While eating sweets, the brain instantly releases endorphins which make us feel happy and reduce pain; in addition to many pediatricians give sweets to children while giving injections.

My sister’s hand-writing is always so neat, whereas mine is a total mess.

The most common way of preserving genetic materials is to deposit seeds in gene banks; however that, cultivating plants in their original environment is the most natural preservation method.

Diabetes are an illness caused by too much sugar in blood

The latest news about the communal riots are disturbing

All of the milk are gone. You can’t use it

Not only the students but also their instructor have been called to the principal's office.

Letting go of the top of the rock wall, he slowly descended while hanging from the rope.

Day dreaming about her favorite book, a tree smacked her face.

My boss—who is very nice, lives in Manchester.

A number of students skip classes during the severe weather conditions

If you’re having company for dinner, try to get as much done in advance as possible. For instance, set the table the day before.

A bouquet of red roses lend color and fragrance to the room.

Conventional agriculture uses 70 percent of the world's available drinking water for irrigation, while vertical farming techniques are much more efficient in its use of water.

Because their indoor facilities can be placed anywhere there is sufficient light and energy, vertical farms can be located where they had been most needed: in cities.

Simone's unease about playing a more vocal part in the movement in were based largely on her misgivings about mixing politics with popular music.

By contrast, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a private environmental group acknowledges a broader range of species vulnerability by using three categories for at-risk species in the wild: critically endangered, endangered, and vulnerable.

Unlike many Europeans, the French are not noted for its eagerness to work long hours.

In any case, this event marked the beginning of modern France, and it was for this reason that, in 1880, Bastille Day was named a national holiday--rather like Independence Day in the United States.

If someone drills you in this or that order, it's natural to have the inexplicable urge to defy that order. This, in short, is the central mechanism of teenage rebellion.

In recent efforts to combat bullying, awareness organizations have brought innovative ideas to schools: these organizations simulate a bullying environment ad twist the situation until each student in the participating groups have had a taste of what it feels like to be bullied.

Working at home can be a difficult task for the unprepared. With the luxuries and comforts that we afford ourselves, it can be hard to differentiate among what is the "spare room" and what is the "home office".

The benefits of a freelance economy or a freelance lifestyle should not obscure the drawbacks, which are often substantial, and which has received ever-increasing media attention.

Some freelancers have consequently began to band together and "co-work" by renting office spaces, a move that effectively removes professionals from their home environments while maintaining their occupational independence.

Imagine splitting your face in half, mirroring the left side and the right side individually, and to merge together the two resulting left sides and the two resulting right sides; because no face is perfectly symmetrical, you will find that the left-side merger is quite unlike the right-side merger.

The Greeks, instead, maintained that they were prosperous because of his or her own merits.

Poetry is a thing both revered and hated. These disparate reactions to poetry can be explained by its disorienting quality, since a poem is a place where all you thought you knew in daily life cease to exist--a place that is equivocal, convoluted, foreign, and inspiring.

Therefore, each of us as an individual experiences an "I-time", or subjective time: what is considered earlier to me might be different over what is considered earlier to you.

Because who knows why, Einstein suggests trying to associate numbers with the events, so that a greater number being associated with a later event and a smaller number with an earlier one (e.g. the 27th event in my day was dinner, while the 3rd event was breakfast).

Of course, that is a sweeping statement. We all know and admire people who have been successful in life, despite their failures in the exam hall.

One of life's major ironies are that many of the great actors, businessmen, authors, and pop singers, who never made it into universities because they failed exams, are offered honorary degrees by universities in recognition of their successes.

The new inventions were not confined to the land, port-to-port traffic of goods and workers were aided by the new steam-driven vessels.

I lived and worked in Khartoum for four years. One afternoon, about a month after my arrival in the city:a friend took me to Shambart Bridge.

Pedigree. The word alone illicits notions of distinction, aristocracy, and grandeur; even cats and dogs now assume ideal, "pedigreed" forms.

That may seem like a surprisingly small number of films, and he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for seven of his films and won twice.

A film directed by David Lean has a sense of place, whether the film is set in the deserts of Arabia or the workhouses of Dickens' London. Lean makes us understand the effects these places have on the people who inhabit them.

There is a shot early in Lawrence of Arabia that illustrates this clearly, Lawrence is making his first foray on camel into the Arabian Desert.

For almost a minute of screen time, the camera like Lawrence himself, stares into the shimmering distance as what at first appears to be a mirage steadily coming closer.

Lean's career reached a pinnacle with the spectacular triumphs of The Bridge over the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Passage to India. Instead, his real triumph was a black-and-white British film he made in 1945 and titled Brief Encounter.