Homework Help - January 2007

it is for a history progect and no one will help me

2007-01-31 12:19:38 · 3 answers · asked by Michele K 1

a fishing boat traveled 3hours against a 6km/hr current. the return trip took only 2 hours. find the speed of the boat in still water.

please help if u can and can u explain how u got it thanks

2007-01-31 12:18:01 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hands Signals
Sign language is a way of communication with hand motions. It is a language that has a lot of expressive thoughts and feeling. ASL, American Sign Language, is the language of choice, for the majority of America’s culturally Deaf. ASL is movement that involves shapes of the hands, arms, eyes, face, head and body posture to communicate . American Sign Language is one of the most commonly used language in the United States. It a beautiful visual language. Sign language has it’s grammatical and semantics rules. Sign Language is now consired a “foreign” language. It’s is a requirement that you have to know an addional language for most college.
In1620 the first book on sign language for deaf people contained the manual alphabet. Abbe Charles Michel de l’ Epee a French teacher for the deaf taught that deaf people could develop communication with themselves and the hearing world through Sign Language. Abbe was a very creative guy. Then in 1778, Samuel Heinicke taught speech and speech reading. Samuel set up the first public school for the deaf.
Years ago people didn’t see the deaf, they were locked away, sometimes in the basement. And were treated very badly. The public and even family thought the deaf were dumb and mute.
One of the most famously persons know to people is Helen keller. Helen was deaf and blind. She was a fablious person. She learned to live a perfectly normal live, dispite being left without sight or hearing after a devartating illness.
Dr. I. king Jordon, a former Galludet university president stated, “Deaf people can do anything the hearing can do but hear.” For example Heather Whitestone, former miss America and Amy Ecklund, Christy Smith, Cara Miller, Marlee Martin, Deanne Brcay are only a fraction that prove that Dr. I .King Jordon statement was right. Some years ago William House, ENT surgeon came up with a theory. A surgical process that would make the profoundly deaf-mute hear. The surgery is called, Cochlear Implants. This would offer the deaf a new world of sound, music, and speech to those that lives in a soundless cocoon. This surgery is offered to children as early as 12 months and adults to their senior year of life. The cochlear implant works from picking up sound through a microphone in a headpiece that is worn at the ear. The sound is sent along a cable to a processor, a mini-computer which turn the sound into digital signals. The devices are worn on a belt or, in some models, at the ear level. The transmitter, is held by a magnet on the side of the head behind the ear, and sends the sound via radio waves across the skin to the impant. The devices stimulate the auditory nerve, sending impulse to the brain where they are interpreted as sound. It been proven by development therapist that children who know sign language have a higher language ability than those kids who don’t know sign language. Robert Weitbrect, a deaf scientist invented the tty (teletypewriter). It a unique way telecommunication device for the deaf. He invented it in the year 1963. This is a device that allows alphanumeric charachers to be typed in and sent, usually one at a time. It also includes the use of abbreviations and punctiation, it the way the deaf communicate as the haring world do. How helpful would sign language be to parent? Very young children who have not grasped the verbal language could communicate wants and needs to their parents without the frustrations. Crying would be eliminated. Peace would rein supreme. What is really cool is the research with primate such as chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans they are also capable of learning and using sign language.
In conclusion, mastering a second language such as ASL can not only be beneficial but, profitable in the workplace. 10% of the public is hearing impaired or deaf. 10% of the public has the power to purchase goods and services. The ability to communicate with our hands could mean money in our hands.It also been proven that those who know American Sign Language as infants score higher on Standradized test measure higher on tests of I.Q. and out perform their peers in a variety of social and academic arenas. Those who teach their children at a early age and countiued to learn different languages it comes more naturally to them. The brain is a weird thing. Even a different language coming from the parent the baby will attempt to communicate. Sign language proven to increases the parents’ bond and interaction with their children. A couple downsides to not knowing American Sign Language is that it comes with poor language skills, frustration, academic problems, and inadequate social skill may lead to school drop- out, delinquency, and even adult criminal behavior.

2007-01-31 12:11:45 · 3 answers · asked by steve 2

if someone is writing a movie review for homework, does each paragraph have to be 5 sentences long?

2007-01-31 12:10:25 · 4 answers · asked by ashley_tisdale2006 2

2007-01-31 12:08:13 · 2 answers · asked by Tori<3Matt 1

I have to write a short (3/4-1.5) page satire for my english class. I know what it is, but I am not sure on what would make a good thing to write about and where to start. I've never had to write one before and am very confused! Any suggestions would help immensely.

2007-01-31 12:07:56 · 4 answers · asked by loveforlamour 1

Here is the 1st one
A quality control engineer for a certain buyer found 2 defective parts in a sample of 50. At this rate, wat is the expected number of defective parts in a shipment of 50,000?

Please can somebody help me?

2007-01-31 12:02:53 · 8 answers · asked by Photo D 1

solving linear systems by substitution


question



y=3x

y=2x-7

2007-01-31 12:00:29 · 12 answers · asked by locsman23 1

I have to write a paper on a welfare topic... a topic that will benefit the welfare in puerto Rico

2007-01-31 11:58:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Plot,setting,characterizations,conflict,climax,resolution,theme,
hyperbole,idioms,inferences,similes,metaphors,personification,
syonoyms,context clues and please help me fing them by tonight!!!!!!

2007-01-31 11:49:13 · 4 answers · asked by kaylcgirl 2

2007-01-31 11:41:33 · 2 answers · asked by eduardaberry 1

2007-01-31 11:23:00 · 12 answers · asked by ? 5

if i have a positive and i am dividing from a negative, what do i get positive or negative? thanx!

2007-01-31 11:20:48 · 16 answers · asked by SchoolGirl... 1

This is for a paper im writing for school. I know that tsars were like royality and especially nicholas II didn't pay any attention to his suffering country. Is there anythign else though?

2007-01-31 11:18:21 · 2 answers · asked by egyptprincess01@sbcglobal.net 1

The sum of the reciprocals of two consecutive odd integers is 8/15. Find the integers? How do you do this?

2007-01-31 11:17:15 · 4 answers · asked by mary p 1

If so what would be a good question to ask about the earthquake?
Would how do the buldings fall be a good question?

2007-01-31 11:15:34 · 3 answers · asked by Davis 1

Someone told me that it has been proven that he used a report that he found in the library and submitted the work as his own for a grade. Anyone know difinitively if this is true?

2007-01-31 11:15:15 · 6 answers · asked by swingfromhips 2

is this correct? how can i make it sound better?
"These two pages offer help to students by providing strategies on how to read and write essays, how to ask and answer questions, and also offer grammar quizzes."

2007-01-31 11:15:07 · 9 answers · asked by verito! 3

well my sis is 12 and i dont like doing these

1. 24oz. = ____pt.
2. ___gal. =4cups
3. 7c. = _____oz!!


Thanks for answering these!! if u truely did and didnt write IDK!! thxx!!

2007-01-31 11:15:00 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-31 11:14:57 · 3 answers · asked by Sesshy_Itachi 2

it's for social studies the bodies of water.

5. Swampland known as The _________ covers much of ________.

2007-01-31 11:14:35 · 2 answers · asked by juggy joe 1

I have a spanish papper due and i need some help! how do i say"i wake up at 4:30"?

2007-01-31 11:11:06 · 2 answers · asked by Britney 2

I have a homework question asking for the four methods of financing and the advantages and disadvantages of each. The four methods are:

1. Use personal funds
2. Use retained earnings
3. Borrow
4. Issue Shares of Stock

I am having a hard time obtaining advantages and disadvantages. Any ideas???? Please help!

2007-01-31 11:05:12 · 4 answers · asked by Jenn1113 1

i really need to know the anwser. math wizards can you help me?

2007-01-31 11:05:11 · 21 answers · asked by blackcherry11 1

I have to create a board game over the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
Do you think that it make sense if i change the name of Trivial Pursuit to Pips Pursuit?
If not, what would you call it?

2007-01-31 11:04:55 · 19 answers · asked by wlperie 3

Why did President Lincoln Issue the Emancipation Proclomation?

-In September 1862, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclomation, which basically said that slaves were freed in the states that were still in rebellion against the Union(Confederate states). why?

explain your answer.....



thank you so so much!

2007-01-31 11:04:16 · 6 answers · asked by roar 2

I am writing a summary paper on a social darwinism book. The book is composed of many authors and their philosophies and ideas. The instructions specifically say "present the authors' ideas objectively, without inserting your own opinion".

Can someone clarify what it means to present ideas objectively?
An example would help greatly also.

thank you.

2007-01-31 10:58:16 · 4 answers · asked by Zywiec 2

My daughter is doing this project on geometry. She really is struggling on it. Basically you use a geometry word, then you find a picture that involves the word. For example there is a word angle. You need to find a picture representing the word. A building has an angle in it. The problem is we need twenty pictures.
the words all have to be geometry words. The pictures must have a theme.

2007-01-31 10:54:01 · 3 answers · asked by joan p 1

2007-01-31 10:53:45 · 3 answers · asked by Kilroy 4

feeling, seeing? i thougt this is called humor buyt i think im wrong help me out please

2007-01-31 10:47:37 · 12 answers · asked by dzvina 1