Social Science - 22 September 2007

Dollar bouncing back to the Pound in the near future?

For years and years it seemed the British Pound was worth about $1.50 to $1.70. However, since late last year the Pound skyrocketed overnight to about $2.00. Why did this happen so quickly, and will we ever see the old rates any time in the near future?

2007-09-22 03:02:37 · 4 answers · asked by Rita K 1 in Economics

2007-09-22 03:00:34 · 30 answers · asked by anil m 6 in Gender Studies

2007-09-22 03:00:26 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

It was never this bad, But now im always nearly in my own world. I loose concentration easily, and when people talk to me i pretend to listen but just daydream..

Why am i daydreaming sooo much now?

2007-09-22 02:24:03 · 16 answers · asked by ♣Kermit the Frog♣ 4 in Psychology

and would you actually use violence if you could? (I mean if you knew you were strong enough not to get beaten up?) I mean in everyday life, like when I am driving and have lit the flash to turn right, and then the smart*** behind me overpasses from the right, and he swears too!

2007-09-22 02:14:13 · 9 answers · asked by cpinatsi 7 in Psychology

I have been through a lot of things in my life. and always thought i was different in some way - for my brothers (who both have disorders; adhd and aspergers) it was the way they acted, but for me i felt angry and annoyed about being educated at home, i was the only one who questioned things, and the only one who was depressed about my lack of social life. at the age of 12 i started getting depressed or signs of depression, this was because of an event that happened as a child by my father. but also i started rebelling because i was tired of the abnormal 'big brother' setting that i was living in. it was hell, it was like being in a cage.
ive never got on with my mum, and she used to emotionally abuse me when i had depression trying to get me diagnosed as a schizo, an aspie and a number of things ive lost count. so what happened? i started believing it. and now i have no space to think for myself ive started looking towards having asperger's - or is it PTSD? im clueless.

2007-09-22 02:10:47 · 7 answers · asked by dizzyworld656 1 in Psychology

share with me your thoughts on that insight...

2007-09-22 01:57:09 · 6 answers · asked by liveinlove<3 1 in Psychology

for me to be pissed off at men as a whole?When it seems that all the men I have come across don't have respect for women.All the boyfriends I have ever had have ONLY wanted sex.They stayed around just long enough to hear me say no I am waiting for marraige then it seems they dissappeared off the face of the earth.I was beggining to think that I needed to give it up to have a boyfriend but then I wised up and said I don't NEED a guy.Anyway even my dad has made sexist comments like 1)women can't drive 2) HOE-tel (hotel) 3)he tells me not to go spreading my legs otherwise i will not be worth anything.How should i feel?I hate who i am.Growing up all i saw on tv was women being portrayed as "SEXY."I always felt confused.I didnt feel that i was a whole person.I felt like i was a walking sex toy.I didnt have an identity.So is it wrong that I am bitter towards men period and am just waiting for everyone i come across to say something sexist or only want sex so i can write another guy off?

2007-09-22 01:56:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

I can't walk anywhere alone or i will be murderd or raped. yet i need a job to pay for everything, I dont have a car, but i can walk and catch trains and buses, I will be studying next year and my best option would be to get a job bar tending at night which makes the situation of being alone even worse. I come from a small town where there is no work and no transport to anywhere and not much study option...most people borne in that town stay in that town and become dole bludgers. i have been trying to get out for ages. And can finally go, everyone is trying to stop me as the city is so dangerous. and say it won't work. I just really want to have a life and go somewhere, im also not the person to stay in the same town all my life, I want to travel. I know i need to take risks...I already am taking a lot of risks with the money that took ages saving up cleaning up animal poo. Sometimes i just wish i wasn't so alone. I am scared im just more determined to get somewhere.

2007-09-22 01:37:37 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

I mean to forget about 7 years of my university educations (in the demanding field of IT) and begin something completely different...

2007-09-22 01:36:39 · 19 answers · asked by star 1 in Psychology

"She went to the kitchen to make sandwiches for packed lunches, took meat
out of the freezer for tomorrows supper, put spoons and bowls on the table,
some wet clothes in the dryer and a load in the washer. She watered the
plants, she wrote a note to the teacher, and pulled a text book out from
under the chair. She looked in on the kids and turned off their bedside
lamps, hung up a shirt, threw some dirty socks into the laundry and updated
her "To do" list.

About that time, dad turned off the TV and announced "I'm going to bed". And
he did ... without another thought"

Sandra Parsons The Times 9/22/2007

2007-09-22 01:33:22 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Gender Studies

I was reading an article on wikipedia about how some people believe that the world we see around us exists only in our imagination, and that no one else around us really exists. Our mind alone (yours or mine, whosever point you are looking from) is the only concious one and anyone else you see is not really concious.

I hope someone out there can tell me the name of that theory. Pretty long and difficult word to spell but can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

2007-09-22 01:24:44 · 8 answers · asked by nickynacky88 1 in Psychology

What are all the reasons people keep a diary? Can keeping a diary imrove the way one lives his or her life? A book full of empty pages was the old school way of keeping a diary, what is are the new ways some one can keep a diary.

2007-09-22 01:12:56 · 6 answers · asked by Mic 2 in Psychology

she has done some things to you that weren't favorable,but you in turn ask her to come here(ordering her around)curse like crazy in front of her knowing she doesn't like it,play mind games with her,piss her off by asking her age forcefully, drive her out of a facility out of anger and things of those nature.

2007-09-22 01:01:52 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

2007-09-22 00:51:41 · 7 answers · asked by joanmazza 5 in Sociology

There's something i do not understand here: Some people in my house praise me, respect me and even fear me, even though I haven't done something special in my life. They think I'm better than anyone else, just because I've got a computer and they don't

2007-09-22 00:43:17 · 6 answers · asked by Abdulla S 1 in Psychology

To make a long story into a short one..I visited a guy friend whos moved to another country a few days ago..we had been chatting for a yr and I knew he liked me. He even said hurry up & come over. Actually we didnt really know each other before he moved. Anyhow, hit it off, kissed and a bit more but I'm not a fast mover, so even tho we had great passion I held off his advances. He was cool with it though asked me 'if not now then when?' I'm a shy type and need time before sex. He had invited me on a trip with another guy friend to leave the next day, roughing&sleeping in a car. The friend also invited me. But next day he txted me to say it wouldnt work with 3 travelling & said nothing else! I was upset but wished him a nice trip & said sure 3 is a bad number which IT IS!! Anyhow, saw him online yest. & said hi, we chatted friendly & i told him Id like to meet to talk when he got back but we got disconnected.Maybe he logged off?We have grt. chemistry.Is he only after sex?

2007-09-22 00:33:47 · 13 answers · asked by gentle girl 1 in Psychology

In your own humble opinion...think about it...how can you guys make a support for this claim? that those who didnt have brothers and sisters are...if we can portray them, as socially inferior than those with siblings? Can anyone give me their opinions or research? If research, can you also give the reference?

2007-09-22 00:27:25 · 6 answers · asked by Jed Stephen 3 in Psychology

2007-09-22 00:21:30 · 11 answers · asked by princess] 1 in Sociology