Our nation was planned as a political partnership of two great races. It was planned by men of vision, of tolerance, as a partnership in which both of the partners would retain their essential characteristics, their religion, their culture.
Today, we are a united people facing a world in search of unity, and what is most [...]
Don’t measure yourself by
what you have accomplished,
but what you should have
accomplished with your ability.
- John Wooden
Through the summer months, CG&A COMM will be collecting motivational and inspirational quotes for an electronic publication to be released this November.
We invite our readers to send us your favourite quotes and stories and anecdotes that will [...]
Our Big Government comes with unthinkable costs. Take for example the $1.1 BILLION cost of hosting the world’s leaders for a few days in June. CBC Reports “Summit costs hit $1.1B”:
The cost of hosting the G8 and G20 summits next month in Ontario now stands at $1.1 billion and further outlays are likely, [...]
This is a great reference website for your work (all writers will find this very useful).
http://www.confusingwords.com/
Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused. Some of these words are homonyms (words that sound [...]
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
Every hour of useful work is precious.
Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation.
Until the control [...]
I couldn’t refer to authors’ rules on effective writing without mentioning my favourite writer and his perspective on what makes great writing. Ernest Hemingway wrote a lot about writing. Here’s a few rules from the Master on what it takes to write well.
1. Use short sentences and short first paragraphs.
2. Use vigorous English - [...]
George Orwell wrote a 1946 essay entitled, Politics and the English Language, in which he laid out five rules for effective writing. Here they are:
1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If [...]
In a letter to D. W. Bowser, in 1880, Mark Twain described what he saw as quality writing:
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don’t let fluff [...]
Here are great, American author Mark Twain’s rules for quality writing, taken from his scathing essay on the Literary Offenses of James Fenimore Cooper.
1. A tale shall accomplish something and arrive somewhere.
2. The episodes of a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help develop it.
3. The personages in [...]
In case you’ve missed this…
A study examining the link between politics and personality traits finds that liberals are more compassionate, preoccupied with fairness and equality, while conservatives are more polite, modest and respectful of social norms.
“What we found is that conservatives tend to be higher in a trait called orderliness and lower in [...]