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Q: For my History project, I wrote this letter as if I'm a soldier writing home and I made it look so real by crumpling it and dipping it into tea.

For the project, we must include one picture. i have this perfect one that's already black/brown and white but it won't look that old if I print it out. Will it end up okay if I crumple it up and dip that into tea too?

Or is there something else you can suggest?

I wouldn't take any risk in ruining the old photo you have already. If you want you could scan it and edit it on picnik because they have a lot of effects you can give a picture and the way to do it is pretty self explanitory and then when you print it, you could stick it in tea and burn the edges.

Q: Mkay, so im 14 F.

And if i take a ahower in the morning I dont have enough time to blow dry and straighten to get to school early unless I get up at like 5 am (which im NOT going to do) . But is there anything I can do with my hair besides scrunching it?

My hair is medium length and light brown.

I want some cute ideas that dont take long and i have alot of products/ and can get some if some of the ideas need ones I dont have!

thanks a bunches!
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Don't take a shower at night. Take a shower at around like 7 o'clock and wait for your hair to dry a little and then braid it, and then in the morning just let it go. (One hairstyle).

Also if you wait till your hair is completely dry and you braid it, it is easier to straighten in the morning then just waiting for your hair to dry in the morning and blah blah blah. When you straighten it in the morning, which would take like 20 minutes after the whole braiding technique, you can always put it up into a half pony tail.

You can also put it into a half ponytail when you scrunch it which looks really cute.

I was going to suggest to crimple your hair, but that takes WAYYYY too much time, and it's not worth it since you're not waking up at five.

Sometimes putting your hair in a messy bun is cute too.

Q: F-14

I shave all my pubic hair, but theres always a little stub and sometimes red dots come up and they look like zits?

Is there something I can do to get rid of them???
Because I dont want my boyfriend to get disgusted by it or think a have like some disease when he fingers me or something!

What should I do and what should I tell him if he asks about it!?!?!

Thanks so much for your help!

They are ingrown hairs (like the other person said) but when you shave especially down there, always make sure the razor is new or cleaned really well and you use shaving cream (obviously do not get it in your vagina) because if the skin is dry, it usually reacts funny.

Q: What chapter was it where Jack is talking about why he should be cheif because he can sing like c octive or something like that. And then what is the chapter when Simon is talking about going back from exploring to go tell Piggy who is with all the little kids that there going to be late.

Thanks a bunchh!

Jack talks about being a chief in the first two chapters I believe because that is when they met and they choose to put Ralph in charge. The second one didn't make sense to me so I can't help you there, sorry.

Q: 17/f

So I might not have the best sleeping schedule but still - this has happened to me A LOT and I'm curious if this is even normal. I go to sleep and people will come in my room, a parent or a sibling, and find me wide awake. I'll see them come in - as if my eyes were already open - but I have no reelection of what I had been doing before they came. They tell me my eyes were wide open [I'm a HEAVY SLEEPER TOO - so I didn't wake up from them just opening the door] - From not feeling well I was awake until 6am. At 8 am my mom came in my room and I "sort of" remember her talking to me - the memory is really foggy. But apparently I had been sitting up wide awake when she came in!!

I know I'm always tired and I wonder if I'm actually not sleeping at night - like I'm awake but. . sleeping? I'm not sure >.< Help!

There are four stages of sleep, STAGE ONE (I know, what an original name) is where you are dozing off and barely sleeping, almost very wide awake and you can be awoken easily. STAGE TWO is where you are sleeping, and just beginning to go in the REM stage of sleep, (RESTLESS EYE MOVEMENT) then in stage three, you are in the REM stage. You are paralyzed and cannot move at all, except for your eyes. A dream happens in this stage every 90 minutes and the dreams can be about anything from 5-40 minutes long. Maybe you just have really weird dreams. In stage four, you beginning to go back to stage one where you are getting to the sleep stage but still awake. I took a lesson on psychology in highschool and I learned to record my dreams. So set a notebook by your bed, and when you wake up in the morning don't get out of bed really quickly, the reason being is because you will forget the dream, or the interactions you had with your family during the night. Lay in bed and rethink the dream, then write it all down. We as human beings lead a very hectic lifestyle, we forget dreams, and what happens on in the night because we have to think of all the other things that need to be done before the day begins (brush teeth, use bathroom, ect), after a couple of dreams recorded, talk to your mom, and go to the doctor if you are concerned about the type of dreams you are having. Hopefully it gets better for you. I know one thing, you don't have narcopalsy, so you're at least safe from that. Let me know what you find out and I'll give you further advice from there. :)

Q: hi i was just wondering..are laws that make hate speech illegal, legitimate in a democracy? like...doesnt that go against freedon of speech? thoughts?

Our freedom of speech only applies if our speech is not hurting anyone. If someone is offended, the freedom of speech kind of doesn't exist, which I think sucks because uhm "REALITY!" Lol.
Hope that helps somewhat.

Q: i always used to have iTunes on my laptop but over the summer something happened to my laptop and it got messed up but everything was fine after that.

however, my iTunes remained really messed up. i went to update it a couple months ago and it said (and it still says):

The older version of Apple Software cannot be removed. Contact your technical support group.

and i can't uninstall it from add / remove programs cause it doesn't work! it says to find the folder containing "itunes.msi" and i DO and it says it's not valid.

how do i delete iTunes from my laptop so i can reinstall it?

You could always contact your technical support group like suggested, OR you can reboot your whole software on your computer/laptop to the manufactured settings and reinstall everything.

Q: If you buy songs from iTunes, can you copy them to a CD?

I believe they can be burned but check this site out to make sure. : )

http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/music.html

Q: I am at a two yr college to get my associates degree in criminal justice. After i graduate that degree I want to knw what kind of jobs i can get. I am also going to then continue college for a higher degree but i dnt knw what for. I want to stay around the area criminal justice though. Thank you for all and any advice.

You can major in criminal justice and minor in autopsy or psychology since it can be used to solve crimes.

I am majoring in pediatrics, and minoring in psychology, which means I can be a pediatrics psychologist, and work with both kids and adults.

Q: i cheated on my bf, he found out, we broke up. he forgave me but we are not dating. he is at an away college. he doesnt want to have a long distance relationship so when school is out he will come back and we can try again. he is allowed to go on dates while he is at school. he can party and everything else and doesnt have to tell me. since im the one who messed up and is trying to earn his trust back, if i go out w friends or date, i have to tell him. so my question now is, is it fair?

I don't think it's fair, but you have to ask yourself if you are happy with the way things are being dealt with. You obviously made a mistake and if he did not feel like he wants you out with your friends or whatever, he shouldn't have forgiven you. Plain and simple, I don't think you should try again because he seems like the type of person to hold this on you forever. Like, you'll go out to dinner with your sister or whatever and he wanted to hang out and he'll be like, 'REMEMBER THAT TIME!..." It's not right to put you through that, so allow him to know that if he is doing it, so will you, and you wont be punished forever (like the other person said) because of something, because he did forgive you.
The best of luck to you.