Questions

hey guys im stuck on these 2 english questions can anybody please help ? 10points and best answer please help thank so much.

In his “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech,” ***?ulkner ****?ts writers to act responsibily by writing about “the heart.” What does he ****?t them to do?

a.write about light romance

b.write about subjects that really matter

c.write about medical topics

d.write fiction instead of nonfiction

Which line from “The boy Speaks of Rivers” is written in the present ***?rfect tense?

a.”My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”

b.”I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.”

c.”I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.”

d.”I heard the singing of the Mississippi…”
- kelsey

For summer reading.
Has to be at least 150 pages and appropriate.

She’s *****?y, so ****?d ****?ks maybe she could even relate to? Or just ****?ks you think a 14 year old ****?nager would like. Thank You.
- carla

I will credit you, don’t worry. Also, no vampires. That’s not very original. Any genre, other than biographies or nonfiction(obviously lol). So, basically, I need you guys to help me brainstorm. Any idea is fine; romance, ***?ntasy, drama, sci-fi, realistic fiction, etc….you get the point. Yeah, well, excuse me, “lifelikechild,” ****? with all this whirlwind around Twilight and vampires, I can’t focus on much else or come up with anything else not having to do with a few of the Twilight motifs and main points. So, sorry for not holding true to your ideal of an “author”. It’s my first ****?k and I just ****?ted ideas and help from some of the more kind ***?ople on Y!A, not criticism from YOU.
- ???? ?.

Do you know why the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series is so popular? Aside from terrific marketing and unequaled publicity, readers love the stories and personal essays. They are short, personal and teach a lesson or moral. If you would like to be a better writer of the personal essay, opinion pieces, reports and letters to the editor just follow the suggestions listed below:

1. Be brief. Many written reports or stories are 500 words or less. However, there is a general rule that an essay is between two and twenty typed, double-spaced pages. The most important criteria to remember is that a good piece needs to be an unbroken reading experience. The reader will lose interest if it is too long or wordy.

2. Tell a story. A personal essay is a story that has happened to you or that you know about firsthand. The reader assumes that it is nonfiction and that it will contain details and descriptions with which we are familiar. Structure your story around examples, using a pencil as your paintbrush to evoke images and paint a picture in the reader’s mind.

3. Make a point. You will want to illustrate your point, teach a lesson, explain a specific topic, or even support or criticize an idea. Your goal is to win sympathy or agreement. Do not turn it into a sermon or a soapbox to present the superiority of your ideas by including “shoulds” or “musts” aimed at the reader.

4. Use your senses. Enliven your essay with sensuous detail like how it smelled, tasted, sounded or felt. Make the reader feel like they are seeing and experiencing it through your body.

5. Tell about the ordinary. Personal essays are often best when they describe a common but freely shared experience. It doesn’t have to be about being a survivor of the Twin Towers. Talk about your reaction to 911. Or tell us about watching a sunset or baking bread. When you talk about walking your dog, take us along.

6. Make it engaging. An essay should arouse curiosity about life. Instead of preaching, invite us to consider your point of view by sharing the particular experience that brought you there, describe what happened, how you reacted, and why you interpret your experiences the way you do.

Think about your own interests and areas of special knowledge, activities, skills, attitudes, problems as well as typical obstacles faced in life. Teach us what you gained or lost in your life lesson. It is much easier to be convincing when you can draw from personal and firsthand information. Write it today. Submit it to Chicken Soup for the Soul or your local newspaper and become a published author. There are readers out there who want to share your slice of life.


- Judy H. Wright aka Auntie Artichoke, family relationship coach

I love travel books and I am very interested in a travel book on Europe. A book about a young woman’s travels I thought would be great, or maybe even a book about an entire family’s travels through Europe. Fiction or nonfiction would be fine, and I’m open to any genre. Any suggestions?
- Sonic

I love to read James Patterson.
- beckster

im scared it will one day happen to us. is it fiction or nonfiction?
- brittany lynn

Whether you’re working on a narrative or instructional manuscript, self-editing skills are important to your success as a writer. However, many writers don’t know where to start when it comes to looking at their own writing objectively. They can easily skim through for grammar and punctuation errors, but when it comes to the effectiveness of the content and images they create on the page, their own perceptions can be very different from what a reader reads.

Every writer needs an editor, but all writers can use the following ten self-editing questions to think critically and objectively about their own work.



1. Are your chapter titles effective and clear? For instructional works, they should tell readers what’s coming up in the chapter. For creative works, chapter titles can be more creative in their purpose. Still, look at them all to determine how they work together and whether or not they help establish the theme for your narrative.

2. Do your opening sentences hook your readers? This is critical for both narrative and instructional works—grab your readers right away and don’t let them go.

3. Do your introduction paragraphs effectively introduce the content contained in that chapter? For creative works, the first paragraph should set the tone for what’s coming.

4. Are your subheads effective and clear? This obviously applies primarily to how-to nonfiction and instructional works, but creative writers should look at what each chapter title reveals about the chapter it introduces.

5. Do your chapter titles and/or subheads collectively work together to reinforce the theme and goals of the book as a whole?

6. Where do you need more subheads to make the information more manageable for your readers? Again, subheads are primarily for instructional works, but creative writers should look at how their narrative flows and scenes change in each chapter to find where readers may potentially feel lost.

7. Are the examples you use effective in illustrating your points, and reinforcing the theme? For creative writers, does each scene move the narrative forward?

8. Are your main points clear throughout your chapters? For creative writers, is your theme and narrative line clear throughout each chapter?

9. Is the information, or scenes, within each chapter presented to the reader in a logical way?

10. Does each chapter close in such a way that leaves your readers anxious for what comes next? In other words, don’t let them put your book down for long!

Just like every writer needs an editor, every writer needs to learn how to think about their own work objectively—they need to see their own words as a reader will see them. This can be challenging, but it’s definitely not impossible. When you use these ten self-editing questions, you’ll be able to better see the challenges and inconsistencies in your own writing, and your writing project—whether it’s the great American novel or the next bestselling how-to book—will be much better as a result.


- Melinda Copp

tell me some good books that are written during cold war that have to do with the author’s opinion on cold war (doesn’t matter if the author is pro-american or not) but have to be some fictions.

another book that i need have to be nonfiction that deals with american history after world war 1 up to the modern time.

please help me find some good books that i could write a report on and that i won’t bored to death while reading it..

i need response asap… thanx
- Michelle P

He is a sports fanatic, especially basketball. He also enjoys reading about business. Nonfiction rather than fiction. Any suggestions?
- S M