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Can you change the following sentences from informal to formal please?

flower — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:07:48 +0000

1- "There’s a real need for English classes- some of the families who’ve recently settled in the area are very isolated- especially the women"

2- "A lot of the older members of our community are lonely but they won’t travel to the college for evening classes because they’re too frightened- and the bus service is useless. They’d like to carry on learning, and get out of the house, but they see the college as a place for youngsters"

3-"Lots of courses in the evening, but not very convenient if you have young kids-why can’t you provide more stuff in the daytime?"

4- "I’m not interested in flower arranging and stuff like that- i want to have a go on computer- things that’d help me get a job"

5- "I went in once to ask about courses but the staff were a bit snooty and unfriendly- i wouldn’t go back"

6-"Why don’t you do more interesting courses in things like world music, languages and art appreciation? Not everyone who lives round here is stupid, you know."

7- "I’d love to come to your classes but I’ve no-one to look after the kids"

8- "I wish they did salsa classes-or cookery. Me and my mates would go to that"

9-"I’d like to learn French, but i can’t drive and the buses stop after 7pm.

First of all stop using contractions and words such as "Lots", "stupid", "stuff", "youngsters" and replace them with "many", "simple", "crafts", etc.

Stop using dashes and use periods, commas and semicolons where necessary.

I’ll do the first one for you:

Some of the families who recently settled in the area are very isolated, especially the women. There is a real need for English classes for them to attend.

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History of Japan questions?

flower — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 07:58:42 +0000

Could someone give some information on the following topics about the history of Japan. Please just write one or two sentences for each. This is not a homework assignment, it’s just for my own research. I need answers ASAP. Note: This not about Modern Japan but more about ancient to early modern Japan.

Achievements

1. City of Kyoto:
2. City of Edo:
3. Writing System:
4. Money Economy:
5. Rise of Merchant Class:
6. Feudal Castles/Castle Towns:

Developments and cultural exchanges

1 .Korea/China influences:
2. Writing system from China:
3. Mongol Invasions:
4. Portuguese traders:
5. Catholic Missionaries:
6. South Asia:

Art and Society

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What do you think of this story?

flower — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:29:46 +0000

Blue, red, purple, orange, and yellow streaks ran across the early morning sky while the dew on the grass was beginning to dry. Light strewn from the crowds and flowers blossomed in the light rain. However, the early morning had its peculiar scents as well.
Savannah Ripley always thought the early morning smelled like Sunny Delight mixed with pure-honey. It did, however, had to be raining hard the previous night in order for the atmosphere to obtain that particular scent.
A soft tune jingled quietly from Savannah’s chimes, clinking back and forth against each other outside her bedroom window. A tune that kept her in a deep slumber.
Savannah turned in her sleep as the draft of the cool air brushed against the nape of her neck. She had been sleeping since nine-o’clock at night and it was now six-o’clock in the morning.
Normally she would have been awake fifteen minutes ago, but since she was nervous about her first day of high school, she chose to oversleep. School was the last thing she wanted to deal with. Especially a school in which she knew nothing and no one about.
For nearly a month and a half she had been living in her new four-bedroom townhouse with her mom, step-dad, and step-brother. Although her bedroom was a perfect size for her, she still couldn’t believe she had to move to Paramount.
She liked her room, though. Her mom had allowed her to decorate her bedroom in order to make up for the move. For the past two weeks, she had spent painting her room with purple paint, having the carpenters replace the old boring white carpet with the new beige one, setting her white Victorian couch her mom had gotten her in the corner of the room, facing her new silver wide-screened television, and arranging her white vanity and computer desk next to each other for convenient reasons. She was proud of her progress in making her room look like it came straight out of a home improvement magazine. It was the only thing she was looking forward to when moving to Paramount. But she still wished she could have decorated her old room in Graysville rather than decorate her new room in a stuck up, rich area where people looked down on the less fortunate people. She was middle-class, but it still didn’t mean she wouldn’t be considered "less fortunate".
Just because her crazy mother decided to get marry, didn’t mean she had to move to a whole other town, make new friends, leave her old ones back in Graysville, and be forced to live in a new habitat. She felt like the polar bears on the icecaps being forced to move to another area because the ice was melting due to global warming. She saw her step-dad, Dave Smith, as global warming.
He had melted everything she had known and forced her to move to this terrible place.
Just her luck.
If he hadn’t called her mother and arranged for dinner after not seeing her for ten years, they wouldn’t have gotten married, she would still be in Graysville, and she would be attending high school with her two best friends, Eileen Jaggers and Phoebe Hall.
Don’t get her wrong, it’s not like she hates her step-dad, it’s just he was the reason she had moved in the first place. He and his son, Davey, could have easily lived in Graysville with her and her mother, but he felt he didn’t want to be away from his family.
She couldn’t believe how insensitive he was. Didn’t he think she had friends and family, too? That her sick and dying grandparents were back at home missing her every second? Or was he just some sociopath who had no regard towards other people’s pain and misery? Whatever it was, she certainly didn’t like it.
She also didn’t understand why a school’s mascot would be a kite. An inanimate object as a school mascot was just as ridiculous as it gets. Why couldn’t it have been a lion, bullfrog, greyhound, bumblebee, or a tiger like any other normal school? And the most annoying part was the school was as big as a zoo. Four-thousand students supposedly occupies the school building and it would be an easy way for her to get lost in the crowd.
She hated places where it was crowded and stuffy. Walking through the halls of Paramount would be the equivalent of walking down a busy street in New York City. Which is why all the stress was causing her to oversleep.
She stirred in her sleep and moaned softly.
Suddenly, the chimes stopped jingling, ending the soft tune playing. A few moments later Savannah opened her left eye and then the right one.
She looked up and groaned irritatedly.
Turning to her side, she saw that the alarm clock on her nightstand flickered 6:10am.
Tired and annoyed, she pulled the fluffy purple comforter over her head, engulfing her entire body. A few more minutes of sleep wouldn’t hurt.
"You up, dear?" her mother, Marjorie, called from the room across the hall.
She had heard her.
"No…" she muffled through the covers.
"Well, get up." Marjorie replied

beware, people are low and wont hesitate to steal, once on the web it isn’t yours anymore. keep up the work though.

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Sarah had learned that ancestral (Carboniferous era) dragonfly species were much larger than extant dragonfly?

flower — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:07:32 +0000

A farm pond, usually dry during winter, has plenty of water and aquatic pond life during the summer. One summer, Sarah returns to the family farm from college. Observing the pond, she is fascinated by some six-legged organisms that can crawl about on submerged surfaces or, when disturbed, seemingly "jet" through the water. Watching further, she is able to conclude that the "mystery organisms" are ambush predators, and their prey includes everything from insects to small fish and tadpoles.

Sarah had learned that ancestral (Carboniferous era) dragonfly species were much larger than extant dragonfly species are, with wingspans of 70 cm. This struck her as odd, because she had also learned that one of the things that keeps insects small is their relatively inefficient respiratory system. Which two hypotheses might help account for the large size of ancestral dragonflies?
1. If the atmosphere during the Carboniferous had featured a higher oxygen content than the modern atmosphere, then tracheae might have been sufficient means for oxygen delivery to the interior tissues.
2. If large size was a drawback, then the large dragonflies underwent extinction, which explains why all extant dragonflies are smaller.
3. If the ancestral dragonflies had possessed muscles that permitted effective ventilation of the tracheae, then the tracheae might have been sufficient means for oxygen delivery to the interior tissues.
4. If ancestral dragonflies existed during greenhouse conditions, then they must have survived by decreasing their activity levels, no longer capturing prey in flight. Thus, for them, an ineffective respiratory system was sufficient.

A. 1 and 4
B. 1 and 2
C. 2 and 3
D. 2 and 4
E. 1 and 3

question 2
An elementary school science teacher decided to liven up the classroom with a salt-water aquarium. Knowing that salt-water aquaria can be quite a hassle, the teacher proceeded stepwise. First, the teacher conditioned the water. Next, the teacher decided to stock the tank with various marine invertebrates, including a polychaete, a siliceous sponge, several bivalves, a shrimp, several sea anemones of different types, a colonial hydra, a few coral species, an ectoproct, a sea star, and several gastropod varieties. Lastly, some vertebrates – a parrotfish and a clownfish – were added. She arranged for daily feedings of copepods and feeder fish.

One day, little Tommy (a student in an under-supervised class of 40 fifth graders) got the urge to pet Nemo (the clownfish) who was swimming among the waving petals of a pretty underwater "flower" that had a big hole in the midst of the petals. Tommy giggled upon finding that these petals were sticky feeling. A few hours later, Tommy was in the nurse’s office with nausea and cramps. Microscopic examination of his fingers would probably have revealed the presence of
A. spines.
B. spicules.
C. nematocysts.
D. a radula.
E teeth marks.

question 3
An elementary school science teacher decided to liven up the classroom with a salt-water aquarium. Knowing that salt-water aquaria can be quite a hassle, the teacher proceeded stepwise. First, the teacher conditioned the water. Next, the teacher decided to stock the tank with various marine invertebrates, including a polychaete, a siliceous sponge, several bivalves, a shrimp, several sea anemones of different types, a colonial hydra, a few coral species, an ectoproct, a sea star, and several gastropod varieties. Lastly, some vertebrates – a parrotfish and a clownfish – were added. She arranged for daily feedings of copepods and feeder fish.

The species in the aquarium that possess true bilateral symmetry include the
1. sponges.
2. molluscs.
3. echinoderm.
4. sea anemones.
5. ectoprocts.
A. 2, 3, 4, and 5
B. 2 and 5
C. 2 only
D. 1 and 4
E. 2, 3, and 5

question 4
An elementary school science teacher decided to liven up the classroom with a salt-water aquarium. Knowing that salt-water aquaria can be quite a hassle, the teacher proceeded stepwise. First, the teacher conditioned the water. Next, the teacher decided to stock the tank with various marine invertebrates, including a polychaete, a siliceous sponge, several bivalves, a shrimp, several sea anemones of different types, a colonial hydra, a few coral species, an ectoproct, a sea star, and several gastropod varieties. Lastly, some vertebrates – a parrotfish and a clownfish – were added. She arranged for daily feedings of copepods and feeder fish.

If the teacher wanted to show the students what a lophophore is, and how it works, the teacher would point out a feeding
A. sponge.
B. bivalve.
C. ectoproct.
D. gastropod.
E. hydra.

question 5
An elementary school science teacher decided to liven up the classroom with a salt-water aquarium. Knowing that salt-water aquaria can be quite a hassle, the teacher proceeded stepwise. First, the teacher conditioned the water. Next, th

Which two hypotheses might help account for the large size of ancestral dragonflies?
1. If the atmosphere during the Carboniferous had featured a higher oxygen content than the modern atmosphere, then tracheae might have been sufficient means for oxygen delivery to the interior tissues.
3. If the ancestral dragonflies had possessed muscles that permitted effective ventilation of the tracheae, then the tracheae might have been sufficient means for oxygen delivery to the interior tissues.
E. 1 and 3

==For all we know they may have had lungs and a closed circulatory system and only outwardly resembled extant dragonflies — not being ancestral at all. *shrug* Some fossils don’t preserve a whole lot of detail.

question 2
Microscopic examination of his fingers would probably have revealed the presence of
C. nematocysts.

The species in the aquarium that possess true bilateral symmetry include the
2. molluscs.
5. ectoprocts.
B. 2 and 5

question 4
If the teacher wanted to show the students what a lophophore is, and how it works, the teacher would point out a feeding
C. ectoproct.

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History of Japan questions?

flower — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:04:40 +0000

Achievements

1. City of Kyoto:
2. City of Edo:
3. Writing System:
4. Money Economy:
5. Rise of Merchant Class:
6. Feudal Castles/Castle Towns:

Developments and cultural exchanges

1 .Korea/China influences:
2. Writing system from China:
3. Mongol Invasions:
4. Portuguese traders:
5. Catholic Missionaries:
6. South Asia:

Art and Society

1. Legend of Japan’s creation:
2. Bunraku Puppetry:
3. Poetry/Haiku:
4. Epic Poems:
5. Aware:
6. Diaries and Journals:
7. Tale of Genji:
8. Ikebana Flower arranging:
9. Tea Ceremony:
10. Courtiers:

Just a sentence or tow and it’s not homework, well then do your own research, there are tons of sites that have this information. Use google.

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History of Japan questions?

flower — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:57:40 +0000

Achievements

1. City of Kyoto:
2. City of Edo:
3. Writing System:
4. Money Economy:
5. Rise of Merchant Class:
6. Feudal Castles/Castle Towns:

Developments and cultural exchanges

1 .Korea/China influences:
2. Writing system from China:
3. Mongol Invasions:
4. Portuguese traders:
5. Catholic Missionaries:
6. South Asia:

Art and Society

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History of Japan questions?

flower — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:40:39 +0000

Achievements

1. City of Kyoto:
2. City of Edo:
3. Writing System:
4. Money Economy:
5. Rise of Merchant Class:
6. Feudal Castles/Castle Towns:

Developments and cultural exchanges

1 .Korea/China influences:
2. Writing system from China:
3. Mongol Invasions:
4. Portuguese traders:
5. Catholic Missionaries:
6. South Asia:

Art and Society

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History of Japan questions?

flower — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:19:15 +0000

Achievements

1. City of Kyoto:
2. City of Edo:
3. Writing System:
4. Money Economy:
5. Rise of Merchant Class:
6. Feudal Castles/Castle Towns:

Developments and cultural exchanges

1 .Korea/China influences:
2. Writing system from China:
3. Mongol Invasions:
4. Portuguese traders:
5. Catholic Missionaries:
6. South Asia:

Art and Society

1. Legend of Japan’s creation:
2. Bunraku Puppetry:
3. Poetry/Haiku:
4. Epic Poems:
5. Aware:
6. Diaries and Journals:
7. Tale of Genji:
8. Ikebana Flower arranging:
9. Tea Ceremony:
10. Courtiers:

- The written history of Japan began with brief appearances in Chinese history texts from the first century AD. However, archaeological research indicates that people were living on the islands of Japan as early as the upper paleolithic period….
HISTORY
Japanese legend maintains that Japan was founded in 600 BC by the Emperor Jimmu, a direct descendant of the sun goddess and ancestor of the present ruling imperial family. In about AD 405, the Japanese court officially adopted the Chinese writing system. Together with the introduction of Buddhism in the sixth century, these two events revolutionized Japanese culture and marked the beginning of a long period of Chinese cultural influence. From the establishment of the first fixed capital at Nara in 710 until 1867, the emperors of the Yamato dynasty were the nominal rulers, but actual power was usually held by influential court nobles, regents, or "shoguns" (military governors)…

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50 fun things to during an exam?

flower — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:24:38 +0000

Fifty fun things to do during an exam
You should not attempt these things during an actual exam. The following is meant for entertainment purposes only.

1. Bring a pillow. Fall asleep (or pretend to) until the last 15 minutes. Wake up, say "oh geez, better get cracking" and do some gibberish work. Turn it in a few minutes early.

2. Get a copy of the exam, run out screaming "Andre, Andre, I’ve got the secret documents!!"

3. If it is a math/science exam, answer in essay form. If it is long answer/essay form, answer with numbers and symbols. Be creative. Use the integral symbol.

4. Make paper airplanes out of the exam. Aim them at the instructor’s left nostril.

5. Talk the entire way through the exam. Read questions aloud, debate your answers with yourself out loud. If asked to stop, yell out, "I’m so sure you can hear me thinking. " Then start talking about what a jerk the instructor is.

6. Bring cheerleaders.

7. Walk in, get the exam, sit down. About five minutes into it, loudly say to the instructor, "I don’t understand any of this. I’ve been to every lecture all semester long! What’s the deal? And who are you? Where’s the regular guy?"

8. Bring a Game Boy (or Game Gear, etc. . . ). Play with the volume at max level.

9. On the answer sheet (book, whatever) find a new, interesting way to refuse to answer every question. For example: I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that it conflicts with my religious beliefs. Be creative.

10. Bring pets.

11. Run into the exam room looking about frantically. Breathe a sigh of relief. Go to the instructor, say "They’ve found me, I have to leave the country" and run off.

12. Fifteen minutes into the exam, stand up, rip up all the papers into very small pieces, throw them into the air and yell out "Merry Christmas. "If you’re really daring, ask for another copy of the exam. Say you lost the first one. Repeat this process every fifteen minutes.

13. Do the exam with crayons, paint, or fluorescent markers.

14. Come into the exam wearing slippers, a bathrobe, a towel on your head, and nothing else.

15. Come down with a BAD case of Turet’s Syndrome during the exam. Be as vulgar as possible.

16. Do the entire exam in another language. If you don’t know one, make one up! For math/science exams, try using Roman numerals.

17. Bring things to throw at the instructor when s/he’s not looking. Blame it on the person nearest to you.

18. As soon as the instructor hands you the exam, eat it.

19. Walk into the exam with an entourage. Claim you are going to be taping your next video during the exam. Try to get the instructor to let them stay, be persuasive. Tell the instructor to expect a percentage of the profits if they are allowed to stay.

20. Every five minutes, stand up, collect all your things, move to another seat, continue with the exam.

21. Turn in the exam approximately 30 minutes into it. As you walk out, start commenting on how easy it was.

22. Do the entire exam as if it was multiple choice and true/false. If it is a multiple choice exam, spell out interesting things (DCCAB. BABE. etc. . ).

23. Bring a black marker. Return the exam with all questions and answers completely blacked out.

24. Get the exam. Twenty minutes into it, throw your papers down violently, scream out "Forget this!" and walk out triumphantly.

25. Arrange a protest before the exam starts (i. e. Threaten the instructor that whether or not everyone’s done, they are all leaving after one hour to go drink)

26. Show up completely drunk. (Completely drunk means at some point during the exam, you should start crying for mommy).

27. Every now and then, clap twice rapidly. If the instructor asks why, tell him/her in a very derogatory tone, "the light bulb that goes on above my head when I get an idea is hooked up to a clapper. DUH!"

28. Comment on how sexy the instructor is looking that day.

29. Come to the exam wearing a black cloak. After about 30 minutes, put on a white mask and start yelling "I’m here, the phantom of the opera" until they drag you away.

30. Go to an exam for a class you have no clue about, where you know the class is very small, and the instructor would recognize you if you belonged. Claim that you have been to every lecture. Fight for your right to take the exam.

31. Upon receiving the exam, look it over, while laughing loudly, say "you don’t really expect me to waste my time on this drivel? Days of our Lives is on!!!"

32. Bring a water pistol with you.

33. From the moment the exam begins, hum the theme to Jeopardy. Ignore the instructor’s requests for you to stop. When they finally get you to leave one way or another, begin whistling the theme to the Bridge on the River Kwai.

34. Start a brawl in the middle of the exam.

35. If the exam is math/science related, make up the longest proofs you could possibly think of. Get pi and imaginary numbers into most equations. If it is a written exam, relate everything to your own life story.

36. Come in wearing a full knight’s outfit, complete with sword and shield.

37. Bring a friend to give you a back massage the entire way through the exam. Insist this person is needed, because you have bad circulation.

38. Bring cheat sheets for another class (make sure this is obvious. . . like history notes for a calculus exam. . . otherwise you’re not just failing, you’re getting kicked out too) and staple them to the exam, with the comment "Please use the attached notes for references as you see fit. "

39. When you walk in, complain about the heat.

40. After you get the exam, call the instructor over, point to any question, ask for the answer. Try to work it out of him/her.

41. One word: Wrestlemania.

42. Bring balloons, blow them up, start throwing them around like they do before concerts start.

43. Try to get people in the room to do the wave.

44. Play frisbee with a friend at the other side of the room.

45. Bring one pencil with a very sharp point. Break the point off your paper. Sharpen the pencil. Repeat this process for one hour.

46. Get deliveries of candy, flowers, balloons, telegrams, etc. . . sent to you every few minutes throughout the exam.

47. During the exam, take apart everything around you. Desks, chairs, anything you can reach.

48. Complete the exam with everything you write being backwards at a 90 degree angle.

49. Bring a musical instrument with you, play various tunes. If you are asked to stop, say "it helps me think. " Bring a copy of the Student Handbook with you, challenging the instructor to find the section on musical instruments during finals. Don’t forget to use the phrase "Told you so".

50. Answer the exam with the "Top Ten Reasons Why Professor xxxx is a Terrible Teacher"

STREAK!!! LOL those are good but add mine

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What should I do? Why would he do that? I need a guy’s point of view.?

flower — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:33:40 +0000

My boyfriend and I have been together for 5 years. We had a falling out and broke up last year for a month in September… In the mean time, he slept with my "best" friend. It crushed me. Why would someone who cared do that? Can anyone tell me? We reconciled, but with my paranoia we still fought. In January, I started getting harassed one evening before class by HER and messages saying that he’s with her, not me. How he loves her, not me. I had a complete break down because it felt like everyone was out to get me. He started sending suicidal messages saying how he couldn’t live with himself and how no one cares. I drove to his family’s home and balled my eyes out: I confessed everything. His family was in shock, and couldn’t understand why. To sum it up, his uncle went down to his job and made him come with him to talk it out and find out what the hell he was doing. I had left, and his uncle called after wards. His uncle sounded like he was in tears telling me not to give up on him, and that my boyfriend really cares. My boyfriend and I spoke a few days later and he seemed like a completely different man. He said that he just never thought I cared, let alone his family until I went and confessed to them the other night. We have been together, it’s been 4 months now. It’s been tough, but day by day it’s gotten a bit better. A few weeks ago, SHE texted him,"I don’t hate you…" Why does she have to do this? Why? He blocked her number and told her not to contact him ever again. I still worry. Now, we are doing better, but he just seems to focus on the negative things all the time. We were great, now it’s just going into a pit. He has improved drastically, though. He never took me on dates before, now he does. He never bought me flowers, now he does. Now, he has arranged I go with him out of the country to see his mother and family this summer. I was excited until it hit me. Yes, we’ve made it through 5 years… but are we serious enough to do this? Is out relationship worthy of this, or are we to premature in our relationship? I’m so confused. Please give me guidence.

Tell him to man the hell up… or dump him and find someone else… god why does everyone try to change everyone… just find someone who makes you happy.

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