Write an article based on this "Read short stories. Read plays. Read poetry. Read non-fiction. Read popular fiction and non-fiction."
article: Short stories are an incredible genre all their own, and if you really want to be well-read, then you have to read the short stories of classic masters as well as some contemporary short stories. For short stories, it's more important to read the works of a particular author than a collection, so here is a list of classic short story writers as well as more contemporary writers that you have to check out: Classic short story masters (1600-1950): Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, Jorge Luis Borges, Kafka, Isaac Babel, John Updike, Katherine Mansfield, Eudora Welty, and Ray Bradbury. Contemporary short story masters: (1950-Present): Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Donald Barthelme, Tim 'O Brien, George Saunders, Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Diaz, Z.Z. Packer, Joyce Carol Oates, and Denis Johnson. Classic Short Story Collections: In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway (1925) A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor (1953) What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver (1981) Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson (1992) Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1999) If you want to be well-read, then you also have to read the works of classic playwrights. Though Shakespeare is the playwright you should know the best, he has been previously listed. However, there are other contemporary and not-so-contemporary plays that you should read if you want to call yourself well-read. Check these out: Everything by Shakespeare, including Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Much Ado About Nothing (1606, 1597, 1599) Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (1890, 1879) The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1895) Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand (1897) The Cherry Orchard and Uncle Vanya by Chekhov (1904, 1897) Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (1912) Our Town by Thornton Wilder (1938) Death of a Salesman and The Crucible by Arthur Miller (1949, 1953) Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1949) Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose (1954) A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (1947, 1944, 1955) No Exit by John-Paul Sartre (1944) Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence (1955) Long Day's Journey into Night and The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill (1956, 1946) A Raisin in the Son by Lorraine Hansberry (1959) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (1963) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard (1966) Betrayal by Harold Pinter (1978) Though the people around you may be less likely to talk about poetry unless you run in well-read circles, it's important to familiarize yourself with both classic and contemporary poets so that you can be part of the conversation. Here are some books to get you started: Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare (1609) Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667) The Complete Poems by John Keats (1815) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1855) The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot (1922) Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda (1924) E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904 -1962 by E. E. Cummings Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (1956) Ariel by Sylvia Plath (1965) The Complete Poems, 1927 - 1979 by Elizabeth Bishop Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966 - 1996 by Seamus Heaney If you really want to be well-read, then you can't just read stuff that people made up. You'll have to read some non-fiction too so that you know what's going on in the world of politics, history, popular science, and whatever the heck else is going on in the world. Here are the different types of non-fiction that you should familiarize yourself with: History Politics Magazines Memoirs Biographies The news If you really want to know what everyone is talking about, then you can't just sit around reading Virgil. You'll have to know what's going on in the modern world too, and to read those beach reads or plane reads or Oprah's book club has been talking about. How do you know what to read? Well, check out what people are reading on planes, beaches, etc., and also check out the New York Times bestseller list to check out which books are on the list. Here are some popular books that have all been published in the last twenty years that nearly everyone has read these days: "The Wheel of Time" series by Robert Jordan The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling Any novel by Nicholas Sparks Any novel by John Grisham The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Fear of Flying by Erica Jong Books by Bernard Cornwell The "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George R.R. Martin The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers Freakonomics by Steven Levitt Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Outliers and The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series by Stieg Larsson

Write an article based on this "Cock the revolver. Take aim. Place your finger gently on the trigger. Be aware of your breathing. Squeeze the trigger gently. Use your locked wrists and forearms to absorb the recoil."
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This step only applies to single-action revolvers where you must manually pull the hammer back to cock the gun before you can fire. With your hands still on the grip, use your thumb to pull the hammer back until the second click. The first click is only the half-cocked stage used for loading the revolver. Make sure the revolver is already pointed downrange at your target before even touching the hammer. You do not want an accident discharge going in any direction but down the shooting range. There are normally two sights on a firearm. A front sight and a rear sight. The front sight is a small, fixed "blade" and the rear sight looks like a valley or a notch. To aim the revolver, place the front blade on the target, and then place the front blade in between the "valley" back sights. The front sight alone ensures that you don't hit to the left of right of the target, and making sure that the rear sight is also in alignment ensures that you do not hit above or below the target. Once you line up the target, you may be tempted to shift your focus back on the target and away from the sights, but even small movements will have an effect on your aim. Keep your focus on the front sight even if it means the target beyond it is a tiny bit unfocused. With your grip right and the revolver pointed downrange toward the target, you can now place your dominant index finger inside the trigger guard. Touch the trigger but no not place any pressure on it. You want to use the pad of your index finger and not the crease of the first knuckle. Aiming any gun can be a slow, precise process, especially for people new to marksmanship. One of the biggest mistakes people make is to try to hold their breath as they aim and shoot. Keep breathing and stay aware of your breathing. You ideally want to squeeze the trigger at the natural pause between the end of your exhalation and the beginning of your next inhalation. You do not want to jerk your finger back on the trigger because this will surely mess up your precision aiming. Instead, gently squeeze the trigger with the pad of your index finger while keeping the rest of your grip steady and your focus on aiming. Don't panic about the recoil of the revolver as you squeeze. Your solid, firm grip on the gun handle and your arm strength will cushion most of the recoil. Tensing up as you know the gun is about to fire is a sure way to mess up your aim as the revolver shoots. With the proper grip on the revolver, the recoil will push slightly more back than up. Keep your wrists locked and forearms tensed, as you had them for your shooting stance, and you will naturally absorb most of the recoil. However, you will definitely still need to take aim again before firing another round.