Question #1:Do you ever feel creative?When your at school or at work or doing something you hate and it bores you to no end, do you ever just think of doing something creative?And what stops you from doing something creative? Or do you write down and follow up on these creative thoughts/ideas? I'm asking this because most of the stuff we do, schoolwork and labor, is done with the left side of the brain. While we hardly ever use and exercise the creative right side. Here's a few tips for any creative people out there. Sleep with a pen and notepad next to your bed and write down whatever whenever. When I was in school doodling was a huge problem for me, my attention span is horrible. And another thing, creative people are usually good spellers. I know I was. But yeah, always right down ideas. They are better than some regurgitated info. you'll forget in a few years. J-Dawn, your joking about the barrel of monkeys right? I had toys like that as a child. I have invented a few things on paper, but nothing that could really make any money, just improvements on existing products. But I do have a very good idea right now drawn up, but it takes money to make money. I think I have ADHD, maybe I should get that checked out. Question #2:What are some funny vacation stories/experiences that you've had?Where were you? Where were you going?Are there any funny stories or memories? This is for a creative writing class project and the topic is asking others for their personal stories and memories and incorporating it with my own story. It's an exercise to help fight writers block Thanks! Question #3:What are some exciting/interesting stories you've had while on a road trip?Where were you? Where were you going?Are there any funny stories or memories? This is for a creative writing class project and the topic is asking others for their personal stories and memories and incorporating it with my own story. It's an exercise to help fight writers block Thanks! Question #4:Navy OCS does it involve a lot of essay writing?in college i took the bare minimum of creative writing classes and other essay writing classes, im close to getting my BS in exercise biology.Is there a lot of essay writing in OCS and while your an officer? Question #5:Satirical/Creative Writers! I need your help!!?I am writing a satirical piece for English about the newly discovered "Liquid Gold".Liquid Gold is the leftover fat from liposuction which is now being used as stemcells which are curing heart, lung and liver disease. I want to relate it to McDonalds. Something to do with the Golden Arches and this Liquid Gold. And basically say how being fat is a win/win situation. You can enjoy lifes luxaries, not bother to exercise, then counteract your disease via stemcells made through liposuction. :P Well thats kinda the jist of it. So can anyone help?? P.S I'm not trying to cheat!! I just want some creative ideas. I suck. Question #6:how is my essay? any corrections?it's for an 8th grade adv. english classCapital punishment vs. life imprisonment Random House Webster’s College Dictionary defines a hypocrite as: a person whose actions contradict their stated beliefs. Either the government is unaware of their blatant hypocrisy in killing killers as punishment for killing, or they're comfortable with their childish "let's see how you like it" attitude. For over 200 years, the U.S. government has instated laws against taking the lives of others, while using capital punishment to do just that. Capital punishment is severely more expensive than life imprisonment. The cost of keeping a 25-year old inmate for 50 years (assuming a 75 year life span) is roughly $805,000. Capital punishment costs approximately 2 million dollars more. The only way to make the death penalty cheaper is to limit the number of appeals, which are the defendants’ only protection from mistakes and false accusations. We would save money at the price of lives. As of March 11, 2009, at least 15,645 innocent men and women were accused of a crime and killed for it. Capital punishment should be discontinued if there’s a risk of losing one life, let alone more than 15,000. So truly, judges are sentencing defendants to death on a whim, when they do no not have the 100% infallible evidence to his or her guilt. That is just wrong. Life imprisonment is also more humane than capital punishment. Depending on the prison, inmates receive food, shelter, exercise, books, church services, education, letters, newspapers, visits, and other creative outlets. That is certainly more humane than being injected with poison that is excruciatingly torturous if given too little. In “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov, the Lawyer says, “It’s better to live somehow than not to live at all” I agree with this statement because, while in prison, you can still love and feel, experience and accomplish. Robert Franklin Stroud, also known as “The Bird Man” raised 300 canaries and wrote two books on birds (Diseases of Canaries, and Stroud’s Digest on the Diseases of Birds) and discovered a cure for the hemorrhagic septicemia family of diseases-all while locked in Alcatraz. With the number of killed innocents standing at more than 15,000, it should be obvious to everyone that capital punishment must come to an end. It’s simply not practical. Life imprisonment is cheaper, more humane, it protects us just as well from criminals, and it doesn’t promote the idea that killing is wrong unless you’re the government. Question #7:(first piece of english coursework) help with my horror story.?As my first piece of coursework, I have a creative writing exercise to complete. I have to write a horror story and it just doesn't seem to be going anywhere. It's about a girl who goes away with her school and eventually ends up being devoured by a flesh eating monster. She ends up wandering off from her class into 'the haunted forrest' and then being killed off, but I have no clue what the monster could actually be. It's a choice between killer locusts or an actual psychotic cannibal human being. I would also like to know how I could achieve an A, B or C in this. Thanks for taking the time to read this, hope somebody can help without telling the story for me. I'm just near to completing the first draft and can't make the decision about the monster.Thanks. . . Question #8:Please comment my acting resume. thank-you.?I am serious about this. I've thought it out. If I am able to continue to pursue my dream, possibly in 3-5 years, I will go to L.A and audition, if I am able to find an agent first. So here's my Resume NOW, I will update as time goes, but I need to know if this is the right format, all things that are needed are included, etc. Please help me correct, or comment/compliment. But please do not be too harsh in the criticisms.Christina Tran Date of Birth: December 07 1995 Eye Color: Brown Hair Color: Black Height: Weight: lbs Age: 14 Clothing Size: Shoe: 8.5 Acting Age Range: 14-17 Ethnicity: Asian. Location: Language(s): Vietnamese, English. Email: Christinatran95@hotmail.com Phone No.: 604-555-5555 Cellular: 778-555-5555 Acting & Modeling Objectives: •Films/Movies •TV Shows •Commercials •Commercial Print Experience: •Extra Curriculum Drama Class •Summer Camps that include Acting classes and activities. •Various Elementary School Performances since Age of 5 – Skits, Shows, Plays, Musicals. Class Skits: Fairy Tales – Three Little Pigs: 1/3 Pigs and a lead in one of many stories of Dr. Seuss. Training: High School Drama Club and Theatre. Special Skills & Talents: •Drawing. •Sewing and Cooking. •Hula-hoop. •Cry on Cue. •Creative Mind – Writing Stories and Poems, etc. (Long/Short) Sports and Hobbies: Volleyball, Swimming, Drawing, Tennis, Reading, Cooking, Practice Acting, Bicycling, Badminton, Fashion, Exercising. Here is my Cover Letter: Hello, I have been performing a series of plays, musicals and various short skits since kindergarten at the age of five, throughout elementary school years, and am continuing by attending drama classes in my high school. I have worked with a few directors for school plays, which helped me improve my concentration on stage, my volume, and techniques when performing. I am dedicated; I work hard and very focused when I am playing my role. I learn quickly and easily, and have great memorizing skills. I love acting, because it’s a passionate career, and I’d like to pursue my dream and become a professional in anyway. I have been chosen as lead roles before, I’d best like to audition for main roles, if not able then an extra in a TV show, film or movie. Yours Truly, Christina Tran. If you can, please tell me what else I need to include in my cover letter if necessary. P.S: Does anyone know any agents/agencies that cover the areas that I am trying to accomplish? Please let me know, possibly a contact number or such? Thank you. Question #9:Am I—to put it nicely—mentally ill?I’m a teen, so I’ve heard all that jazz about teen depression. I don’t indulge in destructive behavior for attention. I used to think that anyone who talked about their problems, or went to a therapist, was weak. I mean, my oddities always affected me, but why acknowledge them? Everybody has problems, everybody has sadness, everyone’s a little odd, you know?Just for starters, I’m pretty sure I’m not depressed. There’s no reason why I should be. I haven’t been through emotional upheaval, my family life’s great, I have friends, and have no family history of it. I have been, however, alone most of my life. My sister likes being with her friends, and both my parents work, so for hours at a time I would be home by myself. I spent my time writing. I do go through manic-depressive states, albeit gradual ones. Some days, I will be excited and focused, sociable, and even inappropriate: making loud, random noises, talking too loudly or wildly, saying odd things, etc. Then, out of nowhere, I will be irritable, suspicious—even paranoid, go through crying spells, feel so worthless about the future that I express hypocritical pessimism about goals I’d been eager about before. I will be massively tired, and recently I’ve been sleeping in class, which I’ve never done before and isn’t the result of insomnia, since I get about nine hours of sound rest (minus weekends). My views about the future change sporadically, without reason. I suffer headaches and (sometimes crippling) aches and pains, some to do with digestion, that don’t have a source and don’t react to medication. But the last checkup I went to yielded normal results. I don’t get bad grades. I don’t abuse drugs or alcohol. I never quit paying attention to my schoolwork, even if I’ve quit sports before due to my inability to focus and my irrational hatred for my coaches (I take constructive criticism very harshly and personally). As far as suicide goes, I think about it often. But I know I would never do it, and I’ve never given any indication that I wanted to. Even if sometimes I relish the thought, I would never kill myself. I am also freakishly creative. I have written two huge, complicated novels in abnormally short periods of time. I have, for no reason, come to hate my first book. My current inability to focus has led me to abandon work on the latest. I also deal with fantasies. They’ve always been intricate, even when I was small. They never have anything to do with me personally. They’re like TV shows in my head. They are so vivid that I absolutely stop taking note of my surroundings—I have run into things, made faces at blank stretches of wall, upheld full-length, whispered conversation with myself in public (people have seen and asked what I’m saying; I have a store of excuses built up). The list goes on. I have created a track in my carpet from pacing. I am 100% sure that these are just fantasies, though. I can draw a very clear line between reality and dream. Just shooting in the dark, I’d say I was bipolar, and/or a Fantasy Prone Personality, or possibly autistic. Or maybe everyone does things like this. It would be enormously reassuring to know that this is just the teen blues. Although I am not happy, and some mornings I don’t get up, I don’t relish the thought of going to a shrink. They’re expensive, and I don’t believe they work. I want to improve my situation, however. Maybe an increase in exercise would help? Question #10:What do you think about this creative writing piece?I'm thirteen, I wrote this during a free writing exercise at school. The first paragraph i wrote at school, the other ones i added on at home. Any feedback is good feedback :)A diving board, hovering over the crystalline waters of a swimming pool, bounces and shifts as the feet of a diver toes the edge. Lining up each tanned, muscled leg with each other, the flat feet scrape against the sandpaper of the diving board, until their straight toes hang from the edge. Smoothing the diving cap, she starts to bounce. Lifting off, using only the power in her legs, she soars higher and higher each time, balancing her feet on the board for briefer a moment each bounce. Finally, suddenly, she pushes up and forward, twisting and contorting her body before she freezes in a sleek diving position a millisecond before she cuts into the water. This dive was just for her. For the feeling of the air whistling around the contours of her body and then the liquid numbness of submersion. Not for the cheering crowds and the pensive judges, not for her family, never for them. Only for her. “Good job, I think we've got this,” her father would say. Got what? She would think. I had it the second I jumped from the board. Leaving them behind, she jumps again. For her, for the water, for the feeling. She doesn't dive for anything else. She dives for herself. With no one but the water and the sun to see, she dives again. Question #11:How can I motivate myself to write poetry? Any tips or exercises that I can use?I have to take a class on writing poetry, but I can't seem to think "poetically" at all. I struggle when it's time to spontaneously write something in class. I write fiction and commentaries well, but I just can't seem to write poems! What can I do to get my creative juices flowing?Question #12:What are some creative writing exercises that's useful to middle and high school students?It needs to be informative, fun, and applicable to their writing in school. Thank you in advance!Question #13:Its like I'm wearing Au De Man-repellent!?I have above average looks, I take care of myself pretty well. (exercise, grooming and clothing) I have a wonderfully creative career (which I'm very proud of) a good sense of humour and self confidence..... but for some reason.... prospective dates disappear into thin air after a couple of dates, or back and forth emails, never to be seen or heard of again..... Please give me some advise... seems like I'm doing the "getting to know you" thing all wrong.... Why hasn't anyone written a "Dating for Dummies" book yet?? Maybe I come across as intimidating? And no... I don't have verbal diarrhea, a mustache, a big unsightly mole or smell funny. (no offense to those who do)! SOS?btw) can be A moustache (or A mustache) :) but tnx anyway. Thanks for the spelling lesson. Would you do a long distance dating? (in South Africa) ;) Question #14:How would a Ravenclaw answer these questions?This is part of the Sorting Hat quiz on MNI. I really want to get in Ravenclaw, so please help!10) What's your favorite part of learning magic? a. Learning to cast the spells is of course important, but you really like learning how and why they work. b. In between, but closer to 'a'. c. In between, but closer to 'd'. d. You like learning how to cast the spells. Who cares how they work! 11) Yikes! One of your professors set a very difficult homework exercise to do over the weekend, but you're allowed to talk about it with other students, if you want to. Which are you more likely to do? a. Talk about it with other classmates. It's easier to find a solution by talking about things outloud. b. In between, but closer to 'a'. c. In between, but closer to 'd'. d. Think about it on your own, and then maybe talk about it with a few classmates later. Afterall, even if you're going to work in a group, the group needs to start somewhere. 12) During breakfast, you hear some fourth year panicking about her exams and ordering all of her house mates to make study schedules so that they don't waste any time. You think: a. She might have a point. You tend to not manage your time very well. You waste time in the beginning, and then scramble to finish things at the last minute. b. In between, but closer to 'a'. c. In between, but closer to 'd'. d. Her warning was unnecessary for you. You might not have a schedule written out, but you are very good at managing your time to make sure you get everything done. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13) You just broke one of Dumbledore's strange magical items, while waiting for him in his office. You know he's a nice man who is rarely angry, but this was probably a very valuable instrument. You know you have at least several minutes before he gets back. The biggest thing on your mind is: a. how to explain yourself, how to repair the item, or how to hide it so he won't know it was you. b. In between, but closer to 'a'. c. In between, but closer to 'd'. d. how Dumbledore will react when he comes back to see what you did. Other than asking forgiveness, how you might mend the situation hasn't crossed your mind because you're too nervous, or perhaps too embarrassed, to think about much else. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14) When dealing with magic, it’s usually more important to be: a. practical. b. In between, but closer to 'a'. c. In between, but closer to 'd'. d. creative. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15) My housemates say I'm: a. open and easy to get to know. b. In between, but closer to 'a'. c. In between, but closer to 'd'. d. closed-off and difficult to get to know. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16) You're in Diagon Alley getting your school supplies. As you are about to enter Flourish & Blotts, you see a dodgy-looking man -- who you think came from the direction of Knockturn Alley -- walk into the shop ahead of you. You: a. trust your instincts and go to Madam Malkin's instead. You can come back to F&B later, once the man has left. b. In between, but closer to 'a'. c. In between, but closer to 'd'. d. shrug and enter the shop. You have no evidence that this man is going to cause trouble, so you don't see why you should inconvenience yourself. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17) You oversleep and end up late to your first lesson of the day. As soon as you walk into the classroom, your professor gives you detention and takes five points from your house. You: a. are embarrassed not only about the detention and lost points, but about being late as well. You *hate* walking in late, and you understand why the teachers don't like it. b. In between, but closer to 'a'. c. In between, but closer to 'd'. d. are embarrassed about the detention and lost points, but don't see the big deal about being late. You don't understand why professors are so uptight about it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18) There is going to be a new DADA Professor this year. Big surprise. You've heard that this new teacher is extremely knowledgeable in DADA and good at communicating information, but isn't a very compassionate person and is a strict disciplinarian. What do you think about that? a. Good. It's about time you had a good teacher! You need to do well on your NEWTS. You don't care that this person isn't compassionate. b. In between, but closer to 'a'. c. In between, but closer to 'd'. d. You're extremely disappointed. It's good that 19) You're having dinner in the Great Hall and one of your friends is babbling about this crazy thing that she saw in the halls after Transfiguration. What do you think of the story? a. You love hearing all the little details. It helps set the mood, and that's important to the story. b. In between, but closer to 'a'. c. In between, but closer to 'd'. d. Who cares about all the tiny insignificant details? If she doesn't get to the point soon, you'll tune her out. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20) Yay! There's a Hogsmeade weekend coming up! You will probably: a. decide where you'll go when you get to Hogsmeade. b. In between, but closer to 'a'. c. In between, but closer to 'd'. d. make a plan or talk about all the places you want to visit with your friends, so you don't miss anything. Here's letter 'd' on question 18: You're extremely disappointed. It's good that this teacher knows the subject, but you're willing to sacrifice a little competence, if necessary, in order to get a more caring teacher. Question #15:Does anyone know any good writing exercises?I'm looking for some creative writing exercises or a website that has free creative writing exercises to help me improve my writing skills. If you know any that would be a big help. Thanks.Question #16:Does any one know any good Writing exercises?I'm looking for good creative writing exercises or a website that has creative writing exercises for free. If you know any please let me know.Question #17:Does anyone else feel like this?Sorry for this, but I just feel the need to express what I'm feeling, and I'm looking to see if anyone else is with me on this.I want to be emotionally, physically and spiritually healthy. I want to get a good nights sleep at night, have time to spend with my family, friends, by myself, with my pets, reading a book, and pampering during the day. I want to be able to paint my nails, go on the computer, do my school work, exercise, eat good food, and still have time for all the other things. I want to be organized, and have a creative spirit inside me that will one day emerge and set me to work on writing my masterpiece novel. I want to breathe, and be comfortable, and enjoy every aspect of this life. I want to feel love, and watch good movies, and curl up on a couch with the love of my life and eat popcorn and drink cold sodas. I want to finish all the books on my shelves, and wake up early and watch the sunrise. I want to stop this insomnia, and be able to sleep at night. I want to have a job, and my own money to buy things. I want to take my permit test, and be able to drive. But I know I won't do any of these things. I know I'm lazy and emotionally unstable. Does anybody else feel this way? Please, let me know. Question #18:does this make any sense to you? personification stuff...?Personification Exercise—Arts ConnectionBring personification to life by making some creative illustrations. Write three examples of personification and illustrate the examples Question #19:Christians, I'm tired of life...any suggestions?I'm a Christian (- not just in the word) and if I saw this question posted by anyone else, I've got to be honest I'd have a million answers, but this isn't anyone else. It's me. It's me, who up at 4:30 in the morning writing this. My life revolves around voluntary work at church, my friends and my illness. For the past 9 days and goodness knows how much longer, I've had two of the three taken away from me, due to my flat mate coming down with Swine Flu. She's been really bad and I've been waiting on her every need, but due close contact, my church has placed me in quarantine though I've had no symptoms - (incubation period.) I've not been able to see people and few people have bothered phoning except to fine out how my flat mate is? I cope with boredom a lot - due to my illness and use a lot of distraction techniques - I'm creative - write/draw, exercise, email, mess on this site, but I am also able to see people. This is driving me to less Christian forms of distraction like vodka. I know this is wrong, but equally I don't know what else to stop myself going down the route of blaming God, my church or my friend. I'm bored stupid and just want to knock myself out until it's over.Question #20:Can someone help me with Time Management and Stress Management this Summer?Even though Summer is here, my Summer sucks still. I work 9 to 5 Monday to Friday. How can I get time to make new friends this Summer in South New Jersey and make new friends to have group so I can out there on trips and enjoy Summer Fun? How do I have time to Read a book, Tae Bo exercises, stretching exercises, Guitar Practice, Creative Writing I want to try, Summer Fun, and other stuff?** Powered by Yahoo Answers Click link above for correct copyright license. |
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