Steve Mitchell
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¨ How did learning
Latin and Greek Roots help you?
¨ What have you learned since you started
learning to now?
¨ Do you want to work
that many hours a week?
¨ Why do you do what
you do when you could have a job with much more
authority?
¨ Do you enjoy all
the things you do?
¨ How long have you
been doing your job?
¨ What is
anthropology?
¨ How would you feel
if you did not have cars, airplanes, trains, radio,
crayons or pencils?
¨ Do you like playing
a guitar in a band?
¨ Do you have a
favorite kind of flower?
¨ Is it fun for you
to collect books and study a lot of things?
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QUESTION:
How did learning Latin and Greek roots help you?
ANSWER
from Steve Mitchell on 24 May 2002:
Let's say you are reading the word "credulous."
The root here is from the Latin "creditus"
which means to trust. If someone gives you credit,
what are they saying about you? The ending "ulous"
means "having the quality of." So if you
put them together (creditus + ulous), you can figure out
what the meaning is without using the dictionary.
The dictionary says that it means "ready to believe
on slight or uncertain evidence." Can you see
why the dictionary might say that?
Medical terms are full of
these kinds of words. What do you think a doctor is
talking about if he says someone has "pericarditis?"
What if we break it apart into its prefix + root + suffix
like peri + cardio + itis? If "peri" is
Greek for "around" and "cardio" is
"heart" and "itis" is an ending that
means the "inflammation of" what do we have?
What if someone has pancreatitis? I think you can
get the idea now. (Notice that there is no "peri"
prefix in this one!) How about "rhinitis?"
Hint, to what do you think the name "Rhino"
refers?
Share these sites with
your teacher! They look like fun.
http://www.takeourword.com/theory.html#How
http://www.knownet.net/users/Ackley/vocabroot.html
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QUESTION:
What have you learned since you started learning to now?
ANSWER
from Steve Mitchell on 24 May 2002:
I have reinforced my opinion that the biggest difference
between a smart person and an ignorant one, is that the
smart one knows he/she doesn't know everything, and it is
alright to ask questions.
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QUESTION:
Do you want to work that many hours a week?
ANSWER
from Steve Mitchell on 24 May 2002:
Not really. If I could get it all done in 40 hours
and spend the rest of my time dancing, I would like that
better.
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QUESTION:
Why these jobs when you can be a governor, a mayor,
anything that has a lot of power over land and people?
ANSWER
from Steve Mitchell on 24 May 2002:
Nobody is ever as powerful as he/she thinks. They
always have to answer to somebody. For example, if
people are not happy with [California Governor] Gray
Davis, he can be unemployed in a couple years. As
it is, I impact the livelihoods of over one hundred
people directly as a member of my management team.
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QUESTION:
Do you enjoy all the things you do?
ANSWER
from Steve Mitchell on 24 May 2002:
Yes I do. I have other things that I enjoy that I
don't have time to do. So, if I ever get bored I
can go do something else I am interested in for a while.
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QUESTION:
How long have you been doing your job?
ANSWER
from Steve Mitchell on 24 May 2002:
The contract manager job I have been doing about 9 months.
I have worked for NASA over twenty years.
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QUESTION:
What is anthropology?
ANSWER
from Steve Mitchell on 24 May 2002:
Anthropology is the study of people and things that
relate to people. Do you think there might be a
reason for people wearing the kinds of clothes that they
do? Why do people eat the kinds of foods that they
do? Why do some people live in thatch-roofed
houses? It is usually not just because something
looks good or tastes good. In engineering we say
that form follows function. Why do you think that
Indians live(d) in Teepees but the tribes in Africa do
not? How are they similar and how are they
dissimilar? Do you think that nomadic people might
live in different kinds of houses than those with fixed
pasture and garden areas? What if you could only
find remains of the houses that people lived in: could
you figure out what kind of lifestyle the occupants would
have?
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QUESTION:
How would you feel if you did not have cars, airplanes,
trains, radio, crayons or pencils?
ANSWER
from Steve Mitchell on 24 May 2002:
I would have to do a different kind of work probably
within a mile of my house. I would have to go to
the library to read newspapers and books. I may
have to write things on a slate with a piece of charcoal
from the fireplace.
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QUESTION:
Do you like playing a guitar in a band?
ANSWER
from Steve Mitchell on 24 May 2002:
Oh yes. I can make a lot of noise and pretty girls
come to see me.
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QUESTION:
Do you have a favorite kind of flower?
ANSWER
from Steve Mitchell on 24 May 2002:
I like tulips for their shape, I like roses for their
smell, and I like pansies for their design.
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QUESTION:
Is it fun for you to collect books and study a lot of
other things?
ANSWER
from Steve Mitchell on 24 May 2002:
Yes, and I find new things to be interested in every day.
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