Maria asks…
What does the quote "Nae man can tether time or tide" from Robert Burns mean?
I think I might know what it means, but I'm not entirely sure.
I think it might mean that basically "man (or people) cant change, alter, or stop time & the things that happen during it?"
If I'm wrong please correct me!
Thank You!
admin answers:
He is more or less saying that
Time and tide waits for no man.
You cannot control the march of time and the tide doesn't wait for you to be prepared before it ebbs and flows..
David asks…
What does the quote "the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray" mean?
The quote is by Robert Burns I believe. Can anyone tell me what it means?
admin answers:
It basically means no matter how well you plan something, always expect the unexpected, in other words, just because you think you've done all you can for something to go right....something can still get messed up (always have a plan B)
Jenny asks…
why do religionists have to insert an unseen unproved protagonist into a proccess, ie; evolution?
a proccess is just a proccess, it needs nothing.
All religions are old wives' fables, but an honest man has
nothing to fear, either in this world or the world to come.
Robert Burns, quoted by Robert Green Ingersoll in "Why I Am an Agnostic"
honest men being shot has nothing whatsoever to do with evolution. It says something about the randomness of this life, and being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and that is luck and is unfortunate.
What is not luck though, is mindless violence.
admin answers:
Any process needs one thing - a point of origin. The observable order of the universe is decay, or complex to less complex. Based on what is observable, a protagonistic entity of some form is required to initiate the process. Your choice of protagonists is a statement of where you place your faith, because no matter which one you choose, faith is all you have to support your choice.
Daniel asks…
MLA Quotation within text?
I have a research paper due tomorrow and i have a question.
My topic is Robert Burns, and i need to put this quote of robert burns in my paper. However my teacher decided that we need to have minimum 3 book sources. My robert burns quote is quoted within the book i need to use. The book is by an author not being robert burns, and the book is a collection of his poems and songs. How would i put the quote by robert burns into my paper and cite the quote.
to make it a little easier:
the quote was said by robert burns
quote was found within a book written by seperate author
would i do
" this is the quote by robert burns" (Burns and Other Author pg.#) ?
i need to cite within the text using MLA style.
please help me.
BTW, sorry that i wrote this gramatically incorrect probably and it is probably hard to follow, i'm a bit stressed out right now and really don't care that much.
THX
admin answers:
You'd introduce the quote, "this is the quote by robert burns," (Author, pg.#). Having (Burns and Other Author, pg.#) implies that Robert Burns co-authored the book with the other author. Unless, Burns did in fact co-author the book then have it in the format you entered.
Make sure you included all your books on your works cited page in MLA format. Basic, MLA format writing guides will help as well.
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