Do Not Staple a Dead Duck to Your Essay!

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K. Layton — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:47:59 +0000

http://www.theonion.com/video/in-the-know-are-tests-biased-against-students-who,17966/

Britain’s got what?

K. Layton — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:49:05 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiMs_mQHM0c

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K. Layton — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:24:53 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgk3o3AJM2U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbTAiVO02Mk

very old man link

K. Layton — Mon, 31 May 2010 23:58:16 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLwIica9cOw&feature=related

song lyrics for class

K. Layton — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:18:52 +0000

If a Tree Falls

Bruce Cockburn

Rain forest
Mist and mystery
Teeming green
Green brain facing labotomy
Climate control centre for the world
Ancient cord of coexistence
Hacked by parasitic greedhead scam -
From Sarawak to Amazonas
Costa Rica to mangy B.C. hills -
Cortege rhythm of falling timber.

What kind of currency grows in these new deserts,
These brand new flood plains?

If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?
If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?
Anybody hear the forest fall?

Cut and move on
Cut and move on
Take out trees
Take out wildlife at a rate of species every single day
Take out people who’ve lived with this for 100,000 years -
Inject a billion burgers worth of beef -
Grain eaters – methane dispensers.

Through thinning ozone,
Waves fall on wrinkled earth -
Gravity, light, ancient refuse of stars,
Speak of a drowning -
But this, this is something other.
Busy monster eats dark holes in the spirit world
Where wild things have to go
To disappear
Forever

If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?
If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?
Anybody hear the forest fall?

No No

Buffy Saint-Marie

I never saw so many business suits.
Never knew a dollar sign that looked so cute.
Never knew a junkie with a money Jones:
He’s singing, “Who’s selling Park Place. Who’s buying Boardwalk”?
These old men they make their dirty deals.
Go in the back room and see what they can steal.
Talk about your beautiful and spacious skies.
It’s about uranium; it’s about the water rights.
Put Mother Nature on a luncheon plate.
They cut her up and call it real estate.
Want all the resources and all of the land.
They make a war over it: Blow things up for it.
The reservation now is poverty row.
There’s something cooking and the lights are low.
Somebody’s trying to save our mother earth.
I’m gonna help them to save it,
To sing it and bring it

Singing: No no Keshagesh:
You can’t do that no more, (no more, no more no more)
No, no, no, no Keshagesh
You can’t do that no more, (no more, no more no more)
No, no, no, no Keshagesh
You can’t do that no more, (no more, no more no more)
No, no, no, no Keshagesh
You can’t do that no more, (no more, no more no more)

Ole Columbus he was looking good,
When he got lost in our neighborhood.
Garden of Eden right before his eyes.
Now it’s all spy ware: now it’s all income tax.
Ole’ brother Midas looking hungry today.
What he can’t buy he’ll get some other way.
Send in the troopers if the natives resist.
Old, old story boys, that’s how you do it boys.
Look at these people; ah they’re on a roll.
Gonna have it all, gonna have complete control.
Want all the resources and all of the land.
They’ll break the law for it: Blow things up for it.
When all our champions are off in the war,
Their final rip off here and is always on.
Mr. greed I think your time has come.
We’re gonna sing it and pray it and live it then say it.

The Future

Leonard Cohen

Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it’s lonely here,
there’s no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
over every other living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that’s an order!

Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that’s left
stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I’ve seen the future, brother:
it is murder.

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won’t be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant.

You don’t know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I was the little jew
who wrote the Bible
I’ve seen the nations rise and fall
I’ve heard their stories, heard them all
but love’s the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It’s over, it ain’t going
any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil’s RIDING crop
Get ready for the future:
it is murder.

Things are going to slide …

There’ll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There’ll be phantoms
There’ll be fires on the road
and a white man dancing
You’ll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin’ to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin’.

Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don’t like children anyhow
I’ve seen the future, baby:
it is murder.

Things are going to slide …

When they said REPENT REPENT …

images

K. Layton — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:12:37 +0000

gangs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRKx7hd3X9k

MLA 7th edition Works Cited

K. Layton — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:36:03 +0000

The changes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF0Vc3WIEZM

citing a book http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F90n7_2XYcY

citing an article http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EziHO_psqWw

S’more tips

K. Layton — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:36:25 +0000

Parallelism

Professional writers often string together a number of items, activities, numbers, etc. in one sentence. For example, a writer may list a number of goals for a team: “By the end of the day, we should calculate all sales figures, decide on a report format, and divide up the remaining work.” The previous sentence is parallel because each goal is stated in the same way – that is, each goal is stated in a phrase beginning with a verb: “calculate,” “decide,” and “divide.” Thus, the three phrases are grammatically the same, or parallel. A sentence is unparallel when it fails to present similar items in the same grammatical fashion. Consider examples below.

FAULTY
My degree, my work experience, and learning to do complicated projects have given me the qualifications necessary to work for your firm.

PARALLEL
My degree, my work experience, and my ability to do complicated projects have given me the qualifications necessary to work for your firm.

FAULTY
Responsibilities included:
• Serving customers
• Cash register
• Clearing tables

PARALLEL
Responsibilities included:
• Serving customers
• Working the cash register
• Clearing tables

FAULTY COMPARISON
The reason for this is that most small businesses have a lower budget for their managers than do government or industrial managers. —> Sentence compares budgets to managers.

PARALLEL COMPARISON
The reason for this is that most small businesses have a lower budget for their managers than government or industry has for its managers.

Conciseness

Conciseness is an important stylistic quality of professional writing—and an extremely high priority in technical writing. Say things as concisely as possible. In short, be brief.

The opposite of concise writing is verbose, wordy, redundant, rambling writing, using more words than necessary to communicate a message, or saying the same thing more than once. For instance, if you write in a report that:

During the time period of 2008, our company registered an increase in sales, despite the fact that, overall, the US economy was in a state of serious recession. (28 words)

then you are being fairly wordy. A more concise way to say almost exactly the same thing is

In 2008, our company increased sales, even though the US economy was in recession. (14 words)

You just chopped the original wordy sentence in half, mainly by changing wordy phrases into more concise equivalents: “during the time period of 2008” = “In 2008”; “in a state of serious recession” = “recession.”

Conciseness refers to the appropriate, efficient use of words. This includes using words that your reader will understand and, in many cases, avoiding phrases when one word will do. Conciseness is often affected by the following factors:

• Redundant/Verbose Prose

Verbose: When a defective product is discovered, a minimal amount of time should occur between locating the defective product and recording the product as defective so that the product can be reordered.

Concise Revision: When a defective product is discovered, a record should be made as quickly as possible so that the product can be reordered.

Verbose: A characteristic that renders the system development life cycle unpopular with programmers is the fact that it forces heavy documentation at all stages.

Concise Revision: Programmers dislike this cycle because it requires frequent documentation. (Source: Lanham, Richard A. (1992). Revising business prose, 3rd ed. New York: Macmillan.)

• Inflated Diction —> Making an idea more pompous than it deserves to be

Inflated: Short-term planning is foremost in the prioritization of the planning loop.

No BS Revision: Short-term planning comes first. (Source: Lanham, Richard A. (1992). Revising business prose, 3rd ed. New York: Macmillan.)

• Verbose Nominalizations —> Using a longer noun phrase instead of a single verb

“come to the conclusion that” = “conclude”
“become a participant in” = “participate”
“come to the realization that” = “realize”

advertising and the end of the world

K. Layton — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:37:12 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LstnduT3zrk

wordiness

K. Layton — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:14:16 +0000

due to the fact that
because of the fact that
at this point in time
at that point in time
he is a man who
in today’s world
this day and age
has the ability
in order to
during the same time that
during the time that
until such time as
in spite of the fact that
by means of
be of the opinion that
disappear from view

tall in height
blue in color
small in size
short in length
in a hasty manner
this is a subject that
the reason why is that
the question as to whether
be under the impression that
given the fact that
each and every one
put forth an effort
empty void
past experiences