Other - Society & Culture - 22 August 2006

An Example:
Last name = Lee
First name = John
Chinese Name = Jia Yue

How would the name on the identity card be listed?

1) John Lee Jia Yue
2) John Lee
3) John J.Y Lee
4) John Lee (Jia Yue)


I'm not sure which is the norm so if anyone knows .. please tell me. Thanks!

2006-08-22 20:31:08 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why do so many black women have such amazing bodies. I see so many that are put together so damn well. I dont think any other race of women have bodies like them with the exception of some latin women. My problem is that i have never dated one because ofmy friends and family. its funny because i know alot of my friends feel the same way but they wouldnt even consider dating a black girl. They sit around and talk about how sexy the black girls are on videos all the time and they always look at them on web sites but if i say something about dating one they give me s@#$!

2006-08-22 20:20:45 · 11 answers · asked by jerry s 1

is it about family reunion?or buying new clothes?or preparing delicious food?worshipping a diety?how do i put it all together if i were to explain it to a forigner.please help.thank u.

2006-08-22 20:16:13 · 4 answers · asked by ramazies 1

Do you mainly come here to ask questions or answer them? or are you just looking for someone to chat to?

2006-08-22 20:13:04 · 11 answers · asked by thpethal_ed 3

2006-08-22 20:10:19 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-22 20:05:31 · 5 answers · asked by kynance_cove 2

serious answers would be nice but i know there are going to be some silly ones

2006-08-22 20:02:55 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-22 19:58:28 · 19 answers · asked by stent 2

I saw it hanging out around the dining hall a few weeks ago but I haven't seen it in awhile now. Does anyone know what happened to it?

2006-08-22 19:54:29 · 6 answers · asked by Sass B 4

I offered to coach my young neighbour in his English and math and we had our first class yesterday. But now I don't want to help him anymore, 'cos I was doing it for the money and now I realized I don't need the extra money. How do I tell the mother that I can't teach him anymore, without sounding rude? What would be the best excuse?

Please help!

2006-08-22 19:54:08 · 12 answers · asked by blunt_yet_sharp 2

Tell me onestly about god and bad things. Doas your country have problems with neighbors countries?

2006-08-22 19:53:57 · 6 answers · asked by Denicia 6

without actually doign the drug

2006-08-22 19:50:14 · 14 answers · asked by jets666 1

when I called to get the building inspector out to do finals on my house it took two more weeks for him to get to me...Start to finish it was amazing in one weekend..How was it done?

2006-08-22 19:45:42 · 6 answers · asked by MissChatea 4

Anthony “Scott” Washington’s life reads like the pages of comeback-kid drama. This week, the 40-year old husband and father of four will take the Ohio bar exam. Rewind just 15 years and you will uncover an inspiring transformation that exemplifies the life-changing power that exists within the human spirit. For years, his life revolved around his gang, crack cocaine addiction, and habit-supporting crimes. Functionally illiterate with a rap sheet of 19 arrests, Scott Washington experienced a turning point on Easter Sunday morning in 1990. It resurrected his potential and changed the course of his life forever.

“I had been up for two to three days, drinking and smoking as much crack as I could,” recalls the Los Angeles native. “I had a five-week old baby, Scottie, and the baby’s mother, also a crack addict, walked out that weekend and never returned. Scottie would not stop crying and I began to fear that he was going to die.”

Holding the baby in his arms, he says, “I looked into his eyes, filled with tears and promised him I would never get high again. I apologized for tolerating his mother’s crack addiction during her pregnancy, collected my belongings and my beautiful baby boy, and headed for a life free of the burden of addiction, addicts, and social deviations.”

“I think what happened that day was a spiritual experience,” he says. “I don’t think it is just a coincidence that my turning point came on Easter Sunday.”

Estranged from his family, unemployed and unskilled, Scott called his mother. She had essentially disowned him years earlier after multiple attempts to help him get his life on track,. “My mother listened and then said that I could come home on the condition that I went through a rehabilitation program.” Scott joined Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), and every day for months, he attended meetings and he always carried Scottie with him. It took three to four years before the urge for crack subsided, he admits, but he hasn’t touched drugs since that rock bottom day in April 1990.

Kicking his drug habit was just the first step to getting his life together. It would be a steep, uphill climb to create the kind of life and stability he wanted for his little boy. He needed employment, but with a criminal record, landing a job would prove a challenge. His father, a veterinarian, got him a job cleaning cages at an animal research facility. It was hard, unpleasant work, but it paid $25,000 and it was a start. His next opportunity crossed his path during an AA meeting. Someone from a local junior college football team invited him to come out and watch practice. While there, the coach asked him if he wanted to participate in practice the next day. Impressed by his physical size and abilities, the coach invited him to join the team as a fullback. Of course, that also meant he had to enroll in school.

He was 26 years old and starting community college. He took two to three classes each semester while working full-time. “For the first three years, all of my classes were remedial courses,” he says. In my first college English course, I was the only English-speaking person in the class.”

As it turns out, Scott was functionally illiterate. Introduced to drugs in the 5th grade, school had not been a priority. Now he had to make up for lost time.

Undeterred by his lack of college preparation, he was determined and says he thoroughly enjoyed education. “I was positive. I was in school! I had spent the last 10 years as an absolute loser. I felt great at this point. I had a three year old, I had been off of drugs for nearly three years. I was working and going to school.” Around this time, he also met and married his wife. A 19-year old student with two jobs, she was serious about creating a bright future. Together, they’ve done just that.

After five years, he earned an Associate of Arts degree with a 3.5 grade point average. He continued his education at California State University at Northridge. Despite a full-time work schedule, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Urban Studies two years later, graduating with honors and a 3.9 grade point average. Scott didn’t stop there. He applied to several law schools and was accepted and offered a teaching assistantship at the University of Dayton. In 2000, he and his family, including his wife, four children and his wife’s grandmother, moved to Ohio. He graduated from the University of Dayton School of Law in 2003.

“I wouldn’t be where I am now without my wife,” he insists. When he finally made it to law school, she supported the family while Scott pursued his law degree. “It takes so much to go to law school that I simply would not have been able to do it if not for her. She worked and took care of seven people.”

Although he graduated from law school, his application to sit for the bar was twice denied because of a prior felony conviction during his crime and drug days. He enlisted the help of attorney David Greer and a committee appointed by the Ohio Supreme Court overwhelmingly approved for him to sit for the bar in 2004. He takes the bar exam this week and will have to await the results. If his determination and resolve of the last 15 years is any indication, Scott Washington has a great shot at realizing his dream.

Currently a staff attorney in the Montgomery County Common Pleas Court in Dayton, Ohio, he also spends much of his time counseling young felons whose lives are strikingly similar to the life he left behind. His vision is to use his life experiences to have a positive impact on the African-American community. He speaks and motivates ex-offenders who are trying to transform their lives and offers five lessons that he gleaned from his own transformation

2006-08-22 19:38:04 · 6 answers · asked by will d 1

could not find a section relevant to this q so sorry if its in the wrong section

2006-08-22 19:36:47 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm looking for celebrities who are studying / learning Chinese Mandarin, both currently and in the past. Also, do you know of celebrities who can actually speak Chinese Mandarin?

2006-08-22 19:21:09 · 5 answers · asked by ilyn_888 2

What does it mean if a guy gives you direct eye contact all the time, smiles at you a lot, tries to make you laugh, touches you lightly a lot on the shoulders and back, gets jealous when other guys flirt/hug you, and is always is a gentleman and helps you out? Also, he calls you "mucho bonita" OH and btw: what if y'all don't speak the same language but can roughly communicate and their is a "spark" or connection between them. And when he talks to you he stares into your eyes and stands really close. and one girl said he's married, which he sure doesn't act it : why would he act this way?? oh also I am a Christian girl and I would never ever cheat with a married man because that is against my morals. I am not interested in a sexual relationship with him b/c I'm saving myself for marriage. I just genuinely like/care about him, but I don't want to fall for a guy who could be married....and I would feel horrible, absolutely awful for liking him if he's married. Why does he behave this way?

2006-08-22 18:55:49 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-22 18:54:39 · 42 answers · asked by lafftah 2

2006-08-22 18:27:43 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-22 18:17:25 · 9 answers · asked by the matt 2

It will take setting a few examples to set everyone straight. Saudis got it exactly right. Hence their nominal crime rate.

2006-08-22 18:14:26 · 12 answers · asked by hghghghgh 1

Why is it that only african americans hold a grudge against being slaves to america when the first slaves were from France? I am from France and I dont. Cajun happens to be French. Why is it that the french didnt make a racist deal over hurrican katrina and the african americans acted like they were being discriminated against... I am cajun.. FRENCH. i just want to know why!

My family wasnt saved durring Hurrican Katrina.. It had nothing to do with the color of their skin.

2006-08-22 18:11:52 · 7 answers · asked by ROO! 3

Men have always known it, they just keep quiet about it.

2006-08-22 18:09:52 · 11 answers · asked by hghghghgh 1

and if so..... can you raise my hand?

2006-08-22 18:06:05 · 13 answers · asked by Ms Fortune 7

2006-08-22 17:58:46 · 4 answers · asked by Kaitlyn 1

wanted to see how many guys would actually try out for the college team if they were under 6 foot...considering theres guys 6"1 and up on the squad

2006-08-22 17:57:33 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

What should one do to be part of History? Obvisouly in a good way. Creating this sort of Neo Holocaust would be a desperate attempt to enter the History books.

2006-08-22 17:57:11 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-22 17:56:08 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think that old guy on "The Joe Schmoe Show" said that when someone said something that hurt someone's feelings.

2006-08-22 17:51:23 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-22 17:51:13 · 10 answers · asked by sugarpie 1