I knew my lines, but I was terrified to have to recite them in front of an audience. As soon as I saw the crowd of people down there, my heart beat so fast that I was unable to say a single word. W: That's how I feel just thinking about the spelling competition next week. ...
Thus, to seek marriage equality for the wrong reasons is not only to divert queer energies and resources away from the ongoing endeavor of transforming the culture, but also to invest those energies and resources in the reinforcement of the same heteronormative culture queer activists seek to trans...
if your instructor asks you to write an essay about the influences on Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde, they are essentially asking, “What cause or causes produced Bonnie and Clyde?” Your thesis statement should directly answer that question. For example, you may answer it by writing, “Bon...
Remember, storm surges are where you see boats on top of trees 20 miles inland. Katrina. That kind of thing. Storm surge is the big problem in hurricanes. So, I pay very close attention to tropical disturbances in the southwestern Caribbean, because these could hit Tampa directly. A direct...
There are few whom I can open up to with a straight stream of consciousness and I must say that there are only a few. It has never been a normal pattern for me to open up and write to another direct. I believe that it was Dirk who had the good intentions for the good of this ...
Yesterday, October 7, would have been my sister Charlotte’s 80th birthday. I meant to write a blog post celebrating her birthday. I felt that weird sort of self-consciousness that social media provokes: if I don’t publicly share what I’m doing, did I do it? By not writing a publi...
had an idea for a stage show that their daughter’s school could put on. That man was my late brother,Will Shaman(before he was late, obviously), his wife wasTheolyn Cortens, and in the course of time they brought me on board to write the script. In the course of even more time,...
) For my McSweeney’s piece there’s not a single draft on my computer. I wrote it, edited it, and published it from one file. I remember showering and furiously crafting this letter I would send to my friends. I didn’t write a word until I had all the biting phrases worked out...
The aim of this is to make sales. And while making those sales still count as conversion, it’s focused on taking someone from their current stage of the buyer’s journey straight to level 5 of the game (ie: making a purchase.) ...
Judge Orders Juror to Write 30-Page Essay In January of 2023,Judge Glanville punished a juror who decided to go on a trip to the Dominican Republic instead of going to jury duty.When the woman returned to jury duty, the judge reprimanded the juror by ordering her to complete a 30-page ...