Arts & Humanities - 26 October 2006

the book gifts from the sea

2006-10-26 10:19:01 · 5 answers · asked by Hannah_Montana 2 in Books & Authors

Today, before school started my friends and I were talking and we got into a discussion about J.K. Rowling. My friend Sean says that J.K. Rowling has written other books besides the Harry Potter series and the two chartiy books. I don't believe him. Has J.K. Rowling written any other books besides the Harry Potter books???

2006-10-26 10:16:13 · 5 answers · asked by hpdrew15 4 in Books & Authors

I have seen this on the net and on the news. The Mexican government keeps talking about taking the United States to the UN security counsel about us building a wall ON OUR SIDE OF THE BORDER.

Now get this, “Mexico's president-elect Felipe Calderon said during a state visit to Canada, comparing it with the Berlin Wall.”

That is were my question comes into play. Can anyone tell me how this is similar to our current situation? Because last I check the United States of America was a sovereign county and so was Mexico. Did we become one great city that was ripped apart by a coalition of other counties?

I just can not see the comparison. I am not saying weather I want the wall or not. I just do not understand how a country and its leaders could get there history horribly wrong.

Maybe if they would have fought in WWII they would be better educated today?

2006-10-26 10:15:02 · 10 answers · asked by Mr. Justis 2 in History

I have no space in my apartment, and would just like some advice on how to go about getting some free space.

2006-10-26 10:14:21 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Arts & Humanities

When you have truly enjoyed a book, or magazine article, do you ever write to the author to tell them? Who have you written to? Did they reply?

I did this when I was a student, and remember being quite excited to receive a letter in return. Nowadays, I use email.

2006-10-26 10:08:44 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

n the Aeneid, what are some internal conficts that Aeneas faces?

2006-10-26 10:02:51 · 2 answers · asked by sg1freek 2 in Books & Authors

besides ebay

2006-10-26 10:01:19 · 2 answers · asked by Meeowf 3 in Other - Arts & Humanities

2006-10-26 09:57:08 · 13 answers · asked by falzalnz 6 in Philosophy

Do you know where i can find the book "Gifts from the sea"

2006-10-26 09:55:52 · 3 answers · asked by Hannah_Montana 2 in Books & Authors

2006-10-26 09:55:47 · 12 answers · asked by trustnone 2 in Other - Arts & Humanities

I know many of you will say the Bible, and I agree, but I'm looking for fun casual reading.

2006-10-26 09:55:46 · 15 answers · asked by TL1004 1 in Books & Authors

Let's just say.. you spent 20 private minutes with Osama bin Laden. Not what would you like to do - but what OUGHT you do with him?

2006-10-26 09:51:03 · 24 answers · asked by MLK II 2 in Philosophy

I am an African American who has always been interested in finding out more information about my roots. Oral traditions in my family suggest that we came from Ethiopian Hebrews that migrated to West Africa 200 yrs before the slave trade. I went to a organization that took samples of my DNA AND TO MY SUPPRISE I my ancesters came from FREAKIN GERMANY!!!! (I WAS SHOCKED AND TO BE HONEST A BIT MADDDD, I thought it was a trick, but it was true))

This brings me to my pressing question, If I as an African American have stronger ancesteral ties to Germany than I do my own homeland, what statement does this say about race? Is race more of a societal or social construction than a biological one? If an African American can have more DNA commonalities then his/her original people (Africans) then the whole concept of race and ethnicity needs to be re-explored.

2006-10-26 09:48:48 · 4 answers · asked by Andre L 1 in History

2006-10-26 09:48:11 · 5 answers · asked by Kutiegot _questions15 1 in Dancing

2006-10-26 09:43:40 · 25 answers · asked by baaden 2 in Philosophy

2006-10-26 09:40:47 · 12 answers · asked by Paley Pale 5 in Philosophy

The Olympics were a sporting event as well as a way for Greeks to keep fit for war.What was another purpose of the games?? thanks

A. To bring peace and unity to the Greek city-states

B. A religious festival dedicated to the gods

C. A place for men and women to come together for celebrations and entertainment

D. All of the above

2006-10-26 09:40:34 · 5 answers · asked by :) 1 in History

I'm sure they are somewhere on the net, but I haven't been able to find them... There's plenty of other pictures of him.


P.S. It's funny how Asian-eyed, American actors have always done quite well, and you don't even notice their asian eyes, like John Wayne and Robert Mitchum, for instance. As American as mom's apple pie...

Of course, native Americans, like myself, often have Asian eyes, as we must've come over through what is now Alaska.
But eye digress...

2006-10-26 09:40:01 · 2 answers · asked by pilot 1 in Performing Arts

I own a little used bookshop, and while I often ask my customers what they like/dislike about shopping with us, I would love to hear a broader view. What do you like about used bookstores? What do you hate? What's your primary reason for shopping used vs. new?

2006-10-26 09:38:21 · 13 answers · asked by creativeblue31 2 in Books & Authors

2006-10-26 09:37:50 · 18 answers · asked by Paley Pale 5 in Books & Authors

I actually have a questionaire, don't want to post a bunch of individual questions that may not apply to alot of people. If anyone wants to message me who is in midieval reenactment/re-creation I can send them the full list.
Otherwise: Why do people do reenactment/re-creation?

2006-10-26 09:37:46 · 5 answers · asked by ryannemonaghan 2 in History

2006-10-26 09:37:31 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Arts & Humanities

Its been here before, but I didn't get enough criticism for it.

Be HONEST.. compliments are really not any help Please note that this is not the beginning, but the second small chunk. Search for my other questions if you want to read the beginning. It's not crucial.
Read part of a story, and tell me what you think.?
Be HONEST.. compliments are really not any help Please note that this is not the beginning, but the second small chunk. Search for my other questions if you want to read the beginning. It's not crucial.


Rose hung up without properly saying goodbye. It was something the sisters had dispensed with once they moved away from the house, Virginia to Cornell and Beth to… well, away. Away meant as far from stuffy old Boston as she could get. A stint abroad, several waitressing jobs which paid abysmally, a (very) brief stay in a commune, and one quite serious boyfriend with whom she had lived in an apartment which had seemed romantically Spartan at first and turned out to be just plain old small and dirty. And now, she lived in California. That was what her parents told their friends when anyone asked what Rose did for a living. “She lives in California now,” her parents would say, and everyone would exchange knowing looks. Rose didn’t care in the least, which was what distinguished her from Virginia and their two brothers. Rose was in fact happier than she’d ever been, working at a Waldorf day-care center and even occasionally seeling a painting or two. She was paying the bills with even a little to spare for luxuries like shampoo and fresh fruit.
Rose looked at the clock the floor beside her bed, did some quick math and decided to call her brother Jim in New York. His full name was James Joyce Llewellyn, and their second brother’s name was Thomas Jefferson Llewellyn. The three oldest were all named after various people the Llewellyn’s admired, and then there was Rose, the baby. Just plain old Rose. The child of her parents’ middle age and diminished brain cells. Virginia, the oldest, had always introduced herself first, and someone, thinking themselves clever, would invariably turn to Rose and say, “and I suppose you’re Georgia,” Rose usually said, no, she was New Jersey. Sometimes she was Delaware. It depended on the day.
She got up and put on a pot of coffee, as there was little chance she was going back to sleep. Virginia had awakened her, but also given her much too much to think about to sleep. She punched in Jim’s number and waited as a phone two and half thousand miles away rang.
Jim answered, groggy from sleep.
“What are you doing home?” demanded Rose as soon as he picked up, again skipping niceties.
“What?” Jim said foggily.
“I said what are you doing home? Don’t you have classes? It’s a Wednesday.”
“Thanks for the update.”
“You didn’t answer my question. You sound like ****. You sound hungover.”
“I do not. I mean I am not. I mean I am, but I don’t sound it. Whatever. It’s what, four-thirty out there? Who died?”
“Nobody, but I’ve got something to spill.”
“Well, okay. Dish.”
“Dad’s got a new girlfriend, a young one, young enough to be our sister- that’s verbatim from Ginny- and he’s bringing her to the wedding.”
“Well, good for him, the old dog. Why is this waking-someone-out-of-a-sound-... news?”
“You just don’t get it, do you?”
“Get what?”
“He’s bringing her to the wedding. To meet all of us, and mom, and all our relatives, and all of Ginny and David’s friends. He’s bringing her to the wedding, Jim.”
“Yeah. And?”
“God, you are such a man. Don’t you have any loyalty for Mom?”
“Well, I guess, but it’s not like they’re getting back together. Irreconcilable differences.”
“Yeah, but she’s like nineteen,”
“You’re exaggerating. You think that the wedding is going to be an opportunity for you to pull some kind of a Parent Trap maneuver, but trust me, it’s not. They can’t stand each other. End of story.”
“I wouldn’t care if…” Rose trailed off.
“You’d care no matter what. I’m not saying I don’t care too, but he’s fifty-seven years old. We can’t tell him what to do.”
“Why do you have to be so goddamn rational? Why can’t you just be on my side, on mom’s side?”
“I’m not on anybody’s side, I just-“
Rose dropped the phone back onto the cradle with a clatter of plastic and metal.
Jim tossed the portable phone across the bedspread and scowled fiercely at the sunlight streaming through his uncurtained windows. Stacks of books glowered at him disapprovingly from the dresser. He pushed a hand through his dark hair and pulled his Fordham sweatshirt on over his head, and shoved his glasses up over his nose. He looked at his watch, and decided there was no way he was making it to Contract Law at nine-thirty. Instead he dialed his brother Tom’s number in Boston.
Tom was having the worst morning of all the Llewellyn siblings. He’d awoken to find the half of the bed which belonging to his girlfriend Claire cool and unrumpled. Alarmed, he’d run to the bathroom to find that her toothbrush was gone, and linen closet emptied of exactly half their towels. She’d taken the coffee, the peanut butter, two apples, a banana, the Saltines, and half the loaf of bread.. She’d been nothing if not democratic in the way she’d wrecked everything, thought Tom as he absorbed the state of the apartment which they’d shared until four-thirty six that morning. And so Tom was sitting dazedly at the kitchen table, staring at nothing in a particular, when the phone rang
“Guess what?” demanded Jim
Tom sighed.
“What?”
“Dad’s having a full-out, clichéd midlife crisis, complete with a nubile Playmate, who is reportedly young enough to be our sister, ”
“Well, that’s just Fantastic, isn’t it.”
“You’re sunny this morning. What’s the matter?”
“Nothing. Everything is perfect.”
“How’s your lovely, leggy graduate student doing?”
“Claire is fine. Claire is perfect.”
“Okay. If you say so. I hear that Dad’s bringing this new girl to the wedding, and believe me, Virginia and Rose are about ready to-“
“Look, I really have to go. I’m about an hour late,”
“Well, so am I,”
“Well, at least I’m not paying forty-five thousand a year to get drunk and over sleep.”
“Don’t be so-“
“So what? Responsible?”
“So uptight. So, anyway, I was wondering if maybe I could have your plus-one for the wedding. I’ve been seeing this girl for a couple months now, and I was just thinking that since-“
“No, Jim, I—“
He was going to say “I need it,” and remembered that he didn’t, not anymore. Instead, he hung up and got dressed for work.
It is easy to forget, when one is upset, that other people cannot intuit your every thought, nor see the elephant which is occupying your headspace. And so it wasn’t until he was pulling out of the tight parking spot which he’d fought tooth and nail for that Tom realized he hadn’t said a word to his brother about what had happened with Claire

2006-10-26 09:36:26 · 6 answers · asked by Ella S 3 in Books & Authors

Suppose S1 is dealing drugs and S2 approaches S1 to purchase illegal drugs from S1. Suppose that S1 asks S2 whether S2 is a police officer and S2 denies being a police officer. Would it be unethical for S2 (although being a police officer) to lie and deny being a cop?

2006-10-26 09:34:48 · 8 answers · asked by sokrates 4 in Philosophy

I have already read many books and stuff, but I once half-watched a video of her life, but wasn't paying attention, now I really want to find it and I can't. Free if possible. Thanks.

2006-10-26 09:33:49 · 4 answers · asked by Sheldon 6 in History

2006-10-26 09:30:14 · 2 answers · asked by kissmybum 4 in Drawing & Illustration

I am a teenage girl, who has never taken lessons to dance before but I would love to do either jazz or tap dancing (i cant do both) which do you think would be a better choice? I'm not fat but then not skinny either...

Oh, and I also love to do musical theatre if that helps any.

Please no rude answers.

2006-10-26 09:26:57 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dancing

2006-10-26 09:24:34 · 15 answers · asked by jezzz 2 in Books & Authors

Did you like it?

2006-10-26 09:22:43 · 6 answers · asked by Becca 3 in Books & Authors

just wondering. And if any one has seen the Broadway and West End versions with Idina Menzel please tell me which you thought was better! Please no rude answers.

2006-10-26 09:21:29 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Theater & Acting