Category: Wordsmiths
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Introduction to Photography and Photo Editing
For each photographer, the word “photography” would mean something slightly different. photography can be thought of as two pursuits; technically, it’s the science of setting up the camera and the recording medium to take images in a controlled way and creatively, it’s the art of capturing light with a camera to create an image. There…
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The Last Halloween
Everybody shows an utter lack of concern when they walk past the haunted mansion How could they, when it’s the 21st century and the last thing you can do as a conscious haunted mansion is make some absolutely spooky noise that would creep out a bunch of oldies, but the kids wouldn’t even move an…
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Aligning chakras with singing bowl meditation
Calming the mind through awareness The mind and body are great allies. As the branch cannot bear fruit without being attached to the vein, the body cannot survive without a strong mind. A mind weary of anxiety, tension, fear, and stress will result in poor health conditions. Meditation is one potential way of alleviating this…
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The Road to a Safer Future
Can we guarantee that the world we are living in is a safe place? Before we begin, I want you to picture this scenario. It may take a while, but it is a thought worth questioning. You wake up in the morning, the sunlight’s intense warmth brushing against your cheek and you feel a sense…
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10 Simple Tips & Tricks for Baking
The Art of Home Baking Home baking is fun and a new hobby to learn that makes people happy. It doesn’t matter whether you are a newbie or just don’t know where you need to start. As a home baker you don’t need to be a professional baker. There are tips and tricks that you…
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Motivation vs Habits
Find your reason and motivation will follow to keep you persevered on your habit The alarm goes off, it’s “I will go to war” by Tessa Thompson that’s playing. Surely this song with the scene from Creed 2 playing on your mind is enough for you to get yourself out of bed, starting your day. But…
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The Ocean is not the World’s Trash Can
Marine pollution and its further implications I think there is no need for further descriptions about the ocean to us who live in a country surrounded by the ocean. But I think it is a matter to discuss that this small island with a population of only 20 million has become one of the leading…
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Bringing Home Gold
Difficult roads lead to beautiful destinations The 30th of August 2021 marked a new dawn for Sri Lanka as Dinesh Priyantha Herath hit three birds in one stone at the Tokyo Olympic stadium when he claimed gold, broke the world record and won Sri Lanka’s first-ever gold medal in the Paralympic Games history. Dinesh stole…
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Colorless Love
To Sir With Love – Book Review The best saying ever said so far regarding colour bar is that the colour of the blood of every ethnic group is the same whatever complexion one inherits. The novel, “To Sir With Love” which carves that saying in the minds of readers spontaneously is another excellent creation…
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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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