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#1 Interview with Melanja Palitta: Where Emotion and Creativity Live
Post date 9 September 2020
In this wild interview, Brian speaks with Melanja Palitta: dancer, filmmaker, painter, photographer, and all-around creative powerhouse. Their conversation about creativity quickly veers off into a thesis on Melanja's trifocal model of human emotion.
"The law of love is able to go beyond."
Melanja Palitta
Balanslab website | @melanjapalitta on Instagram
Melanja: So then I was like, okay, what can I do now with this feeling? But let's say I have it here. I have it in my body because it goes up and down. It goes in the stomach, goes in the heart, goes in the brain.
Brian: Hey, y'all I'm Brian. And welcome to episode one of season one of MindFolk: human creativity and mindful innovation – in a podcast. I'm extremely excited to bring you this first episode of the season. I have a whole bunch of amazing guests and partners lined up for you. And my intention with this podcast is to do something a little different….
…starting with my conversation with Melanja. Basically, everything she does is creative gold. So. I needed to talk to her about how she began her creative career. And to be honest, where our conversation went was totally unexpected to me. This is a much more intimate, vulnerable conversation than I was actually expecting.
And I'm proud to share it with you now. Enjoy!
Melanja: Like my home is also my plants because (they) are kind of the best things I could create in my life. Because emotionally it's like, an interesting chapter, but, these things I kind of build, I transform and I carry with me. Yeah.
Brian: What do you mean emotionally interesting chapter?
Melanja: Because, aaaah, in my life I've been more single than, together with someone.
Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. And also this place. I also took it in a way to say, okay, let's also try again to reconnect with myself and, instead of also sharing and see also what can happen after, and also to share my life is also another big desire in my life because yeah. I really want, but, yeah, I don't want something…
I want something good. So…
Brian: Yeah!
What does that look like for you?
Melanja: What does it mean?
Brian: Yeah. Like
Brian: When you say you want something good and you want to share your life and that's something you desire, how does that, when you imagine it, what does it, what does it look like?
Melanja: Yeah. I want something healthy. This is because so far. I saw myself, being attached to not really good or healthy dynamics or, projecting or, being wanted and not returned the feelings, but also being attached to this stuff. So I really want something… Love and be loved. This is… like that.
Okay. Okay. If the love is there and the let's let's see, let's build. And this was something that suits me because I don't think I'm really conventional person.
Brian: Which I love about you by the way.
Melanja: Huh?
Which I love about you, by the way.
Ah, Thank you. I also want the freedom. So… I also want to feel, safe, you know, that to also keep on doing what I like.
Also like, yeah, okay: there is some base and… so they don't create this dependency in order to just have a relationship. But anyway, I'm also working on it, on myself and I'm also going once a month to a person. Yeah.
Brian: Wow.
Melanja: I'm really, I'm really happy because, I think everyone should… We don't receive emotionally education.
Brian: No, it's true.
Melanja: Yeah. So it's good to talk with someone that has better knowledge.
Brian: It's so weird that we don't teach kids how to deal with these kinds of things. Like…
Melanja: I think it's the biggest mistake because eh, the world we created so far, because we created is towards productivity. Which I guess maybe is also part of our instinct because we have a talent that we… this talent has to serve.
But there is no emotionally education. And, basically without this, we fucked up a lot of stuff.
Brian: Yeah, it's true. Yeah. It's so true!
Melanja: Cause we are not stable or we, we, and we, we moved, we are moved by fears or moved. We are stuck by fears.
Brian: Yeah.
Melanja: We are not moved by fear because when you are afraid you froze.
You don't act, eh, maybe… so then we don't express totally ourself and also, society push this power. Also Corona… coronavirus is one of the biggest example: we are under fear. So let's see what they are gonna suggest?
Brian: Yeah. It's funny how you were talking about the politics of your, of your apartment.
Cause it got me thinking… I was thinking about the same things that you said about the, the politics of inside your old apartment, you could also say about geopolitics now, especially in response to Corona virus. The way that different, some people just want to have benefit of everything and not contribute, some people are kind of waiting off the sidelines.
And whenever there's someone that's trying to do something, or especially if they're trying to do something different, they get a lot of criticism. And, you mentioned that now in connection with this. Cause I think that those kind of unhealthy reactions, and also unhealthy tendencies in a relationship, come from fear. And a lot of the destruction and the ways that we're shitty to each other as people just come because we're afraid for ourselves.
So then people are shitty to someone else to try to help themselves or alleviate their fear or something. It's… We need more love, right?
Melanja: Yeah. And that's, what am I researching this period also that the meaning of love. Because, sometimes, in this period I was doing meditation. And then one sentence was coming into my brain.
I don't know if it 's an energy, a spirit. I don't know. I don't know, but I believe in a lot of stuff. And I was feeling this sentence, like open your heart, open your heart. And I'm like, wow. Whew – I think my heart is… over open. This is why I feel that I hurt myself easily, but then this open your heart, open your heart. Also lead me to link some, video on YouTube.
And now I bought a book about this French, sensitive is called Annette Jeeva. I don't know, but she's able to get out of her body and to do this astral trick.
Melanja: Yeah, she's a really interesting lady. And of course you don't know if it's true or not, but to me let's say that whatever she says resonates good.
So then I like, okay. At the moment or in the moment I am, (it) sounds okay. So let's, let's observe yeah.
Brian: Yeah
Melanja: And, and basically, sometimes I think we confuse heart love and real open heart. Because also she created this distinction about emotion and open your heart. And I was like, what is that?
What is that? I'm figuring it out. But at the moment, I feel that also, when she talks about the emotion… In the emotion, there are good emotions, and bad emotions. And the bad emotions also leads you to, as we were saying before, to move, to freeze to hate. yeah. so then I think this kind of emotion, they are not really like positive, or positive in the growth,… in our growth or like leading us to our really potential.
Melanja: Because I think we, we have a lot of potential, but we are so confused. And as I said, we don't receive, we don't encounter the right master in life. I think we need masters. Also like this kind of stuff, this kind of power we all have, but we are so in this society, in this kind of structure, then we just go like a train.
Brian: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. This reminds me actually of a friend of mine who spent time with Bedouins in the Sinai peninsula. And Bedouins, obviously like they're nomads, so they live in the desert and they live very close to nature. And they have senses and skills and things that we, we can't do anymore.
Like they, they can, they can understand the weather, they can understand different patterns in nature that can predict things based on, you know, different signals that they pick up through the sand and through the, through the wood and through water and stuff. And these are, these are skills that we humans could have if we develop them, but we don't because we're developing other skills, like how to use computers and how to drive cars and all this kind of thing .Yeah.
Melanja: And especially what she said that also Theodora will say that the words… The words we use create our world constantly, constantly. Yes. And, And, and I think, this is also related with what we think also related to our emotional, like the, the good and the negative also, because she is saying that the negative emotion also feeds kind of bad entity.
So, and with this bad entity, we cannot go further too. So we cannot expand, let's say. Let's put it this way. I think it's easier. And, I'm experienced this, but again, when the quarantine is started, I said, okay, I'm living alone. I'm also forced to be locked. Okay. Let's dig a little bit more, in these two things, and I'm also trying to clean,
And especially from a… one strong attachment feeling I had with a person, which in this period also, he moved forward with someone. So then I was like, okay, what can I do now with this feeling? That I have it…, let's say I have it here. I have it in my body because it goes up and down, goes in the stomach, goes in the heart then goes in the brain.
It's constantly moving. And then when it is in the heart, it's like, okay. I love him as a, as a human being, he's he's flying somewhere else. Okay. Let it go.
Then when it is in the stomach it is like, ARRRRRGH!
Or, when it's in the brain, I stopped to analyze, but I did this, he did that. So it's really like a… And this is why also in my painting, in the one you bought, there are three dots all the time. Because the dots for me, are like this mental connection the, heart connection and the let's call stomach, but that also is called like the instinct.
Yeah, the gut, but also like there is sexual connection. And because I think when these three points are aligned. I think it's a moment as a beautiful moment. But often with the people we connect only mentally because we have an interest sometimes also with the heart only with the heart, like, think about your mom or this unconditional love or your girlfriend.
Or, sometimes what you connect to just by physical attractions or…
Brian: Also valid. Yeah, nothing wrong with that.
Melanja: No, that's true, but I think when they are connected, all of them, I think it's really another level. Let's say.
Brian: Absolutely. Yeah, can you, cause I feel like the, the, the painting you just mentioned, which I love by the way. Thank you for that. It's I'm looking at it right now.
It, it, it feels almost like it's one of a series. Like you have a few paintings that kind of feel similar to each other. Can you tell me about that a little bit?
Melanja: I think there are going to be also more and they are all part of my emotional process.
No? Because as I, as I told you, for me, it's also a little bit therapy. Because when I paint, I can really, close my brain or my thoughts and just be there with a color, or at least I don't activate the anger that sometimes, as a human being I have.
So then, and there like, okay, let's take it out everything. And let's… So for me, it's like a moment of therapy, like a meditation. and for sure, I sure I'm going to do more than that stuff because I'm still digging, I am still searching.
So until I'm, maybe I'm going to get, tired or it's going to transform, I'm sure I'm gonna do. But watching what I'm doing these days, it goes from that direction, to a totally dark and strong color. Yeah. And then again, maybe something light. So…
Brian: What moves these changes for you?
Melanja: Mm, yeah. I think my emotion. Yeah, my emotion. And, so, and I have to say that the, one of the goal, while I painting, it's always like, okay, let's try to be honest. And the let's try to let, to be just that tool so where the creativity can pass through me. Because I don't believe that I control every everything. Or, or, it's really that I did that.
Because often I look at them and I'm like, who? Who did that? Yeah. Usually when I see a lot of black and I am like what is this? Where this is coming from? Yeah. Yeah. It's really funny to observe. And, and another funny thing is when someone say, Oh, I really like it, I want this. I'm like, Oh, Oh, I don't know how to explain…
Brian: Or I want this to be the cover of my book… Haha
Melanja: But it makes me see, like, okay. So I kind of channeled something and someone connected to that. Because again, I don't really feel that, I kind of really do totally. Yes, of course. I'm… my hands and I have a style. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. But I don't think there is only me controlling this stuff.
Brian: I think I would agree with you. What, what would you say…? Cause it the way you described it now, when, especially when there's someone who appreciates a piece of your, a piece of work that you've done or wants to buy it or like just resonates with it somehow… It feels like you're both connecting to something that's apart from both of you. …in the sense that I think that the painting that you created in me, it helps me connect with something that's separate from myself. Maybe separate from you that maybe we're both tapping into. And I'm wondering if, if that's, what do you, how do you feel about that?
Melanja: Okay. According to what I'm also reading. Hm. We are part of the same source and the source is energy. So then maybe this is where maybe we can connect and so then… Or maybe you empathize some emotion that I had… that I have, and and then reproduced in this color or in this lines, and then maybe this is why you would you… you connect.
Because another thing that if you watch my drawings, you can see really clear is a duelism.
Brian: Hmm.
Melanja: Cause, I, I feel I'm divided in two. So often I… one part goes in that direction, then another, which is also left and right. d way to connect the left and the right part of your brain or the female and the male part of your… the body, no?
Brian: Yin and yang. Yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Melanja: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's what analyzing the brain that the left part or…. this one is really analytic and this one is really emotional. So we have also the dualism inside. So basically no ?
Brian: Yeah, that's interesting. And I love that that comes in, that that shows through in your work as well.
Melanja: Yes, I mean also sometimes when I post my stuff, feel like, wow, I'm totally an open book. If someone wants to read me, just go to my Instagram wall and they can see all my emotions.
But then again, I'm like, okay, let go, whatever. And they, if somebody is needs it, good. And if someone also wants to read me, whatever. I mean, I can not understand totally me, me. So, how can another one?
Brian: This is something I think is really interesting, especially when you, when you separate out the three sort of aspects of existence, the, the, the very mental analytical, and then the heart love and sort of the gut instinctual…. yeah, instinct, I think is the best way to put it. Like you put it earlier.
Melanja: Yeah.
Brian: And I feel maybe like there's, there are certain connections that our gut and our heart can do very well, but our brain isn't… it just isn't good at, or doesn't understand. And so for me, when I look at a piece of art that inspires me, or if I, whenever I, I really resonate or click with someone, then it's maybe beyond the cognitive level.
But there's something that the connection is happening somewhere else, but it just, the cognitive one, can't see, you know, something like this, or maybe the, you know, the elephant and rider kind of stuff.
Melanja: I mean, I think it also depends on the quality of the connection you are looking for. Because again, if you just wants to go for a physical attraction and you don't want anything else, I think you can go for that.
But, I think if you really want to connect deeply with someone, I really think that the door is the heart, the main door. And then you see, because the heart I think, is able to accept, to understand, to have compassion, but really to accept also someone is not… has something that is not let's call good.
For you good because maybe for someone else it.'s good And I think we are only have to do this with the, with the heart. Yeah. if we analyze, under the criterium of ethics or morality or right or wrong with the brain, I mean, we cannot really build up, anything deeper because love is also like to forgive, to accept.
Brian: Yeah. It's interesting.
Melanja: Eh, think about also a lot of story that they are in the gospel. Did they go beyond the, the, the, the normal. Like, for example, there is this story of the, the son that spent all the money of the father. He goes away, and then he comes back and there is the first brother that he was loyal to the father.
And he doesn't receive anything and he does bad things. It comes back and the father, instead of punish, he creates a party. So then, and then you're like, okay, well, this is not fair. But then, but then I think in this example, you really understand that sometimes the law of love is able to go beyond.
Melanja: And. Yeah. And… And I think this is also like this, this love that sometimes, we are talking about when we were talking about open your heart, open your heart. Yeah.
Brian: What's the role of the gut then in a situation like that?
Melanja: What's the role, the role is, is the father. The father is the role that also, when he sees… his son, which is, he made a mistakes. He goes towards him. He hugs him and he say, I thought I lost you.
Brian: Oh!
Melanja: I thought I lost you and you are coming back. So, it shows that he goes against the law of, good and bad, but also because he's coming back to the father. So it's like, you could… you found back your faith.
Melanja: And there is another story. The story that is, yeah, that is really interesting is like, there is, owner of grape, grape field to make the wine, you know.
Brian: Vineyard
Melanja: I don't know the name. Yeah. The vineyard, it needs people to cut the, the grape. So he found people and divide the day in a schedule. Like, okay: from eight to, 12, from 12 to four from four to six. So, and the last part of group had two hours instead of maybe four of the others.
Melanja: But then when he goes to pay, he pays everyone the same.
Brian: Okay.
Melanja: And then you're like, okay, so then again is not fair, no? Because everyone is…
Brian: It is a different division. Yeah.
Melanja: Yeah. Everyone worked different, different hours, but everyone gets paid the same.
So then you're like, okay, what God is trying to, to tell me? Yeah. according to some, interpretation, that, that…that it is not the amount of hours you put, but it's just that you answer to the call. So you, were… I asked you to work and you came.
Brian: Yeah. Yeah.
Melanja: So you answered to the… to the call and. And I have to say that I'm doing a little bit of research about the gospel, especially about the Gnostics.
So the, one they are not introducing to the Catholic church because there is a lot of Truth or a lot of essence about the story, about the essence of life. And, yeah.
Brian: What do you mean by that?
Melanja: Yeah, I was for example, I was watching a person that made a lot of research about the gospel, but also he did a lot of hypnosis.
And this, yeah, in this says that 400 people, on a deep, deep moment of, hypnosis, to all of them, they were asking, who are you? Who you are? And all of them without knowing the answer, they, all of them, answer: I am Light. So we belongs to the same source of light.
And also we called, and also if you really read the gospel, what also Jesus was trying to tell you that God is on us. So we are God, we are the Light.
No? But in this one, this lady that can transfer out of her body, she said that the knowledge at the time of Jesus at the time of the essence, in people, it was really high. That now we are backward.
Brian: Like behind -yeah. Yeah. That makes sense.
Melanja: Yeah. Yeah.
Melanja: And also like, one of the stronger person close to Jesus was Maria madalena, where they say also that she had the knowledge or the technique to being contact with Jesus. Because there is another story that to become endless religion, Jesus decide to, to die.
So in this way, because when he went to the sky, if it was the only way to be close to us, to reconnect with us more than, than ever yeah.
Brian: To become to become part of the infinite that we are all connected to?
Melanja: Yes, yes. Yeah.
Brian: Oh, that's fascinating.
Melanja: It's really fascinating. Yeah. In fact, when, when you make more research and everything is linked, but I also feel that as soon as you connect your antenna to something you're linked and lalalalalalalalala.
But any way, I think the fun is really to the search to research it, to discover something. So I think this is really interesting. So maybe in one year, maybe I have a different opinion. I don,'t think so, but who knows?
Brian: Who does nothing wrong with that? We learn, we grow, we evolve. It's nothing, nothing. no problem. And so, before we started this conversation, actually, you were telling me about how painting has always been a part of your life from the very beginning. And I'm wondering if like what, what that has to do, if anything, with being connected to the source and this, this sort of cosmic, infinite.
Melanja: For sure for example, when my mom was pregnant of me, she made three beautiful paintings that they are still hanging in my house. They are really beautiful, really big. And, and then another thing that I kind of learned is, when I was a child really young, my mom, sometimes she was like drawing because she has also this passion, and she was just giving me color and paper.
So basically this is how I started. No? And this is always for me, something so natural or something that I don't, I never desire to learn from someone because I was like, okay.
And I always draw. And eh, especially in, on a emotion, like angry or sad, like strong emotion that I couldn't release with words, then I was putting it in color. Yeah. Till a point that… here after the first breakup of my Dutch boyfriend. Which I was really kapot!
Yeah, I really felt the need again to take the color and the paper. And I was making drawing one per day as a therapy and it was working. So after that, people started seeing and saying, Oh, you should do something. You should do something, blablabla. And then after like two or three years, I got the courage to do my first exhibition and open Instagram account and, yeah.
Brian: Right, right. Yeah. And when did, when did motion become a part of that?
Melanja: Which emotion?
Brian: Motion. Like, do you, you're a dancer. You also you're a filmmaker, so it's it's pictures, but then in motion, right?
Brian: Moving… I should have said movement actually. Yeah.
Melanja: Yeah. I think that the movement is, you can see, because I don't try to represent something clean or perfect.
Yeah, except maybe in yours is a little bit more clean, but usually I really try to, to go with a gut, like okay. into put the color without thinking so much and to get the feeling. Because I, because an emotion is never clear,
Brian:
Melanja: Yeah. It's true.
It's clear for the heart, but when it goes to the gut, it moves in something else when it goes to the mind, goes to something else.
Brian: Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Melanja: Because for them, for the, for the, for the person I kind of lost. Yeah, of course. I have a big, I feel a bigglove. but sometimes I don't accept what happened. And then I transform in anger or transform in disappointment. But the emotion is the emotion of love.
Melanja: Yeah. You had a little illumination. What was that?
Brian: Yeah, no, it's like, it feels as if, I don't know, it's like a germ of something that's kind of growing now, but it felt like there was the idea that a feeling or an emotion can begin in the heart and move through us via one of the two channels.
Like if we try to analyze or intellectualize an emotion, something like writing, for example could come out. But if we want to show that emotion with movement or motion, like, you know, dance or something like this, then it comes out more through the gut, through like the belly.
These are… and the way that we express them are sharper if it's through the head, but then it's, it's fuzzier and more expressive if it's more through the gut. Something like that. I don't know.
Melanja: Can be, yeah. Yeah. It's a process. Maybe you should start drawing. Hahaha
Brian: I should start, yeah. Maybe start dancing. When did you start dancing anyway?
Melanja: I remember I had seven years old. And I remember my, that I worked to become a dancer since a long time. And it was the second year of elementary school.
And with one of my best friends, we decided my parents and her parents decided to inscribe to dance school. And the day they, we got the registration, then we went to buy the shoes and the body and the socks. I still remember in print and I was so happy that I remembered the lady in the shop. Saying to my mom, please, calm down your, or your kids because I was jumping of happiness.
I was, I was so happy, so happy. It was the dreaming of a life! Because I remember also this, when people were asking me, what do you want to be when you are older? No, and I was saying, I want to be a dancer. And I, as a child, I was recognize the face of the people… yeah, yeah, yeah. A dancer. And I was like, and that was like inside me: it is the truth.
It's not like, because it's Lalala. I was like, take me seriously because I want to be a dancer!
And then my first hero. It was, I had 10 years old and on Sunday they were putting some, dancing on a TV in the national channel, no? RAI Uno. And, and there were so strange, they were really weird, but I was so fascinated. I was like, this is so cool. And growing up, I realized that that dancer was Pina Bausch.
Brian: Hmm. Yeah. Yeah.
Melanja: So could you believe it was so strong that could resonated to a child? I mean, I was watching, there was like, wow, I couldn't understand. It's a German lady, totally abstract, but I was watching like, and that was like, I want to do that. I'm…. so it was my first hero. Yeah. Pina Bausch.
Yeah. That is not about the movement in sense of the perfectionist, but it's the expression of a strong emotion. Yeah.
Brian: Yeah. It's fantastic.
Brian: Huh wow, that's cool. You give me a lot to think about now.
Melanja: With the body. We talk more, I think we are more truthful than the mouth, the mouth really. Ooh.
Melanja: We can act easily with the mouth.
Brian: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. The brain… the brain knows how to lie very well. And I think the heart and gut have trouble, more trouble with that.
Melanja: Hmm. Yeah. So, because it 's educated to, because we need to be… part. We need to belong. Let's go to another. Yeah, we need to belong. And so then we learned that if we behave a certain way, if we also say certain things, we can be accepted or not.
So then it's really easy to lie.
Brian: Hmm. Yeah. Well, yeah. Wow. Yeah, no…
Melanja: You could have like a bad day, at home with your girlfriend, and then someone call you by work. And then you're like Hey how is it going?
One second before you were, you were BLOWING UP, arrrrgh! I cannot stand this! I move, I quit!
And then they call you for work: Hey Brian, we have a new project. Oh fantastic! Cool, I am good!
Brian: Yeah. Yeah. We're at, we're good at that. We're good at that for sure. Oh my goodness. Thanks for this. I appreciate it.
Melanja: You're welcome
Brian: I'm having a great time. What… what's your, we've talked about your Instagram a lot. What's what's your Instagram? You have a, you have a bal… You have a website and Instagram, right?
Melanja: Yes… instagram, I have two, because in the beginning I started with BalansLab and then I was also putting my painting and then I felt the need to separate. In fact, @melanjapalitta is the painting and @balanslab is my professional one.
Brian: And Balans is like with an S not with an NCE.
Melanja: Yeah. Yes, because when I went to register, it was already took and they said, yeah, but let's check in a Dutch way because… yeah. And then they say, Oh, in Dutch it.s not taken. I say, okay, let's put that. I am in Netherlands so, then it's okay.
Brian: That's your website too, right?
Melanja: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Brian: balanslab.com
Melanja: Yes
Brian: Melanja, if you're listening, thank you so much. It's an honor and a privilege to be your friend.
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Jaan Masing (31 January 1875 Vana-Kariste Parish, Pärnu County – 21 September 1948 Tallinn) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of IV Riigikogu.

He was a member of Asutav Kogu.

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1948 deaths
Farmers' Assemblies politicians
Estonian People's Party politicians
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Part I Dialogue Completion (15 Points)
Directions: There are 15 short incomplete dialogues in this part, each followed by 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one to complete the dialogue and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.
1. Speaker A: I want to take part in the school Talent Show.
Speaker B: That's nice! ______.
Speaker A: Well, I like to sing.
A. I'm behind you 100 percent. B. What would you want to do?
C. Are you sure? D. Go for it.
2. Mike: Do you mind if I open the door?
Susan: ______. The wind will blow my papers around.
A. Please don't. B. Just do it.
C. No, go right ahead. D. It's up to you.
3. Speaker A: I was hoping you would stay on a bit longer.
Speaker B: ______, but I have to get up early tomorrow.
A. I think so B. I wish I could too
C. Thank you D. I really have to go.
4. Speaker A: Guess what, mum? I got the scholarship!
Speaker B: ______. I'm so pround of you.
A. Well done! B. I like it.
C. You are kidding! D. Good luck.
5. Speaker A: Good morning, Mr.Thomas. Dou you have time now?
Speaker B: ______.
Speaker A: I would like to discuss with you about my job.
A. Let me see. B. Not now.
C. Sure. What is it? D. How long will it take?
6. Tim: You look unhappy, ______?
Linda: I'm having some problems with maths.
A. What do you need B. What's new
C. You know what D. What's up
7. Speaker A: What a wonderful dinner!
Speaker B: Thank you. ______.
A. I hope you like it. B. I'm glad you're enjoying it.
C. Is everything fine? D. You are welcome.
8. Marie: Hey, Greg. Let's go to the County Show this weekend.
Greg: ______ I have to do my school project, remember?
A. As you like. B. I'd be glad to.
C. Do we have to? D. Why not?
9. Dad: Do you want any breakfast?
Emma: ______. I'm really hungry.
A. I'm not sure B. Well, if you insist
C. I can go without it D. Yes, I do
10. John: I'm tired. I'm having next week off.
Lily: ______. The break will do you good.
A. What happened to you? B. Are you serious?
C. That's a good idea. D. You don't really mean it, do you?
11. Mark: I don't know about you, but I'm fed up with this wet weather.
Linda: ______. I'm just looking for some sunshine.
A. Me, too B. Neither do I.
C. Who knows? D. It's Ok.
12. Mary: What was the match like?
Lucas: ______, especially when Messi scored in the closing minutes.
A. It made me sleepy B. It was a joke
C. It was a dull game D. It was really exciting
13. Speaker A: Could I meet with you to dicuss the preparation?
Speaker B: Good. We could meet on Tuesday or Wednesday. ______?
Speaker A. Tuesday would be good for me.
A. How about you B. Which day would you prefer
C. Any other suggestions D. Is it good for you
14. Husband: You aren't going out dressed like that, are you?
Wife: ______? I thought I looked really smart.
A. Can you believe it
B. Be nice, Ok
C. How do you think of it
D. Why? What's wrong with it
15. Josh: Give me your homework so I can copy it.
Ellen: ______ You should do it yourself.
A. Take it.
B. No way!
C. I'll tell you what.
D. What seems to be the problem?
Part II Reading Comprehension (40 Points)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each o f the passages is followed by 5questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.
Passage One
A few centuies ago, people looked at the birds and wondered what it would be like to fly like them. There were stories of heroes who glued bird feathers on their arms and flew up into the sky. About 500 years ago, some people dreamed a different dream. Instead of flying up to the sky, they dreamed of falling from the sky!
In the 15th century, Italian inventors designed a cone-shaped(锥形) device that was supposed to bring a man down safely from a great height. The operator held on to a handle with a straps strapped to his waist. This was the first known design for a parachute (降落伞).
Even the great inventor Leonardo da Vinci sketched a type of parachute. His parachute design was in the shape of pyramid(金字塔). Other inventors also sketched their own designs for a parachute. Unfortunately, these were only designs on paper and no one tested them.
A Croatian inventor named Fausto Veranzio looked at Leonardo da Vinci's parachute design and replaced the pyramid shape with one that looked like a sail from a ship. When Veranzio was 65years old, he fell ill. Thinking he would not live longer, he decided to try out his parachute invention. He built his parachute using wood and cloth. Straping his invention to his waist, he jumped off the tall bell tower in his city. He landed safely! He was supposedly the first man to successfully use a parachute. However, some other people thought this story was not true. If that was the case, then the first person to successfully use a parachute would go to a Frenchman named Louis-Sebastien Lenormand in 1783.
16. The first known parachute was designed by ______.
A. Frenchman B. Italian
C. Croatians D. Englishmen
17. Leonardo da Vinci's parachute was shaped like a ______.
A. cone B. feather C. pyramid D. sail
18. Which of the following is about Fausto Veranzio is true?
A. He copied da Vinci's parachute design.
B. He made his parachute with feather and wood.
C. He experimented with his parachute many times.
D. He decided to try his parachute after he was seriously ill.
19. As for the first man who successfully used a parachute, ______.
A. it was said to be Leonardo da Vinci
B. we know for sure he was Veranzio
C. there were some historical records
D. we don't know for sure yet
20. The passage is mainly about ______.
A. the origin of the parachute
B.The dreams of flying and falling
C. the courage of dropping from the sky
D. the application of parachute invention
Passage Two
Out of all the students who enroll in a massive open online course(MOOC), only about 5 percent complete the course and receive a certificate accomplishment. This statistic is often cited as evidence that MOOCs are fatally flawed(缺陷的)and offer little educational value to most students. Yet more than 80 percent of students who fill out a post-course survey say they met their primary objective. How do we look at these two facts?
We're used to focusing on completion rates in higher education, but they're not the only-or even the most meaningful – indicator of engagement in open online courses. With no cost to enroll, no punishment for dropping out, and little reward for actually earning a certificate, MOOCs are fundamentally different from traditional calssess – and students use them in fundamentally different ways.
Data from more than 1.8 million students erolled in 36 MOOCs offered by the University of Pennsylvania show that students treat MOOCs like a buffet (自助餐), sampling the material according to their interests and career goals. Some are curious about the subject matter and just watch one or two video lectures; others use the discussion forums to connect with their intellectual peers around the world. Of all enrolled students, nearly 60 percent watch at least one vedio, complete at least one assignment, or post at least once in a forum.
So focusing on the tiny fraction of students who complete a MOCCs is misguided.
The more important number is the 60 percent engagement rate. Students may not finish a MOOC with a certificate of accomplishment, but the courses nonetheless meet the educational goals of millions.
21. What do we learn about MOOCs from Para.1?
A. There seems to be conflicting statistics about MOOCs.
B. It turns out that MOOCs have failed people's expectations.
C. Most students find it hard to judge the value of MOOcs.
D. The educational value of MOOCs is well acknowledged.
22. In Para.2, the author stresses ______.
A. the primary objective of MOOC students
B. the significance of competion rates in education
C. the strengths and weakness of open online courses
D. the differences between MOOCc and trditional classes
23. According to Para. 3, students choose MOOCs for the following reasons EXCEPT ______.
A. earning a certificate
B. improving job-related skills
C. meeting their interest in the subjects
D. exchanging ideas with students worldwide
24. The sentence "students treat MOOCs as a buffet" (Para.3) ______.
A. emphasizes the core value of MOCCs
B. demonstrates the daily operation of MOOCd
C. indicates students are free to choose MOOC resources
D. explains what students learn from MOOC courses
25. What is the author's attitude toward MOOCs?
A. Critical. B. Supportive. C. Indifferent. D. Neutral.
Passage Three
Whether you are hiking through徒步 the magnificent redwoods of Northern California, sleeping under the brilliant stars of the Texas sky or watching the sun rise across the rocky cliffs of Maine, expecting the outdoor world can be inspiring, thrilling, and deeply satisfying. And one of the best ways to enjoy the abundant gifts of the natural world is simple, inexpensive, and available to almost every one. Let's go camping.
When you camp, you create a "home away from home" in the fresh air. You don't need a lot of fency equipment to enjoy camping. What you need is simply a tent large enough for your family. Practice setting up the tent at home to make sure you are familiar with the process before you go camping.
Once you find a good site, it's time to set up tent. Your first job is to set up your tent. Remove all sticks and rocks from the area. Spread a tarp (防水帆布) over the area where your tent will sit. Set up the tent and be sure to stake it down firmly, even if the weather is mild. Otherwise, strong wind can blow your tent away.
Next, you'll need some firewood for a campfire. If gathering wood is illegal at your campground, you must buy it at the camp store. If gathering dead wood is permitted, go on a firewood-hunting journey and bring in a good supply of wood for your campsite, pile the wood safely away from the campfire ring and where no one will trip over the wood or hurt his or her legs on sharp branches.
Being a responsible camper requires that you follow the rules of the campground. Do not burn food or plastic in your campfire. Make sure that you leave your campsite in good condition for the next campers. Just before leaving the site, make a final check to be certain that your campfire is completely out. Pour water on the ashes just to be safe!
26. As is suggested by the aurhor, you should practice setting up your tent ______.
A. before the weather turns bad
B. before your first camping up
C. after having selected your campsite
D. once you have decided where to go
27. What is the first thing you should do after choosing a campsite?
A. Gather firewood.
B. Spread a tarp on the ground.
C. Set up the tent.
D. Remove sticks and rocks from the tent area.
28. You can gather firewood only ______.
A. after you are sure that it is permitted
B. after you are certain that no one will get hurt
C. if there is no camp store nearby
D. if firewood is out of stock in a camp store
29. The last thing you should do before leaving your campsite is ______.
A. burn all the trash
B. clean the campsite
C. pour water on the ashes
D. collect all the rubbish
A. safety measures a camper should take
B. problems you may face as a camper
C. what you need to know about camping
D. what you need to bring along for camping
Passage Four
Every country has secret services to help protect it against serious threats from terrorists, major criminals or even from other countries. People who threaten to harm a country always plot in secret, so the intelligence agencies have to work in secret to find out what is being planned before it happens, so that it can be prevented. They do that in many different ways – by secretly listening to their targets talking on the phone, by planting microphongs to overhear meetings, by watching the targets as they move from place to place and by recruiting some of the targets to act as double agents to report on what is going on.
For most of my career I worked in one of the UK's three intelligence services, MIS, the domestic security service. I first joined in the 1970s, in the middle of the Gold War, when the war was divided into two armed camps, the Soviet Union(前苏联) and its allies on the one side and Western Europe, America and their allies on the other. The Gold War never became a fighting war. It was an intelligence war, with intelligence officers from both sides trying to find out what the other side was doing, what kind of weapons they had, when and if they might start a war and what their plans were. Both sides were secretly working in each other's countries.
Nowadays one of the biggest threats to the world, comes from terrorists. Intelligence officers from many differenct countries are working together to find out who they are., where they are and what they are planning. Today's MIS officers get their intelligence in much the same way as we did during the Gold War, but their task is even more difficult and urgent because most terrorists want to kill people. Many terrorist attacks that are planned and prepared never happen, and we never know anything about them because the intelligence services find them out and prevent them.
31. What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A. The tasks of intelligence agencies.
B. The contributions of intelligence agencies.
C. The equipment used by intelligence agents.
D. The recruitment of intelligence agents.
32. The biggest security threats for Britain in the 1970s were from ______.
A. international terrorists
B. the Soviet Union and its allies
C. major criminals within the country
D. agents working for both camps
33. What is true about the Gold War?
A. Both camps were planning to start a war.
B. It was a war fought with advanced weapons.
C. No fierce clash broke out during the period.
D. It is not regarded as an intelligence war.
34. MIS officers' task is more urgent today in that ______.
A. terrorists are more difficult to find than spies
B. most terrorist attacks are aimed at killing people
C. terrorist attacks happen more frequently than before
D. it takes only a little time to prepare a terrorist attack
35. The best title for the passage might be " ______ ".
A. Ways of Gathering Intelligence
B. National Defense Against All Threats
C. Which Is More Threatening: Terrorists Or Spies?
D. What We Do As Intelligence Officers
Part III Vocabulary and Structure (20 points)
Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this section.For each sentence there are 4 choices marked A,B,C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.
36. I didn't believe in this treatment before, but after I tried I found that it really ______.
A. worked B. mattered C. passed D. did
37. It is important for a child to share toys in order to ______ good social skills,
A. release B. invent C. develop D. start
38. She refers to me as her closest and dearest friend, ______ we met just two weeks ago.
A. as B. even if C. as though D. even though
39. When you get upset, you should take deep breaths to main a sense of ______.
A. calm B. humor C. duty D. security
40. ______ they have the same name, American and English football are very different.
A. Since B. Although C. For D. Whereas
41. Emily Dickinson did not become popular ______ her death, when much of her writing was discovered.
A. until B. soon after C. shortly before D. up till
42. My ex-boyfriend's presence at the party made me ______, so every time he came near, I headed in the other direction.
A. puzzled B. delighted C. uncomfortable D. interested
43. The horse race was so close that we had to watch a playback of the video to ______ the winner.
A. realize B. announce C. award D. determine判断
44. The animals, highly sensitive to pollution, can ______ monitor of water quality.
A. serve as B. work for C. cope with D. relate
45. The drama school, ______ places to students who can show talent.
A. donates B. offers C. lists D. supplies
46. When my girlfriend told me I had tomato sauce all over my lips, I ______ reached for a napkin.
A. gradually B. immediately C. reluctantly D. skillfully
47. Kay wanted to pull her hair out(发怒) ______ because her busy schedule did not allow time for relaxation.
A. in amusement B. with excitement
C. in frustration D. with boredom
48. Transport is not included but can be arranged at your ______.应贵方要求
A. desire B. request C. wish D. demand按你的要求
49. It is a challenging task, one that should not be taken ______.
A. seriously B. fully C. lightly D. quickly
50. The windows will allow a clear ______ of the beach.
A. look B. sight C. vision D. view
51. More and more people come from rural areas ______ better job opportunities.
A. in charge of B. in search of C. in memory of D. in honor of
52. ______ the damage is done, not even modern surgery can undo it entirely.
A. Though B. For C. Once D. Unless
53. He ______ that I am unqualified for the job, even though he didn't come out and say it directly.
A. claimed B. implied C. declared D. inferred
54. If you continue to eat junk food, you'll ______ sick and overweight.
A. give in B. go on C. set off D. end up
55. Hard as they try, these birds have ______ small wings that they can not fly.
A. such B. so C. too D. that
56. Is there a connection between _____ you eat and maintaining good health?
A. that B. which C. what D. whatever
57. Who smokes more, educated people ______ less educated people?
A. and B. or C. but D. as
58. Thanks to the angle ______ he stood, he could see the sunset. 幸亏他站的角度合适,他才能看到日落。
A. at which B. in which C. at that D. in that
59. He doesn't talk too much, but what he says is always ____ the point.
A. for B. on C. at D. to
60. I used to smoke, but I ______ anymore.
A. didn't B. don't C. wasn't D. won't.
61. The ice was not ______ to bear the weight of the men.
A. thick enough B. thick as C. too thick D. enough sick
62. We won't be getting married until we ______ enough money.
A. will save B. save C. saved D. have saved
63. You ______ us, for we could have come to help you.
A. should tell B. should have told
C. would tell D. would have told
64. ______ like candlelight for creating a romantic mood.
A. They are nothing B. There are nothing
C. It is nothing D. There is nothing
65. He suffered from poor eyesight and could ______ read properly.
A. no more B. no longer C. any more D. any longer
66. The systems remain basically the same as ____ in use half a century ago.
A. those B. that C. ones D. the one
67. Some people express their love through words, ______ others show their affection by giving presents.
A. when B. where C. while D. for
68. When we give the children ice cream, they immediately ceased ______.
A. crying B. to cry C. to be crying D. cry
69. I read the newspaper every day ______ I can stay informed about current events.
A. in that B. so that C. in case that D. for fear that
70. ______ many days in the desert, the explorer was relieved when he eventually found water.
A. Before B. During C. Within D. After
71. I didn't realize that I passed the exit on the highway until it was ______.
A. too late B. a bit late C. rather early D. a bit early
72. The blue whale is ______ any other animal on earth.
A. no bigger than B. as big as
C. the biggest of D. bigger than
73. One of the basic rules of having a dog is that you ______ give it exercise every day.
A. will B. can C. may D. must
74. This was the last week of school and they ______ for their finals.
A. prepare B. were preparing
C. would prepare D. have prepared
75. The car was stolen while ______ in a Paris Street.
A. parking B. to be parking C. parked D. being parked
Part IVCloze Test (10 Points)
Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each numbered blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.
Do you know what a resolution is? It's a promise. Most promises are made ___76___ other people ("Mom, I'll promise I'll tidy my room when I get back from the beach") ___77___, resolutions are promises that you make to yourself. And New Year's resolutions are those people promises make at the beginning of the year in the ___78___ that they will improve their lives. Some people write down their resolutions to remember them. But ____79__ the resolution is important enough, you ___80___ have to write it down but keep it in mind.
There are different kinds of resolutions. Some relate to ___81___ health, such as starting a workout program or ___82___ the amount of junk food (垃圾食品) that you eat. Many have to do with self improvement, such as ___83___ a hobby like painting or photography, or learning a musical instrument. Then there are resolutions that have to do with being better organized. ___84___ here might include using a weekly planner or organizing your school notes.
Despite these differences, there is one thing that most resolutions have ___85___.
People hardly keep them! The resolutions are too difficult to keep, or people simply forget. For this reason, some people argue that the best resolution is simply not to make any resolutions!
76. A. with B. by C. for D. to
77. A. However B. Therefore C. Likewise D. Incidentally
78. A. assumption B. hope C. pledge D. resolve
79. A. though B. as C. if D. because
80. A. couldn't B. shouldn't C. mustn't D. wouldn't
81. A. public B. mental C. physical D. normal
82. A. increasing B. limiting C. determining D. retaining
83. A. taking up B. giving up C. holding down D. laying down
84. A. Variations B. Problems C. Samples D. Examples
85. A. in common B. in diversity C. in conclusion D. in favor
Part V. Writing (15 points)
Directions: Write an essay in about 120words on the topic of "It Is Hard to Succeed Without Confidence". Give examples or your own experiences to support your idea. Write your essay on the ANSWER SHEET.
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Chemistry and Math
Density Practice Problems
In these practice problems, we will work on determining the density, volume, and the mass of different objects. First, density is calculated by the ratio of the mass and the volume of the object:
For example, what is the density of a metal if its 2.35 g sample has a volume of 0.654 g/mL?
\[{\rm{d}}\;{\rm{ = }}\,\,\frac{{\rm{m}}}{{\rm{v}}}\,{\rm{ = }}\frac{{{\rm{2}}{\rm{.35}}\,{\rm{g}}}}{{{\rm{0}}{\rm{.654}}\,{\rm{mL}}}}\,{\rm{ = }}\;{\rm{3}}{\rm{.59}}\,{\rm{g/mL}}\]
Sometimes the volume may not be given and there are two main scenarios here depending on if the object has a regular or irregular shape. So, let's discuss them one by one.
The density of Objects with Regular Shapes
The first example here would be the density of an object with a cubic shape. For example, a wood block with a length of 11 in, 7.5 in width and 1.95 in thickness weighs 4.93 lb. Calculate density of the block in lb/in3.
The mass is given and therefore, the only thing missing is the volume of the block which we find by multiplying all the sides:
And now, we can determine the density:
\[{\rm{d}}\;{\rm{ = }}\,\,\frac{{\rm{m}}}{{\rm{v}}}\,{\rm{ = }}\frac{{{\rm{4}}{\rm{.93}}\,{\rm{lb}}}}{{{\rm{160}}{\rm{.875}}\,{\rm{i}}{{\rm{n}}^{\rm{3}}}}}\,{\rm{ = }}\;{\rm{0}}{\rm{.031}}\,{\rm{lb/i}}{{\rm{n}}^{\rm{3}}}\]
The density of Objects with Irregular Shapes
The most common example here is the one where the density of metal pellets needs to be determined. For example, a sample containing 15.4 g of metal pellets is poured into a graduated cylinder initially containing 12.0 mL of water, causing the water level in the cylinder to rise to 16.2 mL. Calculate the density of the metal.
What you need to visualize in these problems, is that the volume of pellets or anything else that was added to water, is equal to the volume of the water displaced:
So, in this case, the volume of the pellets would be:
16.2 – 12.0 = 4.20 mL
Therefore, the density is the ratio of the mass and this difference in initial and final volumes:
\[{\rm{d}}\;{\rm{ = }}\,\,\frac{{\rm{m}}}{{\rm{v}}}\,{\rm{ = }}\frac{{{\rm{15}}{\rm{.4}}\,{\rm{g}}}}{{{\rm{4}}{\rm{.20}}\,{\rm{mL}}}}\,{\rm{ = }}\;{\rm{3}}{\rm{.67}}\,{\rm{g/mL}}\]
Density When the Units are Different
Another type of problem is when the initial units are different than what they are asked to be in the answer. For example, determine the density of a plastic in g/cm3 if a 1.39-lb piece occupies 6.48 in3 volume.
First, we can calculate the density in lb/in3 and then convert the units to g/cm3.
\[{\rm{d}}\;{\rm{ = }}\,\,\frac{{\rm{m}}}{{\rm{v}}}\,{\rm{ = }}\frac{{{\rm{1}}{\rm{.39}}\,{\rm{lb}}}}{{{\rm{6}}{\rm{.48}}\,{\rm{i}}{{\rm{n}}^{\rm{3}}}}}\,{\rm{ = }}\;{\rm{0}}{\rm{.2145}}\,{\rm{lb/i}}{{\rm{n}}^{\rm{3}}}\]
Now, remember, for converting two units, we treat them like separate units and do the conversions one by one. Check the "Multi-Step Unit Conversion" section here for more details.
\[{\rm{0}}{\rm{.2145}}\;\frac{{\cancel{{{\rm{lb}}}}}}{{\cancel{{{\rm{i}}{{\rm{n}}^{\rm{3}}}}}}}\,{\rm{ \times }}\,\frac{{{\rm{453}}{\rm{.6}}\,{\rm{g}}}}{{{\rm{1}}\;\cancel{{{\rm{lb}}}}}}\,{\rm{ \times }}\,\frac{{{\rm{(1}}\,\cancel{{{\rm{in}}{{\rm{)}}^{\rm{3}}}}}}}{{{{{\rm{(2}}{\rm{.54}}\,{\rm{cm)}}}^{\rm{3}}}}}\,{\rm{ = }}\;{\rm{5}}{\rm{.94}}\,{\rm{g/c}}{{\rm{m}}^{\rm{3}}}\,\,\]
So, in the first part, we converted pounds to grams, and the second multiplication was to convert in3 to cm3. Remember, you need to apply the exponent to both the number and the unit when converting units raised to a power (Converting Units Raised to Power).
The density of a Cylinder
Another common question is determining the density of a cylinder. What you need to remember here is the formula that may not be given:
If you forget it, try to remember the formula for the surface of circle:
Now you can visualize the cylinder as a stack of multiple circles and therefore, its volume is the product of the circle's surface and the height of the cylinder.
For example, a plastic cylinder has a length of 8.52 in, a radius of 2.34 in, and a mass of 5.60 lb. What is the density of the plastic in lb/in3?
The volume of a cylinder is calculated by the formula v = π · r2 · l, and therefore,
v = π · r2 · l = 3.14 x (2.34)2 in x 8.52 in = 146.488 in3
The density is the ratio of the mass and the calculated volume:
\[{\rm{d}}\;{\rm{ = }}\,\,\frac{{\rm{m}}}{{\rm{v}}}\,{\rm{ = }}\frac{{{\rm{5}}{\rm{.60}}\,{\rm{lb}}}}{{{\rm{146}}{\rm{.488}}\,{\rm{i}}{{\rm{n}}^{\rm{3}}}}}\,{\rm{ = }}\;{\rm{0}}{\rm{.0382}}\,{\rm{lb/i}}{{\rm{n}}^{\rm{3}}}\]
Mass and Volume from Density
The formula for the density can be rearranged to get an expression for the mass or the volume. For example, what is the mass of a metal block with a density of 9.25 g/ml if it occupies 14.6 cm3 volume?
Rearranging the formula for density, we ger that the mass if the product of the volume and density:
m = d x v
\[{\rm{m}}\;{\rm{ = }}\,{\rm{d}}\,{\rm{ \times }}\,{\rm{v}}\,{\rm{ = }}\,{\rm{9}}{\rm{.25}}\,\frac{{\rm{g}}}{{\cancel{{{\rm{mL}}}}}}\;{\rm{ \times }}\,{\rm{14}}{\rm{.6}}\,\cancel{{{\rm{mL}}}}\,{\rm{ = }}\;{\rm{135}}\;{\rm{g}}\]
Notice that 1 mL = 1cm3 that is why we replaced cm3 by ml for the volume and canceled them with the density units.
The volume is the ratio of the mass and density. For example, what is the volume of 154 g bromine in milliliters if it has a density of 3.10 g/cm3?
\[{\rm{v}}\;{\rm{ = }}\,\frac{{\rm{m}}}{{\rm{d}}}\,{\rm{ = }}\,\frac{{{\rm{154}}\,{\rm{g}}}}{{{\rm{3}}{\rm{.10}}\,{\rm{c}}{{\rm{m}}^{\rm{3}}}}}\,{\rm{ = }}\;{\rm{49}}{\rm{.7}}\,{\rm{g/c}}{{\rm{m}}^{\rm{3}}}\]
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Significant Figures Practice Problems
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Conversion Factors and Dimensional Analysis Practice Problems
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How many years are in 5,489 days?
How many weeks are in 2.5 centuries? (1 yr. = 52 weeks)
Would 550 m2 of fabric be enough to upholster 200 chairs if each requires 35.4 ft2 fabric?
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Complete the missing data for the density, mass, and volume in the following table:
Mass Volume Density
2.35 g 0.035 L X g/mL
X lb 356 mL 1.56 g/cm3
14.6 kg X gal 4.81 g/mL
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The Simpsons: S2E9: Itchy & Scratchy & Marge
November 22, 2019 The Anomalous Host Seriescensorship, season 2, the simpsons
Skippable Intro
So I'm going to do something a little different. Rather than review an entire series, or an entire season of a show, I'm going to do an episode review. Besides, when it comes to a show like the Simpsons, most die-hard fans will agree that this show has been dying a slow death since season 8 (season 9 at the latest). Me, personally, I'm not all that interested in much beyond Season 8. In addition, I don't believe there's a show in existence, or has existed, that has maintained high quality that goes beyond 8 seasons. Best you can hope for is it having ups and downs during its existence. What you should expect is either a Bell Curve (where the tip on the far left; take that as a political pun if you will), or a downward slope moving steadily down to the right until it meets a bitter end.
I've thought about doing a review like this for a while, what with some episodes of Babylon 5 I've been rewatching (maybe next time I go through that series). But at the same time, I don't want this site to get bogged down with episodic reviews of shows. Don't expect this to be a regular thing. I'll only do this if I think an episode has something really good to say, and/or is very relevant to today.
Actual Review Start
So the episode is about Marge getting outraged at the violent antics of the cartoon show Ithy & Scratchy, which is basically like Loony Tunes, but with the violence ramped up a notch. She becomes concerned when Maggie, the little baby whose always sucking on a pacifier (a sound that has become as associated with her character as breathing through a mask is associated with Darth Vader) and tripping over herself, gets influenced from what she sees on the television. By hitting her dad on the head with a mallet. It's foreshadowed how much influence the television has on her via a previous episode where Bart and Lisa argue about Maggie loving one of them more than the other, and when they ask her to come over to the one she loves the most, she goes over to the television and gives it a hug.
Marge forbids the children from watching these violent cartoons ever again, which causes Bart and Lisa to do what is only natural. Sneak over to a friends house and watch the show over there. I saw where the show was going with this whole angle, an episode that has something to say about television violence negatively influencing the youth, but also showing the downsides of censorship for the sake of the children. But I new I had to review this thing when this dialogue exchange came up:
Lisa: "But mom, if you take our cartoons away, we'll grow up without a sense of humor and be robots."
Bart: "Robots? What kind of robots?"
29 years later, we have an answer.
At that point, I knew there was something extra special about this episode. It's almost like it predicted the rise of NPC culture the same way it predicted Trump's presidency.
Or how it predicted 9/11:
But whatever, it's not like it's the only cartoon to do that sort of thing. What makes this episode good is how it goes about doing it. The commentary on censorship that is, not on future predictions (leave that to aluminum heads like Alex Jones and Nostradaumus, who get lucky half the time).
So Marge starts a protest against the company that produces the Itchy & Scratchy Show. The company pays her little heed at first:
"In regards to your specific comments about the show, our research indicates that one person cannot make a difference no matter how big a screwball she is."
But the number of protesters get larger, eventually to the point where the company has to take notice. So they respond in a manner that they believe the audience they cater to will appreciate. By putting a Marge-look-alike in the show and having her get decapitated.
But that only makes her more determined, and the protests get worse. So eventually, they cave-in to their demands (ie get woke). The show goes from showing cartoon violence so unnecessarily cruel and violent that it's hilarious:
To being something so clean and sanitized it completely alienates its intended audience.
"Gentlemen, the screwballs have spoken."
But this is when the show demonstrates how genius it is (or at least was back in the day). Rather than just having all the kids form a counter-protest to demand having their show back the way it was, they move on to do activities with all the other kids in town. They go outside of their bedrooms, outside their living rooms, outside their houses, and do fun wholesome activities.
In other words, showing an upside to having your source of entertainment taken away from you. That a society can become too hooked on electronic forms of entertainment, to the point where they become alienated from the entire community. But if their form of entertainment comes from interacting with others in-person (email, texting, skype, podcasts, etc do not count!), then it's an overall improvement. And this is something all children should be encouraged to do. And I can tell you from experience I have better memories of doing that sort of thing than staying isolated in a room with a computer monitor most of the day. That sort of thing should be saved for when childhood ends (so like after high school, after middle school at the earliest).
The message being if one form of entertainment is taken away or corrupted, the viewers who loved the original form for what it was will go off to find another form of entertainment they enjoy. And sometimes that other form is better than the original form.
That being said, and I hate to be the one providing the black pill here, this wouldn't work quite the same way nowadays. Back then, the number of alternative shows on television aren't as numerous as they are today (especially when the tv shows go beyond television, and appear on the Internet, websites, streaming services, etc.). If you didn't like Captain Planet, you'd watch, well, The Simpsons. If you didn't like Captain Planet or The Simpsons, you'd watch syndications of older shows like He-Man or She-Ra (oh my God, I just now noticed that: He-She, Man-Ra), or Thundercats, or GI Joe, or Transformers, or something. If you didn't have the channels for those, or if it was one of those days where the good alternative programming wasn't on, then you'd get out your game console and play some Sega or Nintendo games (unless you were one of those fancy fucks who owned a Turbografx-16). Failing all that, then you would go outside, to the nearest arcade, and play with others in a more social environment trying to get bragging rights with high scores, and hope a topless chick from Joysticks would show up to make the day seared in your memory forever.
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And that was just back then. Nowadays everyone has a cell phone, and likely a PC of some kind, which would make the number of show alternatives virtually unlimited, meaning they could stay hooked on that stuff forever without need of social interaction. They can just spend their days on the Internet bitching about stuff and fulfilling their narcissism and dopamine addiction. You know, like me (but that's only because I currently have nothing better to do except watch films shows, play games, and read stuff, while taking classes and just waiting for one of those job opportunities I applied for to merit some reward). But at least I've tried to be social in the past, even during my childhood. But it's always been awkward, I've never been a conversation starter, and I've never been a sociable person in my life. And it's not for lack of trying, because I tried. And my parents did what they could to make me sociable. But it hurts too much for me to keep trying at this point. Physically. Because my mind can only work so hard on what to say and how to respond to what someone is saying in front of me before I start to get a migraine and get all stressed out and shit, let alone try to keep track of what they're saying and act like I'm enjoying the conversation and not being bored out of my fucking mind listening to them (it's too damn hard for me to be that cordial, and experience has taught me it's often not worth the effort). Which is why I'm also a partial fan of that other famous season 2 episode Bart Gets An F; a lot of relatable stuff went on in that episode (your mind droning off when trying to listen to someone, or read something).
With that personal tangent out of the way, I wouldn't have any respect for this series (let alone this episode) if didn't address the downsides to censorship. And, of course, it does. Marge's whole crusade for protecting the children from violence begins to spiral out of her control. She was content with altering the cartoon show (which I'm sure not many were content with, as all the viewers are likely gone at this point), but others wanted more. So others in the outrage mob, primarily women, become outraged when a nude male statue, Michelangelo's statue of David, comes to the town. They demand some pants get put over him, or that it gets taken out of the town. It's at this point Marge realizes how hypocritical it would be of her to be for censoring Itchy & Scratchy, but not also want to censor David, while being all for protecting the children from all forms of potential moral corruption. In other words, being for censoring one form of art, but not another.
"I guess one person can make a difference. But most of the time they shouldn't."
So things go back to the way they were. Itchy & Scratchy goes back to the way it was, and the kids return to watching it, no longer interacting in the community as much as they once were. Much like how Terry Rakolta's boycott against Married… With Children failed, so did Marge's boycott of Itchy & Scratchy failed. And things carry on, with all the pros and cons (including the school forcing the kids on a field trip to see David's dick).
All in all, I nice relevant episode. And while the message is relevant today, and takes an even-handed approach with both sides (even making a point as to how, even if you are anti-censorship, you must be wary of the impression violence/sex makes on impressionable youth, and of the fact that you mustn't over-indulge on certain art forms, like porn [fuck you Gab, porn is a form of art!]), it's outdated in some respects. Such as that this whole boycott/crusade against politically incorrect and offensive shows and films and games has gotten so bad that the average consumer can't avoid hearing someone preach about it in their own programming they get into for escapism from this very tripe. It didn't consider that it would get so bad that going after statues isn't considered going too far, that people do exist who are willing to go that far.
But it is on to something when portraying the intended audience as going on to do other activities. Some of which decide to protest about it, only to get called racists/trolls/bigots/fascists/nazis/etc. Some who try to make their own platform, only to get hammered by government regulations and financial banks/services. Sooner or later, the activities they can get away with doing will become so few and more radical to the point where there will be heavy kickback.
PS: Yeah I know, I'm petty. A lot of people these days are.
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All sound signals can be traced back to movement. The blowing of the wind causes leaves on trees to move, resulting in turn in the movement and vibration of the air molecules. These vibrations are called sound waves and can be perceived by the ear. All acoustic information such as language, music or noise creates sound pressure waves. Slow vibrations (low frequencies) are perceived as low pitch, while rapid vibrations (high frequencies) are perceived as high pitch. The ear as a whole is responsible for our ability to hear because it receives acoustic sound waves and converts them into neural impulses, which are then analysed by the brain. The organ of hearing consists of the outer ear, the middle ear and the inner ear.
The sound is received by the visible part of the ear (the auricle), where it is concentrated, and then travels through the ear canal to the eardrum.
The sound causes the eardrum to vibrate.
As a result, three tiny bones, the malleus, incus and stapes – which are connected and are collectively called the ossicles – also start to vibrate.
The last bone of the ossicular chain – the incus – puts pressure on the fluid-filled inner ear, in this way transmitting the sound wave to the inner ear, which is also called the cochlea and is shaped like a snail.
The cochlea contains small cells whose surface is covered by delicate hairs (thus called hair cells). The movement of the fluid is transformed by the sensory auditory cells into a complex neural signal. This electrical signal travels via the auditory nerve to the auditory centre of the brain. The neural impulses are analysed and interpreted on their way to the brain. This is how a hearing sensation is formed.
This is why hearing is actually quite a simple process. Far more complex and far less explored, however, is how further processing of the impulses is carried out in our brain. The neural impulses must undergo a multi-stage journey before they penetrate the auditory cortex. On their way, everything we hear is either amplified or decreased in intensity, and everything is interpreted – as negative, positive or neutral – and can even be completely filtered out. Only the signals which arrive at the auditory cortex are actually perceived.


Royal twins: Princess Mary's sister-in-law looks exactly like her!
Australia's very own royalty Princess Mary has a doppelganger – and it's none other than her sister-in-law Princess Marie.
The similarities between the Crown Princess of Denmark and Prince Joachim's wife are uncanny. Apart from the name, the two also have similar appearances, fashion sense, mannerisms and life paths.
Princess Mary was working for an advertising company in Sydney when she met Crown Prince Frederik at a pub. Similarly, the Parisian-born Princess Marie was developing her career in advertising and marketing around Europe when she met Prince Frederik's younger brother Prince Joachim at a private party.
Princess Marie and Prince Joachim tied the knot in 2008, four years after Frederik and Mary's marriage.
The difference between the two princesses is that Princess Marie will not become the Queen, as Prince Frederik is the apparent heir to the throne.
Scroll through the gallery above to pick out the similarities. Can you tell who is who?


Project Cuddle is the result of one woman's crusade to help prevent infants from being abandoned. Debbe Magnusen fostered over 30 drug-exposed babies, while raising two biological children. Eventually five of those beautiful little ones were adopted and became part of the Magnusen Family.
The Project Cuddle crisis line was started in the living room of Debbe's home, with the hope of ending baby abandonment. Within 12 hours of opening the 24 hour crisis-line, Project Cuddle got its first crisis call. A frightened woman, who had hidden her pregnancy from everyone she knew. She was due to deliver at any minute and planned to put the newborn in the park. There was no time to waste! Debbe had only days to orchestrate a safe and legal alternative to abandonment. Project Cuddle was able to retain an attorney, a family yearning to rescue and adopt the baby, as well as an obstetrician, hospital and counselor. Debbe Magnusen coached this woman through the delivery of a beautiful baby girl. After the baby was delivered into the arms of the adoptive parents, the birth mother said to Debbe: "I feel like I've done something I can be proud of for the first time." The woman did not break the law, the baby was safe and a rescue couple was overjoyed at having a new daughter in their lives.
Statistics indicate that 57 children are abandoned everyday Tragically, babies are being abandoned across the nation on a daily basis. Since its inception, Project Cuddle has saved over 735 babies across the country and into Canada from the fate of being abandoned, or worse.
Project Cuddle is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit charity providing safe and legal alternatives to baby abandonment. What a beautiful example of a mom with a loving heart wanting to DO MORE!
We were personally introduced to this ministry by the Gingerich family, shown below. This young couple chose to become first time parents by participating in Project Cuddle. They went on to have two biological children and adopt another child through a private adoption. God grows families in the most wonderful ways!
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