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Thanks for taking the trouble to post at length, Tigranes. Helped me see the alternative angle, and moreover the key point that essay writing is hard. I think a big problem is that writing essays is a distinct skill, that evolves separately from your skills. Or to misquote 11xhooah, clear concise, insightful essays are not crapped magically out of a science rainbow." Or something. I turned my essay writing around from 52% average to 81% average in two years by implementing just a few rules: 1. Accept that writing an essay isn't just about putting your knowledge on paper, it transforms your knowledge. 2. If you accept your knowledge is being transformed you also accept by the end of a first draft you will be attacking from a different angle to when you started. 3. Write your first draft really fast, then write notes on what you've written. Throw the first essay away. Burn it. 4. Reorganise your notes so they flow logically 5. Re-write your essay using these notes. Re-write it from scratch. 6. Note this second essay, and throw it away. 7. Write the essay again. 8. This may seem like it's going to take more time, but because it's low stress it will take LESS time than agonising over a single draft. 9. Exam based essays can be helped by writing a one paragraph answer twice over, then starting.

Yeah. Nice to know all that hard fighting you did was for no reason. Ditto the Poles.

Hey! He's not a bad guy. His only sin is that he put his money where his mouth was. I'd like to see more people do that. e.g. if you believe all differences can be sorted peacefully get your ass out to Iraq.

Exactly. Although it does raise the tantalising question of whether it's appropriate to wear a t-shirt covered in pr0n to school.

Dishonourable discharge? What was it, if it's not a rude question. Which it is.

The design of the t-shirt appeared needlessly symplistic, and the pictures offensive. I don't think they should wear it in school. I would also suggest that any argument which can be fitted on a t-shirt lacks weight. Unless, it was, like in really small writing.

Fair point about student's home cultures, Steve. But surely a lot of the point about going to a UK university should be that it stamps you with different, more robust educational standards.

Yuusha, as a feeling that's valid, but do give us some credit. The wider world may think only Arabs are Muslim and vice versa, but we're a wee bit better informed here. Anyway, and continuing on from your point, what are your feelings on the embassy attack? What are the feelings of Indonesian Muslims in general?

*looks up Bobby Fischer* No. GK was if nothing else a fan of the little guy, and simple decency. I doubt he would have regarded the Holocaust as anything other than a catastrophe wrought by irreligious brutes. Shown the eradication of Gypsy and Jewish culture from Eastern Europe he'd have probably spent the rest of his life trying to nurture what was left. Think big pies, banging on tables while you speak, and waving a stick at the Hun.

Blast. You mean we're both non myspacers? Well, at least he's alive.

Good luck getting any other form of unsecured credit. Credit cards are perfectly fine so long as you treat them with due care and attention. I've totally run off them for short periods in teh past, and would have missed some crucial life opportunities without that option.

I was particularly startled by a comment left which suggested that the pressures on foreign students meant they had no choice but to use essay writing services! What the hell happened to the antiquated notion of working hard to get commensurate rewards?

As an aside, I've been reading The Red Queen by Matt Ridley. It talks about evolutionary theory, and illuminates something that's been puzzling me about the various zombie creating viruses: why don't the buggers rot? It seems that there is a strong tendency in many infections for them to fight amongst themselves. After all, why share the spoils? Indeed in some infections it is the side effects of this fighting which kills the human host. This could explain the fact that zombies rot so slowly. The Z viruses have mastered the business of kicking the competition through production of some toxin or toxins, leaving the z viruses to function without interference. If we assume that the toxins interfere with the proteins in cell lipid membranes it could explain the way complex cell structures like the brain are futzed long before simple ones like muscles (they depend on more complex transmitter proteins).

Section 39....

Phew, thanks, mate. Actually, could you remind him about us? I don't have a myspace account, and it seems a waste to create one purely to reach him. I mean I will if I have to, but not if it's easier for you to ping him.

Am slowly warming to the idea of Obama. I know i don't agree with his views on Iraq and Afghanistan. But there ARE other issues at stake than just the war. It's not so much that I think Obama is a great good man, it's more that I think that he may be forced to act as one, if he gets people's hopes high enough.

http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showuser=10830 I've been wondering more and more what happened to this old soul. He used to be a regular. Last thing I heard he shipped out for Iraq. Is anyone still in touch?

Chainsaws may work in the movies, but they spray putrescent flesh everywhere. They also require serious experience to handle properly. I always seem to be out of town during outbreaks, but I favour a halberd or spade. Certainly a halberd or boar spear is perfect for handling zombies (or 'zulus' in the British Army) as part of a group. Something to keep in mind during all this is the physical fitness. Sure you may be able to swing a chainsaw for five minutes, but you may have to fight for hours at a time. Core strength, and aerobic fitness, not to mention careful attention to weapon weight have to be considered.

Because so many more people DON'T? And that's really something to be proud of.

Aw, bless. He's so cute when he's sleeping.

I agree with Sluggo. I've been to the States more times than I can recall*, and it is often the out of the way places which rock. Not always, but sometimes. If you think about it how could American cuisine be anything other than superb, when it is the contact point for some many cultures and trade routes. Oh, wait, I'm forgetting how crappy English cooking can be... welll... we had teh War and rationing, so there. *Damned alzheimers

Love to help. Got no idea.

From old thread: More 18th Century economics courtesy of Sand.

Landmark ruling. Being a whining ape is an offence.