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REDES SOCIALES. LECTURA. Lecturalia - Red social de literatura, comentarios de libros, libros y literatura, comunidad de lectores, rincón de lectura. * LECTYO : La red de los profesionales de la lectura. Twitter. Recherche - #FLfiction14. BLOGS. #LoveWriteCreate | Kallie Ross.

The term deadline can sound severe in several circumstances, and after looking up its historical significance I found that it was first coined during the American Civil War. I was surprised at how literally it was used. A Confederate General described a line that Federal prisoners were not allowed to pass without threat of being killed. I prefer the use of the word deadline in the world of printing. In the early 19th century it was used to describe a line from which nothing would print properly on a printing press. Later, in the 1920s, deadline was used to express a ‘time limit’ in the newspaper industry.

I don’t know about you, but if deadlines held the same lethal connotation they did in prison camps over 200 years ago, I’d have been dead and buried by my Junior year in high school. Let’s take this one step at a time. EXPAND. Community Library for write.