08/21/19 // Gentle reminder // Ig

09.10.21

im back after 4 or so months... hi

i don't really have much to post and im going to be spending the weekend and next week revising for the first exams of the academic year, as well as the first exams of a-levels. looking forward to posting again so i'll see you all soon :)

My little morning spread! Still visiting home so am trying to take full advantage of the amount of food my mother has in her house hehe. 

Still writing papers, feeling like that is all I do now! I am getting kicked in the butt by my epistemology paper on phenomenal concepts…and I cannot wait to be done and over with it :|

@sofa-sogood thank you for tagging me! ^.^

Same Soul - PVRIS

Talk - Daya

Atmosphere - Bebe Rexha

Young, Dumb & Broke - Khalid

Electric Indigo - The Paper Kites

Anpanman - BTS

Bed (feat. Ariana Grande) - Nicki Manaj

Bad Liar - Selena Gomez

Lost - BTS

Mama (feat. Ellie Goulding) - Clean Bandit

And I tag: @learn-korean-with-alli @studydiaryofamedstudent @studylustre @studie-s @kookmint @koreanstudytips @rylie-studies @thomastudies @h2ostudies & @pretty-little-lawblr to participate!

Music Shuffle Tag

rules: put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first 10 songs then tag 10 people

I was tagged by @higherfurtherfasterstudy so thank you! x

1. Heaven’s Light - The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Cast Recording

2. Strong - London Grammar

3. Liability - Lorde

4. Arctic - Sleeping at Last

5. Mother - Florence + the Machine

6. Dripping Chilis - John Paesano (Daredevil Season 2 Original Soundtrack)

7. Alive - Sia

8. Little Boy - Vance Joy

9. Shiver - Amber Run

10. Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene - Hozier

I tag: @stephie-studies @studywithlinnie @horanastudy @thelostandlovely @japanesepeacelilly @alrightlittleastronaut @chayanastudies @thelawstudentlife @lavandula-study @iamadreameroftheday and whoever else wants to participate!

06.06.2020 | sometimes i do colourful notes, but most of the times i don’t. too lazy.

Regarding the Amazon Rainforest

I barely have followers here, but here we go:

The Amazon Rainforest has been burning for the last 16 days straight. The Brazilian government says the wildfire is caused by the winter itself, since it doesn't rain a lot there... in a rainforest. It is actually, partially true. Winter is indeed a dry season and wildfires may happen, specially close to the Cerrado (a brazilian biome similar to the african Savanna), but what they're not telling us is that:

The deforestation has increased 80% since last year

The native peoples and animals are being slaughtered for their lands (legally protected green areas)

The government is hiding and lying about scientific data, saying that environmentalists and NGOs are communists trying to destroy the nation. They are brainwashing people to think that sustainability is terrible for the economy

Our Minister of Environment is couldn't care less about the environment and is only there to support the livestock producers and give them what they want. The President and his Minister won't put a single dollar on environmental safety

The wildfires are just so huge that its black smoke and ashes reached the skies of São Paulo, a state over 2.000 kilometers away from the Amazon.

We are hostages or our own government

I could just keep going all night about how our environment is being threatened by this new government. We need every single help we can possibly can.

Please don't let this go unseen. Search for yourself, talk to people about it, make noise, be angry and be scared. Let the world know about it and demand action. This is not about Brazil, is about the planet. The Amazon Rainforest is one of the most important biomes in the world, being responsible for the climate, rains, biodiversity, carbon sequestration and life itself.

💕💕

This is 4 days late but...

Shoutout to my top 3 fans of the month: @binntou, @anywayslaughing, and @lily-sam!! :)

Where was this when i needed it.. T_T

do your research before reading the book, it’s always a good idea to look up the author and when the book was written and published. by looking that up, you can learn about the historical context of the book and get a deeper understanding of the plot, characters, and the author’s purpose behind reading the book.

read the intro and summary of the book before beginning if there’s an introduction to the book, be sure to read that for any relevant information that may help you analyze the book. find a summary of the book online to prepare yourself for a good reading. i know, i know, it feels like a bit of a letdown if you know the ending beforehand, but without it, you may get caught up in the plot and lose the important thematic details of the book. it’ll allow you to read the book with an open mind.

figure out what you need to do do you have a list of vocabulary for the book? find out each definition. do you need to analyze a character? get a sheet of paper and get ready to take notes on the characters. do you need to write about the theme? get post-it notes and mark the quotes that you think are relevant to the plot. either way, just be prepared for what you have to do with the book.

don’t highlight; write oftentimes, people will simply highlight pretty much anything in the book. i’m not a huge fan of the highlighting - annotating method because you may want to sell the book later on or reread it without bombarding your eyes with bright color. the highlighter ink may even bleed to the other side of the paper. i think that it just ruins the reading experience and future potential. it also encourages passive reading. instead, use sticky notes or sticky tabs to write down notes and place them in the book. keep a piece of paper by your side to take note of every character’s name and important plot points. using a color key with sticky notes may be helpful as well. if you must, i would suggest underlining with a pencil so that you can erase it after you’re done with the whole process.

take copious notes write down the words that you don’t know in the story and look them up. write down characters and their changes over the course of the book. write down times / settings when they show up. write down important quotes and passages + page numbers. write down every single thought that you have about the book because it may become relevant later on.

make a summary of the chapter after you finish one i personally like doing the summaries on index cards and then put them in order after i finish the entire book. i can then look through them to see the plot progression and character growth over the course of the story without hunting through the book or my notes.

wait until you finish the entire paragraph / passage before writing notes if you stop halfway, you may miss important information that’s revealed at the end of the passage. besides, you may develop new thoughts after reading the entire passage / paragraph.

look for literary devices you know, your metaphors, allusions, similes, personifications, etc etc etc. it’s good to be familiar with literary devices because they will often give an insight to the story and frequently become relevant to questions on the test / writing things. here’s a good site on literary devices.

hope this helped and good luck! if you’d like to request a post, go here and if you’d like to see more helpful posts, go here !! thanks :)

in addition to the fact that people just have different natural rhythms, a big reason why we can’t seem to go to bed as early as we “should” is that nighttime is, for many of us, our safest and most fulfilling time of day. we don’t have to work, we won’t be contacted by bosses or insurance companies or collection agencies or other suffocating life business… we’re likely only to be contacted by our friends, or by no one at all. night time is release; it’s ours. we can rest or recreate. we can do things we actually want to do. who would choose to cut that short?? just to usher in the next morning when our lives are not our own again? nighttime is precious and nothing could be more normal than the desire to embrace this

Overcompensating for the snow by making my study setup extra tropical 🌵🌿

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reblog if you support those who have had an abortion.

We need to show support for them/us.