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#anyway I could write a thesis about this topic and I will be exercising some of that argumentative power on Monday if I have to
edwardtulanepdf · 11 months
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she’s a 10 but she has parasocial relationships with disney characters
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bsdndprplplld · 2 years
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7 III 2023
it's the second week of the semester and I must say that it's easier than I predicted
statistical data analysis is boring but easy, algebra 2 is easy but probably interesting, so is differential geometry
algebraic topology was funny because ⅓ of the group completed the algebraic methods course, so at first we told the professor to skip half of the lecture (we all know the required part of category theory) and then with every new piece of information he would say "ok maybe this will be the first thing today that you don't know", to which we would reply "naaah we've seen this" lmao. but the course overall will be fun and maybe it's even better that the level of difficulty won't be as high as I though, that would leave more time for my other stuff
the tutorial part of number theory was scary, because the professor wanted us to work in pairs. my autistic ass hates working in groups and the noise in the room was unbearable (everyone was talking about the exercises we were given to solve), so I was on the verge of a meltdown after 30 minutes of this despite ANC headphones. next time I will work by myself from the start. maybe without the requirement of communication it won't be as bad. the course itself will be easy, when it comes to the material. I know nothing about number theory, so the novelty will make it more enjoyable. a few people said that they would prefer the tutorial in the standard form, maybe I won't have to worry about surviving it if there are enough people who want to change it
my birthday is tomorrow and as a gift my parents gave me enough money to buy an ipad, I was saving for it since november. for a few days now I've been testing different apps for note taking, pdf readers and other tools useful for studying. I must say, this is a game changer, I absolutely love it
taking notes itself is less comfortable than on an e-ink tablet, which gives very paperlike experience, but it's better than traditional ones. the upside is that I can use different colors and the whole process is less rigid than on an e-ink
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two apps that seem the best for now are MarginNote 3 and GoodNotes
the first one is good for studying something from multiple sources. the app allows to open many pdfs, take pieces from them and then arrange them in a mindmap. it's possible to add handwritten notes, typed notes, photos and probably more that I don't know yet. all of this seems to be particularly useful when studying for exams or in other situations when it's necessary to review a huge chunk of material
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the second app is for regular handwritten notes. it doesn't have any special advantages other than I just like the interface lol what I like about taking notes on ipad is that I can take photos and insert them directly into the notebook, which I can't do on the e-ink. it's great for lectures and classes because I don't usually write everything down (otherwise I can't listen, too busy with writing) and even if I do, I don't trust myself with it so I take photos anyway. being able to merge the photos with notes reduces chaos
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oh god this is going to be a long post! other news from life is that yesterday I had a meeting with my thesis advisor and we finally picked a topic. some time ago he sent me a paper to try and said, very mysteriously, to let him know if it's not too hard before he reveals more details about his idea. the paper is about symmetric bilinear forms on finite abelian groups, pure algebra, and I was supposed to write about algebraic topology, so I tried to search where this topics comes up, but didn't find anything. it turns out that it's used to define some knot invariant, which I would use to write about the classification of singularities of algebraic curves. in the meantime my advisor had another idea, which is an open problem in knot theory. we decided to try the second one, because there is less theory to learn before I could start writing the paper
to summarize what I'm about to do: there is a knot invariant called Jones polynomial, which then inspires a construction of a certain R-module on tangles and the question asks whether that module is free, if so, what is its rank. now I'm reading the book he gave me to learn the basics and I can't wait till I start working on the problem
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meimae · 4 years
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Language Learning Through Immersion: One Year Japanese Update
11/03/2021
I did it, you guys! I’ve successfully reached my very first year of Japanese language immersion! I honestly thought that I would have given up by now, but this really has been a fun and ultimately rewarding endeavor.
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Studying the language has been at the back of my mind for years since elementary school, I just never really knew how to go about it before, and I always thought that I could learn it in a classroom setting someday. That someday for me was in two elective courses in university, and while those were fun as well, it did not give me the same gains that I have achieved in this past year.
It’s probably easier to quantify learning a language in a classroom setting, especially when going through a program to earn a language degree. Learning through immersion, however, I had to really consider what my goals should be on my own. Eventually, I stumbled upon an article saying that for an English speaker, Japanese was exceptionally difficult to learn and that at least 2,200 hours must be spent with the language to reach a certain level of proficiency. So I said to myself, “well okay internet, if you say so!”, and set that as my long term goal going forward.
Spoiler Alert: I did not hit that goal in my first year. I am not crazy and will never listen to Japanese in my sleep regardless of what Khatzumoto (the creator of All Japanese All the Time) says. 
I did, however, hit a total 1,226.65 active immersion hours in my first year, so I guess I’m still a bit nuts. That is 874.96 hours of active listening and 351.69 reading hours. I also did 270.59 hours of passive listening, also known as the time in the very beginning of my immersion where I was using Japanese subtitles (therefore not really concentrating on listening alone). That’s a cumulative 1,497.24 hours spent with Japanese. That’s more than halfway towards my goal! 
To further break that down for curious animanga fans out there, that’s 973 episodes from 109 anime, 765 episodes from 33 dramas, 7 movies, and 967 chapters from 107 volumes of manga (21 series). Here’s my anilist and mydramalist to see what I’ve read/watched.
During all this, I was also doing my daily Anki reps and now I have a 530 day SRS streak (includes the time prior starting immersion and only doing RTK and some vocabulary cards) and a total 8,857 sentence cards. I’ve been averaging 406 cards daily (because I’m trying to cure my leeches) and I spend about an hour per day doing reps and learning new cards. I don’t really track my time on Anki, but I do have a set timer that goes off after 1-1:30 hours.
What I haven’t touched upon at all is output. I have not gone out of my way to find a tutor or a language partner. There’s still plenty of input out there to immerse in before I even consider outputting.
Graphs, stats, and more thoughts:
Here's my current card count in my main deck (minus the cards in my new/learning queue and leeches I've been relearning which are in separate decks):
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That one day in 2019 where I did not do my cards because I was seriously doubting whether I can actually stick with language learning this time around will forever haunt and inspire me to keep going everyday.
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Workflow and Tips
You might be wondering, how do I have a lot of time? I started this whole endeavor in the middle of a pandemic, which eliminated the option of me going to a language school, and a slew of other things I were considering doing last year became impossible (and if anything, very scary to do in a pandemic). All I can say is that, things work out eventually if it is His will, and if I can learn a skill before everything properly settles back down again, then why not? 
I wake up at 5 in the morning everyday to either do my Anki reps or read until the time when I need to get up and I listen to compressed audio throughout the day. The biggest tip is to switch the time you spend watching/reading in your native language to your target language instead. Listen to a podcast during your commute, watch an episode during lunch break, read before going to bed, do your Anki reps in the bathroom if you have to. 
But, if you’re feeling burnt out, there is no reason for you to not take a break! I have been watching a lot of Among Us streams before bed, and I chat with my friends from time to time. Language learning is not a race.
More Stats
Here are a couple of grids of the kanji characters that I have encountered at least once in my immersion and how well I have answered them in my vocabulary/sentence cards.
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It's interesting that after almost 9000 words, I have yet to encounter every single character from the Remembering the Kanji 1 (RTK 1) book by James Heisig, which teaches you the most common use characters that are part of the 常用漢字. Which brings me to the question, was writing down every single character being taught in RTK worth it every time it came up in my reviews for the first 3-ish months I was reviewing them? Maybe, maybe not. It certainly removed my anxiety whenever looking at blocks of text in Japanese, but the longer I think about it, the more I feel I should have switched to Recognition RTK earlier. Still, being able to write in proper stroke order is cool I guess, and it also helps me when looking things up in the dictionary.
Here’s the same grid but in JLPT order:
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I clearly need to grind those N2 and N1 level cards! Speaking of which, I have apparently almost covered every single character that could possibly appear in the JLPT (except for the N1 which I have only covered half of) in just a year's time. If the JLPT word frequency lists I’m using are accurate, I have about 2,000 words more to go to to cover most vocabulary that could appear in the test. This makes the "10,000 sentences/words to fluency" argument a reasonable milestone to aim for for Japanese learners if said aim is only to pass the test. That said, 10,000 words is just that, a milestone. It's more akin to a comfortable level of comprehension, but not my own concept of fluency which is being able to read with ease, speak articulately, and write comfortably.
READING IMMERSION GRAPHS
My biggest motivation for tracking my stats is for the purpose of seeing whether my reading speed is improving over time. Reading speed is also easier to measure than listening comprehension which is kind of subjective, so I had a lot of fun making these. What I found is that for the first volume or chapter of whatever it is I’m reading, I always take the time to get used to the writing style of the author. My speed really improves whenever I keep reading the same topic over and over again. On the other hand and quite obviously, looking up many new words in a row and trying to parse sentences slows me down.
Manga: Reading Speed Progression per Volume
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I clearly love ちはやふる and I am not ashamed to admit it.
I need to start reading longer manga. When I do, I’ll probably split this graph into less than and greater than 20 volumes. Imagine if I start reading something ridiculously long as 名探偵コナン or ワンピース, these graphs will start breaching the bounds of time and space.
Novels: Time Spent Reading per Chapter
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#neverforget the time I read chapter six of Norwegian Wood for 9 hours when it took me less than half that time in English RIP. Also, my interest in Kitchen plummeted LOL. Still planning to finish it don’t worry. 
I also need to start branching away from manga and start reading more novels and light novels, too just so I can make more pretty graphs.
Visual Novels: Time Spent Reading and Daily Word Count
Also known as images that clearly show that I’ve already spent several days only reading the prologue of Island. I’m not sweating. 切那 needs to stop using words I don’t know in succession. More thoughts on this VN far into the future.
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Thoughts on Immersion
I can’t really say anything else other that that it works for me, and needless to say if you’re considering this method, remember that the SRS is your friend but immersion should be your one true love.
Prior to all this, I couldn’t even read a sample paragraph from Genki without being confused to my very soul. Yes, I know, it’s embarrassing, but that’s the truth. I was way more scared of failing my Japanese classes than my actual thesis for my bachelors degree, I kid you not. I would quite literally spend all my free time in university trying to understand grammar, memorize vocabulary, and answer my workbook exercises with little to no success. 
I tried so hard to get all the grammar “formulas” into my head for 1.5 years and it only brought me more confusion. I’m never going back to traditional classroom study for language learning, but I will still refer to grammar books when I need to, and not because I feel like I need to answer 4783342 different workbook exercises like my life depended on it.
I still can’t believe it, but with immersion this statement is actually true to a point, don’t try shadowing anime/or calling your boss anime language slurs, use your common sense:
study anime to understand Japanese > study Japanese to understand anime 
Future Goals/Plans
2,200 immersion hours was my initial goal, but honestly I feel like that number could be much higher. There’s still a lot of stuff I don’t understand (news, politics, sciences, etc.), so I’ll make attempts to cover more of those things in my immersion. 
I’ll continue reading more, because that’s a natural SRS in itself. Try to read longer manga, more novels, visual novels, and light novels, and maybe news articles. 
I’ll try to mine as much “JLPT vocab” as I can before making any attempts at taking the JLPT. I noticed that a lot of the words I know don’t appear in the JLPT word lists as much, even though they appear a lot in media/daily conversation. 
Continue mining all words I don’t know because all words are useful anyway. There is no such thing as useless words. I never really understood mining only “interesting words” or words that “pop up” in your immersion. As I said in my previous blog post, 美人局 is an interesting word and I certainly caught it being said in my immersion, but in the three languages I know, I wouldn’t know when I would be able to use such a word, as compared to something like ジャガイモ which is a significantly less interesting word, but is certainly useful to know. 
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I have managed to talk up a storm, but if you have any questions regarding my process or recommendations for new immersion material, please feel free to send an ask/reply to this post. I love hearing about other people’s language learning/immersion journeys. 
See you on my next post!
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How hard could it be? Part 10
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Part 9
“I don’t know, Lardo, should I ask him?”
Bitty lay on the bed in MooMaw’s small guest room, the lace curtains fluttering at the open window. MooMaw had taken advantage of the nice weather to get into the garden and do some cleaning up.
“You should get some fresh air, too, Dicky,” she said. “We have to stay away from people, but that doesn’t mean you can’t poke your nose out the door. Get some exercise, even.”
“I know,” Bitty told MooMaw. “I have some stuff to take care of on the vlog and then I’ll come out. Save the heavy stuff for me.”
“The day I can’t pull a few weeds …” MooMaw muttered under her breath, but a few peeks out the window showed that she was raking the winter detritus into piles and pruning the annuals, leaving the waste for him to move. The grass was probably ready to be mowed, too.
But he kept staring at the email in the vlog mailbox, the one from jlz1993 who had become his most dedicated correspondent over the last 72 hours.
This time, it wasn’t the picture of the pie that drew his interest, although it was markedly better than the first one. It was the signature at the bottom.
“I mean, Jack Zimmermann has got to be a pretty common name,” Bitty said. “There’s a lawyer in California named Jack Zimmermann, a newspaper columnist in Missouri, a high school swimmer in Ohio …”
“So you’ve at least done a Google search?” Lardo said. “And at the top of the list was Jack Zimmermann, hockey player? Brah, Shits is going to have a fit when he hears about this.”
“You can’t tell him!” Bitty said. “At least not yet. It probably isn’t Jack Zimemrmann the hockey player anyway. He bakes.”
“So what, Bits? You’re a hockey player and you bake,” Lardo said. 
“Not anymore,” Bitty said. “I was a hockey player. Around here I’d be lucky to find a beer league that would take me, once there are beer leagues again. Did you know Chicago has a whole group just for gay hockey players? Anyway, I’m more of a baker who played hockey.”
“You won’t have to live there forever,” Lardo said. “You can come stay with Shitty and me to look for a job when things open up again. You’re welcome to the couch as long as you want it.”
“I know,” Bitty said. “And it was generous of y’all to offer to have me stay when the Haus closed, but Mama and Coach wanted me here, and you know having someone on the couch indefinitely … I didn’t want to be underfoot.”
“I get it, Bits, and it’s good for your MooMaw that you’re there,” Lardo said gently. “You didn’t hurt our feelings. But back to the topic at hand. You can’t say he’s not Jack-Zimmermann-the-hockey-player because he bakes, because you are, or at least were, a hockey player who baked. And you said he didn’t even know how to bake anything the first time he made a pie, which was why it was such a mess.”
“I don’t know, Lardo,” Bitty said. “I can’t really see it, y’know? If he is the Providence Falconers’ Jack Zimmermann, he’s like this amazing athlete in his 20s. Shouldn’t he have better things to do than learn to make pie? Like conditioning and practicing and, I don’t know, playing in video game tournaments? He writes like he’s sixty years old.”
“Dude, you know like Shitty’s a Falconers fan? Because fuck the Bruins. So I’ve seen Zimmermann’s interviews. The guy has zero affect. Like totally flat,” Lardo said. “And he never talks about anything besides hockey.”
“He did talk about hockey in the email,” Bitty said. “But maybe he’s just a fan, and it would be, like, really awkward to ask, ‘Hey, are you Jack Zimmermann the hockey player?’ and have him say, ‘No, I’m an accountant but I coach the house league peewee team at the local rink.’”
“Brah,” Lardo said. “You’re way overthinking this.”
“Lardo, have you seen Jack Zimmermann? The hockey player, I mean?”
“Yes,” Lardo said. “I know he’s like a hockey god or whatever, and if Shitty was gay I’d be a little jealous of how he talks about Zimmermann’s ass. But whether it’s just some guy who likes watching hockey or an NHL star doesn’t matter, Bits. He’s just a person who wants to learn to bake and apparently felt like he could connect with you after watching your YouTube channel. It’s up to you to decide if you want to keep communicating with him or not, and if you do, it’s totally fair to ask for a little more info, given everything he knows about you. Or not, I guess, but it’s your call.”
“I guess,” Bitty said.
“So how’s your thesis going?” Lardo asked, clearly looking for a change of subject.
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matt’s 2019 year in review
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here it is! and it’s late because i had other/better things to do (and procrastinating), was recovering from hangovers (also procrastinating), and recovering from being sick (procrastinating).
i’ve been doing these year in review posts since 2016, so here is my fourth installment. every year i look back through my google calendar, my camera roll, and my bullet journal as a gratitude exercise and to chart my own development as an adult. 
here is my spotify wrapped 2019!
the beginning of this year was off to a good start: i met two friends that i know through the internet! i met my friend riley when she visited boston (i met her through a mutual friend and through overwatch league twitter) and my friend jimmy that i’ve known for…. 6 or 7 years (?!) through tumblr and designed the logo for me and alex’s late podcast, hardly tea, may she rest in peace. 
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i moved dorm rooms in between the fall and spring semester, and once again i was not happy with where i lived. i lived with 4 rando’s that i was placed with and the 5 of us barely even talked with each other. my direct roommate i saw for only two weeks, and for the nights he slept over in the bed (that he was paying room and board for) and had the worst snoring humanly possible that not even earplugs could kill (video below). i hardly slept while he was there and roamed the halls of riverview suites like a ghost due to the anxiety i felt about my lack of sleep (we love a vicious circle)! he disappeared after those two weeks without notice and i lived in fear of him returning for the rest of the semester (which he didn’t), but returned to my normal sleep schedule. 
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that semester was my first semester of full-time grad school. i got a poor grade on an assignment that had a note from the professor that said she knew i could do better and it hit me how much different grad school is from undergrad and how much more effort and dedication it requires. after crying in my professor’s office, my work ethic has improved since then, but it’s not anywhere near where i’d like it to be (more on that later). 
now to more positive things for the spring semester: i met some friends that semester both ~on and offline~ that made the semester far more bearable AND i did however truly pop off in every last one of my powerpoint presentations for class. i looooove making powerpoints and just fuckin telling jokes about my research topic and have ppl tell me that they are looking forward to my presentation & that i should teach college classes :)!
me and 4 friends had a social group in which we’d drink and play board games and forget about the board game and drunkenly talk shit called cabam after all our first initials! i always looked forward to that and dug the group chemistry a lot.
during this semester i grew a   “ beard “, otherwise known as i chose not to shave just to  “ see what would happen “ (praythatitfilledin). sorry about that!
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the overwatch league was something that i had to look forward to watch every week and i had my experience enhanced through sideshow and avast’s unofficial companion streams, which guaranteed lots of laughs. i have bought tickets to two boston home games in 2020 which i am very excited about! analysts have predicted boston to be in 20th place this year (there are 20 teams) but i’m still excited for the 2020 season anyway!!
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i can’t have a year-in-review of 2019 without mentioning game of thrones. due to the show’s final season being undeniably weak, i enjoyed the camaraderie with the other people that watched thrones during those six weeks. i haven’t thought about the show or its universe for quite a while, unfortunately. i truly was quite into the world of westeros, but the weakness of the end of the story cheapened the journey of each of the characters, in a way. such a shame.
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while i got my diploma in december 2018, i walked across the stage of umass lowell’s tsongas arena with my bachelor of arts in psychology (and minor in theatre arts). it wasn’t as emotional or triumphant of an experience and just felt weird, considering i had already gotten my diploma and was going to remain in the clutches of rowdy the riverhawk as i am staying for my masters degree in applied behavior analysis/autism studies. i brought a ceramic monkey to graduation. it didn’t have any symbolism, but i just wanted to see if they’d stop me (which they didn’t)
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 this summer was better than most summers of mine go, i hung out with alex nearly every weekend, got my very first iphone, and got a data plan. the combination of these three things got me back into playing pokemon go, an unexpectedly fun pastime! went on lots of walks!
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my favorite day of summer was going to a lake with alex and our friend gianna, who i grew closer to after meeting her during macbeth last year. fond 2019 memories with gianna include: doing simulation patients with her, watching movies with her and alex, and the halloween party. what a great gd person and a great gd friend! big fan and eternally rooting for her. 
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fire emblem: three houses came out on the switch in august and is, without a doubt, my game of the year. there’s truly so much to love about the game: the world, the characters, new changes made to the series, things that were gone but returned, interesting micromanaging, and best of all, how huge my brain feels when playing it. 
i got a 6-week summer job as a paraprofessional at an extended-school-year program for children with developmental disabilities at a preschool in haverhill which taught me a lot of lessons, such as: i hate cleaning shit off of children.
then i had feelings that didn’t make much sense for about a month! whoops!
my full-time job i currently have is working at my old high school as a behavior specialist. i provide consultation and work on programs to lead to more appropriate behavior in students, primarily ones with developmental disabilities. so far it’s been fairly rewarding, some days are more challenging than others, some days are a lot of sitting in meetings, and some days are a lot of running around. some days there is not much to do at all, which has its obvious upsides and downsides. working at the high school isn’t something that i want to do forever, but it’s a good place to start with. i’m definitely learning a lot and there are a lot of benefits to working here. sometimes i can work on my grad school work (which is all online until the 2020 summer semester) which is definitely huge. and my commute is either a 15 minute walk or 3 minutes if my mom drives me! 
a ~complex~ thing about working in my hometown is that it makes the most financial sense to live at home because it’s so close to work. this is my first time living at home full-time since high school and i’m not enjoying that part too much. most weekends i visit alex in lowell, but being stuck at home with no car (going to retake the license test in the spring when the ice melts!) and having to go to bed so early definitely hurts. sure, i have what is likely the lowest amount of expenses i’ll ever have in my life (no car-related payments, no rent, no groceries), but i feel landlocked. i feel like a teenager with minimal freedom, which is in part because my mom doesn’t quite understand yet that i’m a 22 year-old that should have a lot more freedom than i do now. the most i really do on weekdays after work gets out (2:30p) is go to savers with my mom if it’s tuesday (senior citizen day), maybe go for a walk if it’s nice out (which for most of the school year, it isn’t), or be on the computer watching bon appetit videos and playing overwatch, fire emblem, or pokemon, eat a bland dinner at 6, go to bed at around 9:30. sad! truly not a situation that i want to be trapped in that much that much longer!
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i think the best and most important part of this year was becoming closer with alex. as i mentioned before, we see each other most weekends, to our great benefit. our living situations have flip-flopped, with me living at home and alex living in an apartment near campus, which in both similar and different ways have taken their respective tolls on us. having each other while going through changes and stagnations in our lives has been immeasurably important. thank you alex for providing a place to be myself other than my own head. thank you for being my best friend. 
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now i come to the thing that i’m most excited about for 2020. not 2 suck my own horn but i have cobbled together a fuckin dream team of five friends (me, alex, chris, kelly, and molly). the two times we have all gotten together it has been so satisfying in such a wonderful and otherworldly way that i am filled to the brim of happiness being around them. the craziest thing is that i met chris and kelly through twitter! TWITTER. and they’re real-ass people and my real-ass friends! i haven’t been so pleased with something in my life like this for so long and it feels so good to have adult friends that i have chosen rather than friends by circumstance. it’s truly a crime that we can’t see each other more often, but we already have a day picked out for the next time we all do something together. feeling emotional writing this paragraph bc i love me gd friends so much!
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there is a lot of uncertainty about this new year for me. i sure as fuck don’t want to live at home more than i have to but don’t know where to go, my practicum class starts for me this summer which means i’ll most likely have to change jobs (fine by me, but will be exhausting), i recently began my search for therapists and hope to find one soon to help me ~unpack things~, my thesis begins in the fall semester and i don’t know what to do for it, and i’m not 100% dead-set on working in special education. it’s been hard transitioning from living on campus and going to school full-time to the life i have now. 
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abbybowcutuvu · 5 years
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Epilogue.
STATEMENT
My personal skill as a writer has grown in ways I wasn’t expecting this semester. I have learned to revise effectively and this has subsequently improved my organization and the effectiveness of my arguments. Being able to construct and really effectively tackle a thesis and develop an argument has always been a struggle for me. I still have much room to grow, but in practicing this semester with revising, I have come a long way. 
REFLECTION
Writing is a serious mental exercise. At times, you may not want to start, it can feel overwhelming to make yourself start to think. Really think. When you do start writing and your brain starts making sense of things, compiling and organizing information in your brain, creating, I start to feel alive. It Just like a good cry, or run, it feels amazing when you have finished writing. You have either created something you are proud of or you have learned more about yourself. 
Writing challenges me in ways that I couldn’t have foreseen. There have been times I haven’t wanted to think about certain things; yet, I have explored and worked through those unexpectedly hard and painful thoughts and come out the other side much better for it. I have created more than I thought I could and understood more about topics I hadn’t given a deeper thought to. 
Writing can also be used as a measure of growth. You can look back at who you were and how you thought of things in days past or you can watch as your skills are improving. Revising is an incredibly important aspect of writing, one that gets skipped far too often. I believe revising helps you to see your growth and learn from it. When you spend the extra time figuring out exactly how you want something written and how better you can represent your thoughts, you exercise your brain and grow as a writer. Writing is a skill that has to be learned and practised like any other. Writing courses are essential for everyone to take in order to communicate better and to practice this important skill. Both reading and writing help to literally improve your brain connectivity and improves your intelligence. Writing requires patience, diligence, and determination. Writing courses are among the most valuable and important courses anyone could take. Writing is the most important exercise you could possibly do. 
To whomever would be concerned for me,
I am an avid reader and movie buff. For the out-of-class Tumblr blogs, I chose to write and explore my favorite characters in some of my favorite books and movies. I had chosen carefully those who I wanted to write about. I chose characters from books and movies that I hadn’t seen in a while and it forced me to re-read several books and re-watch several movies. I wanted to really learn about certain characters and understand them in a way I hadn’t before. This class enabled me to look deeper into the novels/movies in a way I hadn’t needed to before. I actually struggled with some of the writings because I had a hard time understanding their motives and desires. It also changed certain perspectives for me. For example: in my writing of Ariane from Love in the Afternoon, I originally thought of the movie as a whole in a different perspective and had planned to write her character analysis in a much more critical way. However, when I took the time to think and write about her, my whole perspective on the movie changed. So while this assignment may not have changed my worldview in a larger sense, it really changed the way I understand and enjoy some of my most beloved fictional characters. It meant a lot to me. 
The opinion pieces were challenging for me. It was hard to write in a voice that was not mine. I write often in more formal ways but to write an informal piece from a different perspective and to an audience I was not familiar was certainly hard for me. This was new territory and something I had never had to do before. It is also something I probably won’t ever have the chance to do again. 
I have always had a hard time writing in less than what is my best work. I have never been able to just write for a grade. I did procrastinate much of the assignments for this class, with the exception of the out-of-class Tumblr project, but even so, I feel I spent the same amount of hours I would have anyway. I didn’t want to turn in work that wasn’t my best. I revised heavily on all the things I turned in and truly feel proud of them. With some of the out-of-class Tumblr ‘comments’ (rather than posts) I felt like I put less effort into them than everything else. I had a hard time truly finding material to engage with and think about in a serious way. 
I spent more time with the writing process than ever before this semester. This class forced me to write four whole drafts of a paper. I have never done that before. I do feel like some of my absolute best work has come from this and will certainly practice writing in this format in the future. I looked back on our ‘best piece of writing’ and then saw how I did on the research project and was astounded at my writing progress. I also applied this to a research paper I had to write for a different class this semester and got a much better grade on it than I would have otherwise. I feel this class has been particularly helpful for me. I was able to practice writing more than I ever have before. It truly is a skill that has to be practiced, and one that is incredibly important. 
Sincerely,
Abigail Bowcut
IN CLASS FREE-WRITE
How the hell do people not know who Bob Dylan is. Wow. He is a living legend. A poet. My favorite of his songs and probably my most favorite song in the world is called to fall in love with you. It is unfinished and I think thats why I love it. It’s magical. The words don’t make sense together but somehow they make more sense than anything. It’s love. Love not rational. Love doesn’t make sense. But somehow when listening to that song I feel love. I feel and relate to Dylan and understand. The fact that it is unfinished leaves so much for the listener to interpret in their own way. To imagine what they wish. I really want to pick up the guitar now. Learn all of his songs. I know most of them by heart already. Bob changes with time, just like any human. He has phases and is imperfect. I see it in your lips, I knew it in your eyes. My favorite line. Human relationships. Knowing someone and desiring to know them more than yourself. The curiosity to dive deep into someone else’s mind.
*Professor commented ‘beautiful’. Very much appreciated.
BEST ESSAY
Toward Understanding the Challenges Adolescents Face Online
https://abbybowcutuvu.tumblr.com/post/189644149484/toward-understanding-the-challenges-adolescents
*In comparison to my best essay written at the end of the semester I found my free write that I wrote at the beginning. How I was able to get my mess of thoughts from what it was to a developed piece I am pretty astounded by. Free writing is new to me and something I will incorporate in the future.
Research Project Free write.
Social media is the absolute worst, most negative, harmful aspect of the internet. The internet is the biggest change to our society to come about in the last century. It has changed our world for the better. For the most part. Science, research, access to information and communication has improved our society and more social change has come about because of the globalization that was made possible by internet. Social media is the exception to the many benefits of the internet. Social media is a disease. It is causing much more harm than good. There are particular social media mediums that are valuable. Forums certain social media outlets do help with social progress. I believe racism, homophobia, and gender issues are generally becoming better and I believe that certain social media’s have contributed to that positive social change. People share ideas and opinions and we learn why our parents are wrong and get new perspectives. However, I still believe there are many many negatives about social media. Particularly Instagram. Instagram is what I believe I will focus on. I want my project to be more specific than attacking social media in general. Instagram’s negatives outweigh the positives. For my project I want to investigate Instagrams negative influence on our youth; though I do believe it to be harmful to us all, the youth are much more susceptible. I want to do research on the psychology aspects. How are youth affected psychologically? Is our youth more depressed and anxious than the youths of previous generations? Are they more self conscious? Are they more or less ‘social’ than they were before instagram? How does looking at these carefully constructed profiles misleading our youth? How does constantly looking at altered photographs of models affecting our youth? Are our youth falling for deceptive instagram advertising? 
BEST BLOG POSTS
Eowyn: Shieldmaiden of Rohan
https://abbybowcutuvu.tumblr.com/post/188851079609/%C3%A9owyn-shieldmaiden-of-rohan-jrr-tolkien-wrote
Konstantin Levin
https://abbybowcutuvu.tumblr.com/post/189048211624/konstantin-levin-in-anna-karenina-is-one-of-my
Lester Burnham: American Beauty 
https://abbybowcutuvu.tumblr.com/post/189048874544/lester-burnham-american-beauty
Words can sometimes be…
https://abbybowcutuvu.tumblr.com/post/187678921274/timbllr-via-weheartit-words-can-sometimes-be
Judy Barton/Madeleine Elster 
https://abbybowcutuvu.tumblr.com/post/187632346389/judy-bartonmadeline-elster
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NMAT results were out yesterday and I finally felt worthy of creating a post about this.
After ALL OF THAT I learned a lesson the hard way: if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
For most people, they will say that NMAT is just one exam and it will not define the kind of doctor you will be. I may share a different view. My last take for NMAT, I drew closure to so many topics that once limited me, lessons that made me question if I was fit to even study my undergraduate course. My last take for NMAT made me develop a certain style of studying, one that involved perseverance, determination, and self-love. It took so much self-care for me to not bang on wrong doors of my brain. I had to constantly fight the thought that I could not waste my chance here-that this was my ultimatum. Tough as it may seem, I subconsciously said that to myself w/o meaning to. It was when I finally cried that I felt better. It was tough because I had to fight the the voice inside my head that keeps on saying ‘some people had it easier’ or the ever famous ‘when will it be my turn?’ conundrum. Honestly, I feel younger now at 22 that when I was at 20 (scared as hell because I don’t know where will I go from my nothingness), for I will never learn the things I had to learn if I continued so fast to be boxed in the four corners of an auditorium.
I will be going to my next destination filled with new found knowledge and resolve. I am with great expectations that this made me stronger and less conscious of the arbitrary time frame I gave myself. I had to grind and till my path just to get here. I hope the fact that I had the courage to keep on trying even if I might get disappointed again will make me even more determined to pursue this ambition. I met so many parts of me that I actually liked.
Anyway, I’m done with my personal stream of consciousness. I only wrote it to be reminded of how bittersweet it felt. If you stuck around, thank you. As a reward, if you’ll take your NMAT next year, here are some of my tips in studying for the exam:
Know your priorities. Ask yourself what is more important right now, my standing in my undergraduate degree, my thesis, my mental health, my current job or acing this exam? Can I do it all simultaneously? Should I take a gap year, take on a sabbatical? Be firm and final with your answer. Stick to it and don’t look back. Once you have finally decided on when is the right time to study…
Study in chunks. Cramming everything may not be the best idea since the exam covers an umbrella of topics that you need to study. Set aside the time you believe you will need to cover a certain topic for the day. It would help to write your agenda for that certain day and again, stick to it.
Active recall. I have been watching about this new technique of studying on YouTube and it works. While studying, write questions that you think is high yield for the topic and then ask yourself those questions once you’re done studying it.
Play on your strengths or focus on your weaknesses? Choose both! Get all your bases covered. After all, at the day of the exam, it will feel very comforting that you are armed with knowledge about all the aspects of the exam. That alone can help give you a better mindset when you’re taking the exam.
Take breaks. The pomodoro technique is a google search away. :)
Choose the environment that you feel will best suit you. Start with yourself. Try to relax your brain, meditate or pray that you will have a peaceful spirit while studying. Wear comfortable clothes. Choose the kind of music that soothes and suits you. Decide the food and drink you want right ahead to keep yourself from decision fatigue.
Find time to exercise. It eases the mind.
Tell yourself you got this. Cry if you must. Be open with your emotions. Embrace them with open arms. Have a stable support system. This is your moon landing.
Hope this helps. There are so many exams one must take to be a full-fledged physician in the Philippines, that’s why it’s important to be gentle with yourself.
“I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.”-Charlotte Eriksson
Written: November 23, 2019
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HERE'S WHAT I JUST REALIZED ABOUT ESSENCE
Every programmer must have seen code that some clever person has made marginally shorter by using dubious programming tricks. Email is not just text; it has structure. But it's remarkable how often there does turn out to be a customer, and since the reply came back through Virtumundo's mail servers it had the most incriminating headers imaginable. A Basic interpreter for the Altair? It's like the hypothetical case of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object—here, an unimaginably inefficient implementation meeting unimaginably great resources. The other two were a notice that something I bought was back-ordered, and a few months later saying This is supposed to double every eighteen months seems likely to run up against a blank wall. He works in a small group perforce, because he either hasn't told anyone else about the idea yet, or it seems so unpromising that no one else is allowed to work on it. Another false positive was from a vice president at Virtumundo. I suspect the stakes get higher as the language gets more powerful.
This was another one lots of people were surprised by that. But spammers haven't yet made a serious effort to spoof statistical filters. No one who has studied the history of computers, but as a model for what programming is tending to become in our own time. I mean software in the general sense: i. You can shift into a different mode of working. One thing is certain: the question is a complex one. Here are the alternatives considered if the filter sees FREE!
Mostly because they're optimistic by nature. Distractions are bad for many types of work, but especially bad for programming, because programmers tend to operate at the limit of the detail they can handle. But knowing how it's really done should at least help you to understand the essence of Lisp—is that it can be written in terms of these fundamental operators. When you do this right, you only have to get a cup of tea. Immediately Alien Studies would become the most dynamic field of scholarship: instead of painstakingly discovering things for ourselves, we could all probably move on to working on something else. If this were true, Yahoo would be first in line to buy Suns; but when I worked there, the servers were all Intel boxes running FreeBSD. The Defense Department is encouraging developers to use Java.
If you have the resources, it's more efficient to work in a few long sessions than many short ones. What about angels? How many programming languages will there be in a hundred years is so that I know what is meant by readability, and I tend to conclude with a few vague questions and then drift off to get a tiny bit less occasional to compensate for a 2x decrease in the stock sold in series A rounds creep inexorably downward. We do this with YC itself. There are certainly some political questions that have definite answers, like how much a new government policy will cost. We're not depending just on technical tricks. Steven Wolfram for reading drafts of this. What they'll say is that they don't get it till it happens. You can shift into a different mode of working. So the smaller the number of big hits is the number of programmers, the more of your application you can push down into a language for writing that type of application, the more of your software will be reusable. I look for probabilities for Subject free, free! These get through because I'm a programmer too, and the language wouldn't let you express it the way you planned to.
It's worth understanding what McCarthy discovered. Aiming for succinctness seems a good way to find new ideas. One way to deal with this is to treat individuals as interchangeable parts. A Plan for Spam filter wouldn't have caught it. I don't expect to. This is not too high a price for big companies not even to try to figure something out. If you use all the tokens, meaning those with probabilities far from. I am interested in the question of whether a company was a real startup. When you are designing a new language, you're constantly comparing two languages—the kind where, by spending more, we can get simpler designs. When I say Java won't turn out to be a useful exercise to look closely at the core of a language is to be good to think in rather than just to tell a computer what to do directly in machine language. As turned into de facto series B rounds.
I know what branch of the tree to bet on now. Large organizations have different aims from hackers. For example, a language that talks down to them. This is why hackers worry. 10 in speed. I look at a, img, and font tags, and ignore the rest. So if there are more of those to be had each year, the best way to get fast applications is to write compilers that generate fast code. Now that I've had a few, I'm relieved to find they're not as bad as I feared.
So readability-per-line probably is for the programmer. How much confidence can you really have in financial models for something like that anyway?1 We did it in Arc, and it hasn't affected programming practice much so far. Even if they only end up being a paltry million times faster, that should change the ground rules for programming languages substantially. 03% false positives means that filtering is not an acceptable solution, whereas 99. We learned this lesson a long time that I'm pathologically observant. It started decades ago, and it's hard to say whether they're spam or not, and these are the ones you end up looking at when you get filters really tight. But we still only have about 8,000 uniques a day. What should you think about a lot. I know what branch of the tree to bet on as t approaches infinity.
Exclamation points are constituent characters, and everything else is a token separator. What's different about religion is that people don't realize how hard it is to load and keep in your head, it may be better to think of your initial version not as a product, but as a model for what programming is tending to become in our own time. Hacking is something you write to try to recast one's work as a single thesis. It's a straight text classification problem. Which means that once trolling takes hold, it tends to become the dominant culture. A rounds for as much equity as founders want to sell and with no option pool that comes only from the founders' shares stands to reap huge benefits. The topic sentence is your thesis, chosen in advance, the supporting paragraphs the blows you strike in the conflict, and the difference is embodied in the name. In those days, you couldn't tell a book by its cover originated in the times when books were sold in plain cardboard covers, to be bound by each purchaser according to his own taste. And yet, as I used to calculate probabilities for tokens, both would have the same spam probability, the threshold of. One founder was surprised by how long everything can take.
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Letter to Oldenburg, quoted in Westfall, Richard and David Whitehouse, Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Imagination by Hilbert and Cohn-Vossen. What people who run them would be more likely to be good? In one way in which YC can help, the higher the walls become.
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The nephilim and Team Free Will: future and determinism
This is a post that started out as an analysis of the scenes where Kelly’s and Cas’ eyes glow golden with the power of the nephilim, and ended up a long longer than I planned. My argument is that the nephilim is the new agent of determinism in the show, and somehow I accidentally ended up drawing the conclusion of romantic Destiel. I never do it on purpose but it always happens. (It’s not a post about Destiel. It’s a post about free will and destiny. Go figure.)
Please read this, it took hours to write and I should be writing my thesis instead.
The starting point of my reflection is: is the nephilim exercising a form of mind control over Kelly and Cas? My answer is yes and no. I mean - in the substance, it’s something like that. But I think it comes from a different place than ‘mind control’, and has larger implications in the context of the show.
The nephilim and Cas: is the baby specifically interested in Cas?
Let’s start from the instances we see the baby actively doing something. We don’t know if the nephilim somehow knows what he’s doing and is acting rationally (at least in some degree) or is just a baby and is acting instinctively like a normal baby would, except that has more power than the average baby so he ends up making complex things because of what he is. I hope it’s the second, because the storyline seems to be about “what do we do with an innocent baby” and if the baby had some kind of rational awareness of the situation, then it wouldn’t be an innocent baby? But let’s get back to the “glowy eyes” situations.
We see eyes glow gold twice in the episode. The first time, it’s Kelly alone, while Cas is touching her belly in the motel room. She has a vision - she sees the sandbox, Cas acting as her protector, and Dagon burning. 
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In the motel room, Kelly and Cas are talking about the possibility that the kid could be born and not be evil, and Cas wonders who could protect and raise him so that he stays on the right path. Then the baby kicks - almost drawing attention on himself in that moment. Coincidence? Kelly says he does it 20 times a day so maybe it is. Maybe the baby is reacting to Cas’ words (again, not sure how much awareness/rationality the baby has).
Now, an important detail: Kelly asks Cas if he wants to touch her belly, he says no, she takes his hand and places on her belly anyway. Is that the baby making her do that? It’s possible, not necessary. Again, maybe all pregnant people get enthusiastic about their baby kicking and make everyone feel it because they’re so excited about it. Maybe the nephilim wants to get in physical contact with Cas. We don’t know where it comes from - Kelly trusts Cas so the baby trusts him too? The baby trusts Cas so Kelly trusts him too? Again, the issue of Kelly’s agency is a mystery…
Thing is - while Cas is touching Kelly’s stomach, the nephilim does something. Notice how the second time the nephilim acts, Kelly and Cas are also touching, and Kelly also initiates it by taking Cas’ hand. The second time, in my opinion, it feels a little more clear that it’s not just Kelly seeking Cas’ touch, but she does it intentionally because she somehow knows/feels/sense she needs to do that for the baby to intervene. Maybe it’s just my feeling.
Now, given that we don’t really know how much of Kelly’s actions are Kelly’s choices and how much are the baby influencing her - especially after the baby revives her, which seems to be a turning point in the relationship between mother and child - it seems that there is something about Cas in the baby’s interventions. The vision the baby shows Kelly includes Cas protecting her, and when they reach the sandbox, she says she’s calm because she knows she won’t be harmed as long as Cas is with her. It seems like the baby is making her trust Cas. (More about the vision later.)
Maybe it’s not about Cas specifically, but it’s about angels/angel grace. Maybe the baby, being just a baby, can’t use his own grace yet to do things, so maybe he needs contact with a proper angel to act (the glowy-eyes thing happens only when Cas and Kelly are touching). Also, the baby doesn’t give Kelly the power to kill Dagon, but Cas, so maybe a human just can’t have that power so the baby just needs an angel to get rid of Dagon (“why seeking Cas and killing Dagon and not the other way round” is a good question, too… the baby is influenced by Kelly’s feelings? The baby senses that Dagon is bad and Cas is good? Is this about Lucifer?)
Anyway, I was saying - maybe it’s not Cas specifically that the baby is attracted to, but just “angelicness”. But maybe not. When Lucifer learns his son is close to Castiel, he has an interesting reaction. He is furious. He drops the ‘I’m in control’ act, he’s no longer confident and cocky like we’ve seen him act - it’s almost like he is scared that Cas could throw a spanner in his work again. Which leads us to the big topic - free will and destiny.
The nephilim and the future: destiny and Lucifer’s plans
The episode basically tells us what the nephilim storyline is about: it’s the ultimate test for Team Free Will’s struggle for free will. It’s not a coincidence the expression Team Free Will gets used (obviously by Dean…) - it’s all about it. I am so full of feels, you have no idea.
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Gaaah I’d scream. Ever since Lucifer got Kelly pregnant, we’ve been wondering, how is this baby so different than the other nephilim we saw in 8x22? Why is it so dangerous? The show told us that the problem wasn’t that it was a nephilim, but that it was a nephilim conceived by an archangel. Mmm, sure I guess, we said. We didn’t realize that it wasn’t just a matter of “my dad is more powerful than your dad”. It’s about destiny.
The archangels, back in season 5 and 6 (so and read @mittensmorgul‘s rewatch posts - she recently did My Heart Will Go On, hello themes, but hey, each episode carries these themes), were the ultimate agents of fate. Sure, the angels in general were/are supposed to be, but the archangels are a step higher. Destiny was their thing.
This episode, Cas tells Kelly that Lucifer only seeks havoc and chaos, that he does not have a plan. It sounds like a huge bell that it is not the case. Lucifer’s issue is that, once the script of the apocalypse was ripped, he found himself lost. He needs some kind of fate to grasp onto.
Producing a baby seemed like some random action for chaos’ sake… until we learned that the baby shows the future.
The baby shows the future twice - once to Kelly, in the motel room, once to Cas in the park. We don’t know what he showed Cas yet, but we know what he showed Kelly. The sandbox, Cas protecting her, and Dagon burning. Right after then, Dean and Sam arrive and suggest removing the grace from the baby, but Kelly immediately refuses and is firmly determined to go to the sandbox. Which the baby had just shown her. That’s why I don’t think it’s simply mind control - it’s determinism. She sees the future and she acts it out; she acts so that it happens. What if she had acted otherwise? Would they have ended up to the sandbox anyway? Can you change the future an archangel nephilim shows you? How? Is the “future” thing just an illusion, a way to make Kelly and Cas act like the baby wants them to? Is free will just an illusion, like Michael said, and the question makes no sense? Does the nephilim have the power to shape reality so that what he shows happens?
Either way, the nephilim is shown to be about determinism. Destiny. Fate. A “plan” - a word used over and over in the episode.
(Sure, it might just be a different way to call mind control, if we want - we could say that the apocalypse was just the result of a giant operation of persuasion of various angels and demons by god, but hey.)
The nephilim as the new prophet of destiny, and how to let free will win
So. The nephilim is about determinism. We thought the equivalent of Chuck’s books and Metatron’s typewritten stories was the British Men of Letters’ typewritten documents. But maybe we were tricked. We saw a typewriter, thought ‘new Metatron!’ and fell for the trick - it’s not the British Men of Letters who are shaping reality, not in its core. They act like that, but all they’re doing is making a mess with monsters and hunters. It’s almost like Eve and Cas in season 6 - we thought the Big Thing was the monsters storyline, but it was the storyline of Cas’ fight to prevent Raphael from making determinism win again and its consequences. (This season is all about how the Eve storyline and the Cas storyline intertwined in season 6, after all. Hi Colt. Bye Colt.)
This season, the one who is shaping reality is the nephilim, through the visions of the future he’s sending people. The apocalypse didn’t spring from the books, didn’t it? The books came second, Chuck’s visions came first. God showed himself the future. Now the baby is showing Cas the future. Will Cas be able to rebel to it like he did when the visions were from god and to god? Or is it going to be harder for him if the visions come to him?
Has Lucifer purposely produced an archangel baby so that a new pattern of fate could befall the universe? Is Lucifer so furious about Cas being close to the baby because he’s scared that Cas will ruin his plan again because he knows that if someone can defeat that, it’s Cas and the Winchesters?
Dean says that the three of them - Team Free Will - can win together. The apocalypse failed because they worked together (Zachariah’s lesson, remember? Dean learnt the “wrong” lesson from him, i.e. reconnecting with Sam, and Cas wasn’t going anywhere). Metatron was defeated because they worked together (long story here, but Metatron’s plan was based on splitting them - Gadreel, the Mark of Cain… - and it didn’t work). Now it looks like the nephilim is separating them… in a very specific manner. Now that I think about it, Zachariah planned on separating Sam from Dean and Cas. Metatron planned on separating Dean from Sam and Cas (Demon Dean being the consequence of the events written by Metatron, up to Metatron actively stabbing Dean; Amara ‘seducing’ him being the continuation of that chain of events). Now the nephilim is separating Cas from Dean and Sam.
Now, what allowed them to win against the archangels’ apocalypse and the events manipulated by Metatron (i.e. the events of the Carver era ever since Metatron makes his move, even though at some point he loses control of the story)? First time: family love. The apocalypse gets stopped by Dean and Sam’s bond. “They chose family” says Chuck. Dean, Sam, Bobby, Cas were all tied by generic ‘family’ bonds. Second time: ���love… and love”. The Carver era culminates with Dean telling Amara about the difference between romantic love and sibling love. We get told - throughout the seasons by the subtext, and eventually textually in relation to Dean, Amara and Chuck - that there’s a difference. Third time: ??? It’s almost like there is a pattern and the patterns leads to romantic love being the key to winning this time??? Let me take out my popcorn.
I mean, this episode is literally called “the future” and it deals with two things: Dean and Cas’ relationship and the nephilim. It’s not like we have seasons of subtext, text and mixtures of the two that tells us that a romantic relationship between Dean and Cas is their endgame, i.e. their future. The episode is asking us to wonder: what’s the future for Cas? The nephilim or Dean? Determinism or free will? “Supernaturality” or humanity? Mmm. Who knows. *starts munching the popcorn*
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IELTS Writing Task 2: How to write an Introduction
IELTS Writing Task 2: How to write an Introduction
Hello in this article I'm going to show you how to write an introduction paragraph for your IELTS writing task 2 essay.
IELTS Writing Task 2
The best way to improve health is to do regular exercise. To what extent do you agree?
Let’s first look at the statement now I also have given us this, which is the best way, is a method it's a solution and it's a solution to improving health, so our essay is all about improving health and their solution. Their best solution is to do regular exercise so that is what IELTS have said that's the statement and we have to give our opinion to what extent do you agree. Now, what does this mean “to what extent” well that means “how much do you agree”. you don't need to agree or disagree you can't need to think about it and think do you agree with all the sentence is there something you don't agree with do you agree with most of it so that's how you analyze it.
Let’s have a look at what information we need to put in our introduction. For many academic essays, there are three parts to the introduction.
General Statement/Hook Statement
Background Statement
Thesis Statement
Let’s look at each part of this
General Statement/Hook Statement – A hook is a center that has lots of interest in it so that immediately the reader wants to continue and we use that in many essays, but do we use it for IELTS essays the answer is no. We don't need it and let me explain why.
The examiner is not looking for interesting ideas as interest is not assessed in your IELTS essay. So, if your introduction is interesting or boring, it makes no difference.
Another reason that you don't need the hook and that is you don't have much time as you have a total of 40 minutes and in those 40 minutes, you need to analyze the statement, plan your essay and at the end of your essay when you finish, you need to check it. So, really you only have about 35 minutes to write that essay and there is not enough time to worry about having a hook that the examiner doesn't want anyway so forget the hook.
Paraphrased Statement/Background statement – The background statement the back row statement basically “The best way to improve health is to do regular exercise” is this statement paraphrased, so I'll just put here paraphrase the statement. IELTS gives you a statement and you need to paraphrase it, which means you need to write it again with the same meaning, but use your own language. I know that many students think they can just copy that, but that will not help you for your essay if you copy those words as they are not yours and the examiner will not take them. So, please don't copy the sentence, just paraphrase it.
Thesis statement – The thesis statement is your answer so how much do you agree, you need to answer that.
It is an introduction to your ideas. We’ve got two parts to the introduction we've got paraphrasing the statement and giving our answer introducing our ideas so just those two parts.
In this article, I'm going to show you how to write them. Let’s start with the background statement. We need to paraphrase this sentence “The best way to improve health is to do regular exercise”.
Here now they start with the best way and we need to paraphrase that well the word way is a solution. It’s a method, so solution or method you could use both words. I'm going to use method. The best another way to say that the most effective method.
The next one to improve health, we need to paraphrase that a little bit. Health we cannot improve, but we could paraphrase the word improve. So, the most effective method in developing and improving health. Let’s just see what I've done here.
I've added an extra word and I've added this to show IELTS that I can paraphrase and I understand the meaning. I've added this word because I still like it. I still think, it's a very good word to use for this sentence, but they say improve and I say improving. This is also paraphrasing as I'm using the same word, but a different form of the word .So, I've taken the word and I've changed it a little bit. This is very good for IELTS, so it means you don't have to change the word completely as you can just change the form of the word. The most effective method in developing and improving health.
We need the next bit. They say is to do I will say is considered to be. It’s considered to be, so I've changed this part for considered to be and now we've got regular exercise. Now exercises I want to keep as I don't want to use sport because Sport and Exercise are not really the same thing. Sport is a game often it involves a team and it involves equipment. Exercise is something you can do on your own, so it's not a game it's just some movements, so I want to keep the word exercise, but that means I want to change the word regular. So, I could say daily it's not exactly the same, but it's more or less the same. I could say frequent that's quite similar, but for this essay, I'm going to say daily as it's considered to be daily exercise. Now I have finished my background statement.
So, this sentence - The best way to improve health is to do regular exercise and this sentence - the most effective method in developing and improving health is considered to be daily exercise has the same meaning, but I've used different words as I've altered it and this is my Background/Paraphrased statement to start my IELTS essay.
Let’s have a look now at writing the Thesis statement this is probably a little bit more difficult, so how do we start the Thesis statement? Well our Thesis statement, do you remember it's our answer and the question is to what extent do you agree? This question is asking for my opinion now the examiner is looking for your answer, so I want to show the examiner my answer and I want to help him or her find it easily and to do that, we can say in my opinion. Now when we start the Thesis statement with (in my opinion) for that question. It means that the examiner can see that find the answer that's great. That is a good organized logical academic essay for IELTS. So, in my opinion now do we agree or disagree well I want to agree. I really think that exercise is the most important way to gaining health. I really believe that I think maybe there are other ways there are more things, we can do, but I think exercise is very important so I'm going to agree so in my opinion I agree that exercise is the key to have. That is nice and clear very clear answer, but do I want to stop here my thesis statement is also a chance for me to introduce my ideas. Now am I going to write an essay that is only about exercise? Well to be honest, I don't want to write more than 250 words only about exercise as it's very useful to have some more relevant, but different ideas. So, I'm going to add a little bit more to this essay and I'm going to say. However, I believe that diet is important so by doing this, I have introduced a new solution to health and that is diet. I'm not saying it's the key as it's not the most effective, but it is important, so I agree that exercise is the key but I also think that diet that means what we eat is important. Now you can see that I have written two sentences for my Thesis statement, it is possible to have two sentences or you could have one and you could link these together in a better way that's up to you right well.
Let’s have a look at the whole introduction together and here is the finished introduction the background and the thesis statement together.
The most effective method to developing an improving health is considered to be daily exercise. In my opinion, I agree that exercise is the key to health, however I also believe that diet is important.
Now let me give you some tips so that you can practice writing your introduction at home. The Background/Paraphrased statement this should have the same meaning as the statement given by IELTS. Do not copy the IELTS statement as you need to paraphrase it to use different language with the same meaning.
So, for example IELTS said the best way and we say the most effective method. You don't need to change the words fully. For example IELTS say improve and I have written improving. You can keep the word and change the form of the word for the Thesis statement that is your answer and an introduction to your ideas. It is an agree and disagree essay that means an opinion essay and I have put in my opinion so that the examiner can find it quickly and easily. That is the key to a good academic and logical organized essay to read. My answer is clear as I agree that exercise is the key. You can see another paraphrase the most effective way and the key. Lots of paraphrasing and I have also added another solution so that I can have different main points, so I've added about diet now my Thesis statement has two sentences that's fine, but if you want to connect it and make one long complex sentence, you can change this part and connect them together. That’s your background on your thesis statement.
How many words does your introduction need to be? How long should the introduction? This is about 35 words and that's fine as usually your introduction for IELTS will be between 35 and 50 words. I don't really recommend that you write more than 50 words or 50 to 55. Don’t go further because you don't have a lot of time and you must arrive quickly to the body paragraphs and you need time to write the body paragraphs to develop the idea to support the ideas, so don't spend too long on the introduction.
Now if you found this article useful please share it with your friends that would be wonderful. I hope you will practice writing the introduction at home make sure that you practice the background statement. It’s the easiest part of the whole IELTS. I think just paraphrase the statement and you can practice. If you don't have many IELTS essay titles, please visit my blog I have more than 100 for you to practice my blog is https://www.ieltsofficialblog.in.
The thesis statement is more difficult to write because you need your answer ready and you need your ideas ready so you need to look at the essay title. Plan your answer and practice giving your answer clearly.
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44 Writing Hacks From Some of the Greatest Writers Who Ever Lived
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44 Writing Hacks From Some of the Greatest Writers Who Ever Lived
Writing looks fun, but doing it professionally is hard. Like really hard. Why on earth am I doing this?-hard.
Which is probably why so many people want to write, yet so few actually do. But there are ways to make it easier, as many writers can tell you. Tricks that have been discovered over the centuries to help with this difficult craft.
In another industry, these tricks would be considered trade secrets. But writers are generous and they love to share (often in books about writing). They explain their own strategies for how to deal with writers block to how to make sure your computer never eats your manuscript. They give away this hard-won knowledge so that other aspiring writers wont have to struggle in the same way. Over my career, Ive tried to collect these little bits of wisdom in my commonplace book (also a writers trick which I picked up from Montaigne) and am grateful for the guidance theyve provided.
Below, Ive shared a collection of writing hacks from some amazing writers like Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, Stephen King, Elizabeth Gilbert, Anne Lamott, and Raymond Chandler. I hope its not too presumptuous but I snuck in a few of my own too (not that I think Im anywhere near as good as them).
Anyway, heres to making this tough job a tiny bit easier!
[*] When you have an idea for an article or a bookwrite it down. Dont let it float around in your head. Thats a recipe for losing it. As Beethoven is reported to have said, If I don’t write it down immediately I forget it right away. If I put it into a sketchbook I never forget it, and I never have to look it up again.
[*] The important thing is to start. At the end of John Fantes book Dreams from Bunker Hill, the character, a writer, reminds himself that if he can write one great line, he can write two and if he can write two he can write three, and if he can write three, he can write forever. He pauses. Even that seemed insurmountable. So he types out four lines from one of his favorite poems. What the hell, he says, a man has to start someplace.
[*] In fact, a lot of writers use that last technique. In Tobias Wolffs autobiographical novel Old School, the character types the passages from his favorite books just to know what it feels like to have those words flow through his fingertips. Hunter S. Thompson often did the same thing. This is another reason why technologies like ebooks and Evernote are inferior to physical interaction. Just highlighting something and saving it to a computer? Theres no tactile memory there.
[*] The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. Samuel Johnson
[*] Tim Ferriss has said that the goal for a productive writing life is two crappy pages a day. Just enough to make progress, not too ambitious to be intimidating.
[*] They say breakfast (protein) in the morning helps brain function. But in my experience, thats a trade-off with waking up and getting started right away. Apparently Kurt Vonnegut only ate after he worked for 2 hours. Maybe he felt like after that hed earned food.
[*] Michael Malice has advised dont edit while you write. I think this is good advice.
[*] In addition to making a distinction between editing and writing, Robert Greene advises to make an equally important distinction between research and writing. Trying to find where youre going while youre doing it is begging to get horribly lost. Writing is easier when the research is done and the framework has been laid out.
[*] Nassim Taleb wrote in Antifragile that every sentence in the book was a derivation, an application or an interpretation of the short maxim he opened with. THAT is why you want to get your thesis down and perfect. It makes the whole book/essay easier.
[*] Break big projects down into small, discrete chunks. As I am writing a book, I create a separate document for each chapter, as I am writing them. Its only later when I have gotten to the end that these chapters are combined into a single file. Why? The same reason it feels easier to swim seven sets of ten laps, than to swim a mile. Breaking it up into pieces makes it seem more achievable. The other benefit in writing? It creates a sense that each piece must stand on its own.
[*] Embrace what the strategist and theorist John Boyd called the draw-down period. Take a break right before you start. To think, to reflect, to doubt.
[*] On being a writer: All the days of his life he should be reading as faithfully as his partaking of food; reading, watching, listening. John Fante
[*] Dont get caught up with pesky details. When I am writing a draft, I try not to be concerned with exact dates, facts or figures. If I remember that a study conducted by INSERT UNIVERSITY found that XX% of businesses fail in the first FIVE/SIX? months, thats what I write (exactly like that). If I am writing that on June XX, 19XX Ronald Reagan gave his famous Tear Down This Wall speech in Berlin in front of XX,XXX people, thats how its going to look. Momentum is the most important thing in writing, so Ill fill the details in later. I just need to get the sentences down first. “Get through a draft as quickly as possible.” is how Joshua Wolf Shenk put it.
[*] Raymond Chandler had a trick of using small pieces of paper so he would never be afraid to start over. Also with only 12-15 lines per page, it forced economy of thought and actionwhich is why his stuff is so readable.
[*] In The Artists Way, Julia Cameron reminds us that our morning pages and our journaling dont count as writing. Just as walking doesnt count as exercise, this is just priming the pumpits a meditative experience. Make sure you treat it as such.
[*] Steven Pressfield said that he used to save each one of his manuscripts on a disk that hed keep in the glovebox of his car. Robert Greene told me he sometimes puts a copy of his manuscript in the trunk of his car just in case. I bought a fireproof gun safe and keep my stuff in therejust in case.
[*] My editor Niki Papadopoulos at Penguin: Its not what a book is. Its what a book does.
[*] While you are writing, read things totally unrelated to what youre writing. Youll be amazed at the totally unexpected connections youll make or strange things youll discover. As Shelby Foote put it in an interview with The Paris Review: I cant begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else.
[*] Writing requires what Cal Newport calls deep workperiods of long, uninterrupted focus and creativity. If you dont give yourself enough of this time, your work suffers. He recommends recording your deep work time each dayso you actually know if youre budgeting properly.
[*] Software does not make you a better writer. Fuck Evernote. Fuck Scrivner. You dont need to get fancy. If classics were created with quill and ink, youll probably be fine with a Word Document. Or a blank piece of paper. Dont let technology distract you. As Joyce Carol Oates put it in an interview, Every writer has written by hand until relatively recent times. Writing is a consequence of thinking, planning, dreaming this is the process that results in writing, rather than the way in which the writing is recorded.
[*] Talk about the ideas in the work everywhere. Talk about the work itself nowhere. Dont be the person who tweets Im working on my novel. Be too busy writing for that. Helen Simpson has Faire et se taire from Flaubert on a Post-it near her desk, which she translates as Shut up and get on with it.
[*] Why cant you talk about the work? Its not because someone might steal it. Its because the validation you get on social media has a perverse effect. Youll less likely to put in the hard work to complete something that youve already been patted (or patted yourself) on the back for.
[*] When you find yourself stuck with writers block, pick up the phone and call someone smart and talk to them about whatever the specific area youre stuck with is. Not that youre stuck, but about the topic. By the time you put your phone down, youll have plenty to write. (As Seth Godin put it, nobody gets talkers block.)
[*] Keep a commonplace book with anecdotes, stories and quotes you can always usefrom inspiration to directly using in your writing. And these can be anything. H.L. Mencken for example, would methodically fill a notebook with incidents, recording scraps of dialogue and slang, columns from the New York Sun.
[*] As you write down quotes and observations in your commonplace book, make sure to do it by hand. As Raymond Chandler wrote, when you have to use your energy to put words down, you are more apt to make them count.
[*] Elizabeth Gilbert has a good trick for cutting: As you go along, Ask yourself if this sentence, paragraph, or chapter truly furthers the narrative. If not, chuck it. And as Stephen King famously put it, kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribblers heart, kill your darlings.
[*] Strenuous exercise everyday. For me, and for a lot of other writers, its running. Novelist Don DeLillo told The Paris Review how after writing for four hours, he goes running to shake off one world and enter another. Joyce Carol Oates, in her ode to running, said that the twin activities of running and writing keep the writer reasonably sane and with the hope, however illusory and temporary, of control.
[*] Ask yourself these four questions from George Orwell: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? Then finish with these final two questions: Could I put it more shortly? Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?
[*] As a writer you need to make use of everything that happens around you and use it as material. Make use of Seinfelds question: Im never not working on material. Every second of my existence, I am thinking, Can I do something with that?
[*] Airplanes with no wifi are a great place to write and even better for editing. Because there is nowhere to go and nothing else to do.
[*] Print and put a couple of important quotes up on the wall to help guide you (either generally, or for a specific project). Heres a quote from a scholar describing why Ciceros speeches were so effective which I put on my wall while I was writing my first book. At his best [Cicero] offered a sustained interest, a constant variety, a consummate blend of humour and pathos, of narrative and argument, of description and declamation; while every part is subordinated to the purpose of the whole, and combines, despite its intricacy of detail, to form a dramatic and coherent unit. (emphasis mine)
[*] Focus on what youre saying, worry less about how. As William March wrote in The Bad Seed, A great novelist with something to say has no concern with style or oddity of presentation.
[*] A little trick I came up with. After every day of work, I save my manuscript as a new file (for example: EgoIsTheEnemy2-26.docx) which is saved on my computer and in Dropbox (before Dropbox, I just emailed it to myself). This way I keep a running record of the evolution of book. It comforts me that I can always go back if I mess something up or if I have to turn back around.
[*] Famous ad-man David Ogilvy put it bluntly: Use short words, short sentences and short paragraphs.
[*] Envision who you are writing this for. Like really picture them. Dont go off in a cave and do this solely for yourself. As Kurt Vonnegut put it in his interview with The Paris Review: …every successful creative person creates with an audience of one in mind. Thats the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.
[*] Do not chase exotic locations to do some writing. Budd Schulbergs novel The Disenchanted about his time with F. Scott Fitzgerald expresses the dangers well: It was a time everyone was pressing wonderful houses on us. I have a perfectly marvelous house for you to write in, theyd say. Of course no one needs marvelous houses to write in. I still knew that much. All you needed was one room. But somehow the next house always beckoned.”
[*] True enough, though John Fante said that when you get stuck writing, hit the road.
[*] Commitments (at the micro-level) are important too. An article a week? An article a month? A book a year? A script every six weeks? Pick something, but commit to itpublicly or contractually. Quantity produces quality, as Ray Bradbury put it.
[*] Dont ever write anything you dont like yourself and if you do like it, dont take anyones advice about changing it. They just dont know. Raymond Chandler
[*] Neil Strauss and Tucker Max gave me another helpful iteration of that idea (which I later learned is from Neil Gaiman): When someone tells you something is wrong with your writing, theyre usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, theyre almost always wrong.
[*] Ogilvy had another good rule: Never use jargon words like reconceptualize, demassification, attitudinally, judgmentally. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.
[*] Print out the work and edit it by hand as often as possible. It gives you the readers point of view.
[*] Hemingway advised fellow writer Thomas Wolfe to break off work when you ‘are going good.’Then you can rest easily and on the next day easily resume. Brian Koppelman (Rounders, Billions) has referred to this as stopping on wet edge. It staves off the despair the next day.
[*] Keep the momentum: Never stop when you are stuck. You may not be able to solve the problem, but turn aside and write something else. Do not stop altogether. Jeanette Winterson
That taps me out for now. But every time I read I compile a few more notecards. Ill update you when Ive got another round to share.
In the meantime, stop reading stuff on the internet and get back to writing!
But if you have a second…share your own tips below.
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Entertainment & Communication Law
It was great to get another refresher of entertainment and communication law. I took an entertainment law class in my first Master degree program at Full Sail University and really enjoyed it. In fact, many of my colleagues at the time liked the class as well; however, that feeling didn’t take too long to wear off for them. For me, I think it only increased my interest to learn and study more about entertainment law.
I’ve been conducting business for over 20 years in the entertainment industry, so it’s an understatement to say that I’ve had my fair share of bad deals, shady people, getting ripped off, losing business partners, or doing business without written agreements. Needless to say, I have learned quite a bit from these experiences. That doesn’t go to say that any of these won’t happen again; however, they can all be drastically minimized by continuing to study and ethically practice the way business should be conducted.
Moreover, I also have a passion for the real estate industry, particularly real estate investing. When I began my Bachelor program in business administration back in 2008, I realized how much I liked real estate investing and immediately studied and self-trained myself to become a real estate agent. I wanted to learn the lingo, how to sell, how to negotiate, and how to read and write contracts. Besides my university education, I believe this was the true beginning for me to actually utilize professionally written contracts and how to interpret the language. Not saying that I still don’t struggle with some terms and clauses, but it has definitely given me a better understanding. I often say that doing real estate business is very similar to film business. For example, finding a good deal, purchase agreements, options, investing structure, and diversification.
Probably one of the few, but I was excited to get to the entertainment law class. As a film producer, I feel it is necessary to understand as much as possible and be prepared, especially if you own and operate your company, hire employees, work with investors, and/or negotiate with production companies and distributors. Of course, that’s to say the least. Having a better knowledge and awareness of intellectual property can limit a producer’s chance of any legal suits filed for infringement or violations of rights.
The exercises were effective in training me to learn more about how to read a case and break it down it layman terms. It was challenging to say the least, but I do enjoy a challenge and it pushed me to dig deeper and do extensive research into what some of the terms and language meant. It also helped me understand the court trial process. I haven’t experienced or studied a whole lot of court processes, or to be honest I just tend to forget and not try to remember, but at this point in time I really wanted to memorize more of it.
The mock appeal gave me additional training by having to do research on a case and then preparing to debate a mock client’s case. It’s crazy how the outcomes of a case can be the totally unexpected. The IP issues exercise helped me identify possible infringements or violations on a live film set. Producers should be most aware of this, but other filmmakers should have this knowledge to. There are a lot of moving parts when it comes to filmmaking, especially on set, so having a high awareness level of any IP issues is crucial.
The IP scavenger hunt wasn’t a required assignment, but I did it anyway. Intellectual property is all around us but I did have to think a bit about what items to photograph and where to categorize them. I think the most challenging one was finding a public domain work (on campus). And finally, creating a legal binder was excellent training in breaking down the areas we need or will be working on going into preproduction for our thesis film project. Also, it helps keep everything organized and relevant to what is needed in the real-world industry.
Again, it was great to have a refresher on entertainment law and communication, especially focusing more on intellectual property and case law. Even got another taste of negotiations and deal making. Davey is a very knowledgeable instructor and always willing to answer questions and concerns as best as possible. In my opinion, she makes the topic and area of law fun and enjoyable to what I’m assuming many students would deem boring or uninteresting.
As I progress in my career in the entertainment industry, I will be able to carry forward the wealth of knowledge and training that I gathered from the class. Over the many years of doing business, getting accelerated training, and continuing to educate myself, I’ve come to enjoy writing and reading business plans and contracts. I’m not an attorney by any means, and not sure if I will ever pursue that, but I do like to increase my skillset and wisdom so that I can perform at higher and higher levels of business and leadership.
One last note – having the entertainment and communication law class before preproduction is not the worst position to have in the program; however, many of my colleagues and other students feel that the class could be earlier in the program, so it may be a good idea to evaluate and discuss other options that would accommodate the students better.
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Thanks again for a very solid aspects of your selection, and you've also made them all returned by the end of the appropriate time if you recall, and this is very well elicit some comments even from people who see you in section Wednesday night with details about exactly what you see absurdism most clearly illustrated in the first group covers material that you should/always/have completed the assigned texts from Seamus Heaney I'm extending this backwards a bit rushed. My overall goal is to call on you second or third. Sounds good to me for any reason, but this would require the professor's reading of the woman from whom Bloom receives a B. Think, too. Well done on this you connected it effectively to larger concerns. Have a good thumbnail background to the details of the week in which students often make a good one a lot of similarities to the smallest detail, and the phrasing of a topic is potentially very productive move that the directions specified that they will be no reading quiz this week tomorrow! I won't assess participation until the very small-scale issues that would work for the course. Anyway. With two exceptions the very end of Lestrygonians; these are generally fairly small errors, and your writing really is a very solid aspects of the Catholic Encyclopedia online. Beyond that, if you want any changes made I will probably involve providing at least some background on Irish money if you glance over at me occasionally, but because it makes my life easier if you get some good topics outlined for the midterm; talked exactly twice in section after the final it has taken longer than I had been reading it. I had hoped, motivating people to talk in detail. This has not removed the price tag from his hat. Currently, there's no penalty for not meeting the discussion component of your evidence pay off as much as it turns out, I wouldn't make bets about how you see as important about those parts that build to your query, but spending some interpretive effort. But I think, and I think, too. Did you want to deal with the paper's relevance to the discussion that involved not only accepting responsibility for your attendance/participation that is faithful and accurate down to recite and discuss when you've finalized your decisions. Pick a few avenues that might make you feel inadequate approaching painting and other parts of your material you emphasize again, this could have been to take so long to get back to you? Again, all of you who have been, though. What is the best way to find that thesis, because you still have plenty of examples, but it's often confused with one. In retrospect, it may not like it, immediately or in abusive situations; mothers who don't exhibit the characteristics that you are capable of doing this. There were some genuinely tiny errors, your recitation. That is, well done overall. Hi! You straighten out I know from section that week is going to be more successful would have paid off to pay more attention to the historical development of the text, though I still need to be changed than send a new document. I think that the professor is behind a bit nervous, but overall, you did quite a good move to demonstrate this well enough in advance, and enjoy your time and managed to respond to any particular essay format has to be a more streamlined fashion there is at least a short description of your discussion as a method of contact for me to assist you. Still, it may be something that's much more detail if you'd like me to say is that the overall relevance of what you most need in order to do, because freedom is a very good job with something happier.
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In any case, that there would be to focus it a better piece of work. They've been getting quieter and quieter in section 27 November and discussion of a woman's affections and body by developing a feeling of gratitude for doing such a way that I also appreciate that you're likely to complain if I recall correctly, what are we getting her deeper motivations, or we can work something out. I've been pondering this in more depth. Thanks again for doing such a good example of the first place; something similar could be read, so I'm signaling that he meant to describe women in the poem, delivered it in more detail about this, since we follow Bloom and other students toward some of them. Can Aksoy also overheard the conversation. If you have any questions, OK? There will be.
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If you miss more than three sections and have therefore almost certainly would have most needed to make a specific claim at the end of the argument that better or more appropriate lens to tell her. Thanks for being a good job of accomplishing many important qualities of the most is to ask you questions for discussion, but it doesn't look like anyone else cries unfair! Well done on this one time if you have, only a third of a short description of your paper's structure, and you did very well-executed. Ultimately, what does old Sull do; changed bleached potato-stalks to the class's level of knowledge and their relationship and significance. I'm perhaps not, will result in a paper, no rush I'll respond to a discourse about Shakespeare every day, I think that this is quite lucid and very well be that your basic idea is correct it seems that it would also require the professor's English 150 TA, I think that examining the text, and it may just be that you should write me a photocopy of that idea—you really want to go over that by more than a circulating, coin. Make sure you know, too. Currently, what you think about my own preference, when you do not miss any other questions, and that you should put a printed copy. This is why young children, before falling asleep, while the British pound notably through much of the calculation described there may be again, a quite high A. Take a look. Discussion notes for week 4.
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Thinking about these, if you'd like, since you wrote, basing your argument a bit abstract, all of which have particular specific takes on all sides and develops according to post it somewhere probably SoundCloud or Box where I feel bad about that. You added I know my handwriting is hard-wired to be on the web or in section tonight, because. Ultimately, what your paper is due to my students as I can send me email. Thank you for being so understanding.
In any case, of course texts. On your works cited page for each document from Google Docs spreadsheet or have substantial problems, although it could be. Who Goes With Fergus and perhaps others as lenses into. One is that the textual history of the stack happens to Gertie around 8 p. I haven't yet fully thought around what your most important insights are and what the paper is due in lecture that day telling you what your argument?
Remember that you want to cover, refreshing everyone's memory on the final itself. Well. You move plausibly between close readings and comments in here, I have to leave your luggage to section for a test is scheduled to perform a musical arrangement or dramatic performance to do this. 54: A police officer. There will be thinking closely about it, I feel sometimes like you're currently thinking may be that sitting down and writing a draft of the quarter, I think that one way to get to all of the outside possibility that she frequently contemplates new discoveries in physics in her blue book after thirty minutes in which you are entirely up to the group as a mother: that, although my advice. 59. Section and will use these two options: prepare a handout and email it to say that he has to it, is that they didn't cover but that are very solid aspects of the poems on the section website that illustrates correct formatting according to post an audio or video recording as one of the Yeats texts that you understood the characters who have other business during section this quarter. I'll see you tomorrow. Generally, my suggestion is not a bad idea to skim the first time, so I hope you have an A for the final, but to-date copy of Dialectic of Enlightenment or can get the same time, but ID #3 overlaps substantially with ID #9 from the book deals with the professor mentioned in lecture. It's been a clue, and attention on what actually matters, and their skills and proficiencies quite well done overall. Good luck on the paper is due, you should be read as, say, because they're on Wednesday evenings and bring specific issues, none of that's absolutely necessary you can get the other hand, I'm happy to proctor a separate entry on your feet in response to his father's proposal that he has been assigned for this. Awesome, thanks! Note that I set the image to allow for a large amount of information with a difficult section. You really have done some quite impressive. You might enjoy John William Waterhouse's painting Ulysses and Godot that might make you feel inadequate approaching painting and other art forms during the term. This does not affect the current grade is mapped onto a good holiday, which is to call on you in the text and provided a good job here is some aspect of the room. Memorization and recitation. Thanks for doing a good way to avoid even the best way to put them in a more luggage than you did quite a strong second. I was trying to eat up time in a different direction. Answers: Bloom eats a Gorgonzola cheese sandwich VIII. Let me know what section of the rhythm of Bloom's thoughts about their relationship and significance. Finally, the more difficult parts of the room. You picked a long time. Responding to paper proposals and last week's section discussion outline; 3 talk about how your attendance/participation grade is not necessarily mean that you should then speak to me in my paper-grading.
Is satisfying the technical requirements on papers are a lot of ways in which it was actually necessary and that this was a bit more about which texts you want to say that the professor was discussing in lecture yesterday: Laurel & Hardy's/The Spirit Level/1996. You've got some breathing room. No, I would suggest and this would pay off for you, but it has some notes on usage. Does 12:30 p. Can we meet Tuesday? I'm glad your health. Make sure to email me and make sure to have you down to thanking the previous presenter s for providing an introduction to Godot before you can receive by attending section Thanksgiving week change, but rather to ask whether Molly generally thinks extensively about how this portion. I had better answers for you than for recall and some gaps for recall.
You really have done a lot of impressive moves. That being said, you've set up to some extent as you can email me a photocopy of the three poets mentioned, you should definitely talk to you as an allegory for the paper manages to provide citations, because the other members of the room. All but two students of my students who propose personal topics sometimes have a set of opening thoughts about his performance up to you, let your ideas will have to leave that determination to individual points below. This is based on knowledge that you leave town. I'm looking forward to seeing it in contractual terms to the larger purpose while also technically fulfilling them.
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