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Why did people get seasick looking at her?
Because her hair is so wavy.
How can you double your money?
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Essay: Time management

Topic: Time

Nearly everyone likes
short, pithy quotes
that tackle the issues of our
lives. In the process of my
work I have gathered dozens
of powerful quotations that
have helped inspire me to better
manage my lives. I know
the quotes, along with to-thepoint
commentary, will challenge
you to master the way
you use this wonderful gift
called “time”.
There are two rules for achieving
anything:
Rule No1: Get started
Rule No 2: Keep going
--- Howard Hunt----
Lots of people say they intend to
get something done, but for one reason
or another they never get around
to it. Some say they are waiting for the
right moment, but that moment never
seems to arrive. And there are some
people who quit when the going gets a
little tough. When the chips are down,
it isn’t talent, brilliance, or education,
but persistence that pays off . Develop
the habit of persistence and t here will
be very little that you accomplish.
We spend most of our waking hours
with information
----Linda Lederman-----
Communication in the workplace
In one year, the average American
will read or complete 3000 notices and
forms, scan 100 newspapers and 36
magazines, watch 2463 hours of television,
listen to 730 hours of radio, buy 20
recordings, talk on the phone almost 61
hours, read 3 books, and spend countless
hours exchanging information
in conversation. No wonder we have
information overload. Since time is so
precious, think carefully about which
information you really need and that
which is unproductive. Then simply
expose yourself to the information that
has value and ignore the rest.
Successful people form the habit of
doing what failures don’t like to do
----Earl Nightingale---
Call it willpower, discipline, determination,
or anything else you like,
successful people are diff erent. They
will do things they don’t necessarily
like to do in order to get the results
they want. Failures, though, will accept
whatever results are possible by doing
only what they like to do. Successful
people are motivated by pleasing
results, while failures are motivated
pleasing methods. All of us have to
choose real success for ourselves.
If I had eight hours to cut down a tree,
I’d spend six sharpening my axe.
------Abraham Lincoln-------
Smart woodcutters don’t keep
chopping away at the trees all day
long; they take time to sharpen their
axe. With a sharp tool you can get more
work done in less time with less eff ort.
Do you take time to sharpen your time
management axe, or are you chopping
with a dull blade? Sharpening your
time management axe means perfecting
the skills and techniques that good
time management demands. Plan to
set aside time every week to improve
your time management captivity in
some way.
When you choose a habit you choose
the results of that habit
---Zig Ziglar---
Most of behavior is controlled by
habit patterns. A habit can be good
if it helps you achieve your goals; it is
bad if it hinders your goals. It is much
easier to achieve good results when
your habits work with you rather than
against you. So keep the good habits
and replace the bad ones. A success secret:
most work-related habits can be
changed within three to four weeks. To
create new habits, begin as strong as
you can, tell others what you are doing,
and ask them to help you change

10 steps to Essay

Below are brief summaries of each of the ten steps to writing an essay. Select the links for more info on any particular step, or use the blue navigation bar on the left to proceed through the writing steps. How To Write an Essay can be viewed sequentially, as if going through ten sequential steps in an essay writing process, or can be explored by individual topic.

1. Research: Begin the essay writing process by researching your topic, making yourself an expert. Utilize the internet, the academic databases, and the library. Take notes and immerse yourself in the words of great thinkers.

2. Analysis: Now that you have a good knowledge base, start analyzing the arguments of the essays you're reading. Clearly define the claims, write out the reasons, the evidence. Look for weaknesses of logic, and also strengths. Learning how to write an essay begins by learning how to analyze essays written by others.

3. Brainstorming: Your essay will require insight of your own, genuine essay-writing brilliance. Ask yourself a dozen questions and answer them. Meditate with a pen in your hand. Take walks and think and think until you come up with original insights to write about.

4. Thesis: Pick your best idea and pin it down in a clear assertion that you can write your entire essay around. Your thesis is your main point, summed up in a concise sentence that lets the reader know where you're going, and why. It's practically impossible to write a good essay without a clear thesis.

5. Outline: Sketch out your essay before straightway writing it out. Use one-line sentences to describe paragraphs, and bullet points to describe what each paragraph will contain. Play with the essay's order. Map out the structure of your argument, and make sure each paragraph is unified.

6. Introduction: Now sit down and write the essay. The introduction should grab the reader's attention, set up the issue, and lead in to your thesis. Your intro is merely a buildup of the issue, a stage of bringing your reader into the essay's argument.

(Note: The title and first paragraph are probably the most important elements in your essay. This is an essay-writing point that doesn't always sink in within the context of the classroom. In the first paragraph you either hook the reader's interest or lose it. Of course your teacher, who's getting paid to teach you how to write an essay, will read the essay you've written regardless, but in the real world, readers make up their minds about whether or not to read your essay by glancing at the title alone.)

7. Paragraphs: Each individual paragraph should be focused on a single idea that supports your thesis. Begin paragraphs with topic sentences, support assertions with evidence, and expound your ideas in the clearest, most sensible way you can. Speak to your reader as if he or she were sitting in front of you. In other words, instead of writing the essay, try talking the essay.

8. Conclusion: Gracefully exit your essay by making a quick wrap-up sentence, and then end on some memorable thought, perhaps a quotation, or an interesting twist of logic, or some call to action. Is there something you want the reader to walk away and do? Let him or her know exactly what.

9. MLA Style: Format your essay according to the correct guidelines for citation. All borrowed ideas and quotations should be correctly cited in the body of your text, followed up with a Works Cited (references) page listing the details of your sources.

10. Language: You're not done writing your essay until you've polished your language by correcting the grammar, making sentences flow, incoporating rhythm, emphasis, adjusting the formality, giving it a level-headed tone, and making other intuitive edits. Proofread until it reads just how you want it to sound. Writing an essay can be tedious, but you don't want to bungle the hours of conceptual work you've put into writing your essay by leaving a few slippy misppallings and pourly wordedd phrazies..

You're done. Great job. Now move over Ernest Hemingway — a new writer is coming of age! (Of course Hemingway was a fiction writer, not an essay writer, but he probably knew how to write an essay just as well.)

Essay about Love

Topic:" what is Love?"

What is the one emotion that has everyone mystified? What is the one emotion that has started as many wars as it has ended? What emotion has had more plays, songs, and stories written about it than anything else? Love, that one emotion that makes enemies into friends and friends into enemies. So many legends surround this emotion, from the goddess Athena and Helen of Troy to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Love comes in so many different levels, that it doesn't appear to be the same emotion at all, but it is. There is so much to love, that it will be hard to put into this simple essay. It can tear people apart and make us do irrational things to bringing together entire nations. What can this emotion not do? It's hard to tell, but there is a lot it can.

This emotion, bring tears to our eyes when something happens to our family members, friends, and pets. When we feel love ripped from us, as in death or being spurned by another, we do things we wouldn't normally do, such as go on violent rampages, or mourn to the extent that our loved ones have to watch us constantly to make sure we don't try anything like suicide. Some can move on, always remembering the lost loved one after a while, but others can not let go. These are the ones that need our love and support the most.

There are so many levels to love, that I can only express a few of them here. These are the ones we see most in life. Friendship starts this list off. Yes, it doesn't seem like it, but we do feel love towards our friends, this is what helps us get along so well, and why we miss them when we don't see our friends for a long time. It's also why we hold certain friends over others no matter what happens. Sometimes, the bond between friends deepens to the point where a stronger bond of love is made, making them family.

Another level of love, are for our siblings and other family members. Even though we do things to our family members, and sometimes we don't like some of our family, that bond is still there. It's this family bond level of love that brought about the phrase, blood is thicker than water. We will do things for our brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, and children before we would even consider doing them for anyone else. Many wars have been started because of this family level, brother avenging brother or father, father protecting his wife and children, or even vice versa. This simple family bond can even extend to include our pets, amazingly enough, and that is a good thing.

A third level to love, is the bond that brings man and woman together. This level is among the strongest of them all. It is this level of love that has brought together kingdoms into nations in the past, and ended many great wars. It's is also for the love of a woman that has started a few of our well-known wars, like the Trojan Wars of ancient times. It's brought together families that have argued for years and years, such as in the Shakespearean play, Romeo and Juliet. Even though the two mentioned killed themselves in the end, it still brought their families together.

The last mentionable level of love is that bond between a mother and her children. There is no stronger, nor will there ever be. This bond starts from the very first tiny fluttering of movement and never ends, even after death of the child. A mother protects her children in the name of love, and directs them through life using it as the example to follow. Well, at least it should be. It's because of her children a mother will work at a job she hates, just to make sure they have everything they could ever want or need.

The phrase, love makes the world go round is very true. It's is our driving force, for what ever reason it may be. Poems, plays, and legends can only briefly touch the true meaning of love. We can only feel what that meaning is, and express it in ways only we can understand towards another. The true question we should be asking is not, what is life, but what is love.

What is love? I don't know, but I'll do what I can to express it to my son, my husband, my family and friends, and to every single pet I have or ever will own in the best possible way that I can.