Movement of the Earth If you are traveling forwards in a train,the things around you outside seem to be moving backwards. / The sun seems to rise in the east, / move across the sky,/ and set in the west. / In other words? the sun seems to travel...
Feeding Your Mind When your mind is hungry, / it never lets you know, / it silently begins to heed to your needs and never lets itself grow. / When mind looses its freedom to grow, creativity gets a full stop. / However, hunger of the mind can be act...
Cartoon Artist In a good cartoon,/ the artist can tell in a few lines / as much as a writer can tell in half a dozen paragraphs. / The cartoon artist not only tells a story / but he also tries to persuade the reader to his way of thinking. / He has...
Using the Library You look for a book in one of two ways: /either youll know the author and title of the book, / or else you want a book on a particular subject. / Lets start with what to do if you know the authors name and the title of the book. /...
British Humor Jokes that make one country laugh out loud are likely to leave another nation confused and silent. / But humor can also be very revealing,if not always funny. / After all jokes are often just another way of expressing anxieties, fears...
Golf: Theres Nothing Like It! It is generally agreed that golf was first played in Scotland in the 15th century. / Its popularity spread throughout the 16th century,/ and the first international golf match took place in 1682 / between players fro...
Drama There are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. / The one most widely accepted today is based on the assumption /that drama evolved from ritual. / The argument for this view goes as follows. / In the beginning, human bei...
Travel Books There are three kinds of travel books. / The first are those that give a personal, subjective account of travels / which the author has actually made himself. / If these books are informative / and have a good index,/ they can be very...
Natural and Synthetic Rubber People get natural rubber from rubber trees / as a white, milky liquid,which is called latex. / They mix it with acid, and dry it, / and then they send it to countries all over the world. / They started rubber plantatio...
Changing Rate of Employment West Germany had one of the lowest rates of unemployment back in 1980. / It stood at just three percent. / But then over the next three years it rose quite sharply and steadily. / In 1982 it was nearly six percent,/ and...