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Modern Disney 2014-2015 (with names)

Anna, Elsa, Rapunzel

Jasmine, Pocahontas, Aurora, Mulan

Snow White, Cinderella, Leia, Nakoma

Merida, Ariel

Tiana and Charlotte

Belle, Kuzco

Alice and Shanti, Tiger Lily and Wendy

Human Nala, Muses, Megara and Jane

Tinkerbell, Kida, Esmeralde

Lilo

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Movie review prep #reference #thinkyoucancritique

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Starting a conversation

i've thought of some cute questions

Sunrise or sunset?

Are you mentally ill?

Are you physically ill?

What is the most expensive thing you have bought?

Do you have a job?

Are you in school?

Are you a dropout?

Are you in college?

Introvert or extrovert?

What do you think when you look at your body?

What have others said when they look at your body?

Do you have a particular song that you feel deeply?

Talk about a time in your life where you have felt most alive?

Are you confident wearing a bikini?

Can you look people in the eyes while talking?

Has anything terrible happened to you?

Has anything wonderful happened to you?

Favorite part of your personality?

Least favorite part of your personality?

Favorite part of your body?

Least favorite part of your body?

Favorite quote?

Do you have friendships with all genders?

Do you have a good relationship with your father?

Do you have a good relationship with your mother?

Do you have a good relationship with your siblings?

Have you ever been hurt physically or mentally by a family member?

Have you ever had a near death experience?

Do you know anyone who has taken their own life?

Have you ever tried to take your own life?

Biggest lie you have told?

Do you follow any conspiracies?

Do you believe in a New World Order?

Do you respect your government and the way your country is run?

Is there currently any strife in your country?

Have you ever been displaced within your country?

Are your friendships healthy?

Are you currently fighting with a friend?

Are you jealous of a friend? Why?

Do you believe in the Illuminati?

Do you think any celebrities are associated with the Illuminati? Who?

How can people tell you are nervous?

How can people tell you are sad?

Do you ever express your true feelings?

Regrets in your life?

Achievements in your life?

What did people say about you in school?

What did you say about people in school?

Is there something you have never told anyone?

Have you committed an illegal act?

If you had two days to spend one million dollars how would you spend it?

What were your aspirations at age 5, 10, 15, 18?

Describe your first kiss? Was it how you imagined?

Growing up were you in a wealthy, average, or low income household?

Are you from a broken marriage?

Have you been raised by a solo parent?

Do you know both your parents?

What colour eyes, hair and skin do you have?

Have you abused drugs or alcohol?

What languages can you speak?

Do you conform to your societies standards?

Do you cry often?

Do you tell people what you think of them?

Are you comfortable accepting compliments?

Are you comfortable giving compliments?

Is any mental illness hindering your life?

Is any physical illness hindering your life?

Do you keep up with current events?

What’s the latest news in the world you have heard/read?

What have you done today?

Do you sleep well?

Do you sleep badly?

Have you ever hurt anyone because you were hurting?

Has anyone ever hurt you because they were hurting?

Have you ever had to end a friendship/relationship? Why?

Have you ever stopped someone from hurting themselves?

Has anyone ever stopped you from hurting yourself?

Do you like your laugh?

Are you preparing for an apocalypse? And what kind?

Do you have any funny family stories?

Are you religious?

Do you like to watch true crime shows or movies?

Are you interested in cults?

Would you like to raise a family in your country?

List some things you wanted in your childhood but never got?

Is there a large age gap between you and a sibling?

Are you from a blended family?

Do you believe in marriage? Why/Why not?

What is the nicest thing anyone has said to you?

Do you keep a journal?

Would anyone be hurt by reading it?

Do you have children?

Have you been pregnant?

List your favorite movies?

List your favorite people?

Talk about the birthmarks and scars on your body?

Do you look after yourself?

Do you put yourself or others first?

Are you happy today?

Are you loved?

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Politics of Men’s Hair in Chinese history

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A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means I survived.

Little Bee by Chris Cleave (via thatkindofwoman)

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A New Perspective of the Day: Understanding Human Lifespan Through the History of the Universe

Prepared to be blown away. In a fascinating attempt at putting our everyday lives in proper perspective, the humor blog Wait But Why compiled a series of timelines growing in scale with each successive period, starting from the last 24 hours to the history of the universe since the Big Bang, which reveal a humbling perspective on just how minuscule our average lifespan is, and even the entire history of humanity itself, in comparison to the enormity of the age of the universe as we know it.

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A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, it is an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history.

Naomi Wolf  (via checkprivilege)

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Formatting your Manuscript

If you’re planning on one day turning your manuscript in to literary agents and publishing houses, you need to make sure it’s formatted correctly. In many cases, your manuscript will be skipped over if it isn’t done to industry standard, so here’s the basics that you’ll need if you don’t want to be ignored. Before I get started, please know that this is aimed specifically at fiction manuscripts. If you’re writing non-fiction or a memoir, the expectations will be different, so it would be wise to Google what you need.

The Basics

Make sure your font is 12 point Times New Roman, Courier New, or Arial. These are the only three fonts you are allowed to pick from.

Your spacing should be 1 inch on all sides of the text. This is the default on most word processors, but double check your settings just to be sure.

Your text should be double spaced.

All of your indentations must be a half inch. Do not press indent. Instead, drag over the top arrow on the ruler to have every new paragraph automatically indent.

The Title Page

The top left-hand corner of your title page will have all your personal information. They want to see your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, the novel’s genre, and word count.

Your novel’s title is allowed to be between 20-24 point font if you want. Bold is also an option, but not necessary.

The title will appear halfway down the title page.

“A novel by [your name]” will be about three quarters of the way down the page.

The Next Pages

If you have a dedication, it will be on its own page.

If you have some sort of verse or quote, those will also need their own pages.

Do not include a page for acknowledgements.

The Chapters

Chapter titles will be 12 point font. No bolding or italics.

Chapters will start from one quarter to halfway down the page.

An easy way to format chapter headings is to press enter five or six times

Make sure you always start your chapters the same way every time.

When you start a new chapter, make sure you use a page break to bump the new chapter onto a new page. This will keep it in place so that it will never budge, no matter how much you cut out or add to the previous chapter.

Page Numbers

Page numbers will start with 1 on Chapter 1 of your manuscript. Page numbers will not appear on the title page or dedication page.

Page 1 will be labeled in the footer of Chapter 1. It should be centered.

Page 2 will be in the header of the next page.

From page 2 onward, your headers will be labeled like this:

If you insert a section break after the title and dedication pages, it will make it easier to insert the page numbers.

For the most part, this is the most important of what you’ll need to know for formatting your manuscript. I used this video as reference, so I’m trusting everything it says is true because it was made by an author who has several novels published, and because it was uploaded this year, it should be up to date.

But just remember, whenever you go to turn in a manuscript, make sure you check the website of the agent or publisher you’re trying to contact. They might have specifications that differ with the ones stated in this video, and you should always do whatever you can to abide by what they want.

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Source

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For years, I opened my 11th-grade U.S. history classes by asking students, “What’s the name of that guy they say discovered America?” A few students might object to the word “discover,” but they all knew the fellow I was talking about. “Christopher Columbus!” several called out in unison.“Right. So who did he find when he came here?” I asked. Usually, a few students would say, “Indians,” but I asked them to be specific: “Which nationality? What are their names?”Silence.In more than 30 years of teaching U.S. history and guest-teaching in others’ classes, I’ve never had a single student say, “Taínos.” How do we explain that? We all know the name of the man who came here from Europe, but none of us knows the name of the people who were here first—and there were hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of them. Why haven’t you heard of them?This ignorance is an artifact of historical silencing—rendering invisible the lives and stories of entire peoples.[…] In an interview with Barbara Miner, included in Rethinking Columbus, Suzan Shown Harjo of the Morning Star Institute, who is Creek and Cheyenne, said: “As Native American peoples in this red quarter of Mother Earth, we have no reason to celebrate an invasion that caused the demise of so many of our people, and is still causing destruction today.” After all, Columbus did not merely “discover,” he took over. He kidnapped Taínos, enslaved them—“Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold,” Columbus wrote—and “punished” them by ordering that their hands be cut off or that they be chased down by vicious attack dogs, if they failed to deliver the quota of gold that Columbus demanded. One eyewitness accompanying Columbus wrote that it “did them great damage, for a dog is the equal of 10 men against the Indians.”Corporate textbooks and children’s biographies of Columbus included none of this and were filled with misinformation and distortion. But the deeper problem was the subtext of the Columbus story: it’s OK for big nations to bully small nations, for white people to dominate people of color, to celebrate the colonialists with no attention paid to the perspectives of the colonized, to view history solely from the standpoint of the winners.

Bill Bigelow, Rethinking Columbus: Towards a True People’s History  (via professorpinka)

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This awesome structure is called Jembatan Akar, which means ‘The Root Bridge.’ The bridge was created by weaving together the roots of living banyan trees on opposite sides of the Bayang River. It is a vital link connecting the residents of two small villages in Pesisir Selatan District, West Sumatra, Indonesia. For over 100 years, villagers from Pulut-pulut and Lubuak Glare have relied on this amazing bridge for trade and maintaining contact with family members. And now it’s also a mainstay tourist attraction for the region, attracting visitors from all over the world.

The Jembatan Akar bridge measures 25 metres (82 ft) long, 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) wide, and sits about 3 metres (9.8 ft) above the river. It began to be formed in 1890 and could be used in 1916. In other words, the process of knitting a root bridge takes approximately 26 years. Currently, conditions are becoming increasingly stronger with the size of the roots of the banyan tree that formed it.

Photos by Robertus Pudyanto.

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Notes to Myself, Richard Diebenkorn

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When I began writing science fiction, when I began reading, heck, I wasn't in any of this stuff I read. The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.

Octavia Butler to The New York Times, 2000

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Science fiction author Octavia Butler. Part of Invisible Universe documentary

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I’ll tell you. If this scene you write turns out not to be the right scene, THE WORLD WILL END in a plague of hissing cockroaches. They will hiss scorn upon you as they swallow you up in a writhing oblivion, leaving only your shoelaces and eyelashes as evidence you even existed. Except not really. Nothing will happen. You will write another scene. And another. And one of them will be right. That’s all. Angst makes it feel very complicated, but it’s not. ONWARD! WRITE! You will find stuff you weren’t looking for. It’s like sofa cushions. Yeah, there’s money there, and the occasional diamond ring, but there’s also a lot of lint, and probably a half-sucked Life Saver or a used Q-tip you’d rather not deal with. But would you let a used Q-tip stand between you and a diamond ring?! Plus which, who knows? You may well find a tiny, mystical medallion in ancient bronze, and have no idea how it came to be there, or what its powers are … and it will light your brain on fire.

Laini Taylor, The world will end if you write the wrong scene (via 1000wordseveryday)