Arts & Humanities - 8 August 2007

What is your favorite William Gibson book? - Why?

2007-08-08 11:06:02 · 1 answers · asked by Ralph 7 in Books & Authors

2007-08-08 11:04:32 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

Who is your favorite Kurt Vonnegut Jr. character and why?

P.S. Sadly, just trying to counteract some of the HP questions with something a little more substantial/cerebral…

2007-08-08 11:02:15 · 4 answers · asked by Ralph 7 in Books & Authors

Carbon Dating..."a chemical analysis used to determine the age of organic materials based on their content of the radioisotope carbon-14; believed to be reliable up to 40,000 years"

Heres my question.... This is the literal definition... I've gotten my teachers to admit that Carbon dating is reliable at all once it gets to be so old....

From that hypothesis that the older something is, the less accurate this method of dating, then how can people say that the Earth is billions of billions of years old?

2007-08-08 10:57:19 · 13 answers · asked by jstewart92 2 in Philosophy

in 1945-1970 what was the impact of the cold war and nuclear weapons on american society having to do with American capitalism/individuality vs soviet communism/conformity??

2007-08-08 10:57:08 · 2 answers · asked by xjadeee 2 in History

To Awaken

How can I express what’s in my heart to you
Show you the abundant love inside
What miracle can beseech my soul to you
To unleash the kindred spirit inside

How do I shed this loneliness shroud I wear
And awaken from countless eons of despair
What miracle will bring your love to me
To lift this soul with care

How do I awaken from this slumber
The hellish nightmare of empty days
What miracle will usher the moments
To bond this love for all days

How so often I do dream of you
Embracing the love that hides
What miracle your love has brought to me
To awaken and know your love is mine


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2007-08-08 10:55:00 · 5 answers · asked by James F 2 in Poetry

This is just for a story I'm writing in my spare time. I need a character's dad to die in someway that is worse than say...having his dad die in the hospital.

2007-08-08 10:52:33 · 7 answers · asked by SN 3 in Books & Authors

Lets get to the point. My neighbors are passing a thing on and we pass it down. So my family plans to make a poem or asks me to make a poem cause im a poet. The problem is the poem has to be FUNNY and kinda WEIRD and I can't do that. So your quest is to write a poem about a zucini thats FUNNY and WEIRD. The poem will be ACROSTIC ok. Pleasee be a good poet.

Z
U
C
I
N
I

Thats acrostic just add words.

Thank you.

Let the best poem win.

2007-08-08 10:52:10 · 13 answers · asked by Evangelist 3 in Poetry

This is the best series I have ever read!

2007-08-08 10:50:12 · 4 answers · asked by ♥wнїтz♥ 1 in Books & Authors

2007-08-08 10:44:19 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

If they did, what were the maids/servants' jobs?

2007-08-08 10:42:56 · 5 answers · asked by Lyra [and the Future] 7 in History

2007-08-08 10:39:52 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dancing

what was the name of were the find them and who and when and what the name os the place about the ufps and things
cuz iam doing a paper on it piz help me

2007-08-08 10:36:34 · 7 answers · asked by Alex c 1 in Genealogy

a) Meet
b) Kiss
c) Kill
d) Be?

Please give your reason for each choice.

2007-08-08 10:35:24 · 17 answers · asked by garik 5 in Books & Authors

I've seen where you can buy a clear liquid acrylic that will dry clear. You can put things in it or put it into a mold to dry. Also, whats it really called?

2007-08-08 10:29:51 · 3 answers · asked by Jason R 2 in Other - Visual Arts

Is love a myth?
Like a goddess or god.
Is love real?
Or just a just a facade.

Is love truly
All you need?
Is love a necessity
Or is it greed?

2007-08-08 10:27:17 · 6 answers · asked by kidfisher420 1 in Poetry

I really liked the Harry Potter series. I also read Twilight by Stephanie Meyer and loved it. I like books that you can think about, but aren't boring. What book should I read now?

2007-08-08 10:25:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

Growth

I'm old enough now.
No need to rub rose petals
on the truth anymore.
I smelled the reality of this.

Cluttered with forgotten poems,
carved walls, spirits, and loss,
My lonely home sits, awake
and waiting for me.

2007-08-08 10:16:18 · 22 answers · asked by Linz ♥ VT 4 in Poetry

I have to write an easy about how john keats applied aristotle's Poetics. But i dont understand this poem.has anyone read or anylized this poem?

"Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats

I
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
II
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal -- yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
III
Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;
And, happy melodist, unwearied,
For ever piping songs for ever new;
More happy love! more happy, happy love!
For ever warm and still to be enjoy’d,
For ever panting, and for ever young;
All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy’d,
A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.
IV
Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
To what green altar, O mysterious priest,
Lead’st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?
What little town by river or sea shore,
Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,
Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn?
And, little town, thy streets for evermore
Will silent be; and not a soul to tell
Why thou art desolate, can e’er return.
V
O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
With forest branches and the trodden weed;
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," -- that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

2007-08-08 10:15:44 · 7 answers · asked by A&A 1 in Poetry

Are your arms and legs more important or, are your eyes and ears more important?

2007-08-08 10:12:44 · 16 answers · asked by petswodahs 1 in Philosophy

just for pleasure reading, please give me the title and maybe a little about what the book is about.

i don't usually read for fun, but i feel like i should broaden my horizons and get into it. so all suggestions are welcome because i'm not really particular at this point, i don't really know what i want to read.

2007-08-08 10:09:44 · 27 answers · asked by r1ced_grl 2 in Books & Authors

i want like total give away sites. hahaha i need it for a book report!

2007-08-08 10:05:08 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

I've bought a diffuser for a Nikon SB600 flash. (I didn't spend much, but I'd like to see if there is an all-around comparable flash unit that is cheaper but just as good as it.) Thanks!

2007-08-08 09:59:19 · 3 answers · asked by polishedboneofthemoon 2 in Photography

And involves a little bit of horror. Does anyone know where I can possibly publish this short story?

2007-08-08 09:55:48 · 8 answers · asked by pixiestix 1 in Books & Authors

how can you tell where to put shading in your drawings? when i do it it comes out disgusting

2007-08-08 09:49:53 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous 1 in Drawing & Illustration

is there really a difference between being in 'reality' and being in a dream? cant both be realities?

2007-08-08 09:41:23 · 10 answers · asked by vincent m 2 in Philosophy

Could I be sued for my "theories" even if I present them as fiction?

2007-08-08 09:35:11 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

or anything else, what would you be? And why?

2007-08-08 09:33:41 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Arts & Humanities

alright im beging a new book of mine the title of the story has not yet been writin but I am working on some of the characters and there traits and personality scince I have already finished the stories plot

my question is- Can you create a character for me. Pick a name and make it an uncommon name but a name that is easy for reader's to prenounce and also give your character some traits whats thier favorite thing to do etc and what they would look like as much info would help and who knows your character might just apper in your next favorite novel . thx answer nicley

2007-08-08 09:31:04 · 2 answers · asked by Jonathan S 2 in Books & Authors

I am writing a novel, is it incorrect to use first person "I" or "me" throughout the novel, should it be avoid

2007-08-08 09:27:48 · 4 answers · asked by envyme 2 in Books & Authors