I Need Help on My Algebra Homework - What to Do?

I Need Help on My Algebra Homework - What to Do?Are you having a hard time getting I need help on my algebra homework? If so, you may be wondering what to do to get things done.When it comes to taking on algebra homework, you don't want to sit back and let someone else figure everything out for you. There are a number of different resources that are available to assist you. These are great if you need a little guidance but at the same time need to concentrate on your own studies.First of all, if you're having problems, then you're going to need some sort of math course. Math is an important subject and you need to learn how to go about it in a way that you can do well. You don't want to be too easy on yourself or get too frustrated. This will only make your workload worse and you'll soon find yourself getting no work done.Now, there are classes that you can take that have the right math course to give you the help you need. There are also books and guides that you can buy that will h ave some great lessons. These can be very helpful but they can be expensive. Some can be found online, but they may cost a lot.The best method is to find a book that has the basic algebra courses on it and then go from there. Take some tests and do some practice tests until you get better at doing things with your algebra homework. If you like you can take your math tests to a professional that can give you suggestions to help you with it.The internet is a great resource for both regular people and professionals. You can get help with things on the internet that other people cannot so you can focus on your own homework.Your focus needs to be on your studies and your grade doesn't need to come first. Make sure that you are using some of the resources that are available to you.

Colleges With Small Class Sizes

Colleges With Small Class Sizes Small is not a word many students hear when colleges talk about their class sizes anymore, and when they do use that word theyre most likely using it incorrectly. Major budget cuts have forced many colleges to cut costs. The easiest and most effective way for colleges to do that was by slimming down on their staff (both professors and administrators). The national, public universities were hit harder than private universities, and research universities were hit the hardest. See more from Varsity Tutors here on budget cuts leading to larger class sizes. But, not all schools have increased their class sizes, and some have actually maintained relatively small classes, according to an article in the US News World Report. The US News World Report surveyed 256 national universities in 2010 and found that 46.2 percent of those schools surveyed have class sizes under 20 students, on average. It also found that liberal arts colleges (schools that award at least half their degrees in the liberal arts field) have much smaller classes, with 63.3 of classes having fewer than 20 students. The US News World Report surveyed 1,355 total institutions of all categories including private colleges, tech/vocational schools and regional/local colleges. It found that 55.2 percent of classes have fewer than 20 students. The New School in New York topped the US News World Reports list of national universities with the smallest classes. The New School has an undergrad enrollment of 6,882 with 91.4 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. Naturally, most of the New Schools degrees awarded are in liberal arts fields. Four of the 10 national universities on this list are ranked in the top 10 best national colleges list, also determined by the US News World Report, not surprisingly. The four are Harvard, Yale, Columbia and the University of Chicago. Colleges try to keep their student-to-faculty ratios as low as possible. Smaller class sizes give students more one-on-one time with professors and more tailored learning. In small classes, professors can adjust their curriculum to fit the interests of each class something thats completely lost in huge, lecture halls.

Travel English Spoken English in Dublin, Ireland

Travel English Spoken English in Dublin, Ireland Dublin, Irelands capital city, is known for it particular vocabulary that is quite different to that spoken in the rest of the country.Here is a travel English guide to help you out if you are planning a trip there.SocialWhat’s the story means how are you?The Temple Bar in Dublin, Ireland.If someone wants to know how you are you might hear, Is it yourself?Come here till I tell ya means someone is trying to tell you a juicy piece of gossip.Food and DrinkScoops refers to alcoholic beverages.Dutchie is Dutch Gold, an inexpensive beer generally consumed from a can.If you are out for a heavy night’s drinking you are said to be on the lash or on the tear.Locked or gargled means drunk.A sandwich is a sambo.RandomDubliners are known for giving names to their monuments. These are always in rhyming slang. The best example of this is The Tart with the Cart (Molly Malone statue on Grafton Street).A native Dubliner is called a dub.D4 head refers to a person from the affluent Dublin 4 suburb w ith their characteristic accent, attitudes and lifestyle.Aul one means an older woman.Aul fella is used to refer to an older man.Culchie is used to refer to a person from urban and rural Ireland outside of Dublin.A ginger is a person with red hair.A foreigner is called a blow in.A person who is angry is said to be cheesed off.An eccentric man is called a quare fella.Jam jar means a car.Joe maxi is rhyming slang for a taxi.If something takes a long time, it is said to take ages.If someone says be wide, it means be careful.If something is great, it is called rapid or deadly.If someone is tired, they will say they are knackered.An idiot is called a spa or a dope.ATMs are known as drink links as they are often the last stop before a trip to the pub.If someone says fair play it means well done.To gawk means to look.A rainy day is called a soft day.If someone says the Craic was 90, it means the party was a lot of fun.Since we are talking about Dublin lets listen to one of the citys most f amous musical exports, U2 with One.Did you find this blog helpful? Feel free to share it on Facebook and Twitter.

Remembering Sunscreen Talking About Our Fears For The Future in English

Remembering Sunscreen Talking About Our Fears For The Future in English In our conversations in English we almost always talk about our hopes and wishes for the future. Talking about our fears and worries for the future is another important part of language.Let’s explore this now.What words should I use? To talk about our fears we can say…I worry that (or I am worried that)…I am afraid that….I am fearful that…I am scared that…orI am concerned about…I am anxious about…I am apprehensive about…I am uneasy about…I am nervous about…..What are your fears?Some possible global fears include:The international recession,The rising cost of living,The environmental disasters currently ravaging the planet,The pollution of rivers and oceans.Some possible personal fears include:Bad health,Credit card debt,Relationship problems,Not achieving our professional goals.Expressing our fearsWhen we use the word that in our expressions, it is usually followed by the verb to be:I worry that the economic recession will not improve.I am afraid that the cost o f living will keep rising.However, when we use about, we do not use the verb to be:I am apprehensive about credit card debt.I am uneasy about the future of my relationship.Here is a hit song about dealing with our worries for the future, Baz Luhrmann’s Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen).What does Luhrmann say about worrying about the future?What are the pieces of advice listed in the song that you find most helpful?Did you find this blog interesting? Feel free to share it on Facebook.

7 Ideas to Create Christmas Holiday Traditions As a Family While Maintaining Math and Reading Skills - ALOHA Mind Math

7 Ideas to Create Christmas Holiday Traditions As a Family While Maintaining Math and Reading Skills ALOHA Mind Math Centers gives 7 ideas to create Christmas holiday traditions as a family and maintain math skills and reading skills over Christmas vacation. It is best to plan ahead before the children ask for something to do. 1.Celebrate cultures and end of the year celebrations. Go to the library to learn about how other cultures celebrate the holidays. Write a summary and compare select ones to your own celebrations. 2.Visit a local museum. Most museums offer tours, while others offer learning and fun activities for children. Ahead of time tell the children to select three things to study during their visit. Afterwards they tell which three items were selected, why each were chosen, and talk about their three selections in detail. 3.See a festive play or musical. What a better way to get into the holiday spirit than attending “The Christmas Carol” or another fine arts performance? 4.Write thank you notes. Some children dread doing this so make it fun. Play Christmas carols, make hot chocolate, and help them write thank you notes to everyone who gave them a gift. If the child is too young, write it for them and help them hold the pencil and attempt to write their name. This is a becoming a lost etiquette practice due to email and texting. Sending a thank you is a business necessity and just as important in personal relationships. Besides everyone loves being the receiver of a thank you note. 5.Take a tour of the local ALOHA Mind Math Center. Hours over the holidays may vary. Aloha Mind Math, Waltham (Photo credit: Joel Abroad) 6.Turn looking at holiday lights into a math game. Maintain math skills while touring the neighborhood or city, count the number of reindeer and Santa Claus seen. For every reindeer they receive one point and for every Santa Claus they receive two points. 7.Create a book celebrating the year. Tell and illustrate touching moments, highlights, and lessons learned throughout the year. This activity maintains reading skills, writing skills, and relives special moments and milestones. The holidays can be hectic, then everything winds down and sometimes children get restless. Crafting plans ahead of time can make the vacation break run much smoother and bring the family closer together. Enhance children’s learning, improve and maintain math, reading skills, and writing by visiting the nearest centerALOHA Mind Math.

Tapping into language learning while you sleep

Tapping into language learning while you sleep The idea of using the 7+ hours a night of sleep time to subliminally study isn’t new, but recent research shows that there may be more value in our down time after all, specifically when it comes to learning a new language. A team of Swiss psychologists from the Swiss National Science Foundation performed a study to learn whether listening to a foreign language while you sleep will boost your ability to learn. Their findings suggest that the answer is yes, because it helps resurrect memories and experiences from your learning process.To test their theory, psychologists involved 60 German-speaking volunteers in their study of whether listening to verbal cues while sleeping improves a learner’s vocabulary. Participants were given a number of Dutch words for the first time around 10 pm. Shortly thereafter, half of the participants were asked to go to sleep, and while they slept the new words were played back to them. The other half stayed up to listen to the words as they were playe d back to them. At 2 am, the two test groups reconvened in order to be tested on the words. The group that was asked to go to sleep could recall the German definition for each Dutch word more easily than those that were kept awake. The playback actually had no effect on the group that was asked to stay awake. The research team concluded that verbal cueing while awake failed to improve memory.To rule out sleep deprivation as the reason for the sleeping group’s greater success rate, the research team took Electroencephalography (EEG) recordings, which record the brain's spontaneous electrical activity over a short period of time, in order to measure the volunteers’ brain activity as they listened to the playback of the words while they slept. The recordings revealed obvious activity in the brain’s parietal lobe, which is responsible for processing language and sensory information. Theta oscillations, a type of EEG feedback, were also recorded, and these are associated with memor y encoding when people are awake. Researchers concluded that these findings suggest that the same brain activity can occur even while we’re sleeping, which can help strengthen memories.If you’re a teacher who’s just been placed abroad and you’re looking for ways to learn some of the local language more quickly, integrating more audio into your sleep might be a good way to get a head start. Relistening to language podcasts while you sleep could prove helpful. You can also combine some advice from one of our previous blogs with these research findings and use the time you take to get some shuteye to also listen to music in the local language. Happy learning!

Media Freedom Around the World

Media Freedom Around the World Photo by Raymond Gliford on Flickr.com Not according to Reporters Without Borders, though. RWB, a non-profit dedicated to protecting freedom of information worldwide, ranks the U.S. at number 46 on their 2014 World Press Freedom Index, which analyzes the degree of freedom for journalists in 180 countries around the world. Among the U.S.’ neighbors are Romania at 45 and Haiti at 47. So why does the U.S. rank so low? According to RWB, the U.S.’ fall (last year, it ranked at 33) is mostly due to the prosecution of journalists’ sources, including the arrest  of Bradley Manning, primary source for the WikiLeaks case, as well as the 2013 Associated Press scandal, in which the Department of Justice revealed that they had been monitoring the company’s phone records. So who are the world leaders in freedom, really? Finland, taking the number one spot on the list, followed by the Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg and Andorra. Northern Europe definitely has the U.S. beat in the freedom of press category, and their strong culture of free information has spread, to some extent, throughout the rest of the continent, with 31 of the top 50 countries on RWB’s list located in Europe. The countries that are the least free are mostly located in the Middle East and northern Africa, where the Syrian conflict has resulted in press crackdowns in numerous surrounding countries. Syria, which ranked 177th out of the 180 countries listed, has brought up many polarizing questions in the region, which has led to decreases in the rankings for other countries including Lebanon, which dropped four spots from last year, landing at 106th, and Iraq, which fell four spots to 153rd. The situation in Syria reflects a general trend for press freedom: armed conflict means stricter government regulation and more violence against journalists. Luckily, this trend has been gaining some attention in the international community, with the United Nations General Assembly recently adopting their first resolution on journalists’ safety. Also ranking lower on RWB’s list were countries in Eastern Europe and central Asia. Rounding out the bottom of the list were Eritrea at 180, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at 179, Turkmenistan at 178 and Somalia at 176. Photo by Stefano Peroni on Flickr.com RWB isn’t the only organization that measures press freedom. A new report issued by Freedom House, an NGO that focuses on democracy, political freedom and human rights, shows that only 14 percent of the world’s population is living under a free press, while 42 percent live in countries that are partially free and 44 percent live in countries that are not free at all. Compare those numbers to last year’s statistics of 32 percent free, 35 percent partly free and 33 percent not free, and it’s clear that we are in a pretty grim situation. According to Freedom House, having an entirely free press means that there is adequate coverage of political news, journalists’ safety is guaranteed, government interference in the media is limited and the press isn’t limited by extreme economic or legal pressures. According to Freedom House’s data, press freedom around the world is at its lowest level in over a decade, a trend that is caused by declines in freedom in the Middle East and eastern Africa, as well as Turkey and Ukraine, both of which suffered major blows to freedom of information recently. The decline was also caused by lessening media freedom in more developed countries like the U.S. and the United Kingdom, where the governments’ focus on national security issues have begun to eclipse the need for freedom of information. Many of the declines in press freedom were seen in authoritarian countries, where increased protests have led to greater crackdowns on social media and the Internet. In many of these countries, print and television media is mainly state controlled, so the Internet is the main source of opposition news. Photo by Pablo Ruiz Musquiz on Flickr.com A greater crackdown on Internet usage can be seen in Russia, where opposition news sources are often shut down and replaced with more Kremlin-friendly sites, and China, where a new law penalizing bloggers has shut down many of the government’s online opponents. Russia and China, along with a number of other countries, have also restricted media freedom by limiting the number of foreign journalists allowed into their countries. While local reporters are held under strict control by the government, foreign reporters have much more freedom, and thus are more dangerous to the regime. Increased targeting of foreign journalists, through legal or illegal measures, has seriously restricted their ability to fairly and correctly report on events in other countries. Both of these reports paint a very negative picture of press freedom around the world. Press freedom is one of the most important factors in creating and maintaining democracy, and the worldwide decline is not something that should be taken lightly. Clearly, we’re not doing as well as we think we are, and, even in the more developed countries, there is still a lot of work to be done. True freedom of information is a difficult dream to attain, but we shouldn’t be getting less free as time goes on. Increasing media freedom around the world isn’t easy, but it’s something that needs to happen, and soon.