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...something you’ll want to remember. There were not only fruits and vegetables for sale but also frogs, turtles, eels, ducks, chickens with their heads cut off, and exotic items that words can’t do justice.I was strolling through when I saw a vendor pull a live snake from a bag, gut it, and hand it to a paying customer, who then headed to find some fresh onions for his reptilian dinner. There was nothing fake about that moment, and for some reason, I feel much more comfortable in Shanghai having seen it. Chinese beer tastes...
...able to get past the first 20 pages. I was repulsed by the way he characterized Robert Cohn, describing his “hard, Jewish, stubborn streak” and noting of a certain expression that it is how “his compatriot must have looked when he saw the promised land.” This is the worst of Hemingway: completely unnecessary, uncontrolled racism, plain and simple. Rather than taking the time to describe Cohn as a person, an individual, with individualized attributes, Hemingway just lazily throws catch-all racist epithets that go no more than skin deep...
...change to the junior tutorial, described by some faculty as the “heart” of the History and Literature concentration, elicited mainly positive reactions from tutorial leaders. Many saw the small group tutorials as beneficial for both themselves and their students...
...small club just west of the city’s center. Its entrance was not where advertised—intentionally: the police had shut down and reopened the club many times over the years. In that small room with three walls were some of the strangest people I saw during my entire time overseas. There were teens who hadn’t bathed in a while, on purpose, and lanky girls slugging back cans of beer with neither fear of judgment nor pretension. After hearing the headlining band Carsick Cars’ first song I liked what I heard?...
Police officers saw Hoon fighting with another individual and tried to separate them, according to the log. Hoon continued to struggle and kicked one of the officers in the chest and shoulder. Hoon also struck one officer again while his information was being recorded...