by Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock and his guardian, Sir Topher, have not been home to their beloved Lumatere for ten years. Not since the dark days when the royal family was murdered and the kingdom put under a terrible curse. But then Finnikin is summoned to meet Evanjalin, a young woman with an […]
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." -- Aldous Huxley
Since the release of the Kindle, Amazon's popular digital reading device, a few publishers have started to experiment with converting their comics to Kindle editions. But while the recently released and upgraded Kindle 2 offers an improved design and a better screen experience—unlike the first Kindle, the Kindle 2 offers a 16 tone grayscale screen—reading […]
Many tools can be implemented for success in delivering your speech, whether you are giving a speech to a public audience, talking with members of a company board meeting, or simply offering a sales presentation. Such tools comprise explaining detailed examples, designing statistical charts, in addition to providing influencing testimony. Below, we will add another […]
Researchers have found that indulging in feelings of nostalgia curiously combat the sad feelings that accompany loneliness. Christie Nicholson reports. http://adjix.com/3cw
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Vischeck, checks your slides (or other visual work) to make sure that color-blind people can actually see it. From the website: Many pictures, documents and web pages are hard for color blind people to read because the people who designed them didn't think about the problem. Vischeck lets them check their work for color blind […]
Getting up on stage and speaking is a difficult and demanding thing to do. It’s natural to be nervous and for that nervousness to show. It’s also hard to know how what you are doing up there on stage is perceived by the audience. There are things that speakers do that feel good to them, […]
How to Move People to Action through Audience-Centered Speaking by Nick Morgan Give Powerful Speeches to Audiences of Five or Five Hundred Through entertaining and insightful examples, Morgan illustrates a practical, three-part process—focusing on content development, rehearsal, and delivery—geared toward engaging an audience on every level: emotional, intellectual, and physical. more …
First Grader Spots Dinosaur Mistake in School Library Book Need to know something about dinosaurs? Ask expert Emilio Lemeni, a first grader at the Rosa Parks Elementary School in Woodbridge, VA. The six-year-old recently checked out the book Scutellosaurus and Other Small Dinosaurs (Picture Window, 2006) from his school library and read it at home […]
