Extra! Extra! Read all about it! You, ma’am! You want to read all about advancements in printing technology, don’t you? And how they’ve affected the newspaper industry? I’ve got a story for you… hot...
Area of an Irregular Shape, a la Shmoop. Tom is a professional Shetland pony jockey…The problem is, he’s packed on quite a few pounds, and his pony Daisy is starting to crack under the pressure. In...
Both Sides of the Story, a la Shmoop Okay, so you’re an expert on your topic, but hold on, bucko. We always need to hear both sides of the story. Have you considered other points of view? The thing...
THOMAS: Here in Atlanta, we will have the #NAD2014 Opening Ceremony right here! Next door is the Martin Luther King Center for everyone to learn about his history and meet other people. Afterwards, we...
Here’s an unshmoopy question you’ll find on the exam… Which word could fill in the blank so that the sentence below makes sense? True, unselfish goodness is blank: It is often difficult to find. And...
male narrator: Description explained. Description is the art of conveying important visual details through narration. It tells the blind viewer who's there and what they're doing. -...
[ Silence ] >> Barbara Will: The book started with some documents that I found at an archive at Yale University and they were very curious. They were a set of speeches that Gertrude...
Bronson Alcott, a la Shmoop. In earlier times, the American classroom was basically aÉ Pit of Despair. Every day, students passed over the threshold and suffered while their teachers drilled the same...
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