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Formal Email:

How to Write a Formal Email:

1.    Use a proper salutation. Addressing the recipient by name is preferred. Use the person's title (Mr. Mrs. Ms. or Dr.) with their last name, followed by a comma or a colon. Optionally, you can precede the salutation with "Dear..." (but "Hello..." is acceptable as well). Using a last name is more formal and should be used unless you are on first-name terms with the recipient. If you don't know the name of the person you're writing to (but you really should try and find one) use "To Whom It May Concern".

2.    Introduce yourself in the first paragraph. Also include why you're writing, and how you found that person's e-mail address, or the opportunity you're writing about.

• E.g. "My name is Earl Rivers. I'm contacting you to apply for the administrative assistant position listed on CareerXYZ.com."
• E.g. "My name is Arlene Rivers. I am writing about the traffic citation I received on December 31, 2009. I obtained your e-mail address for the Westchester County Clerk website."

3.    Write the actual message. Be sure to get your point across and do not ramble on! Be direct and to the point. If it's fluffed to be longer the reader may glance over the important details.

• The email should be no more than 5 paragraphs long, and each paragraph should be no more than 5 sentences long.
• Insert a line break between each paragraph (indenting isn't necessary).

4.    Use the correct form of leave-taking.

• Yours sincerely,
• Yours cordially,
• Respectfully,
• Best,

5.    Sign with your full name. If you have a job title, include that in the line after your name, and write the company name or website in the line after that. If you do not have a job title but you have your own blog or website related to the content of the e-mail, include a link to that below your name. If the e-mail is about a job, only include a career-related website or blog, not hobbies or interests.

6.    Come up with a brief and descriptive subject.

         E.g.

• Inquiry regarding sales position
• Request for volunteer application

7.    Double-check your message to make sure that you have contained everything that you need in your message. Read your email out loud. 

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Strange Hangover Cures

**PLEASE DO NOT TRY ANY OF THESE CURES!!***

7. Strange Hangover Cures from Around the World 7. Lemon in the Armpits Apparently some Puerto Ricans (and other citrusy fresh people) swear by this method. While I’ve read a few different opinions, the general belief is that you need to rub a slice of lemon in the armpit of your drinking arm before you start boozing. Out of lemons? Lime’s fine. #6. World’s Greatest Drunks Now it’s clearly between the Russians and Irish for being the biggest drunks, so I’ll present a hangover cure from each. The Russians claim all you have to do is drink the juice squeezed from a cucumber. I don’t know how you go about this, but Vodka literally means water in Russian, so who are we to second-guess them? The Irish cure? Well they’re said “to bury the ailing person in moist river sand.” It’s not exactly clear if they keep the head above ground, or if this is simply the easiest way to get rid of the weakest drinkers. #5. Jog ‘n’ Lick Word on the street (according to BBC ) is that Native Americans would run around in the morning to get sweaty after a hard night on the village. Next step? Why the only logical thing: lick all that sweat up and spit it out, so you can get rid of all the ‘poison’ you’d just oozed out. #4. Kickin’ it old school Now we all learned in school how much the Ancient Greeks & Romans knew how to party. Well, after a wild night of debauchery Ancient Greeks were all about a nice breakfast of sheep lungs and two owl eggs. The morning after, Romans would chow down on deep-fried canaries, which we can only assume were sold in big, family-size buckets. #3. Voodoo While most of these require mixing together ridiculous ingredients, this hangover remedy simply requires a complete lack of logic… or lots of magic (magic trumps logic every time). Haitian voodoo people are said to recommend sticking 13 black pins in the cork of the offending bottle. Try it out, let me know how it goes. #2. Mongolian Mary The hangover cure for heavy drinkers in outer Mongolia is “a pair of pickled sheep’s eyes in tomato juice.” #1. “2 Cowboys 1 Cup” What did those lonely cowboys of the Wild West concoct to cure hangovers? A fresh, hot cup of tea? Oh, that’s nice, sounds like a pleasant little remedy. Wait, they put what in it? Rabbit droppings!

Facial Expressions

We can tell how other people are feeling just by looking at them. When someone is happy, they smile. When they are sad, they frown.  But where do these facial expressions come from? Are they learned or are they innate? David Matsumoto studied these questions for years in his culture and emotion research lab at San Francisco State. Facial expressions are so important because they are part of a non-verbal communication system that we all have; that we use extensively when we communicate with others. Facial expression comment on the word in many different ways so that you know that a person may be joking, or they may be very serious. I think this is why we have emoticons in email. Facial expressions are very difficult to study in a lab because when people are in a lab they are watching what they’re doing. And so, often times, what you get in a laboratory is not what occurs in real life. David realized there was a better setting to study facial expressions; the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. It just so happened he was headed there anyway as researcher for the National Judo Federation. The Olympics is the perfect place to do one of these studies because it’s real life, it’s naturalistic, it’s very emotional. He then turned his eye and the camera toward the Paralympic Games. By studying the expression of the blind athletes in the Paralympic Games and then comparing them to the expression of the athletes in the sighted…the regular…. Olympic Games, we can tell whether they have the same expressions or not. And the result? Those who won showed signs of true enjoyment, those who lost showed sadness or distress or fear or anger. And they were the exact same facial muscle movements that occurred in both the sighted and the blind. They occurred at both exactly the same times and exactly the same ways. And they differentiated winners and losers in exactly the same ways. And so the findings were amazingly similar. So the study of the blind athletes in the Paralympics Games show us conclusively that the source of facial expressions and emotions must be resident in some innate biological program that we all have, that we are born with, and that we have from birth. And that everybody….. all around the world….. as long as you are a human…. has that. And I think that that’s a very powerful message that this study shows. So, then next time you see someone smile, or frown, remember you are seeing an expression of their DNA.

Using Exclamation Marks

!The exclamation mark!

Video one: 

Don't overuse the exclamation mark!!!!!!!!!!

Video two: 

How To Apply Exclamation Marks

Notes:

The exclamation mark (!) should not be used too frequently. It should be used only after real exclamations or interjections and phrases and sentences expressing sudden emotion or wish.

• What a terrible storm!
• How fiercely the wind blows!
• How cold the night is!
• Alas!
• Good luck!

Sometimes the exclamation mark is also used after a short order.

• Get out! I don’t want to see again.
• Shut up! I don’t want to hear a word.