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Hemingway was encouraged to cut the fragment now known as “On Writing” by his friend and fellow writer Gertrude Stein, who thought the story slowed when Nick began thinking. [2] Hemingway later wrote, “I have decided that all that mental conversation in the long fishing story is the shit and have cut it all out. ….
Abraham Lincoln's Farewell Address was a speech made by President-elect Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois on February 11, 1861. The speech was one of Lincoln's most emotional, as he and the public knew there were tremendous challenges ahead and it was uncertain when he would ever return to Springfield.
"Goodbye, My Brother" is perhaps the most notable of these. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The story is an examination of the irreconcilable conflict between the "bleak, dogmatic severity" of the Pommeroy's youngest son, Lawrence, and the enlightened humanism exhibited by the rest of the family, especially its women.
In reference to the Aug. 11 article “Goodbye, Old Friend: Beloved elephant Suki dies at 60, Tacoma zoo announces,” I’d like to point out that we don’t cause beloved friends to suffer.
The term "political prosperity" is used in paragraph 27 just as "strength and security" is used in paragraph 30: they are mentioned only once, at the very beginning, as the hoped for benefits of the policies being advocated (promotion of religion & morality in paragraph 27, and the sparing use of borrowing in paragraph 30).
Former US President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, is remembered in China for bringing an end to decades of hostility and establishing diplomatic relations with Beijing – at ...
Bilbo's verses acknowledge the ending of his day and the dimming of his eyes, bid farewell to the friends whom he will leave behind and look forward to the Lonely Star's guiding him to "west of West", "where night is quiet and sleep is rest". [T 2] Little is known about the poem's development.
The elephant was euthanized Saturday due to her deteriorating health.