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Bonnie Tyler’s “I need a Hero” is blaring out over the scene, adding the music. Funny, crazy, dynamic and all rolled into one location. Possibly why people complain about the effectiveness of Memory Palaces is that they’re not using vivid imagery. It has to be totally outlandish if ...
For example, the letters “e” “a” and “t” do not mean anything individually in English other than the sounds they represent. You can put them together to spell words, such as “eat,” which then forms a meaning. However, in Japanese, there is a kanji for the meaning “eat” or...
Feeding distinct product details such as color palettes, motifs, and catchphrases into DALL-E 3 provides enough textual context to generate posters tailored for diverse social media outlets. Here’s an example prompt you may use: “Movie poster for the movie Fight Club, feature Tyler Durden, a...
I read Joe Studwell’s How Asia Works because it claimed to answer two of the greatest questions in development economics: How did countries like Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and China achieve sustained, high growth and turn into development success stories? And why have so few other countries...
To me, it seems there are two trends going on at once. There are the people who want to name their kids something original and there are the people who think naming your kid something original is an exercise in narcissism and a huge disservice to your child. ...
It happens at the start of every school year:Teachers decide that once and for all, they are going to fix the problem of student grammar errors.These kids can’t write,they say.They don’t know their parts of speech. They can’t spell. They write in “text language.” Their writing ...
Or how to spell "Pol Pot". I've found that when making ill-informed black-or-white comments regarding sh-t that I don't know the first thing about, correct spelling is a must. step back on November 9, 2010 - 4:27am Permalink | Parent | Comments top Well said. Nazism or other...
Tyler SLOW. Water normal stain; 55 degrees; 0.23 feet above pool. Few catches of catfish on cut bait and stink bait. Bream are slow. Bass are fair on crankbaits and trick worms. Crappie are slow on minnows in 30 feet of water. Expect all species to begin to move shallow in the nex...
Include her name when asking her questions, such as, "What made you interested in working in technology, [insert name]?" The more often you repeat the person's name right away, the more likely you are to remember it later.[1] 2 Ask them to spell their name. If their name is ...