It’s not as though I’ve never failed before: a latin test, a piano audition, or even as a friend. But I had personal experience behind me to reassure myself that I would get better. I started swimming with a stone cold slate and only a few months of summer training with a private instructor. no summer leagues or com-petitive teams. I just swam back and forth. Up to this point, I had never ...
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry. The choice of the axioms and the investigation of their relations to one another is a problem which, since the time of Euclid, has been discussed in numerous excellent memoirs to be found in the mathematical ...
A Grammar of Contemporary Polish. A Reference Grammar. (Columbus: Slavica, 2002). Awarded best work in Slavic Linguistics by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 2004. A Private War by Bruno Shatyn. Translated by Oscar E. Swan, with forward by Norman Davies. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1983). The true memoirs of a Jewish lawyer …
A Long Way Gone will allow students to question who we name enemy and why. In this unit, students will look at figurative language and particularly personification of nature, metaphor and simile. Nature often represents Ishmael’s feelings or transformation. In addit
insight, and heartbreaking candor, A Long Way Gone is a rare, mesmerizing work that addresses a twenty-first-century, and international, nightmare: the collision of war and childhood. A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier TO THE TEACHER by Ishmael Beah 240 pages • ISBN 978-0-
