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Homework Helper: Writing Skills - Revise the First Draft
Writing Skills Revise the First Draft Try to set aside your draft for a day or two before revising. This makes it easier to view your work objectively and see any gaps…1972 Winter Olympics
Sapporo Top 10 Standings Leading Medal Winners Alpine Skiing Biathlon Bobsled Figure Skating Ice Hockey Luge Nordic Skiing Speed Skating The biggest…Slideshow: Non-Native Species Invade the United States
by Mark Hughes Aliens have been invading the United States for centuries. A joke? Not at all. In fact, thousands of foreign plant and animal species have arrived on U.S…Fighting Words: An Iraq War Glossary
Collateral damage:A military euphemism for civilian deaths. Decapitation strike:To remove a regime’s leadership and thereby curtail warfare. The U.S. military attempted a decapitation strike…Got a Yen...To Learn About Foreign Exchange?
Source: FDIC Consumer News, Spring 1995. The value of the U.S. dollar has an impact on all our lives, not just those of us who travel abroad. So what does it mean when the dollar is “up”…Mundaka-Upanishad: First Mundaka, First Khanda
First MundakaFirst Khanda1. Brahma was the first of the Devas, the maker of the universe, the preserver of the world. He told the knowledge of Brahman, the foundation of all knowledge, to his…Carpenter
What is this job like? Carpenters build many things from wood and other materials, like buildings and boats. They construct, erect, install, and repair structures and other fixtures. To do…Walt Whitman: A Song for Occupations, Part 3
Part 3The sun and stars that float in the open air, The apple-shaped earth and we upon it, surely the drift of them is something grand, I do not know what it is except that it is grand,…Christina Rossetti: The Three Enemies
The Three EnemiesThe Flesh'Sweet, thou art pale.' 'More pale to see, Christ hung upon the cruel tree And bore His Father's wrath for me.''Sweet, thou art sad…The Devil's Dictionary: Tortoise
by Ambrose Bierce TOPETREETORTOISE -n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso: TO MY PET TORTOISE My friend, you…