Questions

I am putting together an invitation for my parents 25th anniversary party. I would like to include a short poem or quote. Can you please reccomend something?
- c_o_l_e_82

ok so im writing a story and so far the main character who is 16 well her parents died and her parents best friend gained custody of her and htat lady had a son.. and his best friend and the main character were worst enemys.. btu they ended up dating..and still are in the story..and now im having wirters block. and i cant think of anything. any ideas? at all!? please help! and im not expecting a story from you. just some ideas you know. things i can just have my imagination go crazy with. haha
i already st arted the story. so like what i said already happens. if you want to read it so far heres the link:

http://share.buddy4u.com/view/evrythings%5Bchanged%5D%2A
this doesnt really go into HUGE detail like if i were to ever publish i would go into more detail in the story. so yeahh haha help (:
- Criss

I’m writing a fictional essay for school..and so far mine is about a girl who wakes up and finds out that she barbie sized…right where i have stopped is when her parents leave for work and she is left alone @ her house and so far no one knows about this expect her….she calls her parents but no one answers,,,tht’s where i have stopped…
HELP!
- pink_chocolate18

Do some parents ban science fiction from their children? Why?
- Scarlet

In 1989 or so, a friend read a book about teenagers and their parents going through a nuclear war. I don’t remember much about it, except the friend got it through my elementary school’s library, and it mentioned refugee camps of some sort.
- Marc

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An employer is able to view the keystrokes that are made, website surfing activity and the type of tools that are used on the computer. Each time an employee using the internet for personal reasons the monitoring tools will monitor these activities. So the employer can see who is shopping online while at work and who is working hard. The greatest advantage to an employer who decides to use monitoring software is that the tools can be accessed from any internet connection, twenty-four hours a day.

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- Iprwire Staff Writer

Me and my dad have been trying to think of the title or author of a book we read years ago. It was historical fiction about a boy during the first world war who lived with his dad. His dad was a scientist working on whatever bomb (atomic or nuclear I can’t remember) they were building in New Mexico. At the beginning of the book the boy’s friend falls off a building and dies. The boy becomes friends with a kid who’s parents are Russian spies… their attack dogs come after the boy at one point and there is a man who gets seriously injured from all the radiation and gives the boy a pair of sunglasses, telling him the bomb is “the sun” and he should stay as far away from it as he can.
Anyone remember reading this book and can give me some clues as to the author or title?
- GeekGirl

It’s a juvenile fantasy/science fiction novel about two to four kids who live in a weird random house or mansion. There is a moat with alligators? around their house.

They have had many different nannies who typically run away after a short period of time. One nanny may have been eaten by the alligators.

One of the children has a pet rat? who had babies. Somehow they (the rat’s babies) got trapped in the computer or on the internet (zapped into cyberspace or something like that).

I began reading this book but got busy and never finished. Doesn’t anyone have any clue what book it was?

Thanks!
I believe the parents are missing (or the dad is, I don’t recall the mom)…
Z ~ Yes, that’s it!!! Thank you!
- Blue Coral

Avoidable marriage

Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.

Our son was in marriageable age and therefore, we started giving matrimonial advertisements in news papers to attract a better match. We had been receiving letters from different parties and some of them had contacted us personally. There were so many suitable matches and we had been considering each case on its own merits because we wanted the best match for our promising son. He had done degree in engineering and was posted as a Sub Divisional Engineer in a government office. He was in a suitable pay scale and in addition to the pay drawn, he was having some extra income too and therefore, people were eager to give their daughters to us.

Out of all these one photograph attracted my son and he had been persuading us to contact this family. I was avoiding to contact this family because of my own reasons, but since my husband too insisted upon contacting this family, I agreed to contact that family. They were from my parental town and therefore, I suggested that I shall be contacting this family with the help of my mother and accordingly I started for my home town all alone. My husband was eager to accompany me, but since that was my parental town, I avoided that my husband too should accompany me.

I went to my parental town and actually contacted the father of the girl. I was with him for some time and explained to him as to why this marriage is impossible one. He was surprised to note my stand. He was happy that he would be having another occasion to meet me time and again, because we had been together in school, in college and then in the University. We had been fast friends and because of certain economic grounds, my parents were not in a mood to give me in that house and thus we could not marry. He got married as per desires of his parents and I too had to marry as per the choice of my parents.

When Malhotra did not agree to avoid this marriage, I explained to him, “ You know that I had explained my position to you after one year of my marriage. When the people in the house of my in laws were discussing about my pregnancy, I had to contact you. You took me to the doctor and we found that I was in a position to give birth to a child and there could be some defect in my husband. So on the second visit I requested you to give me a child. You were ready to spare a child of your own for me, but I requested otherwise and this son is that son which is actually your own son. My son Varinder is a brother to your daughter Meenakshi. They cannot marry. Since this information is in between us two, I have come here all alone. Please do write to my husband some difficulty and we should avoid this marriage.” Malhotra had been listening to me and still he was desiring that this marriage must be finalized. He explained to me that none on earth knows that we had such relations and we had brought this son earth. If the people are not having any knowledge, we can contract this marriage. But still I was not agreeing to this marriage. I explained to Malhotra, “ We know the truth and we should not ignore this truth. We shall never be able to forgive ourselves for this sin. It is a crime and we can say, it is also a misconduct on our part.” Malhotra agreed and he asked me to go back and promised that he shall not allow this marriage to finalize .

I came back and explained so many things to my husband and to my son and on this my husband passed the final remarks, “ This is the first time you failed. I had been noticing that whatever work you took in hand, you finalized the same and you never failed. And this time you failed, when your own dear son demanded something from you. The girl belongs to your parental town and if you make investigation, they people shall come out as your relatives. There is nothing wrong with our son. He is properly educated and properly trained and he has been earning well. The people from the other side, themselves have written us letter and I think they might have made certain investigations. At least I am not in a position to believe that a woman of your status could come back without achieving her targets. If you pass an order, none from my house is in a position to say ‘no’ to you and this time, the people who themselves have written us a letter have refused” I am still recalling those remarks and I am not in a position to forget those remarks. But my husband was not having the complete information and if ‘ no ‘ has come from the other side, it was so because I wanted such a response from that side. I was not ready to commit such an offence. I had committed an offence, but I do not want that my son should also commit that type of offence. I was under an obligation to give birth to a child because my own married life was in danger. I knew that these people shall divorce because here in India the people want a child and if the bride cannot give birth to a child they can divorce her or they can bring another woman in the house to have a child. I did something which was not as per norms presently followed in our society, but there had been instances when women were having children for their husbands from other men and I had to follow that old tradition under compelling circumstances.

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- Dalip Singh Wasan

I’m working on a story, and it’s going to be an adventure, but I have writer’s block, and I don’t want my book to be like everyone else’s. You know, not where the main character is captured by the bad guys, they hold her hostage, she breaks free, and kills all evil and lives happily ever after. If you know what I mean!! So what kind of adventure would you like to read about? Maybe it’ll help me with my book! Any ideas are appreciated!!!
Okay, more details:

The main character’s name, let’s say, is Maddey. So Maddey lives (or lived, cause her aunt is killed by her parents) with her aunt, becuase her parents are always working and going on business trips, and she recently moved to… let’s say Blue Mountain. So eventually, after making friends and all that, her parents come to get her (this doesn’t take up a big part of the book) and say that they’re moving back to their homecountry, Italy, and are taking her with them. Anyways, they inject her with something and she falls asleep and wakes up in Mexico, because that’s a stop on the way to Italy. She overhears her mom… Monica, let’s say, talking to a man about how they’re really gonna take her to the Gates of… Gold or something, becuase they think she knows the code to get into the water plant which supplies over half of the population with water (it’s a different time period than now, obviously), and that’s were I got writer’s block…
- Alinza