Education & Reference - 20 November 2007

A woman started to take me photos (a Word Order Mistake?)

2007-11-20 07:16:18 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Words & Wordplay

I am 21 years old and i had a debate with three older people older than me and they told me that the original meaning of from is "where you are born". I told them that from can also mean where you grew up the most of your life or raised. They told me that I was still young and really did not understand the word "from". I am a college student and wanted to try to prove to them that I was not too young to know common knowlegde. i dont usually try to prove myself but i had to try on this one knowing it is sort of weird to debate over the word "from".

2007-11-20 07:15:49 · 3 answers · asked by kingjr15 1 in Words & Wordplay

i am recent graduate from 4 yr university with BA in communication. i will probably start to look for jobs in marketing or public relations. But i am very concerned about the work environment especially for women entry level employees.

not only because i think it's hard to get a job in this field, but also because I am worried of the possibility I will probably have to be under control of someone else either privately or officially at work..

originally i've been thinking of getting into law schools and pass the bar exam, but i was almost about to give up the plan because i was not so sure about my capability to cope with the numerous works and writings, etc. But now i again start to consider applying for law schools instead of looking for jobs in marketing/PR.

If there's anyone who's thought about the same issue or someone who has some idea about my worry, please leave a comment..

thank you.

2007-11-20 07:11:50 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Higher Education (University +)

It should be a nightmare -talking about something in the past - (my teacher told me that there is a grammar mistake but i can't find it!)

2007-11-20 07:08:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Words & Wordplay

2007-11-20 07:08:46 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Special Education

i did my MBA this year but not satisfied from job perspective so planning to do some short term courses from abroad for instance newzealand, australia, UK etc which mite help in some of the other ways.

2007-11-20 07:05:51 · 5 answers · asked by vishal c 1 in Studying Abroad

Queer theory isn’t a theory in the classical meaning of this word.
Queer theory isn’t, and don’t want to be, any of closed descriptions of sexuality. It’s not defining the meanig of therms like femininity, masculinity, homosexuality and related. It wants to destabilisate meaning of seksuality, which was described by a culture. Queer theory is showing ambiguity of terms like sex, seksuality: it’s proving their meaningless. This theory shows that every stable patterns of “femininity”, “masculinity” or another “sexual patterns” are only a cultural construction. Their stability is a result of some violence process:
-mechanisms of subjugation ( which are made by producing in our minds “I” that is subordinated to cultural “norm” and be a aurorepresion and self-control tool),
or
-blocking (putting yourself at the box of terms like femininity, masculinity, homosexuality)
In recent years queer theory has come to be used differently, sometimes as an umbrella term for a coalition of culturally marginal sexual self-identifications
We display 5 sexual orientations: (...)
We display those gender identity: (...)
It questions heteronormative world
It disorders binary of thinking
not definition is a power of queer theory
Now “excluded” have a voice, they’re talking about culture and social reports from their own perspective.
How to describe something which doesn’t exist? Don’t describe.
Describe in this the way which will destabilize terms like “femininity”, “masculinity”, “sexuality” and show that those terms mean something only to bound.
Finally, Queer theory is a anty- and –post- theory, which shows that queer is a space without a meaning, which unfortunetelly mean from the cultural, normative grant. Queer theory ia anty- and –post- theory, which bigotedly, with fire in the eyes destroys, annihilates its own study objects. And how to call it a theory?
queer - originally a synonym for "odd" or "unusual," the word evolved into an anti-gay insult in the last century, only to be reclaimed by defiant gay and lesbian activists who chanted: "We're here, we're queer, get used to it."
Now "queer" is sneaking into the mainstream -- and taking on a hipster edge as a way to describe any sexual orientation beyond straight.
Queer theory embraces the notion of identity - what is culturally seen as normal versus subversive. Theorists claim that identities are not fixed - they cannot be categorized and labeled - because identities consist of many varied components and that to categorize by one characteristic is wrong. Queer theorists argue that everybody should be classed as an individual identity and not put in the collective basket of feminists or colored or the like.
For polish ears „queer theory” sounds so eleganty, particularly for those who doesn’t know the meanig of this phrase. Among polish experts accepted was translation “queer” as “odmieniec”. It saves the main meaning „queer” as “dziwny”, “odmienny” and shows pejoration of this word: “odmieniec” as “dziwak”.

2007-11-20 07:02:34 · 2 answers · asked by marta_notaro 1 in Homework Help

I was in english today and this kids at my table were pushing this other kids stuff on the floor.these kids do this to me all the time and the kid today that got his things pushed over always laughs .so when they pushed his things on the ground,i started to laugh like he alwys does and then he crys in the bath room and didnt want to come in class.I felt really bad about it and myteach comes to talk to me and the other kids that did it and she starts yelling at us and everything and they call my parents to tell them what happend and then my dad slaps me in the face.IT WAS SO PAINFUL.Do u think its fair tht i got in all this trouble just because i laughed?Btw i talked to the kid after school and he said it wasnt my fault , it was the other kid.And my teacher thought tht i did everthing.

2007-11-20 07:00:19 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Teaching

2007-11-20 06:58:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Words & Wordplay

2007-11-20 06:45:21 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

i have a science teacher he is very good.the only thing i dont like is that the class i have is very noisy i cant learn anything my grades in science last year whera all As no i have a C what should i do?

2007-11-20 06:34:05 · 19 answers · asked by hectormichel22 1 in Teaching

2007-11-20 06:29:22 · 9 answers · asked by ojpepsi13 1 in Preschool

i know generally speaking the word "too" means "also". my question is...

which of the following is proper grammar:

"something we can all relate to"

-or-

"something we can all relate too"

and why? thanks

2007-11-20 06:26:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Words & Wordplay

A game cost $1 to play. If you roll a sum of 7 on two dice you will win $10 or if you roll a sum of 11 you will win $ 5. All other sums will result in your losing your $ 1. What is the expected value?

Im lost..what do I do first?? Please help if you can...(thanks in advance)

2007-11-20 06:16:56 · 1 answers · asked by carmenclassof06 4 in Homework Help

Like when people at school call me thick white girl cause like i got a big booty and everything but i though it was bad to be thick when your white cause that means you fat doesent it???? please answer

2007-11-20 05:54:06 · 16 answers · asked by someperson 1 in Words & Wordplay

1--They watching the number of weights Frau Balek had to throw on the scale before the swinging pointer came to the rest exactly over the black line, **that thin line of justice which had to be redrawn every year**.



2--When my grandfather's parents had gone out as small children to gather mushrooms and sell them in order that **they might season the meat of the rich people of Prague or be backed into game pies**, it had never occurred to anyone to break this law.


3--what they had spun **could be measured by the yard**

2007-11-20 05:50:44 · 3 answers · asked by Amir 1 in Words & Wordplay

...ple are sure about themselves, while clever ones are confused about themselves. Can you explain this???

2007-11-20 05:41:35 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Quotations

Etymology is the origin.
Ex: Latin, French

2007-11-20 05:36:09 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Words & Wordplay

2007-11-20 05:35:12 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Teaching

is a from a literature book, this would b a great help!!!

2007-11-20 05:30:02 · 1 answers · asked by orlandofox89 2 in Homework Help

A window is in the form of a rectangle surmounted by a semicircle. The rectangle is of clear glass, whereas the semicircle is of tinted class that transmits only half as much light per unit area as clear glass does. The total perimeter is fixed. Find the proportions of the window that will admit the most light. Negect the thickness of the frame. PLEASE show work. Me, my classmates, and friends are really stumpted on this one!

2007-11-20 05:21:17 · 1 answers · asked by Nathan 1 in Homework Help

find a value for k so that 9m^2-kn^2 will have the factors 3m+7n and 3m-7n.

2007-11-20 05:18:11 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

A. The dress was terribly old.
B. Mr. Dodge moved in an extremely slow manner.
C. Lucy quickly hid behind the tree.
D. Jacob was a very smart boy.

2007-11-20 05:10:21 · 5 answers · asked by depressed chic 1 in Homework Help

2007-11-20 04:54:17 · 2 answers · asked by kiwi 1 in Trivia

2007-11-20 04:26:04 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Quotations

Mainstreaming is the practice of educating students with special needs in regular classes during specific time periods based on their skills.

Here is the link: http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/Mainstreaming.html

Inclusion is the practice of educating students with special needs in regular classes for all or nearly all of the day instead of in special education classes.

Here is the link: http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861620664/inclusion.html

2007-11-20 04:25:46 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Special Education

with somthing about how the tranportation from it helped in the US

2007-11-20 04:22:27 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

he doesn't speak english very well. I want to say this:

What he lacks in English, he more than makes up for in charm and drop-dead-gorgeous looks!

2007-11-20 03:59:05 · 6 answers · asked by mbm 2 in Words & Wordplay

I have been wondering this for a long time. At first I thought it was because the person being quoted was leaving out the word(s) in parenthesis. If that was the case then the quote would never make any sense to begin with 95% of the time. In some instances the word that is in parenthesis could have been eliminated by the speaker, but not every time. Yet I don't understand why those words are being put in parenthesis. It makes absolutely no sense to me.

2007-11-20 03:57:25 · 3 answers · asked by duped4thelasttime 3 in Quotations

ive been hearing it alot but i dont know what it means

2007-11-20 03:55:27 · 15 answers · asked by Alex 2 in Words & Wordplay