Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life (by Steve Martin)

You open a newspaper, swipe through the pages and come across the section of reviews, your eyes meet the headline and this time the genre is different, it is comedy. To critique comedy is a task itself as comedy is subjective. What might be hilarious for me, might be a light laugh or maybe nothing at all to you. It sometimes also arrives at the expense of other people’s struggles etc. A review is basically a literary critique where the book that is being reviewed is analysed and the opinion of the writer is written on the basis of style, content and merit. It can also be considered description of the book and an evaluation of the significance and meaning too. Sometimes a the reviewer also comments on the past books of the writers and his general way of writing and presenting.

Mr. Martin portrays “Born Standing Up” as a memoir as opposed to a life account, “because I am writing about someone I used to know.” He need not indicate that he has gone through years dismembering that tragically deceased somebody since this book is written in the directly from-the-love seat voice of an obedient analysis and that doesn’t make Mr. Martin near-sighted or dull; it basically gives him more than the typical level of knowledge into why his comical inclination advanced the way that it did. Indeed, he had a dad who told a paper that “Saturday Night Live” (a long-running American TV show which Mr. Martin has hosted several times) was the most noticeably terrible thing on TV and whose own defeated desire as an entertainer prompted stone-confronted dissatisfaction with his child’s prosperity. Yet, the more youthful Mr. Martin is keener on picking up understanding than in doling out retributions.

“Born Standing Up” is a firmly engaged book, keeping its accentuation to the manners which were created by his mind and his own life during the early stages of his life. It is delineated with photos that show Mr. Martin getting a handle on for a strong physical style. One of the book’s most amusing contacts is an image of him in full radical Navajo formal attire, with a basic inscription: “No comment.”

In any event, for pursuers effectively acquainted with Mr. Martin’s grave side, “Born Standing Up” is an astonishing book: keen, genuine, sincere and a confessional booth, without being sentimental. Decades after retiring from his Stand-Up Comedy career, he glances back at a time of development and advancement, wondering about the idea that his endeavours may have driven totally no place in the event that they had not uncontrollably succeeded, and he would have also failed if some endeavours had not failed. While there is a lot to approve his feeling of having been fortunate, no one put it superior to Elvis Presley, whom Mr. Martin once met behind the stage when both were getting a sense of the status of the entertainment business rulers. “Son,” he says Presley said to him, “you have an ob-leek sense of humour.” 

8 Online Tools Every College Student Should Use

If you are about to start college and need some help in your new journey, then you have landed in the right place. This article would tell you all about the eight best online tools that every college student should use to make their life easy. There are thousands of online educational tools available online, but we have shortlisted the most reliable and workable ones for you. 

If you want to make your college life easy and free of all kinds of rejections in terms of assignments and research papers, you should read about the tools mentioned below. Know that we have shortlisted these tools by keeping in mind their cost and their user-friendliness, which are the two main factors for students!

University Visitors network

This is an app cum online tool that comes for free. Students can keep it on their mobile phones without any trouble. You must know that this online application is specifically designed so that students can keep in communication between their teachers and parents. The tool also provides complete information about the campus on which you are studying to your parents. This is an extremely helpful app/tool as far as visitors are concerned. Information about students and their achievements are also added to this tool regularly.

Prezi 

This is an online platform that is perfect for college students. When in college, you have to prepare assignments and presentations regularly. Presenting a topic in the class can be fun and more professional if you use Prezi. This online presentation tool is very famous as it can help you get images and video content directly from Google. Presenting your topic with this tool is just like following a path, and one can easily engage the audience with this tool.

Evernote

The Evernote tool is another online program that can help you organize your day-to-day work related to your class and assignments. With this tool, one can make short notes in a remarkably interesting way. You can add text in this tool, but you can also help yourself in adding audio, video, and image content. If you want to collaborate with your mates to make an assignment, this is the right tool for you.

Grammarly

Grammarly is the perfect tool for college students. This is a writing tool that can help you create the best quality content. If you are preparing an essay, assignment, or even a research paper, you can help from this tool. You have to enter the content you have prepared in Grammarly, and it would scan it for all kinds of mistakes and errors. Grammarly does not only scans your work for mistakes, but it also provides substitute solutions for the errors.

Plagiarismdetector.net

This online plagiarism checker is perfect for students for checking duplication in their assignment work. The reason that this copyright checker is best for students is that it is not only reliable but is also free to use. You can use this plagiarism tool on any device and operating system as it is compatible with all of them. You need to enter your assignments in this free plagiarism checker, and it would tell you if there is any duplication found. You can not only find but also get rid of duplication with this plagiarism detector!

Trello

Trello is a management application cum tool that is also an important partner for students and teachers. This tool would help students manage their work and assignments in the specified time. This tool is best for students who are weak in managing their time and are always late submitting work. Trello can also build a proper and formal communication channel with teachers. A teacher can share work online with all the class using Trello.

Image finder by duplichecker

The image finder online tool is another free tool that should be used by students. One should know that adding images to your work or assignments can make them more presentable and attractive. The image finder tool can help you find the most relevant images for your content, and that too for free. This is a very friendly tool.

Quizlet

This online tool combines different sources, including note-taking, calendars, file uploading options, calculators, and even to-do-lists. This is a great tool for the pupil who wants to get all the important services in one place. You can also use the tool as a dictionary and as a translator to convert content to another language. It is available online for free, and you can also get its application version from the virtual stores for free. This tool can also be used to create and solve quizzes!

These online tools are very important for students of the modern age, and you must have them on your phone or in your bookmarks!