I don't know where we're going yet, and I can't allways get to my magichelp.com email. Please send anything important to reesent@hotmail.com.

Luv to all!

I will make updates as soon as we are settled!

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Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895? This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, KS, USA. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS, and reprinted by the Salina Journal.


8th GRADE FINAL EXAM


Grammar (Time, one hour)
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1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no Modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of lie, lay and run
5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.

Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)
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1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50cts/bushel, deducting 1050lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per meter?
8 Find bank discount on $300 for! 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.

U. S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
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1. Give the epochs into which U. S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865.

Orthography (Time, one hour)
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1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, sub vocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e.' Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connect! ion with a word: bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.

Geography (Time, one hour)
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1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of North America.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall &Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the earth.

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Also notice that the exam is given five hours to complete.

Gives the saying "she/he only had an 8th grade education" a whole new meaning, doesn't it?

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Its awful to admit that these horrible people are probably just sad closet cases... hate for ones self, and lying to ones self are two of the major reasons that I have voted for keeping your species down...



So, not 2 hours after receiving the first anti-administration commentary from one friend today, I received this second one:



Bush Explains Medicare Drug Bill -- Verbatim Quote

WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: 'I don't really understand. How is the new plan going to fix the problem?'

Verbatim response: PRESIDENT BUSH:
'Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculated, for example, is on the table. Whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be -- or closer delivered to that has been promised. Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled. Look, there's a series of things that cause the -- like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate -- the benefits will rise based upon inflation, supposed to wage increases. There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those -- if that growth is affected, it will help on the red.'

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Up most of the night again with tooth pain... This time it is my top left canine. Now since I haven't made a habit so far of writing about my medical problems in the blog I guess there should be some background here. For the most part, I just don't go to dentist. I mean I have been at various times in my life, but like with the regular doctor, I just have this really hard time wanting help from some stranger. So, I've been tot he dentist for an emergency root canal, or two, and extraction, or two, and even once, when mom paid for it, to have some cavities filled, and a broken front tooth "fixed". Just like I've been to the emergency room/doctor a couple of times when my fever has been way too high, or a bone might have been broken. But, after mom paid to have my front tooth fixed (it had gotten chipped really bad because the opposing bottom tooth has allways been a bit crooked and eventually just broke it), then I paid to have it fixed a second time, because the fix broke, and the detist told me that I would likely have to pay another $750 every couple of years to fix it when it broke. Thats when I just gave up.

And started buying Ambesol. Tooth pain gel; put it right where it hurts and the pain will go away. Shovel it into the cavities and eventually the nerve will die. No more root canals!

So my front tooth has stayed chipped, but I'm no longer afraid to smile. I just got over it. And one at t atime other teeth, mostly on the top, started to disentigrate and wear away... and eventually the Ambesol stopped working. So, then I found that the alcohol in a big swig of mouthwash, did an even better job of killing nerves (As well as cleaning out old Ambesol deposits.

The last quarter of 2004 through the first quarter of 2005 were really bad; lots of pain. But as I learned how to manage it, it all just went away, and altough there was still plenty of problems in there, I seemed to get past all of the infections, and bad nerves. And, while I had to dig at my teeth to clean out the food in the cavities at practically every bite of food, I didn't have pain for most of 2005.

Tne came this month, January 2006. About a thrid of the way into the month, I was munching on a lightly toasted tortilla, on the "good side" of my mouth, and crack! I broke the one really bad tooth on that side almost in half. It crumbled away. And, while it created a new excavation challenge, it didn't hurt. However, the next day, the canine on the other side went ballistic.

Now this canine was allready in pretty bad shape. This is the "bad side" of my mouth that we're talking about. But the canine hadn't given me any trouble before now. Sure it is in a line of five teeth on that side that just need to be removed, but it had never been a "problem." Now it is...

Ick, what use of a blog is this... whine whine whine...

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Well its about time...

I'm not much on rap, unless it has something say or says it in a very interesting way...

http://www.gangstafag.com/


check it.

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