Selfish. Unlike traditional heroes, they are rarely in it for the right reasons, but are instead motivated by selfish gain. Because of this they usually make reluctant heroes in a story and are only motivated to help others if they can gain from it personally, as a last resort, or if th...
Today's manufacturers understand the importance of packaging to their success. If a product's packaging fails, it may become unfit for function, impossible to handle and store, or even utterly unusable and unsellable, regardless of how desirable or valuable the product is. Poor packing can harm ...
Every day, more people decide to go vegetarian. This guide makes it easy by acquainting you with all the best alternatives to meat.
He copied them, and left his old style behind, forming a new meld which became what we now think of as Cubism. And then he left that behind, never to return to it. To be fair, Barbara Cartland, perhaps did copy herself too much. The last two decades of her life, while prolific, ...
and equal protection covered violations of citizens’ rights by the states, but not by individuals—would make prosecuting anti-Black violence increasingly difficult, even as the Klan and other white supremacist groups were helping to disenfranchise Black voters and reassert white control of the South...
To help overcome these challenges with benching desks some companies have added $10,000 “phone booths” to their open space plans to provide workers with some quiet time for concentration, or just a place to make a quiet phone call. Many office workers are ...
You've come so far — but there's still more to go! This final step in our process focuses on the nitty-gritty of your text: it's the copy edit. And the great thing about copy editing is that it's so cut-and-dried. If you spot a grammatical error, you knowexactlyhow to fix ...
Because we “see” an action the character takes and because we see it happening it has an emotional impact on us. In the first example, we’re “told” what the character is (arthritic). Doesn’t make much of an impression at all. Not even close to the impression we get when we ...
led his own band, the Family Stone, but also wrote for others and tried to cultivate a stable of artists on his own label: Stone Flower. He self-produced his debut album. His band was purposefully mixed by race and gender. He dressed to make a woman stare. Larry Graham was his ...
These Watchmen prequels seem like a terrible idea. (I’m actually curious about just how bad they will be, even though I don’t want to support the effort financially.) But from a moral standpoint, I’m not quite clear on what a “basic deference to the undisturbed value of the few ...