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question:You are a helpful assistant, who always provide explanation. Think like you are answering to a five year old. What is a one-sentence summary of the following article? . Now that you know what content you want to include in your autobiography, think about how you want to structure your book. Like any great book, your autobiography needs a great plot. Work with the material you have to craft an interesting story that builds toward a climax and ultimately resolves. Create a narrative arc by organizing and filling out your written memories and anecdotes so that they flow together logically. What's your central conflict? What's the biggest obstacle life presented that took years to overcome or come to terms with? Maybe it's an illness you were diagnosed with at an early age, a relationship wrought with turmoil, a series of career setbacks, a goal you worked for decades to achieve, or any other number of things. Look to your favorite books and movies for more examples of conflicts. Build tension and suspense. Structure the narrative so that you have a series of stories leading up to the climax of the conflict. If your central conflict is trying to reach the goal of competing in the Olympics for skiing, lead up to it with stories of small successes and plenty of failures. You want your readers to ask, will she make it? Can he do it? What's going to happen next? Have a climax. You'll get to the point in your story when it's time for the conflict to come to a head. The day of the big competition has arrived, a showdown happens with your worst enemy, your gambling habit gets the better of you and you lose all your money - you get the picture. End with a resolution. Most autobiographies have happy endings because the person writing the story lived to tell the tale - and hopefully get it published. Even if your ending isn't cheerful, it should be deeply satisfying. You somehow accomplished your goal or won the day. Even if you lost, you came to terms with it and gained wisdom. You could do a straightforward chronology of your life, beginning with your birth and ending in the present, but mixing up the chronology can make the story more interesting. You could frame the entire autobiography with reflections from the present, telling your story through a series of flashbacks. You could begin the story with a poignant moment from your childhood, go backward to tell the story of your heritage, move forward to your college years, and launch into the story of your career, with anecdotes from your childhood sprinkled in for comic relief. Use the major themes of your life as a way to tie stories together, connecting your past and your present. Aside from the central conflict, what themes have followed you throughout your life? A fondness for certain holidays, your fascination with a certain place that you visited over and over, a certain type of guy you've always fallen for, a rich spiritual life you fall back on again and again. Bring up the themes every so often to help form a cohesive picture of your life. You're chronicling your life lessons, but what have you learned from them? Relay your intentions, desires, feelings of loss, feelings of joy, the wisdom you've gained, and other inner thoughts from time to time throughout the book. Taking a step back from the action of the story to reflect on what it all means is a good way to add depth to your autobiography. Chapters are useful because they allow you to move on from discussing certain life periods or events. There's a reason we have the expression that we've "closed a chapter" or "opened a new chapter" in life, and it's even more applicable when discussing an autobiography. Chapter breaks allow you to skip forward 10 years, go back in time, or start describing a new theme without jarring the reader too much. Consider ending chapters on a poignant or suspenseful note, so people can't wait to start the next one. The beginnings of chapters are a good place to take a bird's eye view of your past, describe the setting of a place, and set the tone for what's to come.
answer:This article explains how to create a captivating autobiography by crafting an interesting story with a clear central conflict, using a narrative arc, building tension, having a climax and a satisfying resolution, while also considering different ways to organize chronology and including themes and life lessons throughout the book.
question:You are an AI assistant, who knows every language and how to translate one language to another. Given a task, you explain in simple steps what the task is asking, any guidelines that it provides. You solve the task and show how you used the guidelines to solve the task. Teacher:In this task you will be given a list of integers. You should round each integer to the nearest tens place. That means you should round the number to the nearest multiple of 10. Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: [818, -778, -626] Student:
answer:Yes, I understand the problem. We are given a list of integers and we need to round each integer to the nearest tens place (nearest multiple of 10). Here is the list of integers we have: [818, -778, -626] Step 1: Identify the nearest multiples of 10 for each integer. 818 -> 810 and 820 -778 -> -780 and -770 -626 -> -620 and -630 Step 2: Determine the nearest multiple of 10 for each integer. 818 -> 820 (because 818 is closer to 820 than to 810) -778 -> -780 (because -778 is closer to -780 than to -770) -626 -> -630 (because -626 is closer to -630 than to -620) Step 3: Replace the original integers with their nearest multiples of 10. The final list after rounding to the nearest tens place is: [820, -780, -630] So, the solution is [820, -780, -630].
question:You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer. Curtis Lee Hanson (March 24, 1945 – September 20, 2016) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His directing work included the psychological thriller "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" (1992), the neo-noir crime film "L.A. Confidential" (1997), the comedy "Wonder Boys" (2000), the hip hop drama "8 Mile" (2002), and the romantic comedy-drama "In Her Shoes" (2005). Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true? Curtis Lee Hanson has lived in America for 2016 years.
answer:No, we cannot conclude that Curtis Lee Hanson has lived in America for 2016 years based on the given paragraph. The paragraph states that Curtis Lee Hanson was born on March 24, 1945, and passed away on September 20, 2016. This means he has lived for approximately 71 years, not 2016 years.
question:You are a helpful assistant, who always provide explanation. Think like you are answering to a five year old. Do my short-shorts make you feel weird about your masculinity? Good, I'm glad I was walking down the street the other day when two men in a car came to a screeching stop just to yell at me. And while usually I welcome anytime I can stop traffic and even love a good catcall – and will respectfully deliver one back to a man– this time, it wasn’t particularly flattering “Boys shouldn’t wear short-shorts! No!” one of the men screamed. My first thought was: These aren’t even my short ones! Since then, I’ve been yelled at a few more times about my shorts, most recently by a woman in a passenger seat of a van who angrily called my khaki shorts “hot pants”. (I couldn’t tell if her anger was at the shorts or because I had jaywalked.) Celebrity stylist Aaron Gray – who was recently anointed the “gay bestie” to Real Housewives of Atlanta star Nene Leakes – told me that he has experienced street harassment for as long as he can remember. “I once had a man throw a glass bottle at me – not because I was wearing short-shorts, but because my legs looked too feminine in them and he thought I was a girl,” he said. “Which says more about him and the issues he had with sexuality,” he continued. I have a feeling that the nastiness will only continue for me as the summer gets warmer, because I love short-shorts, and other people seem to get quite hot under the collar when they see me in them. But why are people so angry about my short-shorts when there are plenty of men around in outfits that are legitimate eyesores? Perhaps they’re just afraid of what my ability to blithely wear them says about what’s supposedly too “girly” for men to do. Because, in a world in which the male body is currently being celebrated in so many forms – guys are now being applauded for “Dad Bod” (which gay men have long known as “bears”) – showing a little leg shouldn’t get anyone admonished from on the street, especially when it’s not as though I invented short-shorts. In early 20th century, shorts emerged exclusively as attire for boys: boys in “short trousers”, instead of knickerbockers, began appearing in photos in the 1920s. Back then, when boys reached the age of 13, they transitioned into pants as sign of maturity. By the 1930’s, shorts became something everyone could wear for casual comfort – women included – and for very specific events. But there wasn’t an explosion of men’s short-shorts until the 1960s – when they were popularized by the short-shorts of basketball uniforms, with three-inch [7.6cm] inseams. Basketball shorts (and men’s shorts) stayed short until the Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan requested otherwise in the 1980s: he requested that the Bull’s manufacturer, Champion, drop his inseam because he had a habit of tugging on his shorts while playing defense. Other basketball players followed suit and, today, we commonly see basketball shorts four inches [10cm] below the knee (or lower). And as basketball shorts got longer, so did those in society at large: the 1980s prep-style mirrored the shorts of 1950s tennis courts; once the 1990s hit, those hemlines dropped. Images of skateboarders and rappers in baggy shorts – cargo shorts even – dominated the media until last year. Last year, the hemline of shorts began to rise above the knee and flirt with the male “private parts”: immediately anti-men’s shorts sentiments exploded across the internet debating whether men should wear short-shorts, or even shorts at all. Even famed photographer Annie Lebowitz chimed in and said that men in shorts were “repulsive”, and that shorts made men look like children, harkening back to the origins of the apparel. Their hate couldn’t stop us short-shorts lovers. But I wanted to understand why they felt it. “I never thought about it until this interview,” Miss J Alexander told me when I asked him how short is too short for shorts. “How short is the short-short?” Alexander, who came to fame as a runway coach and judge on the television show America’s Next Top Model and coached the likes of supermodel Naomi Campbell, is known for showing off his own incredible set of legs. “Short-shorts for the city? Perhaps no,” he continued – echoing comments made by Tom Ford in a 2011 interview. “But short-shorts for the country side or Fire Island? Yes! Yes!” Alexander noted that he will regularly “serve a pair of legs” in shorts, but has never had someone yell at him on the streets about it – but thinks that the lack of harassment might have to do with the “shock” of seeing someone 6’5” [1.96m] walking down the street so unapologetically. When I asked him why someone would feel so uncomfortable that they would yell at me about my shorts, he told me that maybe it’s a “gender thing.” “Women in mini skirts and daisy dukes are the norm in society through the eyes of men, but a man wearing shorts shocks men.” Like Alexander, celebrity stylist Gray thinks any backlash against men’s short-shorts is really about gender and even anxiety around the accuser’s sexuality. “The idea that men should only wear pants is such a rigid and old-fashioned way of thinking,” Gray told me. “Which is why I think it’s so important that we have this new generation of creative thinkers in the public eye like Jaden Smith, and even Kanye West to some extent, who seek to challenge the norm and step outside of the boxes they’ve been forced into.” Men are stepping out of their gendered fashion box more than ever – and doing so in ways that are even more dramatic than wearing shorts with a three-inch [7.6cm] inseam. But even celebrities like West and Smith have faced backlash for playing with gendered dress expectations because doing so is scary to many men who cling to traditional tropes of masculinity. It’s maybe even scarier when heterosexual men do it than when men like Alexander, Gray or I go against gender rules – but all of us are starting to reimagine what being a man actually means. Me doing something “feminine” is a threat because it challenges old ideas of what it means to be a man – ideas that need to be challenged, if not discarded like last season’s ugly, outdated cargo shorts. In the end, I showed Alexander a picture of myself in the shorts I wore that caused a stir. “You have a healthy ass and a pair of thighs to fill out a pair of shorts and give them an extra fit,” he said. “And that perhaps can be a visual threat.” If my ass can threaten outdated ideas of masculinity, then prepare yourselves for a long summer, sexists: I’m wearing my short-shorts everywhere. Including to a city near you. What was this article about?
answer:This article is about a person sharing their experience of wearing short-shorts and the reactions they received from people around them, including negative comments and even harassment. The author talks about the history of shorts, how they became popular for men, and the changes in length over time. They also discuss how society's views on gender and clothing have evolved, with more men defying traditional expectations of masculinity by embracing feminine styles. Ultimately, the author encourages others to be comfortable with their fashion choices and not let other people's opinions dictate how they express themselves.