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... integrity, respect, innovation. But for values to be actionable, for you to hold people accountable to them, them must be verbs. Here's A clip from my recent interview with Capture Your Flag.
To learn more about how to manage the values in order to build a strong corporate culture, one in which innovation and trust are the norm, check out ...
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Here are 5 tips for parents to help their kids develop a strong memory starting today.
1 - Look for associations - kids need ... comes. Stop fooling yourself. Candy and junk food are the enemy when it comes to a strong memory. Fruits, vegetables, protein and complex carbohydrates will improve ... of two books on memory: Comic Mnemonics for Spanish Verbs and his latest, Memory Skills Made Easy, a book/ ...
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... a literary heroine of mine. Imagine my delight when she reaffirmed my own words to you. USE THOSE STRONG VERBS. Go, Annie, go!
She writes:
"You want vivid writing. How do ... makes for tinnitus: Running, sitting, speaking, laughing, inginginginging. No. Don’t do it. The verbs tell a reader whether something happened once or continually, what is in motion, what is at rest. Gerunds are lazy, ...
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... that. Motion. Pictures. Both visual. The more we imbue our scene description with a strong sense of what's going on visually, the more likely we make our movie 'play ... the most important takeaway is what I noted above: Writer visually. Use strong verbs and strong descriptors. Make the scene description compelling by painting a portrait. But don't overwrite. "Minimum words, ...
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... , syntax is lean, word choice economical
Use specific nouns and strong verbs
Kill adjectives and adverbs
Great stories use all of the traditional plot points (exposition, inciting moment, rising action, ... , figurative language, and specific, evocative details
Same for stories, except add strong characters and vivid setting
Do the above, and theme takes care of itself
In ...
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... ee cummings didn’t punctuate his poems. We had to follow the rules before we could break them — if ever. No fancy British spellings. No exclamation points. Let the words show the excitement, she said. Choose strong verbs. Slash adverbs and adjectives.
Photo from the College of Notre Dame
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... He has interesting speech patterns, which mostly include using no consonants and rearranging nouns, pronouns and verbs in all sorts of interesting ways. This morning, wanting me to remove a ... process. At times it is overwhelming, but in other ways I love it. I definitely feel like I have a strong and definite purpose to my life right now. I am driven in a way that is about to drive my husband crazy. ...
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... instead of saying “he said” or “she said,” they come up with all sorts of verbs, adjectives, and adverbs to describe how something was said and who said it.
This is usually a mistake. If you rely on a dozen ... said” or “she said” for your tags.
2. Use strong, precise verbs to “show” how something was said, rather than a list of weak adverbs or ...
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... These go on red cards. Again, you say something like, "All of these words on red are called verbs." These are actions the child can perform right there in the classroom (I need lots ...
adjectives:
six
seven
ten
big
fat
red
black
strong
sad
twin
soft
fun
sick
solid
grumpy
bad
mad ... odd
tan
bent
flat
hot
quick
stiff
pet
spotted
verbs:
plants
sits
stands
has
is
jumps
grabs
kicks
yells
zips
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... the optimal way to greet the Emperor. Whether that's a strong-postured handshake between equals (something which has good emotional resonance for those of us with strong small-"r" republican sentiments) or a subtle Nixonian bow ( ... third-person plural instead of the third-person singular conjugation of verbs).
Which is all to say, yeah, the President made a diplomatic mistake.& ...
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