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    Dawnwriter replied to the topic Do you like Horror Films? in the forum Group logo of MoviesMovies 8 years, 1 month ago

    I wouldn’t watch a horror movie even if I am getting paid to do so. I hate horror movies especially those which show dolls and children possessed by demons.

    The images stay with me for a long time. I watch very little TV and few movies so I am very careful and choosy when it comes to watching something on screen.

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    Dawnwriter wrote a new post, Book Review: The Cuckoo’s Calling, by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) 8 years, 1 month ago

    My first thought after reading the book, The Cuckoo’s Calling was: Why didn’t I read it before and my second thought was: I have to go and buy the next one NOW!

     

    J.K Rowling will forever be associated with […]

    • do you read only these type of books? I like to read different stories like romance, social, comedy, historical novels or books and psychology books too, what about you, do you stick to these book

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    Dawnwriter wrote a new post, Great Opening Lines of Great Novels 8 years, 1 month ago

    Great opening lines are very important for any work of literature. Whether you are writing a novel, a short story, a blog post or a newspaper article, a great opening line will make sure that your reader stays […]

    • I know almost all of those you have quoted… also remember; “Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful but few men noticed when caught by her charm.”

      “The Third Camel died at dawn.”

      • Yes. They are all great people. I think you are having some knowledge in Literature. But I am not. So the only thing I can do is just to appreciate the good writers and persons having good taste in literature. Thank you.

    • Opening lines are very not only in the writing of novels but also on academic works. I remember the days when I was to write my final year project my supervisor made me realized that my abstract must capture it all. That it must summarize the whole section of my project works. To put it shortly quality of opening lines cannot be overemphasized.

      • My Masters were asking us to write the project report. They were taking them to their houses and were making corrections. They were giving instructions in pen so that a student can remember the things well.

    • All great authors know how important an opening line is to grab the reader’s attention and instantly connect with them. But there is no opening line ever written that will ever be better than the one penned by Charles Dickens to introduce the reader to “A Tale Of Two Cities.” 🙂

      • I don’t think they are all necessary nowadays. People do not bother about the great opening and great closure. They want essence. They want information but not transformation. The transformation is already taking place and will take place without any effort. So they concentrate more on information.

    • yes. Those are great lines.

    • Yes. These opening lines and closing lines are meant for those who used to sit comfortably after their lunch and dinner in the open air. They need have to worry about their comforts not at all. They were thinking and knitting their words. I do not think they were doing that also. I can say that they wrote for their next generations. Who taught them about these closings and openings? No one I think.

    • This one fits Stephen King’s definition of great opening line: “Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.”

    • Some very great quotes indeed!

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    peachpurple wrote a new post, Comforting a hurt child 8 years, 1 month ago

    When a child is hurt, it is a natural instinct that he wanted to be comforted by his parents and grandparents immediately.

    In contrast, parents and grandparents themselves, wanted to shower the child their […]

    • They just want to know that your are there for them

    • S hurting child will sometimes be very quiet, and not really say anything just in case he is told that he is being too petty about some issues. When a child is hurt that will always throw tantrums others will get aimlessly just like you have mentioned above. And that can be very annoying trying to stop that child from crying can be a huge mess. But the best way is to show them that you are attentive to them. It’s not really about what you will give them but just your time would change everything. Time is very essential most people take it for granted they don’t spend much time with their children’s making their kids feel vulnerable and neglected and that’s why they will always get and throw tantrums.

    • In my case when a child is hurt I check what the issue is and then treat the child accordingly. I do not like to treat the child with kid gloves always. Sometimes it is needed to be done but many other times I explain them why they are crying and when they will stop crying and how they can help themselves in the situation.

      I see many grown children also crying nowadays. For very minor issues. I feel they have been turned into delicate darling’s by there parents by showering too much of love and affection and also by being overprotective. This sort of a thing will never help the child and will turn out to be a problem when they grow as adults. An interesting article giving information on how to handle different children with varied mentalities. Best wishes.

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    peachpurple wrote a new post, Homemade Prawn Dumpling Soup 8 years, 1 month ago

    I started to fall in love with dumplings since my childhood days.
    Mom used to homemade dumplings which were large, fulled of generous fillings and super delicious soup.
    She always added generous heaps of mixed […]

    • I have not tasted it still but I will try to taste it soon making at home with the help of my cousin. Ingredients:
      1 packet dumpling wrappers, for soup
      1.5 liter chicken stock, homemade or store-bought
      2 to 3 stalks baby bok choy
      spring onion, diced, for garnish
      sesame oil, to taste
      salt, for cleansing the prawn meat
      corn flour, for cleansing the prawn meat
      Fillings:
      250 gm pork mince
      160 gm prawn meat
      3 shiitake mushrooms, soaked and shredded
      30 gm bamboo shoots, frozen or canned, blanched in hot water then shredded
      20 gm wood ears, blanched in hot water then shredded
      Marinade:
      2 tsp light soy sauce
      ½ tsp salt
      ½ tsp sugar
      ½ tsp oyster sauce
      1 tsp cornflour / corn starch
      ½ tsp chicken powder / chicken bouillon
      1 egg white
      white pepper, to taste
      sesame oil, to taste

      Method:
      Mix the prawn meat with a little of salt and corn flour. Leave them for about 15 to 20 minutes. Rinse and pat dry with kitchen papers. Cut each into 3 to 4 pieces.
      Mix pork mince with marinade. Stir in the prawn, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, wood ears. Cover and chill in fridge for about 20 minutes, or until you’re ready to wrap dumplings.
      Put a heaped spoon of fillings in the middle of a wrapper. Damp the wrapper around the fillings and seal the filling tightly, leaving the wrapper edges loosely. No need to make it perfect. Just make sure the fillings won’t leak out while boiling. Repeat this step to finish wrapping with the remaining fillings.
      Bring the chicken stock to a boil over high heat in a pot.
      In the meantime, carefully put dumplings into another large pot of boiling water over high heat. Stir the water with chopsticks in order to avoid the dumplings stick to the bottom. When the dumplings float to the water surface. Immediately transfer them into the chicken stock. Add bok choy and cook for a while. Season with salt. Sprinkle spring onion and sesame oil. Serve immediately.

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    peachpurple wrote a new post, Test Your Nutrient Knowledge 8 years, 1 month ago

    Knowing the actual nutrients in your food is essential
    rather than blindly gobble up the same food everyday while
    pushing yourself away from other nutritious food that you
    dislike.

    It is wise to eat wide […]

    • vegetables are the best source of vitamins but vegetables do not produce minerals in human body we have to take minerals from out side source as from all fruits and dry fruit. Our body is composed of vitamins and minerals brick by brick made of cells.

      I think that Most vegetables are naturally low in fat and calories. …
      Vegetables are important sources of many nutrients, including potassium, dietary fiber, folate (folic acid), vitamin A, and vitamin C.
      Diets rich in potassium may help to maintain healthy blood pressure.
      More items…

      People who eat fruit and vegetables as part of their daily diet have a reduced risk of many chronic diseases. USDA’s MyPlate encourages making half your plate fruits and vegetables.

      Vegetables are important part of healthy eating and provide a source of many nutrients, including potassium, fiber, folate (folic acid) and vitamins A, E and C. Options like broccoli, spinach, tomatoes and garlic provide additional benefits, making them a superfood!

      Potassium may help to maintain healthy blood pressure. Dietary fiber from vegetables helps reduce blood cholesterol levels and may lower risk of heart disease.

      Folate (folic acid) helps the body form healthy red blood cells. Women of childbearing age who may become pregnant and those in the first trimester of pregnancy need adequate folate to reduce the risk of neural tube defects and spina bifida during fetal development.

      The nutrients in vegetables are vital for health and maintenance of your body.

      Vegetable’s Health benefits mat be these as

      Eating a diet rich in vegetables may reduce risk for stroke, cancer, heart diseases and type-2 diabetes.
      One to four cups of vegetables are recommended each day, depending on how many calories you need. To find out how many vegetables you need to eat, use the Healthy Eating Planner.

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    peachpurple wrote a new post, 5 Ways to make a Homemaker Happy 8 years, 1 month ago

    Being a full time homemaker is hard work.
    If you are a homemaker with toddlers or school age kids, you know what I mean.

    A homemaker is the woman of the house who does the “One man show” which
    means, she is […]

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    peachpurple replied to the topic Why some post have no image? in the forum Group logo of About LiteracyBaseAbout LiteracyBase 8 years, 1 month ago

    it takes time for the image to appear

    if it doesn’t remove the link, refresh yr fb, paste the link again and wait until the arrow keeps turning until it stops, then the image will appear

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    peachpurple wrote a new post, Pyramid of exercise 8 years, 1 month ago

    How often do you exercise in a week?
    Are you getting enough exercise?
    How much exercise is enough?
    These are the questions that we frequently ask 
    ourselves when we look at the reflection of our 
    bodies in the […]

    • Those are good tips. Lifestyle that has movement could keep one healthy.

    • What you mention here are very informative especially to those people who keep on complaining about their body weight, sick, and their hobby is just sitting and watching television or internet at their home.

      In my case, though I am not so active now but my physical exercise include running (morning or afternoon)and biking. During the height of my running, I do it even 5 times a week. Biking now is my favorite exercise. Its good feeling when you do it.

    • Exercise is most essential part of human life if no exercise means a walking hospital. n other words, exercise aims to maintain or enhance our physical fitness and general health. People exercise for many different reasons. Some of them are included below:

      Benefits of Exercise in Daily Life

      Strengthens the muscles that are involved in respiration – exercises facilitate the flow of air in and out of the lungs
      Strengthens and enlarges the heart muscle – this improves aerobic conditioning – pumping of blood and the heart rate (lowers the pulse of a person when they are resting)
      Tones muscles throughout most of the body
      Reduces blood pressure
      Improves circulation
      Raises the number of red blood cells, in turn facilitating transportation of oxygen
      The sleep quality of insomnia patients can improve with moderate exercise, a study found
      Improves mental health
      A study found that exercise reduces migraine suffering
      Reduces the risk of heart disease and cardiovascular problems
      Helps improve survival rates of patients with cardiovascular diseases significantly, as researchers found
      Stimulates bone growth (high impact aerobic exercise), reduces risk of osteoporosis
      Increases stamina or endurance – aerobic activity increases the body’s ability to store energy molecules such as fats and carbohydrates within the muscle
      Increases blood flow through muscles
      Improves muscles’ ability to use fats during exercise, thus preserving the intramuscular glycogen.

      We all human being must make exercise daily at least 30 to 45 minutes to maintain health for future life and old age. No walk, no exercise in life is injurious to health.

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    peachpurple wrote a new post, 8 things that you can re-use at home 8 years, 1 month ago

    Everyday, there are tons of waste, trash and 
    unwanted things that humans discard them into
     the bin without even thinking twice.

    Before you throw away anything after used or 
    consumed, maybe you should pause […]

    • I have far too many bottles plastic and glass. I use some and the rest are just disposed of.

    • Number 4! Genius! I never thought to do that with old calendars. What a good idea! 🙂

    • These are all great ideas. Tins, jars, plastic bottles etc can be used in a myriad of ways.

    • Great Ideas. Things at home are probably of many used, only if we know how to utilized them. Aside from those that is being discussed, I want to include the following things:

      BUTTONS. If you have only two attractive buttons, make them into a pair of earrings. If you have four attractive buttons, make them into a pair of cufflinks, chain-stitching a cord between each pair.

      CALENDAR PICTURES. Enamel shabby wastebaskets and paste on calendar pictures for new decor. (Scenic ads and posters can also he used.) Shellac over the pictures for longer wearing and washability.

      CANDLE STUBS. For corking bottles when you’ve lost the cork, soften a candle stub so that it fits the neck of the bottle. Candle stubs also make excellent fire starters. Candle stubs can be saved and melted together and made into new candles, using old bottles or milk cartons as molds. Also, candle stubs can be melted and poured directly onto paint in a half-used can of paint so that the paint will remain airtight and soft.

      CAN KEYS. Save an occasional key from coffee or sardine cans, as you’re bound, sooner or later, to come across one that has no key. Can keys also provide an economical way to use toothpaste, winding from the bottom of the tube!

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    peachpurple wrote a new post, 10 ways to make your home look luxury within your budget 8 years, 1 month ago

    I had always wanted to make my home look comfy and warmth 

    especially when my hubby and kids come back from work or

     school.

     

    I do envy those new showhouse at residential areas, where
     consumers are a […]

    • A few changes and replacements can go a long way in making the place look different and pretty.

    • We actually like your article and the way you represent. Please Inbox us. We have more tips for you. This will help you earn more from this kind of articles.

    • This is useful for me as I am constructing a house. I want to make it all at once without any incompletion. I was to enter keeping everything in order and in perfect condition. I am nowadays busy in redecorating all the furniture and want to make use of all pallets lying in my store room. I purchased a hand drill also to do the carpentry work.

    • I liked the tips and most of all the showeheads, they are the thing that make the bathroom fancy and luxury or not, I like the one in the hotels that are in the middle of the ceiling of the bathrooms, so nice and give you feeling that you are u;nder waterfall.
      I also like to add that garden also if they are organized in some way it may give the feelings of luxury place, like adding some antique to them and adding few lights that make it romantic and also adding flower real one not cheap one, and to add water or any type like small sea shape or small waterfall that it size only few cm. these all add great look to the house and it makyou also feel as if you are in spa or something, i like to have that area to do that, thanks for the amaizing post and good post of your s taht make want to go now and do the garden hah

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    peachpurple replied to the topic kids wearing jewells in the forum Group logo of Family & RelationshipsFamily & Relationships 8 years, 1 month ago

    according to chinese tradition, old folks would insist first born baby to wear jewellery on ankle, wrist or necklace as a symbol of precious, important, the only one, especially if the baby is a boy.

     

    Actually, it is not popular anymore in this modern time but it is polite to accept the gift but remove it after that.

    baby might get strangled…[Read more]

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    peachpurple replied to the topic What' Next After 'Newbie' Member? in the forum Group logo of About LiteracyBaseAbout LiteracyBase 8 years, 1 month ago

    nobody knows yet, everyone here is still under newbie, even though I had been here since july 2016, still a newbie

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    peachpurple replied to the topic Secret behind high views at tinycent in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 8 years, 1 month ago

    does that mean that sharing post at share media not allowed?

    Because one could get high views, external ones when sharing online

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    Dawnwriter wrote a new post, Traitors In Our Midst 8 years, 1 month ago

    I was reading a very interesting article recently.

    It stated that when the ancient Chinese people built the Great Wall of China, they thought they would be safe from attackers and foreign invasion and yet they […]

    • ah…..The position is aptly applicable to almost all countries in the world including India as it is my concern being an Indian. Totally worst…I do not get words. Better I do not comment on the subject more and it will be right and good for my health.

      Otherwise, where from the political leaders of the world get so much of money in their foreign accounts. It is against which the Panama Papers worked on . If the names of leaders and other rich people of U.S have not found their place in the leaked out list it does not mean that they are pious and sacred people on the Earth.

      I really wonder how the two candidates in the U.S Presidential elections are assuring people of good roads, unemployment, health provisions, and assurances on the women’s’ problem made me think that the U.S is not as developed yet as they projected themselves to the world.

    • There are many people who want power just to have it. They are inferior people. They have no morality no real interest. They want what they can get.

    • I agree. In most nations where the citizens are suffering, it’s not the result of an attack from the outside, but corruption from the inside. The weakening from within is what makes the nation vulnerable to an outside enemy attack. It happens over and over. But folks don’t learn the lesson and/or ignore and talk themselves into believing “That will never ever happen to us!” But it happens!

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    Dawnwriter replied to the topic Just redeemed my September earnings. in the forum Group logo of About LiteracyBaseAbout LiteracyBase 8 years, 1 month ago

    @bestwriter Congrats. I am slightly above $8 and hope to redeem in October.

    So we have to redeem on 30th to get our money in next month?

    And by what date do you usually receive it?

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    peachpurple replied to the topic Are our posts rated? in the forum Group logo of About LiteracyBaseAbout LiteracyBase 8 years, 1 month ago

    http://172.104.9.193/members/dawnwriter/

    is your post 300 words?

    Usually 300 -400 words rate is 10-15 cents

    I write 500 words-700 words- pays 22 cents

    If you can write 800 words, might get 27-30 cents

    But I would suggest that you either write 300 words, 4-5 posts per day, then you can earn approximately 50 cents to 65 cents

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    peachpurple replied to the topic Has Tinycent stopped new registration? in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 8 years, 1 month ago

    no idea, sorry, but i am a member there, just not active

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    Dawnwriter replied to the topic Do you tend to write more blog posts or forum posts? in the forum Group logo of About LiteracyBaseAbout LiteracyBase 8 years, 1 month ago

    I am trying to post one article daily but I spend a lot of time on forums. We earn from our comments and forums are a great way to interact and get to know each other better.

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    Dawnwriter replied to the topic Does Anyone Got Any Payment from Blogbourne?!? in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 8 years, 1 month ago

    @EvilElf @swalia Can you tell me where this information is posted about Inactive users. I checked the forum but I cannot see anything new for weeks and months.

    With so many options like Literacy Base, Niume and Tiny Cent, Blogbourne has real competition on its hands and warnings such as these ones will further shatter the confidence of its…[Read more]

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