OMG-I-NEED-HELP-WITH-MY-HW
Homework, that is. But not too much help, please.
Date: March 27, 2006
Categories: The Universe
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The Malignant Mandolin
in March 27th, 2006 @ 14:50First post?
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Trillian of Rhodes
in March 27th, 2006 @ 15:06heeee heeee!
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Skipper Nancy
in March 27th, 2006 @ 15:07Im not sure why I did that. OOPs I put it under the wring name , too.
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The Malignant Mandolin
in March 27th, 2006 @ 15:20Yay!! I got first post twice!! (I’m very proud of myself)
wheeeeeeee gg
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Skipper Nancy
in March 27th, 2006 @ 15:23ahhh, and I meant wrong, not wring.
I dont have any homework to need help with becauz im ON SPRING BREAK!!!
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Frodo
in March 27th, 2006 @ 15:37Um do any of you know how to sort vocab words (i cant do part of speach or pronunciation)?
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Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker
in March 27th, 2006 @ 15:39haha
i’m gonna LOVE this thread.
So…i have a test on antigone next week…anybody have any brilliantly insightful probings into the human morals and motives that could possibly relate to this play in, say, a half to three quarter page rant?
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Frodo
in March 27th, 2006 @ 15:46Whoa post 6 that is the closest that ive ever gottento 1 *6th post dance* and any help?
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The Malignant Mandolin
in March 27th, 2006 @ 15:51what kind of words do you need to sort?
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Frodo
in March 27th, 2006 @ 15:51well, i am just dieing here, oh no the buzzards……..
my muse just arrived!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*screams with joy*
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Skipper N.
in March 27th, 2006 @ 16:32Antigone.. hmmm. I never read it, however I did play Antigone in my summer camp production of it. She was sort of the first femenist, wasnt she?
You could just do the general shpeal about hubris and arrogance and why people are arrogant and how things go wrong if you do. Im not sure that thats any help, but I cant remember the story very well.
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frankenfaerie
in March 27th, 2006 @ 16:37sorting vocab words by parts of speech shouldn’t be too hard…but the pronunciation, well, that’ just confusing…what words, exactly?
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frankenfaerie
in March 27th, 2006 @ 16:42does anyone know the answer to:
when a liquid boils, how the kinetic energies of the liquid and vapor molecules compare?
because it’s really confusing me. i don’t know if the answer should be about their speed or pressure or temperature….
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Kororra
in March 27th, 2006 @ 16:51Word problems!!!
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If the square of a positive number is added to five times this number, the result is 36. Find the number.I got-
xsquared + 5x = 36I would like a hint or two on whether this is correct as the begining equation.
My deadline is 7:15 pm.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(or ill have to make up mathimaticaly inacurate fibs and say i did my hw)
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Duncan_Quagmire
in March 27th, 2006 @ 17:07(#14):
Looks good to me. Now just set it equal to 0, factor, & you should be good to go.
You should only have one answer…
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Pentatonikk
in March 27th, 2006 @ 17:13The equation looks good. And you’d then subtract 36, and do it as a quadratic, throwing out the negative answer when you finish. I won’t do the problem for you, but that’s how you do it.
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frankenfaerie
in March 27th, 2006 @ 17:27ooo is it factoring?
[Snip! Nice work, FF, but it goes too far in the way of help. –Admin.]
or am i not supposed to do your hw for you? i can’t resist a goode mathe problem.
x2 = xsquared, by the way. but i suppose that was obvious.
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Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker
in March 27th, 2006 @ 17:3911-thanx, but won’t work. Last time there were three or four essays and a bonus. There’s a limit to how much you can rant about stuff. Unfortunately. *sigh*
I gots math to do and doesn’t want to do it. But i have a test tomorrow, and so i must. *sigh* I’m alright on the problems, but the drawing is torture. I am definitely not an artist in any way, shape, or form. I CAN’T DRAW DIHEDRAL ANGLES! AAAH! HELLLLLLPPPP!!!!
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yayforhotpinkbunnies!
in March 27th, 2006 @ 17:51y should i
i just only finished mine: grin :
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yayforhotpinkbunnies!
in March 27th, 2006 @ 17:52sorry bout that
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Kororra
in March 27th, 2006 @ 18:01*shouts breathlessly*
Thank You! Thank You!What is a dihedral angle?
g2g-parental unit is complaining about my getting a 72 on the last math test. There are kids in my class that would probably kill to get a 72. The guy in front of my got a 45. like I said, don’t see why she’s complaining. Now she wants me to corect the test…
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draMaQueen!!
in March 27th, 2006 @ 18:01Who knows the answer to
3 m is about 3 + (10% of 3), or _______ yd???
gosh, Chicago Math program GIVES ME BRAIN DAMAGE…
confused!! stupid!! HELP ME!!!!!
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draMaQueen!!
in March 27th, 2006 @ 18:02ill ask my dadi…. good ol’ dad…
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Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker
in March 27th, 2006 @ 18:1121-I hear you! Curves people, curves. I love it when they curve the grade…
10% of 3 is .3 right? so 3+.3? Or am i totally off? 3.3??? Hmm. GAPA?
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frankenfaerie
in March 27th, 2006 @ 18:30…oh, sorry…*turns red*
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emogrl
in March 27th, 2006 @ 18:52hmm…antigone…read it last year…trying to think…
ok i dont remember much of it, except how a lot of obnoxious ppls in my class called it ANTI-GONE. her brother dies in a war, + they wont let her give him a burial, correct?
remember that thing dumbledore said in one of the earlier hp books? it was something like “doing whats right isnt always soing whats easiest” … that might relate to this story. maybe
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Darth Yoda
in March 27th, 2006 @ 18:53Finally!
What the heck is an idirect subject?
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zwendelina
in March 27th, 2006 @ 19:14#13, The vapor has more KE, because when water boils, the temperature doesn’t increase until all the water is vapor. So there is all that energy that isn’t changing the temperature of the water, so it is converted in to latent heat which is a type of kinetic energy. LIkewise, if you have water and ice, the water has more KE. That is why when you sweat, it cools you down, because your bodies heat is going in to the vaporizing sweat as latent heat. That was kind of confusing, but the best I can do for now.
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zwendelina
in March 27th, 2006 @ 19:31Do you mean an indirect object? 27
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E~A (Elassë~Ade'ehl)
in March 27th, 2006 @ 20:41Okay, Antigone! Yay!
Antigone is basically about whether it is moraly right to follow man’s laws or the law’s of the Gods. Creon, Antigone’s uncle, the King, has proclaimed it illeagle to bury Polynices, Antigone’s brother, however the other brother, Eteocles, has been proclaimed a hero and buried hero-like. Polynices atacked Thebes, the city-state in which all this is happening, with an alliance of six foreign princes’. Despite the fact that he tried to take over the city, Antigone believes that he deserves the right to a proper burial and, going against the law of man but not the law of the gods, buries him. she ends up dying for this. Creon does not want to kill her but he must stand up for the laws that he has created. Antigone does not want to die, but she knows she must in order to obey the burial laws of the gods and give her brother an honorable burial.
As you can see, there is plenty to rant about in Antigone though mine had a lot of summary for those who do not know the plot of Antigone.
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Violetfire
in March 27th, 2006 @ 21:23Man, so many new threads. This is, what, five since I left?
It’s hard for me to explain grammar, so i’ll just give an example.Violetfire wrote a letter to Jadestone.
The green word (Violetfire) is the subject. Wrote is the verb, and the word which recieves the action from the verb is the direct object (letter). Jadestone is the indirect object because it recieves the action indirectly, through the direct object.
I hope that’s right………..if it’s not then I’ll have to slap myself because I just learned all this last semester…..
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in March 27th, 2006 @ 21:34Close! In that sentence, Jadestone is the object of a preposition (“to”). For an indirect object, you need a slightly different sentence:
Violetfire wrote Jadestone a letter.
The letter is what Violetfire actually writes, so it’s the object. Jadestone receives the object, so she’s the indirect object.
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Zallie
in March 27th, 2006 @ 22:05Is anyone else in Geometry/Trig here?
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emogrl
in March 28th, 2006 @ 09:26^ i am but im an idiot when comes to the geometry part. trig is ok though
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King george
in March 28th, 2006 @ 12:48I finished my math homework at school, and that is why I have time to do this during math class.
I had a project where I had to make a commercial, and I had Bush getting his head lit on fire. Don’t ask, but I’ll tell you it DID have to do wiht the commercial.
And then I have to type this thing on the computor that was supposed to be due today. Oh well, my teacher likes me, so I think I can get away with it. And I DID do it, I just lost it. Dang back pack.
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frankenfaerie
in March 28th, 2006 @ 14:4826- i hate when people make fun of classic literature. it’s pathetic.
i had a math test today. proving trig identities. easy beyond belief. finished in 20 minutes.
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The Malignant Mandolin
in March 28th, 2006 @ 14:57I’m in 8th grade but in 9th grade math…that is the highest math class they offer at our school, but it is so EASY……anyway, I can help anyone with 9th/10th grade math, but nothing higher than that
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Phoenix
in March 28th, 2006 @ 15:59I can offer help with science, history, or English. I absolutely LOVE physics!
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The Malignant Mandolin
in March 28th, 2006 @ 16:12I LOVE science too! I like chem and physics
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Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker
in March 28th, 2006 @ 16:22I can help w/bits of history and possibly english, and maybe if it’s an easy question (for me i mean) science. Anything 9th grade or below, because the ways of the next grades are mysterious to me (ie i haven’t taken them yet and consequently have no clue what they do. For all i know, they sit there eating choklit all day. Mmmmmmmmmmmm…sounds good…) Math, ask somebody else. For your own good. I’ll come up with an answer, sure, but it’s almost guaranteed to be the wrong one. Although it’s always very, very close or just a stupid mistake. Somebody somewhere is having a lot of fun with my math…to my disadvantage. Grr.
Anti-gone. *shudder* i hate that. And parabola. Oh how i hate it when people mispronouce that. And anime too, just because i’m really not sure what the “official” pronounciation is, but i know how I pronounce it and that’s ought to be good enough for everybody, yah? Ok, not really. *sigh* Oh well…
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lilbro
in March 28th, 2006 @ 17:02what homework??
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Calinna
in March 28th, 2006 @ 17:17guess what? my math teacher pronounces asymptote wrong! how sad is that?
if anyone needs help in english or bio, i could probably help.
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E~A (Elassë~Ade'ehl)
in March 28th, 2006 @ 17:34I can help with most anything. Math up until Pre-calc though, so nothing past pre-calc (which I took last semester) but algebra, geometry, trig etc. are fine. I have taken most of tenth grade so anything before that is fine. I can help with French and Spanish for languages , up until level 4 for French and any level for Spanish.
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yesterday's_kinked_moose
in March 28th, 2006 @ 18:47Bleh. I’m on algebra now. I always understand the lesson and then make a bunch of stupid mistakes. Like 7 x 7 = 47
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Copper Bigfoot
in March 28th, 2006 @ 19:19Has anyone read Jeff Corwin: Living on the Edge? if so, tell me what you liked about it. Need to do a book report, and I’ve run out of reasons to read it, yet my teacher wants more.
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Pentatonikk
in March 28th, 2006 @ 20:09I can help with math through algebra 2, although my geometry is rather shaky. I can come up with stuff for English, especially if it’s about punctuation, and I’ve done American history for four years straight (not because I wanted to) and studied world history on the side. So I can do any of that. Go me!
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Darth Yoda
in March 28th, 2006 @ 20:2029-yes, and i still need to know. Please Help!
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Zallie
in March 28th, 2006 @ 21:21I solved the problem, nevermind. I do have a math class question, though. Because of the track I’m on, I’ll technically have completed the highschool math program by junior year and will therefore have an extra space for math somwhere in there. I could, either:
A: Take AP Stats AND Pre-Calc Junoir year, which will give me three elective spaces Senior year and no math courses, which would be very good.
B: Take Pre-Calc Junior year and then AP Stats/AP Calc Senior year, which will mean a HARD AP class as well as college stuff that year.
C: Take Pre-Calc Junior year and then not do any math. I really like this idea, but I feel like I should take another math class just so I won’t have to take some of it in college.
I like A right now, but I’d be interested to hear what other, more math-y Musers (especially ones who’ve taken pre-calc or AP whatever) think about my plan.
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The Bev
in March 29th, 2006 @ 02:57Can some one give me a basic symopsis of the entire bio curriculum, because I’m going to try and test out of it, come the week of June 19th. I’m also going to test out of health, but that’s easy.
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Phoenix
in March 29th, 2006 @ 10:46Copper Bigfoot, I’m sorry to say that I have never read the book, or I would be delighted to help. Yah.
I stink at math. Stink like rotting fish. I always understand concepts, then make the most boneheaded mistakes anyone could ever imagine. Yurgh.
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Jadestone
in March 29th, 2006 @ 11:3337- Me too! I dont get it all that well thugh….Well, only somtimes
42- Mine does thattoo. Mrs G is also a really bad speller. Not that Im not, but still…she teaches
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emogrl
in March 29th, 2006 @ 11:52hmm…im taking ap stats next year-heard it was relly easy.
alright. INDIRECT OBJECT:
She gave Bob the toothbrush.
in this sentence, Bob is the indirect object , and toothbrush is the direct object . a good way to find the indirect object in a sentence is to insert the word to after the verb. so…
She gave to Bob the toothbrush.
+ that makes sense, right? b/c she did. yeah. if its something like this…
Now Bob has a toothbrush.
youll know it doesnt hav an indirect object b/c when you do this…
Now Bob has (to) a toothbrush.
it doesnt make any sense.
did that help?
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Zallie
in March 29th, 2006 @ 13:59I heard AP stats was really easy too, which is why I think I could take it with Pre-Calc.
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Em
in March 29th, 2006 @ 14:01good lord, my english teacher is crazy, so i can diagram any sentence like, ever. ok, maybe not, but i can probably diagram the ones your teacher gave you.
(52) that makes since.
another thing is, that when you are trying to decide which word is the direct object, you just figure out which word is reciving the action.
like so:
Mrs. Katz baked Emily a cake.
the cake is what mrs. katz baked, and therefore the cake is recieving the action of the predicate (verb) “baked”, and is the direct object. The indirect object is emily, because the cake was baked with the intention of it being for emily. emily is not the direct object, because then mrs. katz would have baked emily, which, sadly, she did not. if the sentence had been “Mrs. Katz baked Emily.” then emily would the direct object. if the sentence had been “Mrs. Katz baked Emily, and fed her to the class.”, it would be a compound sentence (subject+verb+direct object+conjunction+(understood subject)+verb+direct object+preposition) but that is beside the point. Sadly, this was a hypothetical situaton, and Mrs. Katz never baked any cake, but we really would have liked her to.
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Em
in March 29th, 2006 @ 14:03now, if mr dopko ever baked any cake, i would be motivated to raise my english grade. but he did give us girl scout cookies.
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frankenfaerie
in March 29th, 2006 @ 14:2648- my school administration is completely, utterly, clueless. i’m in pre-calc this year, and they shoved me in alg2/trig next year. they wouldn’t let me do APstats because it’s restricted to seniors. but it looked so easy. bloody alg2/trig. oh, well. easy A.
49- and they wouldn’t let me test out.
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The Bev
in March 29th, 2006 @ 15:18It’s MIchigan state code that every student has to be allowed to test out of any subject besides Foundations of P.E. and Government. To test out, you have to do all of the major projects and get a 78% or higher on the final exam.
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Em
in March 29th, 2006 @ 15:19mine are even more clueless than yours. i had to repeat health last year b/c they didn’t put me in a language class. it was very easy though. easier, because it was a non-gt class. and they tried to put me in math 8 this year instead of algebra. i wish i was in geometry, b/c then i would have more high-skool credits… but i didn’t take algebra last year. *sigh*
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Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker
in March 29th, 2006 @ 15:3657-Sure, and of course i left right before i could do that. *mutters angrily* Oh vell, they didn’t have latin back at northview. *is happy again*
i forgot to do mine science hw. *gasp* Oh deary. And i have a B- cuz i basically blow it off anyway. So now i have to do my hw tonight and do really well on the test otherwise me in trouble. AND i have the antigone test tomorrow. And a math test monday, but it’s really easy. surface areas of 3-d objects and stuffins. i failed the pop quiz in history, but i was SOOO close. I hate those things, cuz there are only three questions, so if you miss one, you fail. Which i did. Miss one. *cries* i actually read the chapter too, which is unusual. Latin’s all good, pretty boring, but good. Gym’s gym. It’s gym. ‘Nuff said. Band is band, and band rocks. Speaking of band, the jazz band’s going to the festival at capital. Did i tell you people that? Probably. But oh vell.
50 days left of skool for us! Skool days of course…
wheeeee! 50 more days and i won’t be a freshie! Mwahaha! I’ll just be a powerless, unheeded sophomore. XD
i suppose i’d better go actually DO the hw now…*sigh*
I shall return!!! *dramatic fanfare*
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frankenfaerie
in March 29th, 2006 @ 16:2859- “at capital?” as in DC? my school’s chorus is going on apr.29th (and i would be impossible to find there, due to the large crowds, gapas, so please do not snip this!!!!) are you going then?????????
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Meritorious Mer
in March 29th, 2006 @ 20:54Wow. You guys have much harder science and math than i’ve ever done.
I blame it on the public schools in the states I’ve lived in. When I was homeschooled, I learned a lot, but now I’ve only learned a little French and a little Spanish since my reemergence into public school two years ago. Now I’m going to a really good high school where I will finally be challenged, and I will be in tears because it will be hard for once.Hey, my entire grade is going to D.C. in April! Earlier in the month. It vill be crazy.
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Em
in March 29th, 2006 @ 21:57D.C. is honestly the most boring place alive. Its just a load of monuments. I like the FDR one, though. and the WWII- isn’t that the wall with the names? and the post office is cool. i cant remember why, but it is. and somewhere lurking in the city is *dramatic music* The GAPA!
our chorus is going to hershey park, which is awesome. we’re going to compete, obviously. i think its called “Musicale” or something.
last year we went to bush gardens, and i spilt ice cream on me. i tell you, do not buy ice cream in bush gardens, because there are holes in the bottoms of the cones!
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Em
in March 30th, 2006 @ 00:34I shall kill my printer. It hath runne out of inke.
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kricket
in March 30th, 2006 @ 05:49#620 I’m going to go to hershey park in may for chorus/band. we went last year too. we got an excellent. but we’re trying for a superior this year.
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kricket
in March 30th, 2006 @ 05:49i meant #62) oops
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Em
in March 30th, 2006 @ 14:08(64) i think you’re going to the same thing as me. what state are you in?
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vincent
in March 30th, 2006 @ 14:49#64 the chorus at my old school got superior a lot, but this year our chorus sucks. but i’m switching schools again next year (i’m a problem child) and the chorus there is really good.
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frankenfaerie
in March 30th, 2006 @ 15:0062- i think the wall with the names was for vietnam…
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The Malignant Mandolin
in March 30th, 2006 @ 15:06I’ve never been to Hershey, which is kind of sad because I live in PA. Anyway, if anyone has read “Beyond the Burning Time” by Kathryn Lasky, could they help me with ideas for an essay about the Salem Witch Trials?
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Em
in March 30th, 2006 @ 15:16I thought that was festival, where you got superior and excellent and so on.
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Pentatonikk
in March 30th, 2006 @ 17:32Last year the eighth graders at my school got to go to DC to study government or something, but the people in charge of the whole thing decided it was too expensive and not educational enough because you study the US Constitution in 7th grade, not 8th at my school, and so we’re going to Springfield and St. Louis this year.
Whoa. That was a really long sentence. My teacher would probably smite me with the Holy Run-on Sentence Eliminator if whe were here.
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frankenfaerie
in March 30th, 2006 @ 17:5269- are you kidding? i go there every year on ppl day! and make really cool poses for the roller coaster cameras. last year on white lightning, i stuck my tongue out kiss(as in the band)-style and made the “live long and prosper” sign. when we got off the ride and looked at them, people were like, “hey, -name-, look at that crazy girl.” ‘t was excellent. i’ll attempt to bring you this year. *gets out high-tech stalking equipment* but i seriously doubt it will work.
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frankenfaerie
in March 30th, 2006 @ 17:54the rest of the town in really boring. roller coasters are the way to go. and the free chocolate at the “factory” tour. and that zoo is pretty sweet, too.
and that had nothing to do with homework. or maybe it did…
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kricket
in March 31st, 2006 @ 05:1568- you’re right. the wall with all the people on it is the vietnam war wall memorial (or something to do with vietnam)
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King george
in March 31st, 2006 @ 09:15Does anyone here Need? help. ANYONE. I skipped a bunch of posts around 50’s, cause I only have like 2 minutes, but I didn’t see anyone yet. I can really only help with Algebra lower, and regular science, (just don’t ask my about science, unless it’s somehting easy ) and I’m not much of a HULA (humanities-language arts, it’s what we call that class:HULA) freak, but how about P.E. any one need help with that?
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The Malignant Mandolin
in March 31st, 2006 @ 15:07yeah, I haven’t seen many people asking for help
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penguini
in March 31st, 2006 @ 15:52i’ll help anybody with anything that has a posibility of being in 7th grade math
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frankenfaerie
in March 31st, 2006 @ 17:21i have the SATs tomorrow. *cries*
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Lizzie
in March 31st, 2006 @ 17:56the SAT is easy, really. Just make sure you have a good graphing calculator (TI 83+ and up), and know how to do equations on it (go math, up, enter, and then just make everything equal to zero, enter it, press enter, press alpha enter, and it solves it).
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Darth Yoda
in March 31st, 2006 @ 18:09I am totally in 7th grade math. And I’m a 6th grader!
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Darth Yoda
in March 31st, 2006 @ 18:10Yeah, so…I don’t get symetry. There, I asked for help.
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Axa [ I ♥ Tetsuya Nomura ]
in March 31st, 2006 @ 19:34I can help with [ assuming the HTML below works. -sigh- ]
Algebra and below; no Geometry, except for really simple stuff.
Language Arts, though things like poetry are things you should feel. There is no answer I can give you.
Social Studies, sort ofIf you need help with ANYTHING related to Japan, ask me.
Symmetry is when one thing corresponds in shape, size, etc to another thing.
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Axa [ I ♥ Tetsuya Nomura ]
in March 31st, 2006 @ 19:34RARGH.
It didn’t work.
Infernal WordPress. DX
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Michelle W.
in March 31st, 2006 @ 20:03frankenfaerie, the SATs are simple. I took ’em in 7th and 8th grade and did really good. You don’t need a graphing calc. just a reg. one. In fact, I’d say it’s much easier to just solve the equations on your own. It definitely takes less time. ‘Course, when you get to Calculus, trust me, you’ll want to do as much of the integration a possible on your calculator. I hate calculus!!!!!!!!!! And I’ve got to take the AP Calculus test this May.
Um, hope that worked right, I’m not sure I remember how to do it.
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KitKat
in April 1st, 2006 @ 10:2414–
x=4!4×4=16+20=36!!!
Yay! I figured it out!
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in April 1st, 2006 @ 10:26Oh, I’m a bit late.
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in April 1st, 2006 @ 13:16the SATs were infinately boring. especially because i finished each section about 7 minutes before time was up. ok, except for the essay.
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in April 1st, 2006 @ 13:26We have standardized tests on Monday – Friday…..ugg. They are really boring and REALLY easy. They ask stupid questions like
Billy and Bobby were going out to play. Billy said do you want to play in the sandbox? Let’s play on the swings Bobby said.
What is wrong with this sentence!?!
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in April 1st, 2006 @ 14:36
: mrgreen:
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in April 1st, 2006 @ 15:14Hi! I can help with any math pre-alg and below, because that’s the highest advanced class my school offers for 6th graders. And I am really good at vocabulary, because of the whole root-word thing in LA. I can do good Social Studies and Science, but not really well, cuz it’s only 6th grade. The science bores me to death, though. Way too easy. She explains something once and i totally get it, then we have to go over it for like a whole day because others are too slow (no offense, others).
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Queen Julietaini; Queenie; WDNT
in April 1st, 2006 @ 17:25Antigone-The zeitgeist of the play is that A. dies to save the dead body of her bro Polynices, who is dead. The central comedy
(I thought so, anyway) of the whole bonanzus is that Antigone totally sacrifices everything for a meaningless ceremony that her beloved brother isn’t going to care about. The main focus of an essay is this, and whether it was worth all the trouble Antigone went to, and what a skewed childhood those people had.Axa, what was the response of the Japanese to Commodore Matthew Perry? And could you please, please, clear up the question of whether samurai were actually hired by shoguns or part of clans? I mean, you can only glean so much from Toshiro Mifune movies.
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Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker
in April 1st, 2006 @ 17:53 hey queen j! my mom wants to know how appropriate the rutles is (moms will be moms) So do tell-is it moderately inappropriate, slightly inappropriate, very inappropriate…it didn’t have a rating. (aka should i let my mom watch it or not lol jk)
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in April 2nd, 2006 @ 00:39I’ve never taken SATs with the essay, but I will have to next year, or something like that. Is the essay part difficult? I know the rest is simple, although I HATE critical reading.
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in April 2nd, 2006 @ 10:04Gaaag. Todays the last day of Spring Break. Back to the center for personality rehab. That is, they try and suck personality out of you so you dont cause any trouble. Ukkk. I’ll probably have some questions to post here tomarrow.
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in April 2nd, 2006 @ 10:27i don’t think i did too well on the SAT last year…but the scale was really confusing.
critical reading is horrible. when will they realize that everyone has a different opinion on how the selection should be interpreted. the essay isn’t too bad, but you only have 25 minutes to get your thoughts in order and write it. on two pages, mind you. if you stick to your opinion on the topic and can support it, you should be fine.
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in April 2nd, 2006 @ 10:31The Rutles are not inappropriate at all. It’s a Beatles spoof. They have a thing about drinking tea, and some drug references, but other than that the worst word in the thing is the “Ouch!” song as opposed to “Help!”, and-you’re 12, right?-it should be totally froody. There’s nothing bad in it. And there’s cameo appearances by George Harrison, Paul Simon and Mick Jagger!
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in April 2nd, 2006 @ 11:3614. But my mom’s weird like that. And it’s Eric Idle, he can be quite dubious. But yeah, i shall tell my mom and she shall stop freaking and i shall watch and have froody time.
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penguini
in April 2nd, 2006 @ 15:20THIS IS AN ADD!
writing german folk tale
based on cinderella
need german characteristics
due wednesday
subjects info wanted under:
food
clothing
houses
royalty/people in high places/people in charge
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penguini
in April 2nd, 2006 @ 15:25oh yes
more also would be liked
like
things worshiped or imbued with magical powerstime setting: really early in german civilization
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FantasyFan?!?!
in April 2nd, 2006 @ 15:58A magical helmet that keeps your head from being crushed in battle? ( but thats what helmets should do in the first place…)
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in April 2nd, 2006 @ 16:04the first site listed when you google ‘early german history’ seemed pretty good, if thats what your looking for. germanculture, between www. and .com . this isnt a link
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in April 2nd, 2006 @ 16:26exellent site!
-enthuses loudly-
I’ll consider the magical helmet too!
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penguini
in April 2nd, 2006 @ 18:11too bad about the helmet!
the story dosn’t have a battle in it.
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in April 2nd, 2006 @ 18:23FINISHED!!! : )
now for the editing…
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in April 3rd, 2006 @ 13:16OH MY GOSH!!!!!
Standardized tests are sooooooooooo easy. Today, we did the language mechanics, vocabulary, and spelling tests. We had 15 minutes to do each one, and I finished in 5.
“Which one is not spelled right?
-Giraffe
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in April 3rd, 2006 @ 15:46My standardized testing doesn’t start ’till tomorrow, and where they’re doing it is an hour’s drive from where I live, so I’ve got to leave at 8:00, so I’ve got to get up at like 7:00.
I guess that probably doesn’t sound that bad to all you public school kids, but I start school at 9:00 since I’m homeschooled.
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in April 3rd, 2006 @ 21:37Hmm…this looks like my kind of topic…:)
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in April 4th, 2006 @ 18:26I get up between 5:30 and 6:00
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in April 4th, 2006 @ 21:09Muse rocks!!!! homework doesnt
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in April 4th, 2006 @ 21:14what does 45/3(3cubed)-4+12(2squared) equal?? i wonder, but there’s ABSOLUTELY NO REASON WHY I MIGHT ASK SUCH A QUESTION, I MEAN IT’S NOT LIKE IM ASKING FOR QUESTIONS TO HOMEWORK OR ANYTHING…..
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in April 4th, 2006 @ 21:15Anyone else here take precalc? If so, can you explain what cis really means? I am very confused about it.
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sweet melpomene
in April 5th, 2006 @ 09:52i take precalc.
i have no idea what cis means.
did you mean cos? because that’s a cosine function. as in adjacent/hypotenuse…in a triangle….
i don’t think that helped. ah, well.
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in April 5th, 2006 @ 20:05has anyone read “The Open Window”?
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in April 5th, 2006 @ 20:08by Saki?
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in April 5th, 2006 @ 20:10I have to do a resarch paper. Any one got some knowledge on Argentina?
Who likes to solve velocity problems?
Maybe factoring binomials and such?
Spanish homework conguation jugar and stem verbs that use ie?
Would someone like to practice my solo for me?
Would someone do my other science packet that i need to redo?
How bout going to two softball practices a night?
Who wants to clean my room and paint my wall?
Dishes? Anybody?
Sorry, i kinda got off the homework subject, but my life is one big
jumble of stuff I have to do and i just want to sleep. I’m supposed
to be writing my EFFORTS TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE and
POSITIVE efforts paragrphs.wanna switch lives for a while?
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Queen Julietaini; Queenie; WDNT
in April 5th, 2006 @ 20:23Yes, I have. Can I help you with it? Dost thou require assistance in thy labours and work? Or perhaps sustenance for thy quest? Hmm? I like Saki, he is very good.
Does anyone know what Virchow, Schleiden and Schwann did in relation to the rise of the microscope in science?
I didn’t think so. Phooey. I vill slog on alone.
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in April 5th, 2006 @ 20:31Em (113-114),
I’ve read it, too. One important thing to remember is that in the last line, the word “romance” doesn’t mean mushy lovey-dovey stuff. It means making up wildly imaginative stories. That threw me when I read the story at about your age.
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Emiliana, doing her literature homework.
in April 5th, 2006 @ 20:39yeah, i saw a play at GMU, and they changed it to fantasy.
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Emiliana, doing her literature homework.
in April 5th, 2006 @ 20:48well im done, but im not sure i answered some of the questions right. maybe i was supposed to analyze more. for example, one question is “What is meant by ‘a very self possessed lady of fifteen’?” and i said “Vera is very outgoing,”.
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in April 5th, 2006 @ 20:50argentina was the place we migrated too in our migration simulation game.
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in April 5th, 2006 @ 20:51Have you looked up “self-possessed” in the dictionary?
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Emiliana, done with her hw.
in April 5th, 2006 @ 20:56erm… no.
*looks up self-possessed in dictionary*
ah, it means confident and composed. hehe. whoops.
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in April 5th, 2006 @ 21:01ok, and for the one where the aunt says that he looked like he had seen a ghost, i said that it meant he looked shocked and frightened. do you think i should say it was irony? or would that be situational irony? what is the difference?
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in April 5th, 2006 @ 21:07Well, he thought he had seen a ghost, didn’t he? Or, rather, four ghosts: three humans and a dog. Vera scared him half to death just to amuse herself. If she’d lived a hundred years later, I have a feeling she’d be right here on this blog.
It’s my bedtime. I’ll let Queen Julietaini take over from here, if she’s around. ‘Night, all.
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in April 5th, 2006 @ 21:13yeah, ok, thanx.
what about ‘when she judged that they had had sufficient silent communication’? were they just being polite? or were they communicating without words?
mr administrator, you are so smart!
*GASP* NO! MUST NOT ADMIT THE SUPERIORITY OF ADULTS!
*screams, panics, and helplessly runs around in circles*
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Emiliana, still doin' her hw.
in April 5th, 2006 @ 21:15how can juli do that if you’re not moderating?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in April 5th, 2006 @ 21:29I suspect that Rosanne is around, or will be soon. Anyway, I’ll moderate once more after I’ve done a little reading.
OK, just one more hint from me. Let’s see what actually happens at the beginning of the story. Framton Nuttel shows up with his letter of introduction. Vera’s aunt is busy and sends Vera to keep him company while she (the aunt) puts on a nice dress or whatever. Vera introduces herself, politely. Framton thinks about what to say to her, but he doesn’t say anything. And doesn’t say anything. And doesn’t say anything. Finally, Vera has to get the conversation going.
In his stories, Saki tends to divide people into two types: the clever, self-possessed ones, and the clueless bores. As far as he’s concerned, the clueless bores are fair game for just about any kind of fun the clever ones want to have at their expense. It’s pretty clear what he thinks of poor Framton.
“The Open Window” can be hard to read because Saki tells it in very few words. Just remember: the action doesn’t last very long, and you see everything that happens.
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in April 6th, 2006 @ 19:26I LOVE factoring binomials and trinomials!!!!!!!!
Say you have something like this:
x^2 – 3x + 2
Since the middle term is negative, the signs have to be negative, so go like this:
( ___ – _____) ( ____-______)
Then, it is x^2, so you know there has to be 2 x’s, so go like this:
(x – ____)(x-_____)
Then, find multiples of 2. Try them out:
(x – 2) (x – 1)
does it work? Try it our using FOIL (multiply the First, Outer, Inner, then Last terms)
I hope this helps!
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The Malignant Mandolin
in April 6th, 2006 @ 19:29JUGAR: (To play)
(Preterite)
Jugue
Jugaste
Jugo
Jugamos
Jugasteis
Jugaron(Present)
Juego
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Jugamos
Jugasteis
Jugan(GAPA, this isn’t helping too much. It is the basic conjugations for the verb……)(It is the same for all verbs, and you could find it anywhere)(So don’t zap it)
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Emiliana, on her 'e' sticking keyboard.
in April 6th, 2006 @ 19:33gosh, sorry, you did all that reading last night, and i just went to bd. well, my mom was nagging m to go. anyways, thanks for your hlp.
vra rminds m of vesper holly. she’s a character of loyd alexander’s, i think.
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sweet melpomene
in April 7th, 2006 @ 16:50i loathe the conjugating os spanish verbs. irregular latin verbs are fun, though.
to be (minus the accents and macrons)
seriously, i’ve had this drilled into my brain i don’t think i’ll ever forget, despite the fact that i don’t take latin anymore.sum, esse, fui, futurus
imperitave:
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erantFuture:
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eruntok, i’m too lazy for the rest.
have fun with pointless latin verbs!
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The Malignant Mandolin
in April 7th, 2006 @ 18:45YAY!! I finished all my homework for this weekend!
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Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker
in April 7th, 2006 @ 19:32AAH! LATIN VERBS! *hides under desk*
Em, i know u posted the link before but i kinda lost it…
Y’know, the name popularity whatsit. Anyhoo, i needs it for skool, so if u could post it again (or remind me what thread it’s on) i would be oh so grateful…
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Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker
in April 7th, 2006 @ 19:35Nvm, just found it.
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The Skipper is Back! (However, Lemon Curry is out foraging for mushrooms, dont ask me why)
in April 8th, 2006 @ 12:01128 Yeah!! Factoring owns! Actually, sometimes I hate it but its pretty satisfying when you get it right.
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in April 8th, 2006 @ 18:34IT IS SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Michelle W.
in April 9th, 2006 @ 01:49I’m supposed to be researaching modern uses of genetics right now, ’cause I’m supposed to write a page on it. I got the assignment March 22, and it’s due this Wednesday the 12. I’m only just now starting it. If anybody knows of any good website I can use for this, I’d appreciate it!
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The Malignant Mandolin
in April 9th, 2006 @ 10:07modern uses of genetics…hmmmmm.,…no idea! sorry!
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Purple Panda, who doesn't feel like being Malignant Mandolin
in April 9th, 2006 @ 14:00Google it…..usually helps
I LOVE GOOGLE!!!
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Michelle W.
in April 9th, 2006 @ 15:43139, that’s what I’ve been doing.
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Purple Panda, who doesn't feel like being Malignant Mandolin
in April 9th, 2006 @ 17:44YAY!!
It must be really annoying to type it all up.
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in April 10th, 2006 @ 23:48Ok.
We just read The Taming of the Shrew in writing/lit.
Then we watched the movie.
We have to write a compare/contrast essay for the play and the movie. Unfortunately, the script of the movie is practically indentical to that of the play, which makes it very difficult to come up with any good contrasts.
If anyone has any ideas, I would really appreciate it. Even if you havent seen the movie and only have read the play, some ideas on what you thought the most important themes of the play were would be helpful. Im pretty stuck.
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Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker
in April 11th, 2006 @ 07:33Haven’t seen the movie, so i don’t know how u’d contranst it. Important themes to come sry i g2g to skool
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Michelle W.
in April 11th, 2006 @ 12:47Sorry, I don’t know anything about Taming of the Shrew, ‘cept that it sounds vaguely familiar….
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Purple Panda, who is retiring from Malignant Mandolin
in April 11th, 2006 @ 13:12I’m not familiar with Taming of the Shrew….although my sister is a Shakespeare addict, and know EVERYTHING about that, so I’ll call her….
Here she is..ok, Taiwan Hippo Fan, you can have the computer…
(I’ll get you for this, Skipper!)
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in April 11th, 2006 @ 13:21what kind of important themes?
Taming of the Shrew is not a play I’m particularly familiar with, but I have a book that might help!
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Taiwan Hippo Fan
in April 11th, 2006 @ 13:24Also, lots of times movies cut the less important stuff, to make the movie shorter
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in April 11th, 2006 @ 15:03maybe you should contrast what the movie did with how the play made you percieve the action? like the emotions, how the characters looked, tone….etc.
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in April 11th, 2006 @ 15:52I haven’t seen the movie, but if it’s the one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in the leads, I’d bet that the other love story in the play (Lucentio and Bianca) shrinks away to almost nothing. Also, how about the framing sequence with Christopher Sly?
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in April 11th, 2006 @ 17:29Holy shcamolie! I didn’t expect that many responses. Thanks guys!
Yeah, I had though about writing the about how Sly is left out in the movie, but I don’t really know what else to say about that part. The Bianca/Lucentio idea is brilliant though, Robert, thanks.
I was also thinking about the protrayal of Petruchio. In the movie, to me at least, it seemed as if he really were a very tough person, where as in the play he was, at least just a little bit, putting on an act to tame Katherine.
Cool! I’ve got some ideas now.
(thanks for giving up the computer for me, Purple Panda)
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in April 11th, 2006 @ 19:41Does anyone know what a convex polygon is? I have looked this up on the Internet and can’t get anything concrete. I’m confused. (ha, ha) SOS, Musers!
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Skipper Nancy and Lemon Curry
in April 11th, 2006 @ 22:55heres the result I got:
“a polygon whose all angles are less than or equal to 180 degrees. Notice that triangle and a rectangle is always convex. An equivalent definition of convexity is, given a polygon, the intersection of the polygon and any line is always 0 or 2 points except in degenerate cases (some of the polygon’s edge belongs to that line).”
Hope that helps.
On handy tip for finding the deffintion of things when using google: put the word “define” before the thing you want to define. On of the ist results you get is a list of web deffinitons.
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in April 13th, 2006 @ 00:22I just finished the rough draft to my essay! It came out a lot better than I thought it would.
“While the scripts of both the movie and the book versions of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew are very similar, the book better portrays the central ideas of love and duty than the movie.”
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Purple Panda (formerly Malignant Mandolin)
in April 13th, 2006 @ 06:13100 math problems…grr…I’ll probably rant about this on every thread!
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Taiwan Hippo Fan
in April 13th, 2006 @ 08:02Nice, Skipper
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tenrec speaking wierdo,weeeeeeee
in April 14th, 2006 @ 09:46i’m on spring break and i have homework!!!!! sssssooooo unfair
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in April 15th, 2006 @ 09:07be optimistic–at least you have plenty of time to do it!:smile:
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in April 15th, 2006 @ 17:15ok, mr smart prson, did you see the article in the washington post on the 6th about jesus walking on water, and could you explain to me how salt water springs could have made areas of the sea of galilee thrmally isolated, enabling them to freeze independently from the rst of the lake?
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in April 15th, 2006 @ 17:19please? i relly don’t get it.
hey, i thought the qms had really dissapeard, but it was just my computer. silly me.
hey, you spelled yay4hotpinkbunnies’ name wrong.
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in April 15th, 2006 @ 17:40Who is “Mr. Smart Person”?
I saw the article but didn’t pay much attention to it. Even if it could have happened that way, there’s no way to know whether it did. As a science news editor, I find it hard to get very excited about untestable hypotheses.
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in April 15th, 2006 @ 18:23that’s you, and im just trying to figure out if “the concept was used accurately”. but i think i’ll just go with my previously adopted strategy: “make-something-up-and-hope-for-a-B”
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in April 16th, 2006 @ 11:38someone please tell me what part of speech the words who, what, where, why, and when are? please please please!
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in April 16th, 2006 @ 12:01please! i really need to know now!
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in April 16th, 2006 @ 12:03they’re either nouns or pronouns! c’mon!
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in April 16th, 2006 @ 12:10Do they look more like nouns (book, cat, cloud, etc.) or like pronouns (he, she, it, you, they)?
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in April 16th, 2006 @ 18:48I looked it up, and they are pronouns. Mr. GAPA, you are very cryptic.
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Skipper Nancy Blackett, Tyana and Yeti Horse
in April 17th, 2006 @ 18:02I need a really clever name and slogan for an advertising company.
I was trying to think up some good acronyms…Ideas?
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Purple Panda
in April 17th, 2006 @ 19:08We sell your product 4 – U!!
“Guarenteed at least on thing sold or your money back!”
no, just kidding!There is a real-estate company near my house that is called “Help – U – Sell Real Estate”
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in April 17th, 2006 @ 20:09okay, this week my literature assignment is ‘the monkey’s paw’. which is relly a play. happily, there are no anaylitical questions, so i probably wont need help.
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Taiwan Hippo Fan
in April 21st, 2006 @ 15:50Okay. I already finished this thing and turned it in, but I’ll ask you anyway.
We had to design our own space station, and does anyone have any ideas for what to put on it?PS- I don’t need it anymore, so don’t think too hard.
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Skipper Nancy
in April 21st, 2006 @ 16:04Plenty of air.
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Purple Panda
in April 21st, 2006 @ 16:51Why are you asking if you already turned it in?
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in April 21st, 2006 @ 18:13because I want to know what people think.
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in April 23rd, 2006 @ 20:06ahhh
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in April 24th, 2006 @ 19:32I’m writing a children’s book for class, can anyone help me make it better? ( Making it a tad longer would be great, too)
Each space between a line represents a new page.
Here it is:Hi! My name is Naomi. I play the piano, and I love robins!
Maybe you’re thinking, “Why does Naomi like robins?â€
Well, I’ll tell you! That’s what this story is about.It all started when I was learning a new piece on my piano. It was called Minuet in G. There would be a recital soon, and I was really nervous.
One day, when I was practicing Minuet in G, a robin came to the window.
It just sat there quietly, listening. But when I stopped playing, it flew away, scared.
The next time I played the piece, the robin came again. My dad saw it. He said that it was a male, and that it had little black spots on its breast. I named the little bird Rocky.
Rocky came whenever I played Minuet in G. In a few days, he brought a friend with him. I named her Ronda.
Rocky and Ronda brought more robin friends. Soon, lots of robins in the neighborhood knew Minuet in G.
I got better and better, with the help of my robin audience. But the recital was coming soon, and I was starting to get nervous.
On the day of the recital, I could not stop shaking. The recital program said that I was first. Very first. The older kids say that’s the hardest time to play, when nobody has gone before you.
When it was time, I stepped onto the platform where the piano was, my knees wobbling. I thought I was going to cry, I was so scared. But I was brave, and I sat down on the piano bench. I put my fingers on the keys, and started to play.
Then the audience started whispering, and it was hard not to stop playing. When I was finished, I saw what the quiet commotion was about.
There were robins. Robins everywhere! Lots of them! At the windows, peeking through holes in the walls, everywhere! And they didn’t leave when I stopped playing. They stayed, just to see me!
Rocky and Ronda love me. They always will. And I love them, too.
That’s the story of my robin friends, and how they helped me be brave. When I am nervous or scared, I can always think of the robins, and I feel better.
The birds always come, when I call them with the song they like best. The Minuet in G.
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American Robins are cheerful and friendly birds. Their diet consists of mostly earthworms in the breeding season, but they eat berries and other fruit in the winter.
Male robins have reddish-orange breasts and white speckled tails. During the breeding season, they grow eye-catching black feathers. The rest of their body is different shades of black. The females are mostly the same but have duller colors and are usually smaller than males.
Robins have very keen hearing. When hunting for earthworms, they cock their heads to the ground, listening for a sound from their “preyâ€.
Their cup-shaped nests are made primarily from grasses, twigs and mud. The eggs are a delicate, pale blue.
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Em
in April 24th, 2006 @ 20:25this week my literature assign is “Flowers for Allgernon” no comment.
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Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker
in April 24th, 2006 @ 20:52I have a paper on Romeo+Juliet due friday. Specifically the social and family pressures that influence everybody in it. Unfortunately, i don’t have the planning sheet back yet. She wrote “see me” which is what she put on over half the class. And yet she wants it friday. Non sequitor.
Ok so i probably would end up doing it the night before anyway but at least it’s some time to get psychologically prepared for staying up racking your brains and flipping frantically through the play, right?
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in April 24th, 2006 @ 21:50yup.
vitrines is window-shoping, right? is there an acent in there somewhere?
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in April 24th, 2006 @ 21:54Non, ca ne me dit rien is correct, right?
and On va faire un promenade?
what about Tu veux aller voir un match de stade?
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in April 24th, 2006 @ 22:03does anyone speak french?
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in April 24th, 2006 @ 22:09oh, never mind.
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in April 28th, 2006 @ 14:55Romeo+Juliet paper-moved to monday. *is happy*
Planning sheet-is not approved due to the fact that every single time i went in to see her, she told me something different that effectively canceled out anything she had told me before. I’ve been in for morning and lunch the past couple days. She hates me. *is hated* :'(
Conclusion-I am so screwed. This is way past funny. I’m just gonna have to guess what she wants on the sheet and write the paper and see if she accepts it. She probably won’t, knowing lamuth as i unfortunately do, but at least i’ll have made the effort and she can’t fail me. Not completely anyway.
Plea for help to follow shortly, as soon as i actually start doing it.
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Copper Yeti
in April 28th, 2006 @ 15:13Mention the neroutic dreams of your internet friend (See Hot Topics thread) and you’re gartunteed to fail
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Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker
in April 29th, 2006 @ 12:57Romeo and Juliet rebelled against society’s promotion of family feuds, arranged marriages, and….
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i need one more. Please? I’ve been thinking, but there’s nothing i can write on, or even bs properly.
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in April 29th, 2006 @ 13:12I’m experinecing the story firsthand real life, and I can say that it also rebelled against the idea that suidcide was a sin.
I never accually read Romeo and Juleit, but I know most of the story, and am going through it (see complaints thread). My friends and family are all fueding with his family. My friends are trying to convince me that hes a jerk.
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in April 29th, 2006 @ 13:13Hm. Parental authority?
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Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker
in April 29th, 2006 @ 13:27hmm…maybe. it’d kinda overlap w/arranged marriages though. i could try it…
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Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker
in April 29th, 2006 @ 14:03The Capulets and the Montagues had been feuding for a very long time. Society exacerbated the problem by pressuring everybody in Verona to pick sides and fight each other for either family. Capulets did not associate with Montagues at all, except when they fought each other. The two families often went out of their way to pick fights, as shown in the first scene, when Sampson and Gregory, two servants of the Capulets, challenge Abraham, a servant of the Montagues. The situation soon escalates into a huge brawl, with many citizens of Verona taking a part in it. The feud is a part of life in Verona, and also large part of who people socialize with, depending on which family they support. When Romeo and Juliet, a Capulet and a Montague, first met and fell in love, neither of them knew whom the other was. Society’s influence, and the influence of their families, was evident in both when they each discovered the other’s identity, and despaired. This is demonstrated when Juliet says, “My only love sprung from my only hate/Too early seen unknown, and known too late.†(1.5.121-122) Romeo and Juliet soon rebel against this tradition however, and marry secretly despite the social pressures and way of thinking that make a Capulet marrying a Montague unthinkable to most people.
What you people think? Talk to me, please please. I didn’t do the intro yet, they are pain. paaaaaaaain. *is pained* That’s body 1 there, tell me how you likey.
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Ebeth the Stalker
in April 29th, 2006 @ 21:30I guess nobody wuvs me. *is sad*
I did 2 pgs today, but the 2nd pg sucks and i’ll probably end up redoing it. Plus, the hardest bits are left for tomorrow. And plus again, i’m still not sure about that last idea GAPA-it kind of overlaps and i think she’d murder me on that just because she can.
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in April 30th, 2006 @ 13:30what? i posted a comment here, and now it’s gone. maybe it was zapped. GAPA, did you zap any comments by me? anyway ebeth, i feel for you. except i don’t, because i have no hw over the weekend. YES!!!
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Ebeth the Stalker
in April 30th, 2006 @ 15:47Hrumph. I’ve been working on it for ages and it hasn’t gotten any longer at all. Just different. Well i’m gonna write pg three now…yeah i’m doing ur suggestion GAPA. Tank yew.
*virtual choklit* It is SOOO nice out today. Perfect bike riding. How i hate hw…
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in April 30th, 2006 @ 16:18anyway, in my comment that didn’t get posted (?) i said that you should be fine if you don’t use the word ‘parents’ instead using adults, society, or relatives in your arranged marriages bit, and go on about how people always do what their parents say, especially when they are rich kids, in your parental authority bit. in fact, there are people who do everything their parents say even today. strange, innit?
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Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker
in April 30th, 2006 @ 18:29Still not done..but how u people likey so far?
Romeo and Juliet rebelled against society’s promotion of family feuds, arranged marriages, and parental control.
In the beginning of Romeo and Juliet, the Capulets and the Montagues have been feuding for a very long time. Society exacerbates the problem by pressuring everybody in Verona to pick sides and fight each other for either family. Capulets do not associate with Montagues at all, except when they fight each other. The two families often went out of their way to pick fights, as shown in the first scene, when Sampson and Gregory, two servants of the Capulets, challenge Abraham, a servant of the Montagues. The situation soon escalates into a huge brawl, with many citizens of Verona taking a part. The feud is a part of life in Verona, and also large part of what families people socialize with, depending on which family they support. When Romeo and Juliet, a Capulet and a Montague, first met and fell in love, neither of them knew whom the other was. Society’s influence, and the influence of their families, was evident in both when they each discovered the other’s identity, and despaired. This is demonstrated when Juliet says, “My only love sprung from my only hate/Too early seen unknown, and known too late.†(1.5.121-122).
Romeo and Juliet rebel against this tradition, marrying secretly despite the social pressures and way of thinking that make a Capulet marrying a Montague unthinkable to most people. Romeo’s rebellion against the traditional feud is also demonstrated when Tybalt, a Capulet, and Romeo’s traditional enemy, challenges Romeo to fight, and Romeo refuses, saying how he loves Tybalt and the name of Capulet. When Romeo’s friend Mercutio tries to take up Tybalt’s challenge, Romeo attempts to stop him and break up the fight. Juliet also stays true to Romeo, despite her grief at her cousin’s death and her horror at discovering that it was Romeo who killed him.
Another reason Romeo and Juliet’s secret marriage is unthinkable to the society is that society operates by arranged marriages. Women have little or no say in who they marry, or when. The fathers of the women arrange the marriages and often it is for money or social status, such as titles of nobility, that people marry. Marrying for love is not something people do in that society. Romeo and Juliet again rebelled against social laws and pressures, and again did the unthinkable by marrying without the Juliet’s father’s knowledge or consent. Capulet wanted Juliet to marry Paris, and was arranging it, but she rebelled. She is supposed to submit to her father’s wishes and marry the man he chooses, but she didn’t because she was already married to Romeo. Capulet didn’t know this, so he was ready to force Juliet to marry Paris, and probably would have succeeded if Juliet hadn’t tricked him and everybody else by pretending to be dead. Capulet knew the social pressures, and assumed Juliet would follow them in the end. This is evident when he says,
“Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender
Of my child’s love. I think she will be ruled
In all respects by me, nay, more, I doubt it not.â€
Capulet is so confident that Juliet will conform to society’s ideas that he tells Paris that Juliet will marry her. He even goes on to arrange the date, within the week. At first, before Tybalt was killed, Capulet was at first ready to give Juliet time, and let her approve first, but he was confident all along that she would do what he liked, and after Tybalt’s death, he didn’t even give her a choice. He was so sure of his role in the family, and in society. Society gave him complete control.
Complete parental control is a key part of the society of Verona in Romeo and Juliet. Fathers have complete control over their children and the rest of their family. This is a well-established tradition in the society, going all the way back to the ancient Romans. The father’s control over the family is one of the most important pressures of society. It is the center of the rebellion in Romeo and Juliet. Eventually, everything they do, or every social law that they break, comes back to defying their families. Juliet is the first to defy her parents’ wishes, flirting with Romeo at the party when she knows her father wants her to marry Paris. Romeo then also defies his family, by sneaking in to the garden in hopes of seeing Juliet, even though he now knows she is a Capulet, and his family’s traditional enemy. Juliet is the first to put these defiant and rebellious feelings into words, on her balcony when she says,
“O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love
And I’ll no longer be a Capuletâ€
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in April 30th, 2006 @ 20:14Good Ebeth! I know this is too late, but one other thing you could say they rebelled against was the Church, in a way. I mean, they were Christian, but they still killed themselves, didn’t they? And Romeo kills Tybalt (doesnt he? I read it last year but I dont remember), which goes against the laws of the Church
Anyway, you probably can’t use that anymore, but I thought I put it out there. You ideas are much better supported by the text anyway. it’s clear and organized too. I always have trouble with that.
Maybe try some new words for “rebelled”.
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Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker
in May 4th, 2006 @ 18:26*sigh* Creative project time.
Plot so far…i’m gonna make something up like the MB and have some random person die and everybody’ll be depressed and suchlike.
Kinda new thing for me…i don’t think i’ve written anything depressing yet this year. Well i wrote a horror story about some book that brainwashes people but i didn’t get to the depressing part (i usually stop at 8 pgs cuz that’s the minimum and it’s usually really late at night and i want to go to bed
)How you people likey?
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in May 6th, 2006 @ 13:54I’m writing a research paper about the life of a doctor….fun, fun, fun!
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in June 5th, 2006 @ 17:14No more homework for moi!! School ends thursday!! HAHAHAHA!!
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Taiwan Hippo Fan
in June 7th, 2006 @ 15:02Don’t need help with it, but I’m writing a “book” about ancient Egypt for Social Studies. It’s a bit too easy for me,and I’m totally overdoing it, but I like it
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in August 27th, 2006 @ 15:03I have to write a paper over romeo and julie. I have to redo th scene where they are at the window.
Its the scene right after they go to the party.Anyway, i have to write the window scene in todays words. I need help fast. It is due in 2 Days!!!! Someone give me ideas please!!!!!
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in August 27th, 2006 @ 16:25What’s wrong with Shakespeare’s words? Oh well. I’d say re-read the scene and think about the meanings, and then just do a lot of “love ya”‘s and stuff like that. And probably cut the stuff about the moon or whatev else is in there (haven’t read it in a while-since last year actually).
Hey, now that i’m on the thread…time to torture y’all with my essays again! *evil cackle*
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, has been one of my favorite books ever since I first read it years ago. (I read way too much in my free time) I always jump at excuses to re-read it (not that I usually need an excuse), so I was overjoyed when I saw it on the summer reading list. I did consider reading something new, but I never got around to finding any of the other books, so I just re-read the ones I could get easily. Dickens is one of my favorite authors, and I’ve read a lot of his books, and Tale of Two Cities is definitely my favorite of the ones I’ve read. I’ve always been a huge history geek, and I find the French Revolution one of history’s most fascinating events. However, that’s not the only reason I like the book. Underneath the Revolution, it’s really a story about human nature, sacrifice, conflicts (between France and England, between the poor and the rich, and between Darnay and Carton), and the power of love.
The book begins by comparing France and England with the famous line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times†(I don’t say famous sentence, because Dickens was paid by the word and this particular sentence goes on for an entire paragraph). In the first section, Mr. Lorry is sent to reunite Miss Manette with her father, who was locked in the Bastille and went insane. When they found him, he was making shoes in a room above the Defarge’s wine shop.
In the second book, it is five years later and Dr. Manette is mostly healed and sane. It starts with the trial of Charles Darnay for treason, introducing two more main characters, who look oddly alike. Darnay is eventually acquitted with help from Carton. Most of the main characters end up being friends and spending a lot of time at the Manettes. When Darnay wishes to marry Lucie, he confesses to Dr. Manette that he is actually the nephew of the Marquis, Evremonde. Dr. Manette has no problem with this and it is kept secret. Darnay marries Lucie, and they live happily in England for a while. Meanwhile, in France the revolution is starting and Darnay’s uncle is murdered. Mr. Lorry tells Darnay that he is being sent to France, and while they are discussing this, a letter comes addressed to Evremonde. Darnay takes it, explaining that he knows the Marquis’s nephew, and leaves. When he reads it, he discovers that his friend is in prison in France, and pleads for Darnay to come get him out. Darnay writes two letters, one to Lucie and one to Dr. Manette, explaining where he has gone, and leaves that night. The second book ends there.
When he arrives in France, he is arrested immediately. Soon after, the Manettes arrive, having followed him there, and meet up with Mr. Lorry. They discover that Darnay has been locked in the prison of La Force. They stay there for a year before the trial, where Dr. Manette uses his influence as a former prisoner of the Bastille to set Darnay free. However, he is arrested again shortly after. Carton also arrives in France, and catches Barsad, a criminal who was now a jailor. He threatens him, and gains access to Darnay’s cell when he needs it. The trial comes, and Darnay is accused this time by a paper that Dr. Manette wrote while he was in the Bastille about his patient who died, a servant of Darnay’s family. It told of horrible things his family had done, and how they had been the ones to put him in the Bastille. The court used this as evidence against Darnay, and sentenced him again to death. Carton manages to get into his cell and switches places with him. Darnay escapes back to England with Mr. Lorry, Dr. Manette, and Lucie while Carton is executed. Just before he dies, he says the book’s second most famous line. “It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known.â€
The writing style is very descriptive and wordy. I know a lot of people think Dickens is boring because he spends so much time talking about details. However, compared to some of his other books, Tale of Two Cities is often considered to be short and to the point. Some people are also grossed out by the description in this particular book, because it’s so gory, but I think it’s good that he doesn’t try to soften anything up.
My first reaction on reading this book was shock at the end and general sadness. If I were the type of person who cried about books, I probably would’ve cried my eyes out on this one. Carton was my favorite character throughout the whole book. Also, I read it in the middle of the night, which I’ve found somehow makes you slip into the story more and make everything that happens so much more important. I enjoyed it a lot, despite the sadness and general death, doom, and destruction. In fact, as soon as I finished (around 1:00 in the morning I think) I immediately went back through the book and started reading my favorite parts all over again until I fell asleep. I think this book is a summer reading choice because it shows the difference we’ve been talking about in class, between a good read and great literature. This isn’t the type of book most people would want to bring along to a vacation in Florida or something (although I admit I do all the time, but most people consider me at least mildly insane) but it’s an incredible book all the same. Also, I think it sort of eases people into literature-it’s not terribly hard to read, but it has a deeper meaning that you can find if you look. It’s a good introduction to what I think the class will be like this year.
Tale of Two Cities is an amazing book that manages to combine a very good historical fiction book with an incredible insight into human nature and a deeply moving story about a sacrifice for love. I wouldn’t recommend it to people who aren’t used to reading long stories, or people who don’t really like to read much, because it’s very descriptive (and possibly boring) in many parts. However, I would recommend it to anybody who loves to read. It’s a good book on many different levels, and even if somebody didn’t quite catch everything the author was trying to say, they would still enjoy it. I’m sure that it will always be one of my absolute favorite books, and that it will still hold an important meaning for generations to come.It was supposed to be 2 pgs, it was more like 4 3/4. I think i summarized it too much. /love it too much lol. oh well.
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