Our lives oscillate between the deliberate and the automatic. Not just biological functions but how we spend our time. It takes deliberate effort to change the patterns that have become automatic.
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What is an accent? Essentially, an accent is how the way you speak differs from the normal or neutral way a language is typically spoken. An accent is a unique pattern of speaking influenced by the sounds and rhythm of language. It is NOT a disorder that can be fixed but modified to sound more articulate and less distracting.
An accent is made up of syllables stress, intonation, liaisons and pronunciation, the form, function and flow of language.
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Rushing through the things we want to enjoy is a symptom of scrolling. Screens are intended to enhance our lives, not speed them up so it passes by without us being aware. When comparing reading on a screen to reading a book, consider the pace as an integral part of the experience.
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Reading and listening are completely different modalities. The overlap is in acquiring, processing, storing, and retrieving information but the mediums are entirely distinct, much like the distinction between watching a movie and listening to a radio show.
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She called because her hands don’t work. Not like she would have preferred to text. That generation wants to hear your voice. Texts aren’t a form of communication to them, just a compromise they make to settle for an interaction with someone they hold dear. That generation loves pictures, that’s what they use the phone for so send them pictures instead of texting.
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You work to give your kids a better life. You accept that as the way. It’s not that the sacrifice isn’t worth it, it’s the cost of admission and the price of self-neglect and the slow painful death of the inner child. The sincere smile that peaks through the blood shot eyes. They were fighters, loyal and driven. They lived to the honor of the story of their time. But it’s an old and tired tale. They played the script that was given to them and they played it well.
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The past has a way of compounding itself. The present makes that person unrecognizable, so we make sense of it with the past.Who they were only appears in the persistent gestures and expressions that remind you in an instant of the molten rock that flows beneath the present. You see past them and they see through you.
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How to care for your ears and prevent hearing loss. You must be diligent in protecting your ears because the damage is pervasive and irreversible. Here we are going to explore the key features of hearing and how we can protect ourselves from our auditorily toxic environment.
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Dr. Joel Stark was a mentor, a creator, and a guardian of integrity. He put his passion to instill the highest virtues into the next generation at the forefront of his ambition. I am honored to have been his student. I will continue his legacy by inspiring others in the same manner he has inspired me.
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The semantics of prayer and meditation create a special kind of cognitive dissonance. The discrepancy between the two terms often relies on the ideology of the person judging it. The religious folks tend to scoff at meditation in the same way the atheists dismiss prayer.
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