Did you know an average person has an intelligence quotient (IQ) of 100 points? The highest IQ recorded in history was of Marilyn vos Savant, who got an intelligence quotient of 228! Did you know what vos Savant’s claim to fame was? A few ‘Dear Abby’ styled columns and a… Read More →
Humour is one of the crucial aspects of our everyday life. The point is that humour is the tool that we can use to face with the hardest times in our lives and to appreciate some of the most outstanding things. Some people tend to believe that humour is the… Read More →
If you ever tried to find the right job, you probably noticed that the majority of employers are on the search for at least two years of prior experience. It’s clear why so many of them wish to co-work with experienced specialists – track record, industry knowledge, solid skill sets… Read More →
I’m not that kind of a person, who can have a lack of inspiration. When life seems dark and overshadowed, all I need to do to meet my Muse is…to go for a walk in a local park. Regardless of the season, I am always excited about admiring the Mother… Read More →
When God gave us our life, He also created beautiful living creatures which also have the right to live on the same planet. Without a doubt, we are the superior in thoughts and power, but unfortunately we tend to forget about the responsibility, which comes to us with our power…. Read More →
As the representation of minorities in American public education system grows with every passing year, the situation with higher education, at least according to the latest ACT scores, remains more or less unchanging. Of all the students who took the ACT college admissions test in 2013 only 39% can be… Read More →
According to Girls’ School Association president Alice Phillips, recent changes in national curriculum have uncovered unpleasantly surprising gaps in the expertise of the majority of younger teachers. Since last year grammar and spelling are graded separately from each other in GCSEs, which turned out to be even more problematic for… Read More →
With a few exceptions, children – especially small children – are not very fond of reading. Their attention span is too short to perceive and comprehend large amounts of text; and, to make matters worse, we live in an age when there are all too many distracting things surrounding us… Read More →
Thomas Berger, the author of a critically acclaimed novel The Little Big Man and a number of a large collection of other books of multiple genres, died on July 13 in Nyack, N.Y., leaving his wife, Jeanne Redpath Berger, as his only survivor. Berger has always been a bit of… Read More →
Being a student of literature, you’ve probably come across the term “phraseologism”. In essence, phraseology itself is the study of fixed expressions or sets. This can include phrasal verbs, idioms and a number of other types of multi-word lexical units in which they play a part of expression. Following are… Read More →