ALL CHANGE, MIND THE GAP, KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON READING

///////////////////////////////The traditional exits, of a sudden heart attack, of dying in one’s sleep, of unreasonably dropping dead in the street, of even a terminal illness, are now exotic ways of going. The longer you live the longer it will take to die. The better you have lived the worse you may die. The healthier you are—through careful diet, diligent exercise, and attentive medical scrutiny—the harder it is to die. Part of the advance in life expectancy is that we have technologically inhibited the ultimate event. We have fought natural causes to almost a draw. If you eliminate smokers, drinkers, other substance abusers, the obese, and the fatally ill, you are left with a rapidly growing demographic segment peculiarly resistant to death’s appointment—though far, far, far from healthy.


//////////////////////////////////What really interests me is whether God had any choice in creating the world.” -EINSTEIN


/////////////////////////////// the dark-energy density is extraordinarily small:

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/////////////////////////////////////Susan Sontag, on aphorisms

 “Aphorisms are rogue ideas”



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Novel - An extended piece of fiction, normally at least 40,000 words long

/////////////////////////////NOVELLA - 20 K TO 30 K WORDS LONG

///////////////////////////SHORT STORY UNDER 20 K WORDS


///////////////////////////////SHORT-SHORT STORY  UNDER 1500 WORDS


/////////////////////////////////VIGNETTE- DESCRIBE A PERSON, PLACE OR EVENT, SLICE OF LIFE


///////////////////////////////////////////PROSE POEM UNDER 500 WORDS


/////////////////////////////////ANTI-STORY OR ESSAY


////////////////////////////NOVELETTE-7.5K TO 10K WORDS


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Types of Fiction

Science fiction – fiction story with a science theme, space etc.

Animal Fiction – A main character is an animal

Adventure – exciting and sometimes dangerous plot or setting

Realistic fiction – story that is based on a true story

Historical fiction – fiction story based on a historical event

Mystery – A problem is solved by following clues

Humorous fiction – funny story, characters, setting and or plot

Biography – True story of someone’s life

Autobiography – True story of the author’s life

Fantasy – fanciful fiction, cannot possibly be real

Folktales – stories passed down orally by different cultural groups

Fables – similar to folktales but the characters are animals and there is a moral or lesson

 Gothic- horror+romance

Horror-

Romance

///////////////////////Adventure - stories where there is an element of danger and risk. This category often overlaps the others, so that you have a fantasy novel with lots of adventure, or an adventure story with a mystery.
Comic or Graphic Novel - a fairly new category which includes the art as well as the story writing
Drama - the original term 'drama' meant stage drama, and was divided into comedy and tragedy - now we use the term to refer to any sort of fiction that ... well, that doesn't fit into any of the other categories on this page!
Erotic or Pornography - stories about sex
Espionage or Spy Thriller - stories about spies and international intrigue
Fanfiction - stories about another author's characters, such as Harry Potter fanfiction or Star Trek fanfiction. This sort of fiction cannot be sold!
Fantasy - stories that contain elements of what was once called 'fairy tales.' 

Fantasy can be further divided into alternate universe, bangsian, celtic, comic, contemporary, dark, folktale, heroic, high, historical, juvenile, medieval, myth, prehistoric, romantic, steampunk, superhero, sword and sorcery, urban, and wuxia

Horror - stories dealing with things that frighten us. Horror can be further divided into body-related (disease, mutation, mutilation, etc), holocaust, ghost stories, natural disaster, psychological thriller, and supernatural
Humor or Comedy - stories that make us laugh. Comedy can be further divided into burlesque, comedy of manners, farce, parody, satire, and sentimental
Medical - stories about the field of medicine and the people who work in it
Mystery - stories that contain a crime, puzzle, or confusing situation. Mystery can be further divided into cozy, detective (amateur, hardboiled, private investigator), medical, police procedural, supernatural, and whodunit
Poetry - rhythmic writing that deals with emotion. Poems do not have to rhyme, but they must be concise and emotional. Poetry can be broadly divided into epic, dramatic, lyric, narrative, and satirical. Specific poetry forms include acrostic, canzone, carmina figurata, cinquain, concrete, elegy, fixed verse, free verse, ghazal, haiku, jintishi, minnesang, murabba, ode, pantoum, quatrain, rondeau, ruba'i, sestina, sijo, song, sonnet, stev, tanka, and villanelle
Political - stories about the world of politics and the people who work in it
Romance - stories about love. Romance can be broadly divided into catogory (series) and stand-alone (single title). Romance subgenres include contemporary, erotic, historical, inspirational, multi-cultural, paranormal, romantic suspense, romantic science fiction, and time travel
 Science fiction subgenres include alternate history, apocalyptic, biopunk, cyberpunk, dying planet, gothic, military, pulp, steampunk, time travel, space colonization, space opera, and urban
Stream of Consciousness - also called free-writing - unedited and spontaneous ramblings on any topic
Tragedy - stories that make us cry
War Fiction - stories about war and the military
Western Fiction - stories about the American Old West. 

//////////////////////////////PLOT, EXPOSITION, FORESHADOWING,RISING ACTION, CLIMAX,FALLING ACTION, RESOLUTION

CONFLICT,- 5 TYPES-

PERSON V MACHINE/TECHNOLOGY

PERSON V SELF

PERSON V PERSON

PERSON V SOCIETY

PERSON V NATURE/SUPERNATURAL

CHARACTER-

Point-of-view character: The character from whose perspective (theme) the audience experiences the story. This is the character that represents the point of view the audience empathizes, or at the very least, sympathies with. Therefore this is the "Main" Character.
Protagonist:Hero- The driver of the action of the story and therefore responsible for achieving the story's Objective Story Goal (the surface journey). In western storytelling tradition the Protagonist is usually the main character.

Antagonist

Anti-hero
Static character: does not significantly change during the course of a story.
Dynamic character: undergoes character development during the course of a story.
Foil: The character that contrasts to the protagonist in a way that illuminates their personality or characteristic.
Supporting character: 

Minor character:

///////////////////////////////////SYMBOLISM, METAPHOR

///////////////////T. GOEBELI TEPE- 9KYA - OLDEST TEMPLE- TRKY

////////////////////////////TV-WAS IITLR THE MOST SPHSTCTD EVL?

////////////////////////////TV-NSES- MN OF GD AND SWRD

///////////////////////////TV- EXPLOITATION AND DECEPTION IN NATURAL WORLD

//////////////////////////FICTION- CHRONOLOGY- FLASHBACK

SETTING, THEME,STYLE

///////////////////////////NON FICTION-Essays, journals, diaries, documentaries, histories, scientific papers, photographs, biographies, textbooks, travel books, blueprints, technical documentation, user manuals, diagrams and some journalism

/////////////////////////Almanac
Autobiography
Biography
Blueprint
Book report
Creative nonfiction
Design document
Diagram
Diary
Dictionary
Nonfiction films (e.g. documentaries)
Encyclopedia
Essay
Guides and manuals
Handbook
History
Journal (disambiguation)
Journalism
Letter
Literary criticism
Memoir
Natural history
Philosophy
Photograph
Research paper
Science book
Scientific paper
Statute
Textbook
Travelogue

/////////////////////////////UNDERSTATEMENT, SELF DEPRECIATION, SELF EFFACEMENT




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T. SPARTANS- LEONIDUS BUST

///////////////////PERSA-PERSEPOLIS


//////////////////PRACLES OF EELPHI


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RCH MNTL LF-ENJYING IMPROVED MND

///////////////////////////It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
– Alfred Adler


////////////////////////Coley and Carr suggest that some of these black holes, if they actually exist, might have been created by the collapsing Universe as part of the Big Crunch, and then somehow escaped being pulled into the pinpoint singularity comprised of everything else. And then, after the Big Bang, they simply assimilated with the newly formed Universe.


////////////////////////////EVIL IS PSYCHOLOGICAL LACK OF EMPATHY- BARON COHEN



/////////////////////////////////University of Missouri researchers found that thoughts of mortality can lead to decreased militaristic attitudes, better health decisions, increased altruism and helpfulness, and reduced divorce rates.



/////////////////////////////////to terror management theory, people deal with their awareness of mortality by upholding cultural beliefs and seeking to become part of something larger and more enduring than themselves, such as nations or religions," said Jamie Arndt,


//////////////////////////////////SUCCESS BEGETS SUCCESS, SUFFRNG BEGETS SUFFRNG



/////////////////////////////////ALTRUISM BEGETS ALTRUISM, CRIME BEGEST CRIME



////////////////////////////////////hat bilinguals' rich experience with language "fine-tunes" their auditory nervous system and helps them juggle linguistic input in ways that enhance attention and working memory.



/////////////////////////////////JINKO JANA THA  VO TO CHAL DIYE , GAMO- LEX MESS /70




///////////////////////////////ALHZHMR-ApoE4 works through an intracellular protein (Cyclophilin A) that makes the brain vulnerable to an attack.








/////////////////////////////////////Although time spent reading and time spent watching TV both expend few calories, one is associated with lower weight, and the other with higher weight.




//////////////////////////////...........Leisure-time activities involve more than the calories burned; they also reflect differences across social groups in motives and means for good health.

More highly educated people tend to both read more and weigh less.






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//////////////////////////////his data suggests you have a better chance of keeping off excess pounds if you indulge in leisure-time interests that have intellectual or emotional weight.






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DTH NO DEPRIVATION

//////////////////If death has no time at which it's bad for me, then maybe it's not bad for me," Kagan suggests.


////////////////////////////// that somebody's got a nice long life. He lives 90 years. Now, imagine that, instead, he lives only 50 years. That's clearly worse for him. And if we accept the modest existence requirement, we can indeed say that, because, after all, whether you live 50 years or 90 years, you did exist at some time or another. So the fact that you lost the 40 years you otherwise would have had is bad for you. But now imagine that instead of living 50 years, the person lives only 10 years. That's worse still. Imagine he dies after one year. That's worse still. An hour? Worse still. Finally, imagine I bring it about that he never exists at all. Oh, that's fine.

NEDOBD


////////////////////////////////////LUCRETIUS-The time after I die isn't the only period during which I won't exist. What about the period before my birth? If nonexistence is so bad, shouldn't I be upset by the eternity of nonexistence before I was born? But that's silly, right? Nobody is upset about that. So, he concludes, it doesn't make any sense to be upset about the eternity of nonexistence after you die, either.



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///////////////////////////////The date of my death is a contingent fact about me. But the date of my birth is not.


////////////////////////////////CELIAC DIS DEPENDS ON BRTH MNTH-57 percent were born in the "light" season of March through August, compared with 43 percent who were born in the "dark" season of September through February.

Even though the exact cause of celiac disease is unknown, potential triggers include the timing of infants' introduction to gluten, and viral infections contracted during the first year of life.



////////////////////////////////JOY OF PRNTHOOD-We are not saying that parenting makes people happy, but that parenthood is associated with happiness and meaning," explained Sonja Lyubomirsky, professor of psychology at UC Riverside and a leading scholar in positive psychology.



//////////////////////////////////////Older and married parents tend to be the happiest. "Our findings suggest that if you are older (and presumably more mature) and if you are married (and presumably have more social and financial support), then you're likely to be happier if you have children than your childless peers," Lyubomirsky said. "This is not true, however, for single parents or very young parents."


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///////////////////////////////FOOD AND I GO BACK A LONG WAY- JUDGING BY MY SHAPE



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YOLO- FRAGILE BIOLF-cf POFTU-FEYNMAN

//////////////////////////IS IT THE POFTU vs TRGDY OF LF?


///////////////////////PLSR OF FINDING THINGS OUT



////////////////////////////An incentive is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing.


////////////////////////////////LANDING MN cf KEEPING MN


///////////////////////////JHN TCKR MST DTH 2006


/////////////////////////////DTNG A DG NRS


///////////////////////////////6 MYA- MED SEA WAS LARGEST DRY LAKE -WATER CMAE RUSHING IN FROM ATLANTIC VIA GBRLTR


/////////////////////////////////WHTS UR EMO ANGST?



//////////////////////////////////DNNA SMMR RIP



//////////////////////////I M GTTING OLDR AS DNNA IS GONE


///////////////////////////GRV HR PSSING, AT PEACE CLBRTNG HR LF


/////////////////////////////////BDDHA DTH MSTRD STORY



////////////////////////////////////BDDHA HOT COAL FRGVNESS STORY



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SAMVEGA- PTS AR /PNNKR CRSS QHLPTT CRSS

//////////////////////////////////FORGETTING- DOPAMINE RECEPTORS


///////////////////////////////////CREATIVE CONFIDENCE


/////////////////////////////////PTSD=PKCA gene


//////////////////////////////////TOUCHING THE SNAKE