Category: Wordsmiths
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Benefits of Social Media for Scholars
You’ve got to find the right tone in handling social media to feel social media. Are you a scholar pursuing a degree in your favourite field of study but have no presence on any of the social media platforms available? It’ll be the toughest combination to find two ‘yes’ for the given questions, as, in
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You are Your Skills
“Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold“ Chinese Proverb Have you ever heard that saying? it conveys the importance of mastering skills, in one’s lifetime. A skill is the ability to use knowledge capably and readily in achievement or performance. Life skills could be a soft skill
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Karma or Coincidence
I was waiting for the traffic light to turn green when suddenly something came falling down the sky and landed right on the middle of the hood of my car with a loud “THUD”. Even though I could see it beforehand of the collision, it caught me off guard that I could barely stop myself
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24 Hours
We are in deep enemy territory nearly cut off from all supplies. We took shelter in an old rusting building surrounded by a rather short, barbed fence. I lay near the window talking to my comrades. Then a moment a faint static on the radio came “Do you cop- Brav- do you- “then complete silence
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Her Wedding Day
An unhappy bride wonders if she made the right decision… Liz was beautiful. Everyone said so. And she was – with her startling green eyes and her willowy figure, everyone who saw her turned to get a second look. Today, her beauty reached another degree because she was in her gorgeous wedding dress. However, despite
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Cinema Beyond Hollywood
The global film industry has grown and established a far better position from just moving black and white pictures to fully computer-made 3D films by now. In popular culture, we all are well aware that Hollywood – Cinema of America, is a highly reputed cinema industry in the world as it is the oldest industry
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A Promise
Words spoken after a tragedy became a promise to a young life Sunlight streamed through the branches of the trees in the cemetery. The yellow rays shone on a pair of coffins laid out near freshly dug soil. The coffins were plain wood, simple and unadorned. A woman stood by them, standing still as a
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Build Your Future Through LinkedIn
Have you ever heard about a social network called LinkedIn? If it’s a no, this is just for you. If it’s a yes, still, you won’t waste your time reading this till the end. Just like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and thousands of other, LinkedIn is also a social network. We can say that LinkedIn is one of
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Welcome to Middle-Earth
The fascinating world of J.R.R Tolkien brought to life. Imagination is a powerful quality that one can possess. It has the ability to give life to stories that are written in the pages of a story book. In the year of 1932, J.R.R Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, and for centuries, this story was birthed in
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The Best Investment
Secrets behind a healthy life As we are trapped in these days, have you just let go of yourself? If you have done it already, you will soon experience the repercussions. Health is one of the key aspects in life which all the individuals should prioritize. However, it is clearly visible that the people neglect
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නොපෙනෙන මානය
This is the prize winning of the article from the creative writing competition, WriterX, written by Dulmi Prabodha. Enjoy! Read the English Winning Article සියල්ල පැහැදිලිය. හොඳින් ඔප දමන ලද ගෙබිමේ සිට පරිගණකයේ දත්ත ගබඩාව දක්වාම සියල්ල පිළිවෙල. ඔහු අවසානයට මුද්රණය කරමින් තිබූ කෙටිකතා පිටපතෙහි අවසන් වාක්යය හැරුණු කොට සියල්ල සම්පූර්ණය. මුද්රිත පිටපත නැතහොත් එකම හෝඩුවාව
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Drunken Scrutiny
This is the prize winning of the article from the creative writing competition, WriterX, written by Rtr. Manelka Jayasooriya. Enjoy! Read the Sinhala Winning Article “A home-schooled boy suddenly disappears and the only clue is a short story he recently printed off his computer.” , the BBC reporter echoes. “Three years ago, today, twelve-year-old Kent
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Farewell of an Undisputed Legend: Lasith Malinga
While my shoes will rest, my love for the game will never rest Lasith Malinga If anyone was to ask who the most dangerous bowler in the famous Twenty20 (T20) format, it most definitely is Lasith Malinga, also known as ‘Slinga Malinga’. Malinga is a right-arm fast bowler who gained a reputation for delivering bullet
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Petunia
Petunia, an underrated but pretty flower. Maybe there was a reason J.K Rowling chose to give one of her most criticized characters that name. Though the Dursley family had made a living hell for Harry, the complexity of the character makes us rethink before we cast her into the bad side. Anger and jealousy of
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You need both!
“Oh! You learn Psychology? Can you read my mind?” The thing I hear the most when I reveal that I’m a Psychology undergraduate. No one’s fault it is, but the fact that the word “Psychology” itself has created a sense of power and magic in the world. So, first of all let me define the
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