How to Express your self without alcohol?
lately i been analyzing myself and have come to find out that i don't know how to express myself without alcohol! every time am in a social situation i need to drink. Every weekend i have this alter-ego (other side) that wants to brake loose and be every outgoing and social.. which is every normal for a young man that is about to turn 21 but not for some one who's dependent on the drug to be a kind off like a steroid to help me express myself.. am every shy and i want to overcome this battle i have against alcohol. i want to control it i don't want it to control me!
How can I buy large amounts of books without getting trouble with the police?
Let’s get one thing straight: You did not “get in trouble with the police” for attempting to buy a lot of books. Your attempt to buy the books was simply the reason you were in the bookstore. You even left the bookstore when you decided you didn’t want to give them your business. You don’t even make it clear whether the bookstore or food vendor called the police.Your description of the events in this incident fail to include any conversation between you and the bookstore staff, the food vendor, or the police. Did you try to explain what you were doing? Did you argue with them?Your question and details are disingenuous. Frankly, the way you present the question and details makes it seem like you are trying to minimize your responsibility for your actions while demonizing the bookstore staff and police. Since you are in a European country, I can’t say what your local laws are. In the US, however, police may detain you if you are suspected of committing a crime (such as disorderly conduct). The details of why and how police may detain you in the US are discussed at great length in other Quora questions, so I won’t repeat them here.But, since Quora actually wants people to answer the question asked, you can buy large amounts of books without getting into trouble with the police by respecting the bookstore’s staff if they explain that certain actions aren’t allowed in their store. If you’re not prepared to carry them all at once, explain that to the bookstore staff and ask if you can put them aside while you retrieve your suitcase. Don’t camp out in the middle of the store making a mess. Don’t do more than quickly skim a book to see if it’s “worth” 1 Euro. Don’t ignore food vendors when they tell you that you aren’t supposed to be loitering in the area. If you do those things, you should be able to buy all the books you want without interaction with the police.
How can I learn to write grammatically correct English? What are some books or video lectures that will help me improve?
It is necessary that the basic “structure” of sentences be studied.Most native speakers learn this without studying grammar.The process of memorizing sentences from the time we are small children teaches us how to think continually in terms of basic sentence structure.Nursery Rhymes show us things like:Hickory dickory dockThe mouse ran up the clock.The clock struck one,The mouse ran downHickory Dickory Dock.If you study the Subject———Verb——-Object pattern, you will memorize how to think, write, and speak in terms of basic grammatical structure.The mouse (subject) ran (verb) up the clock (object)An Internet search using the following search termsSubject + Verb + -Objecteither alone or with the term + sentenceswill show you many websites about how to create basic sentences.The following is an example of one such website:Basic Word Order in English: SVO (Subject-Verb-Object)Such websites show how to create sentences with other elements.
Is it possible to read a 400-page book in one day?
I have a 13-year-old daughter who has a voracious appetite for reading. She reads a couple of books a day (couple hundred pages an hour, may be more). I consider myself a reasonably fast reader and she reads 6 times as fast as me. She retains information just as well as I do despite her speed (I know this because I'll often quiz her about the content). She recently told me that she's read every fiction book in her middle school library. She reads them during breaks at school, in between classes, lunch, on the bus ride home, etc.It's fun watching her eyes dart around when she's reading. She started a blog a year ago (PriyankaReads) where she shares book recommendations with others - I think it takes her longer to write each of her blog posts than it does to actually read the books.Regarding her reading speed, She took a quick test at my asking (Speed Reading: Test Your Reading Speed) and clocked in at 1872 words/minSo it's certainly possible - I could do it in a day, but I know someone that routinely does it in an hour or two** Wow - close to 2 years and almost 10K up votes later, readers here are still offering positive comments and feedback! For those that have inquired, Priyanka is still just as prolific a reader as she was when I originally wrote this answer. She has kept up her blog as well. Demands of high school have meant that she doesn’t write as many book reviews as she used to, but she still tries to whenever she can make time for it. She has over 225 book reviews on her blog now. Many of you have visited her blog and left her positive feedback there, which has served to encourage her to continue reading and blogging. Many thanks!
How is XSEED method of learning? Is this good for CBSE syllabus?
XSeed is terrible. I tutor children in grades LKG-II and it’s my least favorite curriculum to teach. The material—packaged in excessively thick textbooks—is far too verbose for its own good, and the verbiage comes at the expense of imparting actual knowledge. Worse, the confusing questions come with self-congratulatory tags as to what skills it’s allegedly transferring.Here’s an example of one such question, from a 1st standard English book. “Write 2 doing words that have the same vowel sound as sun.”This absurd question tags itself as imparting “Higher Order Thinking Skills” which, it adds, “is an important component of all board/competitive exams” and is “necessary to succeed in any professional field.” With their bombast aside, I’ll remind you that this is a first grade textbook. Are parents and schools really so worried about board results and professional skills? How sad!Back to the question: If you want me to translate XSEED speak, they’re asking kids to come up with two verbs that also have an “uh” sound. This means that in order to answer this question, kids have to know 1) what a verb (I mean, ‘doing word’) is, 2) know other words that have the “uh” sound post-consonant.This seemingly-simple question is flawed because there are too many ways in which the kid could get the answer wrong, and the educator is left unable to determine the point of struggle: does the kid not know the definition of a ‘doing word?’ Does the child not know the meaning of a vowel sound? Is the child’s vocabulary too limited to come up with two other words? Does the child know how to pronounce ‘sun’ in the first place? Does the child even know what the question is asking? Every question is a zero sum game: even if a child understands one component, they either get the whole question right or wrong.Saner education material that tests for the same knowledge base would simply ask, “circle the words that rhyme with sun.” A follow up question could then be, “underline the words that are also verbs, or, active words.”The whole book is littered with these types of questions. I’m at a loss for why XSEED has to overly complicate its material. It reminds me of how woefully insecure people use technical terms to make bad ideas sound brilliant. In this case, I don’t care that people from Harvard, MIT and Oxford helped design this curriculum… the material is still a pile of crap, and I will never send my kid to an XSEED school.
What´s the best way to read the bible?
Yes, it is very boring. Don't try to read it from beginning to end. I suggest reading online critiques or reviews of different bits of the Bible or looking at this site http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/ to see what is said about different passages then going and reading the original. Be selective and aim to read what the Bible has to say about subjects you are most interested in: women, violence, sex, cruelty, injustice - the Bible has something to say about all of these and much more besides. If you still find it boring then give up. You don't need to read it but it is quite useful to know your way around it.