Develop Your Wining Habits - Learning English

Develop Your Wining Habits - Learning English

If becoming a success were easy, everyone would do it. It isn't. They don't. As a follower of the "Action Principles", you can. You can develop wining habits while identifying and working to eliminate your bad habits. Be patient. Psychological studies have shown that it takes about 30days to begin to form or begin to rid  yourself of a habit.

You can keep your word even though this may not always be easy. You can write and focus on your goal and objectives and your to-do list. You can exercise when you're tired. You can read business materials. You can volunteer.You can give a little extra money to charity. You can give a little extra time to family members, students and customers. You can pick up litter on the jogging path. You can do a lot while others are idle.

You won't always want to do these things. You will feel that you are doing more than your share. You are right. work on your habits. You are tough.

Word for Success:

• Man are respectable only as they respect. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make Today Special - Learning English

Make Today Special - Learning English

Many people enjoy using the first few minutes of the day for their reflective time. How did yesterday go? What do you want to accomplish today? What will be the most important? This, of course, becomes our prioritized to-do list. How will today vary from your usual routine? Can you think of any small things that you can do? Perhaps there is something that you've been avoiding, that, if you do it, would make you feel especially proud of yourself.

Give each day a specific purpose. For unsuccessful, unhappy people, there is often sameness to their days. Is it Monday or Thursday? Is it June or July? Is it 8 o'clock in the morning or 5 o'clock in the evening? They're in rut and it doesn't matter.

Everybody has the same amount of time each day. How are you going to spend your 24 hours? Plan in advance. Make lists. List are your road map to personal accomplishment and balanced living. Always carry paper and pen. What are you doing today to ensure a better tomorrow for yourself and your family?

Word for Success:

• Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasure and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. Saint  Thomas Aquinas

Don't Complicate Matters - Learning English

Don't Complicate Matters - Learning English

Don't complicate your life. Thinks before you act. Look for the simple ways or answer first where less can go wrong. Work from your basics. Make sure that you understand the assignment or the problem before you begin. What are the time and performance expectations that will indicate satisfactory completion? Reexamine how you are doing things. Is a task consuming all of your time? Is it worth the time you are investing? Do you have the necessary resource? Can it be delegated? If so, is the right person assigned to complete the job? Your research, your quite time, your commitment to team work and your prioritized to-do list should all help. Pare away the unnecessary. Even the philosophy underlying these Action Principles can be stated very simply. Improve your self and help others.

Words for Success:

• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Ghandi

How to Set Goal - Learning English

How to Set Goal - Learning English

Unless you shape your life,circumstances will shape it for you. You have to work, sacrifice, invest, and persist to get the results you want. Choose them well. You can't start your planing until you know where you want to go.

        
You are the sculptor of your own image. Have others already done what you want to do? Study them and do what they did. Start anywhere, at anytime, and persist with confident and capability. Stop worrying what others think about what you can do or can't do. Believe in your self and your abilities. Have the self-confident to challenge your current situation. This is your life to live, it's day by day and step by step.

       

Write down your goals. Only three percent of people have written goals and only one percent reviews those written  goals daily. Be in that elite one percent. Visualize the attainment of your goal often. Goals and dreams with dates attached. You will only become as grate and as happy as the goals you choose.

Words for success:

• If you judge people, you have no  time to love them. Mother Teresa.

A Brief History of the Internet - Learning English

A Brief History of the Internet - Learning English

The Internet was the result of some visionary thinking by people in the early 1960s who saw great potential value in allowing computers to share information on research and development in scientific and military fields. J.C.R. Licklider of MIT first proposed a global network of computers in 1962, and moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in late 1962 to head the work to develop it. Leonard Kleinrock of MIT and later UCLA developed the theory of packet switching, which was to form the basis of Internet connections. Lawrence Roberts of MIT connected a Massachusetts computer with a California computer in 1965 over dial-up telephone lines. It showed the feasibility of wide area networking, but also showed that the telephone line's circuit switching was inadequate. Kleinrock's packet switching theory was confirmed. Roberts moved over to DARPA in 1966 and developed his plan for ARPANET. These visionaries and many more left unnamed here are the real founders of the Internet.

History of marriage - Learning English

History of marriage - Learning English

HISTORY OF MARRIAGE IN WESTERN CIVILIZATIONMarriage, as we know it in our Western civilization today, has a long history with roots in several very different ancient cultures, of which the Roman, Hebrew, and Germanic are the most important. Western marriage has further been shaped by the doctrines and policies of the medieval Christian church, the demands of the Protestant Reformation, and the social impact of the Industrial Revolution.

When we look at the marriage customs of our ancestors, we discover several striking facts. For example, for the most of Western history, marriage was not a mere personal matter concerning only husband and wife, but rather the business of their two families which brought them together. Most marriages, therefore, were arranged. Moreover, the wife usually had much fewer rights than her husband and was expected to be subservient to him. To a considerable extent, marriage was also an economic arrangement. There was little room for romantic love, and even simple affection was not considered essential. Procreation and cooperation were the main marital duties.

Colons - Learning English

Colons: Use a colon for three main reasons: (1) to introduce a list, (2) to introduce a quotation, or (3) to set up a second clause that answers the first. The one main rule with colons is that an independent clause must precede the colon.

• They looked up at the constellations and could see a multitude of different patterns Orion, the Big Dipper, Cassiopia, and the Bear.
• Correction: They looked up at the constellations and could see a multitude of different patterns: Orion, the Big Dipper, Cassiopia, and the Bear.
• When Frank was confident he had Sally's respect, he asked her a big question "Will you marry me?"
• Correction: Frank was confident he had Sally's respect, he asked her a big question: "Will you marry me?"
• Sally answered briefly and softly: "Love is like an ocean wave. It rolls into shore from seemingly nowhere."
• Correction: Sally answered briefly and softly: "Love is like an ocean wave: it rolls into shore from seemingly nowhere."

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Dashes - Learning English

Dashes - Learning English

Dashes: Dashes are used to set off an additional thought in your sentence. This additional thought doesn't need to be an independent clause or complete thought at all. It can be a list, a clarification, a shift, an amplification--just some clause you wish to tack on to your sentence.

• They decided to meet once again at the beach. But at midnight!
• Correction: They decided to meet once again at the beach--but at midnight! 
• At night they walked along the beach, looking up at the stars. Acompletely romantic evening for Sally.
• Correction: At night they walked along the beach, looking up at thestars--a completely romantic evening for Sally.

*Note that a dash is two hyphens: --, not one. MS Word usually combines these two hyphens into one long hyphen automatically, which is fine.

*For print mediums, do not put spaces around dashes. If you do, put spaces around both sides of the dash.

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Semi-colons - Learning English

Semi-colons - Learning English

Semi-colons: If two independent clauses are closely related, you can join the clauses with a semi-colon rather than a comma and coordinating conjunction. You must be be sure, however, that independent clauses are on both sides of the semi-colon.

• Frank asked Sally out for a date that night she accepted enthusiastically.
• Correction: Frank asked Sally out for a date that night; she accepted enthusiastically.
• Sally didn't know what to wear all, her clothes were torn and ratty.
• Correction: Sally didn't know what to wear; all her clothes were torn and ratty.

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Commas - Learning English

Commas - Learning English

Commas: In general, use a comma wherever you want to insert a light, natural pause. There are also specific rules to guide you in placing commas.

1. Use a comma after an introductory clause.

• When Sally opened her eyes and looked around her she thought she was in a dream.
• Correction: When Sally opened her eyes and looked around her, shethought she was in a dream.
• Seeing Sally return to full composure Frank asked if he might have a sandwich.
• Correction: Seeing Sally return to full composure, Frank asked if he might have a sandwich.

2. Use commas to set off non-restrictive clauses or parenthetical expressions. (A non-restrictive clause is a clause that doesn't restrict the sentence's meaning -- it can be dropped without changing the meaning.)

• The sandwich which was pickle and peanut butter with ketchup mixed in looked repulsive to Frank and made him almost vomit.
• Correction: The sandwich, which was pickle and peanut butter with ketchup mixed in, looked repulsive to Frank and made him feel ill.
• Sally who grew up in a small farm town in Nebraska said that's how everyone eats his or her sandwich.
• Correction: Sally, who grew up in a small farm town in Nebraska, said that's how everyone eats his or her sandwich.

3. When joining two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction (and, but, or, for, so, nor, yet), put a comma before the coordinating conjunction. (Note: an independent clause is a clause that can stand alone as a full sentence.)

• Frank said to nevermind about the sandwich because he wasn't hungry and he proceeded to lay down beside Sally.
• Correction: Frank said to nevermind about the sandwich because he wasn't hungry, and he proceeded to lay down beside Sally.
• Sally asked if Frank came to the beach often and he said today was in fact the first time he had ever visited the place.
• Correction: Sally asked if Frank came to the beach often, and he said today was in fact the first time he had ever visited the place.

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