Now that you know what an enclosure on a cover letter is, let’s get into the nitty-gritty of how it actually works and what you need to include. Create a list of the documents you’re going to include with your cover letter off to the side. Find your name at the end of your co...
it always comes down to the local spots—places where you can get authentic food without the tourist traps,” he says. “In Paris, there’s a small restaurant where the food is fantastic, the wine is plentiful, and you get that gritty, authentic experience. That’s the real Paris for m...
“clipped with the scissors once in every five or six weeks, which is all the treatment they require to make them long and curved” (Current Literature: A Magazine of Contemporary Record, 1896). Not that people needed the advice, for “every mother knows that she has only to clip her ...
I’ve seen plenty of students come in and say, I want to write a novel about blah blah blah. But you just can’t do it. You can only write a novel about a character who does something wrong, and see what happens from there. Novels are compendiums of bad behavior, and literature i...
‘Well, supposin’ it does?’ she inquired, coolly. ‘It’s a perfectly good neck, ain’t it?’ Louie, his face very red, took the plunge. ‘I don’t know. I guess so. But, Sophy, it — looks so — so — you know what I mean. I hate to see the way the fellows rubber...
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and the canvas is you. Poetic definitions of poetry kind of spiral in on themselves, however, like a dog eating itself from the tail up. Let's get nitty. Let's, in fact, get gritty. We can likely render an accessible definition of poetry by simply looking at its form and its purpose...
Langston Kerman: Bad Poetry(2024):Comedian Langston Kerman talks parenting a top-tier baby, teaching mean teens and managing his mother-in-law's dating apps in this hilarious special. Terror Tuesday: Extremeseason 1 (Thailand):Inspired by the Thai horror radio show "Angkhan Khlumpong," this...
This goes back to the roots of this blog: unflinching, gritty examinations of real anatomy! Of course, no elephants were harmed for this work. They died at EU zoos/parks and were sent to me for postmortem examination and research, so we hope that this benefits the future care of ...
visceral, I feel like it just rips you open, but then it feels to me that he has so much hope left which is something that I really appreciate, so even if a book is dark or gritty, if you feel like there's some redemption, or hope. I feel like it needs to have that at the ...