Corn-pone Opinions Mark Twain Fifty years ago, when I was a boy of fifteen and helping to inhabit a Missourian village on the banks of the Mississippi, I had a friend whose society was very dear to me because I was forbidden by my mother to partake o...
Groundless Beliefs In future we are going to follow the practice----until it become a habit ----of classifying proposition s according to their grounds .Of every statement we come across, we shall ask :HOW DO WE KONW THAT?WHAT REASON HAVE WE FOR BELI...
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Climbing the mountain of success Sydney J. Harris It has long struck me that the familiar metaphor of climbing the ladder for describing the ascent to success or fulfillment in any field is inappropriate and misleading. There are no ladders that lead...
Man of the moment Alan Ayckboun V-Vick Parks D-Douglas Beechey N-Nerys T-Trudy S-Sharon (The scene is set at the Spanish holiday villa of VIC PARKS. He is sitting in the garden with DOUGLAS, waiting for the television interview. There are two other p...
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Unit4b The bench Richard Rive We form an integral part of a complex society, a society complex in that a vast proportion of the population are denied the very basic privileges of existence, a society that condemns a man to an inferior position becaus...
A Drink in the Passage In the year 1960 the Union of South Africa celebrated its Golden Jubilee, and there was a nationwide sensation when the one-thousand-pound prize for the finest piece of sculpture was won by a black man, Edward Simelane. His wor...
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The third person Graham Greene Somewhere behind the cakestall a man was whistling and Martins knew the tune. He turned and waited. Was it fear or excitement that made his heart beat-or just the memories that tune ushered in, for life had always quick...
