Humanos - Índia apela para guardas com apitos para erradicar defecação em público - 18/11 18/11/2012 - 23h04 As autoridades de um distrito da região indiana de Jaipur decidiram colocar guardas "armados" com apitos e tambores para perseguir todos que urinarem ou defecarem em público, informou nesta semana à agência Efe uma fonte oficial da região. A iniciativa será posta em prática a partir da semana que vem em 34 municípios do distrito de Jhunjhunu, com uma população de cerca de 300 mil habitantes, e tem o objetivo de refrear um hábito de cerca da metade da população do gigante asiático. "Todo mundo deveria construir um vaso sanitário em casa e, quando ele estiver com defeito, utilizar os banheiros públicos", argumentou o chefe administrativo do distrito de Jhunjhunu, Yogaram Yangid. Segundo Yangid, em cada município, quatro ou cinco voluntários se encarregarão de tocar música pelas cidades perto dos que fizerem suas necessidades em público, os identificando, para depois anunciar em público seus nomes. "Somos a capital mundial da defecação ao ar livre.
The Essayification of Everything The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. Lately, you may have noticed the spate of articles and books that take interest in the essay as a flexible and very human literary form. These include “The Wayward Essay” and Phillip Lopate’s reflections on the relationship between essay and doubt, and books such as “How to Live,” Sarah Bakewell’s elegant portrait of Montaigne, the 16th-century patriarch of the genre, and an edited volume by Carl H. Klaus and Ned Stuckey-French called “Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time.” The essayist samples more than a D.J.: a loop of the epic here, a little lyric replay there, all with a signature scratch on top. It seems that, even in the proliferation of new forms of writing and communication before us, the essay has become a talisman of our times. What do I mean with this lofty expression? Let’s start with form’s beginning. The possibilitarian is a virtuoso of the hypothetical.
10 Rules for Writing Numbers and Numerals Neil Jakson Great post but Writing Numbers. Except for a few basic rules, spelling out numbers vs. using figures (also called numerals) is largely a matter of writers’ preference. Again, consistency is the key. Policies and philosophies vary from medium to medium Sara I’ve always spelled out any number less than ten, since that is what I was definitely taught by my wonderful journalism teacher in high school. What I’m curious about today, is how to correctly write “3+” as in you need three or more years of experience.
Adeus, Philip! - cultura - versaoimpressa Enquanto Israel ameaçava invadir Gaza, a carnificina prosseguia na Síria e os EUA se aproximavam do "abismo fiscal", outro acontecimento chamou a atenção de todos - histórico, importantíssimo, verdadeiro divisor de águas: Philip Roth anunciou que vai parar de escrever. Desculpem o sarcasmo, mas a comoção provocada pelo melodrama que Roth resolveu protagonizar foi um absurdo sem tamanho. Em parte, porque um escritor que abandona a literatura em estágio tão tardio da carreira não constitui notícia nenhuma. Se Obama resolve ficar na cama até mais tarde, em vez de continuar a ser presidente dos EUA, isso merece ser noticiado. Apesar da irrelevância flagrante e do quê de megalomania, o anúncio de Roth deu o que falar. Um dos motivos pode ser a declaração que acompanhou o anúncio de que a carreira de Roth tinha chegado ao fim: ele não vai só parar de escrever, mas também não vai mais ler uma linha de ficção. Há um tom colérico no anúncio de Roth, e eu o admiro por isso.
Blog » The Best Work in Literature If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed . Thanks for reading! Photo by Daniel Leininger / Flickr The following post by Manjula Martin ( @manjulamartin ) is part of our online companion to our Spring 2013 issue on The Business of Literature. i. Even then, I viewed my summer gig as work I would one day leave behind: when I grew up, I was certain, I would become a full-time artist. My family’s store was housed in a grand 1910 sandstone building, formerly a bank. In the business of literature, the people who mind the store—from writers to editors to Tumblrs— often have other jobs, too. ii. I was sixteen and about to graduate from high school by the time a coworker said to me, “So, what are you gonna do now?” “I dunno,” I said, “maybe drop out of college and move to New York and become a famous writer by the age of twenty-one?” Did I really believe I would be a bestselling author with a sweet Soho loft by age twenty-one? In other words, don’t quit your day job, kid. iii.
44 Resume Writing Tips By Daniel Scocco Having a solid and effective resume can greatly improve your chances of landing that dream job. That is beyond discussion. How does one make sure that his resume is top notch and bullet proof, however? 1. Some people write a resume as if the purpose of the document was to land a job. 2. Instead of creating a long (and boring) list with all your qualities (e.g., disciplined, creative, problem solver) try to connect them with real life and work experiences. 3. Most companies (even smaller ones) are already using digital databases to search for candidates. These keywords will usually be nouns. 4. Like it or not, employers will usually make a judgment about your resume in 5 seconds. Bad title: AccountingGood title: Management of A/R and A/P and Recordkeeping 5. It would be difficult to emphasize the importance of proofreading your resume. 6. No employer will have the time (or patience) to read long paragraphs of text. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21.
Los Angeles Review of Books - John Gray’s Godless Mysticism: On "The Silence Of Animals" TEN SIMPLE KEYS TO PLOT STRUCTURE Structure is something that every agent and executive in Hollywood talks about, and that all of us teachers/authors/consultants/gurus/whatever go on and on about, to the point that it can seem complicated, intricate, mysterious and hard to master. So I want present plot structure in a way that simplifies it – that will at least give you a starting point for properly structuring your screenplay without overwhelming you with rules and details and jargon. Here are what I consider ten key elements of structure – ten ways of looking at structure that will immediately improve the emotional impact – and commercial potential – of your script. THE SINGLE RULE OF STRUCTURE I once got to work with long time television writer Doug Heyes, who used to say that there is only one rule for achieving proper plot structure: What’s happening now must be inherently more interesting than what just happened.
Small Talk I recently found myself sitting across a table from a stranger, chewing awkwardly in silence. It was a familiar scenario: a hole-in-the-wall sandwich shop with not enough tables and me sitting alone, assenting readily when an older woman asked if she could share my premium slice of real estate. She sat down and we both began to eat, eyes studiously averted—quickly, the silence became unbearable. Lovely day out, isn’t it, she ventured. Oh yes, I agreed enthusiastically. The weather has a long-standing monopoly on the small talk market, and it’s not hard to see why. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first appearance of the term “small talk” to eighteenth-century British Parliamentarian Lord Chesterfield’s Letters to His Son , a collection of pedagogical nuggets dispensing wisdom on a comprehensive range of topics, as befits a book with the subtitle “On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman.” Heidegger is not unaware of this. .
Screenplay Basics - Scripped A Scripped Compendium by Johnathan Carr Traditional storytelling recounts past events, whereas screenwriting is locked in the present - thus you may not deviate from PRESENT TENSE. You may also be tempted to describe every inch of the world you're creating - don't! Take comfort in the idea that a screenplay is not meant to have any literary value. As you're writing, be mindful to preserve only the most important details: information that will advance the story. At the beginning of a feature film script, often but not always, the first line will be: FADE IN. While you can write a longer ACTION paragraph, think about keeping it under five lines at a time. In the ACTION line, be sure to capitalize SOUND EFFECTS, CAMERA DIRECTION and the first appearance of a speaking CHARACTER. Use a PARENTHETICAL to note an action the speaker is performing while speaking or if you want to indicate whom the speaker is addressing such as addressing a new character in mid-DIALOGUE. Think subtext.
The Science of Loneliness: How Isolation Can Kill You Who are the lonely? They’re the outsiders: not just the elderly, but also the poor, the bullied, the different. Surveys confirm that people who feel discriminated against are more likely to feel lonely than those who don’t, even when they don’t fall into the categories above. Women are lonelier than men (though unmarried men are lonelier than unmarried women). African Americans are lonelier than whites (though single African American women are less lonely than Hispanic and white women). A key part of feeling lonely is feeling rejected, and that, it turns out, is the most damaging part. To psychologists trying to puzzle out how social experiences affect health, AIDS amounted to something of a natural experiment, the chance to observe the effects of conditions so extreme that no ethical person would knowingly subject another person to them. Steven Cole was a young postdoctoral student in the lab itching to move beyond his field’s mind-body split. Ariel Lee And he was right.