February 2012
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Everyone Should Work A Service Job →
hello-peaches:
By Chelsea Fagan
I have had a job since I was 13 years old. Now, don’t get me wrong, I didn’t do it because I wanted to, or because I had some moral high ground about it, I had little-to-no choice in the matter. My parents forced me, and then finances necessitated it. Being underage (and under my parents’ reign) or in school required, nearly at all times, a job to make my...
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Kurt Vonnegut's Tips for Writing Short Stories: →
tempest-at-noon:
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
Start as close to the end as possible.
Be a Sadist. No...
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“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via venebelle)
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存在の証
When I first started working this little part-time job as a photo specialist, I never knew how unprecedented my access would be to peoples’ lives. Now I’m not talking about creepy-tracking-down-personal-information-stalker status here. I mean how a few photos or even moments in conversation can reveal so much.
A teenager on their love-struck dates and dance nights.
A...
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“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem...”
– Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche (via philphys)
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“If you don’t feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely...”
– Paul F. Davis (via myquotelibrary)
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Girl with a Lesson Plan: Something I don't think... →
girlwithalessonplan:
No. Really. You can’t teach the unwilling.
Here are options in my speech class:
Pick your topic, whatever you want as long as it fits the genre of speech (persuasive, narrative, etc.)
Research it however you want, either with print or web
Show me some progress points as you work
Make whatever kind of visual aid you want
Choose the day you want to give it
I’m here for...
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