Word: explains
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...learn this lesson in discomfiting and members are guilty of sexual misconduct toward their female guests is a very serious charge. If such activity occurs every year, as Dean Lewis claims, he should provide readers with proper data to support the charge. If no such data exists, he should explain why it is unobtainable and support his claims in some other...
...they met. Could it be that they were incapable of accepting diversity in reading matter? Or could it be that they didn't "get" the associations I make in my reading because they didn't occur to them, and I hadn't bothered, in my shame and embarrassment, to explain them...
...literary and cultural realm. This new translation of Beowulf, then, is more of a gesture of commonality than an aggressive assertion of distinction or superiority. As much as their violent history has pulled them apart, the English and the Irish do at least speak the same language. This helps explain why Heaney did not necessarily resent his inclusion is an anthology of "English" literature compiled by Faber and Faber, Co. Though he did write a poem that asserted his passport was definitely green (the color of the Irish passport), Heaney did not think the book's editors intended to commandeer...
...their pockets, carved their ex-boyfriend's initials into their arms, stubbed out cigarettes on their hands, and wore angry red wounds on their knuckles, wrists, calves and thighs. In her new book, A Bright Red Scream; Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain, Marilee Strong tries to explain what is to most, inexplicable...
What Strong's book doesn't explain is why kids who haven't been sexually or physically abused during their childhood resort to cutting. On Dateline NBC, the subject had suffered her parents' painful divorce in early childhood, which, with the birth of a physically and mentally disabled younger brother, was enough to produce self-injury later in life...