Priscilla Said:

Do you find it hard to write when you are tired?

We Answered:

Yes, the more tired that I am, the more unmotivated I am! I have a terrible issue with regards to motivation. Hopefully N.O.W. will help me get back on track! I'm really counting on it, and I'm going to make efforts to participate. Again, thank you for this fantastic idea! :D

BQ: Yes! I stayed up until 5 in the morning finishing The Chronicles of Narnia earlier this summer. And that's the only time I've ever done it! In the past, I've stayed up *late* until about 2 or 3 in the morning, but that's the only time I've ever stayed up until sunrise.

Brad Said:

What is an event that changed American history, for better or worse?

We Answered:

american revolution or the civil war!!!!
seriously, though, i think it would be WWI. the reason for that is because before that, the US didnt fight for the world. it kept to itself and only went to war when it involved the US. during WWI, the president didnt want to go to war, but in the end, he did and ever since then, the US has been helping other countries. i believe that if the US wouldnt have gone to war during WWI and WWII, then we would have stayed that way. the US would never have been involved with the vietnam war or the iraq war, for example. i think that it is an opinion whether that is good or bad.
good luck!!!

Steve Said:

Prompt: What does the 16th of September mean to you as a Mexican-American?

We Answered:

Mexico's independence day doesn't mean anything to me as a mexican american. I'm not trying to forget my culture or background either. Its just that both my parents, both sets of grandparents, and both great grandfathers were all born in the us. My great grandfather was a blacksmith for a us army post in the town where i live. i live in a border town in texas, laredo. I know somewhere in mexico i have to have some relatives but to tell you the truth, my brothers and sisters or i have never met them. I don't remember having ever heard of them either. I've never even been to a house in mexico. I don't even go over there to shop. The first language in my house was english. I was maybe eight years old before i ever started to speak spanish. I speak and write spanish very well. but that's cause i learned it in school. I'm not ashamed of being a mexican american either if thats what youre thinking. but my family has served in the us armed forces for generations. they've gone to war for this country. I know i'll anger some people when i say this but, the 16th of september is just another day for me. i'm very patriotic. The star spangled banner makes me teary eyed everytime i here it. I think people who were actually born in mexico and are now here may feel different. and thats cool. but as for me, god bless america.

Erin Said:

i need help with AP US Histoy, its about the Viginia Ratification Convention?? 10 POINTS!?

We Answered:

1. Go with Federalist; you can use the Federalist papers, even Patrick Henry's 1775 speech.
2. See #1
3. See #1
4. It's a persuasive writing exercise. Be forceful. "Virginia must ratify or risk remaining a minor actor on a small stage!" You get the idea.

Velma Said:

Help with AP history?? its about the Virginia Ratification Convention??10 points!!?

We Answered:

Your role is now as a member of the convention, and you need to pick a side: vote FOR ratification OR vote AGAINST. Once you decide, you write why one should vote FOR OR AGAINST. If you're for, you right about gaining greater security from being part of the larger US, having more commercial options, etc. If you're against, you talk about losing rights and having to compromise certain ideals for the bigger grouping of states.

Kurt Said:

Need help writing program with fortran, really stuck.?

We Answered:

A program to do all that will probably be around 100 lines of (dense) code, if one is to cater with the possibility of someone entering the month as JUNE, june or June (for instance). That is called robust coding, and that is what I do.
My point, however, is that you are "stuck", even before writing a single line of code?
C'mon, now. Show at least some effort. Put up what you have, and then I will help you out.


Edit:
The first thing you will need is a static array that will contain the 12 months name; something like

CHARACTER*4 months(12)
DATA months/"Jan","Feb","Mar" (...) ,"Dec"/


I recommend putting as character*4 (instead of 3) because this provinde optimal memory alignement.
So, after you have read in the month as specified by the user, you can check the first 3 characters thereof agains the "month" array until you have a match. The indice of the array that gets the match corresponds to the month #. So you have something like

monthn=0
DO i=1,12
IF(usermn(1:3).EQ.months(i)(1:3)) THEN
monthn=i
EXIT
ENDIF
ENDDO

This captures the month number in "monthn".
If "monthn" remains at zero, then there was not a match in the name of the month, so that is where you have to code issue an error message that the month name is unrecognized.
Note that we only check the first 3 characters, so the program would be tolerant of misstyped month name if the error occurs on the 4th or after letter. If this is an issue, expand the width of the "months" array and check for all of the letters.

Note that the match is, in this case, case sensitive, so "Jan" for January will be recognized, but "JANUARY" would not.
To introduce case insensitivity would require another function that converts the user supplied month name (assumed to have been read in variable "usermn" in the example above) into an all capital (for instance) string (and then the "months" araay would also be filled with all capitals). That would add about 25 lines of code by itself. Can we assume the user would enter the month always in the same way and have the code reject all caps?

Now, you should also have another static array, with the number of days in them:

INTEGER nbdays(12)
DATA nbdays/31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,…

You get the number of the day that is acceptable by using nbdays(monthn); except if the year is leap, in which case, the limit is increased by 1 if "monthn" is 2.
To determine if the year is leap, you use the modulo function:
INTEGER year

leap=MOD(year,4)

and if "leap" is zero, it is a leap year, and February can accept the date to be 29.


Of course, I am giving you all of those elements sort of miss-mashed, as all the INTEGER, CHARACTER and DATA statements have to be at the beginning of the code, but I dare presume you know how to handle that. Right?

Albert Said:

Will you read this letter I am writing to a casino to see if it makes sense? (along with grammar/etc)?

We Answered:

I would address a few things in the letter:

-At the beginning of each round, does the machine display somewhere how much you are wagering?

-Why you would continue to play on a machine that you claimed to be faulty (that was your original premise)