She reminded us that even though we are women of color, we're R& B singers, we can appeal to everyone. Even all my ups and downs in my life, it's part of a career, it's part of life. When I hear people reference, oh, "She sings like Toni Braxton." Or when I heard "...
6. Part of the conversation is repeated below. Read it and answer the question. Female Professor Now, before I go on, let me just respond to something Carol was saying—this idea that bats are blind Why does the professor say this: Female Professor Now, before I go on, let me just r...
Such are the criticisms passed, such the “historical difficulty.” The culprits arraigned are fully alive to their perilous situation; nevertheless, they maintain the statement. The only thing which may perhaps here be objected to is, that the names of the two nations are incorrectly used. It...
I worked in agriculture, and in a petrochemical company, for more than 20 years, as a child I lived on a ranch, with use of retilizers, herbicides, I consider that there are people who have some genetic weakness, which is causing these environmental factors to generate ALS, in...
Despite how common these feelings are, many people feel ashamed or confused about why they're so sad about the death of someone they never even met. But, according to the experts, mourning a celebrity's death is completely normal because, despite the distance of the relationship, it still ...
Myths are often regarded as simple falsehoods, as being about people or gods that have never existed or events that never happened. But regardless of their historicity, the important part about myths is the fundamental truths that they convey to a community, then and even now. This is especia...
There's even a chapter on forgiving yourself—a huge hurdle for many people. How should you forgive, and why? I can't tell you. It's probably the hardest thing you'll ever attempt to do. But I can tell you what I've seen and experi enced personally: once you are able to ...
It uses dialogue effectively.Dialogue isn’t always the best strategy, as it can take up a good chunk of your word count without explicitly saying anything about who you are. In this piece, however, the author does a great job of using their conversations with people they meet along their...
When Kamal argued that society kills creative expression, he was probably not referring to any specific instance of censorship, but rather to the overall prevalence of other concerns that are more powerful. In the course of our research, we met numerous people who wrote for a short period of ...
But the view that a particular name is “unpronounceable” is where you lose me; syllables are syllables. As a northerner who has lived in the south for 15 years, it still baffles me how many people in this region simply can’t get the word “Massachusetts” out right. Did that ...