I was getting straight A’s in Language Arts going into my Junior Year.
Yet my verbal SAT score was 150 points lower than my math/science! I wasn’t getting into UConn or other good schools with such low scores.
Crying, I asked my English teacher what could be wrong. He handed me a 1-page document similar to this one and told me, “It’s easy to explain. Your mother and father aren’t clergy, they’re not law and they’re not medical. You never heard latin prefixes and suffixes around the house; so you are at a disadvantage behind other students who are children of doctors, lawyers, ministers and rabbis.
I memorized all of these and the second time I took the SAT’s I increased my score by more than 100 points and got accepted to UConn.
I now hold UConn degrees in Literature and Native American Studies. Thank you Mr. _____ at Fitch Senior High School! Thank you, thank you thank you.
OK, so here go some of the most common SAT prefixes:
pre – before (hence pre-fix is a word that comes before)
super – very or over (super-impose means to impose over)
dis – not (dismembered means not membered or not together)
uni – one (unicameral means one house)
a – not (atypical means not typical)
ex – out (exhale means breathe out)
in – in (inhale means breathe in)
neo – new (neoconservative means new conservative)
post – after (postmodernism means after modernism)
circum – around (circumvent the world means travel around the world)
ben – good (benevolent, beneficial, benefactor, etc. all carry positive charge)
mal – bad (malevolent, malnutrition, malice)
re – again (to review is to view again)
gen – birth (genealogy is study of family history)
chron – time (chronology is study of time sequence)
poly – many (polyunsaturated means many not saturated)
intra – within (intraspecies means within one species)
inter – between (interspecies means between different species)
ante – before (antebellum means before a war)
hypo – too little (hypothermia means too low of body temperature)
hyper – too much (hyperactive means too active)
some common SAT suffixes that you should be aware of as well:
- ble: able or capable (doable, corruptible, edible)
- ous: full of (porous means full of pores, or in other words, easily transpired through)
- ant: full of (elegant means full of elegance)
- ose: full of (grandiose means full of grandeur, grand-ness)
- fy: to make like the prefix (magnify means make larger, terrify means to make scared)
- ate: to make like the prefix (procrastinate means to make a longer time)
- ile: tending to (puerile means tending to childish-ness)
- ism: belief (racism, sexism, nationalism, etc.)
- tude: condition of (magnitude means the quantity of magnification)
Sincerely,
marco frucht
[ref]=[ http://www.proprofs.com/mwiki/index.php/Prefixes_and_Suffixes ]
Story and Photos by Marc Frucht Published in Mountaineer Weekly July 20, 1990 Comanche Code Talker Forrest Kassanavoid told soldiers of 124th Sig BN to be proud of their lineage. "You have a special relationship with an Indian Tribe in Oklahoma," he told them. Kassanavoid shared his World War II, 4th infantry div experiences with the signal soldiers during a battalion sponsored luncheon at Giuseppe's Depot Restaurant, Tuesday afternoon. The military recruited Comanche, Navajo and Choctaw Indians because their native language was harder to crack than codes they came up with every day. The Germans and Italians were never able to interpret any of the trans- missions they'd intercepted which contained the Indian languages. 124th SIG BN boasts campaign history from WWII through Vietnam including the Normandy invasion. Back then it was called the 4th SIG CO, according to Kassanavoid. Organized June 1, 1940 in the Harmony Church area of Fort Benning, GA.; the 4th SIG worked under many commanding officers and Kassanavoid remembers almost every single one. "Let's see," said the code talker, "first there was Capt. Terrance Tulley. He was a West Point grad, 1920. Then we got Capt. Arthur McCrarey, then 1st Lt. Seoul Christman. He became the division signal officer until he was seriously wounded in an air attack in Normandy. Then came Capt. Phillip Bragen, and hmmmm, a Capt. Dunaway..." He then went on to share all of his 4th Infantry Division war stories with the signal soldiers. As a recruit, the code talker went from Fort Benning, GA., to Camp Gordon, now Fort Gordon and home of Army Signal School. [Coincidently where Colonel Kaddaffy, Agosto Pinochet and Manuel Noriega all took classes at one time or another.] From there he went to Fort Dix, NJ; Camp Gordon Johnson for amphibious training; Camp Jackson, SC and then Camp Joyce Kilmer, NJ for his portcall. Destination? Liverpool, England, to regroup and train at Tibberton in Devonshire, and then to invade Utah Beach. 4th SIG was made up of five platoons, according to Kassanavoid. HQ platoon contained the company clerks, mess cooks, drivers, supply and maintainance soldiers. The Message Center section was where the distribution came and went. There was a radio section similar to what signal battalions have today; and a "T-n-T" section. They handled all aspects of telephone and telegraph, to include the division switchboard. The wire people, Kassanavoid included, were called the construction section. Street fighting was not fun from the construction section point of view, according to Kassanavoid. "We had to lay all the wire along the streets. We'd tag the wires just like you still do today. But then the civilians around town would take the tags as souvenirs." He said without tags, troubleshooting became "one hell of a time." In wartime, light discipline didn't mean red lenses or quick flicks of light that hopefully no one will notice. All wire construction was done in the dark. "You feel your way out there," he said. Out into the darkness he went expecting a saboteur maybe, but hoping it was nothing more than a short or a grounded wire. Most of the time he'd do a quick fix, ring back to a switchboard and then dig in. Kassanavoid said that on D-Day, June 6, 4th SIG was right in the middle of things. While the 7th Corps was bombarding Omaha Beach, three battalions from the 4th Infantry Division invaded at Utah. Paratroopers made a perfect landing at Utah Beach, but the Navy dropped 4th SIG - along with their division - about a half mile off because of choppy waters and changing tides. "Fortunate," said Kassanavoid. "It was pretty dry where we landed. We didn't have to worry as much about water." They battled in what he termed 'hedgerow fighting.' He said farms were fenced off by nothing more than a series of hills pushed together and they had hedges on top. The signal soldiers were almost grounded to a halt by the hedges; until they called in for support. B-17s bombed every grid coordinate they hollered over their radios and they managed to break out. When they worked their way to Paris, he said all France had was armored units, so 4th ID was asked to provide infantry support. That made 4th SIG front line troops, as well as invasion forces. When the war ended, Kassanavoid was billeted in Amburg in preparation for coming home. From there he went to Camp Bruckner, N.C., where he was given 30 days furlough. Kassanavoid discussed how 4th ID has changed over the years as well as how it has stayed the same. Recruits didn't come in right away as privates, according to the code talker. His first four months he was called a "yardbird;" he was paid $21 a month. After becoming a private, a soldier could take in $30 a month. A "shackman" was someone married with dependents. He said 4th ID had more shackmen than any other division in the Army. He remarked at how many women there are in today's signal corps. Back then they didn't see women working with radios or constructing wire. Back in Kassanavoid's time the signal soldier had generators to power his equipment. Some were similar to the ones still in use, but he said most of the time there was someone pushing a hand-crank to generate a couple volts. He recognized the 5-gallon fuel cans being used in the signal battalion's motor pool and commented that we stole that idea from the Germans after World War I. A couple cans got into our hands somehow and we've been making them for use on jeeps ever since. Kassanavoid said it was easy for a Comanche Indian to adapt to military life because all of their early education was at government boarding schools. "Basically we changed barracks rooms and uniforms," Said Kassanavoid, "that's all." Army-run schools on the Indian reservations meant speaking Comanche at home, and mostly English at school. His grasp of both languages made him an easy recruit for the Code Talker mission. Comanche language was used to relay some of the Army's most important messages in WWII. The code talkers worked with regiments in the field where they coded messages back to 4th ID headquarters so another 4 SIG could receive and decode the message. Kassanavoid lives in Indiahoma, OK., with his wife Marian and three children - Larry who served in the Army infantry in Vietnam; Marlon who served in a signal outfit in Europe; and a daughter, Amaryllis. He now works for the school department in Indahoma as home- school co ordinator under the Johnson - O'Malley Program passed by Congress in 1934. His work is mostly youth-oriented, from financial assistance for young Indians, morale and attendance programs, as well as sports programs On Nov. 3, 1989, the French government awarded him the Chevalier de l'Order National du Merite" medal on the steps of Oklahoma's State Capitol. Two other surviving Comanche Code Talkers received the medal. Charles Chibitty is from Tulsa, and Dick Red Elk is from Lawton. "You soldiers can say with pride," Kassanavoid said, "that you've been decorated by the French. Being singled out like that is a great honor." He said the Comanche heritage is in a 124th SIG soldier's lineage and in his roots. "Be proud," he said, "Be thankful." PFC Frucht was a MOUNTAINEER stringer for 124SIG at the time of this publishing. While Kassanavoid was on Utah Beach, Frucht has a great uncle who lived through Omaha beach as a signal soldier, and an uncle who also saw combat as a "radio man" in the marines. Frucht learned of this long after signing up for the army signal corps himself. Go figure. [ref]=[http://csmng.com/mountaineer]
Pat Richardson Video: Transcribed by Marco Frucht
Arkansas Mother Obliterates Common Core in 4 Minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZEGijN_8R0
I typed this in so that people can make direct quotes if they’d like. I sure would.
I am here today not speaking just on behalf of myself; I’m here representing 1110 other parents, educators and taxpayers in our state who have some very serious reservations about the common core initiative.
We are not alone in this regard; 6 other states have pulled out of their agreement.
22 other states currently have legislation pending to either get out of common core or to make significant changes to it.
After listening to what was said this morning, I have come to the conclusion that this board is clearly as uninformed as the parents are or were, when these standards were adopted.
We were told the same thing that you were told, and that common core is a set of rigorous college ready internationally benchmarked standards that prepare our kids to compete in a global economy.
This is nothing more than an empty sales pitch for corporations and government agencies to profit from our kids and sell them down river in the name of saving education.
I’ve a math question for you, board members, are you ready? Get your pencils out. I’m not kidding. Are you smarter than a common core 4th grader.
Let’s find out. The problem is, Mr. Yamata’s class has 18 students. If the class counts around by a number and ends with 90, what number did they count by?
I’ll restate the problem, Mr. Yamata’s class has 18 students. If the class counts around by a number and ends with 90, what number did they count by?
Does anyone on the board have an answer? 5. And may I ask madam, how did you come up with that answer?
You know why? Because that’s what makes sense, right? That’s the way we were taught to do it on the 4th grade level.
This however, is what the common core standards expect our 4th graders to do. If they solve it in those two steps they get it marked wrong.
They are expected to draw 18 circles with 90 hash marks, solving this problem in exactly 108 steps.
Board members, this is not rigorous. This is not college ready. This is not preparing our children to compete in the global economy.
Skipping rote memorization of of multiplication tables is hindering their ability to master long division and fractions later on in the semester and now our children who were testing in the 80th or higher percentile in math last year are now coming home with C’s, D’s and F’s on their report cards.
Not because as Arne Duncan would put it that white suburban mothers think their children aren’t as brilliant as they thought they were but because… [cut off being over 3mins] Thank you
I encourage you to listen to us when we send you our emails, despite the comments that were made by our chairperson here today.
Our concerns are not based on hysteria or propaganda; they are based on fact and we are prepared to present those facts.
Can you see the trembling in my voice?
Parents have not had a voice here and you need to listen to our concerns. We are moving forward with our legislature to make some very serious changes to this; and all I ask is that you bend your ear and take us seriously.
We are college educated parents. I come to you with 12 years of college education and a former member of the national Honor Society, when I tell you this is not working and it’s not what they told you it would be.
We will save the privacy concerns and the testing concerns for our legislature; but when it comes to standards, that’s your ball court and we need you to help us with this; because this program is dumbing our children down.
Thank you.
I saw two minutes of an infomercial back in the day about installing copper tubing or plastic tubing for your automatic ice maker.
“If you don’t like that skunky taste your ice cubes might give off you can buy one of our in-line filters…”
My response is if you really don’t like the skunky ice cubes you can finish off all the meats in your freezer and stop buying more meat than you can eat in 2 or 3 meals!
Hi all, Last year I engineered and mastered a Christmas record that I was quite happy with. I printed my own jewelcases, and mass produced hundreds of copies and passed them out to everyone I knew personally the weeks leading up to Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa.
I thought of doing the same thing this year; but suddenly decided, “maybe instead I’ll just print up download cards.”
So I’ve placed the entire CD, 18 songs and color .PDF album cover as one big .zip file.
Here’s where you can get it for free:
http://www.frucht.org/christmas.zip
You simply download the file, unzip/unpack and burn to a blank cdr, print out the artwork and fold it into a holder for your CD. Then play the thing in your car, media center or stereo or right there on your laptop.
And of course these days if you don’t even feel like printing a CDR you can just make a playlist on your phone or ipod with the MP3′s themself.
Cheers, marco
Boehner told Harry Reid to “Go F___ yourself” when Reid said he was behaving dictatorially.
Somewhere back near 1998 Boehner walked right in and bumped me for a haircut and shave in the Rayburn building basement barber shop and I said to both him and the barber that I learned on grade school field trips that since I was ahead of him in line I should get my haircut first.
The barber was very apologetic, but truly feared for his career. I could see in his eyes that he knew I was right.
For hundreds of years those barbers told little kids how important it was that there be places like Washington DC where everything is absolutely fair.
So John Boehner told me to go F— myself when Reid said he was behaving dictatorially.
John Boehner told me to go F— myself at that moment as well. He also said he could buy and sell me in a minute’s time. All I could think to say quickly was to suggest he die trying.
A lot of people believe that he is just fronting for the Teaparty, cowed by them, and he’s trying his hardest to rein them in but the one fact I know from first person experience is that he is a very mean-spirited man.
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My dear Telemachus, The Trojan War is over now; I don’t recall who won it. The Greeks, no doubt, for only they would leave so many dead so far from their own homeland. But still, my homeward way has proved too long. While we were wasting time there, old Poseidon, it almost seems, stretched and extended space.
I don’t know where I am or what this place can be. It would appear some filthy island, with bushes, clintons, and great grunting pigs. A garden choked with weeds; some queen or other. Grass and huge stones . . . Telemachus, my son! To a wanderer the faces of all islands resemble one another. And the mind trips, numbering waves; eyes, sore from sea horizons, run; and the flesh of water stuffs the ears. I can’t remember how the war came out; even how old you are–I can’t remember.
Grow up, then, my Telemachus, grow strong. Only the gods know if we’ll see each other again. You’ve long since ceased to be that babe before whom I reined in the plowing bullocks. Had it not been for Palamedes’ trick we two would still be living in one household. But maybe grampa was right; away from me you are quite safe from all Oedipal passions, and your dreams, my Telemachus, are blameless. - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15205#sthash.gvPZxcV2.dpuf
ANNOTATION:
Laertes is Richard Milhous Nixxon and through Odysseus he sends this message to Telemachus who is Barack Obama.
Who remembers that kick I was on to use less than-a-dollar reinventing overpriced things such as the 29.99 ipod/cellfone charger wallsocket holder out of a piece of cereal box cardboard?
http://muffinbottoms.org/?p=223
Or the 16$ iPod sock made out of an actual used sock from just needle, thread and scissors!
Well it’s refreshing to know someone else out there who I’ve never even met is thinking along the same lines.
I usually just link to an image someone else took so much trouble to make but I can only find it on facebook so I’ll download/upload here and give link back to THEIR facebook. I think you want to click /like/ on theirs for sure and see what ideas they come up with next, the really have it going on.
http://www.facebook.com/ImaginationF4U