In their May 8, 2006, issue, Newsweek listed their Best 100 Public Schools across the nation. They ranked the schools using a ratio of the number of Advanced Placement (AP) and/or International Baccalaureate tests taken by all students within a school, divided by the number of graduating seniors. The 2006 list was based on the […]
The Essentials of Writing an Autobiography
Writing one’s autobiography is perhaps one of the most challenging writing projects one can ever hope to accomplish. After all, it is hard to put into words one’s own life – the ups and downs, highs and lows, triumphs and losses. While we might find our lives a little bit interesting, others may not have […]
Product Review – "The Clickbank Profit Machine" by Dylan Loh
As I frequently review new internet marketing products, I recently received a free copy of a new product which is the brainchild of a young man living in Singapore. I have reviewed several of these so-called “money-making programs”, and I approach each with a wary eye. Some have valuable information, but it is presented badly […]
Difference Between SEO Writing and Ghost Writing
A person or a company may require understanding the difference between SEO writing and ghost writing while looking for a freelancer to outsource various types of writing projects. The SEO writing and the ghost writing are two form of writing quite different from each other. An SEO writer writes content for the SEO use specifically, […]
The Eight Great Spelling Rules
Although the American-English spelling system has evolved from many sources, there are specific patterns that are well-worth learning. These spelling patterns, or spelling rules, all have exceptions; however, they are minimal. It is always efficient to memorize the rule, rather than all of the exceptions. In baseball, batters are taught to “look for the fastball, […]
The World’s First Woman Admiral, Artemisia I Was Born in Bodrum!
Artemisia I – Warrior Queen of Halicarnassus Artemisia I, brilliant military strategist and commander, acted as adviser to Xerxes I on his campaigns in the Persian Wars. She was born in the late 6th century BC, purportedly in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor modern Bodrum, Turkey and known as The First Woman Admiral. Most of […]
Predestination and Free Will by John Calvin – a Satirical Synopsis
Briefly, the essay on predestination and free will by Calvin discusses the preordaining and predetermination of events discussing an incorrigible helplessness towards fate on one hand, and on the other, it demurs the first by discussing ‘free will’, where fate is rendered incorrigibly helpless towards man’s ordaining and determination of events. Calvin propounds the elaborate […]
Online Dating: 13 Tips to Write a Winning Online Profile and Attract a Date
How long do you spend getting ready for a night out? At a guess I would say that if you’re a woman you can probably spend 1 hour upwards preening and titivating and if you’re a man you can be showered, shaved and out of the door within 20 minutes (unless, of course, you’re a […]
Langston Hughes – The Life, Times, Works as Well as Impact of a Versatile African-American Writer
Langston Hughes stands as a literary and cultural translation of the political resistance and campaign of black consciousness leaders such as Martin Luther King to restore the rights of the black citizenry thus fulfilling the ethos of the American dream, which is celebrated universally every year around February to April. Hughes’ overriding sense of a […]
How to Improve Your Writing Skills
Writing is an art – a creative art. Craft and creativity are two inseparable ingredients of writing. Writing is not just the mere craft of constructing grammatically perfect sentences with proper spelling and punctuation, but much more than that. The craft in writing can be effortlessly learned or fine-tuned substantially. But the creativity in writing […]