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Tattoos are scarcely accepted by society in Japan. For example,  people who have tattoos are often refused admittance to spas and pools. Most Japanese athletes and public service workers don't have tattoos. The reason is because most Yakuza(Japanese mafia) have tattoos, so some Japanese people are afraid of them and dislike them.

I hear that tattoos are accepted by society in Western countries as part of  the fashion and I often see Western countries' athletes who have tattoos.
How much are tatt

My friends, today I will tell you how to use the tenses correctly speaking about the past actions not related to the present and how to use them if some events were in the past, but some of them are taking place now or are expected in the future.

The Sequence of Tenses in a story about the past actions not related to the present.

The first thing you should remember is the following: if you write or say any complex sentence with one or more subordinate clauses, one of the predicates must be in the 

Having a lot of ideas but don’t know how correctly structure them? It sounds familiar to you, doesn’t it? In my opinion, the best solution is outlining because it’s really a great way to put your ideas together effectively. Further, it will save time and give you paper direction.  Here is an excellent online service with fair pricing and only the best results in the end. Writers are well-educated, highly professional and know how to make a research paper winning and top notch. Don’t hesitate, ch

We all want to be happy but unfortunately some people fail, give up, others just complain, however this all is about us, in fact our own attitude matters. We decide, we feel, we try, we succeed!

Just imagine a puzzle – this puzzle is your life and each piece of it is one moment of your life. There are so many little pieces – moments we should enjoy and be happy about them. Our senses, our feelings, emotions they all can talk and we should learn to listen to them and follow them...

Maybe your life

Peppo's sentences written in Danny's grammar lesson motivated me to write this short story.

There is silence, at least for me, though all the cacophony of the traffic and the hullabaloo from the neighbors is coming from outside, but for me, it is silence, because no phone rings though she promised to call me.  Hatred for this device is rising in me, because I can’t hate her, despite her being so rude, so hardhearted.  I wish not to use the phone, not even touch it anymore.  What is the use of thi

Missing You

You are far away ,

But You are too close in mind, in my Heart.

You can't talk to me,

But Your memory can talk to me.

You are Around me,

I am feeling your Hands around me.

I am not alone,

You are with me.

Nobody's love can be equal to your love, 

Nobody can take care of me as You took care of me.

Nobody can replace you,

Though Someone can hold new position at Your place,

But Your place will always be yours in my heart.

For Someone Special, who is not with me, Even not in this World but in My heart

Yes, you may have failed to catch every words uttered by others. That doesn't mean your English is not so fluent - in fact, the speakers, not you, may have failed to clearly or correctly express what they were trying to convey. 

You should let them repeat what they're trying to say if you can't understand what they're saying. What if they know they can't express themselves fluently but you seemd to have understood what was expressed wrong? 

I told a patient that I didn't get what he said this morn

It is often difficult to measure the saturation characteristics of the common-mode coil core (whole or part). Morning fly electrons show that the simplicity of the test can be seen to see how much of the attenuation of the common-mode filter is affected by the amount of inductance reduction caused by the 60Hz programming current. This test requires an oscilloscope and a differential mode suppression network (DMRN). First, monitor the line voltage with an oscilloscope. According to the following

Hello there, Glad to be here among you all English lovers :)
Let's unleash our thoughts, for an idea is one of the most powerful things a human can produce. peace to all.

The following is a (very poor) translation of an Urdu poem I have done on the inspiration from dara's blog "Eyes"

These are roses, these are wine.

They are unique, they are fine.

There is love in them, even the hatred,

Blessings are the eyes, curses are the eyes.

Sometimes they are mischievous

Sometimes they are shy

Sometimes they hide the secrets of heart

Sometimes become the book of heart eyes.

Some feel them deep like lake

Some find mirage, in the eyes

When ‘she’ comes, people say,

Sir, ‘eyes’! Sir,

February 14th is just around the corner. That's right. It's just another day, people! I saw an ad which was so dumb it made me feel sorry for the girl. The girl - a model - tried to simplify the concept of February 14th to the audience. She said, "[...] it's so simple. Give and you shall receive." Wow! Everything is so clear now. Give a diamond, have a ... ya know, it rhymes with DJ.

On Friday's broadcast of "Real Time", Bill Maher said, "... with Valentine's Day coming up; everyone must take a m

I have decided to post this learning blog as I see you have some problems using the present and the future tenses correctly. Speaking about some future actions we often use the present tenses. Let’s consider when and how to use them.

1. If we speak about some future actions taking place on schedule (classes, transport, TV program, holidays, etc.), we use the present simple tense as we have no doubts about any schedule.

His plane arrives at 10 am tomorrow.

The soccer game begins at 7:30.

I teach two

Hi, everyone! It may be the last intermediate test if you do it correctly. I see, you have learned a lot from the previous tests and now you know many things you had a lot of doubts in. It is very good and I am really happy. This test is approximately like Test IX. You know what to do, don’t you?

1. When he came in school, he recalled he didn’t learn what he assigned (4 mistakes).
2. When he solved the problem incorrect, the other student tried to correcting him (4).
3. He said he would sell the old car bef

I was told many times here on EC by people from the different parts of the world something like: "Ohhhh….your life is so beautiful, everything there is so clean, especially your streets, pavements, roads etc." Honestly I was like: "WHATTTT????" I have never been to Asia in my life but yesterday I read an article about trash in Dhaka – capital of Bangladesh and guys, when I saw the pictures, I realized that if somebody lived surrounded by such sorry to say this "shits" of course then they will ad

Have you heard about Jollibee or have you been there? This popular fast food chain in the Philippines hits the Filipino populace with its ever dear burgers and mouth-watering “chicken joy”, a famous fried chicken dish. But this time, it’s not the food that made Filipino crazy about Jollibee, it’s the stories they made for this coming Valentine’s Day entitled “Kwentong Jollibee” (Jollibee’s Stories). To be honest, I’m not a fan of Jollibee but I’ve been there multiple times in favor of my younger

Everybody should have hope in life ! So that, it would keep you standing for a very long time , without hope you would have nothing. Hope is like a star, it disappears during day time and shines in the darkness which would inspire every man on earth to get whatever they want! In this world everybody is not perfect and with hope everybody would become somebody even better ! Without hope there would not be any purpose in life ! So guys always stand with hope to become the better you ! thank you  (

A child’s brain is like a blank sheet of paper.  It creates early impressions on what they observe, and television has the power to influence the perception through how the child sees the world. “…Cartoon Network has found out that in Asia, Filipino children are the most connected with television.”( J. Angelo Racoma). However the aim of this essay is to discus some negative effects of TV programs towards the attitude of children and to give us information on how to teach young adolescence become

The Goal of Education

Education can make us a full man. A man that is knowledgeable enough to know what is important in life, a man that is intelligent enough to understand the different situation in life and a man that has wisdom to change the present life. For me the goal of education is to make us a full man.

When I read the article of Mr. Vicente R. Hao Chin, Jr. “The Goal of Education” there were only three things that came up to my mind. The knowledge, intelligence and wisdom, these were I

This is not your statistical precision of estimates from sample surveys, nor the amount of random sampling error in a survey’s result. This is different and related to things I observed, as I often heard a normal complaint from so many people I know, and somehow I have the same objection deep within my heart. I strongly believe people desire for what is good and striving their best to do good to other people. This is quite sad to tackle but I feel like writing about it so let it be. I don’t want