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HELP!? need to write an ode to a hula hoop!!? help?? I really need to write an ode to a hula hoop (one that you spin round your hips not eat) it needs three verses first verse - describing it using your senses second verse - tell something of its history - where it came from, who used it third verse - speak to it directly - ask it a question/ how you feel about it ... any ideas?? PLEASE???

What are hula hoops made from? Hey guys! um so I have to do this stupid report on Hula Hoops, so all mature answers are greatly appreciated.When I say hula hoop I mean the toy, NOT THE FOOD!!!!! It has to be 3 paragraphs and I already have some information and an outline. My first paragraph is about the history of hula hoops, my second paragraph is about how it is made, and my last is some record using hula hoops. I have like nothing for my paragraph about how it is made and what its made from, so I need lots of answers and dates. Records would be great to! If you have any extra information that doesn't fit with these it's all good, just contribute please! Mature and good answers only please! BTW- I need this by tonight at 8, so please give me ideas!!! Thanks guys!

I'm doing a research paper about American History and I'm having trouble finding a topic.? I'm in 7th grade and the topic can be almost anything about American History. I'm more interested in something political rather than say the invention of the hula hoop or something like that. Some ideas were the Red Scare, the Great Depression vs. now, UN/ League of Nations, and maybe the cuban Missile Crisis. I'm crazy about any of those topics. Also, I want something a little more current, say from 1910- now. Thanks!! i meant to say I'm NOT crazy about those topics

i need help with a chorus for a history song...please thanks? using the format from the song ( we didn't start the fire bu billy Joel), start in 1992 and end in 2009, find 4-5 events per year and write your own post cold war song. Be sure to have a chorus. i just need a chorus that's all basically for my song here is the song we didn't start the fire by Billy Joel 49 harry truman, doris day, red china, johnnie ray South pacific, walter winchell, joe dimaggio 50 joe mccarthy, richard nixon, studebaker, television North korea, south korea, marilyn monroe 51 rosenbergs, h-bomb, sugar ray, panmunjom Brando, the king and I and the catcher in the rye 52 eisenhower, vaccine, englands got a new queen Marciano, liberace, santayana goodbye Chorus We didnt start the fire It was always burning Since the worlds been turning We didnt start the fire No we didnt light it But we tried to fight it 53 joseph stalin, malenkov, nasser and prokofiev Rockefeller, campanella, communist bloc 54 roy cohn, juan peron, toscanini, dacron Dien bien phu falls, rock around the clock 55 einstein, james dean, brooklyns got a winning team Davy crockett, peter pan, elvis presley, disneyland 56 bardot, budapest, alabama, krushchev Princess grace, peyton place, trouble in the suez Chorus 57 little rock, pasternak, mickey mantle, kerouac Sputnik, chou en-lai, bridge on the river kwai 58 lebanon, charles de gaulle, california baseball Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide 59 buddy holly, ben hur, space monkey, mafia Hula hoops, castro, edsel is a no-go 60 u-2, syngman rhee, payola and kennedy Chubby checker, psycho, belgians in the congo Chorus 61 hemingway, eichmann, stranger in a strange land Dylan, berlin, bay of pigs invasion 62 lawrence of arabia, british beatlemania Ole miss, john glenn, liston beats patterson 63 pope paul, malcolm x, british politician sex Jfk, blown away, what else do I have to say Chorus 64 - 89 birth control, ho chi minh, richard nixon back again Moonshot, woodstock, watergate, punk rock Begin, reagan, palestine, terror on the airline Ayatollahs in iran, russians in afghanistan Wheel of fortune, sally ride, heavy metal, suicide Foreign debts, homeless vets, aids, crack, bernie goetz Hypodermics on the shores, chinas under martial law Rock and roller cola wars, I cant take it anymore Chorus We didnt start the fire But when we are gone Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on... can you guys help me with a chorus like: we didn't start the fire no we didn't light it but we tried to fight it thanks for helping and trying to help thanks i just need like 4 to 5 lines for the chorus THANKS AGAIN

How can I tell if I'm "slow"? For a long time of my life (I'm 15 now) I've had a paranoid feeling that everyone thinks I'm mentally retarded or that I actually am retarded. Now the reasons I have made myself to believe this, are as follows: 1.) I'll be in a car with my brother, his fiancee, and my mom; they'll all be talking, but I'll just be staring out of the window. 2.) When I talk to someone in a group, people barely ever respond more than one line after just talking and having fun with others (talking about my family members here) 3.) I look at other people and realize how much different they are from me. Other people laugh constantly, are always talking and I don't do any talking or laughing nearly as much and I'm very quiet. 4.) In my 7th grade year, my history teacher thought I was retarded or slow and always gave me easier tests and didn't call on me in class. Why she thought this, I don't know. 5.) people will talk about me and ask questions about me to my parents when I'm two feet away. Yesterday at the viewings, my mom was telling others about how I stepped on my glasses (foolish, I know), and they'll ask "so how is his eyesight?". I at least said "I'm kind of two feet in front of you" and they laughed and said "we can still talk about you behind your back". 6.) back at my grandma's house after the funeral, I was very distressed about all this and locked my door in my room and laid down. My step mom knocked to give me clean clothes (after wearing the same pair for 3 days; we didn't think we'd be staying the night at my grandma's house when we went to the hospital Tuesday to visit my grandfather) and her daughter saw a hula hoop in the room and said with a completely serious face "oh so you were practicing the hula hoop?" Me, being in such a terrible mood and not wanting to make anyone think anything further, I said in a shaky voice, "oh, no." It's just so weird to me. When I meet new people (like my step moms daughter), I'll talk to them briefly but we never have a full conversation. If the "new person" (can't think of a better word. sign?) and I do have a full conversation, it is very rare and we had a connection. I've taken online IQ tests; and of course without cheating by looking up the answers I've always scored at least 120; when I was 10 I scored 94. The thought never came up aggressively for a while until yesterday, at my grandfather's viewings. He unfortunately died last Tuesday. I was sitting alone just watching around and I overheard my brother (19, I look up to him) say "I've noticed seanie (he either said seanie or stevie, my 11 year old cousin. I heard the beginning s and the ending ie; at least that's what I'm telling myself) My mom replied in an interested voice, "I know. I first noticed it when he was 6." I don't think it was my cousin because we didn't know him when he was 6. What do you think? This is bugging be hard and I don't even feel like life is worth living if everyone thinks I'm slow. No, I did not use spell check.

Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We? Great read. A little long. I posted my favorite section. http://www.alternet.org/politics/90161/?page=entire Young and Ignorant -- and Voting At least, you may think to yourself, we are not getting any dumber. But by some measures we are. Young people by many measures know less today than young people forty years ago. And their news habits are worse. Newspaper reading went out in the sixties along with the Hula Hoop. Just 20% of young Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 read a daily paper. And that isn't saying much. There's no way of knowing what part of the paper they're reading. It is likelier to encompass the comics and a quick glance at the front page than dense stories about Somalia or the budget. They aren't watching the cable news shows either. The average age of CNN's audience is sixty. And they surely are not watching the network news shows, which attract mainly the Depends generation. Nor are they using the Internet in large numbers to surf for news. Only 11% say that they regularly click on news web pages. (Yes, many young people watch Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. A survey in 2007 by the Pew Research Center found that 54% of the viewers of The Daily Show score in the "high knowledge" news category -- about the same as the viewers of the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News.) Compared with Americans generally -- and this isn't saying much, given their low level of interest in the news -- young people are the least informed of any age cohort save possibly for those confined to nursing homes. In fact, the young are so indifferent to newspapers that they single-handedly are responsible for the dismally low newspaper readership rates that are bandied about. In earlier generations -- in the 1950s, for example -- young people read newspapers and digested the news at rates similar to those of the general population. Nothing indicates that the current generation of young people will suddenly begin following the news when they turn 35 or 40. Indeed, half a century of studies suggest that most people who do not pick up the news habit in their twenties probably never will. Young people today find the news irrelevant. Bored by politics, students shun the rituals of civic life, voting in lower numbers than other Americans (though a small up-tick in civic participation showed up in recent surveys). U.S. Census data indicate that voters aged 18 to 24 turn out in low numbers. In 1972, when 18 year olds got the vote, 52% cast a ballot. In subsequent years, far fewer voted: in 1988, 40%; in 1992, 50%; in 1996, 35%; in 2000, 36%. In 2004, despite the most intense get-out-the-vote effort ever focused on young people, just 47% took the time to cast a ballot. Since young people on the whole scarcely follow politics, one may want to consider whether we even want them to vote. Asked in 2000 to identify the presidential candidate who was the chief sponsor of Campaign Finance Reform -- Sen. John McCain -- just 4% of people between the ages of 18 and 24 could do so. As the primary season began in February, fewer than half in the same age group knew that George W. Bush was even a candidate. Only 12% knew that McCain was also a candidate even though he was said to be especially appealing to young people. One news subject in recent history, 9/11, did attract the interest of the young. A poll by Pew at the end of 2001 found that 61% of adult Americans under age 30 said that they were following the story closely. But few found any other subjects in the news that year compelling. Anthrax attacks? Just 32% indicated it was important enough to follow. The economy? Again, just 32%. The capture of Kabul? Just 20%. It would appear that young people today are doing very little reading of any kind. In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts, consulting a vast array of surveys, including the United States Census, found that just 43% of young people ages 18 to 24 read literature. In 1982, the number was 60%. A majority do not read either newspapers, fiction, poetry, or drama. Save for the possibility that they are reading the Bible or works of non-fiction, for which solid statistics are unavailable, it would appear that this generation is less well read than any other since statistics began to be kept. The studies demonstrating that young people know less today than young people a generation ago do not get much publicity. What one hears about are the pioneer steps the young are taking politically. Headlines from the 2004 presidential election featured numerous stories about young people who were following the campaign on blogs, then a new phenomenon. Other stories focused on the help young Deaniacs gave Howard Dean by arranging to raise funds through innovative Internet appeals. Still other stories reported that the Deaniacs were networking all over the country through the Internet website meetup.com. One did not hear that we have raised another Silent Generation. But have we not? The statistics about you

how can i boost my metabolism? i am a 5' 3", 36 year old female who has had children, i am a 20 year vegetarian (no animals, but yes animal products like eggs and milk in things, no gelatin!) and i am pretty fit as well, i have aerobic activities at least 2 hours a week ( biking, weights, hula hoop, Pilate's, yoga, ect), broken up daily....although i walk and do a lot i don't record as well. i was recently diagnosed as gluten intolerant. suffice it to say i watch my intake and eat really healthy foods, am active and concerned about health...i don't even eat sugar! so why can i not lose weight? i am fluctuate between 155-160 lbs, which is above the healthy guidelines, and while i feel pretty good, i appear quite chubby and it affects my clothes and self image. my doctor even wants me to lose 15 lbs as a part of the gluten thing....and while i am not obese or in danger of medical problems due to the chubbiness, i have a family medical history of very serious problems and do not want it to get that bad. i am very careful but my metabolism is so slowed, and worse every year, that the weight gets more extreme and i cannot control it. i would like to be in the healthy range of 130-135 for my frame and height....are there vitamins or anything i can add to my regime? i do not trust all the spam lol, and while i do take a multi vitamin and such, i am looking for a supplement that has proven long term results....and is healthy :) thank you all!!

My doctor's telling me i'm fat? I went to see a doctor yesterday and she sent and email to my mom saying i was over-weight. I'm 5'4" and i weight 127 pounds. If you were to see me, i do look kind of fat, as in my stomach is a little big, but i honestly don't think i am. Last time i went to the doctor i was 5'2" and weighed 125 pounds, and she told me i was fine. I just got a new doctor, and from the way she examined me and my sister it seems as if she didn't really know what she was doing. ( i think this because she didn't know anything about the medication i am currently taking for acne, and her checkup wasn't as thourough as i've gone through before) Also, something about her attitude and her unwillingness to tell me about my situation while i was there makes me think she has something against me. With the email she sent my mom, she is giving me all this advice about how to stay healthy, like not drinking juice and eating healthy foods, even though my meals consist mostly of fruits, almonds, some meat and milk and/or water. I do excercise during p.e. at school and occasionally i will do some sit ups in my room or dance or hula hoop for about 30 minutes at a time. I do drink a lot of diet soda, but i only drink diet. My family has a history of diabetes and high cholesterol, and my mom has made it quite clear that i have her shape and that i'll probably be a little bigger for the rest of my life. I know some of this information is useless, but please tell me, Am i fat? What are some things i could do to get healthy?

Can someone summarize the 1950s for me? So for my history project, I have to summarize the era I picked. I picked the 1950s-1960s(Well my partner did but whatever) The important events I have to include in the summary are: Fidel Castro 1954-Swansom TV dinner TV: I love Lucy American Band Stand Rock-n-Roll: Elvis, Beatles Disneyland and the hula hoop Kennedy/Nixon debates Civil Rights Please don't include any other events. Thank you very much for any help :) EDIT 1: Alright I'll try but I don't get a lot of the stuff D:

I Don't Know What To Do, Please Help!? I feel so upset and everytime I'm upset, I get the nearest sharp thing and cut myself on the arm. Which means I do it alot in school and I've done it alot recently at home. None of my parents know about my cuttings because I hide them under long sleeve T-shirts. I don't know why I do it but it just makes me happier. Theres this place I really want to go to but I can't, it can be possible but I can't and that place is the hospital, I just feel safe knowing that theres many other people same age as me who have problems too, I just want to spend one night there and thats all. Every night since April, I get theses cold shiverings going down my spine and it feels like someone rubbing their hands on my back like some sort of ghost. Then after I get theses images in my head thats showing someone elses life but from World War II like seeing through the eyes of a English child. I see wet pavements, foggy streets and other children playing hula hoops, hop-scoth and loads of tall like buildings. I knew it was a sceneiro of World War II because of the clothes they were wearing which I've seen on pictures in my history class and everytime the image shows something different. I know it sounds weird but I don't know why this is happening, Why I feel happier cutting myself, Why do I feel lonely, Why do I see all theses images, Why am I getting cold shivers? Theres so many questions, but I'm always upset because simply theres always something coming up and I've been feeling dreadful since April. Before you ask, yes I do beleive in ghosts and I know some of you may not but thats your opinion. I just want to know why I am experiencing all this.

we didnt start the fire question? I have to do an assignment for history and we have to find all the subjects or names in the song "We didn't start the fire" that relate to the cold war, and how. If you can think of anything, it'd be great. here are the lyrics.. Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye" Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye CHORUS We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire Though we did ignite it But we tried to fight it Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire Though we did ignite it But we tried to fight it Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball, Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire Though we did ignite it But we tried to fight it Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land, Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire Though we did ignite it But we tried to fight it Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire But when we are gone It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on... We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire Though we did ignite it But we tried to fight it We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire Though we did ignite but But we tried to fight it We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire...

A Bisexual in Need of Help: My Story & Predicament: Part 1? Hi, I'm new to this section and plan on coming here more often. I'm currently 16 years old and will be 17 on the 29th of this month. I want to be a actor and already have a decent amount of experience, my Freshman year just ended in High School and I gotta say, it was the greatest School year of my life so far. I met awesome people, have a few best friends, and many other friends. But, the one dark cloud looming over me was something that even I couldn't face, just yet. My name Travis, and I have more confidence than a bear does in his own den. I'm actually a really nice person, but, I like to act like a egotistical bastard, because I play that role to perfection. I usually ALWAYS say what is on my mind, which is a problem only if you see it that way. So, I was in Musical Theater, and the class was one of the best classes I've ever been apart of. We did a Spring Production called "Hula Hoops & Halos", kinda cheesy, but it was very fun. Nearing the end of the year, I begun to feel kinda sad. Soon, I was going to lose all these wonderful classes and many people would forget each other. So, being known for my controversial actions and comments, which I love to be. I created a end of the year "speech" for my 3rd Period which was my favorite class. After a few dramatic lines, I did something that ELECTRIFIED the entire School, I "came out" in front of EVERYONE. And I say everyone because all the students were going to tell the whole School anyways. I did that because that's what entertainers do, they people themselves out there and will be critiqued in a good or bad way. After coming out, I continued reading my little "speech" and after I got done with the body of it, I had a few things to say to some certain people in the class. And one was Aaron, I have know him since 7th Grade and have had to keep my feeling for him to myself. This is what I said and wrote: "I've been wanting to say this since 7th Grade: YOU'RE ADORABLE. It's not just that hair that drives me crazy, it's that personality, you've got a great personality. By the way, I'd totally hit on you if you were gay or bi." I said that in front of everyone, I went on a limb and did a very ballsy thing. So a few days passed and people were making very rude comments to Aaron, saying "All the guys like you", or, "Is that the finger Travis sucks on?". I actually said a few comments myself to Aaron and it was just teasing Aaron, but, I never went to far. And now, Aaron barely talks to me, maybe it's because he remembers having me in Gym in 7th Grade and I saw him undress and saw that oh so sexy chest? But, I respect him very much and will never try to make a move on him without his consent, but, on facebook the other day. I was talking to one of Aaron's close friends and he told me Aaron said some things about me. He said I "scared him" and every time I have a class with him he's going to "turn his ass towards the wall". COME ON! I'm Travis H. I had to talk to Aaron and explain it too him. So it was the last day of School and we all were talking in third period. And Mr.D, my World History Honors Teacher, said he like how Aaron would always laugh things off if someone insulted him or something. Then Aaron said he didn't know how to handle "that", which was referring to me coming out to him a few weeks ago, and I was right there. And I thought to myself, did I traumatize him some? Did I really spook him? Is he afraid I'm going to try to "cop a field" with him? I felt terrible and I didn't know what to say, and I knew right away, that this was one of those things that would carry on to next year and as soon as Aaron sees me, he'll be scared. God I was a jackass. So, what should I do? Should I try to talk to him and try to explain myself? Should I try to not doing anything that will make him uncomfortable, like just walking by him? Your thoughts and advice, please. Part 2 will actually be about my situation with a ACTUAL gay guy. This happened in Musical Theater with this guy in Part 2.

Are the Baby Boomers God's Wrath and Pestilence sent down upon America? Trace the Awful History of those Selfish, Narcissistic Baby Boomers and try to tell me I am Wrong. I dare you. They were born in an age of unprecedented prosperity to indulgent parents who slathered them in hula hoops, etcha sketches, Gar-Loos and bicycles. They fed them twinkies and wonder bread and oreos. Then the War in Viet Nam happened and while some served honourably most dodged the draft and protested and took drugs and had awful kinky sex. They played awful guitar music while they were stoned on acid and they still insist that horrible stinky bands like the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd were somehow anything but terrible. Then came the 70s and 80s and they morphed from Hippies into Yuppies. They grew big hair and wore leisure suits while they did lines of coke and danced around mirror balls. They refused to invest in America and demanded lower taxes. They had LSD flash-backs. They only attacked little countries that could not fight back because the USSR was still out there and it scared the living spit out of them. Then along came the 90s and they succeeded in electing their first Baby Boomer President, Slick Willy. They lived awful immoral lives and reveled in their President's misadventures. They got their grimy hands on new technology and never let it go. Then came the 2000s and the Baby Boomers elected their second Baby Boomer President, a moron called Dubya. He gave the rich a free ride, costing the US Treasury trillions in lost revenues, while he invaded little countries and financed his Wars of Aggression off-budget. The irony that the Baby Boomers sent young American servicepeople to fight in the Mideast when they cowardly refused to fight was lost on them. All they were interested in was easy credit and the stock market casino. Then -- surprise, surprise -- the economy cratered and the Nation somehow elected a bright young President who technically was a Baby Boomer. He took some unpopular decisions that saved the economy from Depression. So suddenly all those ex-hippy Baby Boomers became Teabaggers. They demanded further reductions in their taxes while simultaneously insisting on their Social Security and Medicare benefits as they began retiring and getting old. They want to pay for all that be destroying America's infrastructure and inflicting third-rate education and health care upon their own children and grandchildren. What a bunch of douches. I know there are exceptions to my generalizations, and that there are some first-rate Baby Boomers who served their country and have sought to invest in tomorrow's generations. But what caused the rest of you lousy awful Baby Boomers to happen? Too much LSD in the 60s? Too much coke in the 70s? Too much meth in the 80s? Too much E in the 90s? Too much money in the 00s? Help me out here. Unless I hear something more persuasive, I am going with the God's Pestilence and Wrath theory. Dead Reagan, you're not adding anything here. But keep thinking those good thoughts. Sleep Thin and Molly, I hear what you're saying. It is what it is. But I still can't help but think that God has a purpose for things, and I reject any assertion that the Baby Boomers can be compared with the Greatest Generation that saved America from the Right-Wing Nazis and Japan. BB you are the epitome of the Loser Baby Boomer. You refuse to accept Responsibility and you hide from Accountability. You can't seem to decide whether I am young or old. But anyone who reads your rubbish can easily tell what you are: God's Pestilene and Wrath sent down upon an Unrepentant America. You bit(h. Kenny I acknowledged that there were exceptions to my generalizations. They tend to prove the rule. Susan, I appreciate your humour and candour.