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Tips for Building Connections

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  If you’ve had a professional conference or networking mixer canceled recently, it’s either been converted into a digital event or postponed indefinitely. As shelter-in-place advisories continue, you’ll need to lean into your writing skills to create your own online networking opportunities. Whether you’re preparing a cold introductory email to an esteemed industry expert or direct-messaging a secondary LinkedIn contact for a job referral at their company, there are a few tips to remember. Personalize the subject line When you don’t have an existing relationship with the recipient, an attention-grabbing subject line can avoid having your message deleted outright. This means avoiding vague or spammy subject lines, like “Hi”, “Question for you”, or “I would love to connect”. A strong subject line is short but personal. This is a good place to insert something timely and relevant to the recipient. Example: “I finished your latest book in one sitting” This subject line is relevant to ...

Literary Genres (9): Legend

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  Originated from Latin legendus, legend means “something which ought to be read.” According to J. A. Cuddon, a legend is “a story or narrative that lies somewhere between myth and historical fact and which, as a rule, is about a particular figure or person.” Traditionally, a legend is a narrative that focuses on a historically or geographically specific figure, and describes his exploits. Similar to a myth, a legend can provide an etymological narrative, often filling in historical gaps. Difference Between A Legend and A Myth There are marked differences between a legend and a myth. While legends are made up stories, myths are stories that answer questions about the working of natural phenomenon. Myths are set in olden times, even in pre-historic times. However, legends are stories about people and their actions, or deeds they perform to save their people or nations. The people mentioned in legends might have lived in recent times, or sometime in known history. Legends are told to...

Write an Abstract

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  Many college students complain that they don’t know how to write an abstract of a paper. What should be included in an abstract, and why it is necessary for researchers to write an abstract? What is an abstract? An abstract is a 150- to 250-word paragraph that provides readers with a quick overview of your essay or report and its organization. It should express your thesis (or central idea) and your key points; it should also suggest any implications or applications of the research you discuss in the paper. According to Carole Slade, an abstract is “a concise summary of the entire paper.” The function of an abstract is to describe, not to evaluate or defend, the paper. The abstract should begin with a brief but precise statement of the problem or issue, followed by a description of the research method and design, the major findings, and the conclusions reached. The abstract should contain the most important key words referring to method and content: these facilitate access to the...

Boys and Girls

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  “Boys and Girls” (1964/1968) is a short story by Alice Munro, the Canadian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 which deals with the making of gender roles. The short piece explores gender roles. Whenever the young narrator shares her daily routine farm work with her father, she is taken to be a boy by visitors. She tries to keep away from any work in her mother’s range of tasks because she does not really take any interest in that kind of work. The narrator remembers that by the time she was eleven years old, she was faced with more and more expectations of what a girl should be like and what she should do or not do. Her role in the family began to change, and the narrator concluded by telling the story of an event in which she behaved according to her intuition, is squealed on by her younger brother and subsequently is being assigned the new gender role by her father. The narrator’s last comment reads: ″Maybe it was true.″ [Sec...

Write a Book Review?

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  Are you an avid bookworm who loves to share what you thought of your latest read? Writing a book review is a great way to let fellow readers know about an exciting new page-turner—or give a heads up that a book might not meet expectations. Whether you’re reviewing a book on a site like Goodreads or on your personal blog, you’ll want your review to be informative and helpful for your audience. Read on for our essential tips on how to write an engaging book review. What to Include in Your Book Review Love templates? Here’s what to include in your book review: A Hook Essential Book Information Basic Plot Summary Your Praise and Critique Your Recommendation Your Rating A Hook A “hook” is a line that catches your audience’s attention and piques their interest so they’ll continue reading your review instead of scrolling past it. Your hook could be a compelling or provocative statement: Margaret Atwood’s subversive brilliance shines in new and unexpected ways with this masterpiece. Or e...

Care Less About Your Rules

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  Rules are made to be broken. You’ve probably heard this saying right? It’s the call of the rebel, a belief that rules stifle creativity and progress, that there is a need for boundaries to be pushed. First world anarchists that for a brief moment broke free from the shackles of mundane oppression. Check out the pics below, depicting hilariously brazen examples of malevolent mutiny that are guaranteed to make you chuckle. #1 This Guy Gets It #2 Do Not Flip #3 Cool signature! #4 Firefighters > Cops #5 Things I Hate #6 This Kid Has A Future #7 This Picture Gets It #8 The Guy Who Wore A Pepsi Shirt To The World Of Coca-Cola Museum #9 Too Late #10 True Rebel

Dual societies, Dual economies

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  In reality we can understand what is happening in the underdeveloped countries only when we see that they develop within the framework of the process of dependent production and reproduction. This system is a dependent one because it reproduces a productive system whose development is limited by those world relation which necessarily lead to development of only certain economic sectors, to trade under unequal conditions, to domestic competition with international capital under unequal conditions, to the imposition of relation of super exploitation of the domestic labor force with a view to dividing the economic surplus thus generated between internal and external forces of domination. In reproducing such a productive system and such international relations, the development of dependent capitalism reproduces the factors that prevent it from reaching a nationally and internationally advantageous situation, and thus reproduces backwardness, misery, and social marginalization within ...