diane - i laughed over your tale of swinging a bucket of water - and
in fact, during the group talk about gravity i remembered that model of
demonstrating gravity - only i've never understood how it was a
demonstration of gravity - it seemed more of a demonstration of
centripital force (spelling?) for afterall the water was being held up
against the bottom of the bucket, whereas we are not physically on the
bottom of the planet - so i've always been mystified about this model.
one model i remember clearly in the fifth grade was a demonstration of air
pressure, when the teacher filled a class up half way with water, placed a
stiff piece of light-weight cardboard over the glass, turned it all upside
down, released her hand holding the cardboard, and low, it all stayed in
place! i went home and practiced that one many times.
phillip
* * * * * * * *
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The English noun "identity" comes, ultimately, from the
Latin adverb "identidem", which means "repeatedly."
The Latin has exactly the same rhythm as the English,
buh-BUM-buh-BUM - a simple iamb, repeated; and
"identidem" is, in fact, nothing more than a
reduplication of the word "idem", "the same":
"idem(et)idem". "Same(and) same". The same,
repeated. It is a word that does exactly what
it means.
from "The Elusive Embrace" by Daniel
Mendelsohn.
phillip white
third grade teacher
doctoral student http://ceo.cudenver.edu/~hacms_lab/index.htm
scrambling a dissertation
denver, colorado
phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu
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