All categories - 18 March 2007

2007-03-18 21:30:27 · 4 answers · asked by KrishanRam(Jitendra k) 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-03-18 21:30:20 · 16 answers · asked by seema s 1 in Singles & Dating

what subjects should i be considering, what does it take and what i have to do in the job

2007-03-18 21:30:08 · 2 answers · asked by NBA BALLER 2 in Careers & Employment

1. We were persuaded to buy the two gross. (change into DIRECT speech)

2. They waited till a little crowd gathered. ( change into NEGATIVE sentence)

2007-03-18 21:30:07 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

I seen so many girls zaogeng before, and most like to wear white panties... why????

2007-03-18 21:29:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

do you think that a insult?YOUR COMMENTS PLS.

2007-03-18 21:29:48 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Boxing

Wow! That's a lot of replys. Thanks guys. The thing is I have tried to talk to him about all of this. He just is'nt the talkitive type. He always tries to turn things around. Saying things like he has to work so i should stop complaining so much. The only things i complain about is him not being there for my daughter and myself. He told me today he signed up to go somewhere else. He already know how i feel completly. So it's just kinda hard waiting to see what he wants. It's hard to discuss these things when he's half way around the world. But I needed to give him the ultamitum cause I knew if I did'nt things would just remain the same. And I'm only 23 I dont need to wait around for him to come around. I just kinda feel like it's up to him. Either he wants to be with me or he does'nt. I just needed to vent and you guys are great! thanks for all you input.

2007-03-18 21:29:47 · 3 answers · asked by kayliee 1 in Marriage & Divorce

2007-03-18 21:29:44 · 11 answers · asked by marajjoya 2 in Other - Beauty & Style

X factor is cxxp and so will the new grease one too.

2007-03-18 21:29:42 · 23 answers · asked by welcome2whereyouare 4 in Television

2007-03-18 21:29:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Im going to the dentists today.

If it is infected, can he take it out there and then or will I have to go on anti-biotics first for a few days before he can take it out.

Dont think I can live like this for 2 or 3 more days and I have no good painkillers left.....

2007-03-18 21:29:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dental

now im no wierdo but due to the extreme lack of action in my life i have found it interesting watching others. in a cool way
does any1 know of any sites that have like a big brother cam in peoples houses or r there any codes i can put in my phone to listen to phone calls i mean come on u know if u hear the nieghboors arguing u want to listen!! i just like that rush of seeing or hearing people and they dont know they r being watched etc... that why i want to be an investigator for the cia or a private company! also any cool games on the web where i can solve crimes or commit 1 and try to hide. like on BBC where they had to train P.I.'s anyone please give me some great info id love it
thanx p.s. chicago is the greatest city in the world!!

2007-03-18 21:29:35 · 3 answers · asked by Lovely 3 in Other - Computers

I dont think this is normal..I live in NYC and was raised here, have been the victim of crimes in the past so maybe that has alot to do with it... Everyday i think about something horrible happening. Like when guys sit across from me on the train i wonder if they will masturbate or flash me when im not looking(its happened to me before) When I wait for the train , i walk to the middle of the platform to make sure no one pushes me into the tracks. When i walk home, i wonder if anyone is following me. When the door rings and they say its fedex, i dont believe them and i dont answer(i rather pick up the package than risk being attacked)

2007-03-18 21:28:59 · 4 answers · asked by Jetglam 1 in Psychology

I made my mum beakfas in bed and i got her loads of presents and a massive card! x x x what did u get ur mum? x x x

2007-03-18 21:28:55 · 8 answers · asked by michael716815 1 in Music

the whole family are annoying including the non stop barking dog and 2 kids who dont know how to leave peoples property alone and dont listen to their mum or dad

2007-03-18 21:28:52 · 16 answers · asked by shaz_collins06 2 in Etiquette

I beleive in vigourous exercise including weights and cardio exercises. Having done a naturopathy course, i also beleive in weekly fasting. The naturopathic idea is that fasting gives rest to the body. The large amount of energy used in digesting food is used by the body to repair itself during the fasting period
The problem is that fasting even for a day leads to loss of muscle mass.I beleive the body uses glycogen from the muscles before it uses the fat deposits.
I am looking for some way of combining fasting once a week with vigorous work out on all other days but avoiding loss of muscle mass during the fasting period.
I would be thankful for any ideas.

2007-03-18 21:28:35 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Diet & Fitness

2007-03-18 21:28:31 · 13 answers · asked by marajjoya 2 in Elections

2007-03-18 21:28:24 · 24 answers · asked by Pondlife ver 4 2 in Polls & Surveys

2007-03-18 21:28:16 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mathematics

2007-03-18 21:28:07 · 3 answers · asked by alaa a 1 in Other - Africa & Middle East

Give me your favorite paragraph or quote out of your favorite book, preferably paragraph, but whatever you want.

2007-03-18 21:27:56 · 10 answers · asked by ThisSongsForYou 3 in Books & Authors

2007-03-18 21:27:56 · 9 answers · asked by babo 1 in Other - Health

2007-03-18 21:27:53 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Movies

Most amazing movie since Sin City, in my opinion. What do you think?

2007-03-18 21:27:53 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Movies

2007-03-18 21:27:51 · 16 answers · asked by 1212 2 in Singles & Dating

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King’s most influential address delivered in 1963 promoted peace and equality. It was the dream that was thought to have united black and whites communities. The dream that made America aware of a serious problem that is still very well alive today and practiced in illiberal discriminations.
Race, racism, discrimination – are exemplary words that connect the division of the world: blacks and whites. This essay will delineate these racial issues and argue that the “belief”, of one race, particularly whites, are naturally superior amongst other races, particularly blacks, is not a false belief. This of course does not mean that racism does not exist. Racism is not just a doctrine; it’s a part of our nature. On that account, racism is a structure of power that is widely recognized. The white American race over the black African-American race I argue, have the same civil rights but are distributed unequally. This essay will provide examples of racism from geographic isolation, education, employment, hurricane Katrina, and literature.
Historically, blacks have faced discrimination through limitless physical cruelty and abuse. Blacks have faced discrimination in varied forms to a much greater extent then other ethnic groups. Much of the discrimination African Americans have experienced is a direct result of slavery. Today blacks are considered a minority due to a long running racial tension dominated by the white race in the United States. As a concept, the white race has become significant in relation to other groups. Thus, white supremacy evolved and is often associated with anti-black racism contains varying degrees of racism which differentiates blacks in a significant isolationism. These factors include geographic isolation, employment and education in which deprives a black American and other minorities of opportunities opposed to a white American. Blacks and other minorities populate many of the nations economically poor urban centers predominantly.
The education African Americans lags behind those of U.S. ethic groups are reflected by test scores, grades, urban high school graduation rates, rates of disciplinary action, and rates of conferral of undergraduate degrees. Blacks lag behind whites in 2000 by nearly a factor of two. Black and Hispanic high school students enrolled in Advanced Placement (AP) courses at approximately half the rate of white students. U.S. Cenus surveys showed that by 1999, eighty-nine percent of African Americans had completed high school, lagging only slightly behind ninety-four percent of whites. The ratio of white Americans to completed four years of college in 1998 was twenty-nine percent, while African Americans at about half the rate of whites at just fourteen percent. Inner city public schools and other centers of poverty have failed to produce literate learners. This achievement gap proves the issue of low-income/minority education in the United States. Thus, Blacks and Hispanic students from poor families perform worse in school then their well of white and Asian peers.
Blacks in the United States face a far dire situation that is portrayed by common employment. According to 1999 U.S. Department of Labor statistics blacks are almost twice as likely as whites to be unemployed. In 1999, the median income of African Americans families was $33,255 compared to $53,356 of whites. Blacks suffer disproportionately from job loss and underemployment. Why? Academic failure is the outcome of unemployment. Nationwide, the September 2004 unemployment rate for blacks was 10.3 percent while whites were unemployed at the rate of 4.7 percent.
There are various factors lying behind the low-test scores and low income in African American communities. One of the factors is that the whole region is poor. Also employee discrimination from racist thinkers affects a minority. A poll commissioned by the national conference, a workplace diversity organization, found that sixty-three percent of whites thought blacks have equal opportunity to work anywhere, whereas eighty percent of African Americans felt they do not. African Americans endure many struggles and although inequalities still exist, many blacks have risen up to the middle classes fighting for equality. Not so long ago, racism was the explicit ideology. Today, on the other hand, it is eschewed by almost every prominent figure of note. Today virtually no one wants to be known as a white supremacist.
Yet, when a category five hurricane hit New Orleans in August 2005, Katrina, unleashed a devastation and criticism that split racial lines. The government response to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts to the storms aftermath were delayed and focused as race as a factor in problems with the federal response. Those remained behind were trapped in the rising waters in New Orleans were overwhelmingly black and visibly poor. A poll found that six in ten blacks interviewed said the federal government was slow in rescuing victims after Katrina because many of the people were black. But only about one in eight white respondents shared that view.
“What Katrina Teaches About the Meaning of Racism” an essay by Nils Gilman argues that white and blacks disagree about the role of race in Hurricane Katrina’s impact due to “a public disagreement in the United States about the meaning of racism itself. The Fundamental divide in the debate over racism in the United States today is between those who regard racism as essentially a question of individual psychology versus those were consider it a social structural phenomenon” Gilman believes that most whites, and the political right, define racism as an equivalent to racial prejudice. For example, prejudice against others because of their “supposed racial characteristics.” Blacks disagree with whites about whether race influenced the failure to adequately plan for and those left behind in New Orleans because blacks view the issue from the perspective of structural racism. This form of racial discrimination is perpetuated through unconscious social habits that originate from intentional conscious discrimination. Social patterns persist in this country that stem from old conscious racial discrimination and determine factors including where people live, as evidenced by the racial segregation present in New Orleans’s neighborhoods pre-Katrina. Gilman uses the example of all-white country club to illustrate the operation of this more subversive type of racism. Moreover, the scandal-plagued down to former senator of Illinois, Carol Mosley Braun, mentions in the International Herald Tribune, “Those who survive [Katrina] will have stories no less chilling then the stories passed down the generations from survivors who fled the night riders in the late 1800s”- Braun compared the government response to Katrina to anti-black lynching riots during Reconstruction. The human sufferings from Hurricane Katrina symbolized that race is an issue.
Redressing the injustices caused by our nation’s historic discrimination against people of color and for leveling what has been an unequal playing field, the blacks, have always been subjugated to slavery. Centuries long legacy of racism has not been eradicated despite the gains made during the civil rights era and federal laws there is still much hatred between whites and blacks.
Mark Twain attacked these issues of racism and slavery in the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain wrote the novel after slavery was abolished and set the novel when slavery was still considered a fact of life, to illustrate that by Twain’s time things had not necessarily gotten much better for blacks. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn sent a message to many Americans and the rest of the world that slavery should not be continued in the United States. Twain used historical facts and data to make this story realistic. There are many points in the novel where Twain through his character Huck, voices his extreme opposition to slavery and racism.
The racist and hateful contempt which existed at the time and presented in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is in many ways present. But, it is vital for the reader and a person to recognize these ideas as society’s and to recognize that Twain throughout the novel disputes these ideas. Twain writes and brings out in the open the ugliness of society and causes the reader to challenge the original description of a black, enslaved being. In this subtle manner, he creates not an apology for slavery but a challenge to it. “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn”, American author Ernest Hemingway is said that the book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn offers insights into American society and into people in general. An expert from the New York Times in 1982, "The people whom Huck and Jim encounter on the Mississippi" Russell Baker said, "are drunkards, murderers, bullies, swindlers, lynchers, thieves, liars, frauds, child abusers, numskulls, hypocrites, windbags and traders in human flesh. All are white. The one man of honor in this phantasmagoria is '****** Jim,' as Twain called him to emphasize the irony of a society in which the only true gentleman was held beneath contempt."

2007-03-18 21:27:41 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

The intel advert on tv which starts with a girl dancing and then a guy dancing who is wearing a green sweater, does anyone know where you can get the green sweater. Have seen similar in stores but not that shade, any ideas as hubby would like one. Thanks to all in advance.

2007-03-18 21:27:34 · 3 answers · asked by Patsyanne 4 in Television

legislation towards individuals and known college students that travel to popular beach sites.Is it not bad enough that its residing residents have to pay these extra taxes as well as the tourist instead of raising taxes for all , in concerns of individual travel to states like Florida and California ????????????

2007-03-18 21:27:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

I'm a really straight forward kind of girl, but I've been working on this group project, and I am starting to like one of the guys in the group. I've never had a problem flirting except when I had to work w/ the person. The only time I see him is during class & when we work on the project (which ends tomorrow) but there were always other people around, & I've been trying to keep it professional.
I've caught him staring at me a few times, & he smiles at me a lot. I know that sounds stupid/silly, but I caught him looking at me a LOT. I don't know if he's just being friendly, or he's actually interested. I always made sure to clearly smile back, but w/ a friendly neutral smile since I don't know if he likes me.
After the project I won't have a reason to talk to him again, at ALL. I have a few months before the end of the semester. I sit next to him. I know he's single. What can I do to let him know I am interested? Should I let him know? IS he interested in me? How can I tell he likes me?

2007-03-18 21:27:14 · 12 answers · asked by cindy 2 in Singles & Dating

one of my favorite movies ever. Daft Punk is a god or three. or maybe just two :3

I showed it to my nieces 4 and 3 and they keep asking to see it again

2007-03-18 21:26:57 · 4 answers · asked by Wren Tagair 3 in Polls & Surveys