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Susan Rice And Lots Of Other People Thought Chinua Achebe Died Today
The acclaimed Nigerian author died on March 21, 2013. But his New York Times obit was widely shared on social media on the two year anniversary of death – leading many to believe he died today .
Chinua Achebe, internationally acclaimed Nigerian author, died on March 21, 2013 and was buried in his hometown of Ogidi that May.
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But United States National Security Advisor Susan Rice – and many others – fell prey to a social media re-mourning of Achebe, in large part due to the circulation of his New York Times obituary from two years ago.
Rice on Monday said Achebe died and was buried in his native village today – March 23, 2015.
In two now-deleted tweets Rice paid her respects to Achebe calling today "a somber day in Nigeria."
She called Achebe a "a giant of African lit." She added that his works had left "a lasting impression on me and my gen."
Here's What Every Twentysomething Needs To Know About Building Credit
Picture yourself in a big house with an amazing car. It starts with your credit score.
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Know how your credit score works.
Building and maintaining a good credit score honestly isn't that complicated, once you know how it's calculated. Your credit score is what will allow you to rent an apartment, get a credit card, and of course, save you serious cash when you get a loan for a house. The score goes from 300 to 850, and there are five parts:
1. Payment history (35% of score): How on time you are with payments for your credit card and other loans. Pay on time, your score will go up big.
2. Amounts owed (30% of score): How much you owe versus how much credit you have. So if you have a $1000 limit on your credit card and only owe $50, that's helping your score take off.
3. Length of credit history (15%) of score): How long your accounts have been open, so simply just having a credit card in your wallet will help your score reach new highs.
4. Types of credit in use (10% of score): The types of credit you have in use, like credit cards, and other loans like student loans. So if you've been working to pay off that Sallie Mae loan, you can at least know that's it's helping your score.
5. New credit (10% of score): How many new accounts you have open. Your score takes a temporary hit every time you open a new credit card, but it falls off in a year and your score bounces back.
It breaks down like this: Always pay your credit cards and loans, and don't see your credit card as a ticket to shopping sprees. Responsibility will have your score will go up in no time, and you'll save money when you want that new ride or big house.
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Start with just one credit card to build your credit.
While it seems like a great idea to have a bunch credit cards ready to go for a Saturday at American Apparel or the Nike Store, the start to a great credit score begins with using one — and only one — card. Starting with one card and paying it off well will build your score for future credit card applications and loans, and you're just less likely to accidentally miss payments or go beyond your available credit limits.
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Always avoid store credit cards.
It can be pretty tempting to sign up for a store credit card when you know you can get that $10 reward with your Victoria's Secret haul or 15% off at Macy's, but you should avoid them if there's any chance you won't remember or be able to pay off your balance every month. Those store cards carry really high interest rates and fees, which can turn that $50 coat into a $200 one in no time.
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Can You Tell If These Children's Books Are Real Or Fake?
The (weird) library is open.
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Which John Green Novel Are You?
“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?” Like this quiz.
"Insurgent" Is Annoyingly Contradictory
If this is a franchise about fighting for equality, why is its heroine’s specialness all about the way she was born?
Theo James and Shailene Woodley in Insurgent
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Like most dystopian YA protagonists, Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley), the heroine of the Divergent film franchise, is fighting to save her world.
It's a world that, as outlined out in Veronica Roth's trilogy of books on which the movies are based, is highly regimented but conceptually fuzzy. Everyone has been divvied up into five factions — Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless, and Erudite — based on their personality types, but also maybe on biological factors as well? Children are shuffled off for testing to determine their faction/personality type when they turn 16, though they're allowed to pick whichever faction most appeals to them at the big Choosing Ceremony — it's a huge decision, given that factional allegiance takes precedent over family ties. And by the sequel, Insurgent, which is now in theaters, people are able to whip out a scanner to read someone's makeup, which makes you wonder about the point of the whole simulation/ceremony aspect to begin with.
So the faction system, despite helping maintain peace, clearly sucks, placing the surviving members of society into one of five improbable virtuous boxes, with the remnants consigned to the outcast Factionless. Divergent and Insurgent have revolution on their mind, though it bubbles up indirectly, as Tris and her boyfriend Four (Theo James) discover a scheme in which some evil Erudites try to overthrow Abnegation in order to take control of the government. In Insurgent, Tris, now on the run, is initially only focused on revenge, though it's clear there are larger changes in the works. Meeting with Evelyn (Naomi Watts), the Factionless head (and Four's estranged mother), Tris is entreated to help "put an end to a system that says one group is more deserving than another."
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Are You As Well Read As Daria Morgendorffer?
The sardonic teen has been spotted with quite a few books over the years. How many of them have you read?
