I don't pretend to be able to predict what lies in store for the world but the future looks rather bleak to me. Mankind seems to be heading for bigger problems. More and more people are hungry as this New York Times article shows. There are

Hello! I am a university student from Russia. We have to write quite a lot of essays as part of our English course. However, every term we get a new teacher, this is just how the system works, and all teachers are quite different in how they

I am working on an article for Script Mag on global cinema, and am stuck on the @&*%$@## lead - ... in Bosnia. Anyone know someplace exotic with an unusual cinema? Or have a suggestion on where to find this info? Hmmm... I've attended a

Hello all. I have a trouble with this sentence, and I hope you could help me. "As much as Seoul and Tokyo pledged closer cooperation toward their common goal, greater distance is felt between China and its two neighbors to the

This article is dedicated to: - A man I met, with most of his body heavily burned, simply because he was a Chinese during the 1998 May Riot in Indonesia. - Lots of capitalists that are slaughtered during the cultural evolution. - Ten thousands of

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MWCD11 derives the metaphorical sense(1) from Chinese Wall , ... The earliest, from 1835, clearly refers to the Great Wall By 1840, the reference is indefinite, but still refers to an impressive defensive structure: By 1841 it shows up mostly in

I think it's usually more a matter of, not actively ... any choice at all. By this natural mechanism, languages persist. Not always. It's common experience in the US that the first generation born here speaks the parents' language only