Wednesday, 2/26/03 -- Paradoxes!
1) If Achilles races a tortoise and gives the tortoise a head start, then Achilles will never be able to overtake the tortoise. When Achilles reaches the point where the tortoise started, the tortoise will have moved on. When Achilles reaches that point, the tortoise will have moved on farther - and so on indefinitely.
2) It is impossible to ever reach the finish line when running around a stadium. In order to reach the finish line, you must first reach the halfway point. But before you reach the halfway point, you must reach the halfway point to that - and so on, and so on to infinity.
3) Suppose there is a small town that consists only of men. There are two kinds of men in this town--those who shave themselves and those who are shaved by the barber. Who shaves the barber?
4) A person from the island of Crete asserts, "All Cretans are liars."
Warm Up. Copy into notebook. (If not finished with EMEN Test, do that instead of Warm Up.)
  1. *respect : admiration :: motivate :  ___
  2. *version : adaptation :: story :  ____
  3. *different : various :: inherited :____
  4. *succeed : excel :: expend : ______
  5. *match : correlate :: attach : ______
 Ray Bradbury...

Who do you want to talk to? All those morons who are living across the world somewhere? You don't even want to talk to them at home. (On the topic of Internet chat rooms)

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. On occasion? Sure. As relaxation? Great. But not full time -- And a lot of people are doing that. And while they're doing that, I'll go ahead and write another novel. (Salon.com, August 29, 2001)
Go over vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest. You may use words more than once. You might not use them all.
graft, resilient, resilience, aurora, expendable, poised, infinitesimal, correlate, ambiguous, paradox, annihilate, primeval
  1. The machine glowed. It had a(n) __________ that flickered brightly; orange, blue, and silver.
  2. He is not an ________ member of the team; we need his help desperately.
  3. The gardener _________(ed) a new limb onto the ailing tree.
  4. Since there were 1,000 points possible in the quarter, one or two would be a(n) _______ amount.
  5. "With a stamp of your foot, you __________ first one, then a dozen...a billion possible mice."
  6. When we moved, we got rid of everything that we considered ____.
  7. In some Third World countries, the police are paid so little that they have to resort to ___________ to survive.
  8. A trampoline is, by definition, ___________.
  9. "The government doesn’t like us here. We have to pay big ___________ to keep our business."
  10. Her answer to my question was very ___________. I couldn't tell what she really meant.
  11. "That'd be a ________. Time doesn't permit that sort of mess -- a man meeting himself."
  12. He tried to be be very ________ and calm when he met his girlfriend's parents.
  13. "Crushing certain plants could add up ___________(ly). A little, tiny error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion."
  14. We tried to ______ our arrival times so that we could be there together.
  15. The display of colored lights in the sky that happens near the North Pole is called the _________ borealis. (EC+1) It is more commonly known as the ________ _________.
Correct EMEN Test.
"ASOT"