"one of these things is not like the others" meaning?
Hi, I'm currently in high school and a few of my classmates have been bothering one of my good friends in one my classes. They keep saying "One of these things is not like the others" or "one of us, one of us". It really has been bothering him it seems (both in school and whenever I'm around him outside of school). Now I'm guessing its a form of bullying but I want to know what it exactly means before I inform the teacher of this issue (just in case its a harmless joke or something). My friend doesn't know either because I'm sure he'd try to stop me from ratting them out.
As a black person does it bother you going by your slave name or would you prefer to go by a name of origin?
I'm doing a project at my college trying to see how slave master names have had an impact on black American culture I've come to find some animals in their natural habitat when forced to do something different they become less productive and more aggressive I would like to make a final conclusion that forcing any species to act differently would only conclude in a negative result
Does it bother you if someone says handicapped instead of disabled.?
I ask this question on my group...they had 3 choices 1.yes it bother me 2.no it don't bother me 3.I don't really care,I have more important things to worry about... 85 percent chose 2 and 3...with most saying they don't really care Only 15 percent says it bother them.. I think and only my true feeling is this...If a person is disabled and having a hard time most of his life,,maybe being teased and all kind of things like that.. If your disabled and have a good life..maybe your married and have kids...maybe have a good job...This kind of person is active and doing all kinds of things with there life..and so they really don't have the time to get upset over such trivial things I do understand people should t use the work cripple,gimp,midget and thing like that...
Should I say 'Did I do something wrong' or 'Have I done something wrong?'?
You should take a look at: What is the best way to describe the difference between the "Present Perfect" and the "Present Perfect Continuous" in English?You will understand what are the differences between these two terms, although these sentences are very similiar and don’t have many differences.Anyway, ‘Have I done something wrong?’ Implies to say something that is current, i.e, something that still affects in the present, for instance: You are in a party, and someone starts staring at you, you approach to him and ask whether you have done anything wrong, anything that has bothered him until now or something that is still bothering him. Other way to differ these two sentences is by mentioning when it happened: “You stared at me in that party, did I do anything wrong to you that day?” See that you mentioned when it happened, you are referring to an action in the past, which doesn’t have any ligation to the present, your friend no longer is mad at you, that action happened in the past, and doesn’t affect in the present. However, if you had said: Have I done anything wrong? It’d imply to say that what you did still affects the present, i.e, it is still bothering your friend, you did something wrong in the past, that has still bothered your friend so far, it might be something that you did and keep doing.Take a look at these examples:Have I done anything that bothered you since the party began? = Yes, you have, you haven’t yet talked to me since the party began.Did I do anythingthat bothered you in the last party? = Yes, don’t you remember? You spent most time seeking for girls.What did I do that made you feel mad at me that day in the party? = You didn’t talk to me, and spent most time drinking.You haven’t talked to me since last week’s party, what have I done? = You haven’t called me since the party ended.
Why bother being a 'good' person?
Ouch. The question of what, exactly, IS 'good' is one that has filled volumes. Most of the greatest philosophers of history have taken a stab at it. But I'll tell you one thing that most of them seem to agree on: the reason why it's better to be good is because truly good actions and things are powerful and beneficial. Not just to other people or society as a whole, but to YOU. Bad things generally don't work out as well. Nobody really wants to live in a badly-made house or next to a truly bad neighbor. Nor does being a bad person usually work out well... even if some people do slip through the cracks, most are crushed by society, circumstance, and perhaps by themselves. And there are many philosophers who would dispute that even the most successful bad person is actually doing well at all. You'll notice, I hope, that I keep sticking the word 'truly' in there, though. That's no accident. There are plenty of groups interested in controlling your actions who like to re-define goodness to suit their needs. That's why it is not difficult at all to have a good experience from something someone else tells you is bad. As a matter of fact, it would be hard to find anything at all that SOMEONE hasn't declared bad at one time or another. So unfortunately you're pretty close to square one again. A lot of people are surely telling you all kind of crazy things which really have nothing to do with good or bad whatsoever. I suppose you can read the philosophers yourself and get an idea of what they thought was good or bad... there's variety even there. But once you do find the good, hold onto it and don't let go.
Non-RHH: Why is it not racist when a black person calls a white person "cracker"?
Short answer: because a white person was never lynched execution style right after being called a "cracker" or "honky". @Matthew: actually, slavery ended when the 13th amendment was added to the constitution in 1865 (not a million years ago). And even still, hundreds of blacks were lynched for crimes they didn't commit or just out of pure hatred by whites during the early 20th century in America. And the Jim Crow laws weren't abolished until the 1960's. Which means people are still alive from that era. It wasn't that long ago Matt.
Does the word 'TERRIFIC' bother you in the english language?
Not as annoying as "awesome", "totally awesome" and these days "amazing". Everything is "amazing". Terrific: 1. extraordinarily great or intense: terrific speed. 2. extremely good; wonderful: a terrific vacation. 3. causing terror; terrifying. As you see there is more than one meaning to the word and they do not all refer to terror.