None of you are always happy or always sad. Your moods can change frequently depending upon many factors. Your diet, fatigue due to too much work, not enough exercise, lack of sleep, and happy and sad events that occur in your lives are just a few examples of things that can affect your moods. Research has also shown that Mother Nature can affect you greatly as well. The weather is one particularly large indicator of how your…..
We all have our daydreams—our fantasies—and of course, the dreams or goals we hope to achieve in our lives. However, we have another kind of dream we often do not have control over…. Those are the ones we experience when we are sleeping.
Dreams are a collection of thoughts and sensations that play in our mind as we sleep. They can be bizarre, amusing, or completely without…..
Propaganda is a form of communication aimed towards influencing the attitude of the community toward some cause or position by presenting only one side of an argument. Propaganda statements may be partly false and partly true. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create the chosen result in audience attitudes.
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So many of us now spend a large part of our days and our lives on the internet. Our jobs require us to use business programs, email addresses, and online business conference sites. Our schools use various sites on the internet as sources for learning new information and teaching new skills. You would think we would be tired of being online at the end of a busy work day or school day. However, Facebook, Twitter,…..
My life has not always been filled with happiness, of course. Some difficult obstacles had to be faced, and sad memories enter my mind at times. However, for the most part, I consider myself to be a very happy person and extremely blessed. Thus, today I thought it would be fun and interesting to sit down and make a list of what happiness means to me. Hopefully, you will share some of my happy moments as well.
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My blog on August 2, 2013, discussed the definition of boredom and some of its possible causes. Today’s blog will concentrate on some positive things we can do to find our own remedies and solutions that can begin to end boredom and return us back to our normal selves.
Here are some general steps to get us started on the right track to a happier life. First, we must decide what it is we really want to do. If…..
Do you sometimes feel bored? Many of us feel this way during some times in our lives. Boredom is defined as an emotional state of being disinterested. It is a situation in which we feel this uncomfortable resistance to doing nothing. It can actually be a very painful process we go through when we have nothing better to do with ourselves. This horrible feeling often makes us feel stressed out, anxious, and frustrated. Read more
In an earlier blog entitled “Telling Your Story with Style and Passion,” I discussed the steps on how to begin the process of writing a short story and on how to create a character map and effective story plot. Theme and Time Span were also addressed. This blog will cover dialogue, word choice and imagery, sentence structure and variety, and other grammar related suggestions plus effective ways to capture the attention of your readers from the very first word and…..
I truly believe that each and every one of us has great stories we can can tell and share with others. Some of us do it orally, and some of us choose to do this in writing—whether it is the form of a novel, a poem, an essay, a blog, or a short story. I have discovered in the last few years that I have developed a passion to write. My first work is of course, my book Because I…..
We all have work and family responsibilities we cannot ignore or avoid in our lives. Because of this, stress is often a result and can cause us so much grief both mentally as well as physically. However, many easy things can be done to help alleviate our stress and prevent us lives, and participate in activities that make up happy. Read more