Reading together

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Author: ehileman

I' am a writer and a musician. I also perform stand up comedy (sometimes) in Chico! I love altruism and reason.
The Best of Reading

The Best of Reading

Who inspires you to read and write? Who sponsors your learning? The hero. The person you look up to the most is going to teach you, even inspire you to read what you read. This person shows you the ropes. They adapt to your style of learning and your interests to show you what you need to know and how you’re going to get the text you’re looking for as well as the information you’re looking for in the text.

What does literature stand for?  It’s all about what do you appreciate from your writers and what do your readers want. How is it powerful? Literature is the most powerful when readers not only believe what they’re reading, or even simply like it, they love what they’re reading.

Where can we find literature? It’s in the news, it’s on the internet, books, magazines, even cell phones. From politics, to business, sports, style magazines, and especially in novels.

People care about what they care about. From comic books to novels, there’s a lot to the story. It might be funny, but it can also get scary, there’s a whole lot of drama, but hopefully, there’s a romantic interest.  Literature appeals to all emotions, genres, concepts, it can embody anything. For people of all ages, from all backgrounds, reading can make a difference to inspire us to learn. The message is in our faith. What do readers love? They love their style. People are interested in what their friends are interested in, and their families, they want to read what everyone else is reading.

What does it take for the piece to make it? What makes it perfect? Literature expresses meaning, explains, clarifies, shares information, justifies. Collaborations and compromises, coordinates ideas, creates, plans for resolutions. Literature is supposed to be an inspiration for people everywhere for anything, for a purpose. How about even achieving a dream? When you put your mind to it, you can almost make anything possible. It’s all about sharing information in order to make that dream come true.

What can we learn? The message is clear. We can learn anything. What matters is getting the most from what you read so your readers can get the most from what you write.

As A Team, We Can Collaborate Ideas Like This

As A Team, We Can Collaborate Ideas Like This

As a team, we can collaborate ideas like this:

 

We can write:

An Epic

A Resolution Revolution.

Step Up to Clarity.

Evoke Familiarity.

We need: New News to Truths Truths.

What on Earth Can We Do?

What?

 

I’ll ask you.

Writing:

Going on about anything we can, keeps us alive.

Possibilities: how we survive.

Change ways like changing seasons; changing tides.

valid reasons.

Synchronize.

Justify.

Might for height

not hiding

Writing for writing.

Back to reality, escape informality.

A rumor or a falacy? Ignore it if it’s not a dream.

 

We can write a defense back- from the worst ways, worst ways, times and phases. Changing to another phase.

No words should go to waist. Just be true and our meaning can’t ever truly be fake.

Write anything you can

Anything can be right

Just explain why that’s how you write

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Ideas… Interactions… Times

The best part is that there is a bright side. It’s funny, ironic, interesting, dramatic or even frustratingly confusing, realistic, totally not cool, or amazing… what you wrote: tell us what you know When corrections are in place… let it be… wherever it leads… or destiny leads…

 

That’s a story.

 

What do you stand for? What do you believe?

What do you stand for? What do you believe?

  1. Symbolism and Metaphores
    rhyming schemes
    drop a beat or a rhythm
    tell us what life means

    what do you stand for?
    what do you believe?

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    March 26, 2015Reply

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    The Best Female Rappers Of All Time Listed By HipHopWired
    by DANIELLE HARLING
    posted Thursday March 26, 2015 at 10:30AM PDT | 4 comments

    The Best Female Rappers Of All Time Listed By HipHopWired
    Lauryn Hill, Nicki Minaj, Da Brat, and Queen Latifah among the artists featured on the list.

    As part of a newly-published list, HipHopWired compiled a list of the best female rappers. Titled “The Best Female Rappers Of All Time…As Of March 2015” and created in honor of Women’s Appreciation Month, the list ranks the 25 best female lyricists.

    “It has been a long time coming but with all the platinum plaques and mounting accolades, female rappers have finally earned enough clout to be known for emceeing more than their estrogen,” the publication says. “To close out Women’s Appreciation Month, Hip-Hop Wired has compiled the best female rappers of all time, as of now.”

    Kicking off the list at #25 is Memphis, Tennessee wordsmith, Gangsta Boo. Other Southern artists featured on HipHopWired’s “The Best Female Rappers Of All Time…As Of March 2015” list include Rapsody (#23) and Trina (#17).

    Listed at #5, Young Money rapstress Nicki Minaj was one of the newer female emcees to make their way into the top 10.

    And several spots up, clenching the #1 position is New Jersey singer/rapper, Lauryn Hill. HipHopWired dubbed Ms. Hill “the x-factor in the platinum magnet Fugees” and listed The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill as the musician’s best project.

    To view the list in its entirety, visit HipHopWired

Superhero Writers

Superhero Writers

Power is about importance(or significance). What better way to express how important it is for younger writers to develop some literacy skills than to create a powerful piece? Superhero writers is about the discoveries that children can  make in the coordination of their efforts to write about superheroes.

Everything in Words

Everything in Words

Everything in words is literacy to me. Expressing meaning and value in terms and making anything sound amazing (like in stories, news articles,  magazines, lyrics, riddles, and rhymes. Literacy is how you can say anything. My favorite concept in literacy is that there are infinite ways to express infinity and beyond. 

But how does eveyone else view reading and writing? Who influences us? What are the secrets? It’s like what my grandmother to me, you can write your own story and it’s easier to one who wrote it. I guess the same thing goes for how the writer meant to be read in comparison and contrast to the reader’s interpretation. Literacy is the key to true expression in words.

I wonder… what are the patterns we can find throughout the history of expreesion? Or better yet, what makes the most progress? Literacy is fascinating.

I loved reading about sponsors of literacy, there was a lot of substance there about what inspires us.