Arts & Humanities - 11 August 2007

no, seriously, i'm curious

2007-08-11 10:44:57 · 17 answers · asked by The Grumpy Dalek 3 in Philosophy

I don't know if this is a good deal for me to start a little studio in my house. I would love some feedback please.

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2007-08-11 10:44:38 · 7 answers · asked by Ree Ree 2 in Photography

What Does this mean: The telephone rang inside, startlingly, and as Daisy shook her head decisively at Tom the subject of the stables, in fact all subjects, vanished into air. Among the broken fragments of the last five minutes at table I remember the candles being lit again, pointlessly, and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at every one, and yet to avoid all eyes. I couldn't guess what Daisy and Tom were thinking, but I doubt if even Miss Baker, who seemed to have mastered a certain hardy scepticism, was able utterly to put this fifth guest's shrill metallic urgency out of mind. To a certain temperament the situation might have seemed intriguing--my own instinct was to telephone immediately for the police.

I don't understand the entire Fifth guest's shrill...is it refering to the mistress or the baby or the butler? andthe entire calling the police part? I don't understand the last sentence. Please explain. Thanks

2007-08-11 10:43:02 · 2 answers · asked by prettyinpnk01 2 in Books & Authors

I don't want to famous, as everyone else wants to be here. i love doing it and i dont care if the spotlight is not on me.But my parents dont know how passionate i am, and they will not get me voice,dance or acting lessons. so all i am relying on is High school choir,drama, dance and when i go to college. at points i feel that if you need to make it on broadway, you have to be super talented and you are "born with it" according to my parents.is this right? I know i need lessons, and i have already been in musical productions....but can i make it to broadway?? i dont care if i work two jobs, unless i make there.

i would apreciate any advice, and thank you for reading this post.

2007-08-11 10:42:07 · 6 answers · asked by blahblah 1 in Theater & Acting

You can study all the forms know all the great practitioners and never come close to this by a man who probably couldn't even write.

Yonder sky that has wept tears of compassion upon my people for centuries untold, and which to us appears changeless and eternal, may change. Today is fair. Tomorrow it may be overcast with clouds. My words are like the stars that never change. Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons. The white chief says that Big Chief at Washington sends us greetings of friendship and goodwill. This is kind of him for we know he has little need of our friendship in return. His people are many. They are like the grass that covers vast prairies. My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain. The great, and I presume -- good, White Chief sends us word that he wishes to buy our land but is willing to allow us enough to live comfortably. This indeed appears just, even generous, for the Red Man no longer has rights that he need respect, and the offer may be wise, also, as we are no longer in need of an extensive country.

There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory. I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.

Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been. Thus it was when the white man began to push our forefathers ever westward. But let us hope that the hostilities between us may never return. We would have everything to lose and nothing to gain. Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

Our good father in Washington--for I presume he is now our father as well as yours, since King George has moved his boundaries further north--our great and good father, I say, sends us word that if we do as he desires he will protect us. His brave warriors will be to us a bristling wall of strength, and his wonderful ships of war will fill our harbors, so that our ancient enemies far to the northward -- the Haidas and Tsimshians -- will cease to frighten our women, children, and old men. Then in reality he will be our father and we his children. But can that ever be? Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine! He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface and leads him by the hand as a father leads an infant son. But, He has forsaken His Red children, if they really are His. Our God, the Great Spirit, seems also to have forsaken us. Your God makes your people wax stronger every day. Soon they will fill all the land. Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers? How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness? If we have a common Heavenly Father He must be partial, for He came to His paleface children. We never saw Him. He gave you laws but had no word for His red children whose teeming multitudes once filled this vast continent as stars fill the firmament. No; we are two distinct races with separate origins and separate destinies. There is little in common between us.

To us the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. You wander far from the graves of your ancestors and seemingly without regret. Your religion was written upon tablets of stone by the iron finger of your God so that you could not forget. The Red Man could never comprehend or remember it. Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors -- the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.

Your dead cease to love you and the land of their nativity as soon as they pass the portals of the tomb and wander away beyond the stars. They are soon forgotten and never return. Our dead never forget this beautiful world that gave them being. They still love its verdant valleys, its murmuring rivers, its magnificent mountains, sequestered vales and verdant lined lakes and bays, and ever yearn in tender fond affection over the lonely hearted living, and often return from the happy hunting ground to visit, guide, console, and comfort them.

Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun. However, your proposition seems fair and I think that my people will accept it and will retire to the reservation you offer them. Then we will dwell apart in peace, for the words of the Great White Chief seem to be the words of nature speaking to my people out of dense darkness.

It matters little where we pass the remnant of our days. They will not be many. The Indian's night promises to be dark. Not a single star of hope hovers above his horizon. Sad-voiced winds moan in the distance. Grim fate seems to be on the Red Man's trail, and wherever he will hear the approaching footsteps of his fell destroyer and prepare stolidly to meet his doom, as does the wounded doe that hears the approaching footsteps of the hunter.

A few more moons, a few more winters, and not one of the descendants of the mighty hosts that once moved over this broad land or lived in happy homes, protected by the Great Spirit, will remain to mourn over the graves of a people once more powerful and hopeful than yours. But why should I mourn at the untimely fate of my people? Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man whose God walked and talked with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all. We will see.

We will ponder your proposition and when we decide we will let you know. But should we accept it, I here and now make this condition that we will not be denied the privilege without molestation of visiting at any time the tombs of our ancestors, friends, and children. Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished. Even the rocks, which seem to be dumb and dead as the swelter in the sun along the silent shore, thrill with memories of stirring events connected with the lives of my people, and the very dust upon which you now stand responds more lovingly to their footsteps than yours, because it is rich with the blood of our ancestors, and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch. Our departed braves, fond mothers, glad, happy hearted maidens, and even the little children who lived here and rejoiced here for a brief season, will love these somber solitudes and at eventide they greet shadowy returning spirits. And when the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your children's children think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop, upon the highway, or in the silence of the pathless woods, they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude. At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land. The White Man will never be alone.

Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds.

2007-08-11 10:42:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Poetry

If I could be
What you want me;
Then that is just what I would be;
But then; you see...
What I would be;
Is certainly not me.

But I; you see;
Could also be...
Kind..loving and free;
And then I'd still be me...

2007-08-11 10:38:19 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Poetry

2007-08-11 10:36:11 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

Who do you think Bella will be better off with in the books Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse?

2007-08-11 10:33:54 · 13 answers · asked by mickeys.girlfriend♥ 4 in Books & Authors

ok i read some books like scary stories......it scared the hell ot of me.anyway,what is the name of the creature that is a teenager that turns into a clown when frustrated and its invisible like a ghost and flipsd things over ??

2007-08-11 10:31:01 · 1 answers · asked by morbid mike 1 in Books & Authors

a jump start any any books for the national registry and any books to help im in EMS-wheelchair and have firstaid/CPR cards already and any other info would help to thank you

2007-08-11 10:26:11 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

2007-08-11 10:26:03 · 16 answers · asked by Afrotastic 3 in Philosophy

IS IT IN CAIRO EGYPT OR A DIFFERENT MUSEUM

2007-08-11 10:23:52 · 7 answers · asked by Rita L 1 in History

how much do actors and actresses get paid if there not in the union..and how much do they get paid if they are in the union?

2007-08-11 10:23:12 · 5 answers · asked by sub-zero 1 in Theater & Acting

I will present a quote, and welcome thoughts and debate. I only ask to please keep this civil, and no hurling of insults or cynical comments from either side, all of which will be reported.

the quote:
"Religion...has certian ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. What it means is, 'Here is an idea or notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about; your just not. Why not? - because you're not!' If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like; everybody will have an argument but nobody feels aggrieved by it. If somebody thinks taxes should go up or down you are free to have an argument about it. But on the other hand if somebody says 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday', you say, 'I respect that'.
Why should it be that it's perfectly legitimate to support the Labour party or the Consercatice party, Republicans or Democrats, this model of economics versus that, Macintosh

2007-08-11 10:21:45 · 16 answers · asked by Martin S 2 in Philosophy

2007-08-11 10:16:55 · 8 answers · asked by marcin p 1 in Philosophy

This is for a homework paper. Please don't answer anything about creating mass terror, I know that... reasonable answers only please. What aspects of French society did he start, or create, or... you know, what significant contributions to society did Robespierre bring?

Thanks to all answerers!

2007-08-11 10:10:30 · 3 answers · asked by ? 2 in History

It is Adobe Photoshop Elements Version 4.0.

2007-08-11 10:08:53 · 2 answers · asked by creative_writer_20 1 in Photography

what are some important influences that shaped T. Roosevelts vision

2007-08-11 10:08:47 · 8 answers · asked by hard2.believe 1 in History

Who is a (fictional) character from a BOOK that you truly find inspirational?

(Please note that answers that include comic books, movie adaptation books, or religious texts will not be noted for best answer, as the question is centered on fictional literature. Yes, that goes even for those of you who consider the Bible fictional literature.)

2007-08-11 10:07:16 · 13 answers · asked by Dominus 5 in Books & Authors

Who is a (fictional) character from a BOOK that was either depressing to read about or that you found to be depressing in the disappointing the way the author represented them?

(Please note that answers that include comic books, movie adaptation books, or religious texts will not be noted for best answer, as the question is centered on fictional literature. Yes, that goes even for those of you who consider the Bible fictional literature.)

2007-08-11 10:06:34 · 13 answers · asked by Dominus 5 in Books & Authors

Who is a (fictional) character from a BOOK that is extremely unique, unusual or weird?

(Please note that answers that include comic books, movie adaptation books, or religious texts will not be noted for best answer, as the question is centered on fictional literature. Yes, that goes even for those of you who consider the Bible fictional literature.)

2007-08-11 10:04:54 · 16 answers · asked by Dominus 5 in Books & Authors

Who is a (fictional) character from a BOOK that you loathe or hate?

(Please note that answers that include comic books, movie adaptation books, or religious texts will not be noted for best answer, as the question is centered on fictional literature. Yes, that goes even for those of you who consider the Bible fictional literature.)

2007-08-11 10:03:56 · 16 answers · asked by Dominus 5 in Books & Authors

Who is a (fictional) character from a BOOK that you truly love or cherish?

(Please note that answers that include comic books, movie adaptation books, or religious texts will not be noted for best answer, as the question is centered on fictional literature. Yes, that goes even for those of you who consider the Bible fictional literature.)

2007-08-11 10:03:13 · 19 answers · asked by Dominus 5 in Books & Authors

where did u look to get a tallent agent?
i really want to be famous and all, but like i have no idea where to look for an agent.
any ideas????????????/

2007-08-11 09:57:52 · 6 answers · asked by AliAttakk 2 in Theater & Acting

the name of the book is The Blueprint: From Gangster Disciple to Growth & Development by Ron Emery published by Moris publishers

2007-08-11 09:53:08 · 2 answers · asked by bigbiggs19 3 in Books & Authors

I've been hearing about them so much and don't know where to find them. Please help me thank you. And I don't care if I lose 5 points.

2007-08-11 09:52:47 · 5 answers · asked by 30sec-mars 3DG AFI The Exies 2 in Books & Authors

I put two books on hold at the library, K.D.Lang "All you get is me" and "Jesus: a revolutionary". I'm so pissed because I went out of my way to come to this library, and I put them on hold and some fool started to reshelve them. DARN-it!! I leave for college soon , I wanted to get some leisure reading out of the way before I have to do academic reading.

I guess I will just have to settle for a Pattie Smith book. They're practically the same person right!? ( Wrong) I went around looking at all the trucks of books to be reshelved , but the book I need could be anywhere.

Help me while I'm venting. I suppose I shall rent out some finacne books and busniess? They have a whole celebrity section in the library I was completely unaware of. There are books on the band KISS! and R.E.M! Nate King Cole.
Splendid! Gosh darn it, I cant even type straight , so LIVID!!!!

2007-08-11 09:52:36 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

2007-08-11 09:48:47 · 1 answers · asked by Kitkat 1 in Drawing & Illustration

In a critical statement of the eye witness accounts, he states that he "has never seen such a collection of contradictory accounts of a case in any of the research he had done in the previous ten years."

What research has he done and what makes this statement notable? Can anyone help me with this?

2007-08-11 09:39:33 · 1 answers · asked by Patty 2 in Books & Authors

2007-08-11 09:38:21 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy