Education & Reference - 1 February 2007

Okay, in my Advanced English class we were practicing doing SAT essays. We did many essays, and then she told us to pick our best one. She told us to make our best SAT essay into a persuasive essay. I'm pretty much braindead right now like i've been all week, so I need help with some ideas. Here's the prompt:

Can people achieve success only if they aim to be perfect?
My arguement on this prompt was that to achieve success, people have to aim to what they think is perfect, or what their version of perfection is, not what society thinks is perfect.

Here's the problem: I have to make a persuasive essay out of this SAT prompt. Any ideas? When you give an idea, please elaborate a bit on it. Thanks!

2007-02-01 11:44:56 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

please help if you could write it your self and it makes sence

2007-02-01 11:42:56 · 4 answers · asked by Flordia_Grl 1 in Words & Wordplay

Do colleges look at unweighted or weighed (honors classes factored in)?

Also, if I want to get a scholarship how does GPA play a role? If one goes to a competitive suburban high school where it is difficult to get into the top 10 percent of the class, would a college still consider giving a scholarship to someone who is not in the top 10 percent?

2007-02-01 11:41:41 · 9 answers · asked by mbtafan 3 in Standards & Testing

Find the Geometric mean.... plz show work... THANK U SOOOO MUCH..

1. 4 and 16
2. 7 and 28
3. 2 and 40
4. 8 and 20
5. 5 and 15

Use the info provided to give all congruent angles& write the statement of proportionality of the figures.

1. DEF and PQR
2. JKLM and WXYZ
3. QRSTU and ABCDE

THANK U SOOO MUCH!!!

2007-02-01 11:41:01 · 4 answers · asked by Baby_girl 1 in Homework Help

It's a horror short story.

2007-02-01 11:40:58 · 5 answers · asked by Kaitlyn 4 in Homework Help

2007-02-01 11:40:38 · 2 answers · asked by pickle 1 in Homework Help

Yes, soap and detergant. I have a science project and I need to do "Background info." PLEASE post links if possible for I need a bibliography on it (Where you got your info (sources) from) Yahh....Please don't make this a waste of my points.

2007-02-01 11:40:16 · 3 answers · asked by LoLa 3 in Homework Help

While observing a 3rd grade class, the teacher sent all the students to their centers and then just sat and read the newspaper. What would you do in this situation? Should I just remain silent or is this even an issue?

2007-02-01 11:39:37 · 12 answers · asked by craptastic 4 in Teaching

2007-02-01 11:39:21 · 2 answers · asked by Siti Maryam 1 in Teaching

this is for, yet another school project. just a round about guess will do

2007-02-01 11:37:58 · 3 answers · asked by westurnrider 1 in Trivia

Here are the words prebuilt,reconstruct,preexit,rewrite,prenolar,preschool,rephrase,relearen, preview,recapture,prepackage, readjust, relocate,reheat,light,parts,country,father, and where. PLEASE HELP with my child's homework.

2007-02-01 11:37:49 · 9 answers · asked by Miss.Hottie 2 in Teaching

How does Atticus feel children's questions should be answered. Give an example. I could not find this one anywhere. All i know is that it's in chapters 6-11. Thank you so much!

2007-02-01 11:37:42 · 1 answers · asked by ACTiNGisLiFE 3 in Homework Help

2007-02-01 11:36:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

We live in Mexcio. I home school my children and have my own school with other children. My ex is trying to undermind my abilities to teach our children. I welcome any public school evalution. Originally, the plan was to test the children through Texas Tech, but the ex has decided that is too expensive. Any advice?

2007-02-01 11:36:00 · 5 answers · asked by Nelly 2 in Home Schooling

Are there any websites wich you give it a word and it will use it in a sentence to understand how the word is used?

2007-02-01 11:35:39 · 3 answers · asked by nickj3315 2 in Words & Wordplay

As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Every wife had seven sacks
Every sack had seven cats
Every cat had seven kittens
Kittens, cats, sacks, wives
How many were going to St Ives?

2007-02-01 11:34:56 · 14 answers · asked by Ivan Drago 1 in Trivia

2007-02-01 11:34:54 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Words & Wordplay

Question Match the questions to best answer from the right column.

Answer Match Question Items Answer Items
- 1. context of a piece of writing 1. occasion
- 2. first stage of the writing process 2. writer's purpose
. - 3. final stage of the writing process 3. focused writing
- 4. conversational 4. audience
- 5. purposeful writing 5. rhetorical situation
- 6. usage unsuitable for the workplace 6. writer's voice
- 7. event, condition, or need for writing 7. revision
. - 8. how the writer sounds on paper 8. prewriting
. - 9. motive or reason for writing 9. dialect
- 10. regional langauge 10. perspective
. - 11. language used in legal documents 11. editing/proofreading
- 12. reader for a piece of writing 12. colloquial
- 13. usage widely accepted by educated speakers and writers 13. archaic
- 14. second stage of the writing process 14. grammar
- 15. third stage of the writing process 15. informal standard
- 16. level of formality that may include contractions 16. formal english
- 17. point of view 17. drafting
- 18. rarely used 18. nonstandard
19. no longer used 19. standard
- 20. informal, professional and formal English all have.... 20. obsolete

2007-02-01 11:32:14 · 5 answers · asked by latrekia_21 1 in Homework Help

While evaluating answers to 'Solve any five' type of questions, it becomes difficult to go thro' entire answer sheet(specially where students REWRITE answer on some other leaflet to have an advantage of scoring 'double' for same answer) and check if ONLY FIVE DISCRETE ANSWERS have been considered for the total and whether the five considered, are only those, which total up to MAXIMUM score for that particular question. Asking students to solve in proper sequence or on one single answer sheet would be unfair to them. What to do? Any ideas on how to fix it right in comparatively lesser amount of time?

2007-02-01 11:29:33 · 7 answers · asked by Mau 3 in Teaching

I'm writing an annotated bibliography, and one of my sources is an essay that I printed out from a .pdf that I downloaded off the Internet. Would this be considered an online source? I'm asking because I think it is, but I'm not sure. If it is, how should I cite it?

2007-02-01 11:28:55 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

Ok this problem is really easy and i did it but i want to make sure i did it right,so here it is:
(4n ^-2)^-3

note:the carrot sign stands for powers so the first one is -2 squared and the second one is -3 cubed.

2007-02-01 11:28:45 · 2 answers · asked by rubixmaster 1 in Homework Help

I have been told "Guys will always be guys, gals will always be gals".

If we were to extrapolate this, will I be right if I were to say "gays will also always be gays, lesbions will also always be lesbions"?

2007-02-01 11:26:52 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Words & Wordplay

I am not sure what adverbs mofifiers are. i mean, if the sentence is " The fire burned VERY brightly." is "very" the modifier, or is brightly?hmmmm....

2007-02-01 11:25:42 · 4 answers · asked by !♥~FaY9512~♥! 4 in Words & Wordplay

I'm having problems thinking of a good educational theme for elementary school kids

2007-02-01 11:24:57 · 3 answers · asked by Heather 3 in Homework Help

I am taking a survey on pencil preferences. Which do you prefer to use at school; mechanical pencils or regular pencils?

2007-02-01 11:23:28 · 18 answers · asked by ☼SoccerGirl☼ 4 in Primary & Secondary Education

For losing my a-z of reading?

2007-02-01 11:23:16 · 3 answers · asked by brainlady 6 in Trivia

2007-02-01 11:22:46 · 10 answers · asked by pretty_penguin18 3 in Words & Wordplay

Im a sophomore in high school and am starting to look at colleges, but what should I look for? Do I go to a premed college then to a med school? I just wanna know so I can minimize my list.

2007-02-01 11:21:42 · 6 answers · asked by Blackcat15 2 in Higher Education (University +)

For Mexican History ABC book, but cant think of one! Around the time with the Social Pyromids with the Penninslularys and Creoles! please give me some ideas! thanks!

2007-02-01 11:21:31 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Education

2007-02-01 11:20:08 · 1 answers · asked by fire_soul453 2 in Other - Education