Here are the things it took me ages to understand about essay writing.
You will repeat yourself constantly. That’s okay, in fact its preferred.
Your introduction is just your conclusion but instead of saying “As you can see, I’ve shown…” you’ll say “In this essay, I will show…”
It is more important that each paragraph is self contained and explains itself than having each paragraph flow into one another
If you are writing a longer essay (3000+ word), make sure you reiterate previously made points as they become relevant again. And continue to connect ideas as you go on
Paragraphs and essays are structured the same.
“I’m gonna say x”
*Saying X*
“This is why X is right”
“I said X”
Finally. I struggled a lot with essay writing because it felt like I was cheating myself of structural creativity. I didn’t want to follow a structure because I believed it was hurting myself by doing it. I’ve come to realise how wrong I was. Structure is about using conventions of understanding. If you want your work to be understood best, you ought to follow conventions. Creativity comes from how you fill that structure.
sokka is absolutely, utterly, embarrassingly infatuated with the way zuko always emits warmth.
despite having grown up at the south pole, being used to never ending winters, weekly if not daily snow storms and sleeping inside an literal block of ice, he'll cling to zuko as if he's close to freezing to death everytime the latter crawls into bed next to him.
it's somewhat embarrassing if he ponders it. god, if his tribe could see him. if they could see the warrior who considered himself to be the toughest of them all literally melting the second he comes in touch with the cocoon of heat zuko seems to be enveloped in and is more than willing to let sokka invade at any given time.
but at the end, what can sokka do. he's a sucker for it.
Guys - It’s been announced recently that the American Music Awards will be honoring me with the Artist of the Decade Award at this year’s ceremony. I’ve been planning to perform a medley of my hits throughout the decade on the show. Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have now said that I’m not allowed to perform my old songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music before I’m allowed to next year. Additionally - and this isn’t the way I had planned on telling you this news - Netflix has created a documentary about my life for the past few years. Scott and Scooter have declined the use of my older music or performance footage for this project, even though there is no mention of either of them or Big Machine Records anywhere in the film.
Scott Borchetta told my team that they’ll allow me to use my music only if I do these things: If I agree to not re-record copycat versions of my songs next year (which is something I’m both legally allowed to do and looking forward to) and also told my team that I need to stop talking about him and Scooter Braun.
I feel very strongly that sharing what is happening to me could change the awareness level for other artists and potentially help them avoid a similar fate. The message being sent to me is very clear. Basically, be a good little girl and shut up. Or you’ll be punished.
This is WRONG. Neither of these men had a hand in the writing of those songs. They did nothing to create the relationship I have with my fans. So this is where I’m asking for your help.
Please let Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun know how you feel about this. Scooter also manages several artists who I really believe care about other artists and their work. Please ask them for help with this - I’m hoping that maybe they can talk some sense into the men who are exercising tyrannical control over someone who just wants to play the music she wrote. I’m especially asking for help from The Carlyle Group, who put up money for the sale of my music to these two men.
I just want to be able to perform MY OWN music. That’s it. I’ve tried to work this out privately through my team but have not been able to resolve anything. Right now my performance at the AMA’s, the Netflix documentary and any other recorded events I am planning to play until November of 2020 are a question mark.
I love you guys and I thought you should know what’s been going on.
As of July 4th 2018, the Internet as we know it might be dead for good.
The European Parliament is passing a new Copyright Directive.
Article 13 #CensorshipMachine will impose widespread censorship of all the content we share online. Art, fanfiction, parodies, remixes, mashups, memes, etc.. Anything that you do not hold the rights over will be taken down.
Article 13 would force all online platforms to police and prevent the uploading of copyrighted content, or make people seek the correct licenses to post that content. Internet platforms hosting large amounts of user-uploaded content must monitor user behaviour and filter their contributions to identify and prevent copyright infringement.
Such filters will be mandatory for platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit and Instagram, but also much smaller websites.
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This doesn’t just affect Europe. The content creators you love are going to be in hot water for sharing their art and writing with you online. Any and all content that doesn’t belong to us will be filtered. Even memes are at risk, as the person who took the original photo may want to file complaints against any platform that allows it to be used without permission. But it goes even further than that.
Last Tuesday (19th June 2018) a group of more than 70 people who have played important roles in building the internet and developing it (Tim Berners-Lee, Vincent Cerf, Jimmy Wales, Mitchell Baker…) into what it is today addressed an open letter to the members of the European Parliament:
“As creators ourselves, we share the concern that there should be a fair distribution of revenues from the online use of copyright works, that benefits creators, publishers, and platforms alike.
But Article 13 is not the right way to achieve this. By requiring Internet platforms to perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users. […] The damage that this may do to the free and open Internet as we know it is hard to predict, but in our opinions could be substantial.”
Here is the original Article 13. It’s even scarier. / Link 2
Here is how to contact your MEPs.
Here is a full list of everything that will be affected.
Europe is facing a huge problem, and unlike with Net Neutrality, the world doesn’t seem to care.
Okay. I have been looking into this. Several times. And posted about it a few times so never fear I’m here to sort things out for you.
An altright smeghead have been collecting petitions for some other shit. And he is also a shithead ontop of being a smeghead. This has caused notable confusion.
It’s real. -Exactly- how bad it is hard to tell since it relies on companies doing stuff in response. But article 13 is essentially to scan for copyright content on things being uploaded. Meaning that something like tumblr would have to scan pictures I upload to a post for copyrighted content. And block it. And I’m sure you know just how good youtube’s similar function is and Tumblr’s track record is in implementing things just in general.
Article eleven would put a tax on links. Say I linked a newspaper article on tumblr or facebook about danish pastires. Tumblr or facebook would have to pay the newpaper a fee for lost revenue. As you can imagine this gets kindof complicated when you got a million people posting shit everyday from hundred different papers.
Here is also from another post on the same subject with the aforementioned alt right smeghead started this confusion with. Complete with some news sources covering it.
“Okay. Fuck the EDL. Fuck Think Critically (god that person is such an absolute tool). Fuck the right.Maybe this will help then.
Here’s the BBC reporting:
’Disastrous’ copyright bill vote approved
Copyright law could put end to net memes
Here is Ars Technica (A computer science enthusiast site with a long record of factual reporting)
Europe advances copyright law that could filter the Internet
Here is the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organisation that normally only works in the US advocating an open internet and net neutrality.
The EU’s Copyright Proposal is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Even (Especially!) Wikipedia
This is Julia Reda, leader of the German Pirate Party in the european parliament and vocal supporter of Net Neutrality and open internet (the main cause of the pirate party)
https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/
This is CNN (mostly covering article 11)
Europe is one step closer to passing new copyright legislation that has been criticized by major tech companies and internet pioneers.
This is ABSOLUTELY a real thing. But Think Critically and the far right are hijacking it. Their petitions are really bad. I have no idea how people think that the persons above would read article 13 to do dick about stopping fake news. 13 is about scanning for copyrighted works and make sure that it doesn’t get uploaded. 11 would make facebook and google have to pay the newspapers for the information they have on them.Seriously check out Julia Reda. This is is still real and despite that the first thing I linked says it was approved doesn’t mean it’s over. But you should maybe consider finding other petitions than the shit Think Critically shits out.”
First GDPR then this? lol… Okay… I’m all ready for upcoming shits! I just hope that it was nothing but some manipulative tactics that would scare us to hell, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens. :D
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