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"Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected." – C.J. Langenhoven "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Easy read is a method of presenting written information to make it easier to understand for people with difficulty reading. Easy read advocates sentences of no more than ten to fifteen words, with each sentence having just one idea and one verb. Active sentences are used instead of passive sentences. Easy read is closely edited to express ideas ...
Mufaro (moo-FAR-oh): means “happy man” in Shona [1] (native language of Steptoe); Manyara and Nyasha's father; has some power in the village, but its extent is unclear. He is a happy, good-natured man who loves his daughters. Nyasha (née-AH-sha): means “mercy” in Shona; [1] one of Mufaro's daughters; becomes queen at the end of the ...
"Deux amis" or "Two Friends" is a short story by the French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1883. The story is set in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War , when the city lay under siege. The story examines French bravery, German stereotypes and, unusually for Maupassant, discusses the nature and justification of war in the form of a ...
Phonaesthetics (also spelled phonesthetics in North America) is the study of the beauty and pleasantness associated with the sounds of certain words or parts of words.The term was first used in this sense, perhaps by J. R. R. Tolkien, [1] during the mid-20th century and derives from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ) 'voice, sound' and αἰσθητική (aisthētikḗ) 'aesthetics'.
She makes friends with snobby Flora. She writes Gemma a birthday card at the end of the book, accompanied by her special charm bracelet with a new charm added on it. While she is surrounded by fancy and elegant objects, lives in a beautiful countryside home and attends an ever so fancy school, all she truly wants is her best friend to be here, too.
One Sentence Is Ten Thousand Sentences [1] is a novel written by Liu Zhenyun from 2006 to 2008. [2] It was awarded the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2011. [3] The novel has been adapted into a 2016 film Someone to Talk To, directed by Liu Zhenyun's daughter Liu Yulin.
The Harvard sentences, or Harvard lines, [1] is a collection of 720 sample phrases, divided into lists of 10, used for standardized testing of Voice over IP, cellular, and other telephone systems. They are phonetically balanced sentences that use specific phonemes at the same frequency they appear in English.