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Should the word “The” be capitalized in a title?
I recently received this email from a visitor: “My company has asked me to write several articles and many contain the word ‘the’ in the title. I haven’t studied grammar in years and I can’t remember whether the word The should be capitalized in the title or not. Help!” Thanks, Barb from Sherman Oaks.
When it’s time to make your career decisions near graduation time, it would behoove you to listen to Steve Job’s Commencement Address first.
Many of you college seniors will be graduating in a couple of months. Everybody is asking you, “Well, what are you going to do with your life?”
(Read Contacting Paulo Coelho… to learn the background of this email)
Dear Paulo Coelho,
In The Alchemist, you mention that “…when someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”Read More
(click here to read part I of the story)
David knew what that normal life entailed. He had lived it the past 5 years. At 28, he thought, if I go back now, that will be it. I will probably never return. And he was probably right.
A traveler who returns home from his journeys always wants to travel again. Perhaps he need not travel to the same physical place, but he will want to travel to recapture the feeling, the spirit, the adventure of meeting new people and having new experiences each day. He wants to, but he probably won’t.Read More
It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
I am seated in South America writing. Would I be seated here writing Contacting Paulo Coelho were it not for The Alchemist? Probably, but not certainly.
For many, the legacy of Steve Jobs may be the device you hold in your hand or the computer on which you are reading this right now. But the true legacy of Steve Jobs is not one of technology, but of life.
In the many accounts of the life of Steve Jobs recently written, we read articles such as how Steve Jobs changed the way we interact with music and how Steve Jobs Told Us What We Needed Before We Knew. Certainly, Steve Jobs will be remembered 100 years from now for the way he created the perfect marriage between art and technology.