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I know that you can get online summaries of books all over the net, but does anyone know of a site that would allow me to download the actual book. Or at least hte first few chapters. I know those kind of site exsist. Thanks! :)
Oh, and I tried pink monkey, but for the book I am looking for, it does not have it.
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Like a previous poster said, older books don't have copyright restrictions and can be found online in places. Project Guternerg (google it for an address) is dedicated to putting a lot of older texts online.
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okay i'm doing this project and we need to knoe when were ever going to use math like when we grow uo and stuff. well i want to be a professional basketball player and i was wondering what kind of math would i need to know for that? thanx (link)
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This isn't an answer to your question. I just wan't to say that I think that's a stupid project in a math class. The truth most high school math teachers don't want to admit to their students is that for the most part, their students simply won't ever use the mathematics they teach again, once they leave school. I mean, even in careers that use a lot of math, like engineering and science, for the most part, computers do almost all the mathematics. And the person programming the computer probably uses already-written modules.
I am a high school math teacher. I've taught Algebra I, Geometry, Pre-calculus/trig, and Calculus. I teach these classes not because they're useful for some God-only-knows reason, but because it's important to develop the rational part of your brain. It's important to be able to see the connections in science, or to follow the flow of a mathematical solution. It's important, not because it's useful, but because it's intrinsically valulable.
The honest truth of the matter is that the vast majority of people won't need to know mathematics beyond, say, Algebra I once they complete school. And most people probably won't need to know anything more basic than elementary school math. That doesn't mean it's not important, and to come up with contrived problems to "prove" the importance of mathematics is simply ridiculous.
Tell your math teacher that, if you dare. :) And refer G.H. Hardy (1877-1947, a British mathematician), whose favorite area of mathematics is number theory, precisely because it is so useless--it has never been used, he said, to kill anybody. (Little did he know that in less than a century that neglected branch of mathematics would become crucial in cryptography and making the internet a safe and secure place.)
More quotes I just ran across, looking for something from Hardy:
It demeans mathematics to justify it to appeals to work, to getting and spending... Can you recall why you fell in love with mathematics? It was not, I think, because of its usefulness in controlling inventories.
- Underwood Dudley, from "Is Mathematics Necessary?"
The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
- Henri Poincare, quoted in More Joy of Mathematics
Suffice it to say that a question like your teacher asked insults somebody who really enjoys mathematics.
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hey!! i'm running for secretary of the french club. what are some things i can say in my speech??? i reallly want to get this "job". thanks in advance (link)
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Something in French, hopefully.
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today i just found out that my school wont be opened for the fall trimester from some dumb fucked up reason.. and that they will reopen in december. i only need 3 credits to graduate so i was only going to go to school from sept- dec and then be done. now, i have to find a new school to go. the school recommended a new school to us and i checked out its brochure, and its a christian school. well, ive been to a catholic highschool before, and im thinking, if im going to be going to a school of religion, i might as well go back there to the catholic school. well, i want to know whats the difference between christian and catholic.. and how are christian teachings different? (link)
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Could you clarify your answer slightly? Is the school you're looking at attending a high school or college. The approach towards students and religion would be a bit different with high schools and colleges.
I teach at a Catholic high school right now. Our school, like most Catholic high schools, requires regular Mass attendance, and we require that students take one religion course every semester. If you're looking at a high school and need just 3 credits, you might not fit the bill of a full-time student, so you might not have to do this.
If, as I think more likely, you're talking about college, most Catholic colleges are very accepting of students of other faiths. If you were to graduate from a Catholic college, you might need 6-12 credits of philosophy or theology, but that's about all the religion that's required of you. (There will be other things, of course, like a campus ministry on campus and crucifixes in classrooms and other signs of its Catholic identity, but they are more easily ignored, if you're apt to do so.) If you're just taking 3 credits, it's unlikely they'd force you to take a theology or philosophy class, as you won't be graduating from there.
As to the difference between Christians and Catholics, as people said before, Catholics are Christians. (The word Christian means follower of Christ, not "Christ inside you" as some other columnist said. As Catholics follow Christ's teachings, they are also Christians.) I'm not going to get into the difference between Catholic and Christian beliefs now--if you want to know, feel free to ask me. I will, however, say that most schools that advertise themselves as Christian will probably be more conservative than a school that calls itself Catholic, and typically less accepting of other religious views. (Our student body is actually quite diverse, for where we are. Only about half the students are Catholic, and of the remainder, most are Mormon or belong to another Christian denomination. We have a handful that aren't Christian at all, but follow traditional Navajo practices. We also have one Muslim student in the high school. For a student body of 160 students, this is pretty diverse, I guess.)
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