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Rest In Peace.

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“Crazy Dion” Diamond at one of his sit-ins as a teenager in Arlington, VA. June 10, 1960

via reddit

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Contrary to Popular Belief Africa is Not a Monolith

“You don’t look African��

Considering Africa is a continent with 54 different countries and over 3000 different ethnic groups, it really shouldn’t surprise people that there is no one set look for an African. 

Afar people:

San people:

Amazigh people:

Oromo people:

Hausa people:

Masai people:

Edo people:

Wodaabe people:

These are just 8 of the over 3000 ethnic groups in Africa, and you can already see how beautiful and varied the people of Africa are.

THERE IS NO ONE AFRICAN “LOOK”.

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Strong words to use on a Resume

If you have ever had to write a resume for work or for an application, then you know the hardest part is figuring out what type of words to use that sound professional and and intelligent.

Example: If an application asks you if you have any relevant experience for a job at a day care center and you have experience, like you have babysat children. You would look at the words in the columns to see what words you should use that will help your resume stand out. You might put down “Have supervised and attended to children on a regular basis.”

I hope this is helpful to you.

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MUSLIMS ARE GETTING PUT IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN CHINA

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MUSLIMS ARE GETTING PUT IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN CHINA

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When you wake up and realize you still have a couple hours to sleep until your alarm goes off.

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BDE

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VACAY 2018

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I suck at captions

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Study Tips Series #6 - How to Write an Essay?

These steps are partly derives from my personal experience, and partly from other books and guides for writing essays.

1. Carefully read through the question

Question words sometimes can determine the way of answering the question, it’s very important whether you are supposed to critical discuss, or analyse, or comment on certain issues.

2. Research - and take comprehensive notes

You can first look around the issue and try to search for related articles using different key words (I use google scholar basically 99% of the time, or google). Once you have downloaded or targeted at several journals that are particularly relevant to your essay, you can go ahead and summarise the journals in a document. I usually create four word documents during this stage - one for essay outline, one for research notes, one for bibliography, and finally one for essay draft. The way i do it is that I first use the journal’s full citation as the title, then type out relevant ideas from the journal under it. I also footnote the citations of the original journal to make sure everything is well cited. Meanwhile, i will note down the journals/citations on my bibliography (which is divided into sections like journals/books/internet resources and more). If I have inspiration and ideas for essay outline or even the essay, i would immediate jot them down on the two respective documents in fear of losing them in the future.

3. Construct your essay outline

This is going to be an very very important steps for you to formulate your thoughts, and have an idea on what you have to do further research for and such. You can finish your essay so much faster with a guideline for yourself. Here is what should probably be included in your outline.

Issue - what is that one thing or few things that need to be defined in your essay, or that your essay revolves around?

Thesis - this is the central idea you want to convey in your essay. It may change was you proceed to do your research or write your essay, but it’s very important to first have an idea of what you want to propose.

Main body - what is going to be the content/title of each paragraph?

Conclusion - I don’t really draft this part when i do my essay outline, but to each his own

4. First draft of the essay

Basically just follow your essay outline and try to complete your essay. I don’t necessarily do it from start to end, i jump from parts to parts for most of the time. I find that easier for me, but using this method means that i have make sure i have carefully linked different paragraphs after drafting my essay.

5. Modification

After finishing your first draft, you can check whether your essay…

Has a coherent structure

Flows from one part to the next - lear linkage

Has sufficient support for arguments (references)

Has sufficient up-to-date literature

Has detailed evaluation on your topic

Has fully addressed what was set out in the title

Has reached some conclusions about the topic (preferably strong)

Incorporates a complete reference section

6. Final check!

You can, of course, final check your essay by yourself, or peer mark if you want. Having a friend to go through your essay allows you to see whether your content is understandable, whether you have any grammatical error and whether your arguments make sense

Remarks:

At the end of the day, it’s probably your tutor or lecturer who is marking your essay. So make sure you know what he/she demands/wants to see in your essay

Essays that are argumentative, rather than descriptive and factual somehow are likely to get a better grade (if there is no specific requirements for the essay) - because it shows your own original thinking process and understanding of the topic

Support arguments with literature - this is particularly important especially for first or second year undergraduate students, since for most of the time the essay assignments are supposed to help students to deepen their understanding of the issue, or increase their skills of reading and analysing literature. Being original is a good thing, but  tutors do want to see your essay being well supported by other literature.  (again, unless specified otherwise)

Discuss with tutors to have feedback for further improvements

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Link to my study tips series - i post once a week here!

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