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80Ways to make your English major more marketable to businesses
created by http://www.wordle.net/ One of the chief complaints of businesses these days is that the college graduates they hire can't write. Ouch. The larger implication of that statement is that the college graduates can't think, because good...
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86Famous First Sentences: Pride and Prejudice
One of the most famous opening sentences in Western Literature is the crisply arch first statement in Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice (1813): It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in...
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82Dealing With Invisible Disability: But You Look Well!
I'm glad I look well! I'm happy and well-adjusted. I'm enjoying retirement, and am making plans to travel, write, enjoy life, and stay happy. However, I am too young to have retired in the traditional manner, and people assume that I must be...
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77Famous First Sentences: The Great Gatsby
Some novels are itching to be made into movies. Tightly written and deceptively straightforward, The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one such masterpiece. I don't often use that last word -- masterpiece -- but Fitzgerald crafted a...
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81Why Poetry Analysis Matters: Carolyn Forche's The Colonel
I'm always impressed with the impact poetry can have on kids who are sure they won't like it, ever, and any particular poem you ask them to read in class least of all. I always enjoy seeing them dismiss their former reticence as irrelevant (which...
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75The Funniest Joke: Baby Polar Bear
Bill Pugliano, Seattle Times There was a little itty bitty baby Polar Bear, who said to his mother one day, "Mom, am I really a Polar Bear?" His mother laughed and playfully nudged him along with her head. "Of course you're a Polar Bear, sweetie."...
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81Why I'd like to Live at a Medieval Monastery
But let's set aside the fact that I'm female, not even Catholic, and it's the twenty-first century, and consider why a medieval (rather than a modern) European monastery would be an ideal location to live -- nowadays. And with or without the...
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80Ten Reasons to Rent Out Your House and Live in a Camper
the view Ok, so it's not a great photo, but it's a great view of the river, and I didn't want to leave. I reluctantly put my house on the market when I realized I would not have enough income to pay the mortgage; of course, with the current economic...
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75Inexpensive, easy, and healthy breakfast recipes for college students.
Breakfast, I've learned the hard way, is the most important meal of the day. Skipping or skimping on breakfast leads to cravings mid-morning, which on the typical college campus usually can only be fed by vending machine snacks that contain too many...
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74Pins and Needles in a Broken Arm
The two bones of the forearm -- that portion of the arm from elbow to wrist -- are the radius and the ulna. The radius is the inner bone, in line with the thumb, and the ulna is the outer bone. Fractures to...
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