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War, Battles and Sieges: Keeping your Army in Line

The army has assembled. You have gathered all your knights and conscripts in the camp. Now we must make them an army.

Factions

Armies are not just sizeable groups of men with weapons trying to kill the other side. Well technically they are but they aren't just a mass of people. A commander can be the Monarch, a member of the royal family or anybody of rank. Under the commander are the Constables and Marshals. The troops were divided into companies of 20 men, grouped in masses of a hundred, then into thousands. Like every group project there will be factions, all using different methods to achieve a victory. Let's look at each rank of fighters.

Knight: The knight, in basic terms, is a mounted soldier. Most knights are noble or even royal yet some could be common men rewarded for bravery or leal service. The cost of maintaining a knight would be large. They would bring their own armour, horses and servants but may be provided replacements if these are lost. The knights fell into two categories- the banneret and the bachelor. The first was entitled to a banner on the field.

Light Cavalry: The light cavalry is made of mounted men who wore light armour and wielded lighter weapons such as lances or bows. The light cavalry was usually made up of wealthy commoners. Some officers in the light cavalry would be knights or have been trained the same way. Light cavalry could be used as scouts, skirmishers or outflankers.

Archers: The archers were assets to any army. The rank always included skilled and trained soldiers. To train a bowman you start with the grandfather, it was said.

Infantry: The infantry were made up of mostly unskilled fighters recruited from the common class. Some of the infantry may be skilled from old campaigns and such. This is the largest portion in may mediaeval armies. They would be armed with spears, pikes, axes, swords and perhaps shields.

Marching

An army will have to move from one place to the next. Here is a helpful table I found (credit where credit is due).

However, one must consider the army's size, health, load and the terrain they travel over. An army on the march must travel in certain formations to keep them safe and keep the army intact. An army will always be vulnerable on the road. Here is a rough doodle of what an army on the move should be laid out like.

An army are like that goldfish you had as a kid to teach you responsibility. They need to eat. You need to feed them. And just like that goldfish, it can be a daunting task. An army will always need:

Weapons: Which can be bought, forged and pillaged from the dead enemies/allies.

Supplies

Food: Food can be bought and foraged from the land about the army. Low food will lead to starving and weakened soldiers who may desert or turn to banditry.

Water: Can be sourced from any river, stream, pool. Bad water can lead to dysentery and death.

Fodder: An army will need something to feed their pack animals with. The oxen, horses and mules of any force need fodder to survive any march.

Morale: Your army will not fight without belief. It can be belief in a righteous cause, a god, a vow, victory or financial gain. A confident army will be fearless. An army with no spirit will not fight as fiercely.

An army is a city on the move. Every city has laws and rules. The Romans were very strict with their laws.

For dereliction of duty or even desertion a the soldier would be stoned in punishment for all the lives he could have put in harm's way.

Camp Rules

Stoning and public whippings and beating were inflicted on thieves, perjurers and anybody getting caught three times for a minor infraction

For treason, the guilty would be sewn in a sack and thrown into a nearby river or lake

(There are plenty more examples but these are the most interesting)

#writing tips

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a coffee a day makes the sun shine your way

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concept: chaotic academia

it’s not as pretty and put together as dark academia

you’re wearing two cardigans, mismatched socks and some jeans that are bordering on “just about clean enough”. nothing will stand between you and your next cup of tea/coffee/hot chocolate and adding extra sugar.

emptying your pockets at the end of the day and coming to a total of four pens, a pocket notebook, two receipts, and a highlighter.

your hair keeps falling in your face. you use a rubber band to tie it back. your fringe falls in your face. a paperclip is used to keep it back for the next ten minutes. you probably need a haircut.

the floor is the best place to study. there are so many books and pages of notes scattered around that the carpet can’t be seen anymore.

a rush before you leave class. your ID? got it. keys? got them. wait, where did your ID go again..? did you put your phone in your backpack or in any of the nine pockets on your person.

trash is piled up neatly in the corner, ready to be put into a rubbish bag and taken out. you’ll do it tomorrow, you say. you said the exact same thing last week.

you’re typing and you miss a letter. you go back to fix it. you miss a different letter. you go back to fix it. somehow you have fewer letters than you started with. you take it as a sign to take a break.

it’s time for a quick break. half an hour later you realise that you still haven’t gone back to work. Whoops.

#text

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Useful Writing Resources

This is an extensive list of resources for every problem you could come across while writing/planning/editing your novel. Use it well;)

{ *** } Indicate a Highly Reccommended Resource

Planning/outlining Your Work

How To Outline ***

Zigzag Method : Creating Plots

How to Plot a Romance Novel 

Seven Great Sources of Conflict for Romances 

Let’s talk about brainstorming

Writing Something With Meaning ***

Past Or Present Tense? : How To Decide

Writing Your Work

How To Write A Fabulous Chapter #1 ***

How to Build a Romance Thread in Your Story 

The Big Book Of Writing Sex ***

6 Ways to Get Your Readers Shipping Like Crazy 

Romance Writing Tips ***

20 Tips for Writing Lovable Romance Novel Heroes

7 Ways To Speed Up Your Writing *** 

80+ Barriers to Love: A List of Ideas to Keep Romantic Tension High 

9 Romance Writing Mistakes to Avoid 

Removing the Creeps From Romance

19 Ways to Write Better Dialogue ***

50 Things Your Characters Can Do WHILE They Talk ***

How To Write Action And Fight Scenes

10 Steps To Write Arguments

9 Ways To Write Body Language

Writing Good Kissing Scenes

Writing Murders

Create And Control Tone ***

Tips for Writing Ghost Stories

Incorporating Flashbacks

12 Tips To Avoid Overwriting ***

Characters

Behind the Name

Top Baby Names

Looking for a name that means a certain thing? ***

7 Rules of Picking Names

Most Common Surnames ***

Minor Character Development

Writing Antagonists, Antiheroes and Villains

Characters With Enhanced Senses

5 Tips to Help You Introduce Characters

How Do You Describe a Character?

How To Write Child Characters

36 Core Values For Building Character

Questions To Answer When Creating Characters ***

4 Ways to Make Readers Instantly Loathe Your Character Descriptions

5 Ways to Keep Characters Consistent

Character Archetypes

25 Ways To Fuck With Your Characters

Building Platonic Relationships Between Female Characters

9 Simple and Powerful Ways to Write Body Language 

33 Ways To Write Stronger Characters

Conveying Character Emotion 

How to Make Readers Love an Unlikable Character…  

How to Create Powerful Character Combos

How To Describe A Character’s Voice ***

Describing Clothing And Appearance ***

Career Masterpost ***

Creating Your Character’s Personality ***

Character Flaws ***

Editing

DON’T EDIT>>> REWRITE THE WHOLE THING FIRST

Ultimate Guide To Editing Each Aspect Of Your Work ***

Why You Would Read Your Novel Out Loud ***

Grammar and Punctuation ***

How To Write A Captivating First Sentence

10 Things Your Opening Chapter Should Do: A Check-List for Self-Editing ***

Saving Your Story: Finding Where It Went Wrong

How To Condense Without Losing Anything

The Stages Of Editing

Dialogue/Description Balance

3 Proofreading Tips

The Short Story Form

Chapter & Novel Lengths

Anatomy Of A Novel : Chapters and Parts ***

How To Write Chapter After Chapter Until You Have A Book ***

Where Chapter #2 Should Start

Step By Step Guide To Editing Your Draft

Writing Tool: CTRL-F (How And Why You Should Use It) ***

How To Kill A Character

25 Steps To Edit The Unmerciful Suck Out Of Your Story

5 Ways To Make Your Novel Helplessly Addictive ***

Setting

{Setting} How To Describe Setting In Your Stories ***

20 Questions To Enhance Setting

How To Bring Your Setting To Life

Miscellaneous Resources You Can Use In Between

How to Write from a Guy’s POV 

The Emotional Wounds Thesaurus

Text To Speech Reader

Compare Character Heights 

A Visual Dictionary of Tops

Writers Helping Writers

7 Tricks To Imrove Your Writing Overnight

Work Out/ Word Count : Exercise Between Writing ***

Most Important Writing Tips ***

Let’s talk about diversity in novels

Letting Go Of Your Story

Keeping A Healthy Writing Schedule And Avoiding Procrastination ***

How To Create A Good Book Cover

Write or Die

Tip of my Tongue

Character Traits Form

Online Thesaurus

Writing Sketchy/Medical/Law

Coma: Types, Causes, etc

Tips for writing blood loss

Gunshot Wound Care

Examples of Hospital Forms

Common Legal Questions

The Writer’s Forensics Blog

Brain Injury Legal Guide

Types of Surgical Operations

Types of Mental Health Problems

A Day in the Life of a Mental Hospital Patient

Global Black Market Information ***

Crime Scene Science

Examining Mob Mentality

How Street Gangs Work

Writers’ Block Help/ Productivity

Story Plot Generator

@aveeragemusings ‘ Cure To Writers’ Block ***

50 Romance Plot Ideas

Reading Like A Writer ***

Defeat Writers’ Block

Writing In A Bad Mood ***

Writers Block

When You’ve Lost Motivation To Write A Novel ***

What To Do When The Words Won’t Flow ***

9 Ways To Be A More Productive Writer

“I Cannot Write A Good Sentence Today” (How To Get Over It) ***

Real Writing Advice ***

Info You Need To Know & Words You Didn’t Think Of

A Writer’s Thesaurus ***

Words To Describe… ***

Words & Phrases To Use In Your Sex Scenes ***

Colors (An Extensive List Of Colors)

List Of Kinks & Fetishes ***

List Of Elemental Abilities

inkarnate.com : World Creator And Map Maker For Your Imaginary Setting

Body Language Phrases

List Of Legendary Creatures

How To Write Magic

Hairstyle References

Hemingway : Writing Checker

Body Types: Words To Describe Bodies and How They Move Around

Poisonous Herbs and Plants ***

The Psychology of Color

The Meaning behind Rose color

Types of Swords

Color Symbolism

How a handgun works

How to Write a Eulogy

Types of Crying

Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes ***

Superstitions and More

The 12 Common Archetypes

Language of Flowers

12 Realistic Woman Body Shapes

Using Feedback And Reviews

Turning Negative Reviews Into Positive Ones ***

Proofreading Marks : Easy Symbols To Make Reviewing/Feedback Easier ***

Authonomy Teen Ink Figment Fiction Press ReviewFuse

These Are Trusted Critique Sites ;)

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mornings and literature 🌤✨

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Hi! It’s #optomstudies with a new part to my University 101 series :) Here are 4 points, which are oft ignored by the student population… only to resurface later as some sort of hidden parable (they’re not though).

Of course, everyone studies differently, and this is a rule of thumb that has been suggested by a few universities, but what they’re trying to get at, is that you need to invest some time into studying. 

Students seem to think that you can expect to pencil in a part time job a couple of days a week, church, time to cook meals and do chores, time to chill and relax, time with family and friends, footy night, time at the gym, 8 hours of sleep and what have you, but still expect to have enough time to study. I’m not saying that you can’t have a balanced work-study life (you definitely should), but you need compromise if you want good grades, and obviously with the non-necessities first (don’t go straight for cutting sleep! it’ll mess with your mental health! health is number 1!)

The human psyche is incredibly bad at estimating how long you’ll take to do your own homework. It’s actually been noted as the planning fallacy. It results from both underestimating the amount of time a task will take, as well as overestimating your ability to get the task done. The problem with uni work is, every assignment is slightly different, meaning you don’t have much of a reference guide when planning for a task.

—it’s ineffective, because you’re taking in so much information at once that it’s impossible to memorise it all. You’ll hardly retain anything and will be tired and stressed when the time comes to actually sit the exam. – Taken straight from our university’s student support site [source].

Personally, I would say it’s only about 4 weeks if you have a memorisation-heavy subject. Anything more math based may need a little less time, because you’ll mainly be doing past papers and practice questions to maximise your time. And try spaced repetition people! Use Anki, open-source flashcards that are free. You can store as many cards as you like, and it’s better than manual paper flashcards because of the algorithm it uses to choose which cards for you to revise each day.

(I didn’t want to put this one because I figured it was unoriginal, but I guess every studyblr needs to have said this point at one time.) I heard some girl say, “oh lol, i never go to lectures because i never pay attention anyway” what is the logic in sitting there for a whole hour, but just playing on your phone the whole time and tuning out?

Benefits of attending lectures - as quoted from my university website [source]

- The lecture contains copyright materials, video, annotations on slides or other multimedia materials that cannot be made available on recordings. - The lecture incorporates problem solving in small groups, discussions or other interactions that are difficult to capture in a recording. - The content of the lecture is needed for a follow-on tutorial, practical session or similar. - The lecture is used to get to know you, gauge your progress, identify problems you are encountering and give you immediate feedback. - The social advantages—You get to meet others in your course, exchange ideas and make new friendships. - The convenience—Attending lectures in a regular timeslot can help you establish a routine for study. Some students find they don’t get around to listening to recordings when they don’t have an established routine.

And you also don’t get situations where a lecturer turns off the recording just because only a few people turned up to class… (happened to me!)

MY WEEKLY STUDY TIPS

WHAT I WISH I’D KNOWN BEFORE UNIVERSITY STUDY TIPS SERIES

0 Choosing a Degree , 1 Administration , 2 Getting to Class

3 Studying , 4 Extra-Curriculars , 5 Exams , 6 Social Life

7 Part Time Work , 8 Four Secrets Your Uni Tells You

9 Best Study Spots on Campus

10 Saving Money 1 (Food, Transport, Entertainment)

new!! 10 Saving Money 2 (Textbooks, Tax, Scholarships) new!!

11 Adapting to Uni Study coming 16.02.17!

12 How to Study From Textbooks in Uni coming 27.02.17!

SEE ALSO

new!! Weekly Planner Printable with Extra Space for Sat/Sun new!!

new!! Dealing with Bad Teachers new!!

Overcoming the Planning Fallacy coming 19.02.17!

Study Spaces Masterpost , Studying and your Visual System

Catching Up with Your Studies , Dealing with Bad Results

Sleeping and Waking Up Early , Google Keep

My 2017 Planner and Bullet Journal , Study Space , 2017 goals

+ my cute stationery + washi collection + my spreads!

#study tips

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28/100 days of productivity  + TUE 6.28.16 // 12:16pm 

theme of the day: “time does fly” ≖ω≖  ;; i thought it would be fun to try one of those time lapse things on my notes!

#video #notes

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A note to all college kids, So Microsoft word has default settings for papers.

If you search MLA, or APA you can get an entire paper template.

REPEAT: Microsoft word will Format your entire paper!

You never have to spend hours lining everything up again.

#note taking #digital notes

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Learning Japanese Master Post #01. 

Here’s a master post for the first 50 video lessons in the Learning Japanese video series, all view-able for free on YouTube! That’s right, each topic gets its own episode! All arranged in order and linked below. Check out all 200+ video lessons at the official YouTube channel here. And so, the journey of learning Japanese starts with lesson one, mastering Hiragana:

Intro to Japanese - The Hiragana Syllabary, Vowels, Pitch Accents, and More

The Katakana Syllabary

First Person Pronouns, or, Ways to Say “I” in Japanese

Second-Person Pronouns, or, Ways to Say “You” in Japanese

Basic Phrases (How-to Greet, Thank, Introduce Yourself and More)

XはY(です/ではありません) as “X is/is not Y”, Noun Modification with の, も as “also”

Existential Verbs (Aru, Iru, Irassharu/ある、いる、いらっしゃる)

Locational Markers へ, に, で

The Particle に as an Object Marker and Indirect Object Marker

The Particle で as an Instrument Marker

ね and よ as Final Particles

Introduction to Verbs, Dictionary Form, ます-Form

VERBing Alone with 一人で (hitori de) and Together with と一緒に (to issho ni)

Expressing “From X to Y” (Time and Space) with から and まで

Pre-ます Form + ましょう as “Let’s VERB” or “Shall we VERB”

Noun Verbs/Verbal Nouns

Polite Past Tense Form of Verbs (ました-Form) 

How to say “I intend/plan to VERB” with VERB + つもりです

How-to say “Won’t you/Would you like to VERB?” with Pre-ます Form VERB + ませんか

X は Y があります as “X has Y”

X から Y as “because of CLAUSE X, CLAUSE Y”

How-to say “Why is that?” or “How come?” with どうして

Listing Nouns Indefinitely with NOUN X や NOUN Y など

もう as “already” and まだ as “yet”

Negative ない Form (Verb Conjugation)

How-to say “Go/come/return to do VERB” with Pre-ます Form VERB + に + (行く/来る/帰る)

How-to say “I can VERB” with Dictionary Form VERB + ことが出来る

Answering to Negative Yes-No Questions

Introduction to Adjectives (い-adjectives and な-adjectives)

Basic Introduction to the Particles は and が

X でYがある as “There is Y (an activity) in/at X”

Introduction to Adverbs - Common Degree Adverbs 

The Particle が as “But/However”

X は(どう/いかが)ですか as “How is X?”

XはどんなYですか as “What kind of Y is X?”

Kochira (こちら)/Sochira (そちら)/Achira (あちら) as “this/that way”

Introduction to the て-Form (Verb Conjugation)

How-to Say “Please do VERB” (て-Form VERB + 下さい/下さいませんか)

How-to Say “am/is VERBing” (Ongoing Action) (て-Form VERB + いる)

The Particle まだ as “still”

How-to say “I like/love/hate Y” with X はY が(好き/嫌い)です

How-to Say “X is good/bad at Y” - XはYが(上手/下手/とくい)です)

X にする as “decide on X”

How-to Request an Object with X を(下さい/くださいませんか)

た-Form VERB +ことがある as “have VERB-ed before” 

かかる as “it costs X/it takes X time”

ぐらい and ごろ（に） as “about/approximately”

Comparing 2 Objects/Entities (XとYとでは、どちらの方がAですか) 

Comparing 3 or More Objects/Entities (XとYとZとでは、Xが一番A) 

Modifying Nouns with Clauses

Support Learning Japanese on Patreon! Please do consider checking out our milestone goals on Patreon and becoming a patron to support the continuation of this video series and expansion of the curriculum! https://www.patreon.com/learningjapanese

This video series is presented by becauseofdreams http://becauseofdreams.com/

#japanese #video

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Resources for learning Japanese - my recommendations

Seeing lists of resources is always cool, so have some of my recommendations. This is the list of things (websites, apps) I’m using or I had been using in the past and that I can really recommend. It doesn’t include textbooks or random Japanese sites I use for practicing my reading, because it was getting way too big. It’s not an entry level list (although I think some of these will be helpful for people new to Japanese, too), so I skipped the stuff for learning kana. I hope at least some of those will be helpful to you! VOCABULARY Memrise – yeah, I know, everybody knows memrise by now, but I honestly can’t recommend it enough.  My favorite Japanese course at the moment is Core Japanese Vocabulary - I like it, because unlike many other courses, it doesn’t have separate levels for hiragana and kanji (those are kinda pointless, in my opinion, making you type the same thing twice as often) and I like the way the words are organized. There’s a lot of basic words that I already know, but the ignore function is there for a reason.

I also enjoyed 2136 Joyo Kanji by Grade - the course I used to learn the meaning of all the joyo kanji. I’m a bit hesistant recommending it, because it only has English meanings and no example words – but for me it was really great, because just recognizing general meaning of the character greatly improved my reading comprehension.  It’s not a method for everybody - you can try for yourself and see if it’s something you wanna do.

Iknow – this one is not free (the only non-free resource on this list) and I was wary of it, because with Japanese, there is a lot of paid apps/websites that offer basic things you can easily get for free elsewhere… But I found a promo code for 3 free months on there, gave it a shot and I’m absolutely in love. It’s similar to Memrise, only it has official courses made by staff and they have example sentences for every word, read by professional Japanese voice actors, as well as sentence making exercises and several different ways to check if you know the words you’re studying. I can honestly recommend it.

Renshuu - Renshuu is not only a vocab site, it also has grammar explanations, a language forum (which seems to have more newbies than native or very advanced users, so be careful while reading other people’s Japanese) and games/discussion prompts, so it’s pretty cool. I think it’s best for the vocab, though. It has many, many lists, some for JLPT, some using vocab from textbooks. There’s also a custom list creator and it’s really easy to use.

Kanji Sempai – a really nice vocab app, it shows you words and then quizzes you on them. The name is a bit misleading, because it doesn’t focus on kanji all that much, but it’s a solid vocab app.

Kotoba chan – a simple vocab quiz app with example sentences (that sometimes show sentences with the homophones of the words they were supposed to show, but oh well), very easy to use.

DICTIONARIES

www.jisho.org – Simple and great, jisho has been my friend since I’ve started learning Japanese. They have a lot of entries, not only words, but also idioms, they have a special section for kanji and example sentences, too. They are also better (although not perfect) than many other dictionaries when it comes to slang.

http://vvlexicon.ninjal.ac.jp/db/ - a pretty awesome dictionary of compound verbs. It has a Japanese-English version (and also Chinese-English and Korean-English), but I feel it works best as a monolingual dictionary. Just reading the definitions and figuring out what those compound words mean make for a nice reading practice, I think.

http://kotowaza-allguide.com/ - a monolingual dictionary of Japanese proverbs, really fun and informational.

Rikaichan – it’s a pop-up dictionary for Mozilla Firefox (it has versions for other browsers, too, but I haven’t tested those) that shows you the meaning of the word when you hover your mouse over it, as well as the furigana. It’s really, really helpful. Some people say that it’s easy for something like that to become a crutch and I see their point, but I think it’s good for me, as it keeps me from getting discouraged while reading longer texts. Definitely my favorite resource ever.

LISTENING

Delvin Language - this one isn’t really for advanced students (after a placement test I was starting from the most advanced level, and my listening skills leave MUCH to be desired – and I still find some of what I get to be too easy), but it’s a nice practice, since it uses clips from Japanese drama/anime or informative youtube videos about Japan. It’s both listening comprehension practice and a way to acquire new vocabulary.

Nihongo  no mori – it’s an absolutely amazing youtube channel ran by very lovely native Japanese speakers. I put this in the listening category, but those videos are about grammar and vocab, so watching them helps in so many ways. I’m watching the N3 and N2 stuff, but I know they also have some videos for beginners and N1 students.

KANJI

Anki Aniki – it’s an iOS app for learning kanji. It’ll show you a set number of kanji every day, along with their meaning and possible readings, and then quiz you on it. I find it pretty helpful, even though there are no example words and I usually don’t like the idea of learning the readings without any context – but as a supplement to learning kanji in a more conservative way it’s pretty good.

GRAMMAR

Jgram- it’s kind of a grammar wiki. Many, many entries, with a lot of example sentences (some of their translations to English are really weird sometimes, but most of it is perfectly fine).

Maggie Sensei – a site that is not only absolutely adorable, but also very helpful. It has detailed explanations, many example sentences and a lot of lessons available. A lot of cute doggie pictures, too.

Japanese test 4 you- this site has a lot of information about grammar for all JLPT levels, with many example sentences and also all kinds of tests (grammar, listening, vocab, kanji).  I’ve just found it recently, but it’s already proven really useful to me.

#japanese #masterpost

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A compilation of chrome extensions and iOS + Android apps (some are paid and some are free)  °☆.。.:*・°☆

| For your computer |

fliqlo

momentum

lanes

clarity

embark

minimal clock

infinity

currently

polar clock

caffeine

f.lux

be limitless

leoh

dream afar

| For your note taking |

evernote

onenote

simplenote

somnote

iNotes

notability

notes plus

google keep

quip

inkflow visual notebook

jot

good notes

noteshelf

| For your to-do lists | 

wunderlist 

moo.do

todoist

habitica

trello

any.do 

priority matrix

do

glass planner

swipes

timetune

| For your planners + calendars |

myStudyLife

myHomework

sunrise calendar

google calendar

plan

sol calendar

| For your timing + focus | 

tide

forest

pomotodo

flat tomato

pomello

pomodrone

clearfocus 

tomato timer 

30/30

focusnow

tasks and measures

self control

stayfocusd

timewarp

cold turkey

atimelogger

writer’s block

| For your presentations |

prezi

powerpoint

emaze

raw shorts

powtoon

| For your storage | 

google drive

dropbox

| For your mindmaps + diagrams | 

mindmeister

lucidchart

goconqr

gliffy

google drawings

| For your tests + flashcards | 

goconqr

quizlet

flashcards+

anki

| For your writings | 

zotero

grammarly

hemingway

| For your health |

fabulous

plant nanny

safetrek

sleep bot

sleep better

to bed

nike + running

waterlogged

period tracker

weight loss coach

health mapper

medisafe

| For your inner peace  | 

stop, breathe & think

headspace

pacifica

noisli

sleepio

infinite storm

relax melodies

calm

sam

thunderspace

mindshift

taomix

i am

pillow

binaural

#apps #websites #masterpost

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Hey guys! For my first master-post, I’ve decided to put together some  educational YouTube channels to help advance your knowledge and learning!

I love watching videos from these channels as they can both be a form of entertainment and studying! You can watch them during study breaks, free time or as part of your studying. Below are some of my favourites and recommendations from other students:

SCIENCE

Crash Course: Biology, Chemistry, Physics,  Astronomy, Anatomy & Physiology ,etc.

Veritasium 

SciShow

ScienceShorts

AsapSCIENCE

Kurzgesagt

MinutePhysics

thebrainscoop

It’s Okay To Be Smart

Vsauce

Bill Nye The Science Guy

MATHS

mathbff

standupmaths

Numberphile

mathematicsonline

PatrickJMT

yaymath

ENGLISH

Lisa’s Study Guides: English

Crash Course: Literature

Online Writing Tips

Button Poetry

Savannah Brown: Poetry

ART

Mark Crilley

The Art Assignment

Montana Colors

Gagosian Gallery

VamosART

Fine Art-Tips

GEOGRAPHY

GeographyHub

GeographyNow

GEOgraphy Focus

STRATFORvideos: Geographic Challenges

WonderWhy

HISTORY

AlternateHistoryHub

Extra History

Crash Course: World History, World History 2, US History

Keith Hughes

MrBettsClass

LANGUAGES

Learn French with Pascal

Learn Italian with Lucrezia

sweetandtastytv (Korean)

Learn Arabic with Maha

Spanish is your amigo

Deutsch für Euch

GENERAL

Thomas Frank

Khanacademy

Vsauce 

TED-Ed

TED Talks

THNKR

Life Noggin

PBS Idea Channel

#video #masterpost

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#textbooks #masterpost

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what podcasts do you recommend for beginner french learners?

https://radiolingua.com/coffeebreakfrench/ Coffee Break French is great and has lessons ranging from absolute beginner level (check the very first podcasts) to advanced learners.https://learnfrenchbypodcast.com/ The first few lessons of these podcasts are suitable for beginners as well, they cover basic phrases and topics in French.https://www.newsinslowfrench.com/ News in Slow French is very good, although it may be more appropriate for upper-beginner and intermediate learners. 

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1.5.17 results of my procrastination

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Hey Everyone! When I was younger, I used to read a ton. As a direct result of that, my writing and reading were on point. Recently, however, I haven’t been reading as much, and as a result, my writing isn’t as good as I want it to be (albeit, still pretty good). I’ve decided to read all the books on this list over the next 1 and a half years to get back into reading and to improve my writing. Enjoy! :)

1. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

4. Animal Farm by George Orwell

5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

6. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

8. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

9. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

10. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

11. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

12. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

13. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

14. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

15. The Ecological Rift by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, Richard York

16. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate by Naomi Klein

17. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

18. The Crucible by Arthur Miller

19. The Odyssey by Homer

20. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

21. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

22. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

23. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

24. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 

25. The Stranger by Albert Camus

26. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

27. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

28. Beowulf by Unknown

29. The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision by Fritjof Capra, Luigi Luisi

30. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

31. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

32. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

33. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

34. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams 

35. Faust: First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

36. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

37. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

38. Candide by Voltaire

39. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

40. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

41. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

42. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

43. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

44. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

45. The Bell Jar by Slyvia Plath

46. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

47. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

48. Antigone by Sophocles

49. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe

50. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

51. The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales #2) by James Fenimore Cooper

52. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

53. Beloved by Toni Morrison

54. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

55. Selected Tales by Edgar Allen Poe

56. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

57. 1984 by George Orwell

58. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 

59. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

60. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

61. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

62. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor

63. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

64. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

65. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

66. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

67. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

68. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

69. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

70. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

71. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

72. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

73. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville

74. The Iliad by Homer

75. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1) by Dante Alighieri

76. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

77. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 

78. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

79. Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill

80. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

81. Cyrano de Bergac by Edmond Rostand

82. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

83. The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot

84. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

85. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

86. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

87. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

88. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

89. Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

90. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

91. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

92. Call it Sleep by Henry Roth

93. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

94. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

95. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

96. A Death in the Family by James Agee

97. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

98. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

99. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

100. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Carther

101. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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