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  1. Jan 2018
    1. with transition words.

      I feel like teachers I have had in the best are very picky about transitions and aren't saisfied with a mere transition word; they prefer a phrase.

    1. I adore my mates, but I’d chuck them under a metaphorical bus for someone I was in love with

      I am trying so hard not to judge this person, but as I continue to read it is becoming increasingly difficult! This is awful to me!

    2. ‘Friends are not necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who get there first.’

      I feel this is deeply cynical. It did definitely make me think and question my own friendships, but overall I would disagree with this sentiment.

    3. But I do not crave their company when I am without it, for whatever length of time, and should we lose touch, I do not miss them.

      That's super interesting to me and I cannot relate to it. It's nice to see the perspectives of others, though, but I definitely miss my friends sometimes when I am not with them.

  2. Dec 2017
    1. What was the last gift you gave someone?

      Ooooh. That's a SUPER telling question. Even the speed at which someone is able to ask this question is very revealing.

    2. Are you more of a hunter or a gatherer? (Glassdoor) You’re a new addition to the crayon box. What color would you be and why? (Glassdoor)

      I find theses questions to be super great and compelling! I've never heard them asked in any setting or format before.

    3. nxiety-inducing

      I get that this article is probably geered toward job interviews and not personal interviews, but I think that there will still be some useful general tips.

    1. giving the gift of listening

      I think this is well-said, because my dad is always listening to me and helping me, so I think it would be nice if I could do the same for him.

    2.  Facts are much less interesting than questions regarding love, life challenges, influences and regret

      Yes, I definitely agree, but sometimes it's hard to ask people deep and meaningful questions. I definitely want to, though.

    1. When he got outside of the building and saw that she wasn’t there, he ran back in the building to save her. But he never walked out again.

      What a testament to this woman's spirit.

    2. the last picture she saw was one of me.

      How sweet. though the boy never really had a relationship with his grandmother, this is something that will always connect the two of them.

    3. Somebody described her to me once as the kind of person that when she walks in the room the temperature goes up by ten degrees.

      What a beautiful description. Of course, I never personally knew this woman, but I can just imagine the warmth and love that she carried with her.

    1. “Well, I checked in a couple of the hijackers and made sure they got on the flight.”

      I wonder how he copes with this fact. That would be so hard. I definitely would feel guilty, even though there was probably nothing I could do.

    1. I think it was hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that this was not normal. I thought everyone had a hard time sleeping over. I thought everyone had hard times in the dark.

      I can't even imagine. People are so selfish. While shooting a 6 year old is an atrocity, the shooter also did something arguably worse. he robbed this child of his sense of safety and security and normality.

    1. the claim that Barack Obama was born outside the United States or that the financial crisis was deliberately orchestrated by a group of Wall Street bankers.

      People are ridiculous and ignorant.

  3. Sep 2017
    1. This principle creates an effect called coherence, which is closely related to unity. Whereas unity refers to the clear relationship between the body of a paragraph and its topic sentence and between the parts and the whole, coherence refers to the clear relationship between one sentence and the next, between part and part.

      this is a good conclusion, everything ties together and relates to the theme very nicely.