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Hi Maple, Are you sure you mean "sentences"? That looks to me like one wallyloobirdpippin of a single sentence! Are Chinese materia medica medicinal herbs or the collected wisdom of the ages re stomach pain? By "sieving" are you speaking figuratively about going...

Any help "fixing" the following cover letter, would be greatly appreciated. I plan to send it to a research institute in the US which has a few internship positions available for students worldwide. In their own words, the cover letter should include a statement of my specific...

Hi guys, According to Barry, Feminist Criticism could be described as the examination of representations of women in literature by men and women. Barry also describes feminism as being just the opposite of essentialism. Or as Culler points out, “Feminist theory stresses the impact of socially...

Swan, Practical English Usage Garner, Modern American Usage Green, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, 2nd edition In terms of grammars, I still find Otto Jespersen, A Modern English Grammar (out of print) the best, especially in terms of examples from the literature. Get at least vol....

Hi, thanks for the answers. 1) “This I believe to be valuable not merely in terms of the historico-critical study of the work of an ancient thinker, but, more importantly, in terms of the reflection on a philosophy that may still be found attractive and worth adopting.” I finally thought of...

Thanks for the answers. Here are some more questions: 1) The famous passage: “with respect to the liberal studies the Skeptics experienced something almost similar to what they experienced with respect to the whole of philosophy. For just as they approached the latter with the desire of...

I don't think English is that complicated, really. I think the main problem is that it just has way too many exceptions. It's a partly deteriorated hodge-podge of a language, and so its difficulty, it seems to me, lies not in the complexity of its grammar but rather in its lack of unity and...