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• KatieS, -- LynnBo, 20:38:56 09/30/03 Tue (NoHost/209.161.109.133)
  I just wanted you to know that I had read ALL of your
  message below but I did not have time to respond. Last week
  was homecoming for our school, which meant even more
  craziness than usual, my nephew had 3 football games over 7
  days (we later found out he played the last one with a broken
  wrist!), then I visited with relatives out of town this past weekend,
  whew! I am trying to recover this week. I have a four day weekend coming up and I really need it.
  Anyway, I was very glad to read that school is getting a little bit
  better for you and that you are finding activities to join.
  I read a newspaper article today that reminded me of your
  message about the ton of books you have to carry this year.
  It seems a report came out a decade or two ago stating that
  overloaded backpacks were causing back problems later in
  life. A new report refutes this earlier report. It seems that
  weight is not the overriding factor in backpacks causing back
  problems, it is the way the weight is distributed in the bag, and
  how the bag is carried. If you put heavier books next to your
  back, put both straps over your shoulders, and keep the bag
  at a height no lower than 4 inches below the waist, you should
  have no problems. So, "Mommy" LynnBo is telling you to be
  sure you follow those guidelines. I have scoliosis (spinal
  curvature) which causes me some back problems ( that and the
  fact that I'm approaching 50) and I can assure you that
  you want to avoid that.
  Now, have you read all of this message? If you and I ever met
  face-to-face do you think either of us would let the other get a
  word in edgewise? LOL
  Check back from time to time and let me know how you are!
  By the way my nephew (with the broken wrist) will be taking a
  6th grade trip to Columbus in February to visit, as my sister so
  eloquently puts it, "some museum." Do you have any idea
  what museum 6th graders might make a 3-hour trip to visit?
  Gotta go now, my fingers hurt! :>D
  

  
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  • Hey! Yes, you write long message = me write long message :D inside. -- KatieS, 21:33:10 10/02/03 Thu
    • Thanks for the museum info, I'm sure this is where they plan to go. LOL at your "musical lockers" - I've seen plenty of this at my school, too! (NT) -- Lynnbo, keeping it short this time!, 19:09:04 10/07/03 Tue
      • They are gonna have SO MUCH fun! Wow, that's really cool. Cosi is like the greatest place, I love it. I had a membership there for a year or two, it was awesome. :) That's really great for them! (NT) -- KatieS (getting by for now.... whew... week's almost over... :D), 22:02:02 10/09/03 Thu

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• Religion Question... -- Heather K, 13:20:40 09/23/03 Tue (CPE22438635f1d5-CM014120003487.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com/24.103.166.48)
  Just a question for anyone who knows the Bible well enough to help me... If not I may have to actually read my family's copy. For my Spanish 020 class (Advanced First Year Spanish) we studied a story called Génisis by Marco Devini, it's a modern interpretation of Genesis from the Bible. My Spanish prof asked us to compare Devini's story to the Biblical story, but no one in the class (25 kids) knew the real version of Genesis, so we got extra homework to figure out what happened on the 7 days of Creation ahd to translate it to Spanish (It feels really weired to have religious oriented homework considering that I went to public school for 15 years- and no I didn't fail any of the grades- there are two years of kindergarten here and 1 extra year of high school).
  
  But I digress.. So my homework help question is this: What happened on each day of the 7 days of Creation- I'll do the translation myself (that's the actual homework, so I'm not cheating)!!! Just the basic points. If no one knows, that's cool, I'll either find that Bible that's somewhere in my house or search the net. Thanks a bunch!
  

  
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  • Wow. Genesis is LONG! I read like most of it but it was in my mom's bible which is full of thees and thous. I can't help you personally (Don't know it well enough) but if your bibles are King James version (aka full of thees and thous) then I'd look up an easier to read version on the net, unless someone comes up with it here. BTW - how long have you been taking spanish. It's my first year. I love it. (NT) -- KatieS, 21:49:42 09/23/03 Tue
    • Thanks anyway!! I think ours is the King James version... but I decided to do a search and I found a children't bible story online that made it really clear what happened when. So I've got the 7 days straight! I hope!! I started Spanish in grade 10 (that's the first year it's offered here, unlike for you!) and so I've been speaking it 5 years now. I love it so much!! But my class isn't advanced enough for my personal level and the 2nd year Spanish conflicts with my PoliSci so I can't move up... Inside.. -- Heather, 22:08:22 09/23/03 Tue
      • Wow!! :) Glad you found what you were looking for; I DO have a children's bible, I should've looked it up for you, wow, I'm a dork.. .LOL. Inside for the whole language thing. BTW, nice soapbox to have. -- KatieS, 21:16:32 09/24/03 Wed
        • Check it! Quick little conversation in Spanish on the inside... -- Heather, 22:46:21 09/24/03 Wed
          • oooh I wanna write spanish too inside. -- KatieS, 22:47:51 09/26/03 Fri
            • That's really good... inside -- Hk, 01:07:46 09/27/03 Sat
              • I didn't really get that last thing either, LOLOL. I'm workin on it! (NT) -- KatieS, 14:22:00 09/27/03 Sat
              • me gustan mucho a Harm y a Mac como novios... y lo están! Qué lastima. Buenas noches, y hasta la proxima! ---- I hope this is the part you mean: I like Harm and Mac as a couple (novios means boyfriends) and it's supposed to say that they are not (but it says that they are because I forgot a 'no'). Then it says Too bad. Good night and until next time... I just can't remember what I did know when I first started- I have a strong Fr. background, so I knew more words b/c they are so similar. (NT) -- Heather K, 17:23:08 09/28/03 Sun
                • Wow, I get it now. Yeah, that makes sense. I can piece together little things but not everything. Most stuff I can get the gist of it though, even like reading the spanish instructions, LOL. (NT) -- KatieS, 21:00:08 09/28/03 Sun
  • Umm...*God* made the world in 6 days, and then he rested on the 7th and that's why the Sabbath is important to certain religious groups. Sorry. That's all I retained from Sunday School all those years ago. (NT) -- Mama Cass, 01:37:02 09/25/03 Thu
    • I only did Sunday School until I was 4, and then my family stopped going to church and since then I've become a little suspicious of organised religions in general... I believe in something, but don't want to be told by someone else what it is. But, I think that churches are really beautiful places and the music is really nice. (NT) -- Heather, 12:11:15 09/25/03 Thu
      • Treading on dangerous ground, people... (NT) -- Moderator, 21:40:52 09/25/03 Thu
        • I'm sorry... I fully appreciate the right to everybody having their beliefs- and I would never deny anyone that right. What I was trying to say (and did rather poorly on reflection) is that I do believe in God, but I had a bad experience with my church and since then have just left religion as a private thing in my life. I hope someday to find a place that reflects what I think Christianity is supposed to be about, but until then I'm going to stay agnostic. I really, really am sorry to have offended anyone. I think it is a incredible indication of character to believe strongly in something when people constantly try to demine that belief- and I wasn't trying to do that. (NT) -- Heather K- really, really sorry., 08:16:42 09/26/03 Fri
          • You're fine heather - just stopping it before it got to be a fight. (NT) -- Moderator, 22:28:40 09/26/03 Fri

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• Question about Psychology -- Mama Cass, 13:22:55 09/22/03 Mon (NoHost/64.113.160.185)
  Can someone please re-explain the terms in terms that I may possibly understand? Whomever wrote this book must think I'm more than a first year student. Thanks
  

  
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  • Uh... not that I could really help much (being 14 and all) but just to clarify - what terms are you talking about exactly? (NT) -- KatieS, 20:59:50 09/22/03 Mon
    • DUH!!! That might help-I meant the stages of development according to Freud... (NT) -- Mama Cass who feels very dumb right now..., 21:18:59 09/22/03 Mon
      • LOL - wow. We did some stages of development in Health last year but I dunno who's they were. Yeah that's the being fourteen. LOL. I dunno maybe somebody knows around here. There are alot more people here than there used to be. (NT) -- KatieS, 21:51:04 09/23/03 Tue
      • I think I studied those... I can't remember what they are all called, but when I hear them I know what they mean. (NT) -- Heather K, 18:39:20 09/24/03 Wed
        • Thanks guys...some genius put them at the END of the chapter....who would do a silly thing like that? LOL (NT) -- Mama CAss, 01:35:04 09/25/03 Thu
  • I cant find a good answer for my homework question -- Rene Bess (sad), 15:54:20 09/01/06 Fri

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• It's my algebra homework, and it's about integers. -- KatieS, 23:26:38 08/30/02 Fri (pleiades-14.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.214)
  Okay right now we're doing all review in Algebra, but a problem came up in my homework tonight. The problem? Negative three to the fourth power. I am sorry I can't make the little 4 on here. But I know how to *do* negative three to the fourth power, it's like (-3)x(-3)x(-3)x(-3). You get some form of 81. But I don't know if it's NEGATIVE or POSITIVE 81. The extended form of the problem would suggest a positive 81 (as there are an even number of negative signs, and even number of negative signs = positive answer) but the exponential form, three to the fourth power, only has ONE negative sign, which is an ODD number, which would make a NEGATIVE 81. And the worst part is that my thirty dollar calculator doesn't even know the meaning of exponents!! GACK!!
  
  Someone please help!!
  

  
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  • It depends on how it was written..if its -3^4... then its negative because of the order of operations.....u do 3 to the fourth, then make it negative...if its (-3)^4 then it would be negative. There are 4 number threes and 4 is an even number (think of it this way...-3x-3 would be positive 9...9x-3 would be -27....-27 x -3 (2 negatives) would be positive 81...... (NT) -- Suze, 19:22:17 09/02/02 Mon
    • ack ack ! sorry ....... if its (-3)^4 then it would be POSITIVE...like i said it would come out to positive 81 (NT) -- Suze, 19:23:24 09/02/02 Mon
      • SIGH...that's all wrong, ignore it...my algebras a little rusty. inside for the CORRECT answer.... -- Suze, 19:31:39 09/02/02 Mon
        • SUZE!!!! Thanks so much, you saved my life!! That's really useful info, I was just going to have to go in with my homework not done if it hadn't been for you!! THANK YOU!!!! (NT) -- KatieS (aka JAGfan1), 19:52:29 09/02/02 Mon
          • no prob darlin! Like I said i've done some tutoring and i'm a couple years ahead of you in school. Math's my fav so keep em coming! (NT) -- Suze, 20:40:12 09/02/02 Mon
            • Answer me this... -- KatieS, 22:43:24 09/02/02 Mon
              • The answer is order of operations. ^ comes first, then / and *, then + and -. However, if you've got (), whatever is in those comes first. so -2^2 = - (2^2) and (-2)^2= (-2 * -2). Did that help any? Btw, I think your forum is a great idea! (NT) -- Annie (whose second favorite subject is math, right after chem), 07:18:28 09/03/02 Tue
                • math -- anonimas, 16:49:39 02/03/03 Mon
              • inside for a quick way to remember orders of operations... -- Suze, 15:10:16 09/03/02 Tue
                • Hey Suze... I remember Order of Operations pretty well... we learned that two years ago. My big problem was this... my teacher explained it today. Inside. -- JF1, 22:56:56 09/03/02 Tue
  • hey dude i need help with my algebra homework -- adrian morewno, 18:46:05 09/23/03 Tue

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• Student Journalists -- Muzamil Akram, 14:45:34 08/10/03 Sun (cache9-5.ruh.isu.net.sa/212.138.47.29)
  Hi.
  
  I am a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and I am interested in starting a news website with high school and college students. I am looking for interested student journalists willing to contribute to the following areas of writing:
  
  1) Arts/Culture
  2) Economy
  3) Education
  4) Entertainment
  5) Fashion
  6) Health
  7) Nation
  8) Sports
  9) Technology
  10) World
  
  I am also looking for students who have high expertise in the field of photography, and desktop and internet publishing. Any enquiries from parents and teachers/professors who are willing to contribute are welcome too.
  
  If you are interested you can contact me at muzamil@issue-online.com. If you have any questions please let me know.
  
  THANKS.
  
  Take Care,
  
  Muz Akram
  muzamil@issue-online.com
  

  
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  • Yo! I'd like to help...I'm in the newspaper club at my College.... (NT) -- Mama Cass, 21:21:24 09/22/03 Mon

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• Well here is another year for me! -- KatieS, 19:34:20 08/25/03 Mon (pleiades-45.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.245)
  I have very mixed feelings about high school right now. First of all, I REALLY miss middle school. Everyone does. Half the freshmen were crying this morning, the other half just had the worried, scared, sad look on their faces. I was crying before my first class and in the beginning of it, but I stopped when my teacher introduced herself to us. My first period is spanish and the teacher is very nice, then english, and that teacher is very nice too. Then I had biology, and I don't like biology very much... for one thing I don't like the classroom - it's weird. And there are too many sophomores in my class... they kinda frighten me. Even though I'm friends with some. Then I had Modern World History... it's okay. Not as good as social studies last year though, I miss that alot. After that is tech foundations (aka typing) and it's okay... kinda boring because I already know how to type. Then I have lunch, and I have a few friends at lunch (even if I didn't I'd just do my bio homework) so it's cool... After that is Home Ec which is actually really fun and I'm looking forward to. I know one of the upperclassmen guys in the class because of a mutual friend and he's really nice to me. After that, my last class of the day is algebra 2 (I liked it better in the morning). My algebra 2 teacher is nice - and my sophomore friend says that he's a good teacher. I hope so because algebra is hard. Our homework tonight was really easy though, it was reviewing exponents (POSITIVE ones at that!) and we were allowed to use a calculator! WOWNESS! Eh, I'm sure it's basis to some more polynomials, LOL.
  
  My least favorite thing about high school is my bus. The guys in the back won't stop saying the F word and saying rude and obscene things. I think I'm sitting in front tomorrow. The VERY front. LOL.
  
  My favorite thing is probably... a few classes. Spanish, English, Home Ec, and Algebra. You wouldn't believe how happy I was when I got into algebra today... 4 people in my class I used to know but got separated from in middle school, several people from my middle school algebra class, and even a super smart eighth grader who comes over from MY old middle school to take the class. Wowness!
  
  Anyways, I think it's going to be better than I thought, but, I'm still absolutely petrified with fear. TOO MANY TALL PEOPLE! LOL!
  
  I hope everyone else's beginnings to school went well (if there's anyone out there). I guess we're back in business now with the homework helping!
  *~Katie~*
  

  
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  • Sounds like you had a pretty typical "first day as a freshman". I can tell you are already getting acclimated and by the end of the week, I'm betting you'll have no fear left! (NT) -- LynnBo, 21:48:02 08/25/03 Mon
    • Well... today was worse. I started crying in bio (I hate bio. There are several sophomores in my class and mostly people I don't know - no friends... and I hate bio as a subject) and I went to the counselor guy (Who is very nice BTW) and chatted with him for a while, he's cool. I really hope it will get better. But now I'm gonna stop talking about it because it makes me feel sick... I hope it'll get better like you say. Do you have kids who cry about it? I think I must be the only one in the world. I cry too much. (NT) -- KatieS, 21:34:54 08/26/03 Tue
      • Actually, we are small school of only 925 students and our only feeder middle school is right next door! Our 2 schools don't mix, but the middle schoolers usually know several of our students from sharing buses and attending our athletic events. They are also very familiar with each other - some of them have been classmates since kindergarten! They are not as overwhelmed as they would be going to a new school at a totally different location and being tossed in with freshmen who came from different feeder schools. I hope things get better for you - keep talking to the counselor, that's why he's there. During bio keep thinking-this is just one class, I can get through it and then go to a class I like! (NT) -- LynnBo Katie, if you really can't get thru bio, will the counselor let you change to a class where you know someone? You've already talked to him, he might be willing to help you. It couldn't hurt to ask! Sweetie, I hope you get to feeling better about your new school very soon. Hang in there!, 23:24:08 08/26/03 Tue
        • Hey - Wow, you're lucky (and the kids especially) that you have a middle school right next door so the kids pretty much stay together. Our middle school split into two high schools and our high school is fed by two middle schools. Not cool. Anyways - Bio was much better today, except I was late and got a warning (next time it's detention, yikes. I'll cry, I never had one in my life) but I didn't like spanish much. I didn't cry all day though, an improvement. I'm hoping it'll all be okay soon. And thanks again for your well wishes. I can't believe how different this is from last year I was saying I LOVE SCHOOL constantly, LOL. (NT) -- KatieS (BTW, is this color scheme hard on your eyes? I am thinking about changing the red...), 21:28:04 08/27/03 Wed
          • I don't understand why your middle school was split into 2 high schools unless one of the schools is a magnet school. We don't have magnet schools in our district, so that's another reason our middle school students stay together at high school. I'm glad you made it without crying yesterday. I hope today was even better. (inside) -- LynnBo who hopes you have a good day tomorrow and a very nice Labor Day weekend!, 21:09:13 08/28/03 Thu
            • Hey, I'll put my message inside too - when yours tends to go kinda long, so does my response ;) -- KatieS, 23:33:43 08/29/03 Fri
              • I'm glad you went to a football game and had fun. I hope you will join at least one club, too. Being a part of the school activities is the best way to find people with the same likes and dislikes. I hope you have a good week and that things will start to settle into a routine. Hang in there and it will get better. I didn't have your experience in high school, mine came when I went to college. I was so upset that I decided I wasn't going to stay. Eventually, I came to my senses and after the first semester, I was fine! You will be, too. (NT) -- LynnBo who is very tired because many family members thought Labor Day meant make Lynn labor! I need to get back to school tomorrow so I can get some rest. LOL, 23:00:58 09/01/03 Mon
                • Getting better! Working on it anyways. I've developed a plan for better positive thinking which should help with my overall happiness (Being over-organizational I have to develop an outline for EVERYTHING, LOL.) And I'm probably gonna join key club when it starts, maybe Young Life with my friend erica. I'm figuring it out :) Thanks for all your support! (NT) -- KatieS still trying to write JF1 LOL. And BTW, go to bed and get some sleep! School isn't restful if you have to get up at 5:30 AM and carry twenty five pounds of books like I do ;), 20:38:45 09/02/03 Tue
                  • Katie, I'm glad to see that things are getting better and that you have a plan! I'm sorry for not posting sooner, but voy has been a bear for me this week, taking a loooooooonnnggg time to download, if at all, and not always completely downloading! I hope everything continues to improve. I also hope that your weekend weather has been as great as mine and that you have been able to go out and enjoy it! (NT) -- LynnBo who finally got to sleep in this morning and get some much needed rest!, 19:06:29 09/06/03 Sat
                    • Hi! My weekend has been lovely, just so you know - the weather is so beautiful, cool and blue skies :) I had to come home sick friday because I have this stupid cold/flu thing that's going around and was making it impossible for me to learn anything, so I've been limited to how much time I can spend outside while still feeling okay, but... I managed to go out for a little bit yesterday. And I know Voy HAS been evil. It's driving me crazy... uhh how I wish it was friday... LOL. (NT) -- KatieS, 09:03:08 09/07/03 Sun
  • Oh, Katie, the Drama of high school...sigh...so long ago. It gets funner, I promise. I just strolled by to bookmark this place because I will probably need it..great idea. If you want to talk about high school, I am only 2 years out....I'll leave my e-mail.... (NT) -- Mama Cass, 19:58:32 09/03/03 Wed
    • Hey!! Thanks for dropping by, I appriciate it, and I appriciate that you took the time to respond to my post ;) Thanks for coming and thanks for your kind thoughts. I'll be around. And it's getting better. (NT) -- KatieS, 20:24:14 09/03/03 Wed
    • Mama Cass, I lurk at the JAG boards and I have seen your posts there. I know that you are in college and taking a math course which you don'tl like! I am a high school math teacher who has on occasion helped Katie with her algebra. If you need help, I can probably be of assistance. Sometimes, college profs do "odd" problems, though, that make even me scratch my head. Let's hope you don't have one of those types of profs. Also, thank you for offering a shoulder to Katie! (NT) -- LynnBo, 18:46:36 09/06/03 Sat
      • Thanks. Sorry I took so long to reply, I'm recovering from the first two weeks of school....and the party I threw over at the JAGboard-they just love me over there...LOL! (NT) -- Mama Cass who will definitly be dropping by more often now that she has a week to breathe again! LOL!, 13:17:32 09/22/03 Mon

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• Remember when I posted "I have too many books" last year? -- KatieS (feeling pretty good :D), 21:44:39 09/07/03 Sun (pleiades-21.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.221)
  Well. I think I lied. My schedule this year puts spanish, english, bio, history, and tech all in the morning. Spanish book is an inch thick. English book is two inches thick. Bio book is two and a half inches thick. history book is two inches thick. Spanish workbook is half inch thick. English binder 1 inch thick, bio binder one inch thick. Trapper keeper is two inches and stuffed full. Thats a TON of books. LOL. And then in the afternoon all I have is my mathbook which is barely an inch and a half, my Home Ec. binder which is an inch, and my trapper keeper. LOL!!!!! Wow last year I was complaining about some four or five inches of books... LOL! Anyways. Thank God they let us carry bookbags or I'd die with only five mins to go to locker between classes if you want to.
  I was bored so I decided to post her, see you people later.
  Katie
  

  
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  • Oh man do I sympathise with you... I just started university last week and my books are crazy big. I'm an arts/social science major and that means tonnes and tonnes of texts and novels and all that jazz. I have 10 novels for my lit class, and then 1 text. I have 3 spanish texts, 2 French texts, 3 Poli Sci texts and 1 history text which was to be 15cm thick. Luckily, some of profs told us that we'd be nuts to actually bring the texts so most of them get to stay in my room while I go off and learn! (NT) -- Heather K, 23:11:17 09/10/03 Wed
    • WOW! It's crazy, isn't it? Sadly, I have absolutely no time to go to my locker unless I want a detention, so the first five periods I just get a killer backache. I go home every night feeling like my shoulders are falling out of their sockets, LOL. IT's craziness - why can't they make textbooks in sections, and give you the section you need when you need it? (NT) -- KatieS, 20:51:16 09/11/03 Thu
      • That'd be way too easy and nothing in life can ever be simple! :P The worst part of the whole deal is that with tuition every student is given a bus pass, so every student who isn't in residence (because only 1st years from out of town can live in residence) take the bus. So the buses are packed with students with humongous bags and I regularly get hit by them- I have bruises up and down my arms!! (NT) -- Heather K, 21:39:00 09/14/03 Sun
        • Oh, no kidding. I ride the school bus (yes... the big yellow one... sigh) to school every day and the kids on it are awful! Not only do most of us have huge bookbags (except a few dorks who don't bother to do their homework) but those aforementioned dorks scream the F word at anyone who happens to cross their paths. It's sooooo annoying! Ugh. 8-10 more years until I don't have to go to school anymore... except for the part where I want to be a teacher but that's different - LOL! (NT) -- KatieS, 20:21:53 09/15/03 Mon
  • Hmmm. I have 2 engl. 101 books (3 if you count a dictionary), 2 law 200 books, 2 math 120 books, just 1 big ol psych book, and a partridge in a pear tree. LOL (NT) -- Mama Cass, 13:13:01 09/22/03 Mon

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• OK You're gonna be so proud of me :D -- KatieS, 22:45:30 09/19/03 Fri (pleiades-49.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.249)
  OK. First math test was exponent timed test (4 mins) and I got a B on it. Second was the same test only in a different order. I got an A on that one, which brought my total grade up to an A- with my homework grades (I have 100% of the homework). Then we take this mid-chapter quiz, and I miss like two. My grade goes up to 94%. Yesterday, we took a biiiiggg test. I only missed TWO out of fifty - my grade goes up to 95.5%. EEEK! I'm getting an A in ALGEBRA TWO! OMG! :D LOLOL.
  

  
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  • Woo Hoo! You go, girl! I thought you must be doing well in Algebra 2 'cause I hadn't seen any posts screaming for help and complaining about how "stooopid" (did you hear the Dexter accent there?) math is! I also thought you would find Algebra 2 to be relatively easy because it is mostly Algebra 1 topics just raised to a little higher level. I am very proud of your average and I hope you continue to do well. Are you liking your new school more than you were when you started? I am loving my year, but I must admit that I am actually fearful that things are going too well! I can't help but feel that disaster is just around the corner! LOL (NT) -- LynnBo - getting a ''crick" in my neck from always looking over my shoulder to see if "disaster" is trying to sneak up on me!, 18:16:06 09/20/03 Sat
    • Hey! Yea- Algebra 2 isn't bad at all- I get the feeling it's gonna get harder soon, but- it makes me feel sort of smart sometimes because we learned the foundations to alot of this in algebra 1 and so when he starts out a problem I recognize it sort of. Last year it was like AAACK! WHY did she just throw five letters into that equation? LOL. I did get a little confused for a while on this whole f(g(x)) function thing but I did it okay on the test. And he tried to teach us point slope form on Friday and I was a little lost because that wasn't the way we learned to solve problems given the same information last year. But anyways. I'm seriously doubting whether or not you will understand any of that - I'm so tired. LOL. And I'm liking high school a little tiny bit better... not real fond of it though. Next week I'm going to one of my old middle school's football games (Which I'm SURE they will lose, but, still fun!) and I'm involved in a ton. This is gonna go way over - inside. -- KatieS, 22:06:45 09/20/03 Sat
  • Yea!!! Maybe the good math luck will rub off!!! LOL! (NT) -- Mama Cass, 13:10:14 09/22/03 Mon

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• Please take a moment... -- KatieS, 22:15:11 09/11/03 Thu (pleiades-21.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.221)
  Everyone, please take a moment today to remember the victims who died at the hands of terrorists two years ago. God Bless America.
  

  
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• homework help ! -- Webtutor, 06:54:12 08/27/03 Wed (m81-mp1.cvx6-a.pop.dial.ntli.net/62.255.84.81)
  hello everyone - great site - i have recently come across a site called WebTutor which is an interative online tutition system where you e-mail a question and we help you with the answer - access it at www.webtutor.tk - you can get specimen coursework and homework as well - its great. keep up the good work.
  

  
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• KatieS, as you start high school tomorrow... -- LynnBo, 12:39:08 08/24/03 Sun (NoHost/63.83.242.191)
  I just wanted to wish you luck. I know you must feel nervous and scared, but remember that you are not the only student feeling that way. I just graduated my second set of advisees, which means I have freshmen advisees this year. I could see the fright in their faces, but I assured them that even our seniors would have some adjustments. We have several new faculty members, old faculty members have moved to different rooms and a new auditorium is being built across the easiest accessway we had to the building that houses the gym and shop classes. EVERYONE had reason to feel lost this year! I bet some of this will be true for your new school. You are a very bright young lady and you will become a welcome addition to your new school in no time. Try not to miss your old school too much; as much as you liked it, you are never going to be a student there again! One of the first things I do with my freshmen is to tell them to quit saying, "Last year at Foley..." and start saying, "From now on at Southern..." because from now on they are at Southern! The sooner they accept that, the sooner they will feel a part of our school. Also, all of the faculty tries to pay special attention to our freshmen, I'm sure the faculty at your new school will, too. I bet that the fear and trepidation you might feel tomorrow morning is replaced by excitement and enthusiam by the afternoon! Now, you go get 'em, girl.
  

  
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  • Hii! Thanks so much for your well wishes - you have no idea how much that means to me. I am really nervous but I hope that it will turn out okay. My friend is being really great - sort of like having a big sister. Walking me to my bus stop and all, i am glad to have friends who are already there. I'm sure it'll be okay, and I'm going back to visit the middle school next week. Anyways I'll let you know how it went. (NT) -- KatieS, 21:12:48 08/24/03 Sun

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  Hello everyone,
  I would like to apologize for the amount of time that ad that was posted here by some troll of some sort was allowed to be left here. I've been out all day and couldn't be here to clean it up right away, it's gone now though and the person's IP is banned - I apologize again.
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• One more of my summer activities ;) -- KatieS, 22:35:34 08/04/03 Mon (pleiades-19.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.219)
  One more thing I am doing this summer that I am really excited about and wanted to share.... Along with my mom and one other lady from our church, I am teaching VBS to preschoolers this week. We started Sunday night - it is SO fun! The kids are absolutely *adorable*, though I can name three to five who were a tad bit... er... troublesome. We had alot of fun though, and overall, the kids were really good. Even this one little boy who is constantly causing trouble (he got put in time out and the entire time he sat there screamed "HAHA!" every time someone got upset over something...) seems to like me. They are adorable, constantly crawling up onto your lap and asking to hold your hands. And OMG this is so funny - they refer to me as "teacher". Wow. I have never been referred to in such a way before (I feel special! LOL!) They walk up and go "Teacher, I have to go potty! Teacher, he took the apple! Teacher, can I be line leader?" LOL. They are so cute. OMG, last night we had THIRTY ONE kids for THREE HOURS. It was craziness. Thankfully they moved a few over to a different class today and we only had 19. Now I understand why there are laws and rules about class size. I'm thinking of writing my kindergarden teacher a long letter of appriciation (there were forty six of us). LOL.
  Anyways I wanted to come and share my joy :)
  Later
  Katie
  

  
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  • Hello, Katie! Sorry I'm just now answering your message. School started Aug. 11 for me, so the entire week before I spent getting ready and the week before that I was on vacation. I'm glad you had a good experience at VBS. I can't imagine 31 pre-schoolers, 31 freshmen are almost too much for me! So far my students are extremely well-behaved and hard working. I hope it isn't the "quiet before the storm!" When do you go back to school? (NT) -- LynnBo who once had 41 students in a general math class because of a master scheduling goof that couldn't be fixed! My principal gave me a huge bouquet of flowers for service above and beyond the call of duty! I would rather he found a way to fix the goof..., 20:15:33 08/20/03 Wed
    • Hey! I'm glad the start of school is going well for you. We start on Monday, the 25th. I went to pick up my schedule last night... according to my friend who is a year older than me, my Algebra 2 teacher is very nice - I hope she's right. We might be going back to visit my middle school soon too, former students are always visiting their old teachers and stuff there. I can't wait to do that! Anyways, I'm really really nervous about the start of school but I can't wait. (NT) -- KatieS (41?! Wow that's quite a few. Our limit here is 27 I think... 41 would NEVER fit into one of these classrooms. In Kindergarden we had to move to a special double classroom to fit all 46 of us...), 21:16:37 08/20/03 Wed

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• How my summer is going -- KatieS, 21:57:25 06/24/03 Tue (pleiades-44.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.244)
  Well I promised I'd post this... it's in the first reply.
  

  
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  • Inside... -- KatieS, 22:05:39 06/24/03 Tue
    • WOW! Did you find time to sleep? Sounds like your summer is off to a good start. If you miss your school friends, could you not have them for a stay over? Could they volunteer with you? Anyway, have a happy rest of the summer! (NT) -- LynnBo...who will need to go back to work to rest up from all the work I've been doing around the house and at other relatives' houses! At least I get to sleep-in., 23:15:58 06/30/03 Mon
      • Actually, very little sleeping goes on at night around here... mostly between 1 AM and 10 AM, LOL. I do see my friends lots, I have them stay over and stuff... but, (is this weird?) I miss the teachers and classes too. I have emailed my science teacher twice now, LOL, her email is on her webpage. She doesn't mind (as far as I know). I have binders full of my old work... I look through them occasionally. BTW I got bored the other day, you'd be proud of me, I used my time to practice math, LOL. (NT) -- KatieS, 01:24:36 07/01/03 Tue
        • Katie, it is probably too late for this summer, but next spring, search for academic camps or enrichment camps or gifted and talented camps near you. There should be something nearby if you are anywhere close to a college or university. I have had several students who went to such camps and it really filled a need for them. Ask your high school counselors for help, that's their job! Sometimes education fails academically gifted students, don't let that happen to you. And yes, I'm proud of you for practicing math! (NT) -- LynnBo, 19:21:29 07/02/03 Wed
          • I did go to an enrichment camp last year... It was really cool and I loved it, but I didn't go this year, (1) because I was shy and didn't want to give out the recommendation forms to my teachers who really wouldn't have minded anyways, and (2) I was afraid I wouldn't like it this year because there are alot of circumstances that determine whether or not you will have fun like if you get a good counselor or not, etc. Next summer I'll be too old for that particular one but the district is really good about letting us know when there are oppertunities. I love our district ;) Now if only they'd *fix the FUNDING!* LOL. Thanks for all your advice and suggestions, I really appriciate it!! (NT) -- KatieS, 19:40:04 07/02/03 Wed
            • Don't ever be too shy to ask a teacher for a letter of recommendation. We love writing them for deserving students! And you're welcome, I love giving advice to young people, it's one of the reasons I became a teacher. If you have a hard time making connections to your new teachers and counselors, don't hesitate to come here and ask me for help. I would be honored to give it. Also, don't forget I will be available for any math help you might need! (NT) -- LynnBo, 17:15:21 07/03/03 Thu
              • I just must say thanks again... I bet you wish I'd quit that. Anyways... because you've been here to help me with all my algebra issues this year and I'm sure I'll still need it next year too - I'm supposed to be moving on to algebra 2, and while I didn't make it with a whole lot of points to spare, I did make it... so it gets harder from here. I'll definitely need all the help I can get - thanks so much. And BTW I know at least 3 of my teachers absolutely wouldn't have minded filling out my recommendation thingy, but I have this odd personality trait where I get really shy half the time. Like I'll really want to go up and say hi to someone but I'll be afraid to, and then they'll come and ask me why I haven't said hi, LOL. My 8th grade teachers were the greatest, I'm just reeeeally scared about next year. It helps alot to know you're here to help me :) (NT) -- KatieS, 00:43:05 07/04/03 Fri

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• ITS OVER FOR ME!!! OH I'M SO SAD!! -- KatieS, 20:36:44 06/05/03 Thu (pleiades-24.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.224)
  Today was our last day of eighth grade. Everyone cried tons and hugged each other four billion times, especially me. I was a basket case. But we had an excellent last day, except that I am now very sunburned (I TOTALLY PREDICTED IT!) from sitting out by this pool behind our school. But overall I think it was a perfect end to a perfect year. I guess not much more homework for the next few months unless someone does summer term or summer school. I'll still be back to check the board every day! Love you all, anyone who is lurking!
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  • Does anyone have any remedies for being so homesick for school that you can't function properly?? Oh, I think today was one of the worst days of my life!! I did not know that summer would suck this bad!!!! (NT) -- KatieS (I AM going to TRY to be OPTIMISTIC now! It's REALLY hard!), 20:26:37 06/06/03 Fri
    • Katie, you are a riot! I never, ever missed school when I was a student and now as a teacher! I was athletic and played sports and hung out at the pool. If those aren't options for you, let me present some ideas inside. -- LynnBo, 21:33:57 06/06/03 Fri
      • Hey, thanks :) Inside... -- KatieS, 11:49:27 06/07/03 Sat

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• Project Help -- Bill, 17:00:03 05/18/03 Sun (cache-rf02.proxy.aol.com/152.163.252.98)
  I am doing a project on internet advertising and how it invades our privacy/is unfair (SPAM, tricky ads/sign ups) and I'm having trouble finding sources. If anyone could help me or suggest a place to look that would be very helpful.
  

  
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  • There is a website, one of the trickiest ad tricks I know of.... it's called someonelikesyou.com and you are supposed to go there and type your crush's email address as well as the addresses of several friends, and it will send an email to your crush to ask if they like you. Well the email goes out to all the friends you type in and when they get it it says someone likes you, if you go to the site then it asks a bunch of questions and makes you enter a bunch of email addresses for your friends so it can send MORE email ads, etc... it's just awful... they are responsible for like half my spam. (NT) -- KatieS (who has very gullible friends...), 22:44:58 05/18/03 Sun

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• Algebra... it's just so pleasant how they put polynomials on top of polynomials multiplied by more polynomials.... sigh. -- KatieS (who, for the record, detests ALL polynomials), 21:05:03 05/11/03 Sun (pleiades-28.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.228)
  Okay, I was doing my homework and there were a few problems that I had trouble with... we have the answers, my answers just are not matching up to their answers.
  Here are the problems and how I did them as well as the correct answers.
  
  Problem #1:
  8a-40 a-8
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  40-3a-a^2 2a^2-8a
  
  8(a-5) a-8
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  -a^2-3a+40 2a(a-4)
  
  8(a-5) a-8
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  -(a-8)(a+3) 2a(a-4)
  
  8(a-5) 1
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  8(a-5)
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  -6a^2(a-4)
  
  4(a-5)
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  Correct answer:
  -4(a-8)
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  a(a+8)(a-4)
  
  there are 2 or 3 more inside the first reply
  

  
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  • Only one more I guess... -- KatieS, 21:22:25 05/11/03 Sun
    • Corrections for problem # 2 inside... -- LynnBo, 23:20:39 05/11/03 Sun
  • You've made a couple or mistakes on the first denominator....inside for the rest. -- LynnBo, 23:12:11 05/11/03 Sun
    • Thanks again for the help, it is really great to have someone here to help who actually understands polynomials, LOL. I mean, my teacher is great and we all love her, but, I think she'd think it was pretty weird if I called her for help on Sunday night, LOL. Also, checking this board made me remember to study for my quiz tomorrow... I might pass it this time! (she had to give us a retest because everyone failed the first one. I'd rather not fail it twice.) (NT) -- KatieS who has gotten far too used to typing "JF1" but you know who I am., 22:53:35 05/12/03 Mon
    • Thanks again for the help, it is really great to have someone here to help who actually understands polynomials, LOL. I mean, my teacher is great and we all love her, but, I think she'd think it was pretty weird if I called her for help on Sunday night, LOL. Also, checking this board made me remember to study for my quiz tomorrow... I might pass it this time! (she had to give us a retest because everyone failed the first one. I'd rather not fail it twice.) (NT) -- KatieS who has gotten far too used to typing "JF1" but you know who I am., 22:54:38 05/12/03 Mon
      • ignore this its a test... (NT) -- KatieS, 22:56:02 05/12/03 Mon
        • Wow, do I have double-post syndrome or what? (NT) -- KatieS, 22:57:31 05/12/03 Mon
  • By the way, young lady, I notice it was late Sunday evening when you posted. Surely you didn't procrastinate, now did you? (Hope you can tell I'm only MILDLY scolding you!) (NT) -- LynnBo (who was the queen of procrastination when it came to all subjects EXCEPT math!), 23:26:43 05/11/03 Sun
    • LOL, yes, it was Sunday night... BUT I wasn't procrastinating as bad as you think... I did some of it Thursday at school (we didn't have class Friday), some of it Saturday afternoon, and the REST sunday night! LOL! I only posted the ones I didn't get at the end. Besides, I had a scrapbook to do for social studies and that was more fun (haha, no offense...) Seriously though, you know you have no life when all you do all weekend is your homework... (NT) -- JF1 :) thanking you for the help!!!!, 22:47:51 05/12/03 Mon

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• Home Biome Ideas needed -- SurfDude16, 18:52:25 05/11/03 Sun (209-142-18-237.stk.inreach.net/209.142.18.237)
  In our science class we have been assigned to make a home biome. This means we will have a consumer (animal that consumes something else for food), producers (plants that produce oxygen and energy), and decomposers (things that break down dead material into nutrients). The system is closed to the outside world, so it needs oxygen and food inside it.
  I would like to get some ideas on what animals to use, especially the consumer. It needs to be a fairly small animal that doesnt eat much. A plant-eating animal might be desireable because then the prey wont need to reproduce. Thanks for your input.
  

  
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  • How about a rabbit? (NT) -- KatieS, 20:42:00 05/11/03 Sun

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• Graphing Systems of Linear Inequalities (eighth grade Algebra) -- KatieS, 18:57:33 01/09/03 Thu (pleiades-42.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.242)
  Okay... here's the problem:
  A contractor has at most $33 to spend on nails for a project. The contractor needs at least 9lb of finish nails and 12 lb of common nails. How many pounds of each type of nail should he buy if common nails are 55 cents/lb and Finish nails are 60 cents/lb?
  a. Write a system of three inequalities that describes this situation.
  
  First of all, I don't know how to write a system of THREE inequalities... it hardly looks like enough information to do one or two. I don't need anyone to write them for me, I only need someone to explain where you get all of the information and how you might put it into an equation. (I'm confused... we only did two inequalties together in class!)
  Thanks,
  Katie :)
  

  
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  • graphing systems of linear inequalities -- alicia, 21:35:24 01/09/03 Thu
    • Thank you so much, this helps me alot and will probably also help me explain it to my best friend tomorrow... LOL!!!! Bless you... I really hate algebra. :) Thanks for being here. (NT) -- KatieS (who ends up helping her best friend with algebra every other night, 22:33:34 01/09/03 Thu
  • I am a lurker at Maeve's and I also teach algebra (inside) -- LynnBo, 20:59:28 01/10/03 Fri
    • YES!!! Thank you so much!!!! :) That's what I (finally) ended up with :) And now I can help my friend when she calls me and begs me to help her :) Thank you so much!!!! (NT) -- KatieS :), 21:06:02 01/10/03 Fri
  • graphing -- alicia, 21:20:46 01/10/03 Fri
    • LOL, you did fine. What you said made sense to me too... the textbook and my Algebra teacher say otherwise... but... if I understood, I wouldn't have been asking for help, right? LOL. You were doing better than me :) (NT) -- KatieS, 19:28:06 01/11/03 Sat
  • Inequalties -- Jordan, 22:41:20 05/01/03 Thu

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  I need help I have to do a science disscusion question. It says,
  Discuss sexual and asexual reproduction in cnidarians.
  

  
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• can someone please edit my essay by sunday. really important -- kevin, 08:36:55 04/25/03 Fri (NoHost/66.59.149.229)
  here it is . thanks in advance
  things im want to focus on
  grammar, sent. structure, and present tense/past tense usage
  
  you can email me the good copy at chinkyeyez13@hotmail.com if you wish
  
  
  Can anyone spend twenty-eight years on a desert island all alone? The novel, Robinson Crusoe shows faith in a person to survive purely on determination and will. It manages to persuade us that some things that seem impossible may be possible. Crusoe is on the island for exactly twenty-eight years, two months and nineteen days. The way that Crusoe successfully adapts to the island through his religion, his determination to survive, and his self-awareness.
  
  Religion has been major factor in Crusoe¡¦s survival on the island. God plays a crucial role in determining Crusoe¡¦s actions and fate for his survival. The determination and will to survive is what gives Crusoe a reason to believe in religion. He is able to transform to a new person out of the surrounding, anonymous wilderness. His life on the island would have been more difficult without God at his side. He is grateful for God for opening a new path for him, as a result, he became a more open and free person, ¡§I thank¡¦d God fro being there, yet I sincerely gave Thanks to God for opening my eyes¡¨ (Defoe, 114). When Crusoe marks the passing of days ¡§with knife upon large post, in capital letters, and making it into a great cross.¡¨ (Defoe, 64) it shows that the cross is a symbol of his new existence on the island just like how a Christian cross is a symbol of the Christian¡¦s new life. In addition, Crusoe reads the bible everyday to seek divine guidance from God. The effects of reading the bible is a positive note for Crusoe because his decisions on the island became more composed than he was before. He no longer follows his own will, but bows before the will of God ¡§Each of his actions are followed by a passage of reflection in which Crusoe ponders over the problem of how it reveals the intentions of divine providence¡¨(Colderidge, 2318). However, the importance of religion hadn¡¦t come along until a series of events that nearly caused his death, ¡§ The sprouting seeds, the earthquake, his illness and dream, are natural events that we watch Robinson painfully and imperfectly learn to spiritualise to read as signs of God¡¦s presence¡¨ (Hunter, 1-22). While it¡¦s important to be grateful for God¡¦s miracles, Crusoe realizes it is not simply enough to express gratitude by praying to God. Crusoe figures what he needs most is, repentance. The necessity of repentance marks a turning in Crusoe¡¦s spiritual consciousness. After repentance, he complains less about his fate and views the island more positively. This is how his attitude towards God has helped Crusoe adapt to the environment.
  
  His determination to survive also contributed in his success in adapting to the environment. Crusoe arrived in an unknown environment yet he still made it his home by overcoming any obstacles. He is able to master his situation and his fate that brought him on the island. Early in the novel, he blames himself for disobeying his father¡¦s advice or blames the destiny that drove him to sea. However, in the later part of the novel, Crusoe stops viewing himself as a passive victim and strikes a new note of self-determination. His determination paid off, as he became a hero by becoming ¡§an architect, a carpenter, a knife grinder, an astronomer, a baker, a shipwright, a potter, a saddler, a farmer, a tailor, an umbrella-maker, and a clergyman¡¨(Brown, 54-60). These skills that Crusoe developed revealed his determination and willpower in order to survive on the island. It helped him to adapt to the environment by using the resources around him and using it efficiently. ¡§Crusoe learns that by working with his surroundings rather than loathing in his misfortune, he is able to find and use everything he needs in order to carry out life¡¨. (Defoe, 106) His determination to survive enabled him to provide himself a constant supply of food. Each new edible item marks a news stage in his mastery of his island. It also represents Crusoe¡¦s ability to integrate the island into his life. ¡§ The physical aspects of vegetables growing on the island represented the spiritual and emotional growth that is taking place in Crusoe himself (Peck, 96) His hard paid work paid off as he was able to turn an uncivilized island to an island for mankind. This is established when Crusoe declares himself as the king on the island. ¡§I though myself very rich in subjects; and it was a marry reflection, which I frequently made, how like a king I looked¡¨ (Defoe, 217) His life on the island would not have lasted very long if it wasn¡¦t the willingness to survive Crusoe¡¦s character showed in the novel.
  
  Finally, Robinson Crusoe uses his self-awareness to adapt to the environment Crusoe doesn't become a beast even though he was on an island that enticed him to do so. He didn't lose his human self to the isolation and the barbaric existence he is living in. As Crusoe is living on the island, it deepened his self ¡V awareness. It caused Crusoe to development mentally, physically, and spiritually. He becomes introverted by ignoring the outside society in order to preserve himself. He looked at who he was and truly learned who he was while isolated on the island. ¡§By acquiring a sense of place, a sense of self was established¡¨ (Butler 99). He gained his characteristics based on his living standards on the island. He feels important of staying aware at all times. This is shown through the journal that he writes in everyday. He keeps details that are with little importance such as finding a few pieces of wood. ¡§The Journal thus provides a means to increased understanding and control of the self¡¨(Defoe, 114). It keeps him grounded in reality and he doesn¡¦t lose track of himself. The importance of self-awareness is also shown in his fear of being of consumed by the cannibals. He is put in a radical situation where someone else is above him in the food chain. The fact that he is removed from a restrained but comfortable society indicates he's discovering new things about himself because he is in a totally unfamiliar situation. The extreme stress will cause him to act in ways that he hasn't before. For example, the discovery of a footprint on the sand represents his confused feelings toward human companionship. The footprint foreshadows an attraction to mankind. However, Crusoe takes the footprint negatively, assuming it is the print of a devil or an aggressor. As a result, ¡§He must always be on guard. He never loses the agonizing the sense of being watched¡¨ (Brown, 54-60). His sense of security has increased, as he must always be cautious around his surroundings. Finally, Crusoe expresses his views on self-awareness through nature. This is demonstrated when he teaches his parrot to say the words ¡§Poor Robin Crusoe, Where are you? Where have you been? How come you here?¡¨ (Defoe, 143) This shows that Crusoe is doing a self-reflection on himself. He is beginning to feel the effects of being lonely on the solitude island. This is how self-awareness contributes to Crusoe¡¦s adaptation to the environment.
  
  In conclusion, being stranded on an island for twenty-eight years is an intolerable task. However, Robinson Crusoe is able to shows us that through his religion, his determination to survive and his self-awareness that it is possible to survive on a solitude island. It was his destiny that brought Crusoe on the island, and it was also his destiny to survive on the island.
  

  
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  • I believe, and this is all I had time to do, that "spiritualise" as it is written in your essay should be "spiritualize". (NT) -- KatieS, 22:18:45 04/26/03 Sat

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• Island Project Problem HELP PLEASE -- Andrew, 21:15:48 04/23/03 Wed (2Cust97.tnt11.det3.da.uu.net/67.217.126.97)
  Design an Island
  
  
  You have been commissioned by a wealthy billionaire to build an island! (When money is no object, anything can be built.) The island you design must have an area of exactly 24 square miles. There is no requirement on the perimeter. The billionaire wants to divide the island into the 24 square mile sections to sell to people wanting a place to build their vacation home. THe land pieces can be like any of these:
  
  water
  land water - water on 3 sides = $15,000
  water
  
  
  water water
  land water OR land land- 2 sides = $10,000
  land water
  
  land
  land water - one side = $7,500
  land
  
  land
  land land = $5,000
  land
  
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  l l
  l l
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  l l
  l l
  l----l
  -----l = this configuration is not possible
  l l
  l l
  l----l
  
  
  -----l
  l l = one square mile
  l l
  l----l
  
  
  Design the most expensive island possible. Make a map of this island. Include color and be as detailed as possible. Show the divisions between each of the 24 plots that will be sold. Someplace on this map, list the AREA and PERIMETER of the island. What is the price of the entire island?
  
  Now design the least expensive island possible. (The island still must be 24 square miles.) Make a map of this island that shows the divisions between each of the 24 plots. Someplace on this map, list the AREA and PERIMETER of the island. What is the price of the entire island?
  

  
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• Presentation tips? -- KatieS, 21:15:58 04/18/03 Fri (pleiades-51.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.251)
  Hey,
  I was just wondering if anyone had any tips for giving group presentations. I have to give a big one complete with lesson outline, visual aids, and handouts on Tuesday, and I'm really nervous about it. My last one, I said "um" about forty seven times. LOL.
  Thanks,
  Katie :)
  

  
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• PLEASE HELP -- Brandi, 15:01:15 04/13/03 Sun (csta-19223.communicomm.com/24.143.19.223)
  This is and extra credit assignment for Finite. I am thinking there isn't enough information to solve for a numerical answer. the question is:
  
  A person travels up a hill at 20 mph. and back down at 30 mph. What is the AVERAGE SPEED for the entire trip? (hint: remember rate X time = distance)
  

  
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    • the instructor already said that 25 is not the answer and there is some way to solve by writing an expression and using x (NT) -- brandi, 23:43:17 04/13/03 Sun
  • Make a chart... -- LynnBo, 23:58:03 04/13/03 Sun

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• i need help about social workers -- Lisa, 22:08:33 04/06/03 Sun (cache-dm08.proxy.aol.com/205.188.209.76)
  i really really really need help i want to know what are the advantages and disadvantages in the career of a social worker i am in high school this is for parenting class and i really need help pleazzzz help!!!!!!!!
  

  
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• Transforming Formulas -- Sarah, 18:30:56 04/03/03 Thu (72.hartford-14rh16rt.ct.dial-access.att.net/12.90.187.72)
  Forgot the problem:
  S=_a_______
  a-r
  Solve for r
  

  
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    • Thank you!!!! :) I totally didn't understand the problem... (NT) -- KatieS, 23:15:58 04/04/03 Fri

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• The Outsiders language arts project -- KatieS, 21:32:13 03/23/03 Sun (pleiades-09.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.209)
  I need help. If anyone has read this book, I have to come up with a symbol for each character, and then I have to make a detailed character map... Oh it's so hard. I don't know how to fit everyone on a character map, does anyone know how to organize one? And I need symbol ideas too, I have a few but they're not very good...
  I'd appriciate any help I can get...... what' I've got so far I'm not real proud of..... esp. when I tried to draw it, you couldn't tell what line went where.
  

  
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• I think VOY has gone italic! I'll get in and look at it, but I honestly think it's stuck this way until they fix it! -- KatieS, 20:06:38 03/17/03 Mon (pleiades-30.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.230)
  
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• Katie, I just checked your voy forum as mentionned on CB's (still existing) MB... so I'm fluently in french and german so if any of you peple need help with this...just post (or mail) and I'll try do my best, -- Nancy Erin, 05:05:29 03/07/03 Fri (NoHost/217.31.64.58)
  
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  • Hey, thanks a bunch! That helps! (*tear* my friends are so nice) Hey are you going to go to the new MB that Choebe set up? (NT) -- KatieS, 20:02:36 03/08/03 Sat
    • I'm already there Katie.... looking forward to see you - your big sis (NT) -- Nancy Erin, 05:35:00 03/10/03 Mon

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• Word problems -- someyoungai, 20:09:44 10/01/02 Tue (pcp555025pcs.galitn01.tn.comcast.net/68.53.70.39)
  please help me with the following problem. I have been working on it for two days.
  
  A person divided a sum of money amoung four children so that the share of the eldest was 1/2 the sum of the shares of the other three, the share of the second was 1/3 of the sum of the share of the other three, and the share of the third was 1/4 of the sum of the other three. The eldest received $14,000 more than the share of the youngest. What was the share of each.
  

  
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  • Wow. Well I don't know if I can *solve* it for you, but I can help... click on this message. -- KatieS, 21:58:02 10/02/02 Wed
  • Some help inside. -- Rosie, 09:44:57 10/03/02 Thu
  • Word Forum -- Dale W. Ruthenberg, 09:29:22 02/25/03 Tue

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• I LOVE MY SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (aka random ramblings of a.... **tries to think of an R word** skip it... bored teenager) -- KatieS, 22:10:33 02/22/03 Sat (pleiades-27.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.227)
  Sorry, just felt like posting that... LOL. You know what? I dreamed about school again last night. It was really weird. There was this mall attatched to my school, and we all went running through it in slippers, and me and my one friend kept running into each other... (her mom was there, and her mom looked like her, in real life, they don't look the slightest bit alike LOL) and there was this really nice house attatched to it too, and it was full or rooms, all with a double bed and a TV, like a hotel sort of, me and my friends were watching TV and eating popcorn and throwing candy at each other, LOL. And my one teacher was ice skating in the entrance hall to the school, LOLOL!
  
  You know, it's really creepy when you start to dream about school. I mean, yeah, dreaming about JAG or something (most people who post here know what JAG is, if you don't sorry) I can understand because that's something you really like/are obsessed with...... But my friends think it's weird if I am obsessed with school, LOL.
  
  But I do love my school. Friday we had alot of fun, despite this awful test I had to take (and almost got done with, too...) and OMG so many good things have happened this week. I moved up to fourth chair in band! And for once I'm getting my algebra (as in understanding it... for the time being) and I did this project in the last few weeks that I worked REALLY hard on, and I got a REALLY good grade on it, to me, like the best grade I've ever gotten. I had all of three huge projects due last week, and I got all of them done and am really proud of the work I did.
  
  Is anyone else having such good fortune? If you're not, VENT! Go ahead, vent! Maybe someone can help! If you are, feel free to share your stories and your joy! if anyone ever reads this board anyways... LOL.
  Talk to you later, even if you're a ghost person!
  Katie :)
  Ghost person... is that an oxemoron? Did I spell "oxemoron" right? Don't feel like finding a spellcheck...
  

  
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• Stupid question -- KatieS, 19:55:24 02/07/03 Fri (pleiades-22.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.222)
  Which state is referred to by the abbreiviation "MO"? I know that's a stupid question, but we haven't done abbreviations yet, only location and capitals... LOL sorry.
  

  
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  • I just guessing, because I've never taken American geography but I do know most of the abbreviations, I think that would be Missouri... (NT) -- Heather K, 21:18:30 02/09/03 Sun
    • ......It is......... **Embarassed** And Social Studies is my best/favorite subject... LOL. Gosh darnit, we haven't done abbreviations yet because no one is passing the location/capitals tests.... (NT) -- KatieS, 22:25:53 02/14/03 Fri

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• help!!!!!!!!! Model United Nations -- brie, 14:01:12 02/10/03 Mon (apx1-05-10.pdx.du.teleport.com/216.26.3.10)
  i need help finding info for solutions on world wide violence. the sub topics are suicide domestic violence and wartime violence. im freaking out ive searched high and low and now its crunch time cuz its due tommorow.Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  

  
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  • Wow. Okay, well what you should do, is go up into your URL bar, and type a specific topic (ex. World Violence). Then a list of results will come up, click on any that sound relevant and review the info. Information on stuff like this is everywhere if you look for it... CNN (www.cnn.com) and places like that are great sources. Especially try CNN international. (NT) -- KatieS, 21:20:10 02/10/03 Mon
    • If I may dissuade you from using CNN... last semester I took an international law class (12U level... in the States I guess you'd call it Advanced Prep. or something). My teacher told us that CNN was never a credible network until the Gulf War and only because they had the only live feed from Baghdad. I would go to a reputable source (avoid news organisations for anything but simple facts, they're biased)... go to the UN's page (www.un.org), they have a war crimes page. Go to an online encyclopaedia (Encarta, Britannica) and do a war crimes/violence search. Or go to an international endowment page for world peace (Carnegie or something like it). If you have any questions, I did a whole unit on war crime/tribunals- I could help. Good luck! (NT) -- Heather K, 15:04:01 02/11/03 Tue
      • Wow, I didn't know that!! Thanks, that's good to know. (NT) -- KatieS, 19:45:25 02/11/03 Tue
        • Me neither until a few months ago... and it was kinda disappointing, because I'm a news junky and quite enjoyed CNN- I still watch it, I just take it all with a grain of salt. (NT) -- Heather, 07:21:05 02/13/03 Thu

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• I need help, but it doesn't involve homework... it's about high school. -- KatieS, 22:51:08 02/03/03 Mon (pleiades-40.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.240)
  Next year, I have to leave my beloved eighth grade and go to high school and be the baby again. Moreover, I'm going to a different high school than alot of my best friends. Friends who have been there for me through everything, who I'll really miss. Since many of us are getting stuck in the ASP track, we'll have like no time to talk. And plus, I really love my teachers this year, and next year I can't help but think that I couldn't possibly get as good of teachers as I did this year.
  
  I think I'm really going to have trouble adjusting. As of now, every time I think about it I get this uneasy feeling in my stomach like you get if you're homesick or really really nervous about something. Not jittery nervous, sad nervous. It makes me cry, really.
  
  Does anyone have any words of wisdom or anything to help me with it? I dunno, I'm just scared I guess, or something.
  Thanks,
  Katie
  

  
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  • Inside, Katie... -- Heather K, 06:36:17 02/04/03 Tue
    • Moron that I am, I wrote emphasize, not empathize... the latter is what I meant. (NT) -- Heather, 14:57:08 02/04/03 Tue
    • Thanks, Heather, that helps. I'm supposing once I've been there for a couple weeks it won't be so bad. I was sick for seventh grade the first few weeks of eighth too, and now look! LOL! (NT) -- JF1 (who still absolutely loves her school!), 22:02:33 02/04/03 Tue

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• Prayers -- KatieS, 21:46:06 02/01/03 Sat (pleiades-49.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.249)
  I hope that everyone will keep the families of those aboard the space shuttle Columbia in your prayers. This is the first thing of its kind since challenger, today will be remembered with sadness.
  

  
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• I won't be here... my family needs prayers -- KatieS, 19:30:39 01/29/03 Wed (pleiades-47.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.247)
  I just found out today that my great grandmother passed away today. Everyone is really confused and stuff... I have several distant relatives who need to get here, so we're not really sure when we're having a funeral, but I know that sometime within the next few days, I'll be leaving for a few days. I'm sorry, I know I'm supposed to moderate this board, but I have to go. I'm really upset right now, and this is harder for the rest of my family than it is for me, so we desperately need someone kind to pray for us. Thank you very much, everyone.
  ~Katie
  

  
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  • The last thing you need to worry about right now, Katie, is this board... just take care of your family and yourself. I'm not terribly religious, but I'll keep you in my thoughts. Best wishes. (NT) -- Heather K, 20:19:15 01/29/03 Wed
  • I am so sorry Katie. My thoughts are with you and your family. (NT) -- Rosie, 12:24:24 01/30/03 Thu
    • Thank you very much for your kind words, both of you. I just got back from her funeral, my grandfather did the service and it was very well done. I feel alot better now, and I can be happy because she is in a better place. Thanks so much you guys. (NT) -- KatieS, 17:04:30 01/31/03 Fri

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• HAPPY DANCE -- KatieS, 20:20:48 01/22/03 Wed (pleiades-48.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.248)
  Hey, everybody!!!!
  I got an award today from my school!!!!!!!!!!! :D It was a really great day for me, everything good kept happening :) I'm so happyful! We had an awesome assembly, it was hilarious... I think I'll need side surgery from the laughing. LOL! :) Soo....
  I figured we should do that happy dance!!!!
  *~Katie does the happy dance~*
  

  
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  • Congratulations Katie. I am so happy for you. (NT) -- Rosie, 12:30:17 01/30/03 Thu

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• How much do YOU know?? -- KatieS, 19:59:16 01/28/03 Tue (pleiades-44.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.244)
  I'm doing a report on the situation between Israel and the Palestinians for Language arts, and I am conducting a survey to find out how much American people know about this situation. Could you please take the time to answer this one question?
  
  How much do you know about the situation between Israel and the Palestinians?
  a. I'm practically an expert.
  b. I know the basics.
  c. I've heard of it.
  d. Who?
  

  
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  • Katie- in case you noticed that I answered below and not up here, I just wanted to let you know that I would have helped you on this one, if I were an American. But I'm not so I can't. (NT) -- Heather- I saw the posting at the JAG board and wanted to help, but I can't!, 20:43:05 01/28/03 Tue
    • Heather, feel free if you want to comment. I could always incorperate people not from America into my study, in fact, it's not a bad idea!! The only reason I said that is b/c my target audience is American Social Studies students... (NT) -- KatieS, 22:38:45 01/28/03 Tue
      • Great, I love surveys! Inside... -- Heather K, 16:38:18 01/29/03 Wed
  • I know the basics. I also wonder just how much the media is NOT telling us. (NT) -- Melissa, 09:07:56 01/29/03 Wed
    • Thanks! I agree w/ you... there is so much over there that they don't tell us. Some things, my best friend tells me about one day, and CNN tells me two months later... other things she tells me I never hear... she's right in the middle of this, so, I know alot of it... (NT) -- KatieS, 19:26:31 01/29/03 Wed
  • that depends on what you mean... basics of whats going on NOW, but then I could tell the story of Issac and Ishmael, so I know a little bit more about the historical perspective =) (NT) -- Aria, 11:49:37 01/29/03 Wed
    • Yeah, "the basics" referrs very little to anything in a historical sense... "the basics" is present. (NT) -- KatieS, 19:25:08 01/29/03 Wed
  • I too know the basics and it bothers me so much that so many innocent people are getting hurt or worse lose their life over it. I was outraged last year when they bomb the university that was vicious. (NT) -- Rosie, 12:29:00 01/30/03 Thu

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• My friend needs homework help and can't get here... ATTN all students. -- KatieS, 21:05:40 01/27/03 Mon (pleiades-52.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.252)
  My friend is doing a survey for her independent study at school, I told her I'd help her by getting information from people here...
  
  She's doing a report on student influence and has to conduct a survey of students from various schools. Here is the question.
  
  Do you think that students have influence in your school?
  Yes
  No
  I'm not sure
  
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  • Answer- absolutely... want an expanded answer? If so, through student government and the fact that without the willingness and the extracurricular participation of students, the teachers and the administrators wouldn't have the power they do. (NT) -- Heather K, 20:41:27 01/28/03 Tue
  • I'm in college, and I'd say yes and no... depending on the issue, and who you talk to... if you get up and tell the dean of finance in the middle of a student concerns convo that your lightbulb over your sink still hasn't been replaced 3 months after putting in a mainteinence request, they get you a light bulb the same day =) (our student concern convos get extremely heated, and if its something simple they can fix, they do in an attempt to keep us from getting even more angry about stuff =) (NT) -- Aria, 11:52:31 01/29/03 Wed
  • I would say definitely YES. When I was in college, there was a professor that apparently ignored female student’s in class and in his office hours. If a female student raises her hand he would not give her permission to ask her question. If a female student showed up at his office to ask question, he would turn to his computer and ignore her. So finally one day one of the female students, who were a foreigner, filled a complain. The Dean asked the other students and got more or less the same story. So the professor who was given a two year contract, a Harvard graduate, was let go after only one semester. (NT) -- Rosie, 12:23:18 01/30/03 Thu

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• SAT -- Mary, 23:49:59 01/18/03 Sat (cache-dm08.proxy.aol.com/205.188.209.76)
  Hey everyone! I have a question about the SATs. I am taking the test(s) next Saturday, and I was wondering if anyone has any words of encouragement or anything I should know before I walk into the classroom! Thanks a bunch! (I'm a little scared!!)
  

  
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  • OOH! Good luck!!!! I have never taken the SAT, I have taken the ACT twice but only through the gifted/talented student studies... my experience with this very similar testing situation was that (1) it's incredibly dull and boring while you're taking it and (2) if they give you a break, don't get lost. LOL! I think you'll do just fine on it, I know lots of people who have taken them and I think you'll do just fine. Be sure to let me know how it goes because I may be taking this test next year.... :) (NT) -- KatieS, 17:25:31 01/19/03 Sun
  • I've taken both the ACT and SAT as a junior in HS (as well as taking the ACT in 7th, and the PSAT in 10th), and I can tell you ITS NOT AS BAD AS EVERYONE THINKS IT IS.... at least it wasn't for me. biggest thing, get plenty of sleep, and drink orange juice, and just STAY CALM! my friends who have had trouble with it, normally did because they let themselves get so worked up worrying over it, that they couldn't think straight by the time they got there, they were so scared... (NT) -- Aria, 11:55:20 01/29/03 Wed

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• WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS (no kidding... LOL!) -- KatieS, 01:02:15 01/04/03 Sat (pleiades-14.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.214)
  Ohio State University beat Miami 31-24 GO BUCKEYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D excuse my happyfaces :D :D :D :D NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP WE ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOLOLOL you should hear my neighborhood celebrating... we live two miles literally from Columbus, it was bigger than New Years here!!!! :D
  

  
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  • Katie ~ Oh yeah! Go Buckeyes! I think we had this conversation on Maeve's board a few weeks ago, but when I saw this, I had to add! Ohio State was destined to beat Miami! haha, have a great day! (NT) -- Mary, 23:46:53 01/18/03 Sat

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• How many nickels does Tom have? -- Anonymous666, 19:17:52 01/13/03 Mon (boisdslgw4poolB34.bois.uswest.net/63.230.121.34)
  I really need help with this problem here:
  
  Tom and Rachel each have a collection of coins consisting of only pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. Both collections have the same cash value, but they have different numbers of each type of coin. In particular, Rachel has four more quarters than Tom, but Tom has more of ever other type of coin. In fact, Tom has a total of 32 more coins than Rachel does. If rachel has 23 nickels, how many nickels does Tom have?
  
  I was thinking that you would set it up like so-
  p+5n+10d+25q=a+5(23)+10b+25(4+q)
  p>a
  n>23
  d>b
  t=32+r
  
  Where do I go from here? Is there something I'm missing?
  

  
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  • WOW!!!! that's very confusing... we've done systems in word problems, but never that many in one system!!!! I'm not really qualified to help you here, hopefully one of the smart people will come help :) (NT) -- KatieS, 21:13:10 01/13/03 Mon
  • This problem is not about systems of equations - inside - -- LynnBo, 21:47:37 01/14/03 Tue
  • This problem is not about systems of equations - inside - -- LynnBo, 22:32:39 01/14/03 Tue
    • You would never know that I have a minor in computer science by the number of times I have double posted lately...Sorry! NT (NT) -- LynnBo, 22:39:27 01/14/03 Tue
      • LOL! Double-post happens to everybody, it's a system error. Voy is not known for it's dependability, but its' alot better than some of those bbc boards that all of the big companies use... (NT) -- KatieS, 22:24:15 01/16/03 Thu

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• homework help -- Brittany Sandifur, 09:34:49 01/13/03 Mon (e0.filt2.knox.tn.ena.net/208.183.105.4)
  Can anyone solve the equation to -4e-9=19 please i have been working on it forever
  

  
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  • Ah! A two-step equation! Well you just happen to be lucky, because I just happen to be good at those!!! :) Please click on my message for help. -- KatieS, 21:10:55 01/13/03 Mon

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• One more week... *sniff* -- KatieS, 20:09:05 12/29/02 Sun (pleiades-51.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.251)
  I have one more week of vacation left!!!! Man that seems like a long time, LOL... I actually kinda miss school because every time when I went to school, if I was having a bad morning, my morning classes and my friends would cheer me up. If I had a bad time in band and choir (not uncommon... especially the last week before break... our substitute was awful) then sixth, seventh, and eighth periods would cheer me up (those are "the good classes") But this week I'm stuck babysitting for 3/7 days, I'm supposed to go to my dad's 2/7 but I'm not planning to, and the other two I have no clue what I'm doing, LOL!
  
  Am I really that weird for liking school?? LOLOL! Seriously, I've met like one person in my entire team (all of the people who have the same teachers as I do) who agrees with me. LOL!
  
  Well since it was quiet I just felt like writing a short note, I'll talk to you all later (if you're out there)
  Katie :)
  

  
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  • Don't feel bad for liking school! I LOVED high school and am really enjoying college (I'm at Oregon State). I couldn't WAIT for classes to start again this term so that I would have something to do besides work, work, work. And everyone knows - those who like school usually end up the smartest, thus earning the most money!!! :o) (NT) -- Ninja Girl, 23:24:21 01/10/03 Fri
    • Great! Then I have something to look forward to. LOL! Hey, I've been to Oregon before... we didn't go to Oregon State I don't think, we went to one university but I don't think it was State... I dunno. But... my aunt lives in Eugene and we went like all over the place in Oregon... it was cool :) I hope I will like HS and College too... right now it feels like I'll be really sad when I leave eighth grade. I love it, everyone is so nice to me! (NT) -- KatieS, 22:14:07 01/11/03 Sat

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• IT'S BACK!!!! (dun dun dunnn... LOL!) -- KatieS, 19:47:36 01/06/03 Mon (pleiades-51.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.251)
  School is back here, for me. Some of my friends were back the day after new years (in different districts) but mine gave us longer this year... I am very glad to be back, personally... everyone else wanted today to be called as a snow day (we only have a couple inches...) but I didnt, LOL! I had a pretty good day... mostly worksheets and bookwork but in Language arts we talked the whole period (LOLOL!) and the same thing in Wellness.
  
  So that means since school is back, homework is back. Don't forget to post your problems! And please... brush up on your algebra for my sake. LOL!
  

  
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• Report - The Middle East -- KatieS, 19:33:54 12/09/02 Mon (pleiades-38.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.238)
  For Language Arts I'm doing a report on the Arab-Israeli conflict/war thingy and I need anyone with information to either post it or email me (besides Mindy, I'm emailing you girl) if you can, that would be very nice. I have a very long time to work on the report, we're not even note taking yet, just looking for sources. I'm looking at perspectives, history, peace attempts, and reasons for fighting.
  Thanks,
  Katie
  

  
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  • I did my semester history thesis on the Arab-Israeli conflict last year; also did some research on it in MUN. If you want info, email me! BTW, cool forum! (NT) -- Lilith, hoping she's not missed your deadline, 17:19:13 12/22/02 Sun
    • thanks so much, I promise i'll list you as a source, your report is well written. (NT) -- KatieS, 18:31:32 01/01/03 Wed

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• Happy New Year!!!! -- KatieS, 15:07:47 01/01/03 Wed (pleiades-19.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.219)
  Hello to anyone who is visiting this ghost town...
  I wanted to come in and wish you a happy new year!!!! That is if you're reading this. Anyways who cares if no one is, it's a nice thing to post it.. LOL. So I hope that your 2003 is wonderful!!!!
  ~Katie :)
  

  
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• Midterms -- KatieS, 22:37:27 12/18/02 Wed (pleiades-21.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.221)
  Hey everyone!! Anyone?? LOL.
  Know what?? I got awesome grades on my midterm!!!! I got a 100% in Language Arts, a 101% in Health and Science, a 97% in Social Studies, and a 93% in Algebra. I'm so proud of myself!!!! :D I worked really hard this time, last year alot of times I had missing assignments at midterms, and even at six weeks gradecards. This year I'm studying for tests and everything... found out I did really really really really well on a test I took Tuesday... I have two more tomorrow that I'm really nervous about... I hope I do good!!
  Wish you guys all luck on your evil tests!!!!
  Katie :)
  

  
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  • Hey I did awesome on one of my Thursday tests, but... um... the other one... in science... yeah I'm more than a little worried, LOL. (NT) -- KatieS, 20:12:32 12/29/02 Sun

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• Merry Christmas!!!! -- KatieS, 19:18:59 12/24/02 Tue (pleiades-50.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.250)
  Hello, everyone!!
  I didn't have the email addresses of all posters and lurkers, so I wanted to come on here and wish the whole board a Merry Christmas. And if you celebrate Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, I hope you had/have a happy one. So, to everyone, happy holidays and God Bless you!
  ~Katie :)
  

  
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• LALALA!!!! -- KatieS, 21:09:46 12/16/02 Mon (pleiades-42.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.242)
  Know what???? I LOVE SCHOOL!!!!!!!!! Hehehe!!!!!
  BTW I had a great day today, how was everyone else's day?
  ~Katie :)
  

  
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• I'm sorry! -- KatieS, 20:19:26 12/03/02 Tue (pleiades-10.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.210)
  Hi you guys,
  Yeah I know there haven't been any new posts for a while, but... well I couldn't help some people earlier, and I'm sorry about that. My own school work has gotten quite demanding lately... just today, I spent my entire lunch period on Algebra homework (solving systems with substitution... complicated, IMO) only to come home and spend thirty more on it plus forty five studying for a big social studies test tomorrow that we only found out about today... Fingers crossed. I did great on the last one, but this one seems much harder to me even though it's only worth half what the last one was... but anyways to the point, I'm sorry I haven't been here for you too much as of late, I will try and be here more. If you notice anything horribly wrong with the board, there is contact information at the top at the contact the moderator link, and my emails are usually in my posts.
  God Bless!
  Katie
  

  
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• I'm happy (no I don't need any help I'm just happy) -- KatieS, 19:24:15 11/20/02 Wed (pleiades-20.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.220)
  At my school in our Health class, we get this electronic baby doll for one weekend out of the year. It's called "Baby Think-It-Over" and the purpose of the project is to discourage teen pregnancies. They cry at random intervals, including about four to ten times per night. You have to carry the baby with you all weekend and only the special key (Strapped to your wrist) can make it stop.
  
  I GET MY BABY THIS WEEKEND!!!! Everyone thinks I'm weird because I'm happy about it, but they're adorable, and everyone in my class who doesn't have theirs this weekend wants to hold it. LOL! We got to pick out clothes and diaper bags, it's so fun!!
  Just wanted to share that, I'll let y'all know how it goes.
  Katie
  

  
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  • OMG you guys, that was the COOLEST project! LOL! If you want to hear about it, inside... -- KatieS, 15:33:41 11/30/02 Sat

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• one to one functions -- sammy, 22:14:13 11/09/02 Sat (1Cust7.tnt8.dial.tor2.uunet.ca/64.10.126.7)
  how many one to one functions are there from a set with five elements to sets with the following number of elements
  
  a) 4
  b) 5
  c) 6
  d 7
  
  please explain thanx
  

  
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  • Okay... we just did functions... but... this has me lost... LOL. Maybe one of the nice adults that come here can explain... (NT) -- KatieS, 15:45:19 11/10/02 Sun

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• THANKS -- KatieS, 19:03:53 10/03/02 Thu (pleiades-09.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.209)
  WOW Rosie you are sooo good about helping me with this board... being thirteen I'm not near as smart as you.. LOL. Thanks so much for coming over here to help the nice people out... LOL. I know I have lurkers out there, I check my stats... LOL!
  ~Katie :D
  

  
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  • Hi Katie. I am sure if you are not as smart as me, you are smarter. The reason I can answer these is that I studied them. Give yourself a few more years and see how easily you can solve problems like these. In any case I am so very proud of you. You come across as much more mature than a 13 year old. (NT) -- Rosie, 09:12:57 11/07/02 Thu
    • THANK YOU AGAIN and GOD BLESS YOU AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!! LOLOLOL! You're too nice to me! (NT) -- KatieS (happy!), 22:18:04 11/07/02 Thu

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• permutations and combinations -- Cuyler, 14:15:19 10/16/02 Wed (cuylerd.resnet.tamu.edu/128.194.4.63)
  There are 30 engines in an automobile company's warehouse. It is known that 5 of the 30 engines have defective oxygen sensors, but it is not known which engines have the problem. Three of the engines are to be selected at random and shipped to an assembly plant. In how many ways can three engines be selected if at most one of the engines can be defective?
  
  I appreciate the help!
  

  
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  • This message is almost one month old. I am sure you got your answer by now, but here is some explanation just in case!! -- Rosie, 09:09:47 11/07/02 Thu

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• Rational numbers and equations (aka ALGEBRA) -- KatieS, 21:35:48 10/08/02 Tue (pleiades-47.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.247)
  Okay here's the problem.
  6a+4
  ----- = -14
  3
  
  I did:
  3(6a+4/3) = 3(-14)
  6a+4 = -42
  6a+4-4 = -42 - 4
  6a = -46
  6a/6 = -46/6
  a = -7.6 repeating or -7 2/3
  
  However, when I did the check it didn't add up, I ended up with -45.6 = -18 and I know that isn't right. Can anyone identify what I did??
  Thanks,
  Katie
  

  
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  • I think you have the right answer but the wrong check. -- Exleygirl, 00:54:49 10/09/02 Wed
    • Thank youuuu!!!!!!!!!! Hey I haven't heard from you in a while, it's good to see you! This helps. My teacher went over the answers today and I had the equivelent, but I still couldn't understand what I did, this helps alot :) (NT) -- KatieS, 22:38:25 10/09/02 Wed
      • Yeah, I changed jobs and am currently teaching math at a junior college. I'm also trying to get into graduate school so that I can get my masters or doctorate and teach full-time. That doesn't leave much time for the boards, unfortunately. (NT) -- Exleygirl, 13:45:34 10/14/02 Mon

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• help !!! -- B.L.T, 20:19:28 10/01/02 Tue (pcp555025pcs.galitn01.tn.comcast.net/68.53.70.39)
  Under certain conditions, the nozzel pressure p (in pounds per suare inch) and the heigth h (in feet) of a fire hose stream are related by the formula (h+17)squared=240p-p squared-1900, what is the heigth of the fire hose stream.
  

  
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  • Some help inside -- Rosie, 10:30:20 10/03/02 Thu
    • I'm with Rosie; I'm not sure the problem is complete. I think you might need a value of p to input in order to find the answer. (NT) -- Exleygirl, 01:09:11 10/09/02 Wed

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• Just wanted to post something quickly RE: 9/11 -- KatieS, 21:47:05 09/11/02 Wed (pleiades-32.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.232)
  I know this isn't exactly a *crowded* board, but I wanted to post here anyways, this being the first anniversary of the day that changed our nation. I wrote this poem last night and I sent it around to all of my friends, so I figured I'd post it here as well. God Bless you, everyone!
  One day, a year ago
  We woke up to a normal day
  People went to work or school
  Children rushed to play
  Then terror struck within our country
  Horrors that I cannot describe
  Women weeped and children cried
  For those who lost their lives
  Families went to churches
  People went to pray
  They reached to God in their horror
  Why, their trust, would he betray?
  Then slowly everyone realized
  The best was brought out that day
  Our country was brought together
  And thanks, they did pray
  For United We Stand in our country
  Under God we stay
  God Bless you, and your families
  I bless you on this day
  
  I don't know how good that was, I'm not a poet, by any means. I just want to let you all know GOD BLESS YOU! I'm praying for you all!
  

  
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• Math Problem -- Math, 15:28:12 03/25/02 Mon (NoHost/208.20.156.90)
  how do I find .9974577% of 103764???
  

  
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  • multiply .009974577 times 103764.... percents mean the actual decimal is two places to the left of where it's written as a percent...for example if you wanted 100.00& of 10, you;d move the decimal over 2 spots...getting 1.00....1 times 10 is 10...100%! (NT) -- Suze, 19:34:33 09/02/02 Mon
  • number theory -- Tim Armstrong, 12:16:26 09/09/02 Mon

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• I HAVE TOO MANY BOOKS!!!! -- KatieS, 21:55:53 09/05/02 Thu (pleiades-20.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.220)
  I need someone to whine at. So I came here. LOL. And no, it's not about homework.
  I have a social studies book that's an inch and a half thick. I have an algebra book that's an inch thick. I have a language arts book that's two inches thick. I have a science book that's two inches thick. I have a 1 1/2 inch binder, a 1 inch binder, and 2 1/2 inch binders. I have an agenda book, a pencil pack, "An Acceptable Time" by Madeline L'Engle, and a clarinet. I HAVE TOO MANY BOOKS AND STUFF LIKE THAT!!!! It's so frustrating, I have to carry the bulk of it all at once, plus I have to carry my friend's books for her because she can't beacause she broke her arm. WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO LIGHTEN UP?!?!? I got knocked over by a football player in the hall today, and I landed on top of my books and he landed on top of me... this is NOT a small kid. I nearly fell down the stairs with the bulk of my books, I got an F in gym today because I couldn't participate (I FORGOT MY SHOES! I was wearing high boots and a skirt!!) And I accidentally sat at the prep table at lunch because my friends filled up our table so much there isn't any room for me any more so I sat elsewhere and turns out it was the prep table which stinks!! LOL!
  I didn't have a good day.
  I didn't have a good day yesterday either because everyone thinks I'm going out with this kid that I can't stand, and I don't know why they think that because he hates me too and I've never dated in my life because no one likes me and my father would kill me, so... LOL. Sigh. Thanks for listening to me rant.
  -Katie
  

  
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• School is BACK!!!! -- KatieS, 12:11:11 08/24/02 Sat (pleiades-44.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.244)
  Well school is back in session for me on Monday and I already know several people who are already back in school, so we're up and running for the new school year! Don't forget to come back and check and see if you can help anyone else periodically!! We couldn't do it without the nice adults who stop in sometimes to help us out!! Thanks guys!
  

  
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  • Not here in Canada it is not! Hey, JF1... just checking this place out. I'm really impressed that you decided to set this up. (NT) -- Heather K, 21:55:22 08/28/02 Wed
    • Thanks so much!! I think some kids from my school might come over here and use it, my science class has a website and I'm giving my teacher my URL. I'm so glad you decided to come and check it out!! (NT) -- KatieS, 19:15:22 08/29/02 Thu

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• NO ADVERTISEMENTS!!!!!!!!! -- Moderator, 17:34:00 07/06/02 Sat (pleiades-16.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.216)
  DO NOT POST ADVERTISEMENTS ON MY BOARD! Failure to comply with this rule will result in the immediate deletion of your post and banning of your IP!
  
  Sorry to be a mean moderator, my friends, but the people posting the ads here aren't our friends.
  

  
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• Hi Katie and everyone :-) -- BellFan hopping over from CB online!, 17:49:29 05/31/02 Fri (fia218-71.dsl.hccnet.nl/62.251.71.218)
  I read this addy in a message on Catherine Bell online and thought I'd stop over to say hi!
  Katie, this is a great idea :-) I love it that you took the initiative to let people help each other with their homework throughout this forum :-)
  I shall tell you a little about what I do. I finished high school last year with a MAVO education (Dutch system, we have different levels and the higher the level the longer the duration of your education, mavo is a 4 year education) I started a marketing and communication education after that and will finish my first year now, I have 12 hours of economics a week so it has been pretty rough but I really want to pull this off and end up in the world of theatre and tv so I managed to get good grades! I am almost 17 now and I will graduate when I'm 19 or 20 :-)
  My favorite subjects in high school were English and Geography :-)
  
  Well this is Beefy's school career so far, I'm not really good at explaining school subjects in a language that isn't my mother tongue (I'm a Dutch) but I'll sure hop in here once in a while and if I can ever give anyone a cheer up about school, let me know and I'm with ya.
  
  Sending a hug out to all of you :-)
  
  love,
  Beefy aka BellFan
  

  
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  • Thanks so much for coming to see me, beefy!!! I appriciate that you came here!! As you can tell by the dates there hasn't been wide use for a little while, that's why I'm promoting it so much at the CB board... I use it alot but now I'm studying for finals and all it is is review so I'm okay with it... but I'm hoping summer course people will pick up where I left off... (NT) -- KatieS, 18:49:48 06/02/02 Sun
    • I think this is a great site, I can help you promoting if you like :-) I have two websites where I'm currently working on link pages and I can link yours too :-) I hope your finals go well, good luck! love, Beefy (NT) -- Beefy, 03:49:11 06/04/02 Tue
      • Sorry it took me this long to reply to you, I forgot to check here cause it's been so quiet lately... that would be nice if you would link this page!! :) (NT) -- JAGfan1, 20:49:09 06/11/02 Tue

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• I need help! -- Nathan, 19:37:34 03/09/02 Sat (NoHost/208.37.215.160)
  It's not really an answer I need, but websites. Could somebody please reply with sites that have thourough descriptions of activities at the following national parks:
  Sequoia
  Yosemite
  Yellowstone
  Grand Teton
  Grand Canyon
  I've been searching everywhere for sites with good descriptions, but I can't find enough, so please help. I would really appriciate it.
  

  
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  • I still need help -- Nathan, 17:36:10 03/10/02 Sun
    • I'm sorry this is so late, but I didn't get back here in time... What you should do is to try google search... go to www.google.com, and then search there. I would do some for you but I have to finish my clarinet practice still. Good luck! (NT) -- KatieS, 21:31:15 03/11/02 Mon

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• Squishing, squashing, and translations -- KatieS, 20:49:40 02/27/02 Wed (pleiades-47.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.247)
  Okay, so there is a quadrilateral with the coordinates A(3,1), B(6,5), C(11,5), D(8,1). We're supposed to do the following transformation on it and then tell if it will be similar or not similar to the original figure. The transformation is (2x, 3y).
  
  I can't figure out whether you're supposed to do a squash, a stretch, or a translation, and I can't figure out how to make (2x, 3y) into a squash or a stretch.
  
  HELP!!!!
  

  
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  • whoah! Okay...I am sort of teaching this right now. It's going to stretch it. multiply each of the x coordinates by 2 and each of the y by 3...then plot those so A will be (6,3) (NT) -- C, 21:13:50 02/27/02 Wed
    • I don't know if it will squash stretch, or transform it.....b/c I'm not going to get graph paper right now--too comfy...but I would imagine b/c two of the coordinates are "1" that will affect how the shape turns out. Graph it and just see what it does to the original shape... (NT) -- C, 21:26:00 02/27/02 Wed
      • oh yeah! Now I remember... if it's multiplied by more than one then it stretches and if it's multiplied by a number between 0 and 1 it squashes. Thanks guys, I really appriciate it. This work was my day-before-the-test homework and I couldn't get it at all! All I needed was that which you gave me! :) (NT) -- JAGfan1, 16:44:28 02/28/02 Thu
    • what grade do you teach? (NT) -- KatieS, 21:01:44 03/01/02 Fri
  • Hi Katie. As C explained you have to multiply the x coordinates by 2 and y coordinates by 3 and it should blow it up, twice in the x direction and three times in the y direction. Please check inside. -- Rosie, 10:20:43 02/28/02 Thu
    • Thanx Rosie, I checked what I got on what you've got. I did it right this time. Thank you so much guys, you saved my A average! (NT) -- JAGfan1, 17:02:52 02/28/02 Thu

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• My reasoning, and possible bans. Please read. -- KatieS, moderator, 15:40:18 02/03/02 Sun (pleiades-52.cmh.jadeinc.net/209.57.24.252)
  Someone posted 237 large banner files on this webpage. The page took a long time to load, and I even never got it loaded.
  
  I do not know what was in those banner files. But I deleted them all. I need everyone to know that posting several large banner files is not acceptable. I plan to write this in the forum description too. If you need a banner file to help you with homework, post it INSIDE the first reply. For example, write a new message explaining that your file is inside the first reply, then post a reply to your own message and put your banner file in the "Type your message here" part. Never in the main message index.
  
  If someone would be so kind, I would like to know what those files were, so please tell me if you got them to load.
  
  Continuance of this behaviour could lead to a ban of HTML from this forum and/or the forum's perminant deletion.
  

  
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