1. Several countries participated in the airlift: Italy, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.

2. "Only one course was open to us, surrender", said the ex-major, "and we did".

3. Judge Carswell--later to be nominated for the Supreme Court--had ruled against civil rights.

4. In last week's New Yorker, one of my favorite magazines, I enjoyed reading Leland's article "How Not to Go Camping".

5. "Yes", Jim said, "I'll be home by ten".

vocab 9/28/11

1) Obsolete - ADJ - no longer in general use; fallen into disuse - The obsolete food was considered and antique compared to the new pill food of the future

2) Paucity - N - smallness of quantity - The hobos paucity of money did not compare to the millionaire amount of money.

3) Philistine - N - someone who is hostile towards another race or culture - The KKK member was acting like a philistine when he called the African American a n*****.

4) Meticulous - ADJ - taking or showing extreme care about minute details - The doctor was very meticulous when looking at his dying patients blood sample.

5) Officious - ADJ - forcibly giving help.

6) Peruse - V - to read through with thoroughness or care:

7) Mitigate - V - to lessen in force or intensity.

8) Perfidy - N - faithlessness.

9) Morose - ADJ - gloomily or sullenly ill-humored

study questions 5 pg. 157

1a.) To debate it

2a.) The army is already there there is no way to avoid it

3a.) He was fine with it and ready for it and he wanted it to come

4a.) The British first put taxes on the colonists and then the colonists rebel so the English put more taxes one them, shut down Boston harbor and send soldiers to Boston to be housed

1b.) Because that if he doesn't then no one else will and if he doesn't that he is going against his country and god also that if he doesn't that Britain will take over the colonies

2b.) Because he thinks that the king is just ignoring them and is still going to wage war

3b.) That they would become slaves and that he would rather DIE!!!! (give me liberty or give me DEATH!!)

4b.) To take the soldiers out of Boston and signing the petition that they gave him

5b.) Some of the people in Russia believe the same thing because The Russian People’s Freedom Party were denied registration as a political party in Russia, and over 3,000 of them killed themselves because they could not be free

Espionage

Started by Sun Tzu in China, espionage is a secret collection of data that dates back almost two thousand years.

Kernal

The Cowboy, John Wayne is John’s hero, so he and his girlfriend love it when he wares his cowboy hats.

study question 4

1a. everyone thinks that water and air and food and everything they get is what keeps them alive but Edwards thing that god controls all that stuff so he keeps you alive.

2a. The sun, earth, harvest and air.

3a. To praise god and no one else, to change your heart and embrace god and nobody else.

4a. there is nor reason why you were not thrown into hell last night this morning and there is no reason why you are not going to hell right now is the fact that god is keeping you from going there.

5a. yes i do because in that short amount of time you become sad and happy and it makes you want to do better things and praise god so i think this could work well in short term, but if it were long term i think that the people would start to go crazy and think that everything they did was bad and the entire church would end up being a cult with Edwards as there leader.

1b. with the rock he is trying to say that if god lets you go there is no stopping you that is it and you are going to hell. If God is angry he will destroy the person and all's that is left is dust.

2b. A storm of thunder and black clouds. Anger is represented by darkness and uncontrollable 

3b. The bow wants to release the arrow and have it go right through your heart but god hold the bow back. this is scary because you realize if god lets go you will die.

4b. BECAUSE NO ONE WANTS TO GO TO HELL

5b. Shakespeare's view of god is that one of the best things about him is that he is merciful. Edwards thinks that god is merciless and will kill you at anytime.

Study questions 3

1a: there were 200 men and women that had there heads and shoulders painted red, had their heads bedecked with the white down of birds and most had long strings of beads around there neck.

2a: Powhatan ordered his execution and his daughter Pocahontas saved him by putting her head on top of his and stopping it from being crushed.

3a: She brought him provisions that saved most of the settlers lives.

5a: i think that John Smith told the story so many times and so many years later so that no one could dispute it and it made him look like a hero even though he might not have been.


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1b: Powhatan wanted to show his power so he dressed in his nicest cloths. Because they tied him up and treated him badly. It was natural for Smith to think that the village people would view him as a monster for the bad things he did.

2b: I believe it was just a ceremony to adopt him into the family. 

3b: Because it is his daughter that brought them provisions in the winter that kept them alive.

vocab 2 6/9/11

1) Disdain - V - to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn. - my disdain for the soda machine that ate my money was great


2) Dogmatic - ADJ - asserting opinions in an arrogant manner. - every one treated him with disdain because of how dogmatic he was.


3) Egregious - ADJ - extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant. - his egregious language got the boy suspended from school.


4) Emulate - V - to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal orsurpass. - all basket ball players should emulate Micheal Jordan's record.



5) Dissipated - V - scattered or dispersed. - the marbles dissipated when he knocked over the bag



6) Diminution - N - lessening. - the diminution of the ants made the ant collector angry.



7) Disparage - V - to speak of or treat slightingly. - do not disparage the people that have more power than you because you will most likely regret it later.



8) Effervescent - ADJ - bubbling. - the bath water combined with the bubbles was very effervescent.



9) Elucidate - V - to throw light upon; make clear. - The bank robber tried to elucidate his seriousness towards robbing the bank, so he shot a guard point blank. 



10) Distraught - ADJ - deeply agitated. - He was distraught because it was hell day in XC!