Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Writing Assignment Week 4

Randomly Selected Words: abacus, baccarat, cinchona, ducat, eim, fructose, gratis, helve, igloo, jasper, kileg, lei, mire, navel, onion, panatela, quiche, rancho, sangria, travail, ugli, villa, wahoo, xerox, yen, zen

In 1946, a contest held in Tokyo, pitted an abacus against an electric calculator; the abacus won, of course. Baccarat is a gambling card game. Cinchona is a genus of about 25 species in the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical South America. They are large shrubs or small trees growing to 5-15 metres tall with evergreen foliage. The EIM website does not aim to give any type of advice. Fructose (or levulose) is a simple sugar (monosaccharide) found in many foods and is one of the three most important blood sugars along with glucose and galactose. Gratis is an adjective in Latin and various Romance and Germanic languages meaning "free," in the sense that one does not have to pay for some good or service (free of charge). Your Wiha Tool Source Complete Inventory. An igloo (Inuktitut iglu / แƒแ’กแ“—, "house", plural: iglooit or igluit), translated sometimes as snowhouse, is a shelter constructed from blocks of snow, generally in the form of a dome. That big oil slick in your driveway or those strange noises from under your hood don't have to mean you'll be saddled with a new car payment soon. We had our team building last saturay.we went to pansol laguna. Welcome to the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute. A viscous, usually offensively dirty substance. Navel, also called a belly button or umbilicus, is a scar on the abdomen, caused when the umbilical cord is removed from a newborn baby. Michigan's unemployment system had outlasted the state's automotive and industrial sectors as the most enduring job provider. A slim, long cigar, it's small diameter limits it to one or two kinds of tobacco. Even Real Men Eat Quiche. The RSI-SAS36EXP is a 36-port, 3 Gigabit Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Expander. Welcome to my Sangria Page! Painful or arduous work; severe toil or exertion. This tangelo is a variety of citrus fruit grown exclusively in Jamaica and exported by Trout Hall Ltd. to markets all over the world. The idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably since its invention towards the end of the Roman Republic. Located in the heart of Saunders County, Nebraska, Wahoo sits just 30 minutes west of Omaha, 30 minutes north of Lincoln, and 30 minutes south of Fremont. An experienced graduate? The yen may fall after Bank of Japan board member Hidehiko Haru said there's no need to rush interest- rate increases, rejecting criticism ... Zen is a form of Mahayana Buddhism that places great importance on moment-by-moment awareness and 'seeing deeply into the nature of things' by direct experience.

2 comments:

Analisa said...

I found it interesting as I was clicking on random links throughout your piece that you ran into the same issue I did, in that many of my sights were Wikipedia’s sights. Wikipedia is a really interesting entity, considering that anyone can write on any topic that they please, and most of the time the information seems really good and accurate, but sometimes I wonder. I’ve read things that are definitely biased and there must be a dedicated team working to keep those sights they way they wrote them and not let anyone edit them. Just an interesting thought about all the Wikipedia sights that kept coming up the first one, which means that that is the most frequented sight when that word is searched… strange how people can trust complete strangers.

Korin said...

I think that we all ran into the same problems, with the whole Wikipedia thing, because I found a lot of words I typed in went to Wikipedia entries too. The best thing about that, though, is that Wikipedia is usually correct and that it is a good source of information. Back in high school, I had a teacher who actually had us use Wikipedia to do a research assignment, while other teachers (especially English teachers,) forbid it. I don’t know, I guess it just depends on what you’re looking for, and when it comes to random things, I guess Wikipedia is the place to look.