Arts & Humanities - 8 September 2007

2007-09-08 23:59:09 · 7 answers · asked by totit73 2 in History

Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.

Although I am not disposed to maintain that the being born in a workhouse, is in itself the most fortunate and enviable circumstance that can possibly befall a human being, I do mean to say that in this particular instance, it was the best thing for Oliver Twist that could by possibility have occurred. The fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration,- a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter. Now, if, during this brief period, Oliver had been surrounded by careful grandmothers, anxious aunts, experienced nurses, and doctors of profound wisdom, he would most inevitably and indubitably have been killed in no time. There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them. The result was, that, after a few struggles, Oliver breathed, sneezed, and proceeded to advertise to the inmates of the workhouse the fact of a new burden having been imposed upon the parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage, a voice, for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter.

2007-09-08 23:53:46 · 1 answers · asked by Dr Ask 1 in Poetry

Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.

Although I am not disposed to maintain that the being born in a workhouse, is in itself the most fortunate and enviable circumstance that can possibly befall a human being, I do mean to say that in this particular instance, it was the best thing for Oliver Twist that could by possibility have occurred. The fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration,- a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter. Now, if, during this brief period, Oliver had been surrounded by careful grandmothers, anxious aunts, experienced nurses, and doctors of profound wisdom, he would most inevitably and indubitably have been killed in no time. There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them. The result was, that, after a few struggles, Oliver breathed, sneezed, and proceeded to advertise to the inmates of the workhouse the fact of a new burden having been imposed upon the parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage, a voice, for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter.

2007-09-08 23:52:23 · 3 answers · asked by Dr Ask 1 in Poetry

This is job of my dicussion class
I wanna hear your opnion
Give me your opinion and
I will use about your opinion in my class
If you give me some help, Thank you very much :)

1. How would you have help Freedmen, or former slaves.
2.How would you have treated/punished confederate/Southerners.
3. How would you have physically rebuilt or reconstructed the
South.

2007-09-08 23:51:06 · 2 answers · asked by John 1 in History

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

2007-09-08 23:49:42 · 2 answers · asked by Dr Ask 1 in Poetry

LBJ - Lyndon Baines Johnson.

2007-09-08 23:44:35 · 1 answers · asked by catherine j 1 in History

2007-09-08 23:36:54 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

If you could travel to any period in the past where would you go and what would you change?

Like hitting Shakespere and getting his autography as in Blackadder, telling Bodicea not to fight the Romans....

.......Or would you change nothing and just view the past and find answers to unanswered questions?

2007-09-08 23:23:00 · 23 answers · asked by Elly 4 in History

Moonlight Radiance

As i sit in my couch with only the moonlight to light me,
I wonder when the void will ever set me free,
Drowned in the pool of my imaginations,
looking intently at death's cruel intentions

I feel drained, powerless and exhausted
the chains that bind me hold hard without mercy
I feel like a dog, never tamed, never fed
not a single morsel of bread around so you see

Only the moonlight keeps me awake
in this shadow and its cruel stake
I feel my death is nearing, laughing, scoffing, thirsty for a fight
The eternal bliss i will never feel underneath the moonlight

Its radiance gives me life
and the power to end this cruel strife
I feel that i may never return
under my moonlight radiance that i call my home

2007-09-08 23:20:54 · 9 answers · asked by Canis 1 in Poetry

A blue morpho is a type of butterfly. I have already found photos, but I also need some paintings to see how it looks so I can do some imitative drawing.

2007-09-08 23:16:40 · 2 answers · asked by marry cris d 1 in Painting

...when Jesus told us to pay our taxes. That should mean there's no ''sin'' in that.

2007-09-08 23:09:49 · 2 answers · asked by birdtennis 4 in Philosophy

2007-09-08 23:09:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

2007-09-08 23:00:18 · 1 answers · asked by lidia b 1 in Theater & Acting

2007-09-08 22:56:53 · 9 answers · asked by ~walking_on_a_dream~ 2 in History

i know it existed under Henry VIII AND Elizabeth I but i dont know with edward

2007-09-08 22:48:21 · 4 answers · asked by lorenz d 2 in History

I sure don't and I am sure NO ONE else does either. All this time he was the one to always tell us to take care because he cares, so now,let's tell him to take care because WE CARE.
Love you enki...
No matter what...

2007-09-08 22:48:03 · 24 answers · asked by Banshee 7 in Philosophy

i know it existed under Henry VII AND Elizabeth I but i dont know with edward

2007-09-08 22:47:35 · 1 answers · asked by lorenz d 2 in History

2007-09-08 22:33:10 · 24 answers · asked by K 5 in Philosophy

I really want t0 get into the acting fiels soo how do i start to get an oportunity to act for serials or movies?

2007-09-08 22:29:42 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Theater & Acting

caould you like make/tell me a list of things i need for a darkroom and how much they cost? thanks in avance. =P

2007-09-08 22:07:52 · 3 answers · asked by kimi =) [♥] 1 in Photography

I'd give up technology. All forms of it, except writing. Sound Amish much? Hmm. For one, I just feel we'd all communicate far better without it. Although I say this having 5 computers and 5 tvs and countless game consoles and mobiles in our house, among other things, so maybe I'm going a bit far.. but my family don't communicate now at ALL. It's like this in every other house I see now. Also, everyone is also obsessed with obtaining all these new tech gadgets. It's like, can't you have any fun or communication without it? I'd happily live without any tv and computer. I think cell phones are mostly needed, but really, I could do without it, I wouldn't miss it. If NO one used tech, I could achieve this want. But ofcourse It's impossible because technology is advancing constantly and no one wants to live in a world without it all. I sound old, I'm only 17 and everyone thinks I'm crackers. Oh well.

What do you think?

2007-09-08 21:59:17 · 19 answers · asked by Karl 2 in Philosophy

if its possible, like i said, im 14.
but i have taken really good pics.
so how can i get people to see my work?

2007-09-08 21:51:04 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Photography

2007-09-08 21:46:51 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

2007-09-08 21:38:23 · 15 answers · asked by Pouya! 1 in Philosophy

its a history project that i have to do so any info would be really great, thanks :]

2007-09-08 21:26:39 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

I know one, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and wife, Sophie on June 28, 1914 by Gavrilo Princip and the mobilization of Russia, but there are probably others which I don't know

2007-09-08 21:22:21 · 5 answers · asked by ~walking_on_a_dream~ 2 in History

the kind infront of peoples houses where there this thing where mary is holding baby jesus

2007-09-08 21:22:12 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sculpture

2007-09-08 21:20:35 · 6 answers · asked by inthemaking 2 in Philosophy

2007-09-08 21:15:42 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

If anyone has seen the movie "Where the Heart Is", the older sister does body painting that melds into the background. What is the name of that art style?

2007-09-08 21:13:23 · 2 answers · asked by doobjank 2 in Painting