Sunday, 5 May 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
Easing into the school year with a little help from your friends. But not too much help, please.
Date: September 3, 2006
Categories: The Universe
For the moment, I do not have any homework, as school starts on the 6th. However, I get the feeling that I am going use this thread a lot in the next few months…
First post!?*does first post dance*
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skool ofr me strts in 2 days. so…
just the extrdinarily boring summer homework that of course, i have not doe yet.
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how on earth are we supposed to lable all the countries in Europe when the map is so small you can’t even fit a number into a lot of the boxes?
gah..
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I will probably never need help with my homework. You get a lot of homework in fifth grade, but it really isn’t that challenging.
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Second post!
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School for me starts on the ninth. I don’t WANNA go back! Whaaa!!!!!
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This was partly my idea! Yay for me!
I don;t have any homework yet, either, but shen I do, I might ask for help.
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4- “You get a lot of homework in fifth grade.”
Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Wait until high school, kiddo.
– majorly stressed out ubergeek who has to edit her english paper and do two geography projects, along with some inconsequental other homework.
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4 – That was why I never really needed any help last year. But who knows, maybe something really hard will show up in middle school?
I think that at least a few people should post their memorization tricks, if they have any. I think that would be helpful to everyone, if they have any homework involving memorization.
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Here’s one of my memorization tricks:
Think of it as making sense. You get a whole lot more don’t that way. If you just say dully:
Two…plus…2..equals…four…
Without thinking of the meaning, of the actual sense of the fact, then you are bound to get it memorized faster and it will probably last longer.
Wasn’t that great? Even though everyone already knew that, it’s still important to know.
I know a lot more tricks, but I can’t think of them right now. Everyone probably knows those, too, though.
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Tip to all-don’t take AP US History unless you like taking notes. Lots of notes. In a short time. This is where experience on IM comes in handy. abbvs r awsm!!!
Ah, i loved this thread before. I think i’m gonna love it again. *loves thread* squeeness!
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here’s a memorization trick my 8th grade history teacher taught me for the constitutional ammendments from #13 to # 19. Each capital lettered word is one ammendment.
Just think: Free Citizens due Vote To tax Senators That don’t drink With women who vote.
#13-Frees the slaves
#14-Makes the freed slaves citizens and gives them due process
#15-freed male slaves can vote
#16-creates an income tax
#17-people elect their own senators
#18-prohibits alcohol
#19-Women can vote
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3: at least you’re labelling the countries in europe… Honestly, we own. No offence, but Europe owns. Especially my country, Switzerland. Don’t forget Switzerland. Even though it’s small, we’re still rich, clean and peaceful. We haven’t been in a war since the middle-ages. SO KNEEL TO THE PEACEMAKERS!!!!!!!!
anyways, I’m starting High School tomorrow (4th) and I get the feeling… I’ll be posting here a lot… unless my friends over at metalreviews.com can help me better…
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How to remember:
write it again……..
and again…………
and again……….
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14 – In my opinion, that’s one of the worst ways to do it. It helps for a starter, though.
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2 new newbies! *pies*
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I haven’t started school yet so I haven’t had the traumas of homework yet!
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14- My 7th grade English teacher used to have us re-write words we misspelled seven times. Apparantly if you write/say something seven times it sticks.
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13- honestly, Australia is so much better than Europe in terms of map labeling. I love Australia now. And the teacher just says “all the countries”. does that count the little bitty ones like Andorra, Litchenstein (sp), Luxembourg (sp), Monaco, etc, that you can’t even see on the map? Honestly, you can barely see Switzerland, let alone something the size of my city…
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TOPFOT (18),
Well, hello, old-timer! It’s been a while since we’ve seen you around here.
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18 – According to my violin teacher, 49 is the number. If you do something perfectly 49 times in a row, you probably won’t make the same mistake for a long time.
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yay, TOPFOT! How are you?
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oh my gosh!! u guys are so lucky to start in september!!!!
i started on the 23rd of august!!
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21-42!!!!1!1!11!!!!shiftkey!!!!!!!eleventy1!!!!!
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(13)
I WORSHIP YOU.
-leaves-
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GAPA, once people actually start posting hw, can there be a new thread, something tells me we will have about 100 posts before some one actually asks for hw help.
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We usually continue a thread after it reaches 300 comments.
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I remember things by reciting, writing, or reviewing them over and over and over and…well, you get the point. For me, repetition equals memorization.
No homework yet, but school starts for me on Tuesday. Then I’ll have so much homework I’ll either be asking for help here constantly if it’s hard or too busy frantically trying to finish it all to even get online if it’s manageable. Ack!
13 – I agree…Europe does own. I wish I lived there, but for now I’m stuck in Kentucky. That’s really cool that you’re from Switzerland! I’ve never been there, but my parents have and they loved it.
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Ah, Europe… *sigh* I wanna live there. Europe or Toronto, anyway. And possibly Chicago, just because I love it so much.
Homework… Is anyone here really good at multiplying matricies? I’ve been doing it since pre-algebra (fifth grade) and still haven’t got the hang of it. Tips?
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GAPA? I believe there is a link in 13.
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It’s just part of a URL. It’s not clickable, so spam bots are unlikely to trace it back to us. It may stay.
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I probablly won’t need homework help on the first couple days of school, because it is mostly just putting covers on our textbooks and stuff. At least I HOPE I won’t need help.
I lived in Ireland, but only for about half a year. I was about 6.
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30-31: it wasn’t a link, just the name of a forum. If it’s a forum i always add “.com” when talking about, so as to avoid confusion. And I should hope that there isn’t any Spam in my lovely metal website. Despite metal having a relationship with vikings.
19) Don’t forget Vatican City… even that counts as a country… or San Marino…
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wait, whats a matrice- i know i know it, just not the name. *bangs head on wall*
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(29, 34),
Singular matrix, plural matrices. A matrix is a table-like array of numbers or symbols. You can multiply two matrices if the number of items in each row of the first matrix equals the number of items in each column in the second matrix. It’s like zipping each row together with each column. To get the first row in the product matrix, you zip the first row in matrix A with each column of matrix B. Then you do the same thing with the second row, and so on down to the bottom. Make sense?
(To “zip them together,” you multiplying each pair of corresponding items together and then add up all the products.)
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meh. I just had a dream that I didn’t do my homework and that I got thrown in a mud pit. It’s more complicated than that, but you get the gist.
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Ahhhh, the dreaded homework. Well, I am bound to get lots of memorizing this year, because I have a teacher who likes to have us memorize long documents. Last year we memorized the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address. Too bad I have forgotten most of it, though….. Most of the time you don’t have to go around reciting old documents to your friends…. 
Otzi might, though.
My tips to memorizing are:
–Walk around, especially in a messy room. You have to concentrate REALLY hard on what you are saying AND where you are walking, or else you’ll fall over.
–Say it with feeling. And say it the same every time. If you had a parrot (which I don’t) it would be much easier, because you could teach your parrot the document/poem/whatever at the same time.
–Type it over and over and over and over and over and over, because when you type, it helps you memorize.
–Also, write it over and over and over and over and over and over, because it will be even better than typing. But still type it.
–Memorize as in playing with a toy car, not like eating a piece of loooong licorice. I mean, do one part over and over, then add a sentence or a line or some words, and then keep doing that part before it while doing the next sentence or line. (aka keep first sentence while working on the second, keep second sentence while working on the third) It makes it easier to put together, instead of just little bits of sentences floating around in your memory. You might say the Gettysburg Address like this: “Four score and seven years ago, brought forth on this continent, our fathers new nation, and justice for all!” Or something like that.
Sorry the last one is so comfusing.
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13 – YOU START ON LABOR DAY?!? (today, in other words) THAT’S UNHEARD OF!
I don’t have a problem with it, but I’ve never heard of anyone starting on a holiday.
I love matrix problem things, but I can only solve the easy ones. I’m pretty okay with logic, though.
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GAPA Coontz (36) you’re a life saver!
I have to learn matrixes in order to skip Advanced Algebra and go to Trig, so thanks!
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18 and 19- Yes, I am back :). And we started school on August 23 o_0.
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Erm – Switzerland, land of peace? It might be nowadays, but the Swiss have been supplying soldiers to fight other people’s wars for centures. The Landsknecht were always the most feared soldiers in Europe, and you’d generally find a regiment of them in any big skirmish, especially if the Pope was involved. He’s still got a bunch of them doing security at the Vatican.
But you’re right. The country does deserve a label. If your map of Europe is too small, stick it onto a bigger sheet of paper and write names all round the outside with arrows pointing in – see Muse’s Tower of London pullout map.
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yes we have a fearsome fighting force. Even now. But I’d like to distinguish between swiss soldiers emigrating and fighting and the swiss as a nation attacking another country, or fiddling with another countries politics.
And the vatican guard has awful costumes, even though they could probably pwn the marines. Anyday
And btw, I’m 15 and have only studied a little of switzerland’s history.
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ah, here we go. has anyone read the alchemist?
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18: *GASP* The Other Person From Over There! *shakes hand vigorously*
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42 : I think the Vatican guards are pretty. But then, I’m heavily into 16th century fashion. They’re not as pretty as they used to be, though. Not enough ribbons and feathers. Considered frivolous by modern popes, I suspect.
OK, I have to hand it to you. Switzerland really has managed to avoid war for centuries, making a bit of cash on the side by supplying very pretty mercenaries. It’s a great idea. The Swiss have sense.
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I have to do a current event for biology. It has to be about something that’s happened in the last month and be relevant to what we’re learning in class (cells). I just looked through my most recent Science News, but there’s not much I could use from it. Please could anyone give me ideas for a topic?
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Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease?
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TSN,
How’s this for an idea:
Go to a search engine (like Google or Clusty), select “news” and do a search with the word “cell.” You’re bound to come across something usable.
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13-mwahahahaha! time to die!
um…j/k.
but seriously,is it really such a good idea to be pacafistic in every situation?
what if all of the allis in world war II simply siad, um, no we dont like fighting. But mostly, good fa you, you peace person. (in most cases peace pwns!)
exept when they attack you unprovoked, or slaughter their population unprovoked. then, ya gotta kill em.
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I memorize by turning whatever it is into a song. School starts the day after tomorrow.
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hm? nobody?
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40- Me too!! What if…. we’re in the same district????
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You lucky other people who don’t live where I doI starte scholl august 15th!
nobody has any suggestions on making a shrine to a mesopatainian god do they? My freshman english teacher is crazy.
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2- Me too…I’m going to do it all tomorrow. Hope the library’s open. ;D
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50/52- lots of people start tomorrow or the day after. i have friends in other districts, in private schools, and in other states. its very common.
Congradulations! your unique- just like everybody else
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49- i agree, if the allies had done that, we’d probably be under nazi rule because they didn’t mind fighting. at least you would be. i wouldn’t have been born.
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50- I use poems.
55- Lyk, I saw that quote in Muse! *acts special until she realizes that everyone else probably did too. *self esteem drops*
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57- go read the muse on self esteem. the first page has great tips to keep up your self esteem.
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thanks yall for helping me with my hw. it was very helpful. very, very helpful. and if that html doesn’t come out, its not my fault.
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59- i do believe i sence sarcasm. forgive my ignorance, but when did you ask for help?
if it was for help with the alchemist, i’m sorry but i’ve never read it.
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Dang. Today was the first day of school. That means…
NO MORE SUMMER!!! WHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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4- ha. An essay, a speech, 12 math problems, some reading, an self introduction due tomorrow and more reading due next monday. And today was only the first day of school. (I’m a junior by the way)
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I. Cannot. Write. Essays.
Mrahr to Honors World Lit! Mrahr!
*cries*
First class I’ve ever wanted to drop. See, the counselor thinks I’m like a genius or something, so she puts me in…that 
ing class…Which is taught by the most infamous teacher in the entire skool…and she literally didn’t give me any other options class-wise…I hate language arts. I hate it w/ a bloody passion. 
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62-poor thing. everyone says thats the hardest year.
you have A (not aN) self introduction due tomorrow.
sry, spent to much time with phoenix.
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to write essays- write an outline. then beef up the outline with big words. really big words. and complex sentance structure. and viola- an essay.
(its not really that easy, but whatever)
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64- Pheonix is an awesome person though. A (not aN) good choice of someone with whom to spend time. (to avoid a preposition at the end of the sentance^_^) Tell her I miss her!
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… and I just re- read my last post and it looks like I’m indicating that though Pheonix is awesome, you aren’t which isn’t true at all. You are awesome too! I really like your poem! And I don’t mind my grammar being corrected^_^
Essays… blech but I’ve learned to deal with them. hmm… I need to go write one my self but my advice is write a short version of your point, then go into detail using long words, then say what you just said in another short version.
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13-Did I tell you I got a SWISS RAILWAYS WATCH? Well, I did. Mine is super cool.
My Social Studies teacher writes mystery novels, my LA teacher hates Lord Peter Wimsey but likes Dorothy L. Sayers (!?!?!!!) Raa-aandom! My advisor is obsessed with cows, the math teacher eats blue pens, and my science teacher is making us listen to the WHOLE RING CYCLE. The whoooooooole Ring Cycle.
DISSERTATION ON EDUCATION
By Tom Lehrer, when a 14 year-old senior at Loomis
Education is a splendid Institution,
A most important social institution,
Which has brought about my mental destitution
By its own peculiar type of persecution.
For I try to absorb
In the midst of an orb
Of frantic instructors’ injunctions
The names of the Fates
And the forty-eight states
And the trigonometrical functions,
The figures of speech
(With the uses of each)
And the chemical symbol for lead,
The depth of the ocean,
Molecular motion
The names of the bones in the head,
The plot of Macbeth
And Romeo’s death
And the history fo the Greek drama,
Construction of graphs
And the musical staffs
And the routes of Cortez and Da Gama,
The name of the Pope,
The inventor of soap
And the oldest American college—
The use of conceits,
The poems of Keats,
And other poetical knowledge.
I’m beginning to feel
I don’t care a great deal
For the reign of the Emperor Nero,
The poems of Burns,
What the President earns,
And the value of absolute zero,
The length of a meter,
The size of a liter,
The cause of inflation and failure,
The veins and the nerves,
Geometrical curves,
And the distance from here to Australia,
Reproduction of germs,
Biological terms,
And when a pronoun is disjunctive,
The making of cheese,
The cause of disease,
And the use of the present subjunctive.
I wish that there weren’t
Electrical current,
Such places as Rome and Cathay,
And such people as Watt
And Sir Walter Scott
And Edna St. Vincent Millay.
I don’t like very much
To learn customs and such
Of people like Tibetan lamas,
And I’d like to put curbs
On irregular verbs
And the various uses for comas,
International pacts
All historical facts,
Like the dates of Columbus and Croesus,
Bunker Hill, Saratoga,
And Ticonderoga,
The War of the Peloponnesus.
But although I detest
Learning poems an the rest
Of the things one must know to have “cultureâ€,
While each of my teachers
Makes speeches like preachers
And preys on my faults like a vulture,
I will leave movie thrillers
And watch caterpillars
Get born and pupated and larva’ed,
And I’ll work like a slave
And always behave
And maybe I’ll get into Harvard…
I’m going to take a bike ride now.
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^^haha, so true, so true…except for the last bit.
My life…
Me: I have too much hw tonight
Parentals: Whatcha got?
Me: blahblahmathblahblahscience…journalismtestblahblah
Dad: Journalism test? About what?
Me: the history of journalism
Dad: Oh i have this GREAT book about that! *runs off to get old college book from a class he took on the history of journalism*
Me: *totally neglects studying what’s ACTUALLY going to be on the test and reads the book instead*
Aah, life is good.
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68- wow. I’ve seen a play called The Twilight of the Golds which is based on the ring cycle and one of the characters is obsessed with Opera and the ring cycle.
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Who here learns about Step-Up-To-Writing?
with all the pretty highlight colors?
—
see,
Green = Topic
Pink = Reason
Yellos = Explanation
So, a pargraph would go:
Green, Yellow, Pink, Pink, Yellow, Pink, Pink, Green
and getting it into a nice rhythm really helps remember how to write a paragraph.
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Everyone should listen to the entire Ring Cycle once (no, I haven’t, since you ask).
It will either instil in you the true meaning of boredom, or you’ll get sucked in to the slightly distateful heroic, xenophobic ethos by the sheer power of the music, because although Wagner was a truly horrible man (like Disney), his talent actually matched his pretensions. If it does grab you, you’ll become a sad obsessive, and be cursed with lifelong angst for being addicted to shameless racist drivel. And you’ll have to spend insane amounts of money on a pilgrimage to Bayreuth. I’d avoid it if I were you.
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I need helpz! I have like 3 forms i need to have signed by my parents!
But more srsly I’m in PSC Geometry (Honors) and I remember nothing from last year!
I need help.
Can someone give me a lecture on factoring? I remember the basics but i’m still confoozed.
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Is factoring the thing w/like (x+2)(x+2) or is that something else? I always failed at that…i know it know, but only like a year and a half after i was supposed to…meep.
But! The reason i’m here! HUGE ESSAY ON MEDEA! So i’m going to do…
3. The women of Corinth say Medea wanted revenge, not justice. Explain the difference in the two concepts, and then explain if you agree or disagree with the women’s opinion
So…who wants to be a dear and offer some insight?
Also, i’ve been looking for that quote “There’s no Justice, there is Just Us” Was Pratchett the first to say that? I thought it was older than that, but i can’t find who said it. GAPAs? PB&J? Anybody?
Oh and this has nothing to do w/hw, but just skool in general, everybody’s shunning Jacob now and so now he’s all depressed and Tory’s all depressed and Monica decided she doesn’t like him any more now that he finally likes her and Danny thinks that Jacob was conspiring before to break up him and Tory waaay back long ago and who knows how Rachel feels but she and Jacob were going out before Danny and Tory broke up and most people are siding with Tory and everybody’s really confused and Jacob’s threatening to go emo and i’m absolutely refusing to take sides and Weisman’s spreading all sorts of messed up rumours.
Life is like a soap opera.
Sometimes i really envy the homeschoolers…
But anyway, off to torture mind over Medea essay now! Wish me luck and hope i don’t disintegrate! I probably spelled that wrong! Skool is ruining my brain! Whoopee!
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Eeek! I have to write a 1/2 page essay on why studying the founder’s success formula is important for us today.
I just need some good points. Otzi? I know you love history and stuff.
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74) Meep……. Does that come from where I think it does?
If so, then Lawyerbot Pwns. If not, then move along, nothing to see here.
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Lawyerbot? Oh man, don’t tell me it’s one of those AIM bots, like Smarterchild.
No, i got it from Pratchett, but i’d like to know who said it originally so i don’t misquote it and have him be all “J’ACCUSE! YOU FAIL!”
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maybe third post, sorry. I just searched the phrase, “llama song” on Museblog. And…. Guess what? THERE IS NO THREAD JUST FOR THE LLAMA SONG!!!!
I think we should have one about if there is a hidden meaning to the song. Some people do think so.
Or maybe that should be a Muse contest someday…….
Hmmmmm……..
Nope, it should be a thread.
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No, move along, Ebeth.
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No, definitely not AIM. Me hateth intstant messages.
It is from neopets.
Meep.
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74- Oh boy, you are in luck. Guess what play I’m reading for theatre? Yup, Medea. So what you need to do is to think about what you believe justice is. Is revenge really justice? Think about “an eye for an eye” and “an eye for an eye makes the world blind” Gandhi. Is hurting someone back necessarily going to make them think on their actions? think on those sorts of things, come up with an opinion and write about it. Good luck!
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75 continued) Okay, it is not eek, 10 pages would be eek. But I have no idea of what to write.
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w00t! thanx e~a!
hey Zyka, double spaced or single? double spaced half page no problemo, make stuff up. Single, problemo, but make stuff up anyway.
Although you may have noticed i don’t have the best system of writing…mine is basically “make stuff up” bsing all the way!!! XD
79-K, won’t ask. Wow, i haven’t been on neopets in almost a year…my pet’s probably dead, lol
heh, i just remembered i have a test in AP US history tomorrow too. Chapters 1-3. They are LONG CHAPTERS. V. detailed. *frantically crams whenever writer’s block appears*
oh just because i know y’all care so much, i beat my high score in tetris in latin class. Wiped andy off the list. yessss…XD
Math too…i have math to do…aaaaaaaah!!! It’s 7 already!!! Scream, panic, and helplessly runs around in circles! Oh and add to that a bio lab report to finish and a chapter of journalism to read! AND AN ESSAY ON MEDEEEEEAAAAAAAAAaaaa…….
I need choklit.
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Right. So far. This is totally bsed and slightly rambling/repetetive. I haven’t actually read any of it yet. So don’t kill me XD but it’s the basic idea
I hate titles
Revenge and justice are two extremely different things that are nevertheless often mixed up. They were certainly mixed up by Medea, who assumed that revenging the wrongs done to her were justice and therefore perfectly acceptable. However, the women of Corinth understand that Medea was too caught up in her own feelings to truly understand the difference between the two.
Justice is a tricky concept that everybody has a different idea of. What is justice exactly? Different societies have very different ideas of justice, which may be one reason that Medea’s justice was considered so barbaric by the Greek women. Some people consider justice more about mercy and second chances, and others think of justice as an eye for an eye. Nobody can really know what justice truly is, because it means something different for everybody. Medea wanted what she and her society considered justice, but what the Corinthian women considered revenge. Justice really defies definition, being such an abstract concept, but it’s usually considered to be fairness and equality, and to focus more on the good of the community as a whole rather than somebody’s personal feelings. Justice is also uncertain because the people in power often control the justice, if the people controlling the justice aren’t involved in the lives and customs of the people they’re judging, what they judge won’t be considered just by the people. Some take that to their advantage and use “justice†as a means of controlling other people. There’s a quote that says, “There is no Justice, there is Just Usâ€, basically meaning that justice is what people make of it.
Revenge is a simpler concept than justice, but one is hopelessly intertwined with the other. Revenge may be a part of justice, and the idea of justice in the first place probably came out of desires for revenge. Revenge is a basic, instinctive feeling. Revenge is often the first instinct people feel when they consider themselves or somebody they love wronged. The Greeks, although they prided themselves on their justice and equality, were not above pure, angry revenge. Indeed, one of their heroes, Jason, responds quite violently when questioned about what he would do if his children were to be killed. He says, “Yes, after I’d cut their killer into red collops-I’d be grieved†(2.1.??) Revenge is confused with justice all the time, but revenge is often too involved and emotional to really be just.
Justice and revenge, despite the confusion that often surrounds the two, are really almost complete opposites. Justice is about calm, cool, collected judgement, looking at both sides without any prejudice and deciding after thinking carefully about the evidence presented. Revenge is angry, wild, instinctive, and definitely prejudiced against one person or group of people.
…and obviously i haven’t finished yet. Ta da. Pies and constructive criticism most welcome.
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Nobody? Nobody wants to help me procrastinate? Ok. *sigh* oh well…
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Nobody else can complain as much as me.(this could turn into a contest). My H.Chem teacher scared the parents on back to school night. I forgot my homework, so I was humiliated in front of the class, had to write on an index card why I didn’t have my homework, and now my parents have to write a letter explaining that they understood I didn’t have my hw so they’re totally pissed. I am taking algebra 2, which is the dumbest class in the world as we don’t learn anything we didn’t learn in al1 a couple years ago. I’m serious. I looked thru the book. History we’re going over reconstruction which we did for like, a month and a half last year; in english i’m stuck with a bunch with banana’s for brains even though it’s supposed to be an honors class, i can’t understand a word my professora de espanol is saying, and i can say for sure that aerobics is the most painful class I have every taken. Now I dare anyone to top that.
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(84) Righto, let’s see how much Ebeth really says here. Acting in my capacity as editor, I’ll cross out everything that looks unnecessary, obvious, or repetitious. Here we go…
Revenge and justice are two extremely different things that are nevertheless often mixed up. They were certainly mixed up by Medea, who assumed that revenging the wrongs done to her were justice and therefore perfectly acceptable. However, the women of Corinth understand that Medea was too caught up in her own feelings to truly understand the difference between the two.
Justice is a tricky concept that everybody has a different idea of. What is justice exactly? Different societies have very different ideas of justice, which may be one reason that Medea’s justice was considered so barbaric by the Greek women. Some people consider justice more about mercy and second chances, and others think of justice as an eye for an eye. Nobody can really know what justice truly is, because it means something different for everybody. Medea wanted what she and her society considered justice, but what the Corinthian women considered revenge. Justice really defies definition, being such an abstract concept, but it’s IS usually considered to be fairness and equality, and to focus more on the good of the community as a whole rather than somebody’s personal feelings. Justice is also uncertain because the people in power often control the justice, if the people controlling the justice aren’t involved in the lives and customs of the people they’re judging, what they judge won’t be considered just by the people. Some take that to their advantage and use “justice†as a means of controlling other people. There’s a quote that says, “There is no Justice, there is Just Usâ€, basically meaning that justice is what people make of it.
Revenge is a simpler concept than justice, but one is hopelessly intertwined with the other. Revenge may be a part of justice, and the idea of justice in the first place probably came out of desires for revenge. Revenge is a basic, instinctive feeling. Revenge is often the first instinct people feel when they consider themselves or somebody they love wronged. The Greeks, although they prided themselves on their justice and equality, were not above pure, angry revenge. Indeed, one of their heroes, Jason, responds quite violently when questioned about what he would do if his children were to be killed. He says, “Yes, after I’d cut their killer into red collops-I’d be grieved†(2.1.??) Revenge is confused with justice all the time, but revenge is often too involved and emotional to really be just.
Justice and revenge, despite the confusion that often surrounds the two, are really almost complete opposites. Justice is about calm, cool, collected judgement, looking at both sides without any prejudice and deciding after thinking carefully about the evidence presented. Revenge is angry, wild, instinctive, and definitely prejudiced against one person or group of people.
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Touche. I’ve been caught in my utter bs padding. *dies* But y’know what, it needs to be 3 pgs, it’s 9:00, i have math, bio, and journalism to do, and i have a huge history test tomorrow. And i’ll get a chance to rewrite it before it’s graded for real, which is probably the thing i most love about BHS’s english in general. Thanks a LOT though, i’ll definitely come back to this when i edit and all that. You rock! *gives the GAPA a smiley-face pie* ♥
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THERE IS NO MAP OF MY SCHOOL!!!!!!!
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most of my essays look like ebeths.
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My science teacher is insane. (Mr. C, if you somehow get on here, i mean that in a good way, I’m learning alot. He gives us 0% info on our project, he dosent even tell us the topic. We have to privatly ask him everything.
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maybe you should qutoe the book/play/whatever it is that you are reading. that should help you pad it out.
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i need a silver sharpie.
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Or she could figure out what the truth is and write that.
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sigh…my teachers sometimes rant on…I bet they make out for that by giving us less homework.;) 
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what do you mean, the truth? the turth is relative you.. you.. you SCIENTIST!
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Ha. We definitely went to the beach during AP Bio today. It was for a lab. W00t.
OK. Every year, the pplses in bio design shirts, and this year’s design has the biohazard sign on the front!!! OMG it is soooooo froody!
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83-Neopets don’t die. Believe me, I never feed mine, and they have been going for years. And TNT has said they don’t, too.
Single spaced yes it is. All I can figure out is about how if we didn’t know what the founders’ success formula for America was, we would not be able to continue it, or mess up the constitution so that it wouldn’t work right anymore, and destroy our country.
Hmmmm, only a lot more to go…..
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Whoever asked, I can’t remember:
George Washington said that we should not form permanent alliences with other countries, and that helped guide the US throughout it’s early years. It’s not a great piece of info., but I hope it helps.
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(92, 88, etc.)
About Medea: The purpose of a paper is to show the teacher that you’ve read, understood, and thought about the play. So you could usefully fill a little space just by explaining who Jason and Medea are and what happens.
Sooner or later, though, you’ve got to figure out something to say about justice (and its opposite, injustice) and revenge. That shouldn’t be hard; you have all sorts of information. You know what the characters do; what they say about what they do; and what they say about one another. In a play with four murders and lots of talking (much of it by a Chorus whose job is to talk), that should give you plenty to work with.
Back in 84, Ebeth already had the glimmering of an idea: that people have different ideas about what “justice” means, and that Medea, being foreign, might see things differently from the people of Corinth. That’s a start. How would you go about seeing whether it applies?
If I remember correctly, at the start of the play, Jason plans to divorce Medea (a non-Greek sorceress who fell in love with him and helped him in his famous quest for the Golden Fleece) so he can marry the local princess. He offers Medea enough money to live on comfortably, says he hopes she’ll understand that princesses don’t come along every day, etc. In response, Medea murders the princess, the princess’s father, and her own (and Jason’s) two children.
The Chorus can give you a good handle on how the Corinthians feel about all this. What do they say? What does Medea say? Does she think she’s right to do what she does, or doesn’t she care? What happens to her afterward? Do the police arrest her? Does she kill herself out of remorse? Do the gods strike her dead for her sins?
Honestly, with so much blood and guilt packed into this play, I don’t see how you could stand to write a paper that just rambles on about how nobody knows what justice is.
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uh… i’ve got loads of german to do. (despite my knowing swiss german) i have no idea of what the genitiv in german is. Help?
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FrigidSymphony (101),
The genitive case is a way to show possession in German. It corresponds to using an apostophe in English.
Here’s an example:
In English: The dog’s ball is green.
In German: Die Kugel des Hundes ist gruen.
If you’re using the genitive you have to use the right endings for the indefinite and definite articles. (Yes, I know, German is such a pain!)
Indefinite:
Masculine: eines
Feminine: einer
Neuter: eines
Plural: einer
Definite:
Masculine: des
Feminine: der
Neuter: des
Plural: der
Another thing about genitive: You have to add an ending to the noun itself if it’s masculine or neuter. (Add “s” if the noun ends with a vowel, or “es” if it ends with a consonant in most cases — though if the noun is just one syllable, “es” is often added instead of just plain “s.”) If the noun is feminine or plural no special ending is needed.
I’m studying German too, so explaining this was good practice for me. (Aaack.)
I’m pretty sure it’s right too. If you want to make really sure, try looking in your textbook!
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all right thanks. now to actually DO the exercise…
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100-I can stand it quite easily. Sorry, i’m definitely not the overachiever type. *wilts under fierce glare of a hundred scholarly musers* but thanx a LOT, i’m doing rewriting and all that tonight so i’ll definitely think about that. Again, you rock!
102-We talked about german in latin today. German and drugs. And memory loss. And our kindergarten teachers. And dung of course. If doc forgets his random stories, he can always fall back on the good ol’ stercus and amuse everybody.
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We’re doing the Fibonacci sequence in math and i have a feeling it’s going to be one of those random things that i’m oddly obsessed with, like pi. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13….*drones on* squee…
so i had a test in history today which i didn’t totally fail but i don’t think i did really well on either cuz i was kinda iffy about a lot of the q’s. Especially this one thing he did where it was like multiple multiple choice, so you had to put ALL the (multiple) correct answers…but i think i did pretty well. We had to turn our notes in though, and i’ll probably fail that because my notes are disorganised and randomly doodled upon. (When i say disorganised, i know exactly where everything is. But most others don’t. Plus my handwriting’s pretty bad, especially when i’ve been doing like 3 pgs of notes)
Got an A- on my science test though. I find it odd how i get the best grades in the classes i slack off in most.
So i’m definitely horribly procrastinating. But i want to get my hw done cuz i want to go to the park tonight. And yet i don’t. I don’t really know. Life is still being soap opera-y and confusing. Dramatic breakups between two of your friends sucks. As do rumours and those who spread them. But nobody knows what i’m talking about and nobody here cares cuz y’all are froods like that. I love you guys….*tearful choking* I’d like to thank the Academy…
Yes, that was rather random. XD go me.
Anyway…yeah…
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94-When i find the truth, i’ll let you know. Don’t expect it any time soon though.
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I definitely just triple-posted. The horror!
And the worst of it is, i just fourple posted (yes i definitely stole chappelle’s word because he’s on my hero list now) just to say that i triple-posted!
Blog est going (i know how to say that but i can’t remember and i’m too lazy to look it up) ad canum. Namely, me. Mea culpa. Yes, i am doing my latin hw. I decided i would actually have it done for once, because i’ve always been frantically scribbling five min before the bell.
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sheish. everyone eating dinner around here?
*pies ebeth for fun*
mwahahahahahahaha!
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzoom!!!!
*thatshouldbeahinttoyou,ebeth*
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of course they do! she wouldnt be herself otherwise!!
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*sigh* this is less of a homework helping thread and more of a random thread. : lol : : lol : : lol : : lol : : lol : : lol : : lol : : lol : : lol :
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AAGH! my smileys didn’t work for the third time : cry :
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oh yes, you’re supposed to not have spaces between the colons.
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#105: Hey, we just started that in Bio today!
…I don’t understand it at all! It somehow applies to the shapes of seashells and plants…Oh gosh I don’t know, nvm.
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Oh!
*remembers*
Every # is the sum of the two #s before it! W00t.
But how is it supposed to apply to biology…
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Ah. We had a writing assesment today.
I believe the topic was: after reading a short essay by Leonard Pitts, Jr., one had to write a 6 paragraph essay or so about failure as a necessary to success.
And, of course, I have biology homework.
And geography.world cultures.
And French 1.
But no Alg. 2, cus I already did it!
Woo.
Wait. So this post actually has nothing to do with help.
Pity.
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108-*pies back* Mwahaha!
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44- *shakes hand back*
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omg I h8 my teacher.We talked way too much in class so we have to memorize all the countries in s.america and do a five p. reporton the 1600’s no double spacing.God I h8 the sisters at my school.They are so mean.
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i feel so sorry for all you poor schoolkids. i highly recommend homeschooling.
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homeschooling is lame. Go socialize!
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socialize? what do you think i’m doing right now? i socialize all the time!
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and you dont see ME complaining about too much work, do you? i do about 4 hours or less of schoolwork a day but still somehow manage to learn at least as much as (probably more than) most schoolkids
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106- truth is a flavor of quark. They found it a few years ago, I believe. Thus, the search for truth is over. 
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120- homeschooling is not lame. And homeschoolers socialize all the time. I have a good friend who is a homeschooler and she socializes plenty. anyways, how should you know? have you ever been homeschooled? Before you judge, think a little. This thread is for intelligent disscusion, not blunt insults thrown out at each other. Please think before you post. On the internet you can. You have a chance to think before you press the submit button. Please do.
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*sigh* you guys are all in good classes….. Someone mentioned being in pre-al in 5th grade?!? We’re not even offered it til 8th! not that i took it. but still.
And we don’t start languages til highschool, and they don’t teach German.
I’m taking the same core classes i’ve taken my whole life, fabric fun(more like fabric gag-me) and p.e.
I can feel myself getting smarter. (hint: that was sarcastic)
BUT i have like no homework. Which is a plus, I guess.
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Sometimes I wish I was homeskooled…esp during weeks when get like 2.5 hrs of sleep per night due to homework…but then again, skool is good for socialization and whatnot. But I guess homeskoolers are usually in a ton of extracurriculars, so that’s how they socialize.
He did this several times.
Jeesh, Isn’t this like, COMMON SENSE?! We’re freaking high skoolers! This is something that they should be teaching kids in grade skool, not us! Guess the skool’s trying to make itself look good…
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120 – *glares* I actually know some VERY sociable who are homeschooled.
I don’t thonk I need any help in homework, unless you count the EASIEST Sudoku puzzle in the WORLD (!) as homework in an HONORS MATH CLASS!!! Sudoku isn’t even math!!!!
PS. I’m in 6th grade.
FrigidSymphony: I am 10, I am in 6th grade AND I still socialize. Beat that. Mwa ha ha ha!!
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I’m 15 and I’ve known some kids who were homeschooled. they were friendless, depressed and sad.
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I’m 15, and I’ve known some homeschoolers with tons of friends, great social lives, good educations, etc. On the other hand, I’ve also known some who have a really hard time making friends and such when they come to hs at a public school.. I would guess that if you’re in a homeschooling group, you’d probably socialize more than, say, I do..
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i know this is kinda dumb but i have to write a letter for english10 to my “future grandchild” as if im writing it on the day they were born. i have to say what im doing/living as a 60 some year old person and i have no ideas! pleeeeeeeease can anyone think of a really awesome and creative place/stuff for a futuristic old person to be doing?
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#130: you could be living in a futuristic house made of purplish glass!!!!!!! My teachers give stupider assignments though. on wednesday we had to write about the 2 most important things we learned from reading the school rulebook… atleast you get to be creative!
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Okay, I need help with significant digits. If one subtracts a number with 4 decimal places and 6 significant digits from one with 2 decimal places and 2 significant digits, and then divides the resulting number with one with 4 decimal places and sigdigs, should the intermediate answer have two decimal places or four, and how many should the end answer have?
basically, what I’m doing is
-0.9964x+11.093=10.81
The numbers I started out with are 10.81 (atomic mass of boron), 10.0129 (atomic mass of boron-10), and 11.0093 (atomic mass of boron-11), trying to find the percent of B-10.
Sorry, that’s really confusing, but I need help…
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To have a grandchild probably implies that you have a family, so you might start by figuring that out. Is the grandchild a boy or a girl? What is his or her name? If it’s a girl, is she your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter? Where was she born? Near you? (If so, where are you living?) Far away, in some other country or continent? Or some other planet? Does she look like you, or have some other interesting races or genetic modifications come along since your generation? Will she even grow up speaking your language?
Or have families and reproduction changed by the time you’re 60-something? Is your grandchild a clone? A clone of you, maybe? Maybe she’s a virtual grandchild, like a Neopet. Maybe she’s holographic.
What sorts of memories do you have of the past 50 years? In what ways is life better in the year 2050- or 2060-whatever? Are there any ways in which it’s worse? Has there been another big war? Are you looking forward to the future, or are you afraid for her? Or both?
And what about you? What sort of job are you doing? Are you President of the United States? or the United Planets? Seems to me this is a great chance to make some of your dreams come true, not to mention lie through your teeth without penalty.
We GAPAs tend to be unnaturally enthusiastic about a lot of things, but it seems to me that this is a great assignment that should be loads of fun.
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I think a futuristic old person should expect to live for at least another hundred years. They would also use biofuels for everything.
133-I agree, that sounds like a really fun writing assignment
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FrigidSymphony and anyone else who’s interested in the genitive case in German:
I just referred to my textbook to check my explanation in comment 102 and, horrors, I discovered an error in my explanation. So I’ve fixed it.
It has to do with “s” vs. “es” endings.
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Look at me! I’m an ADMINISTRATOR!!!! w00000t!!!!!!!!! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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emmatheduck – Homeschooling has its ups and downs. Parents that don’t want to homeschool can’t be forced to, you don’t get to talk to tons of people all the time. But you can learn much faster.
129 – Me, too. I agree. But just because people are homeschooled doesn’t mean that they’re blocked from society. People can still do things, all the time. Go places and meet people and go to lots of extracurricular things on the weekends to meet people who go to school. Homeschoolers can be just as social as anyone else! (I know that sounded like homeschoolers are bugs under a microscope. Sorry, I didn’t mean for it to sound that way.)
130 – Maybe they had electronic money by then and you saved a bunch of old money and you sold it because it’s a collecter’s item and now you’re a millionaire? And you live in a regular house and you act like a granny that “doesn’t want us to live in such a futuristic place!” so you do everything that you did as a kid except with better electronics and stuff. And maybe the kid having a kid was someone with bad ideas as an adult and you aren’t happy that he/she’s having a baby. Or maybe you want to take over the baby because you love babies. Or maybe This is your favorite kid and you can’t get over how happy you are for him/her. I should stop telling you these things, you get more than the idea.
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My mom didn’t agree with Dad’s homeschooling idea, so it’s probably not going to turn out.
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Of course, by then Mostly Harmless will have come to fruition. You’ll be writing the letter to a baby named after Kokopelli or Aeiou or Urania!
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130) Realistic Answer:
Live in Museica. Either that or Kokonino Country. Your grandchild should be named after the meteorite that hurtled out of space and landed in your front yard. You know, the one that Kokopelli kept trying to trick you out of, insisting that it was his “precious”? Obviously, you are a veteran of several pie wars. One of whcih was started by a newbie in an attempt to explain trigonometry to a ten-year-old, and the ten-year-old got very annoyed.
You also lived through the time when Larry Gonick wanted to step on Museica and Kokonino Country, because he was feeling very onry. Only because of Robert’s bravery were the two lands saved. Of course, Kokopelli took all the credit as his own, and finally became president. He is now running against Juliet Butler, and it is a closely matched campaign.
Fictional Answer:
You went to Harvard, and got ten doctorate degrees and a masters. You can’t remember what in. You have Alzheimers. You can’t remember the name of the grandchild you are writing to, so abruptly end, and start pieing your grandchild. You are promptly sent to the loony bin, and yell “PWT PWNS!” for the rest of your life, over and over.
But of course, that is so fantastical that it could never happen.
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132 – This might help :
http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutorials/sig_fig/SIG_dig.htm
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The main thing to remember is that you can never gain significant figures; you can only lose them or, at best, hold on to the ones you have.
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141/142- so would you end up with two or four?
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wow you guys have some awesome ideas. i feel very inspired now. thank you soooooooooooo much
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140- your fictional answer shows alot of imajination. not everyone can come up with something so fake, and yet so touching.
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Has anyone ever read The Great Gatsby or To Kill A Mocking Bird? I have to this year, what did you think of them?
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to kill a mocking bird was ok, the court scene was the only part i liked. it has the classic flaw of most books “written” by children by an adult. the writting is either to immature or waaaaaaaaay to mature. in this case, its too mature. it just wasn’t right. like, everyone feels they know all but that kid was freaky.
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ooooooooooooooooooooooooh! I LUV to kill a mockingbird! (I have to read it this year too, but i already read it, being a book nerd whose mom teaches english…) It’s pretty old and you might find it boring at first. But it gets REALLY REALLY good. =)
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Ok, so is it just me, or is my English teacher completely lame? I’m in 8th grade and we’re supposed to write down EVERY SINGLE BOOK we read outside of school (I read a lot…) get it approved by our parents, our parents have to sign something showing we’ve done it, and then we have to have a “conference” with our parent or our teacher or write a summary to prove AGAIN we’ve read it.
Hello???!?!!?? Does anyone else think that’s insane??!?
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yes, i do.
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#146: I’ve read TKaM. V good book.
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149- So… Your ENGLISH teacher. My english teacher expects us to read too many books to count! (Witch I do) So she would never make us write that down. If your english teacherexpects you to write down EVERY book, that means she must have suspected that you havent read very many books witch means that she’s used to a small amount of books witch means that she doesn;t read alot witch means that she doesn’t seem like a very good english teacher. Does she? Elementary my dears!
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149-in a word, yes.
we had to write down every book we read in 8th grade too, I was on the back of the paper in a month. I gave up and just wrote down a few books after a while.
Why don’t you tell your teacher that if they don’t believe that you read the books, it doesn’t matter to you.(just kidding, don’t really do that, your teacher wouldn’t like that, and remember “don’t antagonize the one with the grade book”) Why would someone want to lie about how many books they’ve read anyway?
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149- Only write down some of the books you read. Otherwise it’d be too much work. Or you could explain to your teacher how many books you read.
146- the great gatsby was allright. I didn’t really like it. I loved To Kill a Mocking Bird though.
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145) *Blushes modestly* Thank you.
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Yeah I think i’m only going to write down some of what i read…i mean, i’ve already read 3 books since I got the sheet!
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Anyone want to help me with Latin?
I’m not stuggling… yet…
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i’ll help if i can. Latin pwns all!
btw did i write a long rant on here that suddenly disappeared, or was that on some other thread? Or something? Utterly confused. Too menny threads!!! lol
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Ubi est luna?
…That’s pretty much how far my knowledge of Latin extends.
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I know the phrase
In Vino Veritas–Truth is in wine
I read that in the collected Ben Franklin writings. It was not a skool assignment.
I have such a life.
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130-Come up with a really interesting story as to the kid’s birth. And talk about 9/11.
154-The Great Gatsby was unreadable. As bad as the Silmarillion.
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161-sil’s not bad once you get used to it
160-ack! somebody’s drunk! lol jk
159-luna est in…erm…space. hey i had a latin test today! i totally failed it, but whatev. i went up to doc and was like “did i do this part totally wrong or no?” because i wasn’t sure of the instructions and he’s like “well…not totally” and i was like “mostly then” and turned it in. i had no idea what most of those were. It was like a story in latin, and then you had to find sentences that were examples of these diff grammatical whatsits. I got the interrogative whatchamathingy right cuz there was only one w/a q mark, but other than that i have no clue. Plus i’m totally illiterate in latin now after the summer. oh vell…
the medea test on the other hand, was surprisingly easy. I guess i was sort of dreading it the way you dread a lamuth test-but lamuth’s gone now (*snibble* :'( sad) so yeah, i actually finished five min before the bell. It was an experience. Only 1 essay, 5 quotes, and 8 objective. And the objective was so easy, it was like “who wrote Medea?” “Name one function of the chorus” and stuff like that. And the essay was almost exactly like the in-class thing we did.
Oh and i got a C on my history test. *hides in a corner* Yeah, it was bad. Heh. But the highest grade i’ve heard so far was B+ and that was fedner. Mostly C’s. Chappelle grades hard. I guess he has to, to get us ready for the AP test and stuff. But he was really nice about it, he was like “you guys aren’t terrible people, everybody still loves you, this is your first college-esque test” etc.
So i totally missed the first ITK meeting, because i never listen to announcements. Meep. But i’m gonna ask nolan if i can still join. i think i can. they have hardly any people.
oh and featherstone joined book club this year. actually he spent most of the last one zoning out…not enough coffee i guess.
As for the social bits of skoolyness, people are still being overly dramatic…just for different reasons. And i am absolutely staying out of it this time, even if everybody is shunning everybody and life sucks. That is a promise. The End!
Oh and i have history to finish and practicing to do so fun times, bye all
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I know it’s really sad that I’m complaining that school’s too easy, but it is! Since I’m a freshman in a school that’s communistic(is that even a word?) everyone ignores us and the teachers are afraid that if they actually try to teach us something that we’ll pop a tube or something.
Except Spanish. Spanish is fun…. except for the whole not-being-German part. I haven’t had more than 5 minutes of homework in a night since school started.
We have to come to school 20 minutes earlier than last year so we can READ. I guess READ stands for something, but no one knows what it is. And we have to keep track of our pages and everything, too, so I can sympathize.
So, I was going to get all conversational and ask what Ebeth’s reading club was like so we could compare, when I realized we don’t HAVE a reading club! Or a latin class! Or anything else…….
Basically living in a town of 4500 is awful.
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163) How ’bout you add three instruments to the whole ordeal, and then add Jazz Band in the early morning, and are in a school where it is small, but everyone makes sure you are doing what you are told, giving you more homework than most high schools give? Yep, that’s my life…… I learn French instead of Spanish, though.
But I’m NOT in high school……
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163-64- Or how about you start at 7:30 with the most evilly almost-college-level band known to Pentykind, end at 3:50, have two hours where all you’re allowed to do is study, and still have two papers of varying due dates to write even then? Also, you’re youngish-freshman age and are in school as a sophomore.
And I love my school.
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our skool’s insanely small, but people are just filthy rich so we have lots of kewl stuff. seriously though, we have mansions And when i say mansions, i mean mansions.
i’m a relatively poor south b*****ian though. i’m glad of that actually, that much space/money would freak me out.
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Zyka, Ok. I WILL add three instruments to the ordeal- wait- four! and I have seminary at 7 in the morning, so I don’t get to be in jazz band.
Although, i suppose this no homework thing is pretty nice on Friday night.
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I need to know some differences between Domain Bacteria and Domain Archaea. I was sick the day the teacher went over it and all the book says is, “But newer evidence from comparisions of DNA and other molecules suggests that they represent two very distinct branches of life, as you’ll learn in Chapter 16.” And i couldn’t find anything in chap. 16. All i know is that they are both Prokaryotic and usually unicellular.
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#168: Organisms in Archea usually live in extreme environments – geysers, etc.
#166: I know how that feels. I live in one of those suburbs where everyone has a big white house w/ a perfectly manicured lawn, white picket fence, etc…except us, of course. Oh well. Who cares about them and their freaking picket fences?
YYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I finally got the drop papers for H World Lit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m gonna be free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Whoops. On comment #127, I said I’m in 6th grade. Actually, I’m in seventh.
157) I could if I wanted to. Convince me to want to
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grrr… Our new Spanish teacher told us to describe everyone in our immediate family in Spanish.
I have ten people in my immediate family.
WHY ME?
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=( I don’t even want to think about next year anymore.
I spent last night looking at requirements for local scholarships, req credits for graduation…It’s all so confusing! My counselor thinks I’m a genius, and can get into any college I want (wrong)…My parents think I’m a slacker, and that I’ll nvr move out of the house (I hope they’re wrong)…I’m at a total loss over what to do! =(
Sry if I’m scaring any of you; I’m sure you’ll hav a much easier time getting ready for college. Man, right now I kind of wish there was someone here older than me (I’m pretty sure I’m the oldest one here =) ), b/c I’m really in need of some advice right now…
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gaaaahhhhhhh…
I’m taking all honors classes, and THERE IS SO MUCH HOMEWORK!!!
Plus we have, like, 9 hours of school every day.
gaaaahhhhhhhhh.
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172: I would recommend going to a european college.
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172 – If your school is at all sensible, they should have been guiding you all along about credits needed for graduation. You’re probably in better shape than you think you are. Sorry you’re having such a hard time of it.
Come to think of it, I probably should start looking at colleges soon-ish, but I’m not particularly motivated to. Bother.
–How are everyone’s AP classes going? I know a few Musers were planning on taking some.
I’m just in one (American History), and I’m actually kind of liking it. I have the teacher I didn’t want, but she’s turning out not to be so bad and isn’t nearly as strict as people have said she was. We do get about twice what the other APUSH class gets, but I think history is pretty interesting, so it’s not too bad. Of course, this is just from two weeks of that class, so I’m sure I have plenty of time to be overwhelmed before that AP exam in the spring. Eep.
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172: Could it be? Is ther another history geek on the blog?
YAY!
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175- eh, I’m only in APHumanGeog this year, and it’s a lot of work, but it’s interesting..
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177 – Huh, I don’t think my school offers that class. Sounds cool, though.
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#175: My advice is to start thinking about college now…so, ah, you don’t end up in a situation like the one I’m in right now.
…AP classes…AP biology pwns. We’re going to get shirts that hav the biohazard symbol on the front, w/ “AP Biohazard” printed on them. I’m also in AP stats. Nothing much to say about that class. My stats homework usually involves 1) Putting a few sets of data into a calc, 2) Graphing it, and 3) Copying the graph into my notebook.
AP US history…Sounds hard. Do you get to do anything fun (You probably hav to memorize a lot of historical events, etc :S)?
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Well there’s a multiple-choice question on this big, long packet thing we have to fill out. Here it is:
A bacterium and an amoeba are placed in different domains becuase
a. a bacterium is single-celled.
b. an amoeba is photosynthetic.
c. an amoeba can move.
d. a bacterial cell is much simpler.
e. an amoeba is single-celled.
I’m thinking c. I could just tell the teacher i wasn’t there, and he would probably have mercy on me.
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erm, cant bacteria move? no wait, they cant, can they? theres bacteria in yogurt…
your a ninth grader, arent you? we’re still on characteristics of life and experimental design. but everybody else starts skool before us, so that is not particularily suprisng.
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I just dumped trash all over my bedroom floor.
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My life is sometimes like a Monty Python sketch.
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179) That is an interesting shirt. The funniest shirt I have ever seen, though, is this physics shirt that says,
What part of
[insert long physics mathematical problem here–with lots of confusing symbols]
Don’t you understand?
Basically, my dad and I thought it was so funny we stood there laughing for minutes, then thought that we might buy one, then deciding not to because people might want us to explain it to them, and we had no idea of what it meant.
It was at a university.
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It was probably Schroedinger’s wave equation, the basic equation of quantum mechanics. You can see many variations of it on (of course) Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation .
If there were four equations, they would have been Maxwell’s equations, the basis of electromagnetism. They often pop up on T-shirts that say “AND GOD SAID: [Maxwell’s equations] …AND THERE WAS LIGHT.”
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175-*gasps* *squeez* i’m taking that too. My teacher’s pretty amazing actually. Today we had a test and since we all got C’s on the last one we were all like freaking out cramming and he was like “you guys need to relax” so he had a record player and some records and played charlie brown and wipeout. XD
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My chem teacher has a shirt that says “I survived Boppana ’06” hanging in her classroom. The kids in her class last year made them and gave one to her. I mean, the 5 or 6 that passed without serious mental injury.
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I got this question in math, I’m supposed to use a venn diagram.
A cable company took a survey on 40 homes. 21 said they watched game shows. 20 watched reality, and 6 watches neither, how many watch both?
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Any other IB students here?
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I’m a history psycho too, but…..of course, complaining again- we don’t have any history classes except the required ones, and there’s only 3 required ones. 10th, 11th, and 12th. Yup. None for me.
I already know what college I want to go to: Brigham Young University
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Any math geeks here? I’m a grade ahead in math(now taking math 2H) and on my school’s math team(I will be once we take the tests; I was last year). I’m also taking regents earth science, which is high school level. I should do my homework now, though, because I haven’t yet.
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curious and questioning – try my math problem #187
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#183: LOL
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188 – was nearly an IB student, but the school kind of creeped me out. They had the IB kids with the neighbor-hood HS kids, which just seemed like a bad idea to me. Are you liking it?
179 – yeah, I know I should start, but I have no idea what I want to do if I ever grow up. I’ll ask around when a bunch of my friends start doing they applications.
& APUSH is basically a way speedy version of regular US history. You focus on the significance of events and examine them in relation to other events. There are lots and lots of essays/writing and plenty of reading every week. I think we cover 2-3 chapters of the book a week, although sometimes we’ll take longer. I know we’re going to spend a whole week on the Constitution for example.
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Biohazard are cool. But I prefer Biomechanical. the band, the word, and the idea. HR Giger rocks.
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I’d be bored to death in a US history class. It’s only 300 years! Compare that to the thousands of years of culture we study here and it’s…. well… shall we say fairly outbalanced?
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Los verbos de espanol, I hate them!
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Plz Plz PLZ: does anyone know what non-euclidean geometeries are…im supposed to know for math class. my text didnt really explain them and so far i havent had any luck on the internet.
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191- 40 houses 20 reality 21 game 6 neither
(reality shows(both)game shows)
6 (neither) aren’t on diagram- subtract them from the 40 houses
20(reality) is actually every house who watches reality TV, in both the(reality) and the (both) categories.
21(game) is actually everyone who watches game shows, in both the(game) and the (both) categories.
Subtract the total reality number from the 34 houses that watch TV to get the number of houses who watch only game shows and not reality. 34-20=14.
Subtract the total game number from the 34 houses that watch TV to get the number of houses who watch only reality shows and not game shows. 34-21=13.
14(only game) +13(only reality)=27
27 is the number of houses who watch only one kind of show. Subtract that from 34, the number of houses who watch TV at all, to find the number of houses who watch both kinds of TV.
34-27=7
7 houses watch both reality TV and game shows. Do you understand?
Somebody please check my work.
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Okay, I have to ask if anyone knows any more French than I do, I just started, and we have to write a short six sentence story for French class, with pictures, and it is due tomorrow!
Can someone tell me if this is grammatically correct in French?
Temps D’Automne.
C’est automne.
Les feuilles sont de jolies couleurs.
Il y a les feuilles assez rouges.
Il y a les feuilles assez oranges.
Mes feuilles préférées sont jaunes.
Mon père a recueilli les feuilles dans une pile avec son râteau.
Les feuilles sont amusement à sauter dedans!
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167) Four! Goodness gracious. Oh, well, maybe I can work up to that much someday.
Seminary, huh? I’m only in eighth grade, so I start next year.
We get release time here. *hehehehe* It is great! And it counts as class credit, practically everyone here is LDS. (If you are LDS you probably know which state I live in, now….. But don’t tell! ^-^)
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195) *cackles evilly* Yes, we may have only a couple of centuries’ worth of history, but that means we don’t have to memorize so many dates! And, we get to see how our country was actually founded, and upon what principals.
And anyways, if our country was founded thousands of years ago, then we wouldn’t be able to have the movie “National Treasure” ! That would be sad.
THE RED WHITE AND BLUE!!!!!!!!!
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189) BYU!!!!!! I love their creamery.
What made you decide to go there?
It is gigantic, and my parents took forever persuading me not to go there but some other college. My choice now is definitely either BYU or BYU Idaho.
Or maybe BYU Hawaii, but it is really hot there, and away from anyone I know, and you have to fly to get anywhere, so my jolly-olly holidays would be spent at the campus.
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199- seems good to me.
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203) Thanks! Anyone’s approval is good.
Now, the question is, do I know how to pronounce all of these words?
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*unladylike squeal* Yay! Another member! Not cool that you guys have seminary as a credit, I have it in my den every morning at 7. My dad teaches, and the students are me, my brother, and another guy. A bit different from the state of **** What? I didn’t say it!
202: Basically I’ve always wanted to go there. My parents probably have had it imprinted since I was born. My brother’s 2 years older than me, so we’re gonna be sophmores at the same time cuz of his mission!
Curious and questioning- I’d try and correct that, but it kinda went right over my head.
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201: actually, us havinbg so many dates to remember, no-one bothers to, and the history lessons we have look at the whole sweep of history from the pagan religions to WWII. I find it much more interesting to study why events happened and what influence they had on each other. IT’s almost like Asimov’s Psychohistory. Fascinating. I love history class.
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curious and questioning, I think thats right
this one is a little harder- does anyone know what the alternator on a tractor looks like? We took a quiz on the parts of a tractor in Agriculture class and I have no clue what an alternator looks like.
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um, I haven’t the slightest. Sorry
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I figured it out, It looks like a silver box with holes and copper wire inside.
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Yay! Homecoming’s over-no more meetings every morning! We won the homecoming game 32-0! Not that I watched the game, even though I was there. Someone had to tell me later.
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HHHHHHHHHH! I CONFUSED BRAIN HURTS ADVANCED MATH PAINING HEAD…
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Do you know who this guy called bryon is???I’m supposed to find out who he is, as in this sentence:
Walking past the lingerie counter, Bryon brooded about his sore foot.
Thanks and fake cheese whoever helps me with this=)
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i hate homework
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Wow… I can’t believe I would go through the trouble of clicking the “whAT’S here” button, waiting five minutes(really bad DSL) and eventually going on the thread.
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HELLO!!!
Echo…
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