The cats and I have been MIA for a while because I think the enormity of losing half my family (both parents) last year, with the remaining quarter (my sister) moving to Portugal by spring has finally hit. I’m the last Wormald standing in Virginia, and I’m still trying to figure ...
There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expe...
herbivore. Of course, regardless of the approach you take, your introduction should always lead logically to your thesis. The Thesis Statement The thesis statement is the heart of your essay and should, the majority of the time, come at the very end of your introduction. Typically, your ...
Frankly, anyone claiming to be the teeniest bit rightish of center and believes that load of codswallop is likely too innocent to be let out in public without a dedicated keeper. They probably believe every word in the NY Times, as well – although as Agent K of Men in Black observed ...
Add to that some standout episodes — including a heartbreaking farewell and a jaw-dropping take on the bombing of Nagasaki — and you get an outstanding historical epic. — B.E. How to watch: Pachinko is now streaming on AppleTV+....
19 With the exception of capitalization, which did not exist at the time of its composition, most Jehovah’s Witnesses could say in good conscience that they believe these teachings, even though they might feel it necessary to add other “essential” teachings to them....
For all of my rich heritage – my parents come from a land which has 22 languages and more than 700 dialects, after all – I speak only one language, English, fluently. Arundathi Roy’s wonderful essay–What is the morally appropriate language in which to think and write? —has got me...
Constitution as a religious book. Let me rephrase that: I strongly object to the idea of constitutions as religious books. I have many disagreements with our Constitution, but this essay is not about those. It is not the purpose of a constitution to serve as a guide to people’s ...
Ampeater Music is a website devoted to bridging the gap between unsigned (or just plain underexposed) artists and music lovers everywhere. Every day we feature a different artist on what we call The Ampeater Review. Each fea
seminal essay on the schlemiel, “The Jew as Pariah,” that Charlie Chaplin had failed to laugh Hitler out of office with his film, The Great Dictator (1940); and for that reason, the schlemiel, as an American icon (as found in Chaplin) was displaced, according to Arendt, by Superman...