The Money’s Paw The Money’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs Available in the public domain at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ Part I. Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about…
The Goose With the Golden Eggs The Goose With the Golden Eggs Available in the public domain through Gutenberg Project One day a countryman going to the nest of his Goose found there an egg all yellow and glittering. When he took it up it was as heavy as lead and he was going to…
Materialism 1100 Words You Need Materialism 1100 Words You Need /məˈtɪə.ri.ə.lɪ.zəm/ (noun) an obsession with material things and ignoring the spiritual dimension of life, greed, greediness, acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness Materialism is a form of philosophical monism that holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental states…
How much land does a man need? How much land does a man need? An elder sister came to visit her younger sister in the country. The elder was married to a tradesman in town, the younger to a peasant in the village. As the sisters sat over their tea talking, the elder began to…
Cupidity 1100 Words You Need Cupidity 1100 Words You Need /kjuːˈpɪd.ɪ.ti/ (noun) greed for money and possessions, avarice, materialism, rapacity, covetousness, greediness, acquisitiveness, avidity, avariciousness But when I am alone with myself, I have not the courage to think of myself as an artist in the great and ancient sense of the term. Giotto, Titian,…
Envy Envy (noun & verb) /ˈen.vi/ noun: the state of being jealous of others’ success, possessions, etc. – jealousy – resentment – greed – covet – resent: The childless woman was gazing at a mother and her newborn with envy.
Open-ended storytelling on A Night in the Cemetery Open-ended storytelling on A Night in the Cemetery The plot of the story Two old friends, Mike and Richard, bumped into each other after ten years or so in the state of Montana. One decade had changed them dramatically. A sequence of misfortunes had left Mike…
Some challenging questions on avarice for discussion in our conversation class with a comment form and related lessons Why is avarice categorized according to one of the major sins? Describe a person who is avaricious. Discuss some of the problems that may arise on account of being avaricious. How can a person overcome his excessive…