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love stays alive in our gardens of eden🌹

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rosy-tea

all that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost - J.R.R. Tolkien

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b-e-l-l-a--l-u-n-a

The touch of my lover still lays on the skin of my soul.

There is Love, holy love. Unconditional love. Wild and God created love in this world. But when they say one can't love whom they love for fear of being unholy, how can one be holy be denying and abandoning love? How is the withdrawal of love from a desperate heart that is beating for only the reason of obtaining love & breaking the heart of your beloved, a Holy thing? Would God forgive a lover for loving one who is shunned by others in the fear that they could earn God's wrath too as if wrath were contagious? Why would God rage at one of His children for their Love if God is Love?

And if one loves 2 souls and gives them all she has, would God multiply her blessings since she doubles the blessings she provides? Why would God take His Love from her instead when she needs God's Love to fill the cup she pours out to the others?

All I ever wanted to know in this world was what to do. I never know if I step right, I only know Love is real. Now I hear words of judgement from people who are human and blind just like me. Do I choose to listen to them? Do I choose fear instead of joyous life-giving love?

Please hear me God. I love You. I need you. I also need them. All need to be Loved. No one is a pious silent island without the natural ache to dream that the waves and the moon will touch in ♥ love ♥ one day.

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ccllege

so since i really really like history and think writing about history is fun (like… as fun as writing about anything for a grade gets, but), i thought i’d share my overall writing process with you guys to help out anyone who needs it!!

1. ask yourself: what are you even writing about? there are two main types of history essays: one where you’re examining some sort of shift, or change over time, usually a shift in how people view a certain thing/topic/issue, and one where you’re looking at the effects of one cultural/economic/social element, and how it affected/presented itself in only the time when it took place. i’m gonna call these the shift and the isolated occurrence, respectively. your first step is to identify which type of essay you’re writing.
  • how to approach the shift: ask yourself what changes, what stays the same, when do the changes occur, and why. you can think of this essay as a cause and effect essay. you’re going to look at the overall shift over a long period of time, and several turning points for that shift. overall, what changed and why? in those specific moments, what changed and why?
  • how to approach the isolated occurrence: figure out what social, political, or economic phenomenon you’re looking at. ask yourself how that occurrence manifests itself in different populations (by age groups, gender, race, region, socioeconomic class, etc). in a nutshell, your essay is going to be about what the shift meant in general for EVERYONE it affected, and what it meant for the different populations you chose to examine.
2. gather your sources. i’m gonna assume you’re writing your academic history for school, so these are gonna be “course” centric.
  • textbook. probably the least “respected” source, but you just want to get this essay done, and you don’t particularly care about being respected by historians, so you can use your textbook for anytime you’re talking about dates or really general, really vague background information.
  • extra readings. most history teachers tend to print stuff out and give it to you to read. those are fair game. use ‘em, but be careful - if they’re excerpts from another textbook, use them like you’d use your textbook. if they’re from something more specific (i.e. an entire book on the subject, instead of a paragraph on the subject from your textbook), you rely more heavily on the source.
  • other primary sources. your textbooks and readings are probably going to quote some people who were there. you want to quote some people who were there, too! diary entries, journals, and letters are all incredibly helpful, and you can google that sort of thing pretty easily to get great sources!
  • things historians have written. that thing you’re writing about? someone probably writes about that for a living. it’s always a good idea to use historians and their works.
  • works from the period. art, literature, prose, music - we use them to express ourselves and our ideas. if its from the period you’re writing about, it will tell you something about people/people’s feelings on things from the period, and is a primary source!
  • major legal writings. if the government is based on it or wrote it, it’s a solid source.
3. write your thesis. you’ve read step 1. you know what you’re talking about. so tell everyone what your talking about, and, most importantly, what it did/what it means for us now, in a broad, broad sense. for example, roe v. wade literally made abortions legal in the us. but what roe v. wade REALLy did was allow women to have greater ownership of their own bodies and choices, and greater independence. see? your thesis is where you should be broad.
4. write the essay.
  • introduction. add some historical context. basically, explain what events or movements led up to the thing you’re talking about. then give ‘em your thesis. then do that thing your english teacher probably doesn’t want you to do where you list how you’re going to prove your thesis. then hit enter.
  • body paragraphs. with shifts, it’s best to organize them chronologically. with the isolated occurrence, it’s best to organize them based on population group. in these paragraphs, you’re providing evidence that will justify your thesis, so each paragraph should work to make a point that strengthens/supports your BIG point (thesis). make sure you have some cold-hard facts or sources and interpretations of those facts and sources in each paragraph.
  • conclusion. restate the thesis. and LET PEOPLE KNOW WHY THE THING YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT IS RELEVANT TODAY. that’s the biggest part of your whole essay, trust me. history is essentially the study of what got us where we are. if you don’t talk about the present in your essay about the past, you’re doing it wrong. (NOTE: if you’re writing about something that you can’t make relevant to anything today, connect it to something major that happens after the times you talk about in your essay.)
5. turn it in. you done. you did it.
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thecoochiefairy

𝖓𝖊𝖜 𝖘𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖒.

𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒, 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐒 𝐖𝐎𝐋𝐕𝐄𝐒, 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐆𝐎 𝐎𝐍 𝐀 𝐌𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓. 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐋𝐒𝐎 𝐒𝐄𝐗, 𝐉𝐎𝐊𝐄𝐒 + 𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐐𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐒. 𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐃 𝐈 𝐆𝐎 𝐎𝐍?

𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰!

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sasstastic-turtles

‪Essays I've written that had absolutely no business scoring as high as they did‬

- A literary analysis claiming that Jekyll was gay and strongly insinuating that Hyde was his drag persona‬ ‪- 500 words on how Despacito has changed the American music industry (in Spanish)‬ ‪- Literally didn’t even write an essay just turned in a picture of that scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail where the cartoon angels are playing the trumpet w their asses - We were supposed to make a ‘diary’ from the pov of a character in Romeo and Juliet. I chose to write as a gay servant who was hopelessly in love w Romeo and plotting to murder Juliet. It’s entirely handwritten w my left hand and stg every single word is spelled wrong. One page just says ‘today I saw a geese’. There are no fewer than 6 thinly veiled sexual innuendos.

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suburbanwildernessdeity

Sorry to be the person to add unsolicited personal stories to posts, but I do very similar things with essays that I’m quite proud of and wanted to share, so here are a few of mine in chronological order:

- the assignment (freshman year) was to write an instructional essay about a mathematical concept we had used that year, “preferably the quadratic formula.” I wrote a 5 paragraph instructional essay on how to add single digit numbers. I received a grade of 105 for creativity and accuracy.

- the assignment was to write a summary of the uber-important grade-wide government simulation as a reporter from a mainstream newspaper. I chose the onion and wrote about the European Union changing its name to the European Disunion because they felt bad about all the anti-brexit voters who got let down

- we were supposed to watch a historical movie and write a compare/contrast essay on how accurate it was to actual historical events. I chose Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and did not mention vampires AT ALL until the last sentence of the essay.

- in health class we were assigned to write a “letter” essay convincing a teenager not to try drugs. I wrote an impressively sinister 6 paragraphs posing as the FBI agent stalking the teenager filled with lines like “they’re trying to hurt you. don’t ask me how I know- I always know. I’m here even when you can’t sense me. Drugs kill more effectively than the yakuza- and I would know.”

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sasstastic-turtles

These are incredible

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xiaq

Freshman year of high school, for my Bible class (private school Christian education, whattup) we had to write a diary entry from an Egyptian’s pov during the period when Moses came to free the Israelites and the whole 10 plagues bit happened. I turned in three pages of hand-drawn hieroglyphics. 100.

Sophomore year of high school we had to write a poem in the style of a poet we had covered that year. I chose Alfred Noyes (he wrote “The Highwayman”) and, being that I was fully obsessed with Avatar the Last Airbender, I wrote “The Cabbage Man.” 100. Junior year of high school we had to write a persuasive essay about Hamlet. I wrote mine arguing that Hamlet was very poor-sighted (he thinks Polonius is a fishmonger, he doesn’t recognize Ophelia, he literally thinks Rosencrantz is a sponge, etc.). It was complete bullshit, but I provided textual evidence for every claim and ended with the assertion that, had Hamlet a good Ophthalmologist, a good amount of nonsense could have been avoided. I got a 100 and the teacher read it out loud to the class Senior year of high school, for my college admissions essay, I was supposed to write a letter to someone who changed my life. I wrote it to the monster who lived under my bed as a child. I got into every college I applied to.

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pitviperofdoom

Early on in my master’s program for library and information sciences I had to write an essay examining how archives are used by records creators and researchers for the purpose of preserving and accessing information.

I wrote about the Journals in Gravity Falls.

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osanzo

Senior year of high school I took a creative writing class, and our first assignment was to create a personal timeline so that the rest of the class could get to know us.

Since my memory is absolute shit and I couldn’t place any significant childhood events, I filled in the blanks with things like “got chased by the minotaur mafia” and “a pegasus crashed into our house” and “got lost for a year in a magic castle.” I included doodles of the events.

The teacher was crying from laughter when I turned it in after presenting it to the class.

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ohifonlyx33

Aren’t y'all scared of like… failing the assignment???