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Phat
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Message 16 of 85 (366403)
11-27-2006 10:31 PM
Reply to: Message 15 by Taz
11-27-2006 10:08 PM


The Job of a Teacher
What is the job of a teacher when so many students are reluctant to learn anything beyond text messaging and how to make a rap demo?

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Phat
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Message 17 of 85 (366406)
11-27-2006 10:42 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Hyroglyphx
11-25-2006 1:31 PM


1: The ovaries produce:b
2: Mushrooms belong to which of following kingdoms:
3: Muscles attach to bone with:
4: The digestive system includes the:
5: Blood leaving the lungs is:
6: Vitamin A can be found in:
7: Mitosis is a process of:
8: Animal cells have all the following parts EXCEPT:
9: The movement of particles from an area of high concentration to an area of lower concentration is called:
10: The freezing point on the Fahrenheit scale is:
11: Electric charges can be:
12: Refraction occurs when
13: Hydrogen has the atomic number 1. This means that hydrogen has:
14: In their ecosystem, green plants require:
15: Organisms that eat other organisms are called:
A person with homozygous genes for eye color would have the pattern
17: The metric measurement for mass is:
18: Kinetic energy is the energy
19: A storage battery is an example of:
20: A step-up transformer
21. Simple magnets have:
22: Passing sunlight through a prism
23: Molecules are created when
24: Humidity is:
[b]25: The vernal equinox is:
Edited by Phat, : clarification

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Taz
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Message 18 of 85 (366415)
11-28-2006 12:04 AM
Reply to: Message 16 by Phat
11-27-2006 10:31 PM


Re: The Job of a Teacher
Again, I don't think it's that at all. I think it's because there are too many religious parents and communities who want their children exposed to dangerous ideas as late as possible. By dangerous ideas, I mean ideas that the parents or elders either didn't know or didn't want to know.
A while back while I was doing one of those 4 hour run thing, I stopped at a rest area to rest and eat a snack. There, I met a couple who were also resting. They had a little daughter with them. In no time, they began to tell me about how they've decided that there was a lot of flaws in our education system and that they wanted the best for their daughter. I knew where this was going so I just acted dumb and listened. They told me how they decided to home school their daughter and teach her creation theory and all of that. I lied to them that I didn't know much about the issue so they began to explain the flaws of evolution. Didn't take long before I could tell just how little, if anything, they knew about evolution. They seemed like perfectly nice people until you talk to them.
Which, by the way, I still consider such home schooling as a form of child abuse. It's intellectually handicapping your children, for crying out loud!
Sadly, I was one of those deprived children. Not financially deprived, but intellectually deprived. I spent the better part of my college years resisting ideas I was there to learn. Some of those included non-literalist interpretations of the bible and tolerance of my fellow men/women. I am still thankful my eyes finally openned.
Beside tutoring and grading their homeworks, I also on occasion went out to lunch and dinner with some of the students. Some were fine, but some was like me when I was their age, intolerant of those different than them. It's sort of sad that we are in the 21st century and most people finally learn tolerance by being miles and miles away from home. By tolerance, I don't just mean social tolerance. I also mean tolerance of new academic ideas. We as a society still have a ways to go if our families and communities can't provide the sort of positive environment for learning and social acceptance of those different than us. We shouldn't have to wait till our college years to stop hating!
That, phat, is why I am beginning to question people's right to breed... but that's a different story.
Added by edit.
Heck, we liscence people to drive. We even do at least some background check on people before we give them a gun, a radar gun, and a badge. Why can't we liscence people to breed?
Edited by gasby, : No reason given.

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Jon
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Message 19 of 85 (366426)
11-28-2006 2:30 AM
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11-25-2006 1:31 PM


1: The ovaries produce:b
2: Mushrooms belong to which of following kingdoms:
3: Muscles attach to bone with:
4: The digestive system includes the:
5: Blood leaving the lungs is:
6: Vitamin A can be found in:
7: Mitosis is a process of:
8: Animal cells have all the following parts EXCEPT:
9: The movement of particles from an area of high concentration to an area of lower concentration is called:
10: The freezing point on the Fahrenheit scale is:
11: Electric charges can be:
12: Refraction occurs when
13: Hydrogen has the atomic number 1. This means that hydrogen has:
14: In their ecosystem, green plants require:
15: Organisms that eat other organisms are called:
A person with homozygous genes for eye color would have the pattern
17: The metric measurement for mass is:
18: Kinetic energy is the energy
19: A storage battery is an example of:
20: A step-up transformer
21. Simple magnets have:
22: Passing sunlight through a prism
23: Molecules are created when
24: Humidity is:
25: The vernal equinox is:
How was that?

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Jon
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Message 20 of 85 (366427)
11-28-2006 2:34 AM
Reply to: Message 17 by Phat
11-27-2006 10:42 PM


I always thought miosis was the diffusion of water...

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Phat
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Message 21 of 85 (366428)
11-28-2006 2:44 AM
Reply to: Message 20 by Jon
11-28-2006 2:34 AM


I think you did better than me by a couple of questions

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Jon
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Message 22 of 85 (366430)
11-28-2006 2:54 AM
Reply to: Message 6 by Coragyps
11-26-2006 12:51 PM


Re: bump
On the list you posted, line 14 has me a little upset!
quote:
The universe began with a huge explosion.(True)
Who wrote this test? Because this question and it's "correct" answer have me just pissing myself! C'mon, someone's gotta help me explain the anger!
J0N

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alacrity fitzhugh
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Message 23 of 85 (366490)
11-28-2006 11:27 AM
Reply to: Message 20 by Jon
11-28-2006 2:34 AM


jon writes:
I always thought miosis was the diffusion of water...
Miosis is the constriction of the eye as a response to the increase of light or some drugs.
quote:
Miosis: Contraction of the pupil. The opposite of mydriasis.
MedicineNet.com
Edited by alacrity fitzhugh, : forgot two words

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kuresu
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Message 24 of 85 (366506)
11-28-2006 12:27 PM
Reply to: Message 17 by Phat
11-27-2006 10:42 PM


I seriously hope you have ribosomes, phat. if you don't, you won't have a body.
why? ribosomes are crucial in the production of proteins. every cell in the world has them.
as jon points out, animal cells do not have cell walls.

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Message 25 of 85 (366507)
11-28-2006 12:31 PM
Reply to: Message 19 by Jon
11-28-2006 2:30 AM


quick correction.
hydrogen has one proton, one electron, and 1,2, or 3 nuetrons.
The most common hydrogen atom has but one nuetron.
dueterium (heavy water) has 2 nuetrons
triterium (I think I'v the name right) has 3 nuetrons.
dueterium is what they use for nuclear fusion reactors and the H-bomb.

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Taz
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Message 26 of 85 (366510)
11-28-2006 12:38 PM
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11-28-2006 12:27 PM


kuresu writes:
why? ribosomes are crucial in the production of proteins. every cell in the world has them.
That's not true. My battery cells don't have anything remotely close to ribosomes.

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Message 27 of 85 (366512)
11-28-2006 12:47 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Hyroglyphx
11-25-2006 1:31 PM


thanks for giving the answer to the first one, NJ.
1)b
2)c
3)a is the group of tissues, but I don't know if its b or c. I know it ain't d.
4)a
5)d
6)i'm gonna guess a
7)d
8)c
9)b
10)32 degrees
11)a
12)d?
13)a, c (though the atomic number refers to the number of protons, in order for the element to be nuetral, as all the elements listed in the table are presented as, the number of electrons equals the number of protons)
14)can you classify nitrogen-fixing bacteria as a parasite? can you be your own mate? if yes to the above two, the answers are [a,b,c]. the other two options are [a,b] or [a,c]. I'm unaware of fungi being necessary to plants.
15)venus flytrap, plenty of insects, and predators. something tells me you were going with predators.
16) wait, there is not 16. answer for the unmarked question is b.
17)believe it or not, it's actually the kilogram, not the gram. that is the base unit of mass in the SI (metric) system. yeah, that's about the one stupid thing in the system.
18)c
19)d
20)a?
21)every magnet has a. there is no such thing as a "simple" magnet, unless you are referring to magnets that are easy to make.
22)a
23)c
24)b
25)c
when will we get our test scores back?

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Message 28 of 85 (366513)
11-28-2006 12:48 PM
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11-28-2006 12:38 PM


ha. ha. ha.
apparently there's more than one ass in the room.

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Message 29 of 85 (366520)
11-28-2006 1:49 PM
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11-27-2006 10:42 PM


14: In their ecosystem, green plants require:
A. sunlightX
B. mates
C. parasites
D. fungi
Nearly all of 'em need fungi, too. They can't get their nitrogen without.

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Message 30 of 85 (366521)
11-28-2006 1:51 PM
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11-28-2006 12:31 PM


"Protium" or regular hydrogen has no neutrons, deuterium one, and tritium two.

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