How to use dare? Hi guys, I am really confused with the word "dare". What does dare mean in this sentence? "Dare I say, Dare I refuse, Dare I receive" Is that mean the speaker have the courage to say or something?

Diary of Jan 14th I took an English session this morning with a very nice person. She comes from Ohio but lives in New Mexico currently. Although it was not the first time for me to join in a class in Italki, it was totally a wonderful experience I have ever had. We talked a lot about the history in New Mexico. She said that there are still many Native American who live there and still keep a traditional lifestyle. It's not like what I thought that they just keep their original life style and culture to make their living place to be a tour site. It's not like here in China. Most of the traditional culture have been connected with money. It is so sad that we have much fewer ways to know or feel about that. She also has a very strong background in art history. I am looking forward to know what is her way to intepret the abstract art in our next class. Thanks Bre!

How to improve my handwriting in English. Hi, there. I am Steven. My English handwriting is not very good. So I decided to write a note here everyday about what has happened on me. I would be very appreciate if anybody could correct my mistakes first and then I will write these words down on a paper. I know it could be hard for me at first and not very easy to insist it for a long time. But I know a friend here from British who are studying Chinese. She is very assiduous. She inspires me a lot. I have seen her Chinese is growing very fast. I am going to learn from her and make my English to have a big improvement.

Presidential Election In the U.S. A simple majority of 270 ballots can produce a President. But if neither of them could come up with that, the Constitution would let the House of Representatives to select the next President. However, this has never happened for the past 200 years. Most of the presidential elections allow a candidate to win if he wins over more than half of the popular vote and the Electoral College, 2000 is an exception. The Democratic candidate Al Gore won over a half million of the popular vote and had a clear control on 266 Electoral College votes. But his challenger, Republican candidate George W. Bush, led by a tiny fraction in the State of Florida. Gore demanded a recount of the ballots, which Bush challenged all the way to the Supreme Court. About a month after the election, the court sided with Bush and gave him Florida's 25 electoral ballots and the White House. The two parties are entrenched in the fighting of the current election system that the American University Professor Dennis Johnson says he doesn't expect anything change on this. "Both parties are looking over their strategies, they are looking over the map and saying,' you know, for us, no, let's keep it the way it is, the winner take all.' " Johnson also says that the Democratic Party's domination of the nation's cities means that the Republicans, who take control in much less populated rural areas, are not inclined to support the change on direct election.

Can you help me with this sentence? By fisher's genetic argument that the sex ratio will be favored which maxmizes the number of descendants an individual will have and hence the number of gene copies transmited, it should pay a femal to produce equal numbers of sons and daughters. What does the "which" refer to? What does "pay" mean in this context?

Can you help me to translate this sentence into Chinese or simple English? And while there are no short-term silver bullets when it comes to gas prices, I’ve directed my administration to look for every single area where we can make an impact and help consumers in the months ahead, from permitting to delivery bottlenecks to what’s going on in the oil markets. And because we put in place the toughest fuel economy standards in history, our cars will average nearly 55 miles per gallon by the middle of the next decade.

Soliloquy and Monologue What is the difference between the two words?

First and Firstly What is the difference between First and Firstly? When I want to make a sequence for an instruction, which one is better?