Arts & Humanities - 5 December 2007

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Softness

Whispered words melt,
passing by, the thoughts
inside tumble
as you smile

Strands of hair part
as ears strains
to listen

Softly passing by,
they fall to your toes,
scattered, whispered words.

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Warrior’s lament

I hear tomtom calling
Dark forest echoes
I feel drums beating through tall grass

On crest a signal fire
Warns great danger
Ride away to spirits pointing

I see a totem gesture
Signs pathways ending
I hear Grandfathers
From herds up in the sky

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Wendy

What are you looking for
little gray squirrel
How many nuts
can there be
in Chicago

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2007-12-05 06:55:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Poetry

2007-12-05 06:53:59 · 11 answers · asked by grey_worms 7 in Philosophy

Like...Can we live following the principles in Emerson's and/or Thoreau's writing? Such as Emerson says that imitation is suicide. That can be applied to everyday life. Can you explain any others?

2007-12-05 06:51:32 · 3 answers · asked by princess 6 in Philosophy

Seriously folks.. please think about it before you give a knee jerk response that slavery and genocide is bad.

What is intelligent life? Would something like an ape count as intelligent life if we found it on a different planet? If so would it be acceptable for us to treat these newly discovered life forms as property as we do with animals here on earth?

If you discovered a planet of intelligent cows on a different planet would it be wrong to eat them?

2007-12-05 06:51:21 · 9 answers · asked by nol b 3 in Philosophy

I've heard exercise is a great way to make you feel happy, when you're feeling blue. Would dancing count?

2007-12-05 06:49:57 · 11 answers · asked by Blondie4u 1 in Dancing

Egoism is defined here as the human behavior of being driven by what is good for you and only you. Please explain your answer as best as you can. Thanks

2007-12-05 06:47:20 · 13 answers · asked by Angel Eve 6 in Philosophy

thx

2007-12-05 06:43:36 · 9 answers · asked by sup 4 in Philosophy

2007-12-05 06:35:07 · 3 answers · asked by dvdwinn 1 in History

When I say "God", I mean - all-that-is/everything/love which holds all together/created and creator/unity/divine.
A rather large desciption for the word "God"

What do you mean, please describe?

2007-12-05 06:35:02 · 27 answers · asked by Astro 5 in Philosophy

I really like photography...and I'm trying to get better...rate this picture on a scale of 1 - 10 and tell me what you like and dislike about it...Please...
http://poetic09star.deviantart.com/art/A-glance-out-the-window-71428735

2007-12-05 06:34:10 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Photography

2007-12-05 06:27:37 · 6 answers · asked by Evan G 2 in Philosophy

2007-12-05 06:23:20 · 5 answers · asked by cadeeey.shabam 3 in Performing Arts

2007-12-05 06:19:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

Can you prove reallity exsistes!

Can we change it?

No matrixy answers!!!

2007-12-05 06:18:42 · 20 answers · asked by Clint 4 in Philosophy

i was recently cast as the kitchen wench and the Nightengale of whatever it is... hah. just wondering if anyone has any information on about how large of parts these are, like how much they're seen and stuff. a friend told me that to recieve the part of the Nightengale is a huge compliment, because she supposedly has a really hard solo. let me know, thanks!

2007-12-05 06:18:16 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Theater & Acting

2007-12-05 06:10:09 · 12 answers · asked by vincent w 1 in History

Would using the Red Eye editing too work?

2007-12-05 06:08:00 · 3 answers · asked by neohioguy1962 5 in Photography

there have been many disputes about this. i personaly go with the jews. but id always like to hear your opinion...and argue:)

2007-12-05 06:05:32 · 6 answers · asked by frostmage300 2 in History

I need assistance for a class I am teaching and Google seems to have
let me down. (more than likely I am searching under the wrong words). I
am teaching about portraiture and the asymmetry of the face; I want to
explain the open and closed sides of the face (also known as recessive
and dominant). Does anyone know of a web site that would have
information about this coupled with portraits with the two left sides
mirrored and the two right sides mirrored? I am aware of lighting and
posing techniques to correct this, I am mainly looking for samples.

Thanks!

2007-12-05 06:04:16 · 1 answers · asked by Perki88 7 in Photography

If not,what's the thing that is making you unhappy?
I'm just trying to see how many people are really happy the way they live these days...I read in an article that the next decade, depression will be one of the major diseases in the world...

2007-12-05 06:00:43 · 12 answers · asked by Mary P 3 in Philosophy

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2073620590&size=l

This is my first attempt at doing a mixed black and white / colour photo. I felt that the bird was so beautiful that it deserved to stand out from the rest of the picture hence the use of this technique. Any comments welcome. Thank you.

2007-12-05 06:00:42 · 10 answers · asked by Achtung Barry 1 in Photography

I have a monthly "job" that I shoot for our local art gallery. All I have to do is document the scene with a few general shots. I also choose a few pieces to be featured in the newspaper for publicity.

The problem is... There are fluorescent tubes running the length of the room. There are halogen floodlights aimed at most pieces. For an overall view, I still need to use flash to light the room.

What would you do for this setting? How would you set the whtie balance?

Generally, if you use flash, it overpowers anything else and it's okay, but in this setting, I don't know how to take a custom white balance. You'd have to take the flash into account when you set it and I don't know how to do that.

I've placed a few quick shots on Flickr as examples of where I am ending up.

Before: http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/2089652502/
After: http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/2089652622/

2007-12-05 05:57:56 · 11 answers · asked by Picture Taker 7 in Photography

I heard that Living room was once called Death room? I don't know if that is true. I want to know more deatails.

2007-12-05 05:57:11 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

2007-12-05 05:55:22 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Painting

Holidays' Journey*


Rattle tagging twigs, branches
Tumbling twisted trunks
Loose from
Crispy flippin leaves...
Down, down
Strewn on dewed ground.

Crunch, step...
Step, crunch.
Pathing past shallow,
Hollow stumps
Deep into meadow morning
Swarms,
Swimming sunlight, cold light
Crinkling
Swift, tinseled silvers,
Silencing slices of
Fall...calling...calling.

Beckoning yellow, mellowing
Brown towns of Winter...
Winning, creeping, sleeping
Spring,
Crouching, slouching on
Fern torched porches.

We wait. Frosted windows
Funnel firelight upon
Holidays...glazed icing days...
Delights of hearth, friends, home.

Elysabeth Faslund...Poemhunter.com

2007-12-05 05:55:06 · 4 answers · asked by Elysabeth 7 in Poetry

Describe the early split in the politburo
Descibe Stalin versus leon trotsky
describe kirovs murder
describe the great purge and the show trials
describe the great terror
describe the dictatochio and cult or personalities
describe stalins death

2007-12-05 05:53:11 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

Media reports of the day listed the Communist PLA woes of the early 1990's due to Communism's historically proven failed economics and a nearly bankrupt central government. Boots for every other soldier, guns for half their men with only 5 BULLETS PER GUN, no real navy and precious little effective air forces. Command was antiquated as were communications, nuclear capacity and field armor with moral tanked due to nonpayment of salaries throughout the conscripted service of the PLA. The student uprising of 1989 by unarmed citizens seeking liberty nearly defeated the PLA but was brutally repelled with an excess of 10000 murdered students in the streets of China's capital. Point is the people nearly won. 1994 saw the realization of the dream of capitalizing from tyranny while undermining freedom and avoiding living wages by a small group of Arkansas traitors when Clinton, acting as a WMT lawyer while President of USA, extended "favored nation" trading status to the enemy of liberty.

2007-12-05 05:50:22 · 12 answers · asked by DAVID MICHAEL 1 in History

possible sourses:The Past Today(textbook),Skoool.ie(website)Door to the Past(textbook)

2007-12-05 05:45:03 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

2007-12-05 05:41:18 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

2007-12-05 05:38:15 · 3 answers · asked by tj yo 1 in History