Sunday’s SAT Question

He maintains that ethnic and cultural _____ are generalizations no more related to what an individual is actually like than are the _____ representations of constellations to the actual nature of a star.

A) traditions …chemical

B) stereotypes …pictorial

C) details …figurative

D) heritages …prophetic

E) specimens …graphic

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Saturday’s SSAT / ISEE Question

In denying the convicted felon’s request for a retrial, the judge explained that the

evidence demonstrating the man’s guilt was __________.

A) irrelevant

B) exculpatory

C) incontrovertible

D) debatable

E) auspicious

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Thursday’s Trivia Question

Who won the first Nobel Prize for Medicine?

 

 

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Wednesday’s Writing Tip

Quotes on Writing

“A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.” Douglas Noel Adams

“It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit — enable them to see visions and dream dreams.” ~ Eric Anderson

“Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? – a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.” ~ Jean Anouilh

“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.” ~ Isaac Asimov

“Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.” ~ Sir Francis Bacon

“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world… The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way … people look at reality, then you can change it.” ~  James Arthur Baldwin

“Literature … is the rediscovery of childhood.” ~ Georges Bataille

“Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.” ~ Catherine Drinker Bowen

“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness.” ~ John Cheever

 

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