tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8976049047487803532024-02-20T02:50:33.329-08:00Daniel Gauss: Practice Scrambled ParagraphsThis is a free resource I originally created to help New York City students to prepare for one significant aspect of the SHSAT test for free, without the need for expensive tutoring. Now that the city has (perhaps wisely) eliminated the scrambled paragraphs from the SHSAT, it is a resource for anyone looking to unscramble paragraphs for whatever reason! Daniel Gauss is an Ivy-educated teacher and tutor. Drop him a line at: djg51qu@gmail.com.Daniel Gausshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10455889877546330099noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-897604904748780353.post-59464362420847825592017-11-09T12:29:00.000-08:002017-11-14T07:28:24.993-08:00Feminism and moral transformation, Homelessness<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>Some early feminists believed that the greater inclusion of women into social leadership positions could initiate a moral transformation. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="color: #20124d;">_____(Q) Martin Luther King Jr. exhorted African Americans to become a moral ‘thermostat’ and not a moral ‘thermometer’ in US society – integration was essential but, based on insights and humanity gained through generations of injustice, black folks should integrate as moral reformers. </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">_____(S) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, for example, identified the prevailing values of a corrupt America with the gender of the men who ran it. </span></span></b><br />
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<strong><span style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">_____(R) So, symbolically, the horse often represents
what gets you from one (rotten) place to another (better) place. </span></strong><strong><span style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">_____(T) Or, it leads you into and out of battle;
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<strong><span style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">_____(U) By transition, I mean transition within
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between types of atoms depends on the number of protons in the nucleus – gain a
proton and you become something else).</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></div>
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and become more ‘stable’ afterwards. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></div>
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describes a process in which an atom with an overabundance of neutrons
experiences the spontaneous change of a neutron into a proton, creating another
element completely while also discharging a fast moving electron (a beta
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Romantic Movement could see science coming, and it wasn’t pretty. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "calibri";"> </span></b></div>
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the outer world (stuff to be perceived, measured and used) and the inner world
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "calibri";">_____(R) Science
seemed to bring an ideology along with it (a technological justification of the
worst forms of capitalism) and, schematically, it divided the world into
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Romantics, however, believed the mind and body to be a part of nature and
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "calibri";">_____(T) Science,
therefore, meant our minds were separate from nature and were to be used to
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "calibri";">_____(U) Friedrich
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4,3,1,5,2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Q=4, R=3, S=1, T=5, U=2</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Decay --</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
5,2,3,4,1</span></b></span></div>
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Daniel Gausshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10455889877546330099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-897604904748780353.post-40154257981834396032015-10-05T19:03:00.000-07:002015-10-05T19:10:20.468-07:00Minhwa, The Potato Famine<br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #20124d;">Minhwa is
a traditional Korean art form.</span></span><span style="color: #20124d;"> </span><br />
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are insights that would never have been publicly promulgated through the media
of the dominant culture.</span></span><span style="color: #20124d;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #20124d;">_____(R) Minhwa
is basically, therefore, the raw, insightful and passionate ‘real’ people (magpies)attacking the
established and respected hacks (tigers) in power who control things through
connections, quid pro quo arrangements and whatever other forms of shadiness
they can think of to try to seem relevant and important.</span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #20124d;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #20124d;">_____ (S) Minhwa
has represented the experiences and desires of the common people, revealing
insights only the people could know about life and society.</span></span><span style="color: #20124d;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #20124d;">_____ (T) Therefore
the tigers aren’t really tigers in Minhwa, they are buffoons just as the
aristocracy and power-brokers were, or have been, overwhelmingly, buffoons.</span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #20124d;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #20124d;">_____(U) Because
it is from the relatively powerless common people, there is often sarcasm and
humor in Minhwa, and perhaps some secret social symbolism and criticism, as
with magpies mocking vicious and powerful tigers who suddenly look stupid and
ridiculous.</span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">While over one million
people starved to death in Ireland from 1845 – 1850, boatloads of grain
regularly arrived from Ireland, through the port of Liverpool, to feed the
citizens of England. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">_____ (Q) The Irish people
had been colonized by the English and most Irish worked for various wealthy
(mostly English) landlords. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></span><br />
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farmers who were dependent on the potato starved while the wealthy landowners
reaped tremendous profits from the Irish grain they exported. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">_____ (S) These landlords never
even considered stopping the transport of food from Ireland to England so that
the Irish themselves might be saved while the potato crop was decimated by a
fungus. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></span><br />
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when there is no food – there was an overabundance of food…the Irish just
weren’t allowed to eat it.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></span><br />
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market capitalism at its most transparently inhumane, but it has come down to
us through history whitewashed as the potato ‘famine’.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>_____(Q) Whatever its value, grief is the price of commitment, that wellspring of both <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">happiness</span> and sorrow.</strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>_____(R) It's been suggested that grief reactions may allow for
the reshuffling of status relationships, the filling of a reproductive vacancy
left by the deceased, or for fostering continuity of the group. </strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>_____(S) Whatever the reasons, it's likely that grief evolved to serve different functions in different species.</strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>_____(T) Some further theorize that perhaps mourning strengthens
social bonds among the survivors who band together to pay their last respects. </strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>_____(U) This may enhance group cohesion at a time when it's
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<strong><span style="color: #351c75;">grief - 5,1,4,2,3 Q=5, R=1, S=4, T=2,, U=3 (this one is tricky because the final sentence is a concluding sentence that does not follow logically from the previous four.) </span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="background: rgb(246 , 246 , 246); color: #20124d;">Bubble wrap was
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<span style="background: rgb(246 , 246 , 246); color: #20124d;">_____ (Q) However, this wallpaper idea didn’t sell too well.</span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(246 , 246 , 246); color: #20124d;">_____ (R) The two were not, however, trying to make a product to be used as packaging material.</span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(246 , 246 , 246); color: #20124d;">_____ (S) It was invented by two
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="background: rgb(246, 246, 246);">_____ (T) They started out by
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #20124d;">_____ (U) Rather, they were trying to create a textured wallpaper.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The Japanese art of Ukiyo-e developed in the city of Edo
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<span style="color: #20124d;">_____ (Q) Thus, with their political power effectively removed, the
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<span style="color: #20124d;">_____ (S) It was, indeed, the collaboration among the merchants, artists,
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<span style="color: #20124d;">_____ (T) The social hierarchy of the day, officially established by shogun rulers, placed the merchants, the wealthiest segment of the population, at the lower end of the scale.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">_____ (U) In turn, Ukiyo-e provided these groups with a means of
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<span style="background: white; color: #20124d;">_____ (R) Four experiments, in fact, demonstrate that the brief
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<span style="background: white; color: #20124d;">_____ (S) Red impairs performance on achievement tasks, because red is
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>In one of the standard methods of primitive potters, rings or coils of clay are built up from a circular base.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>_____ (T) The solution to this problem is the potter's wheel, which has been a crucial factor in the history of ceramics.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>In 1381, some 35 years after the Black Death had swept through Europe decimating over one third of the population, there was a shortage of people left to work the land. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>_____ (Q) In addition to this, extra revenue was required to support a long and drawn out war with the French, and so a poll tax was introduced.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>_____ (R) Recognizing the power of ‘supply and demand’, the remaining peasants began to re-evaluate their worth and subsequently demanded higher wages and better working conditions.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>_____ (S) Not surprisingly the government of the day, comprised mainly of the land-owning Bishops and Lords, passed a law to limit any such wage rise. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>_____ (T) Things appear to have come to a head when in May 1381 a tax collector arrived in the Essex village of Fobbing to find out why the people there had not paid their poll tax and the villagers promptly threw him out</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><b>Pottery: -->4,2,1,3,5 ------> 4 = Q, 2 = R, 1 = S, 3 = T, 5 = U</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">We need marine algae a whole lot more than they need us. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">_____ (R) Think about it, 70 to 80 percent of all the oxygen we breathe comes from algae! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">_____ (S) Without them we would really be sucking wind, but not for long! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">_____ (T) But for pure survival, we couldn’t make it without algae.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">_____ (S) After U.S. Marines (commanded by Robert E. Lee) stormed the armory, a wounded Brown was captured.</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">algae - 4,1,2,5,3 - Q=4, R=1, S=2, T=5, U=3</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">bio-friendly cities - 3,1,5,2,4: Q=3, R-1, S=5, T=2, U=4</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">john brown - 1,5,4,2,3 - Q=1, R=5, S=4, T=2, U=3</span></div>
Daniel Gausshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10455889877546330099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-897604904748780353.post-73160851981170742092014-10-16T08:02:00.002-07:002016-04-18T17:13:10.775-07:00This site was featured in the New York Daily News<span style="color: #20124d;">The New York Daily News recently ran an article about how difficult the SHSAT is and how an African American alumni group from Stuyvesant is protesting the use of features, on the test, like 'scrambled paragraphs.' They want the test to reflect the 'Common Core' curriculum.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">How do you feel about the current SHSAT? I actually supported de Blasio as mayor and provided feedback, as a supporter, recommending that the SHSAT be changed so that there could be greater diversity in the specialized schools. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Frankly, I don't think we'll have educational equality of opportunity until all young people in this city live in safe neighborhoods and in families where the parents can meaningfully work and provide adequately for their children. I think greater economic equality will mean greater educational equality.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">That being said, I take my hat off to the Asian parents I have met and worked with in the past who worked hard and made unbelievable sacrifices to ensure that their children were ready for this test. This is the population that is ignored in SHSAT debates - there are some Chinese immigrant parents who work 12 to 14 hours a day to pay for their children's education and their amazing commitment should be acknowledged and lauded.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Sorry for the editorializing - please enjoy doing the scrambled paragraphs on this blog.</span>Daniel Gausshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10455889877546330099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-897604904748780353.post-56669453288185916642014-10-15T21:06:00.000-07:002016-04-18T17:13:49.285-07:003 more scrambled paragraphs: Ghazali, Balloon Dog, John Coltrane<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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examined my motives in my work of teaching, and realized that it was not a pure
desire for the things of God, but that the impulse moving me was the desire for
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Perhaps Jeff Koons' most famous work of art is his ‘balloon
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inflatable pieces stems from the human body and how a breath of air can become
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The Whitney Museum in Manhattan currently has a Jeff Koons show: <a href="http://whitney.org/Visit/Hours" target="_blank">http://whitney.org/Visit/Hours</a></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>While<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A Love Supreme</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is a recognized musical masterpiece,
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<span style="color: #20124d;">_____ (Q) A wave of interest in all things Persian passed through Western Europe and Persian style shoes were enthusiastically adopted by aristocrats, who sought to give their appearance a virile, masculine edge that, it suddenly seemed, only heeled shoes could supply.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">_____ (T) In the muddy, rutted streets of 17th Century Europe, these new shoes had no utility value whatsoever - but that was the point: one of the best ways that status can be conveyed is through impracticality.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">So the video above states that high heels might be bad for your feet, yet I found a blog entry that points out that high heels are OK as long as you don't over-wear them and as long as you massage your feet after-wards: </span><a href="http://ohshoedesigns.com/blog/175/" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">http://ohshoedesigns.com/blog/175/</a></div>
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<b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: magenta;">Fioravanti - 2,5,3,1,4 Q=2, R=5, S=3, T=1, U=4</span></b><br />
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<b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: magenta;">Cyrus --> 2,1,4,3,5</span></b><br />
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<b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Please enjoy Mungo Jerry. Wow, this has been a very hot summer, hasn't it?</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"><b>Salvador Allende's left-wing politics were informed by the dire poverty experienced by most Chilean citizens that he witnessed as a doctor and as a politician. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">_____ (Q) Examples included social security rights for all workers, land redistribution, rent reductions, improved health care facilities, improved housing and sanitation, free milk for nursing mothers and school children, anti-illiteracy campaigns, the raising of the minimum wage, and the granting of three thousand scholarships for the marginalized Mapuches Indian community. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">_____ (R) Such policies were of deep concern to US corporations such as Kennecott, Anaconda, PepsiCo, and International Telephone and Telegraph and such corporations played a major role in lobbying the US government to implement measures aimed at eliminating the freely elected government of Chile. </span></b></span><br />
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canon: the plain white T-shirt. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />
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double check for any stains before tossing it on and, to finish it all off, go
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<span style="color: #20124d;">_____ (Q) They mostly feed on zooplankton, an extremely diverse group of simple, slow-moving creatures that includes jellyfish and related animals, which stay close to the surface.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">_____ (R) This time is probably spent basking, lying on their side and soaking up heat from the sun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">_____ (S) They generally go to depths of 90 to 170 meters, though the deepest observed dive reached 644 meters.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">_____ (U) This is by no means as deep as other fish go, but then the sunfish don't need to plunge to the abyssal depths. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">_____ (R) This is obviously not Taoistic quietism (wu-wei) but action where words will not do and the effect is to force the student back into his own mind, rather than to foster a dependence on teachers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">_____ (S) The Zen Master gains nothing other than the realization that there is nothing to gain, and is thus more than ever in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">_____ (T) Furthermore, whereas Lao-tzu poetically says "The Tao that can be named is not the real Tao," the Zen Master takes this for granted and if questioned on the subject he might scream "kwatz!" or strike the disciple. </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><b>sun fish ---> 5,1,3,2,4 Q=5, R=1, S=3, T=2, U=4</b></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;"><b>tao/zen -------> 2,5,3,4,1</b></span><br />
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Daniel Gausshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10455889877546330099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-897604904748780353.post-44678179927173572852014-05-28T17:02:00.003-07:002016-04-18T17:16:27.841-07:002 scambled paragraphs: H20 contamination; Socrates<strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Notice: All of the scrambled paragraphs on this blog are a free, non-commercial resource purely for educational purposes. They are 100% legal under the Fair Usage Law. (Basically I took properly cited source material and meaningfully changed it into a unique educational tool.) No commercial entity has the right to remove and display this content. By using this website you tacitly agree to the terms that this material cannot be reproduced for distribution via the internet or other means.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.000399589538574px;"><b>Water pollution caused by fecal contamination is a serious problem due to the potential for contracting diseases from pathogens (disease causing organisms). </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.000399589538574px;">______ (Q) Coliforms are relatively easy to identify, are usually present in larger numbers than more dangerous pathogens, and respond to the environment, wastewater treatment, and water treatment similarly to many pathogens.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.000399589538574px;"> </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.000399589538574px;">______ (R) Frequently, concentrations of pathogens from fecal contamination are small, and the number of different possible pathogens is large</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.000399589538574px;">, so it is not practical to test for pathogens in every water sample collected. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.000399589538574px;">______ (S) As a result, testing for coliform bacteria can be a reasonable indication of whether other pathogenic bacteria are present.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.000399589538574px;">______ (T) Coliforms come from the same sources as pathogenic organisms.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.000399589538574px;">______ (U) Instead, the presence of pathogens is determined with indirect evidence by testing for an </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.000399589538574px;">"indicator"</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 14.000399589538574px;"> organism such as coliform bacteria.</span></b></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/water/drinking/coliform_bacteria.htm" target="_blank">http://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/water/drinking/coliform_bacteria.htm</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: serif; line-height: 21px;"><b>Our earliest extant source and the only one who can claim to have known Socrates in his early years is the playwright Aristophanes. </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: serif; line-height: 21px;">______ (Q) In the play, the character Socrates heads a Think-o-Rama in which young men study the natural world, from insects to stars. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: serif; line-height: 21px;">______ (R) The actor wearing the mask of Socrates also makes fun of the traditional gods of Athens and gives naturalistic explanations of phenomena Athenians viewed as divinely directed.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: serif; line-height: 21px;"> </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: serif; line-height: 21px;">______ (S) These young men also study slick argumentative techniques, lacking all respect for the Athenian sense of propriety. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: serif; line-height: 21px;">______ (T) Worst of all, he teaches dishonest techniques for avoiding repayment of debt and encourages young men to beat their parents into submission.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: serif; line-height: 21px;">______ (U) His comedy, </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: serif; line-height: 21px;">Clouds</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: serif; line-height: 21px;">, was produced in 423 when the other two writers of our extant sources, Xenophon and Plato, were infants. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.000399589538574px;">Water contamination: 4,1,5,3,2 ---------> Q=4, R=1,S=5,T=3, U=2</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;">Socrates: 2,4,3,5,1 ------------> Q=2,R=4,S=3,T=5,U=1</span>Daniel Gausshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10455889877546330099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-897604904748780353.post-81869973843403561082013-10-11T17:09:00.002-07:002016-04-18T17:56:03.394-07:004 more scrambled paragraphs<strong><span style="color: red; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Notice: All of the scrambled paragraphs on this blog are a free, non-commercial resource purely for educational purposes. They are 100% legal under the Fair Usage Law. (Basically I took properly cited source material and meaningfully changed it into a unique educational tool.) No commercial entity has the right to remove and display this content. By using this website you tacitly agree to the terms that this material cannot be reproduced for distribution via the internet or other means.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Levassor and his partner Panhard operated one of the largest machine shops in Paris in 1887, when a Belgian engineer named Edouard Sarazin convinced Levassor to manufacture a new high-speed engine for the German automaker Daimler, for which Sarazin had obtained the French patent rights.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) In 1889, visitors to the Paris exposition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution were able to admire not only Gustave Eiffel's now-famous tower, but also a Daimler-produced automobile with one of the new Panhard et Levassor-constructed engines. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) In the years to come, this arrangement, known as the Systeme Panhard, would become the model for all automobiles. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) When Sarazin died later that year, the rights passed to his widow, Louise. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) The year after the opening of the exposition, Levassor married Louise Sarazin. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) By 1891, Levassor had built a drastically different automobile, placing the engine vertically in front of the chassis rather than underneath or behind the driver--a radical departure from the carriage-influenced design of earlier vehicles--and put in a mechanical transmission that the driver engaged with a clutch, allowing him to travel at different speeds.</strong></span> <br />
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<a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-auto-race-held-from-paris-bordeaux-paris" target="_blank">http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-auto-race-held-from-paris-bordeaux-paris</a><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>The dawn that followed the dark and frigid night of December 15, 1944 was foggy, dreary, and foreboding to the troops of the VIII Corps in their positions along the front line between Echternach and just south of Konschau in Belgium, a distance of approximately 75 miles, facing the defensive structures the Germans called the Siegfried Line. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) It had been a quiet sector since early October, and the American front was thinly held, with three infantry divisions on the line and an armored division in reserve. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) Indeed there was no strong or aggressive force facing them, at least in the supposedly trained judgment of unit, divisional, and corps intelligence. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) But it would have been "thinly held" if it had had twice those troops, consisting as it did of widely separated strong points connected generally by a few motorized patrols. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) However the risk must have been considered extremely slight, for commanders all the way down the line were urged to make their men comfortable for the hard winter ahead, and to take measures to reduce the serious problem of trench foot, a disabling disorder resulting from repeatedly wet feet in very cold wet weather. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) They were consequently taking what General Eisenhower described as a "calculated risk" when he had depleted VIII Corps' strength by numerous units to assist Field Marshal Montgomery's planned attack in the north.</strong></span> <br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) This similarity between a planetary model and the Bohr Model of the atom ultimately arises because the attractive gravitational force in a solar system and the attractive Coulomb (electrical) force between the positively charged nucleus and the negatively charged electrons in an atom are mathematically of the same form.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) The <em>form</em> is the same, but the intrinsic <em>strength</em> of the Coulomb interaction is much larger than that of the gravitational interaction.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) Gravitation is always, however, attractive in our present Universe.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) In addition, there are positive and negative electrical charges so the Coulomb interaction can be either attractive or repulsive. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) In the Bohr Model the neutrons and protons occupy a dense central region called the nucleus, and the electrons orbit the nucleus much like planets orbiting the Sun (but the orbits are not confined to a plane as is approximately true in the Solar System).</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><b>autos-----> 2,5,1,3,4 ---> Q=2, R=5, S=1, T=3, U=4</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Nobunaga first heard of Yasuke when the news reached him in 1581 of the great crush that had occurred when Valignano had brought him to Kyoto where his skin color and height attracted a huge crowd. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) Nobunaga ordered the Jesuit to bring Yasuke to his court so that he could see this sensation in the flesh. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) Ultimately Nobunaga became so fond of Yasuke that he was given the honor of being made a member of the samurai class, a rare honor among foreigners. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) Upon seeing Yasuke Nobunaga allegedly ordered him stripped to the waist and scrubbed, believing that his skin was painted. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) Nobunaga was further intrigued by the fact that Yasuke could speak Japanese and ordered Valignano to leave Yasuke in his care when the Jesuit prepared to leave again. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) Yasuke, thus, became a permanent fixture in Nobunaga’s retinue, his size and strength acting as a deterrent to assassination, not to mention a flavor of exoticism to accompany the warlord’s other Western possessions. </strong></span><br />
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<a href="http://thedailybeagle.net/2013/03/07/yasuke-the-african-samurai/" target="_blank">http://thedailybeagle.net/2013/03/07/yasuke-the-african-samurai/</a></div>
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<strong><span style="color: magenta;">Band of Brothers -----> 5,1,4,3,2</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) In 1956 President Eisenhower enacted the Federal Aid Highway Act. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) The cause was a lack of vitamin B<sub>12</sub> in his bloodstream, according to a case report from Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital published in <i>The New England Journal of Medicine</i>. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>The name "Anasazi" has come to mean "ancient people," although the word itself is Navajo, meaning "enemy ancestors." </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>On Christmas Eve, many German soldiers put up Christmas trees, decorated with candles, on the parapets of their trenches. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Like many Germans involved in efforts to kill Hitler, Mr. von Kleist was a soldier — a lieutenant in the German Army — but his family had long been active in the German resistance. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) When he asked his father for advice, “He got up from his chair, went to the window, looked out of the window for a moment, and then he turned and said: ‘Yes, you have to do that because a man who doesn’t take such a chance will never be happy again in his life.’ ” </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) In January 1944, he was 22 and recuperating in Berlin from wounds he suffered in combat when he was approached by Col. Claus von Stauffenberg to join an assassination plot. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>After more than 2,000 years of architectural use, the arch continues to feature prominently in bridge designs and with good reason: its semicircular structure elegantly distributes compression through its entire form and diverts weight onto its two abutments, the components of the bridge that directly take on pressure.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) Tensional force in arch bridges, on the other hand, is virtually negligible. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>In the fall of 1918, the Great War in Europe was winding down and peace was on the horizon. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><strong>Spanish flu -------> 1,3,5,2,4 Q=1, R=3, S=5, T=2, U=4</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;"><strong>Cuban Missile Crisis -------------> 5,2,1,4,3</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>seminal</strong></span> - <span style="color: black;"><strong>this word comes from the Latin word for seed. A seminal work is a work that is a type of seed for other authors or books. It is an original work from which other people take ideas.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>profound</strong></span> - <span style="color: black;"><strong>deep</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>deprivation</strong></span> - <span style="color: black;"><strong>if you lack something, you are deprived of that thing. Economic deprivation means poverty.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>to alleviate</strong></span> - <span style="color: black;"><strong>to make something better</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>The book that had made such an immediate and profound impact on Gandhi was John Ruskin’s seminal work <u>Unto This Last</u>. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) Originally a collection of four articles published in the Cornhill Magazine (London) and Harper’s (New York) in 1860, they were later published in book form. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) "There is no wealth but life.” Ruskin wrote, and life incorporated everybody, there were no exceptions. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) A copy of the work was given to Gandhi, as a gift, whilst he was practicing law as a young man in South Africa and it led to a deep reassessment of his life. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) The solution, he thought, was a fairer distribution of wealth to alleviate this suffering.</strong></span> <br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>collaboration</strong></span> - <span style="color: black;"><strong>when people work together instead of competing with each other</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) Support for gay marriage has increased rapidly, and differences are now shrugged off in many countries as not that important, when everyone wants the same thing -- a committed relationship and possibly children. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) Interdependence is an even a better tribalism-buster - although mere contact doesn't erase fear and mistrust, a shared task that all parties care about replaces tribal instincts with other motivations. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) Research on how groups of mostly one social type treat people who are different confirmed that it takes structural change -- vastly increasing numbers and points of contact -- to overcome casual biases. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) One key to getting the benefits is to normalize those who are different by stressing similarities, making them not-so-different after all.</strong></span> <br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) The area enjoyed brief stability in the late 1890's and early 1900's, the heyday of Luna Park (1903-1946), Dreamland (1904-1911) and Steeplechase Park (1897-1907, 1908-1964), Coney Island’s famed amusement parks, but with the Great Depression, Coney Island transformed once again. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Although consuming a little salt is essential for our physiological well-being (and for the fries to taste good), too little or too much wreaks havoc in our bodies. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) When we consume too much salt, we usually excrete the excess in our urine to keep our bodily fluids isotonic. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) This means that every 1,000 grams of fluid contains 9 grams of salt and 991 grams of water. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><strong>Gandhi ------------> 3,1,5,2,4 3=Q, 1=R, 5=S, 2=T, 4=U</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;"><strong>Celts ------------> 4,2,5,3,1</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;"><strong>Diversity ---------> 3,4,5,2,1</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;"><strong>Coney Island ---------> 1,5,4,2,3</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;"><strong>Salt water ------> 5,3,1,4,2</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><o:p><strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Yes, I'm the guy who created the scandal in Asia awhile ago. I felt that the Korean performers I was teaching in New York City were not being treated up to acceptable standards, and I reported this to a Korean newspaper to help ensure that, in the future, performers would be treated better. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: red;">Links:</span></span></strong></o:p></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.shoutcastblog.com/2010/05/11/wondergirls-were-mistreated-by-jyp-entertainment/" target="_blank">http://www.shoutcastblog.com/2010/05/11/wondergirls-were-mistreated-by-jyp-entertainment/</a><br />
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<a href="http://nwww.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20100512000682" target="_blank">http://nwww.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20100512000682</a></div>
Daniel Gausshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10455889877546330099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-897604904748780353.post-48068473870187669892013-08-25T19:33:00.001-07:002013-09-18T21:27:16.852-07:002 new scrambled paragraphs<span style="color: #20124d;"><strong>With these two new scrambled paragraphs, you now have 150 scrambled paragraphs on which to practice. Wishing you good luck!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Su Wu (140 <small>B.C.E.</small> - 60 <small>B.C.E.</small>) was a diplomat and statesman during China's Han Dynasty, and a famous figure in Chinese history remembered for his faithfulness to his mission and his empire.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) When they arrived at the headquarters of Chanyu Qiedihou, Su’s deputies, Zhang Sheng, and Chang Hui, hatched a plot to assassinate Chanyu Qiedihou's half-Chinese adviser Wei Lü and kidnap the Chanyu's mother. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) He remained there for nineteen years under the most difficult circumstances, steadfastly refusing to yield to the Xiongnu, until the Han and Xiongnu were again at peace and the Han Emperor negotiated his release. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) In 100 <small>B.C.E.</small>, during a brief truce with the Xiongnu, Emperor Wu gave Su, then a Han scholar and the deputy commander of the Imperial Guards, credentials (often depicted as a staff with a banner on it) and sent him as an emissary to Xiongnu. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) His main responsibility was to return some Xiongnu emissaries to their home, and bring back some Han emissaries then being held captive by the Xiongnu. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) The Chanyu learned about the plot, killed Yu and captured Zhang, but Su, who was innocent, refused to surrender and cooperate with the Xiongnu, and was sent into exile as a shepherd in the wilderness.</strong></span> <br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Our species is an African one: Africa is where we first evolved, and where we have spent the majority of our time on Earth. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) What set this in motion is uncertain, but we think it has something to do with major climatic shifts that were happening around that time—a sudden cooling in the Earth’s climate driven by the onset of one of the worst parts of the last Ice Age. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) According to the genetic and paleontological record, we only started to leave Africa between 60,000 and 70,000 years ago. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) Although earlier fossils may be found over the coming years, this is our best understanding of when and approximately where we originated. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) This cold snap would have made life difficult for our African ancestors, and the genetic evidence points to a sharp reduction in population size around this time, in fact, to fewer than 10,000. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) The earliest fossils of recognizably modern <em>Homo sapiens</em> appear in the fossil record at Omo Kibish in Ethiopia, around 200,000 years ago.</strong></span> <br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><strong>Su wu ------> 3,5,1,2,4 Q=3, R=5, S=1, T=2, U=4</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><strong>Genetic migration ----> 4,3,2,5,1</strong></span>Daniel Gausshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10455889877546330099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-897604904748780353.post-72102498696410712672013-08-24T15:04:00.000-07:002016-04-18T17:46:08.988-07:005 NEW scrambled paragraphs<span style="color: red;"><strong>Answers are below the exercises:</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Against overwhelming odds, Alexander led his army to victories across the Persian territories of Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt without suffering a single defeat. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) His greatest victory was at the Battle of Gaugamela, in what is now northern Iraq, in 331 BC. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) This was united by a common Greek language and culture, while the king himself adopted foreign customs in order to rule his millions of ethnically diverse subjects. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) The young king of Macedonia, leader of the Greeks, overlord of Asia Minor and pharaoh of Egypt thus became 'great king' of Persia at the age of 25. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) The entire area from Greece in the west, north to the Danube, south into Egypt and as far to the east as the Indian Punjab, was linked together in a vast international network of trade and commerce. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) Over the next eight years, in his capacity as king, commander, politician, scholar and explorer, Alexander led his army a further 11,000 miles, founding over 70 cities and creating an empire that stretched across three continents and covered around two million square miles.</strong></span> <br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>The Sun Dance ceremony is the most important religious ceremony of the Plains Nations and it is the ceremony that is most misunderstood by Non Native Americans.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) While each tribe may do the ceremony in different ways, each tribe includes the smoking of the pipe, dancing, singing, drumming, experiencing of visions, and fasting. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) All of the reasons are non-selfish in as much the reason does not include benefits for oneself, but asks for benefits for others or is to give thanks but when the request is personal it is for help and understanding to be a better person so the individual can live a life to benefit his family and the people. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) Some tribes, like the Sioux, practice self-torture by the piercing of the skin on the chest or back as a personal sacrifice the individual makes for the good of all of the people of the tribe.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) This deeply spiritual and grueling ceremony is held at the time of the Summer Solstice and lasts from four to eight days.</strong></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) The venom in a scorpion's stinger is the same all through a scorpion's life. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) This molten material is MAGMA, and is normally less dense than the overlying solid rock. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) At depths of several tens of miles the material which makes up the earth's crust (depending upon its composition) may become partially molten. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) The intrusive magma which has cooled and solidified is known as IGNEOUS ROCK (granite, granodiorite, diorite, gabbro). </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) As the magma is subjected to tectonic forces, it may be squeezed upward along weak zones in the crust. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) This process by which magma penetrates the crustal rock is called INTRUSION.</strong></span> <br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><strong>Sun Dance -------> 4,2,5,3,1</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><strong>Chopin ---------> 5,4,3,2,1</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><o:p><strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Yes, I'm the guy who created the scandal in Asia awhile ago. I felt that the Korean performers I was teaching in New York City were not being treated up to acceptable standards, and I reported this to a Korean newspaper to help ensure that, in the future, performers would be treated better. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: red;">Links:</span></span></strong></o:p></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>In 1645, the settlement of Vlissengen (known today as Flushing, Queens) became part of New Netherland. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) Today, the Flushing Remonstrance is regarded as the precursor to the U.S. Constitution’s provision on freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) A Flushing colonist held a Quaker meeting in his home, and he was fined and banished. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) Consequently, Peter Stuyvesant, the governor of New Netherland, forbade colonists from allowing Quaker meetings to be held in any home. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) Largely settled by English families, Vlissengen proved to be fertile ground for Quakers who were persecuted at home in England and Quaker religious teachings spread throughout Vlissengen and Long Island, threatening the dominance of the Dutch Reformed Church in New Netherland. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) Flushing citizens protested, and in 1657 they wrote a demand for religious freedom that is today known as the Flushing Remonstrance.</strong></span> <br />
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<a href="http://www.thirteen.org/dutchny/interactives/document-the-flushing-remonstrance/" target="_blank">http://www.thirteen.org/dutchny/interactives/document-the-flushing-remonstrance/</a><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Who are Quakers? I think they are best known for being 'pacifists.' A pacifist is a person who does not believe in war.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: small;">Dr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball.</span> </strong></span><span style="color: black;"><strong></strong></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: small;">_____ (R) The concept of basketball was born from Naismith's school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse, which involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it.</span> </strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: small;">_____ (S) The first game was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets used as goals.</span> </strong></span><span style="color: black;"><strong> </strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: small;">_____ (T) In Springfield, Naismith was faced with the problem of finding a sport that was suitable for play inside during the Massachusetts winter for the students at the School for Christian Workers.</span> </strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong></strong></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) After studying at McGill University and serving as McGill's Athletic Director, James Naismith moved on to the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA in 1891, where the sport of basketball was born.</strong></span></span></span> <br />
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</span> <a href="http://www.kansasheritage.org/people/naismith.html" target="_blank">http://www.kansasheritage.org/people/naismith.html</a><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>A glacier is essentially a huge mass of ice resting on land or floating in the sea next to land. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) Moving extremely slowly, a glacier acts similarly to an immense river of ice, often merging with other glaciers in a stream-like manner. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) It is so cold in these regions that when a snowflake hits the ground it does not melt, but instead combines with other snowflakes to form larger grains of ice. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) As more and more snow accumulates, mounting weight and pressure squeeze these grains of ice together to form a glacier. </strong></span><span style="color: black;"><strong></strong></span> <span style="color: black;"><strong></strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) Regions with continuous snowfall and constant freezing temperatures foster the development of these frozen rivers.</strong></span> <br />
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<a href="http://geography.about.com/od/geographyintern/a/glaciers.htm">http://geography.about.com/od/geographyintern/a/glaciers.htm</a><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><strong>Flushing Remonstrance ------> 5,3,2,1,4 Q=5, R=3, S=2, T=1, U=4</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;"><strong>Naismith -------> 4,1,5,3,2</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Sundews are sticky flypaper plants. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) Insects that land on the leaves stick fast and are digested. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) The glands exude attractive nectar, adhesive compounds, and digestive enzymes. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) Often nearby glandular tentacles are stimulated and also adhere to the insect, and on many species the entire leaf coils around the prey. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) They bear long tentacles on their leaves, and these stalks are tipped with glands which are often brightly colored. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>(Even though this video's title contains a glaring grammar error, it's a good video. Obviously it should say: A carnivorous plant eats bugs.)</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: small;">The general term for the period of inactivity experienced by some mammals in winter is “dormancy,” which includes more specific terms such as “hibernation” and “torpor.”</span> </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: small;">_____ (Q) True hibernation means that an animal’s metabolism turns off to the point that its body temperature nearly matches that of the environment around it.</span> </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: small;">_____ (R) During this time, an animal's heart rate, breathing rate and metabolism slow down considerably.</span> </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: small;">_____ (S) And in winter, this means that body temperatures can drop to nearly freezing.</span> </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: small;">_____ (T) Contrary to popular belief, however, most of the mammals that hole up for the winter do not actually hibernate.</span> </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: small;"><strong>_____ (U) The term hibernation applies to only a very small portion of mammals – for instance, a few species of bats and some rodents like the marmot.</strong></span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>(As you read above, bears do not really hibernate - what they experience is more closely described as 'torpor.' So the following video shouldn't really say that bears are hibernating, but everything else in the video is ok. :P)</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>All animals function - to some degree - on instinct: from the tiniest slug, to the largest elephant, to the brainiest human, we all are inherently inclined to perform certain behaviors. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) This is an innate behavior that is triggered by some sort of sign stimulus and - once initiated - will run to completion. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) However, Konrad Lorenz discovered that it will complete this action even if the egg is removed during the behavior: the goose will simply continue with the behavior as if the egg was still there. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) If an egg is displaced from the nest, the bird will reflexively roll the egg back to the nest with its beak. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) One of the best known examples is the behavior of the nesting Graylag Goose. <br /><br />_____ (U) The simplest form of instinct is a fixed-action-pattern.</strong></span> <br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><strong>sundews ----> 3,2,4,1,5 Q=3, R=2, S=4, T=1, U=5</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Monarchs must reach their destination before it gets too cold or else they risk death.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) Furthermore, Monarch larvae's only food source—milkweed—has been destroyed by people who consider it a harmful weed. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) Much of their spring and summer habitat in the U.S. has been ruined by new roads, housing developments, and expanding agriculture. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) But cold weather is far from their greatest threat. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) Pesticides and herbicides also threaten milkweed, nectaring plants on which the adults feed, and the monarchs themselves. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) Habitat destruction and harm to their food sources imperil this phenomenal migration.</strong></span> <br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>The human body regulates temperature by keeping a tight balance between heat gain and heat loss.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) Normal core temperature at rest varies between 36.5 and 37.5 °Celsius (°C), which is 97.7 to 99.5 °Fahrenheit (°F). </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) The hypothalamus responds to various temperature receptors located throughout the body and makes physiological adjustments to maintain a constant core temperature. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) This normal core temperature is regulated by the hypothalamus (in the brain), which is often called the body’s thermostat. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) Humans regulate heat generation and preservation to maintain internal body temperature or core temperature. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) Your temperature regulation system is more analogous, however, to the operation of a home furnace, as opposed to the function of an air conditioner.</strong></span> <br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>In the 10 years following the unveiling of <i>The Night Watch</i>, Rembrandt's overall artistic output diminished drastically and he produced no painted portraits; either he received no portrait commissions or he stopped accepting such commissions. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) It has, therefore, been put forth that Rembrandt's crisis may have been purely an artistic one: that he had seen his methods stretched to their practical limits. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) Speculation about what happened after <i>The Night Watch</i> has contributed to the "Rembrandt myth," according to which the artist became largely misunderstood and was ignored. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) There is also no evidence that he was ever "ignored," although he was often the target of his contemporary critics' barbs. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) Often also blamed for Rembrandt's supposed downfall are the death of his wife and the supposed rejection of <i>The Night Watch</i> by those who commissioned it. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) But modern research has found no evidence that the painting was rejected or that Rembrandt experienced deep devastation upon his wife's death.</strong></span> <br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Prior to 1760 the manufacture of textiles occurred in the home, by people who gave part of their time to it. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) It was a tedious process from raw material to finished product. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) Next, it was spun into thread which was woven into cloth. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) In the case of woolen cloth, the wool had to be sorted, cleaned and dyed. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) Subsequent processes were performed upon the cloth to change the texture or the color of the woolen cloth. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) Then the wool was carded and combed.</strong></span> <br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>An eye-level angle is the one in which the camera is placed at the subject’s height, so if the actor is looking at the lens, he won’t have to look up or down.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (Q) They often have no dramatic power whatsoever, thus they are ideal for romantic comedies and news casting. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (R) Low angles are captured from a camera placed below the actor’s eyes, looking up at him. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (S) In a high angle, conversely, the camera is above the subject, looking down, so this position makes characters look weak, submissive, or frightened. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (T) Eyelevel shots are incredibly common because they are neutral. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>_____ (U) Low angles make characters look dominant, aggressive, or ominous.</strong></span> <br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong>Monarchs ----------> 4,3,1,5,2 Q=4, R=3, S=1, T=5, U=2</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong>Thermoregulation -------> 3,5,4,2,1</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong>Rembrandt -------> 5,1,4,2,3</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong>Textiles -----> 1,4,2,5,3</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><strong>Camera angles -----> 2,3,5,1,4</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #351c75;">-------------------------------------</span></strong>Daniel Gausshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10455889877546330099noreply@blogger.com