Thursday, November 21, 2013

Nov 21

DOL

--the development of the u s social security system occurred in 1935 under the administration of president franklin d roosevelt senator morris roberts tells us

Class Activities

--answer the following practice selected response questions for common assessment on friday Nov 22


“The consequence [of war] is not the progress of a nation but its decline…” 

The prefix de means “opposite.” In the passage above, the word decline most likely means: 

a.           To rise up                     c.  to rest
b.          To fail in strength d.  to motivate
 

 

“Socrates was misunderstood, and Jesus and Galileo, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.  To be great is to be misunderstood.” 

The prefix mis means “incorrect.” In the passage above, the word misunderstood most likely means: 

a.           To be loved     c. wrongly judged  
b.          listened to        d.  solitary
 

--Paraphrasing:  restatement of a text or passage in different words (our own words)
--Examples: 
  • From Emerson:  “There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; tha the must take himself for better for worse as his portion….”
  • Paraphrased Emerson:  Each person eventually discovers that they must accept who they are and that they must attempt to be the  best they can with what they have
  • From Crucible:  Proctor:  “She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly.  God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat.  But it is a whore’s vengeance, and you must see it; I set myself entirely in your hands.  I know you must see it now.”
  • Paraphrased from Crucible:  Proctor begs the court to recognize that Abigail is seeking revenge on his family for being put out by Elizabeth who discovered that he had had an affair with her (Abigail).
--Paraphrase these quotes from Gandhi:
  • “There are two ways of countering injustice.  One way is to smash the head of the man who perpetrates injustice and to get your own head smashed in the process.”
  • “This other method is Satyagraha.  One who resorts to it does not have to break another’s head; he may merely have his own head broken.  He has to be prepared to die himself, suffering all the pain.

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