Country's customs I wrote this as homework, my teacher said it could improve but didn't say how to, can you help? All countries have their own group of specific unwritten rules that every local fallows without even knowing about it. In the UK, mainly in London, is very common to talk about the weather on regular conversations but in the USA it could be seen as a small talk topic. One’s perception of reality and its interaction with other individuals may be interpreted as a local culture, or you could say “culture” instead. The country’s culture is something very powerful as it influences the relationship between friends, business acquaintance and even moral standards. Northern hemisphere countries, for instance, have been very close to democracy since before the 18th and today their people have a strong feeling about what is privacy and freedom. In the other hand, countries that have flirted with dictatorship in the last 200 years usually don’t care as much as their upper hemisphere counterpart. You see the former have trouble putting their personal data in the hands of people they don’t fully trust, since that gives power to those unknow forces, but the latter have do not see that as a big issue, thus they accept technological changes more easily. That explains why we see so many digital banks rising in Latin America regard many European cities majorly use local bills. It is very interesting to study how a society works by analysing how its culture have been changing and then, by understanding different realities, we may be able to make our own a little bit better.

What is the meaning of "pride" in this context? "Ma had said women need one another more than they need men, but she never told her how to get inside the pride." Also, is this the same used in Lion King II: Simba's Pride?

Is there any sort of animal called piper? I came across the following passage in a book I'm reading: "The damp sand revealed prints of crabs, herons, and pipers, but no humans." When I googled "piper", all that I've got were people playing pipes... so, if that's an animal, what animal is that?

"Maybe it was mean country, but not an inch was lean." What does this sentence mean? I really don't know what the words "mean country" are meant to mean here. Context: Those looking for serious land moved on, and this infamous marsh became a net, scooping up a mishmash of mutinous sailors, castaways, debtors, and fugitives dodging wars, taxes, or laws that they didn’t take to. The ones malaria didn’t kill or the swamp didn’t swallow bred into a woodsmen tribe of several races and multiple cultures, each of whom could fell a small forest with a hatchet and pack a buck for miles. Like river rats, each had his own territory, yet had to fit into the fringe or simply disappear some day in the swamp. Two hundred years later, they were joined by runaway slaves, who escaped into the marsh and were called maroons, and freed slaves, penniless and beleaguered, who dispersed into the water-land because of scant options. Maybe it was mean country, but not an inch was lean. Layers of life—squiggly sand crabs, mud-waddling crayfish, waterfowl, fish, shrimp...

What is the meaning of "Envelope" in this engineering context? I high cased the term in question to facilitate the work. The Brazilian Technical Regulation for efficiency in public buildings in use is RTQ n° 372, 2010 from Inmetro – National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology. This Regulation has the objective of creating conditions for the labeling of the energy efficiency level of commercial, service and public buildings. It also specifies the classification of the efficiency level of buildings, divided into these three individual systems: ENVELOPE, lighting system and air conditioning system (...) The weights of each individual system are distributed as follows: ENVELOPE (30%), lighting system (30%), and air conditioning system (40%).

What is this exercise asking? My school book is quite something, it gives us exercises without ever giving any theory, we are all lost as to what we're supposed to do here, maybe our English just hasn't reached a good enough level to understand it, so, if you guys could explain the logic behind exercises 3 and 4 so that we can do that on our own, that would be great here's a picture of the exercises: https://imgur.com/a/1dBFn

Cooked dry? He had not looked in the stove, for he knew he wouldn’t be able to stand the sight of the cup cooked dry. Powers, Tim. Last Call (Fault Lines) (p. 36). Orion. Edição do Kindle. Context: The narrator has been talking about how his wife died suddenly and how, since her death he couldn't stand looking at the cup on the stove, which originally had some drink in it... either way question is, does "cooked dry" mean the cup actually overcooked on the stove?

Intentando traducir a mi video. Que tal? Yo estoy haciendo un video en Inglés (para iTalki) y a mi me gustaría hacer los subtítulos en Español, miren. (Subtítulo) De nada sirve que viva como un alumno inútil, junto a este escritorio apagado, entre rocas estériles, el consorte de professores secos, inventando y copiando ensayos arbitrarios para un bando fatigado, que acumula, y duerme, y engorda, y no me ve. Qué pasa, amigos, yo soy Renan, y todas las bromas aparte, esa es mi adulteración del magnífico poema "Ulises", por Lord Tennyson, quise decir con esto, describir cómo nos sentimos la mayoría de nosotros alrededor de nuestros propios maestros y sus respectivas enseñanzas, entonces las cosas van a funcionar un poco diferente si estás dispuesto a seguir mi ejemplo, te enseñaré inglés (o portugués), independientemente de tu nivel, te enseñaré vocabulario y gramática a través de juegos, lecturas, señalando fotos (donde te mostraré fotos y escenas y dime qué está pasando) y, si eso te gusta, trabajaremos con poesía y literatura. Así que chicos, si les interesa un nuevo enfoque para aprender o practicar un idioma, soy su chico, gracias por su atención y espero verte pronto. ____ Original It little profits that an idle student, by this still desk, among these barren crags, matched with listless teachers, I mete and dole unequal essays unto a weary race, that sleep, yawn, slop about and care not for me. Howdy, Renan here, and all jokes aside, that’s my adulteration of the magnificent poem “Ulysses”, by Lord Tennyson, I meant, by this, to portray how most of us feel around our very own teachers and their respective teachings, so things are going to work a little bit different if you’re willing to follow my lead, I’ll be teaching you English (or Portuguese), regardless of your level, I’ll teach you vocabulary and grammar through games, readings, picture pointing (where I’ll show you pictures and scenes and have you tell me what’s going on) and, if that’s of your liking, we’ll work with poetry and literature. So guys, if you’re interested in a new approach to learning or practicing a language, I’m your guy, thanks for watching and I hope to see you soon.