Lois Said:

What can I buy my boyfriend for his 17th birthday? - Please help!?

We Answered:

Wow, you are really creative!!! I would have never thought of a jar of reasons for why I loved him...I just made a little book about it >.<

Congrats on being together for almost two years!! That's really beautiful. My boyfriend and I will have been together for two years in November :D

Here's some ideas, not as good as yours though :/

-buy a pizza, go to a park, or backyard with a trampoline, bring a radio, and just lay out, eat pizza, look at the stars, and talk about all of your memories

-can you draw? if you can, you can draw something he likes. Like paramore, his *dream* guitar, or converse, or all of his favorite things on a huge poster board, maybe even with little sayings and stuff

-make a giant pop-out card out of poster board with huge lips coming out to kiss him! XD

-set your bedroom up with lit candles, candy and chocolate, and a nice romantic movie :D

-take him to a roller coaster park! (but make it a huge surprise)

-set up a surprise party at the beach if you're around one, or a beach-themed party at your house/his house

Blahh I know they suck! But it's the best I can do! Have fun and I hope whatever you end up doing is amazing and that he loves it!!

Juanita Said:

creative story idea??

We Answered:

Something along the lines of The Emperor & His New Clothes. Only in this instance, the person sitting in the chair is a little person (they prefer that term to midgets & dwarfs). Since he's so small he can't climb up tp it. He has 2 giant servants who carry him everywhere & place him in the seat . He doesn't realize he's so small because they always hold him up high. He could act very imperial like the Emperor did. A puppy or kitten could have gotten loose & run into the throne room. He reaches over to pick it up & falls off the chair.

The chair could belong to a High Priest dispensing pardons & death sentences.

A god from an ancient society (Egypt, Rome, Athens) could sit in it & throw thunderbolts at the mere mortals who don't follow his orders.

[edit] My 1st impression was of an early electric chair. Do it from the chair's POV or the warden, executioner & guards who will be overseeing the use of the chair in a long time,

Jessica Said:

Need help with my english homework!?

We Answered:

Your teacher will probably not deduct points for all those contractions, and they don't all have to be in "quotes", because that would be stupid. If it is creative writing, the "voice" of this narrative should be acceptable. You may want to put a disclaimer at the start, like "this account is excerpted from interviews with what's-her-name, and care was taken to preserve the dialectical quirks of her spoken words", or some such nonsense as that.

That being said, you are very creative, since you have invented a language called "African-American English", which is so condescending that it is even insulting to me, and I am not black. If you're going that route, why not just write it in modern language, and start with a disclaimer that says, "the following was translated from African American into English". That wouldn't go over very good, now, would it? Do you see how that sounds now?

Bob Said:

URGENT HELP.. english essay?

We Answered:

You first list character traits and then give very nice, specific examples of how they're shown. So far, so good.

But overall, you're coming at it very strangely. Your last sentence is just weird, and it represents how you're skewed throughout. Characterization doesn't mean choosing a character's characteristics, it means the way the author lets us know what those characteristics are.

Not having that clear, you make a true argument that if Alice's characteristics were different, the story could not be told, or the result would be different. However, NObody talks about characterization that way. Instead, critics consider whether characterization is done well, clearly, unobtrusively ("Show, don't just assert," writing teachers continually tell budding authors), etc.

If I were your teacher, I'd give you a good grade, but I'd also spend several minutes of class time explaining what I've said above, because obviously that part didn't get through to you and (presumably) your classmates.

P.S. I urge you to read your essay aloud, not too quickly. You will probably notice places like "reliant of an adults" where you have the wrong words.
Also, who's = who is. For belonging to who, it's whose. Only nouns use the apostrophe for possessives; pronouns do other things.

Rosa Said:

pre-hspa and hspa picture questions - help please?

We Answered:

yes there will be picture prompt on it...i believe ther is always one.