Embarrassing moments
Things happen to me that simply don’t happen to anyone else. My friends call me Mme Catastrophe and my disasters are memorable, so much so that they are planning to send me on holiday just so they can ...
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Stairway to heaven
Tragically my brother died a month ago. It was good for him that he was finally free of pain and died peacefully. I was lucky enough to sit with him for his last three hours. I was told that hearing i ...
Hello, is that you? This is me
We humans could never manage without language. Those early homo sapiens could never manage with just grunts. They, or their forebears, started with grunts and gestures of a sort, but how many differen ...
Moral separation in The Book Thief
Adapted by Michael Petroni (The Rite, The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Trader) from Markus Zusak’s Best Selling novel of the same name, The Book Thief is an English language tear-jerker s ...