Education & Reference - 16 April 2007

What is the slope for these two equations? [Please explain how you arrived at your answer, if itsn't too much trouble.]
d=330t
d=16t
(d=distance, t=time)

Also, please help with this other question:
If a bird flies at a speed of 15 meters per second (m/s) for 10 seconds, 20 m/s for 10 seconds, and 25 m/s for 5 seconds, what is the bird's average speed?

PLEASE and THANKS!!! I would really appreciate any help on this! Oh, and please don't respond with something cruel like "do your own homework" because we hardly learned about this stuff today in class, so I need so help with it. THANKS for any help, once again! =)

2007-04-16 11:07:28 · 10 answers · asked by Dee 6 in Homework Help

Ok, the reason why I'm scared is because when I am asked to read aloud in class, I get nervous and I stutter. And I am really embbrassed about it, but when I read aloud by myself I don't. Why is that???

And now I will have to give a 10 minute presentation, and I am soo scared that I will make a fool out of myself...any advice?

Please help...any advice would be great...

2007-04-16 11:03:08 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

Tell me also what average number of years a teaching career is and the average number of students a teacher teaches a year.

2007-04-16 10:58:12 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Teaching

Scholars are unsure of the origins of the synagogue, but they know that they were an established institution by the time of Jesus.

Is that right? Or should it be "...but they know that IT WAS an established...."?

I'm trying to convey that synagogues were well-established in Jesus' time, not just one synagogue. But when you call it "an institution" then it is singular, so that's what's confusing me about this!

Thanks.

2007-04-16 10:54:36 · 8 answers · asked by Heron By The Sea 7 in Homework Help

2007-04-16 10:46:13 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Words & Wordplay

In eighteenth-century English courts, defendants had to appear at their trials wearing ____.


A.
inflections

B.
ploys

C.
manacles

D.
manifestations

2007-04-16 10:45:32 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

BLACKSBURG, Va. - A gunman opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then, two hours later, shot up a classroom across campus Monday, killing 32 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. The gunman committed suicide, bringing the death toll to 33.

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Students complained that there were no public-address announcements or other warnings on campus after the first burst of gunfire. They said the first word they received from the university was an e-mail more than two hours into the rampage — around the time the gunman struck again.

Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said authorities believed that the shooting at the dorm was a domestic dispute and mistakenly thought the gunman had fled the campus.

"We had no reason to suspect any other incident was going to occur," he said.

He defended the university's handling of the tragedy, saying: "We can only make decisions based on the information you had on the time. You don't have hours to reflect on it."

Investigators offered no motive for the attack. The gunman's name was not immediately released, and it was not known if he was a student.

The shootings spread panic and confusion on campus. Witnesses reporting students jumping out the windows of a classroom building to escape the gunfire. SWAT team members with helmets, flak jackets and assault rifles swarmed over the campus. Students and faculty members carried out some of the wounded themselves, without waiting for ambulances to arrive.

The massacre took place at opposite sides of the 2,600-acre campus, beginning at about 7:15 a.m. at West Ambler Johnston, a coed dormitory that houses 895 people, and continuing at least two hours later at Norris Hall, an engineering building about a half-mile away, authorities said.

Two people were killed in a dormitory room, and 31 others were killed in the engineering building, including the gunman, police said.

"Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions," Steger said. "The university is shocked and indeed horrified."

Steger said the university decided to rely on e-mail and other electronic means of notifying members of the university, but with 11,000 people driving onto campus first thing in the morning, it was difficult to get the word out. He said that before the e-mail went out, the university began telephoning resident advisers in the dorms to notify them and sent people to knock on doors to spread the word.

Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum would not say how many weapons the gunman carried. But a law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was incomplete, said that the gunman had two pistols and multiple clips of ammunition.

Police said they were still investigating the shooting at the dorm when they got word of gunfire at the classroom building.

Some students bitterly questioned why the gunman was able to strike a second time.

"What happened today this was ridiculous," student Jason Piatt told CNN. "While they send out that e-mail, 20 more people got killed."

Students and Laura Wedin, a student programs manager at Virginia Tech, said the first notification they got of the shootings came in an e-mail at 9:26 a.m., more than two hours after the first shooting.

The e-mail had few details. It said: "A shooting incident occurred at West Amber Johnston earlier this morning. Police are on the scene and are investigating." The message warned students to be cautious and contact police about anything suspicious.

Student Maurice Hiller said he went to a 9 a.m. class two buildings away from the engineering building, and no warnings were coming over the outdoor public address system on campus at the time.

Everett Good, junior, said of the lack of warning: "I'm trying to figure that out. Someone's head is definitely going to roll over that."

"We were kept in the dark a lot about exactly what was going on," said Andrew Capers Thompson, a 22-year-old graduate student from Walhalla, S.C.

At least 26 people were being treated at three area hospitals for gunshot wounds and other injuries, authorities said. Their exact conditions were not disclosed, but at least one was sent to a trauma center and six were in surgery, authorities said.

Up until Monday, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was in Killeen, Texas, in 1991, when George Hennard plowed his pickup truck into a Luby's Cafeteria and shot 23 people to death, then himself.

The massacre Monday took place almost eight years to the day after the Columbine High bloodbath near Littleton, Colo. On April 20, 1999, two teenagers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives.

Previously, the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history was a rampage that took place in 1966 at the University of Texas at Austin, where Charles Whitman climbed the clock tower and opened fire with a rifle from the 28th-floor observation deck. He killed 16 people before he was shot to death by police.

Founded in 1872, Virginia Tech is nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia, about 160 miles west of Richmond. With more than 25,000 full-time students, it has the state's largest full-time student population. The school is best known for its engineering school and its powerhouse Hokies football team.

The rampage took place on a brisk spring day, with snow flurries swirling around the campus. The campus is centered around the Drill Field, a grassy field where military cadets — who now represent a fraction of the student body — once practiced. The dorm and the classroom building are on opposites sides of the Drill Field.

A gasp could be heard at a campus news conference early in the day when the police chief announced that at least 20 people had been killed. Previously, only one person was thought to have been killed.

A White House spokesman said President Bush was horrified by the rampage and offered his prayers to the victims and the people of Virginia.

"The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed," spokeswoman Dana Perino said

After the shootings, all entrances to the campus were closed, and classes were canceled through Tuesday. The university set up a meeting place for families to reunite with their children. It also made counselors available and planned an assembly for Tuesday at the basketball arena.

After the shooting began, students were told to stay inside away from the windows.

Aimee Kanode, a freshman from Martinsville, said the shooting happened on the fourth floor of West Ambler Johnston dormitory, one floor above her room. Kanode's resident assistant knocked on her door about 8 a.m. to notify students to stay put.

Police said there had been bomb threats on campus over the past two weeks by authorities but said they have not determined a link to the shootings.

It was second time in less than a year that the campus was closed because of a shooting.

Last August, the opening day of classes was canceled and the campus closed when an escaped jail inmate allegedly killed a hospital guard off campus and fled to the Tech area. A sheriff's deputy involved in the manhunt was killed on a trail just off campus. The accused gunman, William Morva, faces capital murder charges.

2007-04-16 10:43:49 · 15 answers · asked by . . . nvlll . . . 1 in Other - Education

i have to type it, atleast 2 page 12 font, double spaced times new roman

2007-04-16 10:36:51 · 5 answers · asked by easedale 1 in Homework Help

Can anyone identify a hallmark for me? it is an H in a circle & H in a circle with what looks like a bird after.

like this: H & H (bird) but the H's are in circles
thank you

2007-04-16 10:34:00 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Trivia

1.Some politicians are easily corrupted if someone with a special interest ____ them with money.


A.
comprises

B.
implies

C.
mandates

D.
plies

2. Clothing designers of the 1920s ____ women from restrictive clothing and high button shoes.


A.
apprehended

B.
emancipated

C.
explicated

D.
reprehended

2007-04-16 10:30:00 · 2 answers · asked by suhair w 1 in Homework Help

What are some vacation spots or good places to go in Sierra Leone please help because i need to know for my world geography class.

2007-04-16 10:25:00 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

I have always wanted to go to Medical School, but I want to know how difficult the challenge really is.

Thanks!

2007-04-16 10:24:59 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Higher Education (University +)

2007-04-16 10:22:48 · 4 answers · asked by pinkygirl m 3 in Trivia

2007-04-16 10:18:12 · 2 answers · asked by Chace 1 in Homework Help

2007-04-16 10:11:45 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Education

2007-04-16 10:04:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Trivia

I am at school right now. (6th pd) What is your favorite subject?

Mine has to be geometry or graphic arts

2007-04-16 10:01:24 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Education

Are there more than humans?

2007-04-16 10:00:59 · 6 answers · asked by nicemachine 2 in Trivia

I have a question....you know how some fungi have attractive flavors or odors, well how could this be adaptive for fungi to produce this substance?

2007-04-16 09:41:54 · 4 answers · asked by ILTASKWAMH 3 in Homework Help

2007-04-16 09:40:45 · 1 answers · asked by krnxblizzard 2 in Higher Education (University +)

I have heard this saying over many years, but some folk seem to think that it has something to do with clothing and others seem to think that it has something to do with gardening!!!....do you know what the true meaning of this saying is?

2007-04-16 09:36:09 · 16 answers · asked by Rebel 2 in Quotations

2007-04-16 09:34:36 · 3 answers · asked by Yep 2 in Higher Education (University +)

2007-04-16 09:31:54 · 15 answers · asked by Candy B 1 in Words & Wordplay

what should I do?!

2007-04-16 09:30:54 · 7 answers · asked by Liz 2 in Higher Education (University +)

2007-04-16 09:30:26 · 16 answers · asked by Candy B 1 in Words & Wordplay

im a student about to graduate ,i only have left the practical training course for 2 months in July so il finish , i wanna go to train in New Jersey ,i've send letters to many companies and universities,but i got no reply ,so what can i do ,the time is running ,please help

2007-04-16 09:27:49 · 3 answers · asked by borz_f 2 in Higher Education (University +)

Doesnt it sound like a smart idea?

2007-04-16 09:24:06 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

i know there are buses and shuttles to get to and from areas near the campus, but if you go to school out of state how can they expect you to drive home?

2007-04-16 09:19:17 · 9 answers · asked by MaryAnn 2 in Higher Education (University +)

I've always like Economics and if I had wanted to go to college longer than 4 years I might have tried it. I became an accountant instead and really don't have any passion for it. Should I go back to get a Masters or PhD in Econ in order to teach or research?

2007-04-16 09:17:56 · 4 answers · asked by San Chez 2 in Higher Education (University +)

Its in between the french and indian war.

2007-04-16 09:16:56 · 2 answers · asked by givemecookies2000 2 in Homework Help