Social Science - 26 August 2007

I'm currently 17 years old. I have a job, good grades and friends at school. However my problem seems to be whenever i'm in a conversation with someone i know i always look at the people straight in the eye, and it makes me think about what they are thinking about me. eg.am i starring at them?, I have a hard time smiling. how ever ironically i am a sales associate at a department store and i have no problem communicating with customers eye to eye. The reason i am asking this question is because my dumb attitude might cost me my job if i keep going like this. For example i am way to serious i try to lighten up but i can't make a joke or make people laugh. I can't even talk to a person and have a good conversation more then once because i'll just end up talking about the same things i talked about before.sometimes i say dumb things just so i say somthing. I know that if i was more humourous there would be alot more ways to continue a conversation, but i just can't think of things to say

2007-08-26 14:16:37 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

I always thought of the two genders as puzzle piece, they both compliment each other but are different in shape and personality (usually). Is this depiction accurate? Or are they equal?

2007-08-26 13:57:40 · 23 answers · asked by jaggy_233 1 in Gender Studies

I just began my second year at college. Nowadays, i feel very insecure about my looks and personality. Over the summer, back to home, i was a pretty confident person all around. I don’t feel like myself. I feel fat and ugly. When i go out, i always notice guys wanting to talk to my friends and not me. I’ve had small insecures is like everyone and I know I’m not unattractive but i've been feeling very down lately. How can i change this attitude..its interfering with my life.

2007-08-26 13:39:45 · 4 answers · asked by Indgrid 1 in Psychology

If you are a parent, do you possess these traits and qualities?

2007-08-26 13:10:46 · 6 answers · asked by Subconsciousless 7 in Psychology

sickly cringe ?

2007-08-26 12:44:19 · 14 answers · asked by astra 5 in Psychology

If it helps I'm a bit thick but I have two hands.

2007-08-26 12:18:31 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Anthropology

2007-08-26 12:15:39 · 3 answers · asked by J's leather emporium 3 in Psychology

Ok...I am still very upset over a breakup, and its been over a year. He broke up with me to be with someone else. SOmeone who had his child before we met. She was a one night stand and he was ashamed, but I helped him thru so much. He was depressed and suicidal. He actually threatened suicide to me. Then when he finally came to terms with all that was bothering him, he acted like he never knew me. Til this day, I still get really upset, because he has moved on without a moment of remorse. I fell humiliated, used ,and the suicide aspect of it I think is what gets to me the most. I have told him off and then felt bad about it. I wish I never met him....I really do. I was happy and had self confidence and thought love was real before him. Now I feel he has effected me so much, I just cant seem to get passed any of it. I hate him for what he did to me and I wanted so badly to confront him in person, but he pretty much told me to never call him again. We were together for almost 2 yrs

2007-08-26 12:12:47 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

i had a dream that i had a baby in my hand and the door bell rang, i put the baby on my older son, but there was a string attach to me and the baby, when i got to the door there were two detectives at the door, saying we are ready

2007-08-26 12:07:06 · 7 answers · asked by mistymornings 1 in Dream Interpretation

Luckily I am

2007-08-26 11:58:05 · 29 answers · asked by returnofkarlos 2 in Psychology

so mourning doves were supposedly the birds of love in my dream. they sang instead of cooed. so these two people were talking and the bird was singing by them. that means those people were meant for eachother. i'm not sure if i was one of the people. well i walked away from the scene and the mourning dove followed me. i turned around and my face was old and ugly and stuff. then i looked at the bird and said something and it exploded into ashes. then something said something. then i woke up.

2007-08-26 11:54:24 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dream Interpretation

In honor of women's suffrage on August 26, Ellen Goodman announced the Equal Rites Awards to those who have labored over the last 12 months to set back the cause of women. The nominees are listed in her article:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/08/24/a_year_of_notable_setbacks_for_women/

Here's the first nominee:
We begin by looking to Japan where Shinzo Abe's government wins the Knights in (Tarnished) Armor Prize. There, the prime minister refused to apologize for the Japanese Army's use of "comfort women" as sexual slaves in World War II. That was after his health minister called women "baby-making machines." And finally, the bodyguard for his gender equality minister was arrested for molesting a college student on a train. We send the land of the rising sun a sunset clause.

There's quite a few more listed, who do you think set back the cause of women the most during the past 12 months?

2007-08-26 11:49:44 · 13 answers · asked by edith clarke 7 in Gender Studies

I often feel like my identity disappears within a group. It isn't a positive thing for me. Because of this, I avoid most group situations. I do well one on one. Can anyone relate? How have you broken through this? Please only serious answers. Thank you!

2007-08-26 11:16:47 · 5 answers · asked by Elijahsrelative 1 in Psychology

this nothing happening 47 year old guy who seems to want to downplay everyone,was telling me that i had no chance in something,when i know and others know that i am legitimately skilled in that field,and was making blasphemous comments about getting into a field i would never get into.It frustrates me because everyone knows that i have the ability in the particular thing i'm good at,and this guy just downplayed all of that when he knows absolutely nothing about it and he is a washed up guy who has never done anything with his life.(but downplays others)It's making me fume,what do i do about it?All i can do is vent.

2007-08-26 11:14:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

I am standing in a house on the 2nd floor looking out the window(it is night time) when I see 3 really bright balls of light comming at me. They were so bright that I could not look at them so I fell to the floor and covered my face(but I was not afraid) I somehow knew they were angels. I then woke up and had an amazing feeling of well being the rest of the day.

2007-08-26 11:09:39 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dream Interpretation

bout going back to school tonmorow when I go into the gym for wating to go to classes my firends is getting in late so I ahve no one to sit with what shoud I do?

2007-08-26 11:08:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

I know the definitions, but I don't understand them. Opportunity cost is the most highly valued opportunity or alternative forfeited when a choice is made. Trade-off is a situation in which more of one thing necessarily means less of something else. I need to understand these definitions for my economics class.

2007-08-26 10:56:58 · 4 answers · asked by Laura 2 in Economics

I'm not a pedophile or pervert!
BUT,... (lol, not usually a good start ) haha

When did Sex get so taboo in general?

when did it go from happening in public to being hidden.

Why are children so sheltered from hearing about it,

because they might engage in sex acts? Is that why? Don't kids play doctor and stuff anyway?

Just curious as to why, not condoning!

actually I oppose public sex, pedophila, and would shelter my kids from it too!

I was just curious after seeing a porn icon on yahoo answers, and people yelling about children being on here

why are children on here anyway? lol


I have the feeling I'm going to regret asking this..

2007-08-26 10:56:57 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

How do sociologists interpret religion?

Do they see it as something created by man to help keep order and relative peace on Earth?

2007-08-26 10:05:25 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sociology

2007-08-26 09:56:08 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

Hello, I'm 16 years old. turning 17 on March :D
Well on August the 20th,I started my junior year.I have two honor classes American History & English 3.Now,I would like to have a safe non-stressful year.Here's what I will like to accomplish and stay focus on:

Maintaining Good grades
Focusing on out of high-school plans(What to pursue,which college or university? Scholarships,grants etc..)
Enrich Vocabulary/Grammar
Gain improvement in general knowledge/wisdom towards things.(Learn how to pay bills,etc)
Gain improvement in mathematics (math phobia/LD)
And hopefully finish my retake geometry night-school course.
And Community Service.

Other than that is there anything else I should focus on?On my senior year,I will hopefully learn to drive.How can I break down all these things in pieces so i won't get stressed and give up on school.I just want to succeed =/

Thanks in advance!

2007-08-26 09:50:45 · 2 answers · asked by Jessie 1 in Psychology

2007-08-26 09:35:18 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

At uni I had quite a few economics courses and my conclusion was that most of macro-economic models are worthless, and a laissez faire system is better, because the government doesn't have to worry much about economic issues because it has little impact on them.
I say this because of the ceteris paribus assumptions in many of them, which is utopic, and also because there's still discussion about why many important economic events happened in the past without a conclusive explanation; also forecasting with certainty human behaviour and its outcome even through mathematic formulas to me is nonsense.

2007-08-26 09:17:57 · 1 answers · asked by jczapa7 2 in Economics

angry at them?

2007-08-26 09:15:54 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

2007-08-26 08:50:28 · 3 answers · asked by Desert Sienna 4 in Other - Social Science

Periodically I dream that I remove my bones from slits in my skin. Before I realize it, I have removed them all and then panic because I can no longer pick them up to replace them. Is anyone familiar with this one?

2007-08-26 08:31:27 · 3 answers · asked by plb5000 3 in Dream Interpretation

At the weekend I take a nap in the afternoon and I always have the same dream. It feels so real I'm never sure if I am awake or not:
basically I'm sleeping and I feel someone walking into the house. Most times it's my boyfriend and I can hear him walking upstairs (although this afternoon it was some woman and it scared me) so I think 'I have to get up' only I can't move my body, my arms won't move to check my watch, I can't roll over, I can't even really open my eyes. Whoever is coming up the stairs never quite gets there and there's no conversation, I don't ask for help or anything.
It feels so incredibly real that I wake up for real eventually feeling confused, sometimes a little freaked that someone may be in the house and I can still feel how heavy and paralysed my body was.
It happens at every afternoon nap, never at night and as I really need the extra sleep it's just making me more tired.
Does it mean anything?

2007-08-26 08:10:05 · 11 answers · asked by Elle Dee 3 in Dream Interpretation

People sleepwalk all the time and do unintentional things so what prevents one from unintentionally killing someone or doing something bad while they are sleeping?

2007-08-26 07:55:49 · 2 answers · asked by Sakic fan 3 in Psychology

your boss?

2007-08-26 07:51:55 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

Assuming that the MPC is .75, equal $10 billion increases in government spending and tax collections will:

a. leave the equilibrium GDP unchanged
b. increase the equilibrium GDP by $ 10 billion
c. increase the equilibrium GDP by $ 2.5 billion
d. reduce the equilibrium GDP by $ 10 billion

I cant find the right answer, I thought that the answer was $40 billion, found by:

10 billion x (1/1-.75)
10 billion x (1/.25)
10 billion x (4)
40 billion is not an option, am I missing something?

2007-08-26 07:49:56 · 1 answers · asked by Newlywed 1 in Economics