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Three little words you often see Are ARTICLES: a, an, and the. A NOUN’s the name of anything, As: school or garden, toy, or swing.
ADJECTIVES tell the kind of noun, As: great, small, pretty, white, or brown.
VERBS tell of something being done: To read, write, count, sing, jump, or run.
How things are done the ADVERBS tell, As: slowly, quickly, badly, well.
CONJUNCTIONS join the words together, As: men and women, wind or weather.
The PREPOSITION stands before A noun as: in or through a door.
The INTERJECTION shows surprise As: Oh, how pretty! Ah! how wise!
The whole are called the PARTS of SPEECH, Which reading, writing, speaking teach.
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7. People will lie about buying the books you publish as if you don’t have access to your own sales records. This fascinates me and sometimes I just want to ask–why did you pretend to buy this book?
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Mayor Booker Responds to Question about NJ Marriage Equality Referendum (via Dave Pell’s Next Draft)
“Dear God, we should not put civil rights issues to a popular vote to be subject to the sentiments and passions of the day,” said Booker in Friday’s statement. “No minority should have their civil rights subject to the passions and sentiments of the majority.”
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First off, I still know loads of people in CT who epitomize clueless-white-folk-syndrome but unless you live in a place that straight up has a population of, like, five, it is my genuine feeling that at 2012, your exposure to people of color can’t be that limited unless you deliberately make it so. Like, you really have to try hard at sheltering your kid if, by the time your child is four, he or she is surprised that people look different from him or her. And by the time you get to a certain age, you don’t get any more passes for simply being ignorant anymore. You’re just racist. You are complicit in your own ignorance, and it’s not anyone else’s job to educate you but your own.
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Paw Paw Bears: Much like The Smurfs, the bears had names that denoted their personalities—Laughing Paw, Medicine Paw, Bumble Paw, etc. Brave Paw and Princess Paw Paw tended to be the leads, riding into adventures on their magical flying ponies, while aging Wise Paw served as tribal advisor. The mascot of the group was a tiny dog by the name of PaPooch.
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A Romantic is someone who asks when you would like to see them. When you answer the next morning they hop a red-eye across the country that night. Romantics make good friends. Movies suggest we should marry romantics. In the movies romantics, after their initial burst of passion, which is only for you, become stable and not at all like cats chasing a flash of light across the floor. In real life romantics are terrible lovers after the first few weeks. They airbrush people and situations in their mind, fill in the lines with fantasy.
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The Arachnoid: Janelle Monae
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I was a little insulted that Eben Franckewitz claimed he looks like Justin Bieber. Eben, it’s time for some real talk: You are not pulling Selena Gomez, nor an insane groupie claiming you smuggled a lovechild into her uterus in a Staples Center bathroom, anytime soon. Can you play the drums? Would you make a disturbingly attractive woman if the genital lottery had turned out differently? Can you even afford a swagger coach? Biebs is more than just a haircut, you cherub-faced punk. He is a haircut and a $1,000 pair of sneakers. Step off.
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J.A.Yang has slummed it in the valley with the Wakefield twins; slumber partied with Huey, Dewey and Louie; joined Krakow in stalking Angela; and climbed every mountain with the Von Trapps.
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