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1 Corinthians 16 - Passage Lookup - The Message - BibleGateway.com
Coming to See You 16 1-4 Regarding the relief offering for poor Christians that is being collected, you get the same instructions I gave the churches in Galatia. Every Sunday each of you make an offering and put it in safekeeping. 5-9 I plan to visit you after passing through northern Greece. 10-11 If Timothy shows up, take good care of him. 12 About our friend Apollos, I’ve done my best to get him to pay you a visit, but haven’t talked him into it yet. 13-14 Keep your eyes open, hold tight to your convictions, give it all you’ve got, be resolute, and love without stopping. 15-16 Would you do me a favor, friends, and give special recognition to the family of Stephanas? 17-18 I want you to know how delighted I am to have Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus here with me. 19 The churches here in western Asia send greetings. Aquila, Priscilla, and the church that meets in their house say hello. 20 All the friends here say hello. Pass the greetings around with holy embraces!
Read These Seven Books, and You’ll be a Better Writer
Donald Miller I used to play golf but I wasn’t very good. I rented a DVD, though, that taught me a better way to swing, and after watching it a few times and spending an hour or so practicing, I knocked ten strokes off my game. I can’t believe how much time I wasted when a simple DVD saved me years of frustration. I’d say something similar is true in my writing career. If you read these books, your writing will improve to the point people who read your work will begin to comment on how well you write. • The War of Art by Steven Pressfield: This book is aimed at writers, but it’s also applicable to anybody who does creative work. Pressfield leaves out all the mushy romantic talk about the writing life, talk I don’t find helpful. • On Writing Well by William Zinsser: Zinsser may be the best practical writing coach out there. • Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott: Before becoming a literary superstar, Anne Lamott taught writing, and Bird by Bird is the best of her advice, broken up into chapters.
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Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary domain applying computational methods to conduct research in the humanities. The Digital Humanities Laboratory (DHLAB), founded in 2012 by professor Frédéric Kaplan develops new computational approaches for rediscovering the past and anticipating the future. Projects conducted at the lab range from building "Google maps of ancient places" to studying how algorithms transforms the way we write The DHLAB ambitions to form a new generation of young researchers - "digital humanists". It develops innovative educational programs and didactic technologies to progress towards this goal. Events organized by the Digital Humanities Laboratory
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The Right to Read
by Richard Stallman Join our mailing list about the dangers of eBooks. This article appeared in the February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2). From The Road To Tycho, a collection of articles about the antecedents of the Lunarian Revolution, published in Luna City in 2096. For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college—when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. This put Dan in a dilemma. And there wasn't much chance that the SPA—the Software Protection Authority—would fail to catch him. Of course, Lissa did not necessarily intend to read his books. Later on, Dan would learn there was a time when anyone could go to the library and read journal articles, and even books, without having to pay. There were ways, of course, to get around the SPA and Central Licensing. Dan would later learn that there was a time when anyone could have debugging tools. It was also possible to bypass the copyright monitors by installing a modified system kernel. Author's Note
6 Ways to Hook Your Readers from the Very First Line
Although I consider myself an avid reader, I must admit I have a short attention span when it comes to getting into books. If you fail to grab my attention in the first few lines, I start spacing out. Most readers are like me. Most people don’t want to spend the first 50 pages trying to get into a book. Here are a few things I find annoying in the first lines of a story: Dialogue. The last thing you want to do as a writer is annoy or bore people. (N.B. 1. Put a question in your readers’ minds. “Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did.” 2. By starting at an important moment in the story, your reader is more likely to want to continue so he or she can discover what will happen next. “It was dark where she was crouched but the little girl did as she’d been told.” 3. Description is good when it encourages people to paint a picture in their minds. “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” 4. 5. “They had flown from England to Minneapolis to look at a toilet.” 6.
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The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
Jared Diamond, "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race," Discover Magazine, May 1987, pp. 64-66. By Jared Diamond University of California at Los Angeles Medical School To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. At first, the evidence against this revisionist interpretation will strike twentieth century Americans as irrefutable. For most of our history we supported ourselves by hunting and gathering: we hunted wild animals and foraged for wild plants. From the progressivist perspective on which I was brought up, to ask "Why did almost all our hunter-gatherer ancestors adopt agriculture?" The progressivist party line sometimes even goes so far as to credit agriculture with the remarkable flowering of art that has taken place over the past few thousand years. While the case for the progressivist view seems overwhelming, it's hard to prove. How can one deduce the health of the prehistoric garbage makers, and thereby directly test the progressivist view?
