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According to a recent survey, marriage is fattening. Citied as evidence is the survey’s finding that average woman gains 23 pounds and average man gains 18 pounds during 13 years marriage.

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……………………They seemed to be using the Sun as a compass to determine direction. At the time, this idea seemed preposterous. How could a bird navigate by the Sun when some of us lose our way with road maps? Obviously, more testing was in order.

1800 Thomas Dilworth’s New Guide to the English Dialogue was being widely used to teach reading in the United States. Dilworth's primer, unlike earlier ones, stressed the importance of children’s understanding what they read. While it is in fact unlikely that children would have recognized all the vocabulary Dilworth used, that was at least his stated goal. Dilworth recognized that primers should enable children to decode words from print with the form of language they already knew: speech. In contrast, many earlier authors assumed that, just as introductory Latin texts taught children an unknown language, introductory English texts should teach English as if it, too, were an unknown language --such their esoteric choice of vocabulary, it in effect became unknown.

TOEFL【Integrated Writing】TPO11

Witnesses to a meteor in Australia in1978 claimed to have heard strange noises as it streaked overhead. Yet, given that the meteor was 30 kilometers up, if these sounds had come directly from the meteor, people on the ground would not have heard them until almost a minute after the meteor had disappeared. Physicist Colin Keay hypothesized that the light given off by a meteor’s trail must accompanied by invisible electromagnetic radiation in the form of very low frequency (VLF) radio waves. Such waves, which travel at the speed of light, would reach the observer when the meteor itself came into view.

The presence of work themes in the painting of the impressionist movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has until recently been largely discounted, despite the body of impressionist that continued the tradition, initiated by Courbet and Millet and developed through the 1880s by Breton, Bastien-Lepage, Pissaro, and Berthe Morisot, of representing rural labor, and notwithstanding the significant body of impressionist work — including that of Degas, Caillebotte, and Morisot — representing unban or suburban labor. The notion of impressionism as concerned primarily with the representation of leisure has less to do, however, with the subject matter of the paintings than with the acceptance of the view, widely held in nineteenth-century France, that considered peasants performing physically demanding rural labor as the epitome of work. The numerous impressionist representations of activities (often those of women) that we might classify as work — a woman serving beer in a cafe, many paintings by Degas of the ballet (a physically demanding activity by any standard ) —were instead classified as representations of leisure by those who held the view.

Although vastly popular during its time, much nineteenth-century women’s fiction in the United States went unread by the twentieth-century educated elite, who were taught to ignore it as didactic. However, American literature has a tradition of didacticism going back to its Puritan roots, shifting over time from sermons and poetic transcripts into novels, which proved to be perfect vehicles for conveying social values. In the nineteenth century, critics reviled Poe for neglecting to conclude his stories with pithy moral tags, while Longfellow was canonized for his didactic verse. Although rhetorical changes favoring the anti-didactic can be detected as nineteenth-century American transformed itself into a secular society, it was twentieth-century criticism, which placed aesthetic value above everything else, that had no place in its doctrine for the didacticism of others.

近期捲起一股文青炫風，將近五，六年的光陰，瀰漫整個中台灣，尤其是從勤美綠園道為中心開始往外擴散，到美術館，包括整條公益路一直到文心路交叉口，這附近大大小小巷子內一定會有這種外表看似廢墟，屋子牆壁斑駁，甚至是以前廢棄工廠等等的地點，可是裡面卻別有洞天，建築物裡頭被裝潢的很有藝術氣息，簡約的幾項東西擺設，加上那老舊感的氛圍，使得有些地方散發出的是復古風潮，有些則是工業鐵建築的搭配下，看似工廠確不生產，看似民宅卻是店家，這產生出來的視覺反差，反而更能引起消費者的共鳴，簡單來說一句概括文青，我給他的定義就是：『外表看似小孩，智慧卻過於常人』～～叮叮叮～等等等～鄧恩燈～等恩～燈等燈等燈等燈等～～，所以我倒覺得一個下午體驗不只是飄著咖啡香的室內，嘴裡咀嚼的薯條香，或是蛋糕的清爽甜美，還有.....