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About me - Maria C Collins

I now live in the beautiful countryside of South Western France. My first language is English but I speak (and read and write) reasonable french.

I went back to study, part-time, in my late thirties, and accumulated a G.C.E Ordinary level, a GCSE, three

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Creative Writing > Memoirs How I relax: My favorite hobbies: 3 of 174

We hustle and bustle through life so fast these days. It is easy to forget the importance of, and the necessity for, relaxation. Relaxation is not a luxury but a basic human need. Hobbies are a brilliant way of escaping the everyday world and taking time for yourself. Whether you enjoy gardening, walking, bird watching, moun...
Relationships & Family > Acquaintances & Co-Workers Healthy acts of kindness: 2 of 109

Plato wrote, "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle" People are worried distressed, and unnecessarily angry, especially in the present financial crisis. Motorists get angry when other drivers do something daft. An English court recently sentenced two people for killing a man in a dispute over queue jumping...
Education > Education (Other) Why cell phones should be banned in the classroom: 1 of 37

Mobile telephones are a part of modern life and help people to contact one another easily. However, they are a comparatively new technology and manners have failed to keep pace. Some people do not realize that there are some places where a mobile telephone is inappropriate and one of these places is the classroom or lecture ...
Arts & Humanities > Ethics Are we becoming more selfish as a society?: 1 of 35

Any observer of the British people today would say that we are becoming more selfish as a society. Bad manners, rudeness and self-absorption are patently apparent. Stand by any urban road and observe how motorists behave; they break the law by speeding, talking on mobile telephones, shaving, applying make-up and reading...
Style & Beauty > Style & Beauty (Other) Older, wiser, and absolutely stunning: Why this is the woman of the future, and how to be her: 2 of 66

The woman of the future is beautiful, self-assured, confident and happy in her skin. She knows that she earned those few facial lines, they are her life story, and she also knows that no beauty product, no matter how expensive, can ever remove those lines. Future woman knows she is unique and needs no surgeon's knife to be "...
Education > Colleges & Universities (Other) From classroom to career: The transition from school to the work world: 1 of 33

The transition from being a student to being a working adult can be difficult. When you leave university or school, you are certain that you know everything, whereas everyone in the workplace thinks you know nothing. In school, or university, you have been senior to everyone, here you are junior to everyone. People speak a s...
Relationships & Family > Dating Dilemmas & Advice The challenges of dating a married man: 1 of 33

Dating a married man is not a challenge, a game, or a dare. It is always an impossibly painful situation for everyone involved. It should never be undertaken lightly. He tells you his wife does not understand him; you should take that statement with a huge pinch of salt, she may understand him very well. He may say...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My great, true, personal garden story: 12 of 381

My greatest fault has always been impatience. When I was a little girl my father gave my sister and I a small bed in the garden for us to try gardening. My sister grew a profusion of pretty flowers in her half of the bed. In my half, after many attempts, was a glorious crop of chives. Only because, if the seeds I planted did...
Education > Education (Other) Assessing the importance of learning foreign languages: 1 of 30

The advent and the spread of the internet. the ease of modern travel and globalization have made the Earth a very small planet. There are over 6,800 languages spoken in the World. Many languages are spoken only in one small geographical area. If we want to communicate successfully with one another, it is necessary to learn t...
Computers & Technology > Telephones (Other) Do cell phones keep us more connected or more isolated?: 1 of 27

Mobile telephones mean that people can more easily contact one another than ever before but they are also causing problems. Studies show that teenagers are lacking in social and personal skills because they spend their time texting and speaking on their telephones rather than interacting face to face. They are ...