So, if you're in the office and you bring somebody a document that they've asked for, or if some post or a parcel has come for somebody, and you see their name on the parcel and think "Oh, I'll just... I'm going that way, so I'll take this to that person's desk and gi...
John Koenig loves finding words that express our unarticulated feelings -- like "lachesism," the hunger for disaster, and "sonder," the realization that everyone else's lives are as complex and unknowable as our own. Here, he meditates on the meaning we assign to words and how these meaning...
According to the UN World Food Program, there were 925 million hungry people around the world in 2010, especially in developing countries. Six million children die of hunger every year. Chinese people are well known for being hospitable(好客的) and generous. Many even feel that they lose face...
simply having no food. In fact, “In 2006 the U.S. government replaced “hunger” with the term “food insecure” to describe any household where, sometime during the previous year, people didn’t have enough food to eat” (The New Face of Hunger). Not only was I able to see the ...
Use the phrases below to describe what is happening in each photo. ACTIVATE AND SHARE Match the photos (a–d) with the descriptions (1–4). (d) 1 Search and rescue vehicles are brought into destroyed areas. (c ) 2 Trained dogs are used to help search for anyone who is...
The part of me that I describe as ‘rational mind’ (RM) prioritises the type of thinking that is pragmatic, logical, linear, reasoned and cognitively sound. And is ever able to articulate, explain, and make sense of the world in accordance with these priorities. ...
Using historical documents including parish registries, we find that regional and temporal patterns in Icelandic excess mortality can be satisfactorily explained by hunger and disease when other factors such as the availability of secondary food sources (fishing or food aid...
Martin says that “Much like hunger motivates us to eat, thirst motivates us to drink, and fear motivates us to avoid things that are dangerous, anger motivates us to respond to confrontation and unfairness,” and unlike misconceptions have most people believe, anger can be expressed in ...
Ineffable/ ɪnˈefəbl̩ /Difficult to accurately describe Infatuation/ ɪnˌfætʃʊˈeɪʃn̩ /A really strong desire to be close to someone, mostly romantically Labyrinth/ ˈlæbərɪnθ /A complex set of passageways ...
We spend so much time thinking about our wines that they almost feel like part of the family. Although our family isn’t quite this famous, I use analogies of universal figures in history to describe our wines. If we threw up a photo of Aunty Alice the majority of you wouldn't know ...