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“What’s Wrong With Your Dog?”

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  Every time I land in a corner of the internet where no one’s arguing, fighting or calling each other names, I savor it. And the subreddit “What’s Wrong With Your Dog?” is as pure as they can get. Continue scrolling and tell me you’re not feeling calmer with each image. I dare you. #1  The Sad Face He Gives Me When He Can’t Sit In My Lap While I Drive #2  This Feeling #3  She Always Goes Like This When I Take Out The Nail Clipper #4  The Shelter Said She Was Shy And Wouldn’t Want To Be Around Us Much… But This Is What I Wake Up To Every Day #5  Wakes Me At 5am For Her Walk. This Is The Walk #6  How My Dogs Prefer To Nap… #7  He Heard The Treat Bag Open

Girl And Woman Memes

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  Take the Instagram account “Girl and woman memes,” for example. It hasn’t been around for long. The first post on the account appeared in February 2020, but it has already garnered a legion of fans. 152k, to be exact. The reason for this success is simple: people find the content relatable. Apparently, it perfectly describes what it’s like to be a woman in 2021. Continue scrolling and let us know if you agree! #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7

Awkward Texting Scenarios

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  With how much we text on a daily basis, it’s inevitable to encounter an awkward texting conversation now and then. For example, you send your roommate a detailed text about all the cleaning you did last night, asking her to please keep her dogs away from the polished kitchen floors. Her response? “Noted.” Immediately, you panic—thinking your usually verbose roommate is annoyed with you for pointing out all the cleaning you did, or for telling her what to do. But is she annoyed, really? How can you tell? Receiving a one-word reply after you’ve sent a long message doesn’t exactly feel like a good sign, and now the conversation is just . . . awkward. Here are our tips for gracefully navigating some common awkward texting scenarios. 1. When autocorrect leads to an embarrassing typo We’ve all fallen victim to autocorrect. Even though this handy technology is meant to help us, it often messes things up for us, too, from accidental profanities to autocorrects that distort your message. Luck

Romance Novel

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  Moving from academic to romance writing can be a challenge, even for a romance lover. Luckily, many skills necessary for effective academic and non-genre writing are transferable to romance novel writing, though a potential romance novelist needs to remember few specific elements. Even if you already have an inspired idea for a sizzling story, following a few basic steps will help you create your romance novel. 1.  Know Your Subgenre Romance is an enormous genre, so in the beginning stages of the writing process, target a subgenre. Discover what specific subgenre best fits your ideas and begin to shape your novel based on that. For example, historical, paranormal, urban and erotic romance are common romance novel subgenres. An historical romance should give your reader a real sense of place and relevant historical events; a paranormal romance should create conflict around a paranormal element of the story such as a ghost character; an urban romance takes place primarily in a usually

History of the Novel

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  The novel originated in the early 18th century after the Italian word “novella,” which was used for stories in the medieval period. Its identity has evolved and it is now considered to mean a work of prose fiction over 50,000 words. Novels focus on character development more than plot. In any genre, it is the study of the human psyc The Beginning The ancestors of the novel were Elizabethan prose fiction and French heroic romances, which were long narratives about contemporary characters who behaved nobly. The novel came into popular awareness towards the end of the 1700s, due to a growing middle class with more leisure time to read and money to buy books. Public interest in the human character led to the popularity of autobiographies, biographies, journals, diaries and memoirs. English Novels The early English novels concerned themselves with complex, middle-class characters struggling with their morality and circumstances. “Pamela,” a series of fictional letters written in 1741 by S

Write Narratives

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  People tell stories all the time, and many do it successfully without much thought or preparation. Stories become complicated when they are tagged as narratives and broken down into their basic elements. The components of a narrative are tools that help writers develop stories for books, songs, films and other types of expression. Most people instinctively know the basic elements of a narrative from telling their own stories, they just may might not realize how each part works when they sit down to write one. 1.  Narrators All narratives need narrators or people to tell the story. Writers can create narrators who use a first-person voice to explain their role or participation in the events of a story, or to recount their direct observations.The first-person point-of-view generates a sense of immediacy, but first-person narrators can only guess at other characters’ thoughts or motives, or explain them in retrospect. A third-person narrator steps back and tells the story from an omnisc

They’re Old Now

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  So today, we’re diving deep into the world of no illusion, ready to face one fact we all dread (hence the booming skincare industry among millennials!)—we are old. We have a collection of posts to make you feel not just old, but rather ancient. “When you look at kids nowadays and see their music you can’t help but think of how everything is old,” says the group’s description and from what you see below, they ain’t lying. #1  Ah Nostalgia…. #2  Zoom Meetings! #3  The Struggle Is Real #4  I Remember! #5  You Might Be Old… #6  “I Grew Up With No Internet” Starter Pack #7  70’s Kids Checking In

People’s Hearts By Blepping

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To pet owners, their pets are the cutest, smartest and most perfect little creatures they’ve ever seen. They can’t stop taking photos and videos of every single minuscule thing their furry friends do and then they have to show it to others. Even if that thing is not so special or entertaining to anyone except the owner. But there are universal things pets do that steal everyone’s hearts. Like a dog tilting its head or a rabbit eating a carrot that it holds in its hands. Or a cat blepping. Actually, people are so fascinated with cats blepping that a whole subreddit exists that is dedicated solely to pictures of cats sticking their tongues out. #1  Big Surprised Blep! #2  Sweet Old Lady Named Patches, Giving A Blep #3  She Blepped At Me After Biting Me #4  Went To A Cat Café Today And This Fella Blep All The Time #5  Teva’s Bleps Usually Have Some Attitude #6  Baby’s First Blep (Six Days Old) #7  Sassy Blep

Perfect Professional Email

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    For most of us, email is the most common form of business communication so it’s important to get it right. Although emails usually aren’t as formal as letters, they still need to be professional to present a good image of you and your company. Follow these five simple steps to make sure your English emails are perfectly professional. 1.Begin with a greeting Always open your email with a greeting, such as “Dear Lillian”. If your relationship with the reader is formal, use their family name (eg. “Dear Mrs. Price”). If the relationship is more casual, you can simply say, “Hi Kelly ” . If you don’t know the name of the person you are writing to, use: “To whom it may concern” or “Dear Sir/Madam”. 2. Thank the recipient If you are replying to a client’s inquiry, you should begin with a line of thanks. For example, if someone has a question about your company, you can say, “Thank you for contacting ABC Company”. If someone has replied to one of your emails, be sure to say, “Thank you for

Shakespeare’s Plays

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  William Shakespeare is best known for his plays, although he was also an accomplished poet and actor. But when we think about Shakespeare, plays like “Romeo and Juliet,” “Hamlet,” and “Much Ado About Nothing” immediately spring to mind. How Many Plays? A remarkable fact about Shakespeare’s plays is that scholars can’t agree on how many he actually wrote. Thirty-eight plays is the most popular hypothesis, but after many years of wrangling, a little-known play called “Double Falsehood” has now been added to the canon. The main problem is that it is believed that William Shakespeare wrote many of his plays collaboratively. Therefore, it is difficult to identify the content penned by the Bard with any accuracy. What Were Shakespeare’s Plays About? Shakespeare was writing between 1590 and 1613. Many of his early plays were performed at the building that would eventually become the infamous Globe Theatre in 1598. It was here that Shakespeare made his name as a budding young writer and penn

Blues Poem

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  The blues is known traditionally as a style of music played typically in 12 bars, featuring lyrics that highlight pain and suffering. The lyrics of blues songs are often as entertaining as they are tragic, and they tend to replicate poetry more than song lyrics, inspiring a sub-genre of poetry known as the blues poem. Blues poets remain true to the traditional lyrical content and structure of blues songs, while using poetic devices to make the blues lyric a natural for a poetic setting. Step 1 Familiarize yourself with a traditional blues lyric. You’ll see that while sorrow and heartache are staples of blues content, many of the lyrics are humorous. Early blues music often highlighted the troubles in African-American culture. Today, you can apply the blues form to just about any tragic event. Step 2 Choose your subject matter and write down some ideas. Literary devices such as irony, symbolism and metaphor are ideal for blues subject matter. Old blues musicians made use of these devi