...Ever come across the five monkeys and a ladder thought experiment? If not, stick around. This is going to be an interesting post. If nothing else, it’s a modern-day parable. People usually fail to mention this is actually a thought experiment and pass it off as a real experiment. It’s not. It’s a thought experiment based on an actual experiment published in a 1967 paper by a researcher called G.R. Stephenson (cited below), and it goes like this: Five monkeys were placed in a cage. In the middle of the cage there was a ladder with a banana on top. As one might expect one of the monkeys raced toward the ladder and as he started to climb, the researchers sprayed the monkey with cold water. In addition to the monkey climbing the ladder, however, the four monkeys at the bottom of the ladder were also sprayed with ice cold water. A second monkey attempted to climb the ladder and the same thing happened: the researchers sprayed all 5 monkeys with cold water. After a while none of the monkeys dared to climb the ladder to get their hands on the delicious banana, regardless of the temptation. Once the researchers made sure none of the monkeys was going to climb the ladder, they replaced one of them with another monkey. The newcomer, unaware of the situation, ran toward the ladder to get the banana. But once he started to climb the ladder he was brought down and beaten up by the other four monkeys. After several beatings, the inexperienced new guy learned his lesson: Climbing...
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...house. 2. There is a dinner table in the kitchen. 3. There is a sitting room in the house. 4. There is a TV in the sitting room. 5. There is a sofa in the sitting room. 6. There are two bathrooms in the house. 7. There are three bedrooms in the house. 8. There are eight windows in the house. 9. There are three trees near the house. Exercise 2 Put in there is or there are. ________ _________ an elephant in the zoo. ________ _________ a tiger in the zoo. ________ _________ five monkeys in the zoo. ________ _________ zebras in the zoo. ________ _________ a giraffe in the zoo. ________ _________ pretty birds in the zoo. ________ _________ a peacock in the zoo. ________ _________ pink flamingoes in the zoo. Exercise 3 Put the food in the suitable basket. |Some bread, two eggs, three mushrooms, a bottle of lemonade, some cheese, five apples, an orange, four cucumbers, two tomatoes, a watermelon, a | |tin of tuna, a packet of biscuits, six sandwiches, two hamburgers, a piece of cake, some peaches | |[pic] |[pic] | |There is _______________in the basket. |There are _____________in the basket. | |There is _______________in the basket...
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...that reach far. SAGOT: iyong mata/your eyes Tagalog Riddle: Dalawang balon, hindi malingon. English Translation: Two wells, which you cannot turn to look at. SAGOT: iyong tainga/your ears Tagalog Riddle: Naligo ang kapitan, hindi nabasa ang tiyan. English Translation: The captain took a bath without his belly getting wet. SAGOT: bangka/canoe Tagalog Riddle: Dalawa kong kahon, buksan walang ugong. English Translation: My two boxes are opened without a sound. SAGOT: iyong mata/your eyes Tagalog Riddle: Limang puno ng niyog, isa'y matayog. English Translation: Five coconut trees, one stands out. SAGOT: daliri/fingers Aling ibon dito sa mundo ang lumilipad at sumususo ang anak? Which bird in this world flies yet suckles its young? SAGOT: kabag/fruit bat Nang hatakin ko ang baging, nagkagulo ang mga matsing. When I tugged on the vine, the monkeys went crazy. SAGOT: kampana/ large bell Ako'y may tapat na kaibigan, Saan man ako magpunta kasama ko kahit saan. I have a loyal friend who is always with me wherever I go. SAGOT: anino/shadow Hindi hari, hindi pari suot niya ay sari-sari. Not a king, not a priest but wears an assorted clothes SAGOT: sampayan/clothesline Langit sa itaas, langit sa ibaba, may tubig sa gitna. Heaven above, heaven below, water in between SAGOT: niyog/coconut fruit Bahay ni Ka Huli, haligi'y bali bali, ang bubong ay kawali. House of Brother Huli, it's pillars are broken, roof like a cooking...
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...Kinangop, Kenya. Through other friends, she met the famed anthropologist, Louis Leakey, who became a leading inspiration and assisted her greatly in finally making her dream of observing wildlife in Africa come true.Image result for louis leakey and jane goodall Leakey believed that a long-term study of the behavior of higher primates would yield important evolutionary information. So, he sent Jane to an island in Lake Victoria to study the vervet monkey. During this time, Leakey adapted a particular interest in chimpanzees, the second most intelligent primate. Until then, few studies of chimpanzees had ever been successful; he believed, however, that Goodall now had the proper temperament to endure the needed long-term isolation in the wild. At his prompting, she agreed to attempt this uncharted study. One of the most difficult challenges at this time was that many experts objected to the selection of Goodall because she had no formal scientific education and lacked even a general college degree.Image result for jane goodall and vervet monkeys As Leakey searched for financial aid for the proposed Gombe Reserve project, Goodall returned to England to assist in a documentary about animals for Granada Television. On July 16, 1960, she traveled to Africa and established a camp on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania to attempt to explore the little-known world of wild chimpanzees. Her initial attempts to closely observe a group of chimpanzees failed; after...
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...The Iconic Human Ancestor Lucy Have you ever wonder where we come from? Who is our ancestors? When did human species got created and from what? I think our ancestors are monkey or ape. When I see then I feel like we come from them as we look a lot like. They are our look alike or I can say we are their look alike. They have many human features like their hands and actions. Monkeys also love bananas like us. There are many species in the world like ape, homo, and many others. Lucy the famous human ancestor she from a specie called “Australopithecus afarensis”. I believe she is our ancestor. Lucy was founded by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray on the November 24, 1974, at the site of Hadar in Ethiopia. Lucy is 3.18-million-year-old human ancestor....
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...As Bernard Rosenberg once said, “Man is a biodegradable but nonrecyclable animal blessed with opposable thumbs capable of grasping at straws.” (Bernard Rosenberg. p. 96) Human Nature consists of an evolving body and an immaterial mind that has an essence which is the result of a highly complex brain; Both the body and mind die, however, while living, they make their own choices and create their own outcomes because of their immaterial mind; The memory and body are what makes a person who they are and without either of them, the same person does not exist; We make our own choices but without others, we would be unable to define ourselves. The Dualist view of human nature is similar to these ideas. Dualism is the “view that human beings are immaterial minds within material bodies.” (Velasquez. p. 105) The man that ran this show was René Descartes (1596-1650). He claimed that if we can conceive of one thing without the other, than they are not the same thing. He used this notion to state that the self and the body are different. From this, it can be reasoned that there is a soul, which endures. Human nature accepts the idea of an immaterial mind and a material body because of the fact that they can be viewed as separate things. In the words of Descartes, body is: …all that which can be defined by a specific shape: something which can be confined in a certain place, and which can fill a given space in such a way that every other body will be excluded from it; which can be perceived...
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...The following is a highlighted summary of the book, Competing for the Future, published by Harvard Business School Publishing. The statements below are key points of the book as determined by James Altfeld and have been made available at no charge to the user. Competing for the Future By Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad Look around your company. Look at the high profile initiatives that have been launched recently. Look at the issues that are preoccupying senior management. Look at the criteria and benchmarks by which progress is being measured. Look at the track record of new business creation. Look into the faces of your colleagues and consider their dreams and fears. Look toward the future and regenerate success again and again in the years and decades to come. Now ask yourself: Does senior management have a clear and broadly shared understanding of how the industry may be different ten years from now? Are its headlights shining farther out than those of competitors? Is its point of view about the future clearly reflected in the company’s short term priorities? Is its point of view about the future competitively unique? Ask yourself: How influential is my company in setting the new rules of competition within its industry? Is it regularly redefining new ways of doing business building new capabilities, and setting new standards of customer satisfaction? Is it more a rule maker than a rule taker within its industry? Is it more intent on challenging the industry status quo...
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...Dhaka Tobacco Industries Dhaka Tobacco Industries came to the fold of Akij Group in late seventies when Government has decided to disinvest and hand over the Factory to private sector from the nationalised sector. The Factory is located at Morkun near Tongi and lot of investment into MEN & Machineries has turned the Factory in to a Modern cigarette producing unit. It employs about 1,200 people who works in a congenial atmosphere to deliver right quality to satisfy the million of Smokers’ taste and needs. Currently, Dhaka Tobacco industries produces eight brands of cigarettes. These are Navy, Legend White, Five Star, Red & White, K2, Surma and Diamond. Approximately one billion cigarettes are produced per month by the company’s factory in Tongi, Gazipur.One hundred million of the Navy brand are exported quality and are sold in Dubai. In storage, the tobacco is kept in air-conditioned and moisture controlled rooms where its perfection can be maintained for up to two years. The bales of processed tobacco are sliced in uniform sizes and ground. This is stored in the blending silos in specific ratios. The tobacco (lamina) is moistened, cut and dried. Some of the excess stem produced in National Leaf is also used. It is fed into a conditioner using auto feed. Then, it is cooled and stored in silos to be processed further when necessary. A stem roller is used to flatten the stem so that it is ready to be cut first by the cutter and then by a millicutter. It is moistened...
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...Lin Anderson Saving Mr Ugwu Mr Ugwu crosses to the window, thinking he hears a drop of rain against the louvred glass[1]. For the past three weeks Mr Ugwu has been waiting for rain. He waits for rain as you or I wait for a knock at the door; for the telephone to ring; listening. But unlike these things, the rain is definitely coming. Mr Ugwu knows it is merely a question of time. But this morning, when he scans the horizon, the blue sky looks emptily back at him, although, he thinks, sniffing the air, surely there is a smell of moisture? Round the single-storey mud bungalow, his wife’s garden has been plucked, fighting and kicking, from the African bush. Plants and shrubs, forced into blood-red soil and given their twice-daily watering, have responded in a riot of colour against the thorny grey backdrop ... a veritable oasis in the wilderness. Through the window, Mr Ugwu sees Isa their gardener has arrived and is already padding barefoot round each scored-out waterhole that circles his wife’s plants, dragging the hose behind him. It is this, he realises with disappointment, that has brought the longed-for scent of moisture to his nostrils. Mr Ugwu sighs a little as he leaves the window and crosses to the wardrobe, the garden having reminded him again of what he has done to his wife. Mrs Ugwu did not want her husband to take this job. It was in the middle of nowhere, she said. You are not a bushman, she said. Mrs Ugwu had wielded that particular word like a machete...
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...INTRODUCTION I. IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY This study was conducted to produce an alternative source of vinegar out of banana peel. It is very convenient because the Philippineshave an abundant plantation of banana plant. Our country grows many different varieties of bananas. Rather than throwing the banana peelings in the waste or tossing them in a compost bin, we can use them to make an alternative source of vinegar. The result of this study is significant to the society. Nowadays, almost all products have increased their prices. So when the time comes that the branded vinegar we’re using at home also increases its price we don’t have to worry because we already have an alternative source of vinegar.Aside from that, you can also earn money by introducing this product to your friends or neighbors. CHAPTER II RELATED LITERATURE BANANA A banana is an edible fruit produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. (In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called plantains.) The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starchcovered with a rind which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible parthenocarpic (seedless) bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. Musa species are native to tropical Indomalaya and Australia...
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...the personality of their choice and the name Cacareco which simply means ‘rubbish. ‘It was evident, these people could not believe their human contestants anymore and so, for them, it was’ better to elect a rhino than an ass’ as one of them said. The five-year-old cacareco’s election was however nullified and another election was held in the following week. She died in 1962, but her memory lived on in a number of ways. ’Voto cacareco’ became a widely used term for a protest vote. 4. Tiao the chimpanzee: Tiao was an ape who contested Rio de Janeiro mayoral election of 1988 where he came third with about 400,000 votes. Tiao who contested on the platform of ’vote monkey -get monkey’ was an alternative to other politicians in Brazil at the time, who would say something and do something else. Like Cacareco, Tiao was put forward to cub the threatening corruption that was going on in the politics of the time. Tiao became very popular as a result of his 1988 contest that after his death, the mayor of Rio de janeiro declared an eight day mourning period to mark his departure. He died of diabetes a month before he would turn 34. The Chimpanzee turned politician who was put forward by the fictional Brazilian banana party had his votes annulled after he reportedly came third in the mayoral contest. After his death, the incumbent mayor has the following to say ‘’it is a great loss, he demonstrated the joyfulness of Rio. 5. Hank the cat: Hank, a Maine coon feline was a cat owned...
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...to use in workshops, meetings and the community Acknowledgements 3 Introduction 3 1. Howdy Howdy 4 2. Juggling ball game 4 3. Names and adjectives 4 4. Three truths and a lie 4 5. Connecting eyes 4 6. Match the cards 5 7. Space on my right 5 8. What we have in common 5 9. Who is the leader? 5 10. Who are you? 5 11. What kind of animal? 6 12. Killer wink 6 13. The sun shines on... 6 14. COCONUT 6 15. Body writing 6 16. Names in the air 7 17. Family members 7 18. Who am I? 7 19. As and Bs 7 20. Group statues 7 21. Move to the spot 8 22. Banana game 8 23. Taxi rides 8 24. Fruit salad 8 25. “Prrr” and “Pukutu” 8 26. Dancing on paper 9 27. Tide’s in/tide’s out 9 28. Delhi buses 9 29. Rabbits 9 30. Port/starboard 10 31. I’m going on a trip 10 32. Find someone wearing... 10 33. Touch something blue 10 34. Simon says 10 35. What has changed? 11 36. Birthday graph 11 37. Body “tig” 11 38. Five islands 11 39. The animal game 11 40. Mime a lie 11 41. Bring me 12 42. The king is dead 12 43. Locomotion 12 44. Paper and straws 12 45. Don’t answer 13 46. Tug of war 13 47. Pass the parcel 13 48. Fox and rabbit 13 49. The longest line 14 50. Robots 14 51. King of the Jungle 14 52. Pass the energy 14 53. Bottle game 15 54. How do you like your neighbour? 15 55. Dragon’s tail 15 56. Group massage 15 57. Pass the person 15 58. Blindfold pairs 16 59. I like you because... 16 60. Heads to tummies 16 61. Ball under chins 16 62. Knees up...
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...Dennis Mahon, a member of the KKK, was trying to exercise his freedom of speech, through airing a television program called “Race and Reason.” The Missouri Knights group chose public cable access to broadcast because they were free of any editorial control from the cable company. The show ran for five years and reached 50 cities. (Alderman, and Kennedy 25-36) Their original request to air the show was denied because the company had regulations that required that programming on Channel 20 be produced locally. In order to comply with the regulation the group changed the show’s name to “Klansas city Kable.” The main focus of their episodes dealt with racial issues and exposing government and corporate bureaucracy. In Kansas City, the cable company studio was located in a neighborhood that was 95 percent black. American Cablevision was concerned that violence would occur. Their other concern was that viewers would cancel their subscriptions. (Alderman, and Kennedy 25-36) Reverend Cleaver did not believe that “Klansas City Kable” was an exercise as free speech. Instead he believed that the KKK was creating a terrorist organization. (Alderman, and Kennedy 25-36) According to the Supreme Court, the struggle between the fear of violence provoked by speech and the promise of the First Amendment has produced perhaps the most famous principle in all of constitutional law: the “clear and present danger” test, the idea that government cannot punish speech unless it creates a clear and...
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...1. Look for literary genres and give at least one example in each. Chamber theatre is a method of adapting literary works to the stage using a maximal amount of the work's original text and often minimal and suggestive settings. In Chamber Theater, narration is included in the performed text and the narrator might be played by multiple actors . Examples: * David Edgar's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, in which Charles Dickens' characters narrate themselves in third person. Set pieces are carried in and taken away during the performance, rather than between scenes, and objects may be represented in a mimetic manner. * Matthew Spangler's stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner. Readers Theatre or Reader's Theater is a style of theater in which the actors do or do not memorize their lines. Actors use only vocal expression to help the audience understand the story rather than visual storytelling such as sets, costumes, intricate blocking, and movement. Examples: * A Little Excitement by Marc Harshman * Chicken Big by Michelle Mayo 2. Make sample lesson plan using 2C2IA, four pronged approached and K to 12 approach. Lesson Plan in English IV (2C2IA) I. Objectives: 1. Infer the mood of certain events through the speaker’s action, intentions and utterances 2. Use the present perfect tense with for and since 3. Identify the heading and details for an outline 4. Write an outline and summary of the story read ...
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...i Вторая страница обложки ii Cambridge Practice Tests for IELTS 1 Vanessa Jakeman Clare McDowell C AMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS iii PUBLISHED BY THF PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1RP United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, United Kingdom 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia © Cambridge University Press 1996 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1996 Third printing 1997 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge ISBN 0 521 49767 1 Self-Study Student`s Book ISBN 0 521 49766 3 Set of 2 cassettes Copyright The law allows a reader to make a single copy of part of a book for purposes of private study. It does not allow the copying of entire books or the making of multiple copies of extracts. Written permission for any such copying must always be obtained from the publisher in advance. iv Contents Acknowledgements iv Introduction 1 Practice Test 1 12 Practice Test 2 34 Practice Test 3 54 Practice Test 4 75 General Training Reading and Writing Modules Tapescripts Answer keys 94 107 130 ...
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