Homework Help

Puck · The Texan Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 5596

Well I think we already had a homework help topic, but considering the last post in it was from two years ago, I figured it was safe to start a new one.

Anyways, what I need help with is ideas for an essay I am writing. I really have no idea what to write about that would be interesting. Here is the prompt:

squiggy · **Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:43 pm**

Something unique and challenging....
You should try writing the essay from both you, and the person you are writing the essay about's point of view.
How would YOU be beneficial to them?
Such things make teachers wonder if there is more then just trek on the brain.

5thhouse · **Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:54 pm**

many sociologists are talking about the changing form of community taking place right now. Some talk about the breakdown of traditional community such as church groups. Those that I like talk about an expansion of a new type of community in which interest groups form within the larger community largly because of tecnology and internet. Groups like trekkies, furries, and all other types form both online and off. Perhaps you could talk about someone from a different set of communities (ie you obviously belong to the trekkie community) and look at differences in people that way rather than in the more traditional way of looking at differences. (I would also maybe do some research on the sociological texts on the subject.)
If I come up with something better I'll let ya know but off the top of my head that is the best I can come up with.

5thhouse · **Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:31 pm**

Two more thoughts... a general trend dicates that older people are wiser and have more experiances total to contribute; maybe an older reentry sudent? or given you are a trekkie, perhaps a student who travled back in time...there are many twists on that one you could put. Doing something like that really depends on the professor, I don't know them so obviously I don't know how they'd take it, but I've had several who would.

madlilnerd · **Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:56 pm**

Make the potential classmate something completely original... like an alien or something.

Puck · The Texan Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 5596

Thanks for yalls help!

Starbuck · **Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:25 pm**

you could also write it from the perspective of someone who's learned from someone.

Pan13 · **Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:47 pm**

well, it's not exactly a homework, but i was just wondering what a few abbreviations mean, and i figured this would be the right thread to ask....

so what do
-am and pm
-BC and AD
stand for?

Sam Kenobi · **Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:50 pm**

I suppose a.m. is "after midnight" and p.m. is.... "pre-midnight"? dunno on those.

BC is generally "Before Christ" and AD is Latin "Anno Domini" translated to "the year of our lord"

Ziona · **Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:51 pm**

-AM: Ante meridiem
-PM: Post meridiem
-BC: Before Christ, but I've also heard it mean "Before Common Era"
-AD: After death or Anno Domini (meaning "In the year of our lord")

TrekkieMage · **Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:32 pm**

Arellia · **Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:39 pm**

^No, you're right Mage. I've had textbooks that call in BCE, and a teacher who let us use either one, noting that BCE is the non-religious kind of thing they're trying to popularize. Really doesn't matter to me.

I call it BC anyway.

TrekkieMage · **Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:42 pm**

Yeah. I don't really see why it matters. BC and AD aren't just religious markers, they're also social and cultural markers.

Ziona · **Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:09 pm**

Ah... Ok... ya BCE... my History teacher managed to engrain in our heads that BC=BCE and that was that.

Starbuck · **Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:51 pm**

I've never seen BCE. Only BC and CE.

Hitchhiker · **Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:03 am**

Replacing BC and AD with BCE and CE, respectively, is rather futile. We'd have to replace the entire Gregorian calendar if we really wanted to be "politically correct", since it's still based on the birth of Christ no matter what we call it.

Pan13 · **Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:27 am**

actually, in my historybook from school i read that Christ wasn't born in the year 0, he was born 4 years earlier, someone miscalculated
i'm not entirely sure if that's true, but at least it seems to be believeable enough to be printed in schoolbooks

5thhouse · **Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:47 am**

For what I've seen BCE is more commonly used in sceince texts, whereas BC is more commonly used in History texts. In fact I don't think that I've ever seen BC in my science texts...

...and as a neat thing there is an acronym finder off of dictionary.com that helping with these things. From the past I know that it also does abrieviations and things and not just acronyms. It is a resourse that I have found usefull.

Republican_Man · **Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:14 pm**

Okay, I need some homework help now, for AP Gov.

Could any of you help me find some things that the House Financial Services Committee did during the 108th or 109th Congress? I'm having some trouble sifting through things and stuff, and any help I could get by tonight would be much appreciated. I need some things that they did for an essay I need to turn in tomorrow.

Thanks!

Sam Kenobi · **Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:27 pm**

I don't know if you can get to this without subscription, but try it out...

http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp

Republican_Man · **Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:42 pm**

CJ Cregg · Commodore Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 1254

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/congress/house/financial/index.html
http://financialservices.house.gov/
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/committee.xpd?committee=House%20Committee%20on%20Financial%20Services

Republican_Man · **Sun Nov 12, 2006 10:54 pm**

Those links worked, CJ Cregg. Thanks!

Captain Patrick · Commodore Joined: 06 Mar 2005 Posts: 2421

I need some help, i have to write a 50 page research essay over something, and i was thinking of writing it over "Environmental and Safety Impacts of Nanotechnology." But looking back that seems a bit harder than i thought it would so do any of you guys/gals have any thoughts on a better prompt to write about?

WeAz · **Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:49 pm**

What area does the topic have to be from?

Anyone know what percentage each Amino Acid, A, T, C, G, takes up in the DNA molecule.