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Poems are fun to write and a good way to express oneself. I had a knack for the art and complete command of structured forms as well as free verse. Little did I know that “free” was the keyword. When I was a teenager I was foolish enough to believe that I could make a living out of poetry. Some men are born into poverty, some achieve poverty, and still others have poverty thrust upon them. I got it all three ways. When young students get good marks in English and enjoy reading, they always wonder what it would be like to be an author. Then they think of stories they’d like to write about and ways to change the world through the power of the mighty pen, more powerful than the sword as the saying goes. I first applied my language skills to enter college in Radio & Television Arts, but I found more and more that the type of writing needed was not at all creative. The set formula was to write commercials or television content that was the same as other T.V. slush. Fortunately, I knew music and began to pay attention to lyrics. This was the medium that could give expression to my ideas. Fame was not in the cards, and I lost more than I made on a regular basis. In need of money, I turned to the financially promising world of poetry. Now, even the bill collectors won’t call me. I developed an ability to remember my English classes and the heavy emphasis on poetry that I used to pass tests when I couldn’t think of any other project to submit. I traveled and loved women, giving them poems written especially for them. They love poems, but relationships with underfinanced boyfriends usually end in rejection. They complimented my writing ability as they drove me away into the drunken darkness. Now I’m artistically satisfied and poor as a church mouse; I don’t even know why the mice living in churches have less money than other mice, but apparently that’s the state of things. I forgot that the great Leonard Cohen had money to start out with, became slightly less rich being a poet, and got rich again by writing music. His books sold well at first, and when he become a famous folksinger, his book sales were better than ever. Fame breeds more fame. Now he’s traded his notoriety and wealth for the life of a Buddhist monk. The wheel of life comes full circle. I worked my hands off playing my guitar and I sang across the country until I was blue in the face. I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t make a decent living. There was one medium I hadn’t tried and that was prose. I decided to write a novel and there it was…thirty-three years later I finished the book, The Golden Blues. It was about Buddhism and reincarnation. Now that Leonard Cohen has renounced materialism in favor of nirvana, he’s got the jump on me there as well. I might be able to fast better though. Fasting comes naturally for a starving poet. If I were to give my best advice for young writers, it would be: see if the Post Office has any openings. Get a secure job with good benefits because old age sneaks up without warning, and then the romantic thought of dying in a Greenwich Village hotel on an overdose, covered in the pages of your next unreleased masterpiece doesn’t seem that attractive anymore. The next generation will be too busy playing computer games to muse over the writings of a sensitive genius in the candlelight. The next time your pen runs out of ink, don’t fill it up again

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Democrat presidential hopeful Barack Obama from Illinois is accused of plagiarizing speeches from a 2006 speech by Deval Patrick, the Democratic governor of Massachusetts. The Obama speech entitled “Words Matter” was delivered in Feb. 16, 2008 during a meeting in Wisconsin and had several similarities with the Patrick speech delivered in 2006. Particularly noticeable are the passages wherein both Obama and Patrick list famous historical quotes such as “I have a dream”, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal” and “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” in an effort to demonstrate the power of words. Both speeches were delivered in an effort to defend the use of speeches and rhetoric as a campaign strategy. Obama has recently received criticism from Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Clinton’s side claims that Obama does not have enough political experience to be able to act as a president and that his campaign was built solely on words. In response, Obama delivered his “Words Matter” speech wherein he insists that words have the power to change minds and inspire citizens. The Clinton campaign then latched on to the accusation of plagiarism, bringing to fore the similarities between the Obama and Patrick speeches. Both Obama and Patrick declared that no plagiarism has taken place. Obama reasons out that he and Patrick are good friends and that they often talk about strategies. Patrick delivered his “Just Words” speech in 2006 as retaliation to criticism that he was ill equipped to handle real political problems and that his campaign was running solely on well-versed speeches. According to Patrick, after Clinton made the same accusations of his friend Obama, he encouraged the Illinois senator to defend himself the same way Patrick did in 2006. Political commentators note that both Obama and Patrick use the same campaign team, particularly the campaign leader David Axelrod, which may be the reason why their strategies are so similar. Obama even retorted that Clinton herself had begun to use some of his campaign buzzwords. These accusations of plagiarism are reminiscent of the incident in 1988 when Democratic presidential candidate Joe Bidden had to drop out of the race after coming under fire for plagiarizing a speech by Neil Kinnock of the British Labour Party. Barack Obama began his political career after he announced his intentions of running for the Illonois Senate in 1995. He became a senator for Illinois in 2005, which was also the time when he was officially sworn in. Hillary Rodham Clinton was first exposed to politics as the First Lady during the term of her husband former American President Bill Clinton, which began in 1993. As a first lady, Clinton was appointed the chairwoman of the Task Force on National Health Care. At the end of her husband’s term, she was elected senator for New York in 2000 and was re-elected in 2006. Barbara Ross is a writer for Famous Quote, Hollywood Politics and People’s Democracy.

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Many of my students shrug their shoulders at the beginning of the semester when I tell them that time is their best friend. Just like my students, too many writers struggle with their writing because they treat time as a four letter word. However time is not the enemy if you learn to use it wisely. Time can be a tremendous help when you write if you plan ahead. Making a wise use of your time is a three-step process. First, allow yourself enough time to live with the idea you plan to write about. Do not write. Give yourself permission to jot down notes but it is wisest to simply make these hard copy (or handwritten) notes. You want to give your muse, your subconscious mind, your brain, or whatever part of you that does your heavy lifting when it comes to writing, time to work. During this time just go about your normal life and work on other tasks, writing and otherwise. There is no need to schedule time to simply think about your future writing task. It is going on whether or not you pay attention to it. However every day you can give yourself for this process will save you much time, energy, and agony later on. Trust me. I have been there and I know whereof I speak. Second, once you have given your brain some time to work out your rough draft (or at least the bones of it) then it is time to start writing. However before you start writing you should work out a schedule for yourself. Set goals and limitations and then stick to them. Perhaps you will write for a set amount of time or you might rather set a certain page count for your goal. Some days it will be a struggle to meet your goal and other days it will be almost painful to stop when you have met your quota, but over time your brain and writing muscles will become accustomed to the goal and the writing will come easier and faster. Third, and this is where you need to pull out your calendar, you need to plan your schedule so you have plenty of time for that initial period of thought, a workable writing schedule, and time for drafts as well as time for breaks between drafts. Writing and revising through multiple drafts is one of the essentials to improving your writing product but if you do not allow sufficient time between those drafts then you might as well not bother with drafts at all. You need to give your brain time to rest and you need to allow yourself some distance from the initial creation. Time is a writer’s best friend but only if you plan ahead sufficiently to allow time to live with your writing idea, plan a workable schedule, and give yourself time off between drafts. Pulling out your calendar and planning out a writing schedule can be the single biggest step you take to improve your writing. Deanna Mascle shares more writing help and writing tips with her writing newsletters at wordcraftonline.com

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“What Should I Write About” How to Select Your Topic At the beginning of this process, you may feel as if you have entered a strange territory without a map. You need guanidine for choosing your topic if you must select your own or for narrowing a general topic assigned to you. This section shows you how to get ideas for topics and what subjects are best to avoid. Three Criteria for a Topic Whether you write a literary, argumentative, position, or description paper, the subject you select must meet three important criteria. • The topic should interest you. • It should be written your abilities. • There should be enough information available on it to complete a paper. The first criterion is the most important. Something besides fear of failure has to sustain you through all the hours it takes to research, write and revise a report of term paper. Make the paper a process of discovery for yourself, something you want to know or say about a topic. That desire will help to see you through to the end of the project. The second criterion is also essential. You may be interested in a topic, but not have the background of ability to handle it in a paper. Say, for example, you are interested in the flights or voyagers 1 and 2. You want to do a report on some of the computer programs that send commands to the small spacecrafts. The scientific journals are filled with complex diagrams and explanations, but you find none of it makes any sense to you. You have no background in computer programming and no ability to translate technical information into plain English. You will either have to find a book or an article that translates the material for you or find another topic

Performance appraisals are of great need for the effective work and ‘health’ of a staff. Performance appraisals assist in developing individuals, in improving company’s performance, and in effective business planning. Performance appraisals are usually done every year for all the staff in the company. Performance appraisals are also necessary for person’s career and successful business planning. Appraisals are significant for the motivation of a staff, correct behavior, effective communication process, and developing positive attitude of management to the staff. To sum up, performance appraisals that are carried out without training and without adhering to the rules, without necessary explanation are conducted in a wrong way and in most cases can be counter-productive. In other words, they are simply a waste of time. Successful companies have an appraisal system that evaluates employee performance in accordance with the company’s strategic goals. Such companies know very well what they should do to win in today’s competitive world - they must attract and retain productive employees. Successful companies get their competitive advantage with the help of effective performance appraisals that assist them in hiring productive employees and in putting them in the right place (position) and in developing their abilities that greatly contributes to the company’s success. Generally speaking, a good performance appraisal no matter what type is it, is effective if it is conducted in a right way when everything is clearly explained to the staff and agreed with the authorities. Benefits of effective performance appraisal are the following: improved productivity; maintenance of top reformers; improved employee morale; increased profitability. Performance appraisals can be counter-productive for those employees who need much training and development. A successful performance appraisal affects positively the employee work performance in case of the employee high job motivation. In case with an employee who has low job motivation, performance appraisals are counter-productive. Performance appraisals should be adapted to the employee’s individual needs and features. In other case, there is a risk of a poorly-conducted appraisal with all the negative consequences. To sum up, performance appraisals that are carried out without training and without adhering to the rules, without necessary explanation are conducted in a wrong way and in most cases can be counter-productive. In other words, they are simply a waste of time. Well-prepared and well-conducted performance appraisals give additional chance for managers and companies in general, to continue improving and developing their work. Badly-prepared and badly-conducted performance appraisals are not working and are counter-productive. The article was produced by the writer of Essay-Paper.net. Olivia Hunt is a 4-years experienced freelance writer and a senior manager of Research Paper Writing Service. Contact her to get information about custom essay writing and editing service at our website.