#Essays

ANNOUNCEMENT: Sirens at Home will take place online—for free—October 22-25, 2020. While we’ve postponed our “villains” year (featuring Kinitra Brooks, Rin Chupeco, Sarah Gailey, Joamette Gil and Fonda Lee) to
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Have been reading/re-reading MLK speeches and essays recently. He seems both more Christian and more radical than often presented. The "content of my character" passage should not be used to
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TIPS: PHRASES TO MAKE YOUR ESSAYS LONGERA THREAD; • although, though = in spite of the fact that • always = at all times • be able to, can =
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[Advertising Monday] 6 Lessons from Ogilvy on Advertising That SellsDavid Mackenzie Ogilvy is one of the immortals when it comes to advertising.There are so many things he pioneered (e.g. deep
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Gonna post a few things I've been reading/listening to. Last couple of ideas I've picked up are wild. https://americanmind.org/essays/the-clear-pill-part-1-of-5-the-four-stroke-regime/ https://youtu.be/p6LUjUbikkk Moldbug(Yarvi
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I’ve learned a lot while working in & on publications. The 1 thing that stands out is that the legacy media companies have formed a Narrative Distribution MonopolyWe need to
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So, seeing as there seems to be newfound interest in historical and historical fantasies featuring lesbian and queer women, I’m going to recommend a few things that may not be
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Our liberal arts undergraduates do a 6,000 word research project in their final year. This year, instead of assigning a research paper, I allowed one student to do a 6,000
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It appears there are folks out there who’ve read my recent @thedispatch essays on Iran and past articles I have done with the always-scholarly-historically-curious Ray Takeyh who object to our
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CSS is an exam of nerves more than anything so the only advice that I can give is 2 hv faith in yourself. The CSS prep is so nerve wrecking
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I remember way back in 1988, I knew a girl (Kaela Kiernan) getting a PhD in psychology at Yale. She told me everyone was excited by Kahneman et al's Judgement
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TIP: Grad-school essay in 4 actsI review dozens of grad-school essays every year. If you’re writing one, talk about:1. What motivates you2. What has prepared you3. What you hope to
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1/Writing can be a difficult topic for beginners.You do not know initially what to write?What benefits it can have?Once you start, you realize the long path ahead of you.How to
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Apologies for the lack of content on our website during the past month. We, the writers, have been pre-occupied with our personal matters recently that it has made us unable
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I'm interested in how everybody is quoting this now that most people got angry at JKR and are done with her, but not earlier when Le Guin actually said it.https://twitter.com/ldrinkh20/status/1307519066001879040
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why every female rapper gotta be a role model to preschool age girls???? FUCK THEM KIDS you as a parent supposed to regulate what they consume, why are you writing
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