Article: If an individual author is listed for the web page you want to cite, type their last name first, followed by a comma, then their first name. Place a period at the end of the name. Example: Claymore, Crystal. If no individual author is listed, but the website is produced by a government agency, organization, or business, use that name as the author. For example, if you're using a CDC web page as a source, you would list the author as "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." If the specific web page has a title, type it after the author's name. Use title case, capitalizing the first word and all nouns, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives, and verbs. Enclose the title in double quotation marks, placing a period at the end of the title, inside the closing quotation marks. Example: Claymore, Crystal. "Best-Kept Secrets for Amazing Cupcake Frosting." Type the name of the website as a whole in title case, followed by a comma. Use the capitalization and spacing schemes the website uses if they are proprietary (such as "wikiHow" or "WebMD") If there is a publication date for the web page, list it in day-month-year format, abbreviating all months with names longer than 4 letters. Place a comma after the date of publication. Example: Claymore, Crystal. "Best-Kept Secrets for Amazing Cupcake Frosting." Crystal's Cupcakes, 24 Sept. 2018, Copy the URL for the web page and paste it into your entry, leaving off the "http://" part. Place a period at the end of the URL. Make sure the URL you use is a permalink for the information you're citing. If the URL is excessively long, talk to your instructor or supervisor about using a shortened URL. Example: Claymore, Crystal. "Best-Kept Secrets for Amazing Cupcake Frosting." Crystal's Cupcakes, 24 Sept. 2018, www.crystalscupcakes.com/amazing-frosting. Often, a web page won't have a particular publication date. If that happens for a page you want to cite, add the word "Accessed" after the URL and include the date you last accessed the page in day-month-year format. Abbreviate all months with names that have more than 4 letters. Place a period at the end of the date. Example: Claymore, Crystal. "Best-Kept Secrets for Amazing Cupcake Frosting." Crystal's Cupcakes, www.crystalscupcakes.com/amazing-frosting. Accessed 14 Feb. 2019. An MLA parenthetical citation typically includes the author's last name and the page number where the quoted or paraphrased information can be found. Since websites don't have page numbers, simply include the author's last name in the parenthetical, or the title of the web page if there is no author. Place your parenthetical inside the closing punctuation for the sentence. For example, you might write: "The best cupcake frosting techniques are often the least intuitive (Claymore)." If you include the author's name in your text, there's no need for a parenthetical citation. For example, you might write: "Award-winning baker Crystal Claymore wasn't afraid to give away all her secrets, sharing her favorite frosting techniques on her website."
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Start your Works Cited entry with the author's name, if provided. Provide the title of the page in double quotation marks. Give the name of the website in italics followed by the date of publication. Include the URL for the web page. Close with your date of access if there was no date of publication. Place a parenthetical citation after referencing the website in your text.
Article: Going for a walk outdoors can improve your mood quickly. It breaks you out of your current environment, which can "shock" your senses into a new mood. It gives you a little exercise, which can improve your mood. Additionally, being outdoors in nature has been shown to improve people's moods. Once you are outdoors, try to focus on the nature things: notice any animals, insects, or flowers you don't normally notice. Observe other people interacting with nature. Watch the surface of a pond ripple. Before you know it, you may have forgotten all about your bad mood. Recent studies have shown that moods expressed on social media can be contagious. Reading your friends' negative statuses could be affecting your mood more than you realize. Additionally, comparing your own life to your perception of acquaintances' lives based on social media posts can affect your self-esteem negatively. If you are sitting in fluorescent lights, try turning them off and working by a dimmer lamp for a while. If it's dark where you are, try exposing yourself to brighter light. The change of lighting can help make your environment feel different, which might improve your mood. If you are able to, try getting natural light. Open the blinds or, better yet, a window and get some fresh air as well. Your music choice depends on your personal preferences. Some find it soothing to listen to music that matches their emotions (ie: sad music if they feel sad, angry music if they feel angry, etc) and then adjust to happier music as their mood improves. Others find that listening to uplifting music when they feel sad can elevate their mood. You may wish to try both methods to determine what works best for you.
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Take a walk outside. Unplug from social media. Change the lighting. Listen to music.
Article: Peel the carrots. For a hearty stew, make sure they are about 1 inch (2.5cm) in size. Larger vegetables will keep their consistency better when heated. Consider peeling and cubing four small potatoes if you want an even heartier stew. You could also use turnips, parsnips or rutabagas in place of potatoes. Loosen the browned lamb bits from the bottom of the pan as you heat the vegetables.
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Trim the ends off the celery, onions and carrots. Chop the celery stalks, carrots and onions into rough sections. Add the chopped fresh rosemary and fresh thyme. Fry the vegetables and spices for 10 minutes.