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This is still a work in progress, as each episode will post weekly once I get all the channels set up. But if you’re into podcasts, check out featured podcaster and writer Paul Rodrix’s podcast: I Ain’t Sh*t. Link and QR code below. Link: https://paulrodrix.podbean.com/
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Knowing what kinds of things to keep and what types of things to cut are essential to good writing. Exploring setting as a character. Learning formulas and learning to break formulas. I recommend these three books to be added to your library of essential tools for any writer. ______________________________________________________________ Roy Peter Clark’s novel Murder Your
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I have recently had a few people ask me what the different points of view are for writing. I am going to just give definitions here so each of you can quickly identify the different types and use this as a reference guide. I used to use this early on and found it incredibly useful
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Supreme Court VOTED TO OVERTURN ROE VS WADE John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice VOTED TO UPHOLD ROE VS WADE Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice Sonia
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I will return in a few months… Stay tuned.
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I have been blogging since 2008. I started with a “mommy blog” as they were called then and I evolved to blogging to review products for brands. Since then, my blogging has waxed and wained due to my academic and life demands. Post pandemic life means rewriting everyone’s goals and I am no different. I
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Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy” reads like a personal journal entry. The narrator is speaking to the subject, yet it divulges personal, private feelings the narrator feels about the man she calls “Daddy.” Bearings her heart, the strong feelings she has, the narrator states, “Daddy, I have had to kill you – you died before
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A single budding maple tree, struggling to take root in the mixed compost of soil and sand sits gleefully in the center of its faux wooden, store bought mini fence, intent on forcing a point to be made about self-preservation. Margaret focuses her attention on this single marked off spot in an otherwise barren yard.
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This tool is used to evaluate the organizational health of any organization. It is helpful and provides insight into what you and I should be looking for evaluating our workplaces. How does your agency measure up? ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS SYSTEM CHECK-UP: A Risk Management and Performance Quality Benchmarking Tool From: Denis Collins (2009) Essentials of Business
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ORIGINAL SHORT STORY ALERT! She made me call her mommy. She made me comb my hair. She made me bundle up in the snow. She made me wear a raincoat. She made me hold her hand crossing the street. She made me lie for her. She made me vow to God. She made me
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Watch Donald Glover’s This is America music video before reading the assessment below. Then think about violence and depictions of it in America in general. Try to identify at least one symbol from the video and explain the connection to America’s love of violence. What does this symbol suggest about American values? Remember, we are
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I will start to find small crafting projects, friends who have things crafted and want to sell them, and other oddities to sell. All businesses start somewhere, right? On my author’s website I already offer literary services and I hope to expand upon more in the future. Once I graduate with this second master’s degree
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I have been incredibly busy so content has been on hiatus. I am planning for Spring to renew content. So stay tuned…. In the meantime here is a cool poster from Artic Monkeys.
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Marxist and Feminist theories applied to writing open up the blooms of context that the author writes in between the spaces of semantics. Strengthened by analysis, weakened by assumptions, each theory offers insight into novels such as The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, which is subject to conjecture due to the specific nature of each analysis.
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American Modernism writers fictionalize classes of people through lenses, taking a closer look at the microcosm of American culture. Writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, who wrote about the life he lived and longed to have, glamourizing the wealthy of American society while John Steinbeck wrote about the working and poverty classes of America depicting
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Similar to the women of any century, 20th Century Women is one of the most overlooked films that received nowhere near the accolades it should have upon its January 2017 release. Starring Annette Bening, a single mother with a teenage son, struggling to raise him and raise herself simultaneously, in Southern California, in the late ’70s. In
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*Repost from a former blog to this current blog* Dear American Workers, Many joke, making comparisons to the young adult novel trilogy The Hunter Games is similar to life in America. At no point were any of those jokes meant to take on a living breathing reality in American culture, but instead, the novels served as a
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Storytelling is a device used to pass down histories, lessons, and traditions of a people through written or oral stories. Native Americans have a long history of storytelling. Historically the Native American Indian culture has had challenges with keeping their cultural artifacts and stories in a place of stability, due to
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*Repost from a previous blog to this current one* American Renaissance 1876 to 1917 As necessary as a body is to a soul, the philosophical movement, known as Transcendentalism, embodied some of the strongest souls as its members. Along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott wrote about her
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*Repost from a previous blog to this current blog* When people come upon the calendar for the Martin Luther King Jr holiday, not much attention is paid to the culture that surrounded the man who brought America long overdue and never should have been a necessary change. Martin Luther King Jr was a man who
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*Repost from an old blog-moved to this current blog* The Big Short (2015) This film brought the behind the scenes orchestrators of the early 2000’s housing bubble to the forefront. Director Adam McKay, also known for Anchorman, Step Brothers, and The Other Guys, has taken his skill for directing an ensemble cast, pivoting great dialogue and
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American Modernism writers fictionalize classes of people through lenses, taking a closer look at the microcosm of American culture. Writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, who wrote about the life he lived and longed to have, glamourizing the wealthy of American society while John Steinbeck wrote about the working and poverty classes of America depicting
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What Is Your Character’s “White hot center?” Robert Olen Butler. In this post, I will demonstrate through five examples how stories can demonstrate techniques for developing great characters in a story and how they portray their desires in those stories. You should know: Five techniques for developing characters in a story consist of
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Jumping on the NaNoWriMo for 2018! This is my second time and I’m starting a little late but I had some words on the page already. So maybe this won’t be a long month of tears but instead a creative push towards completion. That is the lie I am choosing to tell myself right
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I have the book on my to read list, but until then I sat down to watch the film. The true story of Henrietta Lacks and her stolen cells which led to countless contributions in science, medicine, and engineering, as told by writer Rebecca Skloot in her novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Published in
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Judith Butler argued in the mid-1980’s “that all gender is ‘performative,’ an imitation of a code that refers to no natural substance” (Rivkin, 768). British novelist/screenwriter Alex Garland wrote and directed Ex Machina about a computer programmer Caleb Smith who has won a contest to meet the genius CEO of the company he works for
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Stoop, is the story of Abby, a teenager growing up with her single mother Maggie, who struggles with an addiction to alcohol, men, Jesus, and mental illness. Abby tells her story while asking, “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?” and finds out, “The world would split open.” (Muriel Rukeyser)
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In this presentation, I will demonstrate through five examples how stories can demonstrate five examples of techniques for developing great characters in a story and how they portray their desires in those stories. Five techniques for developing characters in a story consist of giving a character a goal, answering if the story gives the character
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The Goldfinch, reaches out to the many teenagers affected by the contemporary epidemic of domestic terrorist attacks that leave them without a parent, sometimes the only parent they know. Bookshelves are stocked with options in terrorist attacks and how people deal with them. What sets Donna Tartt’s novel apart from all the others on the
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Women in film are more than a token term used to give the appearance of representation and accountability in a historically male-dominated field. With the drumbeat of the #MeToo movement, women in film have become a necessity. A flurry of activity around women-centered programs have been and will continue to spring up, as a result, designed
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This weekend only (Saturday, May 19, 2018, through Monday, May 21, 2018) My novel Stoop will be FREE! Download it, review it, share it! This weekend ONLY! #AmWriting
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Female unity is strengthened through the act of storytelling, as evident in stories shared throughout history in such novels as Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg and Two or Three Things I Know For Sure by Dorothy Allison. Allison’s cathartic memoir speaks to the kind of candid conversations that create
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I’m having a sweepstakes book re-launch of my novel Stoop! Enter to win a copy! https://www.amazon.com/ga/p/61e9d9950f911ed8?ref_=pe_1771210_134854370#ts-dei
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Objectivist poet Louis Zukofsky edited a magazine called Poetry in February 1931, as a result of his connection with Ezra Pound, whom Zukofsky impressed with his fanboy analysis of Pounds poem Cantos. Zukofsky included a list of poets whose works are “absolutely necessary to students of poetry” in the magazine issue (Zukofsky 268). Topping the
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Original Passage: “There is one mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month, the day my mother cuts my hair. I sit on the stool and my mother stands behind me
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Walt Whitman has a particular style of narration that is identifiable as the voice of Whitman, full of detail and intimacy. Gertrude Stein’s narrative voice tells her readers an incredibly detailed story that is also intimate and genuine. The narration of details of anything is a challenge. A writer has to convey the often-overlooked minutia
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The news couldn’t be all bad or all good, otherwise, the brain will figure out it is being played a fool.
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Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird in 1960 about a small town in Georgia that she knew as a child. Lee took the events, the people, the setting that she knew well and created a semi-autobiographical story, which “inspired her fictional community of Maycomb” (Chen). Stieg Larsson used the same literary device in his novel
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Just like the child that began to grow in Frida Kahlo’s womb that never came to fruition, Angela Carter’s The Snow Child creates a child that returns to the earth from which it came. The Count in Carter’s story goes on a journey stating over and over again, “I wish I had a girl…”
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A simple Powerpoint presentation on the power of introductions in novels, using three Toni Morrison novels. A great introduction can bring a reader in and hope to fall in love with the words on the page, while a shoddy introduction can lose a reader who otherwise might love the rest of the story. There is
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My debut novel : Available on Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Stoop-Angel-Rodrigues/dp/1718692064/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526384414&sr=8-1&keywords=angel+rodrigues&dpID=51jidDR9qoL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch Also available in E-Book format:
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Check out my short story “Dinner For Two” in the Anthology Always and for Never. Buy it and review it just in time for Valentine’s Day! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r14zhJ5sl5Y&feature=share
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Nominate my novel on Kindle Scout! It’s only live for 30 days! Go now! Please and thank you! https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/19M48TDFVNTRZ #writing #Reading #Kindle #KindleScout
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In my opinion, which comes from a place of experience, sexual predators come in many variant degrees of style, but ultimately all fall into the same pool. I work in social services so I have worked with many individuals who fall on that variant degrees of the spectrum that highlights all the types of individuals
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Atmos FX review of their window/wall projection decoration. Disclaimer: The product was given to me for free to review. First impressions: WOW! This unit has many slides and more can be added. In addition to this the unit comes with slides for all occasions. The fun begins with Halloween, then goes on to Christmas/Holidays, Birthdays,
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“Don’t talk! You’re breaking my concentration!” he said before pressing his cast covered forearm harder across my throat. “You’re hurting me! Get off of me! Now!” I squeak out one last time before I realize my next breath might be my last. “I TOLD YOU TO SHUT THE FUCK UP!” My windpipe starts to feel
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Without a doubt this film is destined to be a cult classic, just as its predecessor was. It didn’t bank much this weekend at the box office and neither did the other, but over time made its money back and then some. I feel this film will do the same. Now, with that being said
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#NewRelease #LIVE Dirty Fairytales Anthology from ☛ Cheri Marie, Brandy Dorsch, JM Schalm, LB Russell, Reagan Hollow, Carissa Laryea, Ava Harper Kent, Barb Shuler, Jaime Russell, Ava Danielle, Bethany Loughlin-Frost, and Kelsey Jensen ⭐️Amazon US: http://amzn.to/2eSWq8G ⭐️Amazon CA: http://amzn.to/2eTme4H ⭐️Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/2w56sie ⭐️Amazon AU: http://amzn.to/2wWTRup ⭐️Barnes & Noble: http://bit.ly/2x7dfIE ⭐️Kobo: http://bit.ly/2yQyT16 #Goodreads ☛ http://bit.ly/2wZ3wB0
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Marxist and Feminist theories applied to writing open up the blooms of context that the author writes in between the spaces of semantics. Strengthened by analysis, weakened by assumptions, each theory offers insight into novels such as The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, which is subject to conjecture due to the specific nature of
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American Modernism literature seeks to be contemporary while harkening to classics in an ever-changing world. T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” asks readers to find redemption in a baron landscape after the lands have been raped of everything. The “profit and loss” of the lands that have been left and forgotten like the “cry of gulls,”
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The setting in “A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner creates a portrait of a small town with just enough people to keep it busy, yet everyone knows everyone’s business. In the setting of this story, Miss Emily has an estate that is often in dire need of organization, cleaning, and care beyond what is
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This was not a case of millions of people believing him to be great when he wasn’t after all, such as when a seemingly great person makes you happy and then as soon as they turn they wipe their hands of even touching you, but instead made you feel great and loved then turned and…
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Check out my article in Feed Front Magazine on Why You Need A Press Release.
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To begin the act of writing, comprehension of the building blocks for grammar, style, composition, syntax, diction, and prose is necessary. Not having an understanding of each component would lead to disaster. Imagine trying to bake a cake without knowing exactly what each ingredient is. You may be able to add them all together and
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Reflections of the English Language mirror our desires to communicate with each other in spite of not always knowing all the rules. An immigrant may not know all of the rules to the English language, but that does not stop them from communicating to the best of their ability in English in order to be
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I am an intern for The Film Standard Magazine and I have been doing reviews. Here is the link if you’d like to check them out. Check back weekly or bi-weekly as they publish them on a rotation with the other interns and staff. PS They still haven’t corrected the spelling of my last name
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Writer and activist bell hooks helps us process the post-election state of feminism, and tells us how to move forward in the era of Trump… Source: bell hooks On The State Of Feminism And How To Move Forward Under Trump: BUST Interview I absolutely adore bell hooks, but this article is bullshit. Not only
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What is a boogieman, but an age-old tale, told around a campfire, so common to children and adults alike, designed to give people a fright. African American writers tell stories about the several incantations of a boogieman and its omniscient presence in their lives. In African American literature, a boogieman can be dated as far
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I wrote nothing about the inauguration of the incoming president because I don’t have to. I wrote nothing because focusing on the abuser enables him. I wrote nothing because his unlawful election was such a blight on American History that I have to construct a discussion about it that speaks to the enormity of it, not
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Whether you are male or female, this issue should be important to you. Populating the earth is not an issue and overpopulation is certainly something to consider. As a mother of four, I certainly am not advocating not having children. What I am advocating is allowing a woman to make informed choices about her body,
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Ava is the peformative imitation of the code that Nathan programs into her to appear as real as possible, but without any natural substance involved in her creation.
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The five present tenses of Ebonics phonics interested Toni Morrison and wanted to capture it in her writing before the language was lost forever. “Ebonics is one of the most distinctive varieties of American English, differing from Standard English” (Rickford, 2). The five present tenses change a sentence such as, “he is running,” to “he
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All too often mom is the last person in the household who gets time to do what she wants to do. Making breakfast, ironing clothes (ya who am I kidding, extra roll in the dryer is what I meant), packing school lunches, finding dad’s work pants that you know he just took off somewhere and
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Sometimes when life gets hectic, so does the blogging commitment. I have no one to blame but myself. I deleted the old Artificially Awake Mom blog since it was becoming more of a chore than a joy. Then I got tons of request for it by email and on Twitter. I slowly developed regret. I
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