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Guide for Writers: Words to Avoid
If you miss the humor of this introduction, you won’t after reading this document. The sentence contains a basic grammar error, a style slip, and several vague words.) When editing a manuscript, some words deserve to die — not always, but usually. In the works we edit, and in our own works, we encounter words and phrases that are overused, imprecise, and… boring. Writing needs to compel readers to continue from one sentence to the next.
The 10 Best Disney Songs You've Never Heard
Anyone can whistle or sing their favorite Disney song, but for every ‘Under the Sea’ and ‘A Whole New World,’ there are dozens of orphaned tunes that never made it into their respective film. Too bad, since many of these unfortunate victims of time constraints or script rewrites are really catchy. However, many of these never-before-seen songs have surfaced online with their accompanying storyboards to let us sigh and wonder at what might have been. Take a look at 10 great Disney songs that were left on the cutting room floor. The creative team of 'Aladdin' had to make numerous changes to the film, including cutting many songs, characters and trimming the plot.
10 Instant Emotional Fitness Tools
When things get out of control and you momentarily lose your emotional balance, there are any number of little things you can do to regain it. Here are ten tools to help get you started. 1.
National Geographic photographer’s unbelievable encounter with vicious predator in Antarctica (VIDEO)
by Dan Havlik posted Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 5:29 PM EDT We've posted quite a few amazing underwater photography videos here before but this story might be the most unbelievable yet.
24 - THE DIRTY - Dirty Laundry - {the blog}
Friendship Day is 8/7. So I'm going to try my hand at making some friendship bracelets for a few of my friends that have helped me SO much with Dirty Laundry over the past several weeks. I'm going to try to make some snazzy ones!
Visual Culture & Jammin' in the Rain
Jammin’ in the Rain Rain doesn’t have to be dreary. The Rain Drum is a beat making product that features mounted sound inputs on the exterior of an umbrella top that make different drum noises when raindrops touch it. The shade of the umbrella contains five wax-cloth coverings with varying elasticities to create a range of tones and frequencies, depending on the size and speed of the falling rain drop.
Key Stage 3 teaching materials - MTRS schemes
Key Stage 3 Materials Pupil access page is www.mtrs.co.uk/pupils The Elements of Sound / Graphic Scores A practical 8 week course introducing graphic scoring techniques and control of classroom instruments.Age guide : 11-12 (UK Year 7) Basic Keyboard Skills Pupils get to know keyboard functions and start learning to read staff notation through composing and performing.Age guide : 11-12 (UK Year 7). This scheme is now in the public domain (July 2002)
College Fashion - Tips, trends and style for students.
What to Wear to the Gym I had planned to write up a post on cute gym clothes next month, but since this is my most requested article ever, I couldn’t wait to show you! Usually I photograph three outfits per article, but since this is a special thank you for so many requests, I decided to unload my entire athletic drawer to show you guys what I wear to the gym. Sit back and enjoy. Unless otherwise stated, all of the clothes are from TJ Maxx, because their gym clothes will not weigh your budget down.
A dream treehouse · Sheepy Me
I've always wanted a treehouse when I was a child but living in a city made it a little difficult. Instead, we would built forts, tents or just crawl under the bed to play. It's weird right now but back then we really loved having those hideouts where nobody could find us. We could stay there for as long as we wanted.
Songwriting Exercises - Handout
Songwriting Exercises by Joel Mabus Scaffolding
