Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Notes 7 Nov 2012

Discussion on the Electoral College
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A pure democracy is potentially another form of tyranny.



The idea of giving a smaller state more leverage

how many did the straight party vote?

Discussion on Paraguay
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Discussion on whether taxes should be legal or not
How to get out of paying taxes?
Why do you need money?
If you have that sustainable environment you don't need money.
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Education is the most valuable thing
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Circular logic used in the battle of Little BigHorn


Story;
Little boy puts potato in a ventilation pipe to a bomb shelter, blocks air nearly suffocates his father.

Cormack McCarthy--morbid books--wrote All the pretty horses, the road, no room for old men


Why do we have punctuation?

What is a dialogue tag?

Discussion on dialogue tags

Discussion on piece of technical writing by Cormack McCarthy and use of descriptive metaphor

When can you use sentence fragments?

two kinds of participles.  could be part of a transitive sentence.  progressives spread time out.

Verbs, build great sentences

What is a felloe?

usable rubber, needs vulcanization, treatment with sulfur

vulcanized rubber

discussion on plastics, made of oil we will always need petrochemicals

How muchof this room would disappear if we did away with petrochemicals and corn?





















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