Trash cans haven’t always been around for families to dispose of their trash in. So what did they do with their garbage? That depended on where they lived. Farmers and their families turned food scraps into pig slop. Of course, pigs will eat anything, even dead bodies, so who knows what was fed to them.…
Nursery rhymes are written for little children, so they should be sweet and innocent, right? Little children should not have experienced the horrors and reality of life yet, and these rhymes made to entertain them should not talk about them either. But not all nursery rhymes have innocent meanings. “Ring Around the Rosie” is one…
What do you see when you look at a picture of a lake? Do you just see a lake? Or does your imagination go wild as you look deeper? When you look at any picture, do you only see what is right in front of your eyes? Or do you see more? Maybe you can…
I am surrounded by animals. They make my life so enjoyable that I cannot imagine living without them. There are people, though, who live their life as far away as they can from certain animals. For some reason, animal phobias tend to be more common in females than in males. Those suffering from cynophobia have an irrational…
Would a good friend be decent, descent, or dissent? When you show respect to someone, are you being deferential or differential? Does a bomb need to be defused or diffused? If a town is filled with corruption, is it full of depravation or deprivation? decease, disease Decease is the act of dying or departing from life.…
