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  1. Jan 2018
    1. the youngest of James’ 10 grandchildren

      I am happy that he has all that family to pass down his story through generations and generations to come.

    2. keep it so the days don’t just go by and that’s all there is, a boring old day…let life roll on…it goes fast

      I believe what James is trying to say is that life goes by too fast to waste.

    1. I love you too, son.

      I cannot believe she could love him as a son after what he did. What would have gone through her mind for her to act like this?

    1. Jim Stockdale and his brothers, Taylor (right) and Stanford (left), greet their father, Navy Captian James Stockdale, at Miramar Naval Air Station on February 15, 1973, as he returns home after spending seven and a half years as a POW.

      One can clearly see in the Admiral`s eyes that he had gone through some sort of torture.

    1. New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex.

      That jail will be shut down soon hopefully. Many bad things have happened in Rikers Island. Mayor de Blasio wants to close it.

    2. At StoryCorps, Savannah, 8, and Kellie sat down for one of the first times to talk about Savannah’s birth, and how she feels after learning that her mother had been in jail at the time.

      Kellie managed to pull herself out of her drug problem by moving into Hour Children, and then began helping other troubled people. Good for her.

  2. Dec 2017
    1. Open to everyone, it’s your change to sit down with a parent, grandparent, friend, neighbor, loved one, or anyone else who you are curious about, ask them questions, and listen.

      My grandmother has Alzheimer's disease. It's very sad watching her lose everything, including speech. I was eight years old when she could still speak and take care of me. She is still capable of walking, thank G_d, and smiles when we approach her. She knows that we are there with her.

    1. Kellie was seven months pregnant in 2007 when she was arrested on a misdemeanor drug possession charge

      Was Kellie taking drugs while she was pregnant? I ask this because she was arrested while she was seven months pregnant.

    1. Below: Listen to an excerpt from a February 1973 conversation between James and Sybil, speaking to each other on the phone for the first time in seven and a half years. Recorded by their son Stanford, James was at Clark Air Base in the Philippines at the time and would days later be reunited with his family.

      I don't understand why Sybil says, "Jim, it doesn't seem possible, does it?" Didn't Adm. Stockdale come home in 1973? Are they referring to his return home?

    2. At one point while dad was gone, mom decided that we would not take any family pictures. She just said it one night at supper and we nodded knowingly as if that made sense. And she decided that she would buy no new clothes until dad came home. There was also a point at which she decided that we should always have a small bowl of rice for supper and that’s all, to sort of share dad’s meager existence.

      It's interesting that the mother would do something like this. She just couldn't accept the fact that her husband never had enough to eat.

    1. After serving 15 years, Oshea was released from prison. Soon after, Mary brought him to StoryCorps to talk about their friendship.

      I would not have been able to forgive the killer, even less talk to him. Why do people forgive the people who gave so much pain to their lives?

  3. Oct 2017
    1. owing to the fact that

      These phrases sound like "lawyerese" or phrases used by lawyers in legal documents. The less a paper sounds like a legal document, the better it is.

    2. Reduce wordy verbs.

      I didn't know that it was important to reduce verb phrases to single words, but now I will take it into greater consideration. I like excess verbiage and strange words.

    1. Here is an example of a sentence that presents OLD information before the NEW information.

      I have noticed writers using the old/new contract before, but I didn't realize that it was a writing form or technique that needed explaning.

    2. 3How to Make Links to the “Old”:So, what exactly do we mean by “old” or “familiar” information? We mean everything that the reader has read so far. Any upcoming sentence contains new information, but once the reader has read it, the information becomes old or familiar. There are many strategies for making links to old information, such as...oRepeating keywords:Repeating a keyword from a preceding sentence or an earlier sentence is one of the most common ways to connect your sentences to old information.In the previous example, make note of the number of sentences that open with “father,” “father’s,” or “fathering.” By repeating these key terms we can remind the reader about the old information so that they can better understand any new information that we will present (in this case, new information about “fathers”). For example:“What fathers do—their special parenting style—is not only highly complementary to what mothers do but is by all indications important in its own right.”“Yet the fathers’ style of play seems to have unusual significance.”For example, an often-overlooked dimension of fathering is play.oSubstituting pronouns for keywords:Instead of always using keywords to relate back to old information, you can instead use pronouns, such as “it” or “their.”

      From now on, I will be using "it" and "their" to relate back to old information more often.

  4. Aug 2017
    1. revise as I go

      I don't think that this is a safe method to use for an essay. It is better to spend more time revising an outline for an essay than to sit down and write it all out without any planning. On the other hand, writing a rough draft without an outline might be alright for a story.

    2. Another tip is to read the paper out loud. That’s one way to see how well things flow.

      Recently, I have been reading aloud. It forces me to see or perceive what I have written.

    3. Check your conclusion: Does the last paragraph tie the paper together smoothly and end on a stimulating note, or does the paper just die a slow, redundant, lame, or abrupt death?

      Who says that a paper ending slowly is lame? A slow closure is not necessarily lame. An abrupt closure might mean that the writer didn't care enough to bring out an important meaning.

    4. Do you still agree with it? Should it be modified in light of something you discovered as you wrote the paper?

      This reminds me of the necessity of creating a new hypothesis in science, where if the data from experiments designed to prove a hypothesis, actually disproves the hypothesis. A thesis statement is similar to a hypothesis. When a scientist writes a paper proving a hypothesis, the hypothesis becomes a thesis statement.

    5. wait nine years

      After nine years, one's perspective has changed;however, submitting my assignments nine years late would make high school last much longer than it needs to.

    6. But if you haven’t thought through your ideas, then rephrasing them won’t make any difference.

      The distinction between proofreading and revision must be known in order for one to make an actual difference in writing. Proofreading is correcting grammar and punctuation. Revision is eliminating extra or repeated words and swapping out boring words for interesting ones. Rewriting, on the other hand, is about making sure that one's story or essay ideas are good enough. In a story, the ideas have to be strong enough to make an impact on the reader. In an essay, one's arguments have to be strong enough to convince the reader. Ideally, the process of analyzing one’s ideas should come at the beginning of the process.

    7. This handout will motivate you to revise your drafts and give you strategies to revise effectively.

      I hate rewriting. I wonder if this author will be able to convince me that rewriting is truly useful.

  5. Jul 2017
    1. fieldmouse in its nest.

      The only thing worse than actually finding a mouse at home is watching it suffer in a trap. Not all humans can understand that animals should not suffer. We are all locked inside ourselves to some extent. Maybe the poet's own misery made him realize that the mouse was suffering.

    2. Readers miss “the sadness and despair contained within the lines of this poem,”

      It would be easy to think that the poem was some quaint poem about cute, little mice. Imagine putting the line "The best-laid schemes..." phrase on a get-well card.

    3. “If he were alive today, he would be what we call a sex pest,” she says of her country’s most revered bard. During his short lifetime (he died at the age of 36), Burns fathered many illegitimate children with different women.

      The writer could have left this entire highlighted section out and just said: "Scottish poet Liz Lockhead is not one to idolise Robert Burns the man. But Burns the poet moves her." It would have been sufficient.

  6. Jun 2017
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    1. Get rid of Guggenheim, and give us a writer who isn’t a complete frigging hack.

      Don't shoot the writer. Take him alive. His portal stinks but his thought control is awesome.

    1. Your beautiful pictures restore one's happiness and returns one's soul to the heart by way of the stomach. This is my position as a future vegetarian.

    1. I think that your idea of using the word "diversifying" followed by "more smarter" shows that you like to make people laugh by laughing at yourself. You went from a “culture review podcast” to a movie blog by working hard and paying attention to your readers’ minds and preferences.

  8. Mar 2017
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    1. X-Men comics of March 22 2017

      I am down to my core sad that I won`t be seeing Hugh Jackman play Wolverine again. Hopefully, Marvel Studios will bribe him into acting as Logan once again.

    1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F

      As an American living abroad, as well as an amateur cooking enthusiast, I find this extremely helpful because you included the Fahrenheit temperatures, although you forgot to put the temperature in Kelvin. (Just kidding.) I love zucchini dishes, and this seems easy enough to make. I noticed that you listed the chicken sausages as optional. Are you vegetarian or vegan?

    1. Distributors hate him! Learn these 10 weird tricks to self-releasing a film in the UK.

      I believe your post makes some really thoughtful and educated guesses regarding the DIY (do-it-yourself) methods of successfully distributing a film in the UK. Best I have ever seen, by the way. I just got a little bit confused when it came down to discussing the price range cost of actually releasing a film in the UK. I thought the only price one would have to pay would be 80 quid, but it turned out to be more like 900 quid.

    1. I was engaged to a 5o year old.

      This post is your best work so far. I write this with the intention to highlight that you have successfully, in my amateur opinion, provided specific, vivid details, which made an already exciting, story more interesting by using an eye-catching title and character development.