It was miserably hot and humid, so we stopped to cool off at a cafe that made dango. Dango (団子) is a Japanese dumpling made with regular rice flour and glutinous rice flour. They are usually made in round shapes, and three to five pieces are served on a skewer, which is called ...
it is mainly because the technology behind the games is becoming more sophisticated. Initially, when games first came out, they were very simplistic and appealed mainly to children. However, things have moved on since then and games have become visually appealing, very absorbing, require great dex...
My eldest, who, to be painfully honest with you, has told me that he wishes he hadn’t been homeschooled because school would have “taken the rough edges off” his weirdness (I prefer the word uniqueness) (also, I don’t know how he thinks he would have survived school, especially ...
s surface to low -Earth orbit are so fantastically expensive that merely launching the 1,000 tons or so of spacecraft and equipment a Mars mission would require could be accomplished only by cutting health-care benefits, education spending, or other important programs --- or by raising ...
I decided to take the plunge, figuring four novellas for the price of one book (with taxes, around $7 and change Canadian) a deal too good to pass up. I paid, dropped it into my backpack, and biked home. I cleared the homework deck, stretched out on my bed, opened the book and...
9.Farmers drove cattle along major roads as a protest against high taxes. 10.The winery has been making wine for a couple of centuries. Ⅱ.拓展词汇 根据词性和汉语提示,写出下列单词 1.eager adj.热切的;渴望的→eagerly adv.渴望地;热切地→eagerness n.渴 望;热心;热切 2.roll vi.& vt....
Offof– Redundant phrase. You don’t needof.Ex: Get your plate off of the counter. Better: Get your plate off the counter. Offered a suggestion– Nominalization (wordiness introduced when someone uses the noun equivalent of a verb or adjective). Use the verb or adjective form for more pow...
Offof– Redundant phrase. You don’t needof.Ex: Get your plate off of the counter. Better: Get your plate off the counter. Offered a suggestion– Nominalization (wordiness introduced when someone uses the noun equivalent of a verb or adjective). Use the verb or adjective form for more pow...
Then he writes some about mobile home parks, and property taxes, concluding: We have in the past been forced into reluctant change by weather, calamity, and plague. Now the pressure comes from our biologic success as a species. Then he gets going on San Francisco: ...
Elites needed prestige goods, traders paid taxes, slaves were taken and shipped off to work and do the hard labor, and so on. Interrupt the system and things start to get shaky for any dynasty not ready to cope with a few bad years. Or where a succession dispute turns into a political...