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Aesop's Fables: The Lioness and the Vixen

by Aesop The Old Woman and the Wine-JarThe Viper and the FileThe Lioness and the Vixen A Lioness and a Vixen were talking together about their young, as mothers will, and saying how…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Bee

by EmilyDickinsonPurple CloverXVIThe Bee The Bee Like trains of cars on tracks of plush I hear the level bee: A jar across the flowers goes, Their velvet masonry Withstands until the…

Heloise Bowles Cruse

Heloise Bowles Cruse was the woman who started the popular newspaper column, Hints From Heloise, a feature in nationwide syndication since 1961. She began the column as Readers’ Exchange in February…

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath's haunting and personal poems and her tragic life story have placed her in the pantheon of contemporary American poets. Plath grew up outside Boston, graduated from Smith College and…

Advertising Career Profile

Courses, Careers, and More Is advertising right for me? In describing a busy nightclub, New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra once said, "No one goes there anymore. It's too crowded."…

SARS

(Encyclopedia) SARS or severe acute respiratory syndrome, communicable viral disease that can progress to a potentially fatal pneumonia. The first symptoms of SARS are usually a high fever, headache…

Melaka

(Encyclopedia) Melaka or MalaccaMalaccaboth: məlăkˈə [key], state (1991 pop. 504,502), 640 sq mi (1,658 sq km), Malaysia, S Malay Peninsula, on the Strait of Malacca. Formerly one of the Straits…

Cultural Revolution

(Encyclopedia) Cultural Revolution, 1966–76, mass mobilization of urban Chinese youth inaugurated by Mao Zedong in an attempt to prevent the development of a bureaucratized Soviet style of Communism…