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    The Reading Recommendations Thread

    Title: The Moonlight Chronicles Author: Dan Price Genre: Travel narrative/ Art journal Medium: Non-fiction Why You Should Read It: It is a (neatly) handwritten book that details the travels of a man and his family. His colourful and often whimsical drawings reveal an appreciation for the...
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    The Literary Acquisition Thread

    Some obscure books: Stroke a Martian and 99 Other Things to do Before you Die - New Scientist The Moonlight Chronicles: A Wandering Artist's Journal - Dan Price Sweets - Sylvia van Ommen Just Like Heaven - Patrick McDonnell
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    "brain chemistry"

    Vegemite and cheese toast. Diced apple in a bowl of milk. Green tea is good too.
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    Funny Exam Answers

    Re: funny things to write in tests... For my Biology trial, there was a question that asked us to outline the benefits of a cervical cancer vaccination program on society. I wrote that children won't be motherless, that there would be more women in the world, increasing consumption and...
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    Exam Vs. Normal handwriting

    No better way to pass time than to scan handwriting. +++++
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    What's the best thing about your school?

    Why do people refer to SBHS as just "High"? Seems odd.
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    Uni Open Days

    Re: Infoday/USYD Live I have 16 pamphlets from courses I have no interest in (e.g. nursing, midwifery, marketing) just because I wanted the candies their stalls gave.
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    Best+Worst of Teacher Quotes and Habits

    English teacher: From now till the HSC, I want you guys to use me as much as you can and in anyway you want. All my math teacher's quotes: We're family. I don't want to be just "that guy" who taught you maths in highschool. I don't want to be that teacher, I want to be your friend ... I'm...
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    What's the best thing about your school?

    We go home early, sometimes at 12.
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    Biology

    Our lessons are mainly copying off the board, off a textbook, off the teacher's dictations, watching videos and some internet research. I do think it's useful, much more so than any of my other subjects. I chose Biology because I prefer it to Physics (which was on the same line), it hasn't...
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    Favourite music artists

    Crowded House, Sarah Blasko, Tegan and Sara, Death Cab for Cutie
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    Words you've come to despise...

    These phrases make me want to knock myself unconscious. Emma/ Clueless The Siege In conclusion All things being equal
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    Need help with finding a book, please

    The Hours by Michael Cunningham perhaps? I haven't seen the novel but the film returns to the beginning.
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    DFEE Courses

    DFEE courses are really expensive aren't they? :(
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    studying for trials

    The technique comprehension, creative writing and your journeys essay, from what I remember. Have a look at BOS's past paper section.
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    Wag the dog - Help.

    This board's Resource Section has a few essays on "Wag the Dog", so that might be of help. I did "WTD" too and analysed these bits: the part where Kirsten Dunst was being filmed for a promo and later when they made a fake funeral for Old Shoe. You could talk about mise-en-scene, irony...
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    Pens

    I can write 3 pages for the AOS, well, so far anyway. 10 pages within a week? It won't happen but should.
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    F'ed up '07 Muck Up Photo!

    We got a five minute lecture before our Muck-ups were to be taken about what not to do. He made sure nobody would sway or they'd look like fuzzy blobs. I don't know why he bothered to care.
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    Pens

    It was initially one post that sent the topic stray in another thread. The Mods then made it a thread on its own. I recently got a Parker pen but I'm too used to the low-end Kilometricos to convert.
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