The Future of Big-Box Schooling
“I think the way western education has grown over the last few centuries, especially with the rise of industrialization, was basically not to create human beings fully equipped to deal with life and all its problems, independent citizens able to exercise their decisions and live their responsibilities in community, but elements to feed into an industrial production system.” – Vandana Shiva, “Schooling the World” “Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw materials – children – are to be shaped and fashioned into products… The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of 20th century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.” – Ellwood P. Cubberly, Dean, Stanford University School of Education, 1898
How to Market Your Freelance Writing Website so That Potential Clients Find You and Fall Over Backward to Hire You
In last week’s Wealthy Web Writer e-letter, I shared a blueprint you can use when developing content for your professional freelance writing website. Just to recap, a professional website is one of the most powerful marketing tools you can have. It builds your credibility, helps you make contacts, and gives you an automatic way to build and nurture relationships with both clients and prospects. This week, as promised, I’m going to show you how to turn your website into a client magnet.
Build Your Own Cloud with Eucalyptus
In the March 2010 issue, I wrote an article on how you could deploy Ubuntu 9.10 as part of Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service. Amazon's EC2 service can be useful, but what if you have a bunch of machines already and don't want your data outside your network? Or, what if you don't want to pay the ten-cents-per-hour fee that Amazon charges?
11 Amazing Thank You Notes From Famous People
Letters of Note is one of our favorite places to hang out. Since 2009 the site has curated hundreds of interesting letters, telegrams, memos and faxes, from famous people, regular people, and even fictional people. We took advantage of their hard work and rounded up these 11 thank you (and one thanks-for-nothing) letters from their archives. 1. Thank You for the Dream You Sent Me Once upon a time (1989), a little girl named Amy sent a bottle of colored water, oil and glitter to Roald Dahl, who knew right away that this was a dream in a bottle inspired by his book, The BFG.
How to Deliver Bad News in Writing
While you can't turn bad news into good through clever wording, the way that you deliver bad news in writing can affect how it is received the same way that it does when speaking. Some speakers know how to deliver bad news, and others only make it worse. The same is true in writing. The introduction is very important. It sets the context for the bad news, and context has a lot to do with how bad news is received. Instead of jumping straight into the bad, try leading with something positive.
CAT Overview - Part 1 : Rigging with CAT
In this first set of videos on the CAT subject, see how to create a character rig from scratch with all the rigging tools available in CAT. Also learn how to use the current animation rig presets and how to create your own. In this first video, i cover the basics of CAT.
The Anatomy Of A Thank You Note – Krrb’s Guide To Expressing Gratitude With Style ~ Krrb Blog
First off, if you can get your hands on a kid who is just learning to write and then convince said kid to write (or make a good go at writing) "Thanks" on a piece of paper that you can put into an envelope and send, you are golden. Your job is done. Who is not going to be touched by a child's early attempts at writing? Nothing says thank you like a note written by a 4 year old. But for those who don’t have the monk-like patience it takes to elicit the above pictured type of work from a pre-schooler, there is hope. You too, can produce thank you notes that would make your grandparents proud and that would bring a smile to even the most jaded of faces.
What are the Fallacy Files?
I began collecting and studying logical fallacies about twenty-five years ago, when I first became interested in logic. This collection took two forms: A collection of named fallacies—such as "ad hominem"—that is, types of bad reasoning which someone has thought distinctive and interesting enough to name and describe.
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Annie Dillard on the Art of the Essay and Narrative Nonfiction vs. Poetry and Short Stories
by Maria Popova “Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.” “Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays,” E.B.
Nerd Paradise : How to Write a 20 Page Research Paper in Under a Day
Posted on: 10 Cado 7:0 - 5.27.29 So you've procrastinated again. You told yourself you wouldn't do this 2 months ago when your professor assigned you this. But you procrastinated anyway.
