Engineering Joke Of The Week

Engineer and Mathematician (males) were given the opportunity to compete for a very attractive woman. But there was one condition: "You can only run half the remaining distance between you and the lady". Eng. sprinted forward while Math. didn't. Why aren't you running? Asked members of the Committee. Because, by definition, I will never be allowed to reach my target. And you Eng. why are you running? Don't you know the same? Yes, said Eng. my learned friend is correct. But I will get close enough for all practical purposes. —Guest Mr. Murphy

Engineering Joke Of The Day

What is the definition of an engineer? Answer: Someone who solves a problem you didn't know you had, in a way you don't understand. —gemdragon

Lit Terms 81-end

1. Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer ot not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion. Example: "Yes. Why not?" "Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?"--From Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. "Are you serious?" 2. Rising Action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement toward climax. 3. Romanticism: movement in western culture begining in the eighteenth and pearking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact. Example: Jane Austen's Persuasion; Mansfield Park Emily Bronte's Wuthering Height 4. Satire: ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of indivduals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general. Example: "The city stopped washing its buses because they kept getting dirty again." "We should hire illegal immigrants as teachers because that way we can pay them less." 5. Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter. 6. Setting: the time and place in whcih events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur. Example: A Tale Of Two Cities-London and Paris 1775-1790 background French Revolution 7. Simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison. Example: "My stomach is growling like a bear." "You are as sweet as chocolate." 8. Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage. Example: "To be or not to be"--Hamlet; Shakespeare "O conspiracy, Sham' st thou to show thy dan'rous brow by night, When evils are most free? O, then by day Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy; Hide it in smiles and affability: For if thou path, thy native semblance on, Not Erebus itself were dim enough To hide thee from prevention." --Brutus 9. Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme. 10. Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking. Example: narrator 11. Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story. Example: "All teenagers are rebels." "All children don't enjoy healthy food." " Women take forever to do anything." 12. Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character's thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them. Example: "Such fools we all are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street. For Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it so, making it up, building it round one, tumbling it, creating it every moment afresh; but the veriest frumps, the most dejected of miseries sitting on doorsteps (drink their downfall) do the same; can't be dealt with, she felt positive, by Acts of Parliament for that very reason: they love life. In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June." -Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 13. Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization. 14. Style: the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking. Example: Jane Austen--romantic; gothic; heroic F.Scott Fitzgerald--imaginary sentences; american dream 15. Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language. Example: "Even though the broccoli was covered in cheddar cheese, Emily refused to eat it." (subordinate clause+main clause) "Unless Kate finished her calculus hw, she will have to suffer during class tomorrow." 16. Surrealism: a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the nonrational aspects of man's existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the banal. Example: Salvador Dali--The Persistence of Memory 17. Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it. Example: Spider Man; Super Man 18. Symbol: something which stands for something else; yet has a meaning of its own. Example: Flag is the symbol of the country. Red-bloody; The Red Badge Of Courage-the tranformation(fail to success) of Henry Fleming and honor. 19. Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense. Example: "I see the sound of the car." "I catch the sound of rain." 20. Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole. Example: Wheels-Car Thread-Clothes Hand-Worker 21. Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence. 22. Theme: main idea of the story; its message(s). 23. Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disaproved: the main idea. 24. Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author's perceived point of view. Example: "Goddamn money. It always ends up making you blue as hell." "Caltholics are always trying to find out if you're Catholic."--Catcher in the Rye:Bitter; Sacrastic; Tough 25. Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. "dry" or "dead pan". 26. Tradegy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusions; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically(fatally) flawed. 27. Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis. 28. Vernacular: everyday speech 29. Voice: the textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona. 30. Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history.

Engineer Joke Of The Week

Chemical Engineer vs Chemist What's the difference between a chemical engineer and a chemist? Answer: about $50k a year

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I Am Here

Well to tell this truth this grading period was an eye opener for me. I've realized that with a teacher acting as flexible as you I have no motivation to do what you want me to do. I have started to step up finally and hope to finish my senior year strong!

Lit Terms 83-108

Omniscient Point of View: knowing all things, usually the third person. Onomatopoeia: use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning. Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which two contradicting words or phrases are combined to produce a rhetorical effect by means of a concise paradox. Pacing: rate of movement; tempo. CLICK FOR EXAMPLE Parable: a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth. Paradox: a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth; an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas. Parallelism: the principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form. Parody: an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist. Pathos: the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness. Pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake. Personification: a figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas. Plot: a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose. Poignant: eliciting sorrow or sentiment. Point of View: the attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation; in description, the physical point from which the observer views what he is describing. Postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary. Prose: the ordinary form of spoken and written language; language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern. Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction; opposes antagonist. Pun: play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications. Purpose: the intended result wished by an author. Realism: writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightfoward manner to reflect life as it actually is. Refrain: a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song; chorus. Requiem: any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead. Resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement. Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis. Rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade. Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion.

Engineering Joke Of The Week

Advances and details A young damsel was asked why she would not marry either of her engineer or lawyer boyfriends. She replied' the engineers make advances and add no detail , the lawyers argue details and make no advance'. —Guest Adesanya adebolu

Engineer Joke Of The Week

An Engineer And A Lawyer An engineer and a lawyer attended an interview separately. The Engineer was asked: If ten men cleared one hecter of land in ten hours how many hours would five men require to clear the same piece of land? The engineer answered: If ten men cleared one hecter for ten hours ,then one man would re quire 10 X 10 hours. Therefore five men would require 10x10 divided by 5 i.e 20hours. The lawyer was asked the same question and he answered: If ten men cleared one hecter of land for ten hours , then there would be no piece of land for any man to clear. Therefore five men would require zero hour. —Guest Adesanya adebolu

Lit Analysis #7

Great Expectations General 1. The novel is about a boy named Pip who lost his parents and lives with his sister and her husband. Later he meets a man at the churchyard who threatens him and makes him do as he says. Out of fear Pip starts stealing for the man. Then he meets another character, Estella, who he falls madly in love with. Estella is taught to hurt boys because that's how her mother was taught. Pip still tries to win her over, but has to move to London for schooling. He received a large fortune and blew most of it while living with a friend in London. While away his sister, Mrs. Joe, passes away and he returns home for the funeral service. When he was in town he discovered that the fortune he had received came from the man in the churchyard. After all that he had gone through he still managed to unite with his love Estella in the end. 2. The theme in this novel is ambition. This is because Pip had the ambition that led him back to Estella and not giving up on trying for her. He went through a long journey with having to move and dealing with loss, but didn't lose hope. 3. The tone I felt from reading was a sense of loss and determination. Obviously if I was in his shoes I'd feel a little more sorrow due to having no family, but for him it just brings about determination. Even through his hard times he had determination to go back to Estella. 4. Allusions were used in the novel in the fact that Dicken's based the story off of his own life. Also the diction because it was written in an older era. Along with diction is the syntax for the way Dicken's categorized the journey of Pip's life. The tone was also important because it really made me in a way feel bad for Pip. Characterization 1. Dickens used direct characterization in describing Pip by expressing everyone of his actions. He also used direct characterization when telling of how Estella is taught to deal with guys. Indirect characterization is used on Miss Havisham because she's indirectly the problem. She seems like she's helping Pip, but she's really doing things for her own benefit. 2. I didn't notice a change in diction or syntax when focusing on different characters. 3. The protagonist, Pip, definitely is dynamic. Throughout the novel he goes from fairly immature to realizing importance and becoming a man. 4. After reading the novel I came away feeling like I'd met Pip and experienced the journey with him. The author really did a good job at allowing the reader to connect to the character.