the week we started trigonometry I was very confused for the first bit. especially when we were learning how to name the sides of a triangle. but after many questions, and very good answers, I found that when you want to name the sides of a triangle, the opposite side is OPPOSITE of the reference angle. the adjacent is BESIDE the right angle, and the left over is the hypotenuse which is OPPOSITE of the 90 degree angle.
Is vengeance or forgiveness more effective?
In the story “The Watch”, we read about a man who is a survivor of the holocaust, and falls victim of the loss of friends, and family. Before the attack he buries a watch in a box in the ground. 20 years later he goes back and uncovers the watch, but re-buries it. In the story he says that he wanted to turn the watch into “instrument of delayed vengeance” . By this he may have meant that he wanted people to see this watch in another 20 years and see what the jews had to do in order to survive the Nazi’s wrath. I think that vengeance is more effective when you want an immediate response, but in the end, forgiveness is the way to go. you cannot get a complete change when you are violent all the time. All it does is create short term change, not a long term transformation. In the beginning of the story he stated that “Yes we were naïve,” but I think he knew inside what was going on inside.
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this week I learned that when you do
using conversions, you have to do the conversions twice, other wise you won’t get the right answer. it’s because it is squaring the number, and you would convert 3 times if it was
and so on.
this week I had an ah-ha moment when I was learning about conversions. I really thought that it was way more difficult than it is. all you have to do is move down the number line and then move the decimal which-ever direction you moved down the number line. (I have pictures but they won’t load onto the blog right now). after that all it really is, is moving the decimal.