Exams Thursday

Thursday

L - Year 3.5

What was one of the things Paul wrote about to the Corinthians? - Paul was talking about how God promised eternal life and that he will keep you strong until he comes again and that was part of it. You shouldn't invite somebody over and then eat meat sacrificed to idols although you know he thinks its wrong, you should never do that. You should never eat food that the other person thinks is wrong to eat because you're encouraging him to do something he believes is not right. Part of the reason he's writing is because he's going to be coming to Corinth in a little while and so he's writing letters before he gets there.

Can you explain why the sun never seems to remain still in the same place? - Because the sun stays in one spot, actually, but all the other planets orbit around it and it looks like the sun is moving but it's actually the earth that's moving around the sun instead of the sun moving around the earth.

Tell what you know about the planets. - Saturn we can't land on it because it has poisonous gasses and clouds around it so we can't see what's underneath the clouds It also has a ring of like rocks and dust around it. Saturn has six moons. And Pluto, which is the smallest planet and farthest away from the sun, doesn't get much light or heat just because it's so far away friom the sun. Also, some of the planets get closer to the sun and further away from it during their orbit. I think that's why the temperatures go up and down. There's Jupiter, Jupiter also had clouds around it. Jupiter has four moons. On all the planets, there's no oxygen. Mars is very rocky and it's very cold and some scientists think that the valleys and everything in it might have had water in them at one time that all evaporated. And Mars has a solar ice cap which you might be able to get water from, but it's dry ice. And so we've sent like robots and everything up there just to look around. The names of some other planets are Uranus, Neptune, Earth.

Describe "The Milkmaid" by Vermeer - A lady is standing beside a table pouring milk from a pitcher. Up above her is a pretty big window and there's tile down on the wallinstead of baseboards and the tiles have designs on them and everything, and what the tile is for is that there are no water leaks. She has some sort of headband or something, like a shawl on her head, and a blue skirt, and on the table is like a cheese grater and like a bowl, I think. Theres a knife and it looks like she's just been cutting some bread because there's some bread on the table and there's a basket up on the wall and a foot warmer on the floor.

J - Year 6

What kind of body will we have? I Cor 15 - Paul said two things: one, that when we get to heaven they'll be glorified, and two, our bodies that are weak now will be strong.

Describe one of the Persian attacks ancient Greece OR the civil war in Rome - The Persian king wanted to conquer Greece so he raised an army of two million men and eight million squires and stuff. And they marched on Greece but there was one crossing where there was a bridge across a river, and there was a town on the other side, and it took them one month marching night and day to cross through the town. When they came to Greece they were expecting to have a quick and easy victory but the Greeks, with the help of the Spartans, the Athenians and a few others, raised an army of several thousand, and went to match against the enemy and succesfully defeated them in several battles, then the enemy tried a different tactic. They used a fleet to attack one of the ports but the Spartan fleet intercepted them and destroyed the whole fleet and so the Persian king had to go back completely defeated.

How did Demetrius come into power? - He was the son of Antigonus, one of Alexander's generals. His father sent him out pretty much as his commander and Demetrius was such a good general that most of the other kings were afraid of him and because of that he had a lot of enemies and he was in power several different times. Once he was king of the Macedonians, once he was befriended by the Athenians, and on several other occasions he was the king of some small city, but because he had so many enemies, he was overthrown and had to go to some other kingdom. He finally died in prison.

Tell about his death. - He tried to do a campaign against one of his enemies, but famine and sickness came against his men, so he went to another king for help but they wouldn't help him. So they went to war against each other. Demetrius was eventually taken captive and while a prisoner, he died.

T - Year 10

Explain how Lincoln's character influenced his actions during his term as President. - His patience and goodwill kept him from becoming overbearing or harsh with his critics and staff, and helped him bear with the Union generals who had bad luck (or bad strategy) in the field. His sense of humor kept him from despairing during the long war. Because of his humility he thought only of his country and how he could help her, even to the point of neglecting his personal safety. Because of his kindness he pardoned many condemned soldiers and was lenient with the South after the war. Because of his morality he emancipated the slaves when he had the chance—and did it legally through the war power vested in him.

Give an account of Cairo during the plague. - There were funerals every day. Doctors were scarce, and someone wanting a doctor was looked on suspiciously. The plague was thought to be transferred by contact, so many people quarantined themselves in their houses, and those who went out tried to avoid touching other people. Kinglake himself did not completely believe the disease was transferred by contact, and he made a game of seeing how far he could go in the street without touching anyone.

Explain a few flaws in the liberal movement. (Vision of the Anointed) - 1) It is cut off from feedback. Because it is a vision rather than a view built upon observation, facts and results cannot affect it. Opposing views are usually ignored or brushed off without argument. 2) It plays to the pride of the Anointed. Within the vision they are the Intelligentsia, the Ones Who really care (or really know), the Rescuers of the unfortunate victims of society—-in other words, they are special. Therefore, they are the ones who should make decisions. Any opposition must be less understanding or less caring (see 1).

Grammar: pick out the eight parts of speech of the italicized words from this poetry selection by Robert Browning:

Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England -- now!

to be: infinitive verb
England: proper noun
wakes: intransitive verb
lowest: superlative adjective
chaffinch: concrete noun