It was a message to Julius Caesar warning him of his death. T<span>he Ides of March didn't signify anything special in itself - this was just the usual way of saying "March 15th". The notion of the Ides being a dangerous date was purely an invention of Shakespeare's; each month has an Ides (often the 15th) and this date wasn't significant in being associated with death prior to 1601.</span>
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Well, as far as I can tell, many English people like tea, and it is also somewhat of a tradition. The “unlike the rest of Europe,” however, is just wrong.
I personally got into tea - good black tea - as a student in Bremen. Now, granted, I had some experience with some cheap-ish one back in Bulgaria (I never got to drink coffee, so I took a substitute), but Germany was where I started branching out into teas. It may seem atypical for the German stereotype, but in Bremen and Hamburg there are some great specialized tea shops. I think this is likely due to their Hanseatic heritage - as long-established trading hubs, they would be exposed to exotic goods from around the world, so something like tea or coffee would quickly find popularity as a sign of worldliness and class - remember, for most of their history the Hanseatic states were essentially run by merchants. I did not really use the opportunity, but I would expect that for much the same reason, tea would be quite popular in the Netherlands as well. Further east, there is Russia, which has its own rich tea culture. Have you heard of the samovar? When you have a special device for boiling tea and the word for it spreads to other languages, you know tea is “serious business.”
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It's a good thing
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Flattening the curve helps doctors, nurses, and other health care officials stay caught up. We as a country, want to make sure our health care officials are not overwhelmed with patients. America doesn't want the country to be overrun with so many cases, that we have an issue similar to Italy's. Italy's doctors got so overwhelmed with patients they couldn't treat everyone. Judging people from medical history and symptoms, doctors had to pick and choose who would receive treatment. As a result, they turned those with a low recovery chance away. Here in America, the vast majority of states haven't had very many cases. Indiana was different than New York, California, Washington, Illinois, and Texas. We didn't get very many cases and the cases that we do have are mostly spread out. In Indiana, there are a few cases here and there but all of our hospitals were prepared for a larger breakout then we received. We were able to flatten the curve enough that we were able to handle everyone who came in and tested positive.
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a. It criticizes the way some readers try to understand a poem
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Billy Collins makes a great reference to how some readers try to understand a poem, by saying that they begin beating it with a hose, trying to explain that they take everything too rough and do not consider all the factors, nor try with the care and importance that analyzing a poem should have, he writes in his poem the ways to understand a poem, speaks about
"I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the shore."
Speaking about a way of getting to know the poem and investigate, about feeling it and letting it take you places, but all what readers want to do is easily and quickly understand it.
