s a great place to stay, eat and settle quickly into a routine I found comforting. I found I did good writing when there’s no overhead to settling in easily. So instead of a regular narrative piece about the city, or a servicey list of ...
Serena Williams is widely acknowledged to be the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) tennis player in the world. Last month, sheannouncedher pregnancy. When she announced the news, Williams was 20 weeks along. Someone very smart (and awesome) did the math and realized that Williams had recently play...
“First, you had to blast away the existing mind. Second, you had to find a way to insert a new mind into that resulting void. We didn’t get too far on number two, but he did a lot of work on number one.” Kinzer notes that the top-secret nature of Gottlieb’s work makes ...
However, he did not save all the children. Those who were nonverbal and low functioning ended up at another clinic where many were “euthenized.” Is Asperger evil because he did not save all the children from the Nazis? Or was it good that he was at least able to save some of ...