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1. Metaphor, Metonymy and Synecdoche (22172 times seen)
By Miquel Molina i Diez | 20-02-2013 | Language
Metaphor forms part of our way of thinking, of understanding the world. At times, it lexicalizes (that is, it becomes very common), and we are not aware that we are using a metaphor: Life is not a bed of roses. We base on previous models to produce communicative units, and a transmitter, a receiv...

2. Taboo Words, Euphemisms And Dysphemisms (10294 times seen)
By Miquel Molina i Diez | 20-02-2013 | Language
Taboo words are those that are considered in bad taste by some people or that are better to be avoided because they mention realities that are stark or vulgar. They refer to sex, religion, necessities such as the act of emptying the bladder or the bowels, and so on. Examples: fuck, fornicate, mastur...

3. Letting Go of My One True Love (6627 times seen)
By Miscellany | 23-02-2013 | Love Poems
Looking into your beautiful eyes, I fell in love with you. Further into the relationship I knew what we had was true. I thought of you as a gift from above. To show my gratitude I tried to shower you with my love. I guess maybe I tried too hard, or gave too much away. Because now I am all alone...

4. Old Age (6240 times seen)
By Miquel Molina i Diez | 20-02-2013 | Letters
Dear Old Age, It seems just yesterday that I was only a kid, and played in the garden with my parents. It seems just yesterday! Now I feel lonely and desperate: nobody loves me! I don’t think I deserve to end my days so lonesome. I have given the best of myself to help others, but now no...

5. Best 17: The TOP vendors for IT training resources (5926 times seen)
By Miscellany | 16-10-2014 | Articles
There are many sellers which are accessible to give you the best preparing for IT. Each of them contend with each other, yet just few of them can snatch the top positions. The year 2014 saw the arrival of numerous valid certificates. In any case, alongside the accreditations, there emerged a require...

6. The Kingdom of Heaven Is Within You (5359 times seen)
By Raanan Geberer | 23-02-2013 | Short Stories
“I geev you de el-lis-dee, yah?” With those words, Tomas Sladek walked from the kitchen to the gigantic 1920s-style living room, carrying two tabs of acid. Rob hoped that they would be as good as the orange sunshine he had tripped on at the State University at Albany, almost 10 year...

7. Lies... (5088 times seen)
By Miscellany | 23-02-2013 | Love Poems
You told me you would always take care of me. Now that my world has turned upside down I realize you lied. You told me you would always be there for me. Now that I'm all alone I realize you lied. You told me countless times you would always love me. I see you with her now and realize you l...

8. Dawn in Cities (5025 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 17-03-2013 | Poems
Dawn in Cities: 'Effluvia', 'Tidal Sweep', 'Fruitless Search', 'Hope', 'Doomed' Effluvia Before dawn waves break loudest on beaches when no one suns, or fumbles under blankets. Morning light makes little whispers and horizons are attracted to sand dun...

9. Assault on Nature (4874 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 17-03-2013 | Poems
Assault on Nature: Media, Cash or Charge, War on Nature, Bridge, Two Visions Media Powerful light splits the night. Cameras and crew lust the suffering that is the entertainment of the people. Trapped in violet despair, the helpless victims can’t escape the consuming dance of TV. ...

10. Song of the Conquerors (4827 times seen)
By Raanan Geberer | 23-02-2013 | Short Stories
Josh glanced at his watch. It was a Rolex, one of the few relics of the comfortable life in the former United States, along with his pipe, his clarinet and his biology book, that he’d taken with him when he came to this remote corner of the world in search of a new life. Four o' clock. ...

11. Bozza (4407 times seen)
By Allan Wasserman | 03-05-2016 | Short Stories
He heard the sisters giggling. His bedroom window was directly facing their bedroom window, so he ventured a peek. Toni, Nina and Janine Bozza were having a pillow fight. Toni, the oldest, was home visiting from City Island. Her grease-monkey husband Anthony, pronounced “Ant-knee,” wa...

12. 10 Interesting College Secret Societies (4132 times seen)
By Miscellany | 10-10-2013 | Articles
Education in college brings a lot of hard working on different assignments like paper writing or research work. Special writing service can help with that. Although studying in college will never be an easy process, there are pleasant things in it. For example, college societies, especially when the...

13. Desperate Seeker (3754 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 17-03-2013 | Poems
Desperate Seeker: 'Internet Yearning', 'Diminishing Voices', 'Observer', 'Protective Shield', 'Travel II'   Internet Yearning Ms lonely heart sits at her computer reviewing candidates at an on-line dating service, each one promising to make ...

14. A New Star in the Firmament (3549 times seen)
By Miquel Molina i Diez | 20-02-2013 | Love Poems
Fortune-tellers said that there’s a new star in the firmament, that if I close my eyes, and listen to my heart, I’ll see her, that everything a man asks for is in this star. Fortune-tellers said that I could only perceive her with my heart, that I should never try to use my eye...

15. Rank Hath Its (3469 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 19-05-2015 | Poems
Gary Beck/Contusions   Rank Hath Its…   Many Generals were killed in the brutal Civil War, when leaders led from the front. Few Generals died on the battlefields in succeeding wars, having convinced themselves and the gullible public that they wer...

16. Media Face (3437 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 19-05-2015 | Poems
Gary Beck/Contusions   Media Face Crowds flock to the voting booth supporting the candidate they never met, but firmly believe in, have strong opinions about, argue passionately for against those with contrary views, giving a level of trust that no one with comm...

17. Rulers (3426 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 19-05-2015 | Poems
Gary Beck/Contusions   Rulers   Chiefs once evolved from their ability to provide food, security, earning the clan's gratitude for service to the people.   Tyrants pretended to care until they were strong enough to take more than their fair shar...

18. A couple of jokes in English (3221 times seen)
By Miquel Molina i Diez | 06-10-2015 | Jokes
Here are several old jokes in English: - James, the invisible man wants to see you. - Tell him I can't see him today. -Waiter, there is a mosquito in my soup! - Sorry, sir, but it should be in the salad. - Waiter, a fly in my soup! - I am terribly sorry, madam, but we have no more fl...

19. Obituaries (3174 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 19-05-2015 | Poems
Gary Beck/Contusions   Obituaries   Public housing was built to better the condition of the urban poor, providing decent apartments alternatives to tenements.   City planners didn't foresee that along with regular people the disaffected moved in...

20. Mortal Coil (2953 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 23-03-2017 | Poems
Mortal Coil is an unpublished poetry collection that grapples with the frailty of this conflicted life.   Traveler’s Cares Perils of the deep concern fewer and fewer voyagers, since air travel obsoleted ships. We go from place to place faster, safer then ever...

21. Virtual Living (2948 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 11-07-2016 | Poems
Virtual Living is an unpublished collection vitally concerned with the growing frequency of substituting electronic interaction for physical activity.   Future War Cyber warriors defend the nation from sneak attack seated comfortably at computer screens, never face an en...

22. In Memoriam (2942 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 19-05-2015 | Poems
Gary Beck/Contusions   In Memoriam   Once again that fateful day is remembered by some, while many are forgetting, as people always do, the shock and urgency of horrified reaction. And as the buildings fell, workers leaping from windows rather than burni...

23. Blunt Force (2908 times seen)
By Gary Beck | 03-02-2016 | Poems
Gary Beck/Blunt Force   Undesired Devices Terror hovers in the air, as people go about normal routines, some concerned with enemy threats, some indifferent, others oblivious until detonations loudly demand they share danger.   Clumsy Giant Now t...

24. Down and Out in Indianapolis (2528 times seen)
By Raanan Geberer | 21-07-2017 | Short Stories
Down and Out in Indianapolis By Raanan Geberer Back in the early ‘80s, when I accepted a one-year job as an editor at a weekly Jewish newspaper in Indianapolis to get much-needed journalism experience, I didn’t have a place to live when I first got into town. So I thought ...

25. Dark Future (2318 times seen)
By Miquel Molina i Diez | 14-08-2018 | Pseudopoems
Year 2164. Computers, mobile phones, and the like, are a thing of the past. Microchips, which were implanted in our heads, govern our minds, our thoughts, our health, and everything we do. There is no escape. There is no privacy. They can read our minds. We are being indoctrinated....

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