Today, the less developed countries are struggling to achieve in the course of a few years the material advantages that the older industrialized nations have taken generations to gain. The result is often a tug-of-war between the forces of modernization and the sentiments of tradition, with seri...
the period immediately before an event:on the eve of civil war an archaic word forevening Etymology: 13thCentury: variant ofeven² Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Eve/iːv/n the first woman; mother of the human race, fashioned by God from the rib of Ada...
Most of us spend much of life feeling confidently alive, solid and incorruptible, not thinking about our demise, our eventual loss of facility and faculty, our loss of awareness and identity and finally the decay of our flesh. Those of us who have not seen war or violent crime and disaster...
The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story. The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story. By John Laurence. New York: Public Affairs, 2002. 850 pages. $30.00. If you believe that events since the 1975 fall of Saigon proved that America's Vietnam misadventure was indeed a noble cause (how.....
I found the storyline of “War and Peace” really difficult to follow. success storynfigurative(real-life example of[sb]succeeding)SCSimplified Chinese成名史 tall storynfigurative, informal(far-fetched account)SCSimplified Chinese难以置信的故事 ...
Word Cloud Classics(共56册),这套丛书还有 《The Sun Also Rises and Other Stories (Word Cloud Classics)》《Classic Westerns: Zane Grey (Word Cloud Classics)》《Great Expectations》《Barack Obama Selected Speeches (Word Cloud Classics)》《Classic Stories of World War I》等。 我来说两句 短评 ·...
Following is our list of words quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about four word. A wise man hears one word and understands two. —Edgar Allan Poe 24 A wise man hears one word and understands two. —Yiddish Proverbs ...
After being honorably discharged from service following the war, he continued to write poetry and songs and recorded one major demo. He published his first book, The Love Life: The Intimate Journal of Mr. Truelove in May 2014. Eugene’s varying roles as husband, father, uncle, and friend...
Revised and updated with new chapters on Clinton's presidency, the 2000 election, and the War on Terrorism, A People's History of the United States features insightful analysis. A People’s History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium - By: Chris Harman. Narrated by: ...
The War of the Worlds Uncle Tom’s Cabin Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Wuthering Heights G. K. Chesterton’s ficton and non-fiction E-Books Students can Read Aloud Frog and Toadbooks byArnold Lobel(early readers and up) ...