Arts & Humanities - 4 September 2006

In time travel theory, there is an unknown aspect of the grandfather paradox. If a person does anything that will affect the future, some force in nature will stop them. The force comes within a hair’s breadth of destroying humanity when a comet brings a new and unstoppable plague to Earth. The President makes a choice that will either save Earth’s inhabitants, or annihilate them. At a secret military academy, ten cadets are selected to travel to the future of Earth’s sister planet, in the hope that planet has found a cure for the plague. The mission’s leader knows that past time travel risks encountering time eliminators: entities that will absorb him and his crew out of existence before their actions can literally reset the universal timeline. But when he learns that his fiancé was killed in a contract hit, he’s determined to go back in time and prevent her death, even if it risks the destruction of the current Earth.

2006-09-04 09:47:27 · 4 answers · asked by buddhafuldreamer 3 in Books & Authors

2006-09-04 09:43:06 · 8 answers · asked by soccer dork 1 in History

2006-09-04 09:41:56 · 6 answers · asked by MzMarquesHouston_225 1 in Drawing & Illustration

I can understand how people cam to have last names such as Solomon, Johnson, Davison, Howard, Smith, Cobbler, Parish, etc. but why colors?

2006-09-04 09:40:58 · 12 answers · asked by ? 4 in History

“Have you met her?”
“No, of course not. Dad’s waiting until the rehearsal dinner to introduce her. He’s just doing it to get under Mom’s skin.” Virginia Woolf Llewellyn, twenty-six, a newly-minted psychiatrist who poured her paycheck right back into the practice, was driving over the Tobin Bridge with her cell phone clamped between her shoulder and her ear.
“Don’t be ridiculous. He’s doing it to show off in front of everyone we know.”
“He’s trying to hijack the one day- the two days- when he isn’t the absolute dictator of the family. He’s always been like this, and now he’s having some kind of delayed reaction to the divorce, and some weird teenage rebellion thing coming about forty years late.”
Virginia was the oldest child, and of the four Llewellyn children she’d wanted the most to please her parents, and at the same time had wanted the most to escape the think tank that was the Llewellyn household. She was blond, with serious grey eyes and almost imperceptible tightness around her eyes that came of too many all-nighters at Brandeis. An engagement ring sparkled on her left hand, which was clutching the steering wheel perhaps a little tightly.
“Please, please, please don’t bust out the Freud. It’s four in the morning for Christ’s sake. I wish you’d take the time difference into account, Ginny.”
“I’m sorry- I just thought you’d want to know that our father is running around with a woman young enough to be our sister, and that he’s planning on bringing her with him to my wedding, and allowing everyone we’ve ever known to ridicule him, in public, no less, and also to tell you that you need to get your shoes dyed sea-foam green, and that I’m picking you up at Logan at four-thirty tomorrow and I need the gate number.”
“Seven.’
“What?”
“The gate number. It’s seven.”


It was not entirely true that Melinda Freidman was young enough to be Ginny and Dot’s sister. She was thirty-six, and was nine years old when Frank Llewellyn married his first wife. So, while she was too old to be his daughter she was definitely too young to be anything other than a polite acquaintance; and Melinda ( Lindy, as everyone called her) and Frank were most certainly beyond being polite acquaintances.

2006-09-04 09:40:57 · 5 answers · asked by Ella S 3 in Books & Authors

My daughter is goin fancy dress as Dorothy n needs ruby slippers. I have pink sparkley glitter pumps made of plastic with pink glitter on them. Whats best way to make them RED and glittery? Types of paint? Glue and glitter? Would glitter on them show through paint? What would work best? Thanks xx

2006-09-04 09:40:44 · 21 answers · asked by princess s 2 in Painting

Like, in the time of the man that takes care to own multiple abilities and interests?

According to Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt Of The Masses is over. That either means that the masses won, or that they lost. Or a combination of both. The revolt of the masses took place when the masses decided to enjoy the life that scientist and thinkers made possible (industrial revolution, etc.), without paying due respect to those smart men. And so everybody became a philosopher, a scientist, etc. without actually taking care to lear something about those disciplines.

The solution may be what we are already living. Men practicing the greatest sport that there is: becoming somebody else in their imaginition if they feel like it, but with respect and doing it the best that they can.

2006-09-04 09:39:01 · 4 answers · asked by OrtegaFollower 2 in Philosophy

2006-09-04 09:36:45 · 9 answers · asked by tizzac 2 in Books & Authors

It sounds like the word tree.

2006-09-04 09:33:59 · 18 answers · asked by jess_edmonson 1 in Other - Visual Arts

2006-09-04 09:33:16 · 8 answers · asked by hoopz 1 in Drawing & Illustration

2006-09-04 09:30:44 · 13 answers · asked by hoopz 1 in Drawing & Illustration

2006-09-04 09:29:33 · 12 answers · asked by hoopz 1 in Painting

2006-09-04 09:27:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

2006-09-04 09:27:17 · 8 answers · asked by franco_vip00 1 in Philosophy

How does the author uses time to effect the entire play?

2006-09-04 09:27:16 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

He is father of James Hale "of Exeter" who was born about 1827 who married Mary AnnEames in Wilmington, Ma. 14 May 1746. And settled there. Have not been able to track James and Elizabeth Hale other than having them listed on the death certificate o f the son James who died 1 Niv 1898. Have many Maine and Mass. V.R. but, no access to N.H. Thank you in advance

2006-09-04 09:25:50 · 2 answers · asked by Blessing B 1 in Genealogy

2006-09-04 09:21:31 · 1 answers · asked by heshootshescores3 4 in Theater & Acting

Einstein was voted as the most influential figure of the last century, and was probably the most intelligent at one point, or maybe Tesla was, but right now, who has got all the answers?

2006-09-04 09:11:25 · 29 answers · asked by true_searcher 2 in Philosophy

how can you get jobs to act on tv ? like how do you get an agent then how do u find auditions for shows or movies on disney, nickelodeon, etc. ???????

please help me !

2006-09-04 09:10:53 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Theater & Acting

-What book did you find funniest? (A Confederacy of Dunces for me)

-What book, or character within a book do you identify with the most? (Mine is The Adventures of Augie March)

-What is your favorite non-fiction book? (Mine's a tie between Into Thin Air and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man)

2006-09-04 09:09:08 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

The French and Indian War was lost by the French to the British. The Treaty of Paris gave the British all the land in N. America east of the Mississippi River, all through Canada. Spain got the lands west of the Mississippi...How did that happen, and how did the French get Louisiana back in time to sell the Louisiana purchase back to the US in 1806?

2006-09-04 09:08:47 · 6 answers · asked by BlueDart 2 in History

2006-09-04 09:08:41 · 37 answers · asked by Mr_Sin666 1 in Books & Authors

i have always wonders what the color looked like. can you explain it it or show me a pic?

2006-09-04 09:07:42 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Painting

i'm not sure so i need to be sure.

2006-09-04 09:03:24 · 2 answers · asked by amadala02 3 in Theater & Acting

Stalin hijacked Lenin's revolution. China is a capitalist oligrachy. Gramsci was right. Real communism has never really been tried. Wouldn't now be another good time to start trying? Comrades?

2006-09-04 09:01:03 · 15 answers · asked by Isis 7 in Philosophy

all i want is at least people to talk to me, and not finding me boring.
like last year, i admit it i was a punk , almost a nerd, and i was so boring.
i couldn't talk to any girls, thinking i don't need to.
what can i do to gain respect and have many friends at school?

2006-09-04 08:56:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

2006-09-04 08:49:52 · 4 answers · asked by missclarabelle 1 in Other - Visual Arts

2006-09-04 08:48:28 · 3 answers · asked by stlllllllll 1 in Philosophy

2006-09-04 08:40:31 · 27 answers · asked by Leslie B 1 in History

what is the reasoning for searching for a beginning of the universe or the last crunch or bang or the one before that and so on, why must it have started?

if you think about nothing really starts around us, its just a change of form (e.g biological growth) so why do we search for a beginning?

2006-09-04 08:36:14 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy