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"Reflections" By Selena Marie Harriman 2-28-18,3-1-18 What does it mean to be married to you? It means curling up to you at night and feeling your body beside me. It means feeling your warmth it means feeling the rise and fall of your stomach the soft snoring when I know your comfortable. It means…
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"A Splash of Color" gardening/factual writing
“A Splash of Color”
Gardening
By Selena Marie Grasso which also includes outside sources
January 21, 2015
Since I moved out of my mother’s house and I’ve moved out on my own the one thought that I’ve been obsessed with is how to have an amazing garden and I think that I’m going to go out and get that fantastic garden that I’ve been dreaming about since August. Now like any good gardener I’m researching a lot of this because what’s a garden if it fails?
Now I live in an apartment specifically in New Hampshire and I have a balcony which I think I lucked out. Now I have small garden? I’m not sure if you can call it that I have four spider plants because they keep multiplying and it kind of looks like I’ll be getting more, I also have a small palm tree. Now I am not content with these plants just because they are the plants that I had on my office desk back in New York and it doesn’t take a genius to keep them alive (okay maybe the palm they can be fussy).
Since I’m not allowed to have an in-ground garden I have to make something more portable especially if I end up moving at any point. So this instalment of gardening is going to be on Adding Color to my garden/house. I will be working on another one where I start researching what types of plants I can grow in pots that are edible.
Pot friendly plants:
Roses: http://www.rosemagazine.com/pages/containers.asp I would love yellow roses just because I’m partial to the yellow I would also love “black” but I feel like those might be harder to find.
Tulips: http://www.finegardening.com/how-plant-tulips-pots seems almost like a no brainer. Also the best part of growing these in pots and where I live is I live on the third floor of my building which means that the deer won’t be eating them. Tulips are my absolute favorite flowers and I love them dearly in fact my current (and longest relationship of 5 years) gave me the most beautiful bouquet of roses on Valentine’s Day 2012. They are special to me because not only did he manage to get my favorite flower in February but he has been the only man to give me a bouquet of my favorite flower.
Lilies: https://www.lilyflowerstore.com/lily-care/lilies-in-containers.html not as simple as the tulips however still fairly simple one just have to be careful with the repotting process since lilies tend to be a bit more fragile than some of the other flowers I have mentioned or will be mentioning.
Bearded Irises: http://homeguides.sfgate.com/grow-bearded-irises-containers-66847.html this might prove difficult since I’m not a huge fan of the bearded iris but these seem like the ones that I can grow into containers the easiest. I’m not complaining they do come in a variety of colors and I will welcome the changes from just green. Not that green is a bad color I’m just itching for some color. I will also be getting a sturdy shovel because I will need it.
Yellow Daisies: http://www.doityourself.com/stry/planting-a-yellow-daisy#b daises in general aren’t my favorite however I’m very sentimental to these in particular: I received these flowers on my three month anniversary (I don’t count months I stopped doing that in high school when my relationships became typically more serious) from my first time ever serious high school boyfriend. He gave me a huge bouquet of yellow daises and he became the first man to ever buy me flowers at all and they have always held a special place in my heart. I wonder if he remembers giving these to me or if knows just how much they ended up meaning to me. So you have no idea how happy I am to know that they will grow in a pot.
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Throwback Thursday: A Delta II booster successfully launches GPS II-10 from Cape Canaveral on Nov. 26, 1990.
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“I Was There—Tarawa”
The Unites States Marine Corps fought the Battle of Tarawa over four days in beginning with their initial amphibious assault on November 20, 1943 through November 23, 1943. At the end of the battle, nearly a thousand Marines were dead, and over two thousand were wounded. Of those Japanese forces holding the island, there were nearly 4700 casualties. Only seventeen Japanese soldiers surrendered; of about a thousand Korean forced laborers, 129 survived the battle.
Beyond the strategic value of the victory, the battle is significant today because so much of it was caught on film by our combat cameramen. Seeing the footage made the experience real for those on the home front, and serves as a record of the horror of war for those of us who watch it now.
The public saw the Battle of Tarawa in the documentary short With the Marines at Tarawa, but the story was also told in the Army-Navy Screen Magazine, a newsreel series produced by the U.S. military and presented only to the troops. In comparison to With the Marines at Tarawa, “I Was There—Tarawa”, presents a more graphic view of the battle and a more upbeat tone in the conclusion. “I Was There” also focuses on the usually invisible combat cameramen, men who put their lives at risk to record the war for history.
In the newsreel story, combat cameraman Norman Hatch recounts the story of the battle as he shows the footage to other cameramen. Hatch “went in with the first wave on the landing at Tarawa, armed with a pistol and a hand-camera” It’s Hatch’s 35mm black and white footage that you see in With the Marines at Tarawa, starting at about 6:20.
22-year-old Staff Sgt. Norman Hatch (far right) tells other combat cameramen about filming during the first wave of the Battle of Tarawa.
When compared to what the public saw in 1944, the footage in the Screen Magazine story is unflinching and gruesome at points. The dead bodies of Japanese soldiers are hit with more bullets, and Hatch narrates as they are hit and brought down, action that was generally obscured or edited in the public version.
Toward the end of the piece, there is an abrupt switch to a light-hearted story about a kitten that Hatch found under a tank. The background music as the flag is raised is much brighter than in With the Marines at Tarawa. Unlike the public, the troops could not take the time to mourn losses; they needed to be ready to move on to the next battle.
In “I Was There—Tarawa”, we see a different element of the story of battle, one tailored for the men that were fighting the war. This is the story as the troops needed to see it.
via The Unwritten Record » Bringing Battle to the Home Front: With the Marines at Tarawa
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that point in the semester where everything is like
and I’ve gotten to the point where I’m like
—Wrong Word affect/effect, lay/lie, sit/set, who/whom, toward/towards, etc.
—Vague Pronoun Reference Confusing: Bob annoyed Larry, but that didn’t stop him from asking for a meeting. Clear: Bob annoyed Larry, but that didn’t stop Larry from asking for a meeting.
—Lack of Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Frequently Disparaged: Everyone withdrew their money. Uncontroversial: Everyone withdrew his or her money. Uncontroversial: People withdrew their money.
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—Missing or Unnecessary Capitalization Capitalize proper nouns: The names of things, such as the Golden Gate Bridge. Lowercase common nouns: Descriptions, such as that famous bridge.
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—Unnecessary Shift in Verb Tense Wrong: John Wilkes Booth barricaded the door while Lincoln is watching the play. Right: John Wilkes Booth barricaded the door while Lincoln watched the play.
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—Sentence Fragments Sentence fragments aren’t always wrong, but don’t use them accidentally.
Fragments: Because she was late. And I held the door.
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—Monotonous Sentence Structure Monotonous: We were late. I called the office. Bob answered the phone. Bob told Sue. Sue stalled the investors. Better: I called the office because we were late. Bob answered the phone and told Sue, who stalled the investors.
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—Adjective Drift Confusing: The property has seasonal creeks and trail access. Clear: The property has trail access and seasonal creeks.
—Unnecessary Adverbs and Prepositions Bloated: I was very angry that Bob sat down on the wet paint. Better: I was furious that Bob sat on the wet paint.
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—Parallelism Errors Not Parallel: Kids like singing, chatting, and check their phones. Parallel: Kids like singing, chatting, and checking their phones.
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—Passive Voice Passive voice isn’t wrong, but active sentences are often better.
Passive: The bell was rung by zombies. Active: Zombies rang the bell.
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—“There Are” Sentences You can often improve on sentences that start with There are.
Not great: There are usually 54 cards in a deck. Better: A deck usually has 54 cards.
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—Jargon Jargon: You can often improve on expletive sentences. More Accessible: You can often improve on sentences that start with There are.
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—Unnecessary Comma Wrong: Bob likes pandas, and visits the zoo often. Right: Bob likes pandas and visits the zoo often.
—Comma Splice Wrong: I ate cake, I played games. Right: I ate cake, and I played games. Right: I ate cake and played games.
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—Run-On Sentences Wrong: I ate cake I played games. Right: I ate cake, and I played games. Right: I ate cake and played games.
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—Missing Comma in a Compound Sentence Wrong: All my friends came over for my birthday Tuesday and Bobby visited me the next day. Right: All my friends came over for my birthday Tuesday, and Bobby visited me the next day.
—Missing Comma with a Nonrestrictive Element Wrong: Shoes which are worn on your feet come in many styles. Right: Shoes, which are worn on your feet, come in many styles.
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—Mechanical Problems with Quotations In the U.S., periods and commas go inside the closing quotation mark. Semicolons, colons, and dashes go outside the closing quotation mark. The position of question marks and exclamation points varies: They stay with their question or exclamation.
Correct: She yelled, “Help!” I won a copy of “Wrecking Ball”! She asked, “Are you hungry?” Did he just ask, “Are we in Hungary?”
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—Quotation Marks for Emphasis Wrong: “Free” soda on Saturdays. Right: Free soda on Saturdays.
—Apostrophe Errors Nouns take apostrophes to become possessive. Pronouns don’t. It’s means “it is” or “it has.” Its is the possessive form of it. Acronyms, initialisms, and years don’t take apostrophes to become plural (CDs, 1980s).
—Unnecessary or Missing Hyphen Don’t hyphenate phrasal verbs.
Wrong: Log-in to your account. Right: Log in to your account.
Do hyphenate compound adjectives. These mean different things: silver jewelry cart and silver-jewelry cart.
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—Spelling Errors Remember to run a spellcheck. It’s obvious but easy to forget.
—Search for these words and phrases to do a quick check: there are, it is, its, it’s, your, you’re, their, and they’re.
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