Friday, March 20, 2020

Essay on Education and Kwame

Essay on Education and Kwame Essay on Education and Kwame It is stricking how two people can react the same without even knowing. My brother Kwame, and I though are of different sex but one cannot miss the fact that we are siblings if you really know us. For examples we are both religious and prayerful. We both like to cook and have the same health risks, we all chip our teeth and snore when when sleeping. Despite our similarities, though we are of the same blood, we are differerent in personalities, appearance and education. Firstly, it is shocking how people from the same blood and genetic material look difference . For instance my brother is tall about six foot and five inch, and broad shouldered whiles am about five foot and one inch. I'm petite and slim and weight about one hundred and twenty pounds but my brother weight like two hundred and eighty pounds. Our height and weight is not only differences we have in apperance but facial shapes also. My brother Kwame has oblong face shape (thats roughly resembles a triangle with a round corners). I have a round face shape with wide cheekbones and a tapering jaw and forehead. Kwame has a deep set of eyes, which creates prominent brow bone but I have monolid eyes which are flat on the surface and brow bones less defined. I have a full lips whiles Kwame has a thin lips. Though we were raised by the same people, but have entirely different personalities Kwame my brother, is friendly and easy with people, whiles iam stiff, thats quiet reserved but the melancholic type. Iam calm, loyal and organised. My most valued things are the family and I values loyalty and the lives the traditional way of life, dose practise the stay home mom and take care of the kids. Kwame on the other hand is ambicious and persistent. He followed hia dream and work hard. Kwame though outgoing, also makes sure his time is portioned

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

To Go Haywire

To Go Haywire To Go Haywire To Go Haywire By Maeve Maddox A reader asks, What does the expression â€Å"to go haywire† mean? Applied to a system or contraption of any kind, â€Å"to go haywire† means â€Å"to go wrong.† Applied to a person, â€Å"to go haywire† means â€Å"to become mentally distracted.† Here are some examples of idiomatic usage: My new companys server went haywire right after I moved everything. After a couple of years of sewing on  my new Singer, something went haywire. [They got along] except for that time when  she went haywire  and tried to kill  him. I loved Harlan and treated him right, but somewhere  he went haywire. Haywire, also called â€Å"baling wire,† is thin wire used to bind bales of hay or straw. At least it used to be. The last bale of hay I bought from Lowe’s was bound with plastic strips. However, I once bought some chicken wire that was held together with short lengths of thin wire. When I managed to untwist the bits of wire holding the roll together, it sprang apart, jabbing me with a hundred pointy ends. The experience was similar to that described by H. L. Mencken in regard to haywire: No one who has ever opened a bale of hay with a hatchet and had the leaping wire whirl about him and its sharp ends poniard him, will ever have any doubt how â€Å"to go haywire† originated.- The American Language, Supplement 1 (1946). According to a writer at WorldwideWords, haywire was â€Å"the duct tape of its era.† It was used to repair hinges, mend fence holes, and replace lost or worn-out machine connections. Haywire was used in contexts other than farming. A footnote in a history of the Bohemian Lumber Company (1985) explains that â€Å"some loggers and millmen would sometimes wire their machinery in place with baling wire to keep it running, sans parts.† In the 1900s, the expression â€Å"hay-wire operation† referred to a shoddy, poorly equipped logging business. A line called a haywire plays an important (and dangerous) part in retrieving felled logs. In 2012 an inexperienced logger in Washington State was killed by a haywire during cable logging operations in Lewis County. A glossary of hobo terms defines â€Å"a haywire outfit† as â€Å"something that is all tied and patched together,† a term similar to â€Å"jerry-rigged.† The most common uses of â€Å"to go haywire† are those that refer to something that has stopped working properly or to someone who has become emotionally distraught. Related post: Jury-rigged vs Jerry-rigged Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Expressions category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below:Probable vs. Possible