Kush W asked:

i have to do something scientifical. i decided to go with, uh, feeding my younger brother (11yo) different types of candy each night before he goes to bed (on the holidays, of course) and see if sleeping patterns change and if there is any signs of hyperactivity. im only like, 13. is it ok?

cristina asked:

hi! i’m an italian student. tomorrow i’m going to do an english test.
the test is this:

now departing for the 21st century

as the skies above Europe clog up with planes and road traffic grinds to a standstill, governments are turning to an older form of transport to solve travel problems: trains. trains which bear more resemblance to aeroplanes on rails than to Stephenson’s Rocket.ambitious plans have been drawn up by the European Commission to create a high-speed train network throughout Europe. if it all comes to pass, we will see the dawning of another great railway age.the new era promises to revolutionize mobility in the European Union. by 2020 an entire high-speed network will connect most of the capitals and major cities in Europe. trains will flash along the new rails at speeds approaching 200 mph. ferry companies and airlines will have to struggle to compete with the new trains as journey times shrink, ad cultural, employment and holiday patterns change.few European governments have failed to draw important lessons from the success of the French Train de Grande Vitesse. having seen the future, the Italians and Germans are now racing to catch up with their own high-speed trains and fast tracks.the European Commission is determined to keep pushing. for cultural, economic and personal mobility reasons we feel that the high-speed network will be a major contribution to creating a single market., says a commission spokesman. for short and medium distances, high-speed trains are very efficient. for longer routes aircraft are perfectly adapted, but for journeys of between 200 and 800 km. trains will dominate. they will capture 90% of the market for a journey of two hours.for three hours the train will take a 75% share, if these estimates are accurate, trains will have a serious impact on Europe’s international airline business.

QUESTIONS:
-what are the problems about travelling in Europe at the moment?
-what solution is being planned?
-what effects will this solution have?

answer please!!!!

Ashley asked:

Can some one help with this its a question from one of my classes.

the following list of words may help you explain why our diets have changed over time.

technology / convenience foods / working mothers / travel / holidays / preservation / income / types of jobs / work patterns / climate changes.

I need 5 sentences please

Christ Alone asked:

it has to be about your favorite sport or holiday.
If you have the time i would GREATLY appreciate it!! I have a LOT of homework to do cuz i was sick for 5 days.
(a sonnet is four stanzas; ABAB CDCD EFEF GG <- rhyming pattern, and is has to have 10 syllables every line.)

xxheavenly-creaturexx asked:

i need help from any product design students!

i’ve just finished year 11 and about to go into 6th form next year. i’ve been set holiday work to produce a sketch book and portfolio of things. the portfolio is about Novelty Cards, and the sketch book is just for observation skills. it suggests i can do

-interesting items – annotated sketches
-effective use of materials, colour, fonts
-sketches of interesting detail – patterns, shapes, decoration
-photographs
-interesting magazine cuttings
-new innovative idead
-ideas of your own
-collected materials/ samples
-examples of effective graphic products

can anyone help me and suggest maybe what i could do for each of them because im soooooo confused, although i was going to try and incorporate something to do with fashion in there (from magazies)

any help will be appreciated!!!

Socrates asked:

Danny Wisniewski
Cash
English 121-022
25 January 2008
Mall Studies
It has been argued in recent times that consumerist materialism drives the American economy. Whether or not this is really the case, assuming that it is, the question then becomes whether that is a bad thing. America is a capitalistic society, yet are there not ethical bounds to capitalism?
According to George Lewis in his article “The Mall as Refuge” the mall can be a huge commercial nexus, but not one that has gone without criticism. The mall is said to have become a large part of our culture and buying things a new national pastime (Lewis).
Malls have a large number of places to purchase items in a confined space. It brings a overwhelming array of ways to spend money to a population that is brainwashed to believe they need to buy said items with their hard earned money. Perhaps no one can say it better then Tyler Durden from the movie Fight Club when he indignantly proclaimed;
“Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we **** so we can buy **** we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
This speech epitomizes the state of our sick society in today’s age. People are obsessed with material items because they use these items to try in vain to fill a void in their own self that causes them to feel empty. This is also epitomized from a different perspective from that same insane alter-ego Tyler Durden from Fight Club when he advocates the opposing position of the masses of concentrated mindless delirium previously introduced and says ever so eloquently, “Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let… lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.”
Not only is he criticizing the idea of needing to buy things to feel complete, he is doing it on a philosophical level. He is saying that we cannot base our worth on what we own in an artistic and revolutionary way. This is not to say the mall is innately bad, just as a weapon is only as dangerous as he who wields it the mall is only physical. The idea of the mall was not sinister by nature… However people do seem to work at jobs they **** for stuff they don’t need quite often…
The mall is essentially an economically driven place that has somehow turned social… Turning an economic thing into something social makes buying social… By making buying social people typically will want to buy more. People can go to the mall with their equally spiritually lacking friends and buy more.
So the mall is not innately bad, no. It is the weak, simple people with no self worth that perpetuate the idea of it. The idea that it is a necessity that should be gone to for fun and enjoyment regularly is wrong… It is not to say that in moderation the mall is evil or something dramatic to that effect… It is the idea that people need material items to be happy that is wrong.
It is important that people make the distinction between needs and wants in order to become shrewd consumers… However, the lines between the two can blur when advertising uses the terms interchangeably.
This ideal of filling voids with material goods cannot be summarized better then by the holiday season. As Dave Barry said, “Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.” Even the most religious holidays are commercialized now…
The fact that religion is not even left alone in the pursuit of happiness in materialism reflects the magnitude of the situation. The mall can be an innocent place to purchase things one needs pr a place where empty people go to buy stuff to try to fill the void.
Ultimately like anything it is people and not the things that make a thing what it is. If people would change their ways, the economy would be forced to follow by its own self-interest.