In one Charlie Brown cartoon, Peppermint Patty wonders aloud “Do all fairy tales begin with ‘Once upon a time’?” to which Charlie Brown responds: “No, many of them begin ‘When
Charles Schulz first introduced the world to Charlie Brown in 1950 in his Peanuts cartoons. While in later years Snoopy, Charlie Brown’s dog, received more attention and popularity, Charlie Brown
When we go for an interview, we will no doubt appear in jacket and tie (for the men) or skirt and blouse (for the women) — the impression that we
It is uncanny how anagrams can have such close correlations to each other and mean almost the same thing! We may be familiar with (and be amazed by) the fact
A long time ago, a teacher was trying desperately hard to enthuse his Form One English class (slower set) about the exciting thriller book they were reading together yet there
Finding Nemo was a hugely popular and successful film, winning an Oscar for the Best Animated Feature in 2003, as it followed the story of “an overprotective clownfish who searches for his
HAVE we ever considered how many orphans there are in the world? One estimate has given the figure of 153 million. That is a frightening, disturbing, alarming figure. Here in
After being taunted and mocked by his opponents, even having his head kicked and his integrity questioned, Michael Oher, in a scene from the film The Blind Side, in the
There is a wonderful cartoon that has one character saying, “Benjamin Disraeli said ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics’” to which another character responds, “Nine
Back in 1970, the American author Richard Bach published the book ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’ that “tells the story of a young seagull who is trying to learn about flying, personal