Eugene Said:

Laura Mallory and the Occult?

We Answered:

Hope you have not been working on Sunday.
"Do not make a sculpted image or any likeness of what is in the heavens above..." Hope you never made a bird in art class or a turtle carving for your home and gardens club. If your children have, then I suggest you tell them that they have made Satan happy. Don't want those sins to add up.
In other words, don't quote the Bible for the messages that you didn't insert will come back to bite you later!

The Harry Potter series is not to be blamed for this. It just proves that parents have not given their children the proper teachings. If HP did not exist, then there would be letters like this speaking out against Bugs Bunny and how he influences children smack while eating carrots. If your child does not know the difference between fantasy and reality, then you as a parent have not done your duties. Besides if television must raise a child, I'd rather J.K. Rowling do it than most of those other things out there. As a child I knew that if I hit someone, that they'd feel pain, and that guns caused people to die. It's the people that tell their children that grandma was tired and needed some rest, that raise the murderers and pagans. Tell your children from the beginning, "this is not real, Daniel Radcliffe is a real boy over in europe" etc. and sit down with them while watching the making of the movie. If the parents don't take responsibility for not even being there while their child is watching television and explaining what it is that they see, then the creator of that show/movie is not to blame for the lack of guidance. In this case all television is evil. "don't watch the weather channel Tommy, because they claim to forsee the weather, that's evil" "don't watch Barney Jenny, because dinosaurs are extinct and he is not truly who he claims to be". YOU have to draw the line somewhere, if not, then your child will have the Santa Clause complex for someone not so "merry".

Marvin Said:

to kill a mockingbird essay help?

We Answered:

Well, the whole book is about that. Read it, and tell it from Scout's perspective.
http://www.gradesaver.com/to-kill-a-mock…

Personally, I think it's one of the most beautifully written books I've every read - and I've read easily over 5,000 books.

Daniel Said:

Comments or advice for my story (not yet complete, I'm only a few paragraphs in)?

We Answered:

You have a good grasp on how much description to give in places, and the characters aren't bad for what we know of them.

My suggestions:
-Add more, make it longer. It moves a little too fast.

-Show more, tell less. In first person it's natural for it to feel like the main character is speaking to the reader, but that doesn't mean you have to explain everything. Like the aunt. Show that your character considers her fun by let's say, reminiscing about something fun they did in the past. It adds more depth than just saying "This is my fun aunt, etc"

-With details about her life, same deal. Don't give the gist away all in the first paragraph.

This is meant to be constructive, not mean. You have a good start, just keep going and you'll get better.

Enrique Said:

i'm bored and need writting prompts for stories to challenge me.?

We Answered:

Make sure it has lots of pulsating rod.

Yolanda Said:

Has the entitlement attitude gone too far?

We Answered:

Come on. People need a place to live. You should care more about your taxes paying for the mess in iraq because that costs billions of dollars more. Anyhow that disater should never have been allowed to get as bad as it did in new orleans.

Deanna Said:

Alice in Wonderland Question?

We Answered:

Perhaps the easiest section to use is the trial scene at the end.

1. Children see it as Alice as using logic and having common sense at the ridiculous assumptions of the people in charge (sentence first, verdict afterwards).

2. Adults see it as a parody of the justice system which operates more by assumption and less by logic and deduction than it is vaunted to be. Are not many trials really excuses for doing what those in power desire?

1. Children see the absurdity of worrying about who stole the tarts when after all they have been found and right there for all to see.

2. Adults see it as a satire on the superfluity of the legal system in solving the affairs of every day life.

1. Children see the poem "the told me you had been to her" as a mish mash of unrecoverable meaning.

2. Adults try to puzzle out the meaning in a poem that has none.


In regards to the first response, the caterpillar is NOT smoking the mushroom. _Alice_ is not a drug book; smoking tobacco in hookahs was common in Victorian England. Carroll/Dodgson had no experience with opium or psilocybes. Do not use drugs as an answer.