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Resolved Question: Can anyone one help me with homelessness research?

Hi, how are you? I'm thinking of writing a play addressing people's opinions about homelessness Vs reality. I have started buying and reading the big issues (homeless magazine) but they only touch the surface. I'm essentially looking for 3 stories, 2 female one male... and was wondering if you know of any good website to find detailed stories or if you know of anyone who was homeless. I'm basically wanting to show homeless people in a more positive light, explain to society that they're not all out there because of their own fault but through unlucky circumstances or domestic abuse. I look forward to hearing from you Libby

Resolved Question: Chance me for my colleges?

SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t submit ACT: 30 (English 99th percentile, math 93rd, science 91st, can’t remember reading) SAT II: Aren’t required, because I am submitting ACT scores Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 90/100, which concerns me. I am a private school and our GPA’s are known to be way lower than the GPA’s of public school students..So if it was to translate to a public school GPA, I would say it would be about a 3.8. I get mostly A’s. AP (place score in parenthesis): School doesn’t offer APs, but I took one AP test randomly..English Language and got a 4 IB (place score in parenthesis): Not offered.. Senior Year Course Load: Field Biology, Honors Spanish 5, Honors Calculus, Honors Stats, Honors English, Theology, Yearbook, Art class.. Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Always on the honor roll? Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Yearbook all four years (2 years as assistant Editor and Editor in Chief senior year) Varsity Soccer Team all four years (varsity letter) Literary Magazine 3 years (editor of layout; helped form it my sophomore year) Job/Work Experience: Babysit most Friday and Saturday nights Volunteer/Community service: Writing Center 2 years (Nominated to create the center and be a tutor) Assistant coach at Rainbow Soccer Summer Activities: Spent summers in Ireland Essays: I really liked my essay and so did everyone who read it. I talked about my cultural background. Interview: My Duke interviewer said that she has nothing to with admissions but she did and really wants to see me at Duke? Teacher Recommendation: My teachers love me… Counselor Rec: I’m sure it was great.. Applied for Financial Aid?: Nope! Intended Major: Pre-med State (if domestic applicant): North Carolina Ethnicity: White as white can get…but not American. Half Irish and Half South African Gender: Female Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First in family to go to college in the US, dad has a big job at Duke, not American Strengths: none..I feel average Weaknesses: GPA, scores Where I am applying: Duke-Ed UNC-Ch Wake Forest Elon Davidson UVA William and Mary Washington and Lee University of Richmond Thanks! Yeah, I am planning on going into Biology or maybe physics. Do you think the fact that my dad works at Duke will help? I mean it is pretty impossible to get into and I feel average. I hear back dec 15th about Early Decision!

Resolved Question: Non-Christians and Christians alike, what is your reaction reading this Jehovah’s Witness excerpt?

I don’t know how many former Witnesses, or non-Witnesses read the Watchtower magazines, but page 29 of the February 15 2011 Watchtower is disturbing in many ways. It starts with the typical talk on wives being in subjection to husbands even if he is harsh and husbands should be loving and godly even with an unbelieving wife. Then it goes into this; “Many modern day examples illustrate the value of applying Peter’s counsel. Consider the case of Selma. When she began to study the Bible with Jehovah’s Witnesses, her husband, Steve, was not pleased. He admits, “I became angry, jealous possessive and insecure.” Selma observes, ‘Even before I got the truth, living with Steve was like walking on eggshells. He was hot-tempered. When I started studying the Bible, this characteristic intensified.” What helped? Selma recalls a lesson she learned from the Witness who studied with her. “On one particular day,” says Selma, “I didn’t want to have a Bible study. The night before, Steve had hit me as I had tried to prove a point, and I was feeling sad and sorry for myself. After I told the sister what had happened and how I felt, she asked me to read 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. As I did, I began to reason, ‘Steve never does any of these loving things for me.’ But the sister made me think differently by asking, ‘How many of those acts of love do you show toward your husband?’ My answer was, ‘None, for he is so difficult to live with.’ The sister softly said, ‘Selma, who is trying to be a Christian here? You or Steve?’ Realizing that I needed to adjust my thinking, I prayed to Jehovah to help me be more loving toward Steve. Slowly, things started to change. ”After 17 years, Steve accepted the truth.” There are many questions that arise with this “experience.” What kind of “point” could someone ever be attempting to make that would justify being hit by their husband? What kind of advice is it to tell a woman who is being abused that essentially it’s her fault for not being more loving towards him, and that to solve the problem 17 SEVENTEEN YEARS LATER she should adjust HER thinking? Did it even solve the problem at all? How “slow” did things start to get better? Did he stop being abusive after he converted? There are abusive husbands within the Jehovah’s Witnesses, so is this the same kind of “you asked for it” attitude given to other women in this situation? He wouldn’t beat you if you just didn’t try and make your points? He wouldn’t beat you if you were a good Christian woman, if you’re being beaten it’s because you’re not being submissive enough, or loving enough? Would you tell your daughter to stay with an abusive, cruel mate just because he "might" change somewhere down the road, like 17 years? What are your thoughts and reactions to reading these paragraphs? I am considering forwarding this to as many women’s rights groups and domestic violence shelters/counselors as I can find. What say you? Think it would do any good in exposing this misogynistic attitude? Keith - 'as in MY words'? Check again. Not my words. Theirs. And active Jehovah's Witnesses can be and are wife beaters too so your point is irrelevent. Bar enosh, I guess you're a-ok with women getting beaten and then being told to deal with it. Suck it up, like a good little Christian wife! Nice! My apologies Chuck. The year is 2012, not 2011. A mistype on my part. That should help you find it. Oh please, Suzanna. Spare me the excuses. I've seen LITERALLY a hundred or more accounts of women beaten up by their Jehovah's Witness husbands or their "non-beieving" husbands and the elders telling them "well you must be doing something wrong" just as this "sister" did. Doing nothing to help them. And don't get me started on the rape questions. Instead of being loving and concerned for the well being of the victim, she blames the victim. How do I know he was beating her up for 17 years? How do YOU know he wasn't? Think of the children and teenagers reading this article along with you. Little girls who will grow up thinking "well, he hit me, so I must not be loving enough" and boys who will start thinking, "hmm. my wife isnt being submissive enough. a punch or two will straighten that out!" I could go on here, but I'm not going to waste my time with JWs with their head in the sand. I have your magazines for this exact reason. They are so very helpful for finding little gems like this Actually Andrew, you have only demonstrated how clueless you really are. I've already gotten a great deal of feedback (as have others who are forwarding this article) and these counsellors you are so sure would be offering the "sister" a job, are as outraged as I am. Actually Andrew, you have only demonstrated how clueless you really are. I've already gotten a great deal of feedback (as have others who are forwarding this article) and these counsellors you are so sure would be offering the "sister" a job, are as outraged as I am.

Resolved Question: Can a husband or boyfriend discipline his wife or girlfriend if she ogles or flirts with other men...?

In front of him? Or looks at pictures of almost naked to naked men in magazines, TV, and the Internet? Men have to work very hard to win women over from other men. There's such thing as Domestic Discipline.

Resolved Question: you happened to watch some children engaged as labors in hazardous industries like cracker and bangle industry?

as domestic labour as a helper in roadside restaurants and as a labourer at brick kilns or house building kilns or house building sites. you left moved to see the exploitation of children and decide to write an article on the plight of children .Write an article for your school magazine in minimum 150 words.{GOOD ANSWER WILL REWARDED BEST}

Resolved Question: I feel like going out this weekend and getting pregnant!?

Im not a troll either im just a really messed up 17 year old haha, My ex and i broke up and we were thinking of having a baby and i really was starting to like the idea and now im single and have baby fever! I cant be bothered to fall inlove and get hurt again, i just want a baby and to be pregnant, i really want to be a young mum ( call me crazy) i have a good job and really good grades. I would continue to study and go to university with the baby, trust me ive been through really bad things (rape, bullying, abuse, domestic violence) and pushed through all of it no matter how hard it got while remaining nice :) Problem i have a older guy friend who's even older friend owns a magazine in sydney and he comes down here to visit his friend alot and he wants me to model for him and go to fashion shows vip and all but i would still rather go get knocked up to some dude and have a kid? i wish i knew why i wanted a child so bad its annoying me how much i want it ha

Resolved Question: Would you seek a divorce if these things happened to you people?

-past domestic abuse slight, left a mark of blood hand print on my side -hit me so hard when I was pregnant It hurt to walk, and doesn't recall, but not drunk at all.... -refuses to admit anything he does is wrong, if so he trys to act all "I know I'm the terrible one, it's all my fault, blame me" -betrays you by slandering you to another woman in the church because she was a deacons wife, and he really liked her husband the deacon. She didn't like me, and they gossiped badly about me. When I confronted him, he stuck up for her and told me not to gossip about her! -missed birthdays except for a card, turned 40 no gift nothing... 45 nothing, 49 nothing.. a card maybe. on our 17th anniv. he gives me a card and asks me where am I going to take him? he wasn't kidding. -makes no plans with you or to be with you even after yrs of asking him to pls pls pls do that one single thing and it would make me feel special.. Nope! -though you married a nice christian man, but he never prays, wants to pray with you or kids or at table or read bible? -blames you for his mistakes -takes the debit card numerous times and racks up to 600 dollars that is tied up in bills to pay off, to spend on himself. And no the man isn't having an affair, I don't even think this man likes sex. -I asked him the other day, why haven't you ever like gone down on a woman? and he said, "because it's too fleshy down there! ha ha ha haha.. I didn't think it was funny because of our nonsexual life I suppose. -if you had to be the one to ask for sex, but when you did most of the times you hear Now? or I'm right in the middle of this, or if you only asked me sooner, or later, or whenever... -If he acted and did gross and ugly things -If you're barfing and feeling like you're going to die from food poisening and he is on the other end of the phone (you're crying for him to come home to take you to hospital), and him and his friend at work are laughing at me, because in the middle of talking I'm throwing up... And later on he finds it funny too -if he told you that he gets hard when he sees teens and he's 41 -if he went in front of the entire congregation at church to preach and laid out his sinful life with all there to stare at YOU. Telling everyone that he was addicted to porn... etc... And I know for a fact he wasn't ever addicted to porn, his dad was he never bought a single magazine. He wondered why his dad had so many on the walls he said! -How about this: if to other people he trys to come across as thee awesome husband, he suddenly comes up behind you (after weeks of not being touched_ and say like at a bar-b-que starts to really rub your back, but gets into it just a little too much and is all sweet to the ladies and stuff. -But when you're at home and you've got a serious neck problem and need a rub, he is always saying no and that his hands are too tired because he worked all day long. -who sleeps hours upon hours on his day off and doesn't spend it with me or the kids -who talks disrespectfully to me and the kids and it's always in a negative monotone -who does things to drive you insanely up the wall, like crunch ice loudly, tells you Shhhhhh during a show constantly, rubs his feet and slaps them together... makes certain disgusting noises and touches the end of his eyebrow when he is bored and like pinches that end of it, that is how you know things are going to change. -insists on driving every single time -sees you slaving away, and never helps -Cusses in front of kids and will NOT stop buy junk food even though I tell him to stop for the kids sake just once. -has a very hokey backwoods type attitude with things -never reads or wants to learn (drives me insane) -even though you try and talk and have been completely open and loving and kind and supportive for months on end about marriage in shambles and how we need to work on it, that nothing ever gets done on his part, it goes in one ear out the other. -who forgets alot -who says immature childish things -who has nothing to say even to the tv but negative stuff one after the other, and it doesn't stop in that one sitting it jussst keeps on going and we're all "would you pls stop and let's be positive?" -who never takes you seriously -who when, you say I feel I may have an affair if things don't get better and there isn't more affection here, hon I'm scared, why aren't you.... And he laughs and says, I trust you. You would never do that. -who has put hands around neck -put me down to my daughter when he was mad at me and said before I met him, who the boyfriend was that I slept with. I didn't want her to know that at age 14 and he tries to put me down in front of my kids. -who always buys the kids little stuff like a sucker or something to appease him never being there, so now they con

Resolved Question: Why do Jewish people control so many things in America?

I'm just curious, this is a list of organizations, companies, television programming and other things owned by Jews. MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN, owner of NY Daily News, US News & World Report and chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, one of the largest pro-Israel lobbying groups. LESLIE MOONVES, president of CBS television, great-nephew of David Ben-Gurion, and co-chair with Norman Ornstein of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligation of Digital TV Producers, appointed by Clinton. JONATHAN MILLER, chair and CEO of AOL division of AOL-Time-Warner NEIL SHAPIRO, president of NBC News JEFF GASPIN, Executive Vice-President, Programming, NBC DAVIDWESTIN, president of ABC News SUMNER REDSTONE, CEO of Viacom, “world’s biggest media giant” (Economist, 11/23/2) owns Viacom cable, CBS and MTVs all over the world, Blockbuster video rentals and Black Entertainment TV. MICHAEL EISNER, major owner of Walt Disney, Capitol Cities, ABC. RUPERT MURDOCH, Owner Fox TV, New York Post, London Times, News of the World (Jewish mother) MEL KARMAZIN, president of CBS DON HEWITT, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes, CBS JEFF FAGER, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes II. CBS DAVID POLTRACK, Executive Vice-President, Research and Planning, CBS SANDY KRUSHOW, Chair, Fox Entertainment LLOYD BRAUN, Chair, ABC Entertainment BARRY MEYER, chair, Warner Bros. SHERRY LANSING. President of Paramount Communications and Chairman of Paramount Pictures’ Motion Picture Group. HARVEY WEINSTEIN, CEO. Miramax Films. BRAD SIEGEL., President, Turner Entertainment. ARTHUR O. SULZBERGER, JR., publisher of the NY Times, the Boston Globe and other publications. STEPHEN EMERSON, every media outlet’s first choice as an expert on domestic terrorism. DAVID SCHNEIDERMAN, owner of the Village Voice and the New Times network of “alternative weeklies.” DENNIS LEIBOWITZ, head of Act II Partners, a media hedge fund KENNETH POLLACK, for CIA analysts, director of Saban Center for Middle East Policy, writes op-eds in NY Times, New Yorker BARRY DILLER, chair of USA Interactive, former owner of Universal Entertainment KENNETH ROTH, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch TERRY SEMEL, CEO, Yahoo, former chair, Warner Bros. MARK GOLIN, VP and Creative Director, AOL WARREN LIEBERFORD, Pres., Warner Bros. Home Video Div. of AOL- TimeWarner JEFFREY ZUCKER, President of NBC Entertainment JACK MYERS, NBC, chief.NYT 5.14.2 SANDY GRUSHOW, chair of Fox Entertainment GAIL BERMAN, president of Fox Entertainment STEPHEN SPIELBERG, co-owner of Dreamworks JEFFREY KATZENBERG, co-owner of Dreamworks DAVID GEFFEN, co-owner of Dreamworks LLYOD BRAUN, chair of ABC Entertainment JORDAN LEVIN, president of Warner Bros. Entertainment HOWARD STRINGER, chief of Sony Corp. of America AMY PASCAL, chair of Columbia Pictures JOEL KLEIN, chair and CEO of Bertelsmann’s American operations ROBERT SILLERMAN, founder of Clear Channel Communications BRIAN GRADEN, president of MTV entertainment IVAN SEIDENBERG, CEO of Verizon Communications WOLF BLITZER, host of CNN’s Late Edition LARRY KING, host of Larry King Live MIKE WALLACE, Host of CBS, 60 Minutes BARBARA WALTERS, Host, The View DONALD GRAHAM, Chair and CEO of Newsweek and Washington Post MICHAEL SAVAGE, Talk Show Host, KFSO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco) Syndicated in 100 markets MICHAEL MEDVED, Talk Show Host, on 124 AM stations ANDREW LACK, president of NBC DAVID REZNIK, Editor, The New Yorker SAMUEL NEWHOUSE JR, and DONALD NEWHOUSE own Newhouse Publications, includes 26 newspapers in 22 cities; the Conde Nast magazine group, includes The New Yorker; Parade, the Sunday newspaper supplement; American City Business Journals, business newspapers published in more than 30 major cities in America; and interests in cable television programming and cable systems serving 1 million homes. DONALD NEWHOUSE, chairman of the board of directors, Associated Press. PETER R KANN, CEO, Wall Street Journal, Barron’s RALPH J. & BRIAN ROBERTS, Owners, Comcast-ATT Cable TV. LAWRENCE KIRSHBAUM, CEO, AOL-Time Warner Book Group Is there any wonder why we support Israel unconditionally?

Resolved Question: Is it OK for religious people to mislead our youths?

Like creating magazines and websites that seem to support them in their views against porn' and then telling them they are in the wrong jfor their views when they turn up at their organisations. E.g. the Watchtower website's stance against pornography and the fact that the elders do purchase UK newspapers famous for their porn'. By all means stand by what you believe in, but don't mislead vulnerable young girls and victims of such types of porn' into thinking they are going to be protected in this organisation. If it is a 'matter of conscience' say so on your website, but don't mislead young girls. Once inside the organisation the fact is that it is 'up to the family head to decide on matters of conscience'. If you experience domestic abuse when you stand up for your rights, the counsel is that you must go in subjection to the family head, whose right it is to decide on 'such matters of conscience'. If you sin, you have to confess to elders who do buy porn' and just trust that they don't look at it. All this does not seem to tie in with what it says in the bible at Proverbs 5:20-23: "So why should you, my son, be in an ecstasy with a strange woman or embrace the bosom of a foreign woman? For the ways of man are in front of the eyes of Jehovah, and he is contemplating all his tracks. His own errors will catch the wicked one and in the ropes of his own sin he will be taken hold of. He will be the one to die because there is no discipline, and because in the abundance of his foolishness he goes astray." I have heard time and again about a man who complained about women in bikinis and I will not be compared to such a person. I am talking about the porn' we have in UK newspapers like the Sun, The Sport etc. whereby women are seen behaving in the way talked about in this scripture I have mentioned above - not Baywatch! I am representing young girls who have experienced sexual abuse by men who were lead on by such newspaper porn'. It's real! Don't mislead young girls with your websites and religious magazines and then tell them they are righteous over much. When I cried and stood up for my rights at home, I was kicked in the back, thrown against the stairs and had my face held down into a mattress. The JW book entitled 'Making Your Family Life Happy' was brought out to me and I was referred to the page about the 'Weepers and the Naggers' and it was pointed out to me the statement in it that the Bible singles out women for this counsel. When I later heard about the elders buying newspapers famous for their porn' I was told not to be 'righteous over much'. I know JWs would disfellowship for the domestic violence, but only if there are 2 witnesses and the woman is brave enough to talk about it in the first place. But I am asking you please not to mislead young girls with your website re. the stance against porn' as you do let your elders buy newspapers which are famous in the UK for porn'. Stand by what you believe, but don't mislead young girls!

Voting Question: Preamble Project Help! Please!?

My project is due this friday. I need to cut pictures out of magazines and glue them onto pieces of paper. Easy, right? Not so much. can you guys think of pictures that match each part? 1) We the people of the United States 2)In Order to form a more perfect union 3)Establish Justice 4)Insure domestic Tranquility 5)Provide for the common defense 6)Promote the General Welfare 7)Secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity 8)Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America