Download PDF Improve Your Handwriting by Rosemary Sassoon and G SE Briem

Sinopsis

Some people seem to think that handwriting is redundant and not worth teaching any more. This is not true. It is still an important, if not vital, skill worldwide.

Even in countries where computers are in constant use, both in schools and the home, they cannot do everything. It will be many years before they will be generally approved for use in examinations. Then, what about note-taking? Today most of us need a fl exible way of writing – fast, almost a scribble for ourselves alone to read, and progressively slower and more legible for other purposes. The less attention given to teaching handwriting, the worse the situation will become.

What about you? How do you feel when you look at your own script, and perhaps compare it to other people ’ s? If anyone is criticizing your handwriting, there is no way of hiding it. It is not a happy situation to be made to feel inadequate. You may only imagine that something is wrong or think that others see your script as immature. It has the same effect. You get all tensed up, and that only makes matters worse.

Then there are times when a typed letter is inappropriate and you want something more personal. You want something special. We all know the feeling when an envelope arrives and you recognize the hand of a much-loved friend or relative. There are so many reasons for keeping up handwriting and acquiring a satisfactory personal script. What is more, unfair though it is, we are often judged by the appearance of our handwriting by the outside world. Just addressing that envelope may be revealing.

Writing by hand can make a difference to what you write as well. It is interesting to learn that the more creative writers and poets are, the more likely they are to prefer writing by hand. It is that feeling of straight from the mind to the paper via the hand.

Content

1. Handwriting problems
2. Self-diagnosis
3. More about self-diagnosis
4. Practical matters
5. Help for left-handers
6. More serious problems
7. How to put things right
8. Regaining control
9. Rhythm and texture
10. A training model
11. Joining up
12. Personal modifi cations
13. Capital letters
14. Before and after
15. Finishing touches
16. Layout
17. A more formal model

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Download PDF The Great Mortality by John Kelly

Content 

1. Chapter One - Oimmeddam
2. Chapter Two - “They Are Monsters, Not Men”
3. Chapter Three - The Day Before the Day of the Dead
4. Chapter Four - Sicilian Autumn
5. Chapter Five - Villani’s Last Sentence
6. Chapter Six - The Curse of the Grand Master
7. Chapter Seven - The New Galenism
8. Chapter Eight - “Days of Death Without Sorrow”
9. Chapter Nine - Heads to the West, Feet to the East
10. Chapter Ten - God’s First Love
11. Chapter Eleven - “O Ye of Little Faith”
12. Chapter Twelve - “Only the End of the Beginning”

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Download PDF The Red Book Liber Novus C.G Jung

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Download PDF MAKING SENSE OF SEX A Forthright Guide to Puberty, Sex and Relationships for People with Asperger’s Syndrome by SARAH ATTWOOD

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Download PDF Conrad, Joseph - Complete Works (Delphi Classics, 2012)

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Download PDF Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness & Selected Short Fiction (Barnes & Noble, 2003)

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Download PDF Conrad, Joseph - Complete Works (v1.1, Sept. 2013)

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Download PDF A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION Joseph Conrad HEART OF DARKNESS AUTHORITATIVE TEXT BACKGROUNDS AND CONTEXTS CRITICISM FOURTH EDITION Edited by PAUL B. ARMSTRONG

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By now, more than a century after its first publication in 1899, Heart of Darkness is indisputably a “classic” text. This is both good and bad. The advantages are clear: a “classic” continues to be read, if only because it has already been read again and again and has thereby become part of the cultural air we breathe. If authors generally intend anything, it is that their works survive beyond their passing. Demonstrating a capacity to be interpreted in many different ways (some of these perhaps not imaginable at the time of writing) is how a text lives on. Heart of Darkness is a “classic” not because it has an immutable meaning that has endured for several generations but because readers have been able to attribute so many different meanings to it. The disadvantages of “classic” status may be less obvious but are nevertheless real and demonstrable, and Heart of Darkness has suffered from them as well. A text that has been read and analyzed and discussed as thoroughly as has Conrad’s short novel runs the risk of becoming so familiar that it grows tired, losing its ability to surprise, please, or give rise to thought. A classic text also sets itself up as a target to be shot down—to be demystified for its complicity with prevailing ideologies whose interests are served by its preservation (and may, in the view of suspicious-minded critics, be the reason for its veneration). Especially after Marlon Brando’s performance as Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, the once resounding words “the horror, the horror” have become a cliché. For that very reason (and perhaps ironically), some of the scathing attacks that have recently been directed at Heart of Darkness—exposing it as a racist, sexist, or imperialist text—have made it more interesting by showing new and unexpected ways of reading it and by revivifying the critical debates through which it is preserved. Attacking and demystifying a classic text can, paradoxically, give it a new lease on life.

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Download PDF OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS JOSEPH CONRAD Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard Edited with an Introduction and Notes by JACQUES BERTHOUD and MARA KALNINS

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Conrad is acknowledged as one of the great writers of the twentieth century, but neither in his lifetime nor after have his works been available in authoritative texts. This was partly because Conrad himself revised his writings at several stages (in manuscript, typescript, and proofs), partly because many of his works appeared in different versions (slightly so in the English and American editions, significantly so in serial and book form), and partly because he himself continued to revise them for subsequent publication. Moreover he was involved in still further revision of the texts when his works were issued in the collected editions of Doubleday and Heinemann in 1921, though the extent of his involvement varied considerably from work to work. Like many authors, he also suffered from the well-meant, but often misguided, editorial efforts of his publishers who not only imposed their own house styling but sometimes changed his grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and even altered whole phrases. The textual history of Conrad’s works—the revisions they underwent and their transmission and publication—is therefore an intricate and complicated one. A scholarly edition of the Letters and Works is currently being prepared by Cambridge University Press and eight volumes of the Letters as well as two novels have been published to date.

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Download PDF JOSEPH CONRAD Lord Jim A Tale Edited with an Introduction by ALLAN H. SIMMONS

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Never out of print since its publication in 1900, Lord Jim in some sense requires little introduction. It is one of the high points in the development of the English novel, marking the transition from the Victorian novel of social concern to Modernist experiments with form that culminated in the writings of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Lord Jim confirmed Conrad's authorial genius and ushered in his greatest creative phase. The novels that followed included the great trio of political novels: Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907) 

and Under Western Eyes (1911).

Published at the height of Empire, when the British Merchant Service dominated the world's shipping-trade, Lord Jim is a very British novel. It tells the story of a young English officer in the Merchant Service who disgraces himself before becoming the benevolent ‘virtual ruler’ of a remote Malay state. The English narrator, Marlow, is one of Conrad's most celebrated and enduring creations. To Virginia Woolf, ‘Conrad was compound of two men; together with the sea captain dwelt that subtle, refined, and fastidious analyst whom he called Marlow.’¹ Through Marlow, Conrad brings an English perspective to bear upon social codes of comportment and inclusion, together with the public and private responsibilities these entail. Coming after ‘Youth’ (1898) and Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim completes a trilogy of Marlow narratives.

The novel is shaped by its concern with the life-giving properties of danger, the dark voids that gape under the most polished of surfaces and the problem, once these have been perceived, of going on living. In his ‘Author's Note’, Conrad identified his subject as ‘the acute consciousness of lost honour’. Marlow views it as one of ‘those struggles of an individual trying to save from the fire his idea of what his moral identity should be’ (VII). Published in the same year as Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, the novel shares Freud's concern with identity, questioning whether the self is ultimately public or private property.

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Download PDF Why Now Is The Time To Crush It! Cash In On Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk

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How badly do you want to crush it? Is it an all-consuming feeling? Do you stay awake at night, your brain swimming with ideas and dreams? Are you willing to do whatever it takes for the chance to live entirely on your own terms? If so, you’re lucky. You’re lucky because you live in an age of unmatched opportunity for anyone with enough hustle, patience, and big dreams. I should know, since that’s all I had to work with.

Three years ago I was an anomaly, a guy with very limited technology skills who used social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr to build a highly fulfilling and profitable personal brand. Back then, a lot of people were unwilling to accept that the business world—that society—was changing, and if I had tried to tell you that you could build a business that creates wealth and the most happiness you’ve ever known with nothing more than passion and a willingness to work your face off, you might not have believed me. Now, though, the opportunities are endless—I don’t think enough people have yet grasped just how much society and business and even the Internet have changed—and my story is about to become a lot less unusual. If you want it badly enough, it can become your story, in a lot less time and for a lot less money.

Here’s how fast change has taken hold: I helped take my dad’s local liquor store, Shopper’s Discount Liquors, and blew it up from four million dollars to fifty million dollars in eight years (1998–2005). I’m proud of that. But aside from a ton of hard work, it took millions of dollars in advertising with the New York Times, Wine Spectator, and other publications as well as radio stations and local TV. Compare that with when I started building my personal brand in February 2006—to this day it has cost me far less in money (less than $15,000) than in sweat, and I’m having more fun than I’ve ever had in my life. You’ve got sweat, right? You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen.

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Download PDF Joseph Conrad Secret Agent Modern Library 1993

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Download PDF Damn You Autocorrect Awesomely Embarrasing Text Mesages You Didn't Mean To Send by Jillian Madison

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Download PDF CLARK’S BIG BOOK OF BARGAINS by CLARK HOWARD

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This book is about spending money, something we do every day, but sometimes without a lot of thought. We spend our money in so many ways, large and small, that sometimes we wonder where our paycheck went. I’d like every dollar you earn to buy more and last longer.

One of the reasons I wrote Clark’s Big Book of Bargains is to show you how to treasure hunt, how to have fun—as I do—finding great deals. For example, I’ll show you how to buy a box of disposable contact lenses for $13.95, a bouquet of roses on Valentine’s Day for $19, and a great bottle of wine for less than $8.

I also want to share my philosophy of spending and give you a new way to think about the choices you make each time you open your wallet. Instead of burning your paycheck, nurse it, so you can get more of the things you want in life.

Making better spending decisions lets you take control of your life and gain more financial security. Every day on my radio show, I talk to listeners around the country whose spending, and the resulting debt, is causing tremendous stress in their lives. Is it worth having the possessions you have, if underneath it all, you’re trying to figure out how to pay the bills? I want to help you turn down the pressure, so you don’t have to worry when you open the mailbox about the bills waiting for you.

The average American now owes more money than they earn in a year, according to data compiled by the Wall Street Journal. Never in history has that happened, and it’s deeply disturbing. Just ten years ago, we carried far less debt than we do today. And this isn’t just a problem for lower-income or middle-class people. High-income families, those in the top fifth of U.S. households, are carrying debt averaging 20 percent more than their disposable income, according to the Wall Street Journal. If you get anything out of this book, I hope it will be the idea that this is a choice people have made, not a necessity.

The answer is simple. It’s not what you earn that matters—it’s what you spend. If you spend less than you earn, you can take the dollars you don’t consume, and put them aside to build long-term financial security for you, your children, their education, and your retirement.

This book is about choices you can make that will allow you to live a debt-free lifestyle, or at the very least, a lifestyle that puts you in control of your finances.

Some of the things you’ll read in here might sound a little strange, like feeding your baby generic formula, or buying used furniture. I’m certainly not suggesting you do everything you read here. This isn’t like a recipe, where you have to follow the steps carefully, and only then will the dish taste good. Look for ideas that work for you, and add your own. You may have ideas that are better than what I suggest. The goal is to create a new way of thinking about spending, before you spend. Perhaps you’ve always gone to a major oil company station to buy gasoline, you have that company’s credit card, and you go there without thinking. Instead, think about going to a discount gas station. Just making that one change will put a few extra dollars in your pocket every week. Or let’s say you normally buy Tide detergent at the supermarket. What if instead you bought Tide at a discount store, or if you bought the store-brand detergent and tried it? Maybe you’ll like it and use it again and again.

Content

1. CHAPTER 1 - FOOD 
2. SUPERMARKETS
3. RESTAURANTS
4. FAST FOOD
5. LEARNING TO COOK
6. WINE
7. BOTTLED WATER
8. CHAPTER 2 - FAMILY + CHILDREN
9. BUYING FOR YOUR FIRST CHILD
10. RAISING CLARK-SMART KIDS
11. MUSIC AND DANCE LESSONS
12. THE DENTIST
13. PRIVATE SCHOOLS
14. PETS
15. CHAPTER 3 - NECESSITIES
16. CLOTHING
17. SHOES
18. HAIRCUTS
19. COSMETICS
20. EYEGLASSES AND CONTACT LENSES
21. PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
22. THE EMERGENCY ROOM
23. CHAPTER 4 - LEISURE
24. MOVIES
25. MUSIC
26. BOOKS
27. VIDEO GAMES
28. THEATER AND SPORTS TICKETS
29. VACATIONS
30. CHAPTER 5 - ELECTRONICS + APPLIANCES
31. CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
32. LARGE APPLIANCES
33. CHAPTER 6 - EVENTS
34. PARTIES
35. WEDDINGS
36. CHRISTMAS SHOPPING
37. VALENTINE’S DAY
38. FUNERALS
39. CHAPTER 7 - HOME IMPROVEMENT
40. PAINTING
41. CARPET AND FLOORING
42. SHEETS AND TOWELS
43. HIGH-EFFICIENCY LIGHTBULBS
44. SMOKE DETECTORS
45. FURNITURE
46. HOME SERVICES
47. CHAPTER 8 - CARS
48. TIRES
49. DETAILING
50. OIL CHANGES
51. REPAIRS
52. TOWING
53. GASOLINE

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Download PDF Cass R. Sunstein - On Rumors. How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, and What Can Be Done 2014

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