“Every good manager effectively threatens his players with professional extermination if they don’t give him the best effort that they are capable of giving; Casey Stengel, Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and Earl Weaver are masters at it, as was Durocher. They are not nice people. . . .” – Bill James, The Bill James Baseball Abstract, 1986, Ballantine Books, 1986 My first, foremost piece of advice for any classroom teacher:
I have taught many resistant students: gang members, drug dealers, disaffected kids with no direction, shy introverts, you name it. But the one thing I could always use to level the playing field was Shakespeare. You’d think something more in line with The Outsiders or some other gang-themed novel would have done the trick, but nope. It was the Bard. The reason? His themes are universal and timeless. He knew
When people think of Will Shakespeare’s Hamlet, they either think of “alas poor Yorick” and some dude with a skull, or Hamlet’s “To be or not to be.” The latter speech is incandescent in the play. But I would argue that the scenes which follow “To be or not to be” would tell you more about the character of Hamlet, not to mention his lover Ophelia, and their relationship. This
“Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!” Mr. Micawber, David Copperfield Charles Dickens often generated 90 pages of quality text a month, and he published novels like Great Expectations chapter by chapter in weekly periodicals. No doubt, Dickens was a rare breed, but he set a standard that every serious writer should consider. There’s no point in being a writer if no one reads your work. Even Dickinson and Kafka
Here’s a video on how to format an MLA paper, to include discussions on font, spacing, header, title, body, page break, and page numbering. We hope you find it helpful!
Logical fallacies are forms of flawed thinking. They’re often disguised as reasonable claims, which means that detecting them takes practice. This video discusses some logical fallacies that should be understood and avoided.
