I dream I saw an eye, a pretty eye, In your hands, Glittering, wet and sickening Like a dull onyx set in a crown of thorns. I did not know you were dead When you dropped it in my lap. When horrors of human sacrifice Have you seen, executioner? What […]
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Four Questions To Help You Decide If You’re Ready To Start Your Own Business
Why do we put so much emphasis on the lifestyle associated with being a “boss,” and so little on the tenacity it takes to become one? We see so many glamorized depictions of entrepreneurship on social media, like foreign cars, trips overseas and designer wardrobes, but rarely do we get […]
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4 Pillars of Freelance Writing Success
Whether you’re just starting out as a copywriter or you’ve been running a freelance business for a while now, you may be operating on several levels at this point. For instance, you may be working on your skills, searching for that dream client, trying to figure out how to send […]
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What is the difference between micro and macro history
MICRO HISTORY is a study or account of the history of a very specific subject; also a study of a very small cultural change.
MACRO HISTORY is a form of large scale history dealing with large groups of cultures over very long time period.
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Know What You Aim At
…you are the ultimate measure of how far you’ll go in life.” – Henry Ukazu I was once approached by a friend on how I do my things to yield results. He prodded because he felt tempted that I am a playful, jovial and naughty type; and yet, I am […]
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The girl with a long hair
The girl with the long hair she has the prettiest smile. And her beauty don’t just come from her great sense of style. Her gorgeous face is something that I would die for. She’s the whole package there’s nothing more I can ask for. She has the perfect skin tone […]
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How to develop your will to conquer
Will is what gives you the power to rise, to visualise, to conquer. It is from your will that you will discover that there is nothing that will offer you cheap rewards;
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A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty By Ogden Nash
Unwillingly Miranda wakes, Feels the sun with terror, One unwilling step she takes, Shuddering to the mirror. Miranda in Miranda’s sight Is old and gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty. Shining like the morning star, Like the twilight shining, Haunted by a calendar, […]
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The Spider And The Fly By Mary Howitt
“Will you walk into my parlor?” said the spider to the fly; “‘Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you may spy. The way into my parlor is up a winding stair, And I have many curious things to show when you are there.” “Oh no, no,” said the little […]
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How to write three books before you are 30
When his peers were probably still settling into their chosen careers, Manu S Pillai published his first book. The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore, a detailed history of the last female ruler of the southern Indian Travancore dynasty, was published by HarperCollins in 2015—when Pillai was just […]
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Giftedminds Writers to receive “World Quality Commitment Award” Gold Category in Spain this year.
Giftedminds Writers Firm; a writing, research and content marketing firm established in April 2016 has been recognized by BID Group in its 2019 BID Annual Quality Award to hold on Monday September 23, 2019. The president of the firm, Victor Eshameh received the good news on Wednesday July 3, 2019. […]
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My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun By William Shakespeare
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see […]
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The Stick-Together Families By Edgar Guest
The stick-together families are happier by far Than the brothers and the sisters who take separate highways are. The gladdest people living are the wholesome folks who make A circle at the fireside that no power but death can break. And the finest of conventions ever held beneath the sun […]
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The walk of life: Nigerian Booker-winner Ben Okri on poetry, his mother’s stories, and a new novel
An encounter with Nigerian poet, novelist and Man Booker Prize winner Ben Okri is always invigorating. Hailed as one among the foremost African authors today, Okri has been likened to the late Colombian novelist, short-story writer and journalist Gabriel García Márquez and even to British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, with whom he maintains […]
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My November Guest By Robert Frost
My Sorrow, when she’s here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rain Are beautiful as days can be; She loves the bare, the withered tree; She walks the sodden pasture lane. Her pleasure will not let me stay. She talks and I am fain to list: She’s glad […]
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