INPUT ARTICLE: Article: You will need to paint in sections, allowing different areas time to dry. Drying typically takes 24 hours. For this reason, only mix colors that are needed in a specific area, to avoid having wasted, unused paint on your palette. The first colors to pour are those for line work and small detail. The last colors you will want to do are the background of the image, like the sky. You should buy oil paint; 37 ml tubes should be sufficient, unless your glass is very large. If you do not have the exact paint shades that you would like for your painting, begin by mixing paints to get your desired colors. Squeeze the amount needed (small for a small area, more for a large area) of a light color onto palette paper, wax paper, aluminum foil, or a mixing palette. Add a small dab of the darker primary color to the light color. Mix well with a palette knife or brush. Keep adding small amounts of dark or light until you get the desired shade. Once you have the desired color/shade, add gilding size to your paint to help it adhere to the glass. Because glass is non-porous, it does not take paint well. You must use gilding size to help the paint adhere to and dry quicker on the glass. Pour a small amount of size directly onto your already-mixed paint and begin blending it in. Add size as needed to larger paint piles. The desired ratio is 1/2 paint to 1/2 size. Blend thoroughly with a palette knife or paint brush. Separating the paints will help you avoid accidental color mixing.

SUMMARY: Decide which parts of the painting you will do that day. Get your desired paint colors ready. Blend quick dry gilding size with the paint. Pour the paint from your palette/mixing station into a small cap or cup.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Tell yourself how confident you are. You may not believe this initially, but the more you tell yourself "I am a confident person", the easier it will become to feel confident. Your subconscious will believe you are confident if it is told often enough. In fact, Carnegie Mellon University researchers found that self-affirmation stimulates a person's problem-solving ability and can even lead to increased grade point averages while in school. Share your affirmations with others by recognizing their talents. Tell someone, "I really agreed with your point" or, "I think that you made a good choice back there." If you notice a person's signature jewelry piece or perfume, make a nice, sincere statement about it, such as, "That bracelet is really stunning. Where did you get it?" Hold your head up high, keep your spine straight, and walk with purpose. As you walk also try to establish eye contact with others and smile as you do so. People tend to notice someone who emits an aura of self-awareness. They can sense that this person has self-worth, which is to be respected. Take up space. In a physical manifestation of conflict avoidance, it is easy to give in to the urge to compress your body as much as possible in the presence of others. Resist this urge. Instead, own your territory at the conference table, for example. One way to do this is to spread out your papers for reference and make gestures that occupy the space. It is really easy to fiddle with your phone to defray the awkwardness connected with social invisibility. Instead, force yourself to keep your phone put away. Make yourself interact with a set number of people (or give yourself a time limit) before you can pull it back out. Not everyone is equipped with the natural gifts of Robin Williams or other superb comic icons. However, this doesn't mean that you can't be funny. Try to figure out your own unique brand of humor. Do you like knock-knock jokes? Or, perhaps you favor biting social satire? Or, droll or dark commentaries? Take some time to explore different types of "funny" so that you can bring your own approach to social gatherings. Humorous anecdotes are great ice-breakers. Read one of the many online "fake news" sites and gather stories to discuss with others. This is a comfortable way to bring up touchy political issues while stimulating conversation. Other people will undoubtedly ask questions and you get to be the authority of the moment.

SUMMARY: Practice positive affirmation. Give compliments. Display strong body language. Avoid hiding behind your phone. Be funny!

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Racism is a system of advantage based on race. You have to remember your children are raised in a system that favors one person's race over another. For example, people of Middle Eastern descent are usually on many forms of the media for "terrorist" issues, while people of European descent are usually talking about their accomplishments, goals and are mainly politicians. Ask your children about who they think should be in power or who they like to see in power, and why? These mannerisms help racism continue and go unnoticed.

SUMMARY: Do not insult their intelligence by thinking that race is an adult issue. Take into consideration who (which race) is in power and who is most desired to be in power. Don't act like race doesn't matter. Ask what shows they watch and if they notice that one race is more represented in most of the shows they watch.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Mind maps allow you to place your thoughts on paper in a highly visual way. They are simply an organized drawing with the themes of your ideas highlighted through the placement on the page. They can be as messy or as structured as you like, and making multiple drafts may help with getting your ideas organized. The size varies based on how involved the project is. While a mind map for deciding a yes or no question may be less involved, the thought map for a research paper or a novel may be much more involved. This will give you room to think through your ideas in a visual way. There are also many online apps for mind mapping. Make sure the circle is big enough so that it will stand out from the subtopics, but not so big that you don't have much room to write your ideas around it. The topic itself should be as precise as you can make it, so that you can organize your thoughts more easily. Instead of using the topic "Global Warming," for instance, you might use "The Effects of Global Warming," or the "The Theories Surrounding Global Warming." These will be topics related to your main topic, but you can write more than you will use in this section. Doing so will help you select the most important parts of the thought map, as you see how the sections relate to each other. If you want to get really detailed with your topic, you may want to draw lines from the subtopics, and write details about the subtopics. This is where it is really useful to have larger paper or a poster board, so you'll have plenty of room to go into as much detail as you'd like. Writing out these details will help you organize your thoughts further as they will help you see the connections between subtopics.

SUMMARY:
Make a mind map, or visual organizer. Start with a large piece of paper or poster board. Write your overall idea or them in a circle in the middle of the paper or poster board. Draw lines leading from the circle, and write the ideas that stem from the main idea. Draw lines leading from the main lines to indicate subtopics.