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The simple past tense 😬 😅 👌 🙃 🤪 😳  William Shakespeare ( to be / born)................ in April 1564 and ( to die).............. 23 April 1616. He ( to be ) .......... an English playwright, poet and actor. He( to be)............ regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He ( to be )............ often called England's national poet (he)............ extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. Emily Brontë(to be/born)............... on 30 July 1818 to Maria Branwell and an Irish father, Patrick Brontë. The family (to live) .................. on Market Street in England. Emily( to be )............ the second youngest of six siblings. In 1820, Emily's younger sister Anne, ( to be / born ) ................. Shortly thereafter, the family( to move ).................. eight miles away to Haworth, where Patr...

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  What is your favourite season and why ?           Dear friend ( name)            Hello my friend! Hope you are doing quite well. I am the kind of person who is fond of cold weather and specifically pouring rain. I love the days when it is too foggy, carried with cold breeze and heavy rain. When leaves fall and skies turn into dark grey. So, I love Autumn, when there is no burning sun or pouring sweat.  Write me back soon                           Your friend Amen  ******************************************  Dear friend ( name) I hope you are doing fine.     Summer is my best part of the year. Honestly, just because there would be no school for a long period of time. Additionally, I love this season, because I enjoy going to the beach with my friends: where, we swim for long hours, ski on the water and play tennis in the evening....

 You have left and the rose has  wept. And I lost the bliss's door keys.  There was only my nostalgia  And somes of hope followed you to where you've gone.  And a frozen bird I have in a cage, Got used to your hovering shadow, but his wounds became worse now. Then, your fingers kissed the bars, then the bird jumped off and chained his  Wings. 

  𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐁𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 “It gives me a melancholy happiness to live in the midst of this jumble of lanes, needs, and voices: how much enjoyment, impatience, desire; how much thirsty life and drunkenness of life comes to light every moment of the day! And yet things will soon be so silent for all these noisy, living, life-thirsty ones! How even now everyone's shadow stands behind him, as his dark fellow traveller! It's always like the last moment before the departure of an emigrant ship : people have more to say to each other than ever; the hour is late; the ocean and its desolate silence await impatiently behind all the noise - so covetous, so certain of its prey. And everyone, everyone takes the past to be little or nothing while the near future is everything; hence this haste, this clamour, this outshouting and out-hustling one another. Everyone wants to be the fir...

 I have led a toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on-and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone. What’s to be done? Break the shell? That’s easily said. Besides, what would remain? A little viscous gum, oozing through the dust and leaving a glistering trail behind it.  ~Jean-Paul Sartre Book: The Age of Reason

 I'm continually surprised by profound things I find in Myth of Sisyphus after reading it many times. Camus really does speak to that wake in grief where expectation doesn't fit reality. It is pretty cathartic in ways. "Living naturally is never easy. You continue making the gestures commanded by existence for many reasons. The first of which is habit. Dying voluntarily implies that you have recognized, even instinctively, the ridiculous character of that habit. The absence of any profound reason for living. The insane character of the daily agitation and the uselessness of suffering. What then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained, even with bad reasons, is a familiar world. But on other hand, a universe totally divested of illusions and lights, man feels like an alien a stranger. His exile is without remedy. Since he has been deprived of a lost home or a promised land."

  I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. Although teachers to care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic -- it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.  ~John Taylor Gatto  Book: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory schooling 

Some people say that too much attention and too many resources are given to the protection of wild animals and birds. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion? For many decades now, protecting animals and birds has been very important for humans. It is certainly right that sufficient resources and attention are focused on this, but obviously there are other priorities as well that need consideration. It is obvious that wildlife is worthy of every energetic effort and resource. After all, once a species is gone, it is gone forever, just like the Dodo. These days, this is of crucial importance, as human populations and needs grow exponentially. For example, deforestation and cash crops in Malaysia and Indonesia put pressure on rainforest biodiversity and the lives of animal like orangutans. Meanwhile, growing affluence in Vietnam and China is creating demand for ivory poachers in Africa. Elsewhere, similarly ignorant customers who ought to know better are causing tigers ...

  *****     1. Plan Ahead The first thing you should do to make your diet more effective is to plan everything. You must pick the diet plan you want to establish and focus on. It would be ideal to come up with a weekly diet plan and list down a comprehensive meal plan so you can buy all the foods you need before you start a new week. 2.  Do Not Skip Meals Contrary to what others believe, an effective diet doesn’t work by skipping meals. You are highly encouraged to eat frequently. Of course, you should never skip breakfast as it is the most important meal of the day. In addition to that, eating smaller meals 5 to 6 times a day allows your body to function more efficiently throughout the day. Eating frequently dramatically boost your metabolism stabilises blood sugar, and will enable you to burn more fats. 3. Avoid Processed Foods Processed foods are everywhere. They are easy to prepare, and sometimes they are even ready to eat. Despite the convenience that...

  The fundamental mistake of education is that it promotes individuality. Yet the individual sense of existence needs to disappear for one to have access to true, timeless knowledge. When identification with our individual existence is dropped, it is realised that real knowledge is none other than universal existence which acts and unfolds knowledge, as necessary. Thus, there cannot be true knowledge if one continues to regard himself as a separate, individual entity or expects others to share knowledge acquired under any singular identity. The big problem also is that morality is subjective. What I would call moral necessity, conservatives would call socialism. I don’t think it is moral to allow people to use vast wealth to manipulate, mislead and control electors. The U.S. Supreme Court says money and guns have freedom of speech so elected representatives listen to the money get the money to remain elected or have the money spent for their opponent and attacks on them. Imagine a ...

 The most important lesson you will ever learn from studying philosophy is that you live in a lie, you live in a cave where the lie is holy. The cave is associated with living in society, and a society, in order to be peaceful, needs to cultivate lies, or fundamental falsehoods. Ultimately, peace is achieved through lie, whilst truth gives birth to war, just because the lie is taken as truth, and defended violently. All states, all countries and cities are build on these fundamental lies. It is the lie, not the truth, that brings people together, building societies. Awakening to this fact of the lie, to a cavernous existence, is the destiny of the philosopher. The philosopher is the first to discover this fact of the human condition: that of being shackled in the cave.  And this is why the philosopher becomes an enemy to the society he lives in. In the Gorgias, Socrates says that he, and only he, is involved in true politics. That's because he only says the truth, the deadly t...

  “In my short time on this planet, I have known great sorrow, plunged into the depths of oceanic despair, been thrown so deeply into my loneliness that I thought I would never return. I have tasted the ecstatic joys of meditation, the fierce intimacy of love, the savage pains of heartbreak, the excitement of unexpected success and the blows of sudden failure. There were times when I thought I’d never make it, times when my dreams had been shattered so thoroughly I couldn’t imagine how life could ever go on. Yet it went on, and sometimes I found humility within the devastation, and out of the ashes of imagined futures often grew new and present joys, and no experience was ever wasted. I have come to trust life completely, trust even the times when I forget how to trust at all, trust that life doesn’t always go according to plan, because there is no plan, only life, and even the times of great uncertainty hold supreme intelligence, and sometimes you have to fall to stand more fearle...

  We should keep fighting for our aims.  We will surely fall and rise up multiple times, but the focal point is that we must not give up.  You have survived everything you have been through, and you will survive this too. Stay for the person you will become. You are more than a bad day, or week, or month, or year, or even a decade. You are a future of multifarious possibility. You are another self at a point in future time looking back in gratitude that this lost and former you held on. Stay. ~Matt Haig  (Book: The Comfort Book)

 *******     I live in a room that doesn't exceed more than 3 metres. It is always obscure and even the lump light is almost dark and turns off by force. The room architecture is so messy . You feel like it was a very small garden with no views was turned into a room and exploited as a renting. It has a small window on the top right wall that has a view on the corridor, and the corridor has the kitchen which also has another tiny window almost in the ceiling and another in the shower that  doesn't  exceed two metres. You can truly feel suffocating imprisonment where you can only sleep In dark, day and night, and you can't see the sun only once you step out to the street. All of this could be handled anyhow. But, in summer we suffer greatly from all types of insects and reptiles where you feel like into a four months war with such monsters, add to to the heat that burns our brains out and boils our blood from within. But the most shocking part is that this ...