Social Science - 7 December 2006

I am stressed out to the point of insanity. I have no idea what to do. I recently graduated high school and I'm trying to figure out what to do with my life, i don't have a job, i don't have a plan, i don't have anything!! My family is putting all kinds of pressure on me to decide what i want to do, but its not that easy. I just cant take it anymore. If this doesn't stop I'm gonna make a decision where I'm gonna be unhappy and i don't want that. I just wish my family would back off, I've even told them to, but they wont stop. I wanna go to college( I'm still not sure for what), and my family is telling me if i cant make a decision i might as well just join the army. They make me feel like such a failure. I'm seriously on the verge of ending all this with a gun. I just need something to help me decide and all this to stop.

2006-12-07 05:09:08 · 9 answers · asked by kadu_kunze 1 in Psychology

It's a nuature v nurture question I think.

2006-12-07 05:07:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

What can I mix it up with; another bachelor’s degree in graphic designing? Probably make commercials or something?

2006-12-07 05:06:25 · 2 answers · asked by kellygirlcari15 1 in Psychology

Do women ejaculate? If so how much?

2006-12-07 05:01:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Gender Studies

The Grameen Bank was founded by the recent Nobel Peace Prize winner, Sir Muhammad Yunis (Bangladesh). This bank issues low scale loans (less than $200) with no collateral, towards those seeking to develop a small scale manufacturing unit or business. These banks observe an astonishingly high rate of return (more than 90%). The basic objective of the Grameen bank is to help the poor stand on their own feet.

Obviously, there have not been more significant ideas to help solve the problem of poverty. Are there any other ways to end poverty? If your solution targets a specific region (Somalia, for example), please specify the region. ....Looking forward to your response.....Thank you.... - Praveen

2006-12-07 05:01:12 · 3 answers · asked by Praveen C 2 in Economics

2006-12-07 04:46:58 · 5 answers · asked by j w 1 in Sociology

If so can you explain the main elements and how they are connected. I'm lost.

2006-12-07 04:45:38 · 3 answers · asked by j w 1 in Sociology

2006-12-07 04:43:17 · 14 answers · asked by Smitty Carmichael 2 in Psychology

2006-12-07 04:32:15 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sociology

2006-12-07 04:29:45 · 26 answers · asked by Charlene W 1 in Anthropology

my husband is going out of town today and he asked me this morning to get the kids ready and all of us go together. well it is my birthday tommorow and i already have plans with my friend who is coming in from out of town to see me. so i said no. he then gets so angry with me. calling me all kinds of names. well i told him fine i would cancel the plans i made for 2 weeks to go even tho i know it will not be good. he refused and left. come to find out he asked everyone at his work to go but they couldnt. so i feel like the last choice. should i be feeling guilty for not wanting to go? why would someone get so upset just because i already made other plans?

2006-12-07 04:28:30 · 9 answers · asked by kim 3 in Psychology

2006-12-07 04:27:50 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sociology

which will mean that they are less likely to break apart the fabricated self that we all construct, and out of whose eyes we think we are looking out of at the world..... and so are less likely to produce spiritual philosophers of the highest calibre....or does being more emotional make the self image less concrete to start with?

2006-12-07 04:27:11 · 4 answers · asked by catweazle 5 in Gender Studies

2006-12-07 04:25:40 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sociology

Middle East and especially African .

2006-12-07 04:19:20 · 4 answers · asked by Christian M 1 in Economics

Millionaires are so last millennium. The new Forbes 400 list of richest Americans is billionaires only.

If you're net worth is a mere $999 million, forget it. A billion means a thousand million, and that's the Forbes 400 minimum -- up from $900 million in 2005.

Donald Trump and two of his kids grace the Forbes 400 cover, but ranked No. 94 with $2.9 billion, Trump's a long way from No. 1 Bill Gates with $53 billion.

The combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans is a record-breaking $1.25 trillion. That's about the same amount of combined wealth held by the 57 million households who make up half the U.S. population.

The economy is booming for billionaires. It's a bust for many other Americans.

A record 400 Americans are billionaires -- and a record 47 million Americans have no health insurance.

America has 400 billionaires -- and 37 million people below the official poverty line.

The official poverty line for one person was just $9,973 in 2005 (latest data). That wouldn't cover the custom-made men's shoes ($4,128) and Hermes purse ($6,250) on the Forbes Cost of Living Extremely Well Index. The official poverty line of $15,577 for a three-person family is lower than the cost of the Patek Philippe men's gold watch ($17,600).

The Forbes 400 minimum is up $100 million since 2005, but the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $5.15 an hour -- just $10,712 a year -- since 1997. GOP leaders in Congress have been holding a raise for minimum wage workers hostage to more giant tax cuts for wealthy inheritors.

Wealth isn't trickling down. It's flooding up -- from workers to bosses, small investors to big, poorer to richer.

The heirs to Wal-Mart founders Sam and Bud Walton have a combined $82.5 billion -- while the children of Wal-Mart workers swell the ranks of state health insurance programs for the neediest.

In today's corporate America, workers see gutted paychecks and pensions despite rising worker productivity, while CEOs get golden pay, perks, pensions and parachutes. The pay gap between average workers and CEOs has grown nine times wider since the 1970s.

The number of billionaires is a record high, but the share of national income going to wages and salaries is at a record low.

U.S. corporate profits increased 21 percent in the past year, Market Watch reported in March. "Profits have been so high because almost all of the benefits from productivity improvements are flowing to the owners of capital rather than to the workers," said Market Watch.

The wealthiest 1 percent of Americans (minimum net worth $6 million) owned 62 percent of the nation's business assets, 51 percent of stocks and 70 percent of bonds as of 2004, according to the latest data from the Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances -- which excludes the Forbes 400. That's way up from 1989, when the wealthiest 1 percent owned 54 percent of business assets, 41 percent of stocks and 52 percent of bonds.

Our growing economy is not producing a growing middle class, but a richer aristocracy.

The high point for median household income -- the income of the household in the middle -- was $47,671 in 1999, adjusted for inflation. In 2005, median household income was $1,345 less at $46,326. In the same period, the Forbes 400 gained more than 100 billionaires.

Government policies are fueling rising inequality. Taxpayers with incomes above $1 million will see their after-tax income grow by about 6 percent this year thanks to tax cuts the nation can't afford.

In an economy where money is flowing up to the very top, even college-educated workers are going backward. Inflation-adjusted median household income was lower in 2005 than 1999 even when the householder had a bachelor's degree, master's degree, professional degree or doctorate.

The problem is much bigger than the rich getting richer, while the poor get poorer. The really rich are getting richer at the expense of most everyone else.

Solutions include restoring the link between rising worker productivity and pay, raising the miserly minimum wage, narrowing the obscene pay gap between workers and CEOs, rolling back tax cuts for the wealthy -- and stop taxing income from work more than income from capital gains.

2006-12-07 04:15:14 · 3 answers · asked by vanman8u 5 in Economics

how much money is this

2006-12-07 04:04:50 · 5 answers · asked by shorty 1 in Economics

2006-12-07 03:59:36 · 11 answers · asked by indumathy d 1 in Gender Studies

2006-12-07 03:58:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

some guy asked that question and I had no clue. do you know?

2006-12-07 03:57:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

Can you fast-forward through them? Is your life on Tivo?

2006-12-07 03:52:37 · 16 answers · asked by monkey 5 in Psychology

Who is the most beautiful woman in the world?

2006-12-07 03:48:35 · 22 answers · asked by jen 1 in Gender Studies

One in four mother's give birth as a single mother, often these children are planned and are in a marriage before this happens. Also domestic abuse is far more common when women are pregnant too. Should we go back to the days where if a man got a women pregnant he would have to take responsiblity and marry her. Before men say keep your legs crossed (in marriage, where children are planned is a silly answer). Why do men run, what are they scared off?

2006-12-07 03:47:49 · 38 answers · asked by oceanwaves 2 in Gender Studies

Okay, so this question was brief and kind of unspecific. I think I might have a lying problem, but I’m just not sure. I’m not pleased with myself, so I seek ways to become other people in the only way I can: online. I’m very good at conning other people online. Now, this may not seem like such a talent and I suppose it’s quite easy to do, but to be able to convince someone I’m a “20-year old male” from anywhere on earth for up to 6 months at a time I must be doing something right. Of course I’m not though, in fact I’m a 16-year-old girl who lives in Texas. But to be able to convince people that I’m someone else is a thrill. To have them to the point where they claim they’re “in love” with me. Now I’m smart enough to know that people say things they don’t mean, much like me, but these people, these girls, mean what they say. And are who they say they are. I avoid speaking about phone numbers, or web cams until they mention it themselves, and when they do I make up an excuse and avoid it again, until they mention it yet again. At this time, when it gets too much to avoid, I simply erase them from my minds and my contact list. And I start over. Now I have no doubt you all will find this strange, but my question is: does this mean I have a lying problem? I’ve been told that people do this kind of stuff all the time, just to experiment. But, I actually absorb myself into the person, so much that for that moment I am that person. Maybe it’s acting. I just don’t know. What do you think?

2006-12-07 03:45:38 · 18 answers · asked by liawhite333 2 in Psychology

2006-12-07 03:44:43 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Economics

2006-12-07 03:39:41 · 1 answers · asked by christine ♠ 1 in Economics

There was once a girl named Sue who had a sister. Their mother died, sadness, crying. At the funeral Sue saw a very good looking man, a very atractive man. After three days, Sue's sister died. Why did her sister die?

I'll provide the analysis tomorrow please recheck this question after answering. (I will do an edit)

2006-12-07 03:39:29 · 9 answers · asked by skullmaniac16 2 in Psychology

Name one way mitosis and meiosis are alike and one way they are different.

2006-12-07 03:34:49 · 1 answers · asked by ♫ Think happy thoughts ♪ 3 in Other - Social Science

I have an economic question to answer explaing automatic stabilizers and how they have an impact of the business cycle. Please help if possible.

2006-12-07 03:34:09 · 1 answers · asked by April G 1 in Economics

your kids,dreams,etc.

2006-12-07 03:33:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology