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2024-03-31 Easter Day 【The Wind Shifts (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) This is how the wind shifts: Like the thoughts of an old human, Who still thinks eagerly And despairingly. The wind shifts like this: Like a hu |
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2024-03-03 National I Want You to Be Happy Day 【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-X (1918)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The fops of fancy in their poems leave Memorabilia of the mystic spouts, Spontaneously watering their gritty soils. I am a yeoman, as such fellows go. |
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2024-02-16 Lunar Human Day 【Gray Room (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Although you sit in a room that is gray, Except for the silver Of the straw-paper, And pick At your pale white gown; Or lift one of the green beads Of your necklace, To let it fall; Or gaze at your green fan &n |
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2023-11-18 National Vichyssoise Day 【The Plain Sense of Things (1952)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.
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2023-11-18 Apple Cider Day 【The Irish Cliffs of Moher (1952)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Who is my father in this world, in this house, At the spirit's base?
My father's father, his father's father, his-- Shadows like winds
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2023-10-23 9th Day of the 9th Lunar Month 【Solitaire under the Oaks (1955)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) In the oblivion of cards One exists among pure principles.
Neither the cards nor the trees nor the air
Persist as facts. This is an escape To principiu |
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2023-10-19 National Seafood Bisque Day 【Reality is an activity of the most august imagination (1954)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Last Friday, in the big light of last Friday night, We drove home from Cornwall to Hartford, late. It was not a night blown at a glassworks in Vienna Or Venice, motionless, gathering time and dust. There was a crush of strength in a gr |
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2023-08-30 National Toasted Marshmallow Day 【Desiderata (1927)】 Max Ehrmann (1872-1945) (Stanza 9 of 9) With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— 【《心之所需》(1927)】 绝佳·敬重者(1872生—1945卒) 【佚名译】 (第九节) &nbs |
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2023-06-17 World Juggling Day 【The Planet on the Table (1953)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Ariel was glad he had written his poems. They were of a remembered time Or of something seen that he liked. Other makings of the sun |
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2023-05-28 Pentecost 【Farewell to Florida·III (1935)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) I hated the weathery yawl from which the pools Disclosed the sea floor and the wilderness Of waving weeds. I hated the vivid blooms Curled over the shadowless hut, the rust and bones, The trees likes bones and the leaves half sand, half sun. To stand here o |
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2023-05-20 World Whisky Day 【Farewell to Florida·II (1935)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Her mind had bound me round. The palms were hot As if I lived in ashen ground, as if The leaves in which the wind kept up its sound From my North of cold whistled in a sepulchral South, Her South of pine and coral and coraline sea, Her home, not mine, |
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2023-05-06 Intl No Diet Day 【Sunday Morning·VIII (1923)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) She hears, upon that water without sound, A voice that cries, “The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.” We live in |
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2023-04-29 National Peace Rose Day 【Sunday Morning·VI (1923)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? Or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, |
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2023-03-05 National Absinthe Day
【In the Carolinas (1917)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The lilacs wither in the Carolinas. Already the butterflies flutter above the cabins. Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers. &nbs
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2023-02-19 World Whale Day
【Domination of Black (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) At night, by the fire, The colors of the bushes And of the fallen leaves, Repeating themselves, Turned in the room, Like the leaves themselves Turning in the wind. Yes: but the color of the heavy hemlock |
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2022-08-20 Harmony Day
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Chang·V (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) On a blue island in a sky-wide water The wild orange trees continued to bloom and to bear, Long after the planter's death. A few limes remained,
Where his house had fallen, three scraggy trees weighted With |
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2022-08-20 World Mosquito Day 
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Chang·IV (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Two things of opposite natures seem to depend On one another, as a man depends On a woman, day on night, the imagined
On the real. This is the origin of change. Winter |
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2022-08-14 Victory-over-Japan Day 
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Chang·III (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The great statue of the General Du Puy Rested immobile, though neighboring catafalques Bore off the residents of its noble Place.
The right, uplifted foreleg of the horse &nbs |
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2022-07-30 International Friendship Day
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Chang·I (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets Inhaled the appointed odor, while the doves Rose up like phantoms from chronologies.
The Italian girls wore jonquils in their hair &n |
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2022-07-30 International Friendship Day 
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Be Abstract·IX (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The romantic intoning, the declaimed clairvoyance Are parts of apotheosis, appropriate And of its nature, the idiom thereof. They differ from reason’s click-clack, its applied Enfl |
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2022-07-10 National Clerihew Day
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Be Abstract·IV (1942)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The first idea was not our own. Adam In Eden was the father of Descartes And Eve made air the mirror of herself,
Of her sons and of her daughters. They found themselves In heaven as in a glass; a second earth; |
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2022-07-04 Independence Day
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Be Abstract·II (1942)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) It is the celestial ennui of apartments That sends us back to the first idea, the quick Of this invention; and yet so poisonous
Are the ravishments of truth, so fatal to The truth itself, the first |
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2022-05-28 Memorial Weekend
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XXX (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) From this I shall evolve a man. This is his essence: the old fantoche
Hanging his shawl upon the wind, Like something on the stage, puffed out, |
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2022-05-08 No Socks Day 
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XXIV (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A poem like a missal found In the mud, a missal for that young man, That scholar hungriest for that book, The very boo |
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2022-05-08 National Coconut Cream Pie Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XXIII (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A few final solutions, like a duet With the undertaker: a voice in the clouds,
Another on earth, the one a voice Of ether, the other smelling of drink |
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2022-05-08 International Thalassaemia Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XXII (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Poetry is the subject of the poem, From this the poem issues and
To this returns. Between the two, Between issue and return, there is |
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2022-05-08 Free Trade Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XXI (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A substitute for all the gods: This self, not that gold self aloft,
Alone, one's shadow magnified, Lord of the body, looking down, &nbs |
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2022-05-08 Mother's Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XX (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) What is there in life except one's ideas. Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
Is it ideas that I believe? Good air, my only friend, believe, & |
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2022-04-24 Intl Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace 
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XVIII (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A dream (to call it a dream) in which I can believe, in face of the object,
A dream no longer a dream, a thing, Of things as they are, as the blue guitar &nb |
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2022-04-24 National Skipping Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XVII (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The person has a mould. But not Its animal. The angelic ones
Speak of the soul, the mind. It is An animal. The blue guitar — & |
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2022-04-24 National Pigs in a Blanket Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XVI (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The earth is not earth but a stone, Not the mother that held men as they fell
But stone, but like a stone, no: not The mother, but an oppressor, but li |
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2022-04-13 National Scrabble Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XIV (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) First one beam, then another, then A thousand are radiant in the sky.
Each is both star and orb; and day Is the riches of their atmo |
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2022-04-13 Holy Wednesday
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XIII (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The pale intrusions into blue Are corrupting pallors… ay di mi,
Blue buds or pitchy blooms. Be content— &nb |
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2022-04-13 International Day of Pink
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XII (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Tom-tom, c'est moi. The blue guitar And I are one. The orchestra
Fills the high hall with shuffling |
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2022-04-08 National All Is Ours Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XI (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Slowly the ivy on the stones Becomes the stones. Women become
The cities, children become the fields And men in waves become the sea. &nb |
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2022-04-08 International Feng Shui Awareness Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·X (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Raise reddest columns. Toll a bell And clap the hollows full of tin.
Throw papers in the streets, the wills Of the dead, majestic in their sea |
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2022-04-02 International Children's Book Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·IX (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) And the color, the overcast blue Of the air, in which the blue guitar
Is a form, described but difficult, And I am merely a shadow hunched & |
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2022-04-02 International Fact-Checking Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·VIII (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The vivid, florid, turgid sky, The drenching thunder rolling by,
The morning deluged still by night, The clouds tumultuou |
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2022-03-25 Intl Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery & the Transatlantic Slave Trade
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·VII (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.
When shall I come to say of the sun, &nbs |
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2022-03-25 International Waffle Day 
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·VI (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A tune beyond us as we are, Yet nothing changed by the blue guitar;
Ourselves in the tune as if in space, Yet nothing changed, except the place |
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2022-03-05 National Absinthe Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·III (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Ah, but to play man number one, To drive the dagger in his heart,
To lay his brain upon the board And pick the acrid colors out, &nbs |
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2022-02-27 International Polar Bear Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·II (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) I cannot bring a world quite round, Although I patch it as I can.
I sing a hero's head, large eye And bearded bronze, but |
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2022-02-23 Pinocchio Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·I (1937)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The man bent over his guitar, A shearsman of sorts. The day was green.
They said, "You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they |
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2022-02-21 Presidents' Day 
【Dance of the Macabre Mice (1943)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) In the land of turkeys in turkey weather At the base of the statue, we go round and round. What a beautiful history, beautiful surprise! Monsieur is on horseback. The horse is covered with mice.
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2022-02-21 International Mother Language Day
【The Death of a Soldier (1923)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Life contracts and death is expected, As in a season of autumn. The soldier falls.
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2022-02-20 World Day of Social Justice 
【Phases·IV (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Death's nobility again Beautified the simplest men. Fallen Winkle felt the pride Of Agamemnon &nbs |
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2022-02-11 Promise Day
【Phases·III (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) But the bugles, in the night, Were wings that bore To where our comfort was;
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2022-02-11 Grandmother Achievement Day 
【Phases·II (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) This was the salty taste of glory, That it was not Like Agamemnon’s story. Only, an eyeball in the mud, |
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2022-02-11 International Day of Women & Girls in Science
【Phases·I (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) There’s a little square in Paris, Waiting until we pass. They sit idly there, They sip the glass. &n |
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2022-02-11 Lincoln's Birthday
【Fabliau of Florida (1939)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Barque of phosphor On the palmy beach,
Move outward into heaven, &n |
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2022-02-09 National Pizza Day
【Infanta Marina (1914-1923)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Her terrace was the sand And the palms and the twilight. She made of the motions of her wrist |
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2022-02-01 Lunar New Year
【Nomad Exquisite (1923)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) As the immense dew of Florida Brings forth The big-finned palm And green vine angering for life,
As the immense de |
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2021-12-14 National Bouillabaisse Day 
【A Clear Day And No Memories (1954)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) No soldiers in the scenery, No thoughts of people now dead, As they were fifty years ago, Young and li |
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2021-12-04 National Sock Day
【Six Significant Landscapes·VI (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Rationalists, wearing square hats, Think, in square rooms, Looking at the floor, Looking at the ceiling. |
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2021-12-04 Santa's List Day 
【Six Significant Landscapes·V (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Not all the knives of the lamp-posts, Nor the chisels of the long streets, Nor the mallets of the domes And high towers, Can c |
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2021-11-23 National Eat a Cranberry Day 
【Six Significant Landscapes·IV (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) When my dream was near the moon, The white folds of its gown Filled with yellow light. The soles o |
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2021-11-23 National Espresso Day
【Six Significant Landscapes·III (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) I measure myself Against a tall tree. I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun, &nbs |
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2021-11-21 National Stuffing Day
【Six Significant Landscapes·I (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) An old man sits In the shadow of a pine tree In China. He sees larkspur, &nbs |
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2021-11-20 Future Teachers of America Day
【A Postcard from the Volcano (1936)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill; And that in autumn, when the grapes |
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2021-11-14 National Pickle Day
【The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm (1946)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book; and summer night
Was like the conscious being of the book. The house was quiet and the world was calm. &nbs |
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2021-11-13 World Kindness Day 
【The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain (1954)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) There it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of a mountain.
He breathed its oxygen, Even when the book lay turned in the dust of his table.
It reminded him how he had needed A place to go to in his own direction,
How he had recomposed the pines, Shifted the ro |
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2021-10-20 World Statistics Day 
【Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock (1915)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The houses are haunted By white night-gowns. None are green, Or purple with green rings, &nb |
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2021-10-14 World Standards Day 
【Of Mere Being (1954)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The palm at the end of the mind, Beyond the last thought, rises In the bronze decor,
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2021-10-07 National Diversity Day 
【Valley Candle (1923)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) My candle burned alone in an immense valley. Beams of the huge night converged upon it, Until the wind blew. The beams of the huge night Converged upon its image, & |
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2021-10-05 National Be Nice Day 
【Anecdote of the Jar (1919)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. |
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2021-07-05 National Apple Turnover Day 
【The Prairies (1892)】 Walt Whitman (1819—1892) The prairie-grass dividing, its special odor breathing, I demand of it the spiritual corresponding, Demand the most copious and close companionship of men, Demand the blades to rise of words, acts, beings, Those of the open atmosphere, coarse, sunlit, fresh, nutritious, Those that go their own gait, erect, stepping with freedom and command, leading not following, Those with a never-quell’d audacity, those with s |
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2021-07-05 National Graham Cracker Day 
【One's Self I Sing (1867)】
Walt Whitman (1819—1892) One’s-Self I sing, a simple, separate person; Yet utter the word Democratic, the word en-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe, I sing; Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the Muse I say the Form complete is worthier far; The Female equally with the Male I sing. & |
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2019-07-11
【Aiden in English】 What is work? A job – a monotonous, persistent pursuit of promotion? Is it sitting at a desk, eight hours a day mulling over some characters on a computer? Is it speaking into a microphone for four hours a day to an unknown source of people? Is it smiling at the camera, waving goodbye to millions of people? Or is it pointing the camera at such persons? Well, whatever it is, the US s |
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2018-07-06
【Aiden in English】 So recently, against my will, I was sent off to the University of Pennsylvania for an 'internship' in a lab. This was most likely to push me in the direction of a science career. While it may have seemed like a good opportunity, the effort for me to reach the campus was unreasonable. UPenn is located within the city of Philadelphia, while the lab, located in the dental school, is not near the train station. Ess |
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2017-05-30
【Aiden in English】 I never was a big fan of rollercoasters. Due to a small stomach and being an immature little kid, I really didn’t enjoy the loopy-de-loops. But, eventually, I grew over that fear luckily in elementary school, going on Space Mountain, and many Disney rides guaranteed a quick learning experience. By middle school, the school district partially expects all students to be okay with rollercoasters. However, it was not comm |
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2017-05-21
【Aiden in English】 Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was a West Virginia native. However, she went to China at an early age due to her father’s occupation as a missionary. She spent her first forty years or so in Jiangsu and Anhui of China excluding her education in Randolph-Macon Woman's College and Cornell Univ. for a few years, eventually returning to Green Hill Farm in PA. So who is Pearl S. Buck?
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2017-03-17
【Aiden in English】 March is madness (haha, get it?). So far, March is mostly related to spring. However, snow is now a common guest around the Spring Equinox in the Greater Philadelphia Area. The funny thing is, that the snow hinders people’s movements. Yet skiing is probably the fastest way of motion I can achieve. The feeling of going so fast that you are on the brink of flying is extremely exhilarating |
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2017-01-01
【Aiden in English】 You know, Longwood Gardens kind of feels like a tradition now. It has been, what, three straight years of seeing the park in the holiday seasons? Correct me if I’m wrong, but this place is beginning to grow on me a bit. Most of you may ask why Longwood Gardens haven’t gotten duller through the years. Instead of answering, may I ask you a question? Why does Christmas never get old? Really, if |
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2016-11-12
【Aiden in English】 New Hope sits on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River, where literally anyone can see, across the river, the rival New Jersey. It was at this Delaware River where many people believe the turning point of the civil war occurred. On a freezing day in one of the coldest winters in American history, Washington led the Continental Army across the river into Pennsylvania |
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2016-11-05
【A Pact】 Ezra Pound (1885—1972) 〖Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948〗 I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman — I have detested you long enough. I come to you as a grown child Who has had a pig-headed father; & |
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