Story - Better To Be Unlucky

Better To Be Unlucky:

Sam, an unemployed piano tuner, said it was only the second thing he had ever won in his life. The first thing was an Afghan blanket at a church raffle when he was 25 years old. But this was much bigger: it was $120,000! He had won the Big Cube, a state lottery game. To win, a contestant must first guess which number a spinning cube will stop on.

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Quotes - Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin:

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.

Quotes - Martin Buxbaum

Martin Buxbaum:

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

Poem - I many times thought peace had come By Emily Dickinson

I many times thought peace had come:

I many times thought peace had come,   
When peace was far away;   
As wrecked men deem they sight the land   
At centre of the sea,   
 
And struggle slacker, but to prove,            5
As hopelessly as I,   
How many the fictitious shores   
Before the harbor lie.

Quotes - John Harrigan

John Harrigan:

People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Vocabulary - Geyser

Geyser:

A natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground.

It exploded as he hit the water, sending a geyser of water and blood into the air.

That geyser dominated the bathroom like a ferocious monster.

he bullets sent up muddy geysers from the paddy water as they raged toward the group.

The lake is noted for its hot springs, steam jets and geysers.

Persian: آبفشان

Story - Freeway Chase Ends at Newsstand

Freeway Chase Ends at Newsstand:

A 24-year-old Los Angeles man was taken to a hospital and then to county jail after leading police on a one-hour freeway chase in a stolen SUV. The chase ended in downtown Los Angeles in front of the Spring Hotel. Most of the chase was uneventful, except for an empty bottle of whiskey that the driver threw at one police vehicle.

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Poem - Heart not so heavy as mine By Emily Dickinson

Heart not so heavy as mine:

Heart not so heavy as mine,   
Wending late home,   
As it passed my window   
Whistled itself a tune

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Vocabulary - Cane

Cane:

A long thin stick with a curved handle that you can use to help you walk.

He was walking slowly with a cane.

Persian: عصا

Quotes - Francois VI

Francois VI:

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

Story - Jerry Decided To Buy a Gun

Jerry Decided To Buy a Gun:

Jerry Baldwin was 30 years old. He was the manager of a pizza restaurant. He lived in an apartment about one mile north of the restaurant. He walked to and from work. When it was raining, he took the bus.

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Quotes - Chanakya

Chanakya:

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Quotes - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero:

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Story - Driver Loses Mabel, Finds Jail

Driver Loses Mabel, Finds Jail:

A fifteen-year-old boy was injured in a car accident when the minivan he was traveling in was hit by a pickup truck at an intersection. The boy was taken to a nearby hospital. The paramedics said that it appeared that the boy had nothing more serious than a broken left leg, but that internal injuries were always a possibility.

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Poem - Undue significance a starving man attaches By Emily Dickinson

Undue significance a starving man attaches:

Undue significance a starving man attaches   
To food   
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,   
And therefore good.   
 
Partaken, it relieves indeed, but proves us            5
That spices fly   
In the receipt. It was the distance   
Was savory.

Vocabulary - Scalding

Scalding:

Extremely hot.

A cup of scalding hot tea.

Scalding tears poured down her face. 

Persian: سوزان

Story -  A Life-Saving Cow

A Life-Saving Cow:

Six consecutive days of spring rain had created a raging river running by Nancy Brown’s farm. As she tried to herd her cows to higher ground, she slipped and hit her head on a fallen tree trunk. The fall knocked her out for a moment or two. When she came to, Lizzie, one of her oldest and favorite cows, was licking her face. The water was rising.

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Story - Man Injured at Fast Food Place

Man Injured at Fast Food Place:

A 79-year-old man was slightly injured on Saturday while waiting in his brand new convertible in a drive-through lane at Burger Prince restaurant. Herman Sherman of Northville suffered a mild burn about 9:00 p.m. when a young female employee accidentally spilled a cup of coffee into his lap. Sherman said the coffee was hot but not scalding.

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Poem - The body grows outside By Emily Dickinson

The body grows outside:

The body grows outside,—   
The more convenient way,—   
That if the spirit like to hide,   
Its temple stands alway   
 
Ajar, secure, inviting;            5
It never did betray   
The soul that asked its shelter   
In timid honesty

Poem - Song to Celia By Ben Jonson

Song to Celia:

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
         And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
         And I’ll not look for wine.
The thirst that from the soul doth rise
         Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove’s nectar sup,
         I would not change for thine.

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Poem - Amoretti Sonnets by Edmund Spenser

Amoretti:

Happy ye leaves when as those lily hands,
        Which hold my life in their dead-doing might,
        Shall handle you and hold in love's soft bands,
        Like captives trembling at the victor's sight.
    And happy lines, on which with starry light,
        Those lamping eyes will deign sometimes to look
        And read the sorrows of my dying sprite,
        Written with tears in heart's close-bleeding book.
    And happy rhymes bath'd in the sacred brook,
        Of Helicon whence she derived is,
        When ye behold that Angel's blessed look,
        My soul's long-lacked food, my heaven's bliss.
    Leaves, lines, and rhymes, seek her to please alone,
        Whom if ye please, I care for other none.

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Story - Sara Went Shopping

Sara Went Shopping:

Sara Smith, a Pasadena resident, went shopping. She is 30, and has lived at 3037 N. Foothill Street since 1992. Sara has been married to John for seven years. They have two children; Bob is five years old and Nancy is three. Sara owns a 1995 four-door blue Toyola. At 9 a.m., Sara got into her car and drove to Barget, a department store a mile away.

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Quotes - George Marek

George Marek:

There's nothing like a little rain to bring people together.

Vocabulary - Peruse

Peruse:

To read something, especially in a careful way.

She leant forward to peruse the document more closely.

He sent a copy of the report to the manager of his persual.

Persian: به دقت خواندن

Poem - Remorse is memory awake By Emily Dickinson

Remorse is memory awake:

Remorse is memory awake,   
Her companies astir,—   
A presence of departed acts   
At window and at door.

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Quotes - Thomas Dewar

Thomas Dewar:

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

All Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables:

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Aesop's Fables - The Fox and the Goat

The Fox and the Goat:

By an unlucky chance a Fox fell into a deep well from which he could not get out. A Goat passed by shortly afterwards, and asked the Fox what he was doing down there. ‘Oh, have you not heard?’ said the Fox; ‘there is going to be a great
drought, so I jumped down here in order to be sure to have water by me. Why don’t you come down too?’ The Goat thought well of this advice, and jumped down into the well. But the Fox immediately jumped on her back, and by putting
his foot on her long horns managed to jump up to the edge of the well. ‘Good-bye, friend,’ said the Fox, ‘remember next time,

‘Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.’

Aesop's Fables - The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar

The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar:

You must know that sometimes old women like a glass of wine. One of this sort once found a Wine-jar lying in the road, and eagerly went up to it hoping to find it full. But when she took it up she found that all the wine had been drunk out of it. Still she took a long sniff at the mouth of the Jar. ‘Ah,’ she cried,

‘What memories cling ‘round the instruments of our pleasure.’

Poem - Mine enemy is growing old By Emily Dickinson

Mine enemy is growing old:

Mine enemy is growing old,—   
I have at last revenge.   
The palate of the hate departs;   
If any would avenge,—   
 
Let him be quick, the viand flits,            5
It is a faded meat.   
Anger as soon as fed is dead;   
’t is starving makes it fat.