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Today I read one US citizen commenting that US's role as the force for good, a stabilizing force in the world, has been unprecedented in world history and good both for US and the world.

Since WW2 US has been participating in several wars abroad, and recently Susan Rice, the US representative with the UN, mentioned the possibility of US getting involved in Syria, regardless of UN.

So, I decided to create a survey. Both US citizens and not can answer. Please, if you answer in your lj, leave a link!

Survey: How much should US intervene?

1. Do you think US does good for other countries where it intervenes, on the whole?
Have interventions been beneficial for US itself, on the whole?

2. Would you wish for US to intervene more/less/same in the future?

3. For US citizens: Would your answers to the previous questions change, if US had the draft?
If yes, how?

4. Would US politics be different, had the draft stayed?
Would it be better or worse for US interests as a country? For the world?

Notice that I am not talking of a personal interest of somebody not wanting to be conscripted, but of a country as a whole in the long run & of other countries, which don’t care about personal interests of US citizens as long as it doesn’t affect them.

Current Mood: pensive

I once created the Language Meme and, since this month is the Poetry Month, thought about writing the Poetry Meme.

The Poetry Meme

1) Since what age have you started reading poetry? Which percentage of total reading time do you dedicate to poetry, as opposed to prose?

2) Did you formally study poetry (f.e. at college, school)? If so, did it ignite your interest in the genre or didn't contribute in any meaningful way?

3) What was your first favorite poem? What's your best-loved poem (or poet) now? If you have a particular poem you can't stand, feel free to mention it too.

4) Do you enjoy poetry only in your mother tongue or in foreign language(s) too? If yes, does your perception change depending on the language, f. e. preferring different genres in different languages?

5) Did your preferences change over the years?

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Current Mood: artistic

A wonderful meme from Russian lj. You get 3 situations and have to give 3 answers to each, as an optimist, a pessimist and a realist. La_cruz [lj in Russian] asked me the following:

1. JKR confessed that, in her opinion, in reality Bellatrix is a white hat too.
2. Arnold Schwarzenegger expressed a wish to act in the last HP movie.
3. All Arab countries of the world chorally recognized the State of Israel.

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Current Mood: artistic

The original meme:

Ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! Some people have come up with some creative ones. And I will answer them all in a new post.

In my case, I'll answer if I can. Have been only in HP fandom.

Current Mood: creative

I have been in HP fandom for more than 5 years and while most people are native speakers, I've seen many others like me, for whom English is a foreign language. I've come into English lj completely by accident and started wondering lately how other people have got there. So I wrote this language meme.

If you do the meme, please, give me a link.

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Current Mood: curious

Love book memes and this one seemed quite interesting. These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of 30 September 2007).

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Read many books in my childhood (now Internet takes quite a lot from book reading time), so after finding lj, I was surprised that I didn't hear about so many famous English authors as Austen, Orwell, etc. I am really glad about doing this meme, for with its help I've discovered a couple of great books, which are in my library and I can't wait to read them. (The books are Dubliners and Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West).

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Current Mood: mellow

May be I am alone in that, but why does Bellatrix have to be leather-clad with quite revealing top in the Ministry? Did Voldemort buy her this dramatic outfit after her escape from Azkaban, fulfilling his promise from GoF to reward his loyal DEs beyond their dreams? Exactly for what purpose? Cue: Voldy/Bella fics [more than there are now, I mean]. Why does the only female DE have to be so sexualized? Can't a woman ever be good enough without laying stress on her sexuality? It just seemed annoying that while all wizards wear black cloaks & Hogwarts girls - long skirts, a female DE brings to mind the image of femme fatale, while women of the Order wear nothing of the sort . She reminded me of Milady from the Russian version of The Three Musketeers.

Just showing the somewhat implied connection between modesty and evilness (?).

vs.
Voldemort on this picture looks even more ugly than in GoF. There he seemed to me more charismatic & less resembling Dracula.

A wonderful meme from mike_smith lj.

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Current Mood: bitchy

I wanted to do a meme, which would both get people a bit more acquainted with me & most importantly would be interesting to read. So I searched in Internet, wrote some questions myself & created my own ~~except for a couple of stolen questions~~ first meme.

I won't tag anyone, but if you want to do this meme, go for it.

1) Where did your username come from?

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2) What's your philosophy on life?

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3) What used to be your favorite pastime in the childhood and what is it now?

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4) Tell a true funny or simply interesting story from your life:

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5) What was your childhood dream profession?

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6) A million bucks.. what would you do with it?

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7) If you could live in any place in any historical era for a week, what would you pick?
I remember once wanting to live for a while in a prehistoric era with dinosaurs. Now nothing new and special enough comes to mind.

8) What is one of your favorite places in the whole world?
A city, where I have been living with my relatives for the last 9 years, has to be one of them, hasn't it?
I have always liked seeing a forest on a TV screen or in a book & would like to visit there at least once in my life, but "a green, summer forest" doesn't seem to be a suitable answer for the question.

9) If you could eliminate one thing from your life, what would it be?
Future death & growing old of my relatives and me is The Thing to eliminate. Sure, this is impossible even in HP's magical world, but if a genie in a bottle offered to eliminate everything you named, who would ask for something that can be eliminated by oneself?

10) Off the top of your head, how many fandoms have you been involved with over the course of your life?
I have liked numerous books, but HP is my first & probably last fandom.

11) How did you get into HP fandom community (not how did you first read/watch the canon)?

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12) If you could only read one ship for the rest of your life, what ship would it be?
Harry/Draco because both of them are much more interesting characters by themselves than Ginny, Hermione or even Pansy.

13) Make your real or Mary-Sue doll portrait with http://elouai.com/doll-makers/candybar-doll-maker.php :
The portrait is real, but my hair looks a bit Mary-Suish, just the way I would want it to be. In reality it's straighter.

real: or Sue:
A meme of 13 questions *gets superstitious and goes to wikipedia*
In Judaism, 13 is considered a lucky number. One explanation for this is that the word echad, Hebrew for 'one' and thus a way of describing the unique God, has the numerological value of 13 according to the Gematria system. *calms down*

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: It's my life

A discussion on deathtocapslock made me think about the topic -how people become fans, in particular fans of HP. In PS it takes so much time just to reach the school & until that I found the book incredibly boring. As sistermagpie noted: "We know Harry's special from page 2, so there's no suspense waiting for him to catch up. I remember thinking that if he didn't just open one of those letters soon I was going to scream." But why did she, me & countless other people continued to read the book? I read the CoS first (after the first 4 books were already published) & it has been my favorite ever since, so I already liked very much the second book & wanted to like the first too. What about other people? Did they watch the movies first? Were the books recommended by friends? How much were they influenced by the advertising campaign? I am really curious.

Please, tell how & when you became fans. What exactly to you like in HP books? What is your favorite book & why?

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Current Mood: curious

Loved sistermagpie's quotes meme. You go here and look through the random quotes until you find 5 that reflect who you are or what you believe. Repost in your lj & invite anyone who wants to to do the same.
Struggling with my indecisiveness, I decided to post The Top 10 instead.

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