My name is Tricia Chieppa. I’m writing you because I recently saw your August 31 post about perfection, along with your makeup free photo and your comment that it’s time we take a stand. I couldn’t agree more and, a few months ago, decided to more than just lament about this issue to friends.
In July, 2015 I started my website/blog at www.burdenofperfection.com, along with new facebook and twitter pages. I’m using these platforms in several ways, one of which is calling out manufacturers that don’t see anything wrong with producing, and profiting from, ads that contribute to people’s belief that they are not worthy unless they hide their “flaws” behind a mask of makeup. Because I don’t want my messages to always focus on the negative, I also post inspiring quotes and send thank...
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Dear IWC,
First of all, big fan. And like any big fan of a team, I get passionate about them winning. And passion can sound critical, but it’s all out of love and the desire to see them win every year.
I first discovered IWC after making the requisite Rolex purchase and wondering what else was out there in the vast unknown world of watches. “Have you heard of IWC?” a friend asked me, and from there, after jumbling the letters in my mind a few times, I found your brand online and soon purchased my first IWC, the GST chronograph in titanium.
My first impressions of you were unforgettable. In a world of stuffy, erudite luxury watchmakers, your brand stood out as sleek, sturdy, and supremely confident. Even your name, "IWC" – short for the just-as-stoic and behaved “INTERNATIONAL...
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Dear Eyebrows,
It’s hard to know where to start. I’ve written and rewritten this letter in my mind so many times, thought about what I should say to you and how I should say it, and nothing ever seems quite right.
Here goes. Deep breaths, deep breaths.
You and I, we’ve had our ups and downs (literally and figuratively, what with all the raising and furrowing), and I take full responsibility for that. My sudden interest in your shape and overall appearance must have come as a surprise — all through high school and college I left you alone, never even running a tiny brush through you. Then, one day after graduation, I went in full-force with what I imagine was a very scary-looking pair of tweezers. Only recently did I look back and regret this.
I know now I should’ve appreciated...
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Dear Larry and Sergey,
I'm writing you the short letter on behalf of many Internet users in China to have some suggestions to resolve the current dilemma for Google in China, from both business and social perspectives.
During the National Day holiday week in 2002, when Google.com was blocked in China for the first time, Chinese Google users made an online protest spontaneously. They appealed to free the purer search engine wave by wave. Its seemed its also the first time grassroots power was demonstrated in China on Internet. You can imagine how eager they are to have a complete Internet instead of a shrunken one. At last, people won, Google backed. However, after 4 years, we started to question whether we should continue to support Google. Many users here were disappointed when...
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Dear European Commission Official,
The sovereign problems with the proposed Google-EC settlement are that it:
Does nothing to address how Google unlawfully gained, and continues to unlawfully extend, its EU online dominance; and
Allows Google to evade accountability to EU rule of law.
Simply it represents an unwarranted special EC pardon for Google’s illegal 90% search/search advertising dominance and its many illegal abuses of dominance.
Moreover, it is not in the EC’s interests to prematurely shut down the Google search investigation for the convenience of just one EC Directorate’s artificial timetable, when that would undermine the ongoing investigation of additional allegations of Google abuses of its search dominance, like Google search-Android tying, and when it would...
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Dear Patrick
I am writing to you regarding the APFC/FAO call for nominations of forests in the Asia-Pacific region that demonstrate forms of exemplary management. Global Witness wholeheartedly supports this move to recognise positive instances of improved forest management.
However, I would like to draw your attention to three of the forests that have been nominated in Cambodia: Tum Ar Forest, the Forest Concession of Colexim Enterprises and the Forest Concession of Everbright CIG Wood Co. Ltd Cambodia (information publicly available on the Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and Pacific website at: http://www.recoftc.org/Forestexcellence_FAO.html#Cam). I can understand the inclusion of the Tum Ar Forest, but the sustainable utilisation of this forest by villagers...
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Dear College Graduates,
As I scroll through Facebook and see pictures of old friends and acquaintances in their caps and gowns, I’m reminded that it is that time of year again - graduation. Within the past few weeks my inbox has been inundated with applications from recent college grads applying to WunderLand Group, which inspired me to write this post. To help get you started with you job search, I’ve put together the following list of best practices and tips to help you along the way.
Carefully edit your resume. First things first, delete the generic objective from your resume. If you are applying to a job, we know you are interested, so there is no need to reiterate. Second, edit your resume and cover letter for each job that you apply to. Add keywords from the job description...
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Dear Sheriff Hickman,
There is much to inquire about regarding an incident that occurred in the late evening of July 21 in Houston.
A young woman was pulled over for a traffic violation, and, without consent, was subjected to a warrantless, invasive body cavity search in the public parking lot of a gas station.
What could be the justification for a body cavity search of a 21-year-old woman who was pulled over for a simple traffic stop? The Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy said it was the smell of marijuana.
The powerful, free pass of smelling marijuana.
Deputy William Strong placed Ms. Charnesia Corley into his patrol car in handcuffs while he searched her car for an hour. Turning up no marijuana, you would think he would allow Ms. Corley to be on her way.
Rather, Strong...
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In order to give you my opinion of the two candidates who have met with our campus in the last two weeks, I have decided to write you this letter. Perhaps the first thing I should mention is that you have done perhaps too good a job in finding us excellent men who would do a good job (in my opinion) at WPI. Now comes the hard part, deciding between them. Perhaps I should mention that I served as a member of a search committee, which chose the current pastor at my church at home and that I understand a little bit of the process which you went through. It is tough to find people who are willing to tackle such a challenge and willing to do so at the same time that you are looking. There are many people who could be President of WPI, but few are looking for such a job right now.
Both of...
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Dear Hardik Patel,
I am a common citizen of Gujarat. I did not know who you were until a few days ago. I have a feeling I will be seeing a lot more of you now. I have read that your organisation, Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS), came into existence less than a month ago. I have been told that you believe that the Patidar community is losing out in the development race because of reservation quota.
Depending from where you are looking at it, reservations, in their current form, might be a problem for some and a lifeline for others. One thing I clearly don't understand is, if you think reservations are a problem, why are you asking for it? In a television interview you said that the government should either give reservation to the patidars or remove reservation all together. This...
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