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Tyler Funnywater

I'm a 19yo Canadian writer-the-making. I'm interested in fiction, poetry, politics, philosophy, Pokemon, editing, and, of course, University Life.

The Writers' Union of Canada. The Danuta Gleed Literary Award for best first collection of short fiction in the English language was initiated by John Gleed in honour of his late wife to promote and celebrate the genre of short fiction, which she loved.

The Writers' Union of Canada

A $10,000 prize will be awarded to a Canadian writer, for the best first collection of published short fiction in the English language. Two finalist will also be awarded $500 each. Submissions must meet the eligibility requirements outlined in the submission guidelines, and be received with the submission form and other required materials. Completed submissions should be sent to: The Danuta Gleed AwardThe Writers’ Union of Canada600-460 Richmond St. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2014. Index - edwardcarpenter.net. Create your own country. Moodstream™ by Getty Images. The Art of Complex Problem Solving. 105 Writing Tips from Professional Writers. Your Writer's Workshop : Become a writer. Online writing workshop for writing books, creative writing and writing help.

How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method. Why I Write - Essay by George Orwell. Why I Write by George OrwellGangrel, [No. 4, Summer] 1946 From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer.

Why I Write - Essay by George Orwell

[places for writers] Oneword.com. National Novel Writing Month. Writing.upenn.edu/library/Mayer-Bernadette_Experiments.html. Free Your Voice. Before I Die. Random Blog Posts. "When you really want to see beyond the matter, seek to view the vibration that arises from the matter for it's only then that you will truly understand that the matter really doesn't exist, the matter doesn't really matter"

Random Blog Posts

The 5 Tibetan Rites - Do it Along. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep is a poem written in 1932 by Mary Elizabeth Frye.

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep

Although the origin of the poem was disputed until later in her life, Mary Frye's authorship was confirmed in 1998 after research by Abigail Van Buren, a newspaper columnist.[1] Full text[edit] Do not stand at my grave and weep, Neurotic Poets - Neurotic Poets - The Link Between Creativity And Madness. Literature Project - Free eBooks Online. FullBooks.com - Thousands of Full-Text Free Books.

Classics - A Nerd’s Guide to Reading. The Oscar Wilde Collection. Scary Paranormal Stories » Locations & Sites. Rating: 8.1/10 (263 votes cast) 1.

Scary Paranormal Stories » Locations & Sites

It is the year 2037. Yeah, okay. I know it’s a cheesy way to start a story, but I just feel that it’s worth mentioning. Especially since it happened 25 years ago. Online Speed Reading tools and software. Simply start by clicking on the Play button on the left.

Online Speed Reading tools and software

Reading is that one activity that we do every day but we don't really practice. Most people learn the basics of reading in kindergarten and never graduate to the next levels. You are probably using the same basic rudimental tools and techniques that you learned when you were 6. The average American person reads at an average speed of 180 to 240 words per minute and has done so since he was 16 years old. Does it make sense that we hit our best performance at age 16 and that we don't improve much after that? Keep in mind less than 10% read at 400 words per minute and less than 1% faster than 600.

Have you ever wished you could take one of those costly speed reading courses? The problem with those courses is that you have to keep practicing those techniques until they become second nature. A [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] Thebigview.com - Pondering the Big Questions. Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies. Tim Minchin on human logic. Philosophy since the Enlightenment, by Roger Jones. What is Occam's Razor? [Physics FAQ] - [Copyright] Updated 1997 by Sugihara Hiroshi.

What is Occam's Razor?

Original by Phil Gibbs 1996. Game Theory. First published Sat Jan 25, 1997; substantive revision Wed May 5, 2010 Game theory is the study of the ways in which strategic interactions among economic agents produce outcomes with respect to the preferences (or utilities) of those agents, where the outcomes in question might have been intended by none of the agents.

Game Theory

The meaning of this statement will not be clear to the non-expert until each of the italicized words and phrases has been explained and featured in some examples. Doing this will be the main business of this article. First, however, we provide some historical and philosophical context in order to motivate the reader for the technical work ahead. Truth  Philosophers are interested in a constellation of issues involving the concept of truth.

Truth 

A preliminary issue, although somewhat subsidiary, is to decide what sorts of things can be true. Is truth a property of sentences (which are linguistic entities in some language or other), or is truth a property of propositions (nonlinguistic, abstract and timeless entities)? Bertrand Russell's Truth and Falsehood (Correspondence) Donald Davidson's Theory of Truth and Knowledge. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, by Mohandas K. Gandhi, 1925; ed. by Mahadev Desai, 1940.

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