Preparing Ourselves For Excellence: Developing Better Research Skills

Expect more, think critically and work hard to acquire knowledge. Believe that you are worth acquiring the information that is available to you and become successful at all things of virtue. Fight for more information! Think critically, exercise a healthy distrust for all information that is fed to you and question, research, analyze and establish an informed and responsible conclusion. Then, make a difference in this world and become an asset to your society not a liability. Lastly, in response to all of the naysayers, remember these...

Fighting Words By: NAB

I refuse to practice mediocrity
due to your discomfort with my presence.

If you have a problem with my ability,
I suggest you cease to exist.

For, your misery I do no seek as a companion;
thus, better your slumber be in silence than wakeful
in agony of your own ineptitude.

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Now putting theory into practice after taking a stand. The information below is presented to my youngest readers with great expectation; and to the oldest of you who have not discovered this yet. There is truth in the saying that, "Information is power." In turn however, knowing how to ACCESS this information is the key to harness that power. Become Information Literate!

The following link is being provided to you as a resource to become aware of NOW in preparation for your college and professional experiences.

Follow this Research Exercise Example:

(1.) Go to Bedford St. Martins, Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide By L. G. Kirszer and S. R. Mandell
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/patterns/default.asp?s=&n=&i=&v=&o=&ns=0&uid=0&rau=0
(2.) Scroll down to the bottom of the page,
(3.) Click on TopLinks,
(4.) In the 2nd box from the top click on "See all available links for topic," Click Government and Politics or any of the links on the left side of the page. Happy Researching!

Click on comments below and submit questions regarding a specific topic(s) that you are unable to locate legitimate source material for. Don't forget to access the links on this site for additional information on the web.

My Daughter's Newly Discovered Interest: The World of Competitive Cheerleading

As the advertised saying goes, "Image is everything." I have always, whole-heartedly believed this not to be true. Nevertheless, fighting the status quo for sometime regarding my own outlook on life and perception of self has become overshadowed and outweighed by a simple thing known as my children's happiness. Participating in "silly" holidays, enjoying playgrounds, going on corny bikerides have all become past times that we now eagerly anticipate... actually intitate all for the sake of creating a Positive Healthy Childhood for our 2 children.
Today... the Spirit Unlimited Cheerleading Competition(www.spiritunlimited.com/) at the University of Maryland College Park! As my daughters dreams danced and flipped before her with excitement to some of the most surprisingly exhilirating DJ'd mixes I've heard in many years, I realized that this life of mine is no longer just about me. So this reflection of my day, before we begin a new week: Enjoy every moment that you have with Great Energy and a Positive Spirit and pass it on...

One More By: NAB
(In awe of my sister-in-law; spinning dreams for my daughter and nieces...)

The Challenge was in the ascent.
Defying gravity.
Exercising the ability to propel upward
one's body by sheer will.
Worshipping an electric disregard
for fear.
Joyous
Time ceases to exist.
The air is thick up there due to its ferocious
intent to oppose the force of that which
is entering its domain.
Bending fear.
Air
Twisting fate.
Self
Descending with the high of accomplishment.
Stunt achieved.
Shock
Youth absorbed most.
Time has raced forward.
Since
The desire remains.
She has conceded.
This present realization no longer
allows for the shock of youths all to
distant landings.
So, she creates.
The little ones are learning now.
Defying gravity.
Joyous
Bending fear.
Air
Twisting fate.
Self
New
Her youth absorbing the shock that
in time the body will pray thee
no more.

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A Womans Thoughts and Reflections...

Today I am offering these thoughts to young women in search of themselves through the guise of an unforgiving culture. Strive for knowledge and education, seek beauty in all that you create and live without fear of reproach. Read, Think and Create...Your brilliance will astonish the naysayers.

Reflections By: NAB

I did not see myself
as anything other than
who they were.
As if exempt from that
which others are afforded
a reflection of my true self
failed to register in my
mind for the larger portion
of my life.

And despite the special treatment
glares of resentment
and snide remarks of my
pale appendages
I actually believed myself
to be a reflection
of who they were.

Distance and years
have grown between us now
and
I discovered my reflection
by chance in a painful
meeting yesterday--
I am not at all what
I imagined myself to be.
Frightened, yet relieved
I let them go...
and search for others...
like me....

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Welcome To My World...Norah's Consciousness...

From the Daughter of an American Revolutionary is born creativity through struggle.

I offer to you my readers,

Loveism by: NAB

The hate lies in your desire to covet me...
So completely consumed by guilt...
You satisfy your hedonistic hunger for my being
and devour my sense of peace and security...
Fully engorged...insatiably discontent...
From outside of myself, I watch you,
This makes seven thousand six hundred sixty six times...i watch you
regurgitate my essence and once again feast upon my sanity as if it were your own...
It still hurts...

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