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ON MONDAY
ESL Podcast 922 – Getting a Second Opinion
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In “What Else Does it Mean,” learn the other meanings of “conservative” and “records.”
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English Cafe 412
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ESL Podcast 923 – Having Bad Credit
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Hey everyone,
At times, I like getting the news from local media outlets from other countries, well, mainly UK&US.
I thought it to be a good idea, always if the person in charge of this blog has nothing against, to give you guys the first
three pieces of news I see as I open up the local news website of the province where I live here in Italy.
This practice gives me the opportunity/motivation of writing and looking at the dictionary more often.
Number one: An eighteen year old guy ended up handcuffed because he was threatening to death a sixteen year old guy who owned him 400€ for weeds he had purchased.
Number two: A twenty year old female got bitten by an insect as she was heading to downtown. That caused her an anaphylactic shock. She was taken to the local hospital.
Number three: Some folks living in a condo, smelled rotting flesh coming from the next apartment. Fearing it was a dead body they called the local 911, the firefighters came brought down the front door finding out it just was a broken refrigerator.
That is all. Thanks
Something about Strandford Upon Avon. Just what I saw last june.
If not for the amount of people, from all over the world who come and go through the streets incessantly seemed that at any moment you take a leap in history and you will find Shakespeare himself strolling through some of its streets. Although I assume that in the time of the writer everything would be much older and of course rather more dirty.
Too much dirty as this observed neatness now when you walk around this town like a story, pretty unreal, is absolute. Do not see a single paper, cigarette, NADA, and it is easy to see if you look at the photos.
Undoubtedly is a showcase maintained, clean, beautiful, but nothing to do with what would this city in the time of his illustrious citizen was William Shakespeare.
We like to think that at that time this small town might look like what is now, and nothing is further from the reality that such a comparison. If you think it’s absurd, who collected the garbage, feces, the streets would be full of mud, horse dung and other idols that his people would throw out the windows.
dirt, poverty and filth would go on the same hand, which today we see a charming, lovely tale, worthy of being photographed again and again.
Millions of times actually over the years. We would like to all people around the world have such a city, the birthplace of most illustrious character of English and world literature, as global English and comes to the same thing.
Walking through its streets, seeing their homes maintained, it is easy to forget that the historical reality of the streets and houses would be safe to something completely different from what we see now.
course obliterating parked cars glued to the sidewalk, back then we could find wagons, horses and stables where they watered the beasts of the posts.
The monument call it “Memorial” in memory of the clergy and citizens who were sentenced to the stake for religious reasons.
was the Queen Mary, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who wanted to convert again the Church of England to the Church Catholic under the Pope of Rome, for it appears that it was dedicated to the stake condemn anyone who does not abjured the new religion adopted by his father Henry to marry Anne Boleyn. Later, after Queen Mary died (called bloodroot, or bloody) was Elizabeth I, daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII who was dedicated to pursuing every Catholic who was in sight, this time sending gut Catholic priests who do not abjure his allegiance to Pope of Rome. usual, first one, then another and the common people and paying the whims of the powerful.
“TO BE OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS THE QUESTION” HAMLET.
HARLEQUIN OF THE TIME OF SHAKESPEARE, THE THEATRE WAS ON U.S. MORE ABSOLUTE BOOM.
Who will be buried here, mystery, but it is curious to see a cemetery in the middle of the city.
Greetings, the gatufo
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Here it is imposible to stick the potos of this lovely place. Photos taken for me when I have been in
Shakespeare´s born city.
If you want to see them I am afraid that is necessary to go and see my blog.
Thank you Jeff/Lucy to let me put something about my trip.
Who knows, other week end I may put onother one description, without picutres of course.
emiliano
EVENING, DAY, THE
DEATH
Evening is falling
prelude to another day being born
days and more days pass without feeling
a child inadvertently goes by
feels old too soon
and die comes soon with its touches
life is short
too short to be happy
soon passes, the years to old age
is not short for those who suffer
endless days in those wanting to die
iit s the same, the years leading to the long-awaited end.
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS
I’ve been like a sleepwalker awake
nights and ever sleepless
am I tired of this traffic ?
that leaves you love and live
grim darkness of the night
in darkness and loneliness
I thought about not open ever the curtain
just to give not my whole being some clarity
clarity or truth is it what I longed
after sleepless night I see the daybreak
the day dawns and no more happens
thinks that give me the same shadows in the night
or day dawning reality does not provide
everything repeats itself, again and again, careless
day or night it is always the same
lonelines without any light at the end of the túnel
BE FOOLISH
man, woman, fools in search of pleasure
and death endlessly seek forward
from the birth
there is another world, another life to overcome
then there is a prize, punishment for both pleasure
who knows, will you deserve
QUESTIONS
because Lord if thy hand formed body
let you offended, because
why GOD
and if the blow and create the body you gave understanding
which is why Lord, that drives us
to lose the case and the reason?
a pleasure ground gives us emotion
joy, pleasure, feeling so much amazing
never think about salvation?
Lord, thy light we need
for our good deeds, forgetting pleasure vain
and dying peaceful our eyes closed.
if something we think, soon we change
our daily behavior, relentless, selfish
evil would change for good?
may be is it possible?
at least for this poor soul that´s me
thanks to God if I am not a foolish girl not more
Conchita to your memory.
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From Cuca´s sister Conchita
that pass away nearly fifteen years ago.
emiliano