And suddenly, we were out of school and she revised what I’d assumed was a permanent code of nihilism and remade herself as a wife and mother—skilled and sarcastic, cooking and sewing in a fabulous flurry, having sex, glugging rum into a blender—and so, following along, did I. Deli...
It’s always a good idea to have a rough draft of your writing. Follow the outline and don’t bother with the word choice, grammar, or sentence structure much at first. You can polish it all later, as the initial draft will not likely be your final. You may see some omissions in y...
In these examples, we have basically the same sentence but with different articles. In the first case, both the reader and writer know who the man is and what the book is. (We can imagine they both see the man and the book, or maybe they were mentioned previously in a piece of writ...
u Combine a subject from Column A with a predicate in Column B to form a sentence that makes sense. Begin each sentence with a capital letter and end each one with a period. A B orange juice cooks breakfast every day the eggs looks delicious my mom belongs to my brother many good ...
Complex numbers can be created either from cartesian coordinates: Complex(re: Number = 0, im: Number = 0) or from polar coordinates: Complex.fromPolar(theta: Number, radius: Number = 1) For most commonly used Complex numbers there are three predefined values: val ONE = Complex(1, 0) val...
a single large dog and its owner. Surf waves broke on a submerged offshore reef, before reaching the shoreline. Along the beach in the opposite direction, wooden and iron remnants of the wreck of a three masted ship, “The Artisan,” which ran aground during a storm in 1901, can still...
This is basic Orientalism 101 as explained by Edward Said, but the gradual realisation and discomfort of the main protagonist in a complex but rather charming story is a clever sleight of hand, making the reader complicit in her delight to start off with, and then feeling almost as awkward ...
The total intensity of higher-order CVBs, taking into account the longitudinal component of the electric field, has a non-annular shape (see Fig. 3) that predicts the formation of complex nano- and microstructures, with structures representing z-component of a formed light field. Note, in ...
In the beginning of the beginning of the twilight of my life’s journey, I am wondering, what goes first after the flight of youth; sex or memory? It is a brilliant question, and I know the answer to the riddle. But first I must go fetch my answer from its hiding place. Along ...
In a strange alternate world, where the British Empire has never ended, a young boy called Adam has uncovered something incredible in a rubbish dump in London – a mysterious, mythical, magical animal. A Tyger. Adam must help the creature to evade capture, but in the process his eyes are...