Arts & Humanities - 26 March 2007

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How long does it take you to finish a 250-page book?

Do you have any tips for quicker reading?

2007-03-26 11:35:05 · 12 answers · asked by Heron By The Sea 7 in Books & Authors

Have you Read it ?
If So
Can You Think Of Any Good Group Discussion Questions ?

2007-03-26 11:33:34 · 3 answers · asked by clash53105 2 in Books & Authors

Among Children
Philip Levine
I walk among the rows of bowed heads--
the children are sleeping through fourth grade
so as to be ready for what is ahead,
the monumental boredom of junior high
and the rush forward tearing their wings
loose and turning their eyes forever inward.
These are the children of Flint, their fathers
work at the spark plug factory or truck
bottled water in 5 gallon sea-blue jugs
to the widows of the suburbs. You can see
already how their backs have thickened,
how their small hands, soiled by pig iron,
leap and stutter even in dreams. I would like
to sit down among them and read slowly
from The Book of Job until the windows
pale and the teacher rises out of a milky sea
of industrial scum, her gowns streaming
with light, her foolish words transformed
into song, I would like to arm each one
with a quiver of arrows so that they might
rush like wind there where no battle rages
shouting among the trumpets, Hal Ha!
How dear the gift of laughter in the face
of the 8 hour day, the cold winter mornings
without coffee and oranges, the long lines
of mothers in old coats waiting silently
where the gates have closed. Ten years ago
I went among these same children, just born,
in the bright ward of the Sacred Heart and leaned
down to hear their breaths delivered that day,
burning with joy. There was such wonder
in their sleep, such purpose in their eyes
dosed against autumn, in their damp heads
blurred with the hair of ponds, and not one
turned against me or the light, not one
said, I am sick, I am tired, I will go home,
not one complained or drifted alone,
unloved, on the hardest day of their lives.
Eleven years from now they will become
the men and women of Flint or Paradise,
the majors of a minor town, and I
will be gone into smoke or memory,
so I bow to them here and whisper
all I know, all I will never know.

2007-03-26 11:33:29 · 2 answers · asked by alicia 1 in Books & Authors

i know this has been said but what does life mean to u?

2007-03-26 11:33:10 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

Im writing a book and I need help on where the book should take place, and what other cities/lands should I have? I also want to know what createars I should have?

2007-03-26 11:33:09 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

2007-03-26 11:30:21 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Painting

2007-03-26 11:30:18 · 9 answers · asked by abigail<3 1 in History

I am printing a newspaper and I need to know what kind of setting I should be in to print an effective black and white picture. No color!

2007-03-26 11:29:21 · 3 answers · asked by Eliana K 2 in Photography

I'm making jewelry and the finds won't stay... even the pieces won't stay adhered to each other. Help!

2007-03-26 11:26:33 · 4 answers · asked by inkypinky373 3 in Sculpture

for an homework assignment, we have to compare and contract the actual events from the fictional ones. i am having a hard time finding out the differences beweeen the two. can any1 help me by givin me a few examples and shortly explaining them

2007-03-26 11:25:34 · 7 answers · asked by harsh p 2 in Books & Authors

2007-03-26 11:24:46 · 4 answers · asked by Cassandra P 1 in History

Where can I find a picture of a pop artist (painter;sculpter;photographer) preferably deceased and preferably a woman but can be a man as a LAST resort!

2007-03-26 11:24:14 · 7 answers · asked by could B NE 1 1 in Drawing & Illustration

i like Dane Cook and Demetri Martin so yeah...

2007-03-26 11:23:42 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Performing Arts

Im writing a book and I need help on where the book should take place, and what other cities/lands should I have? I also want to know what createars I should have? Can anyone please help me?

2007-03-26 11:22:06 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

The Prelude by William wordsworth, if you already have, tell my what do u think

2007-03-26 11:21:35 · 1 answers · asked by zozza 3 in Books & Authors

2007-03-26 11:21:32 · 3 answers · asked by wars 1 in Painting

i am doing an english project on this book. I have to present the plot and theme of the story in front of the class. please tell me the things that happen the book that i need to know
thx

2007-03-26 11:21:14 · 1 answers · asked by nick w 2 in Books & Authors

being like a cry to god for help, maybe we are all living in a fairytale like sleeping beauty or something,

that is who ifeel like any way.,

2007-03-26 11:20:45 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

2007-03-26 11:18:31 · 1 answers · asked by sushichick08 1 in Painting

2007-03-26 11:17:56 · 11 answers · asked by yellowdon20005 1 in Books & Authors

2007-03-26 11:16:40 · 6 answers · asked by socrplyr 1 in History

What kind of dog is Massie's dog Bean in the Clique series??

2007-03-26 11:15:54 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

I'm going for the english sonnet poem, and I know its 14lines, 4,4,4,2 and the rhyme scheme goes abab,cdcd,efef,gg. But, there's something about 10 unstressed and 10 stressed words, or something like that. Can you please explain?

2007-03-26 11:12:46 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

And what does it tend to include nowadays?

2007-03-26 11:12:07 · 11 answers · asked by rage997_666 2 in History

__________ ___ ___ __________

2007-03-26 11:12:02 · 7 answers · asked by Jake M 1 in History

2007-03-26 11:07:40 · 4 answers · asked by Neville L 1 in Genealogy

Susan Clare is a Jamaican Art who paints .

2007-03-26 11:06:19 · 2 answers · asked by Danielle 1 in Painting

Which Harry Potter book and movie is the best?

2007-03-26 11:04:34 · 11 answers · asked by TheBrightestCrayonInTheBox 2 in Books & Authors

I want to do something for the Talent show, I'm not to sure about singing, jsut beause it's hard to find the songs without lyrics. I was going to do an act to the Spice Girls with some of my friends, as a comedy bit, but I'm not sure, any ideas?

P.s. No Baton Twirling.

2007-03-26 11:03:52 · 1 answers · asked by Meg 2 in Performing Arts

2007-03-26 11:02:29 · 6 answers · asked by Kerry P 1 in Theater & Acting