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Question: How can I display Gay and Lesbian books in my classroom?
I teach middle school and my school district gave us a $ 750 grant to buy books for our classroom library. Part of the money has to be spent on books with Gay and Lesbian themes. I have a classroom library. It’s a bookshelf with 5 shelves. On each shelf I have 4 plastic bins with labels such as “horror”, “drama”, “action”, “romance”, “non fiction”, “challenge” and I have a bin called “misc”.
Should I intermix the Gay and Lesbian books with the other books or should I make a new bin for “gay and lesbian”? I don’t want kids to be embarrassed to take out any of the books.
Thanks,
Answer:
Answer by The Return of the Loose Cannon
put it in the romance section, and take out all the other romance books and trash them
Question: C++ – Function does not take 5 agruments..How to fix this?
I keep getting this error when I compile my code.
error C2660: ‘Book::setBook’ : function does not take 5 arguments.
How can I fix this?
#include
#include
using namespace std;
class Book {
private:
int PubYear; //Variables
string Title, Author, Genre, Publisher;
public:
Book( ); //Default Constructor
void setTitle( string BookTitle )
{ Title = BookTitle; }
void setAuthor( string AuthorName)
{ Author = AuthorName; }
void setGenre( string GenreType )
{ Genre = GenreType; }
void setPublisher( string Pub )
{ Publisher = Pub; }
void setPubYear( int Year )
{ PubYear = Year; }
int GetYear() //Accessors
{return PubYear;}
string GetTitle()
{return Title;}
string GetAuthor()
{return Author;}
string GetGenre()
{return Genre;}
string GetPublisher()
{return Publisher;}
void setBook( string BookTitle, string AuthorName, string GenreType, string Pub, int Year )
{
setTitle( BookTitle ); //Mutators
setAuthor( AuthorName );
setGenre( GenreType );
setPublisher( Pub );
setPubYear( Year );
}
void print()
{
cout << "Title: " << GetTitle() << endl
<< "Author: " << GetAuthor() << endl
<< "Genre: " << GetGenre() << endl
<< "Publisher: " << GetPublisher() << endl
<< "Year Published: " << GetYear() << endl;
};
};
//-------------------------------------------------
int main()
{
Book book1, book2, book3, book4, book5;
cout << "Start of test:\n";
book1.setBook("In Cold Blood", "Truman Capote", "Non-Fiction", "Random House", 1966);
book1.print();
return 0;
}
couldn't get it to work using your advice bob b.
i dont know what deconstructor you're talking about.
Answer:
Answer by bob b
I tried your code and i get linker errors with Visual C++ 2005.
Anyhow to get it working I had to put brackets with the constructor and deconstructor
Book(){/* do nothing… */}
~Book(){/* do nothing… */ }
and all works now… hope this helps…
Question: To Bash or Not to Bash That is the Question- A musing (or rant) on Twilight?
Okay recently there have been a lot of questions along the lines of why do you twihaters pick on us… yadda yadda yadda. Oftentimes the asker states that none of us have even read the book then ask to be left alone.
Is anyone else seeing a bit of irony in this? Being a bored college kid, I actually take my time to read some of the posts on here. Oftentimes the people who don’t like Twilight are the ones who actually explain why they don’t. “Twilight is a boring read because I feel asleep reading it” “Bella is a weak character whose narration is whinny and unappealing” “There is no character development; Bella and Edward remain stagnate” “Bella is spoiled and in the end gets everything she wants. Where’s the plot in that, it just doesn’t work out that way” Heck many people even note the fact that its not the books but the fanatics that are being bashed. I’ve also notice that nearly all of the time the answer that usually gets picked as best are along the lines of “I know; they are so mean”
On the verse side when is see people explaining why it is the best book ever written its usually something like “because edward is hot” “because of the romance” “because of the great writing” The answers tend to be vaguer and less…well convincing.
The other thing I am noticing is many people who are use to this board are stuck typing don’t suggest twilight for book reccomendations even with subjects such as “suggest some good non-fiction” and “what’s a book like angels and demons” and still it rarely fails that twilight is among the answers.
In the end I am left with a set of questions
-Why do Twilighters always assume that people who give a negative review of the book or are fustrated with the endless twilight postings automatically assume that they haven’t read the book?
-Why can I never get a full answer as to the redeaming qualities of Twilight? (ie why twilight is a good literary work)
-Do those who are merclessly labeled “twihaters” really out number twilighters on this board?
-Even I admit that the searchbar doesn’t work the greatest but why do we keep seeing “when is MS going to be released”?
-Why do people ask for opinions on the book and then get upset when they read a negative post?
-Why are people labeled twilhaters for making even one negative statement about the book?
-Why do people keep suggesting twilight to people who obviously aren’t interested in it?
-What is the most original Twilight question you have seen asked recently? (okay I’m mixing things up with a poll question).
I know this post favors more toward those who dislike the books because of my own biases, but I’m interested in answers from both sides.
a) how the heck does yadda yadda yadda make me old? I wasn’t even out of junior high ten years ago.
b.) ya i know it was long that’s why its a rant
c.) what else do you expect from a college brit lit major
d.)there is at least one college course at my school that has twilight as required reading (i had it)
e.)ya I did genralize a bit, but that was my impressions reading the back and forth posts between “lovers”/”haters”
f.) it’s a mark of maturity to be able to fairly answer a question about something you don’t like
Answer:
Answer by cla ro
someone asked a while ago ‘how far back has stephenie meyer sent feminism’ that was a good question.
personally i hate twlight. it’s badly written, boring, and a terrible example to women. it actually alarms me the opiniosn that meyer seems to have about relationships. it’s unhealthy.
i also hate that most of the questions are the same, and that no one likes to hear bad things. it’s a public question, so why do they ask if they don’t want to know.
i am personally very pleased to be considered a twihater. i think i will eve get a teeshirt with it one it.
Question: What was he gonna do??? I got stalked in the library by a grown man…?
So today I went to the library to get some books for my research project. I noticed this guy at a table I passed had his eyes on me. I thought “whatever, my outfit is cute anyways.” and thought no more about it. A few minutes later, I’m in the back of the library, and he passes me. And he passes me again. My back was turned, but i know he stopped and was looking at me. About 5 minutes later he finally walked into my aisle and asks “What aisle is this?” meanwhile staring at me seductively. I thought what a dumb question, theres a huge sign on the end of the aisle that says what aisle this is!!! And I go “The biography aisle..” ( he keeps looking at me up and down and says “So uh.. *looks some more* this is non fiction..” and I say “yes.biography would be nonfiction.” Then i stood up cuz I felt uncomfortable sitting on the floor with him staring at me. Thats when I got a closer look at him, he looked CREEPY. not the type of guy you see in a library. And I suddenly got this freakishly weird chill in my body when I looked him in the eyes. It was the scariest feeling. Then he asked me “So where do you go to school?” and i mumbled something, i dont even know because I was so freaked out. He kept asking me questions, staring at me seductively still. Then he goes “So what grade are you in? Or are you college?” And I realized he was trying to figure out if i was legal. And i go “Im in HIGH SCHOOL, okay???” and he goes “ohh…” and i go “and how old are you, may i ask?! cuz im a kid.” and he goes “i’m 29……” and he keeps looking at me. and starts walking towards me. and i go “well hope you find what youre looking for.” and then he turns to leave, glances over and stares at me for about 30 seconds… I guess he was fantasizing. I don’t know.
Anyways, I went to leave and my friend was sitting reading a book ( the one who took me there). I told her i wanted to leave, there was a creepy man who kept talking to me. then she told me he walked in looking around at all the young girls and must have found me first. She said she got a weird vibe too when she saw him. She said she got this strange feeling he was a “trafficker” or “spotter” for young girls….
WHAT DO YOU THINK???????? Im really creeped out
Answer:
Answer by Kris The Eccentric Himshe
He’s suspicious, tell the librarian or someone with authority you get a bad feeling about him
Question: Atheists: why do you consider gods as characters?
I’ve been posing very fundamental questions to my atheist kindred on Yahoo! Answers, because I seriously want to know how their mental processes work. I think I have learned something /very/ telling from the responses: the dominant sort of atheist on Yahoo! Answers considers God a character, as from a story. So, for example, my question about theology¹ was met with the following responses: First, the overwhelming majority of you confused theology with Bible study for some reason. But also, I was told that it would be like “demanding a debate about Zeus, or Odin”, that “theology IS mythology”, and that God is about “the business of their communities rather than the meaning of life or the universe.” [As before, I was also told surprising things, this time about myself: apparently I'm "certainly" an agnostic. Also, as an atheist, I apparently think that theology is bullshit. Also, apparently I haven't read any theology, or else I have very simply seen why it is a joke.]
Now, if there’s one thing stressed by every Catholic priest that I’ve ever talked to, every Muslim I’ve ever had a frank conversation with, it’s that their God is not really that anthropomorphic sort of character, of any kind. God is a supernatural and transcendent entity. I mean, with the Muslims it is especially present: that everything is caused by Allah, who sustains every sort of natural process. A Christian might say “I see God in everything — every sunset, the wind against my face, the song of birds, everything.” This isn’t the sort of thing you’d say of a mythological character of any kind. I mean, to take Hopkins as an example, “The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; it gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil crushed,” and, “for Christ plays in ten thousand places, lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his, to the Father through the features of men’s faces.”
I mean, you wouldn’t say this sort of thing about your brother, your penpal, your potential secret admirer who you’ve not yet met, or Harry Potter. None of the traditional characters who engage your mental life has the sort of characteristics which would allow these sweeping transcendent statements to make any sort of sense. They only make sense if Christ and God, far from being the Mormon “humanoid who lives somewhere amongst the stars,” transcends the entire mortal sphere of space, time, matter, and us. God, the theologians tell us, cannot be familiar to or even contained within human language, the way that characters so eloquently are.
It is somewhat as if a physicist like me was making sweeping statements to the effect of “Nature chooses the trajectory with the least action,” and your response was, “Bah! I don’t believe in nature! That’s all just mythology.” In the most literal sense, that response does make a salient point, but it misunderstands the way that the original statement was being used, because Nature is not some sort of character in some sort of fable, even though I have strictly speaking used her that way in this question.
With all that said as context, here is my question. Why are the gods you reject all (apparently) characters? What do you do with the many gods who many cultures insist cannot be characterized? Why is it that when I ask you guys about /theology/, you reply by talking about “the study of fairy stories,” or “how many beans Jack traded his cow for,” or “mythology,” or “literature… treated as non-fiction”…? In short, why is your rejection of gods limited to bearded men in the sky, and can this limitation be justified with a rational argument?
(As before, those aren’t rhetorical questions: I sincerely would love to see a bright take which would reason out such a conclusion. I like to be surprised.)
¹ My last question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100727102727AAfQHst
Answer:
Answer by Happy Jesus
Foolish mortal, walls of text do nothing. Repent, and all will be forgiven.
I am the Son of God, kneel down before your master.
Question: Haunting in Connecticut legit? see http:www.cinemablend.com/previews/The-Haunting-In-Connecticut-2882.html?
The posting is by Ray Garton. READ ON!!!! …..
June 21, 2008 at 18:29 My name is Ray Garton. Back in the early nineties, I wrote a book called IN A DARK PLACE: THE STORY OF A TRUE HAUNTING. It was published as “non-fiction”, but that was just marketing. I went to Connecticut to meet with the family involved in the alleged haunting of their former house, which used to be a funeral home. I was never able to see the inside of the home because the people who were living there by then wanted nothing to do with the “haunting”, which they said was utter nonsense. It was my job to get the family’s story down on paper and into a book. I worked with the family, and with the “ghostbusters” or “demon hunters” (whatever they happened to be calling themselves at the moment), Ed and Lorraine Warren. The article above claims “the family had little involvement” in this book — that is simply a lie. They were DIRECTLY involved with the book — it was them, the Warrens, and myself, nobody else. I attempted to get their story. Unfortunately, the members of the family couldn’t seem to keep their “facts” straight. Their individual stories simply did not fit into one smooth hole. The article above states that the book I wrote “remains a source of controversy.” The only source of controversy was the family, because they just couldn’t keep their stories straight. I went to Ed Warren and told him the problem. He laughed. “They’re crazy!” he said. “Everybody who comes to us is crazy, otherwise why would they come to US? Just do the best you can. You write scary books, right? That’s why we hired you. Use whatever you can of their story, make the rest up, and make it scary.” And that’s what I did. The book IN A DARK PLACE is a combination of elements of the family’s story and stuff I made up — because it was a for-hire writing job, AND THAT’S WHAT I WAS TOLD TO DO. If this family is saying they had “little involvement” in this book, then they are bald-faced liars. They were involved from beginning to end, and THEY COLLECTED THE CHECK FOR IT. They were deeply involved in IN A DARK PLACE, and they were PAID for it — their names are on the cover of the book along with my name and Ed and Lorraine Warren. I never got to meet their allegedly ill son — I was only allowed to speak with him briefly on the phone. Although there was much talk of his illness, it was NEVER verified for me, although he did have a drug problem. It turned out that the girls in the family who claimed to have been groped by so-called invisible, demonic hands were actually groped by HIM. The Warrens and their nephew John Zaffis claimed they had videotape that clearly showed supernatural activity inside the house, and they told me numerous times that they would SHOW me that videotape. Somehow, during our time together, they just couldn’t manage to find it. Not only did I not see that footage, I never saw an actual VHS videotape at ALL. Since my experience with the Warrens and this family, I’ve talked to other writers who have written books for Ed and Lorraine, and they’ve told me THE EXACT SAME STORY. This is how the Warrens have always worked. They find a very “emotional” family with claims of some supernatural activity in their lives, convince them there’s money to be made if they just shape this into a better “story” (and this family was very eager to make money — at the time I knew them, the mother was involved in some kind of interstate lottery scam), then they hire a writer of horror fiction to write it up as a book — “Make it scary,” Ed told me — and they’ve got themselves a package, a piece of merchandise that they can hawk on talk shows and that the Warrens can discuss in their VERY lucrative lectures. And perhaps they can convince someone in Hollywood to make a movie of it. Of course, in THIS case, the book I wrote has been shoved aside and isn’t involved in the making of the movie THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT. It will be VERY interesting to see how much of this movie contains the material that I WAS TOLD TO MAKE UP. We’ll see.
Answer:
Answer by KMKCAD7276
I believe it was supposed to be at least based on a true story but that could be very loosely based.
Question: Anyone remember Mausberg?
He was DJ Quik’s protege, and came out in “Down, Down, Down” and various other songs on Quik’s album. He died of gunshot wounds in 2000, but not before he dropped an album “Non Fiction”. What did you think of his album?
Answer:
Answer by Michael B
I never heard the whole album just a few songs and then mostly on his appearances with DJ Quik. He was talented though, loved his track Mushrooms and Down Down Down
Question: DaVinci is more logical than the lie in christianity. Do you watch the movie?
I watch the movie and found that the history of what “teacher” said is something that “NON-FICTION”. Like “long time ago Jesus is a prophet”, The Empire ROM and the others.
DaVinci Really connect the other religion like Islam, Jew to become balance.
ABRAHAM, MUHAMMAD and JESUS (IS JUST A PROPHET). They are the sender of god. (THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD DISCOVER)
I do not take my faith to DaVinci. But it let me think about the truth.
Answer:
Answer by jmmessiac
I saw the movie, and rode the bible. Both are stupid
Question: Tough assighnment+writer’s block?
My exam requires either a “2000 word short story fiction” or a “1000 word article non fiction.” I have some stories but can’t bare to bite the bullet and eliminate words. I can not think of anything fresh. Do you have any ideas to get my creativity flowing?
Answer:
Answer by Pixy Styx
Do a non-fiction piece our favorite topic, that way you will be interested. Remember to site your sources and follow MLA. good luck.
Question: Is Ghost Hunters that comes on the SYFY channel, fake or real..?
I love that Ghost Hunters show..but my brother is constantly saying that it is fake. He says every movie and show that comes on, on that channel SYFY everything is “Science non-fiction” Something like that.. Is that true?
Answer:
Answer by Sunshine°
It’s fake with a bunch of real dumb asses. 