Pingyi Secondary (The Inca Sacrifice) answers

Hi guys, really hope you guys have challenged yourselves and done the compre prac...here're the answers!

1) They offered human sacrifices as a special offering to the gods. [1]

Questions after this are startin' to get bizarre... I mean, THREE mark questions? Hmm. Whadeva.

2) Because children were regarded as wholesome and untainted [1], a sacrificed child was believed to have been so revered [1] that he/she would be regarded as a god. [1]

3) The mountain's effect was immediate and direct. [1] The mountains could kill with avalanche, rockfall, lightning, blizzard, or wind; [1] or they could bless the people with rain filled clouds. [1]

4) This would make their ascent to the mountains easier and less dangerous [1], and the physical environment more hospitable to human activity. [1]

5) It suggests that the Inca empire was large and far-flung. [1] I really liked this question! Such a great inference question. :)

6) People living near Llullaillaco believed the mountain controlled weather [1] as well as the fertility of the animals and abundance of crops [1] in the region.

7) This was a way to include these mountain gods into the country's faith, [1] thereby giving themselves increased rule over the distant, remote people they ruled. [1]

8) It suggests that they were capable of violence/were violent people. [1]

9) The children were probably in an intoxicated daze [1] and they could probably have frozen to death. [1]

10) She felt that she could not be more honoured than by the feasts which they celebrated for her in Cuzco. [1]

11) They were meant as sacrifices to the gods [1] and thus had to be physically perfect to attain the favour of the gods. [1]

12)

a) accompanied - escorted

b) attended - accompanied (Hehehhe....tricky...)

c) reportedly - allegedly

d) benign - gentle

e) intricate - detailed

f) elaborate - complicated

g) ultimate - supreme

All the best my darlinks! You guys can do it! Oh yea, I've just calculated your CA2 marks, and frankly, I am....... HAPPY! :D

Ramifications :(

Oops. Feeling guilty now for telling you guys sorta the wrong meaning of ramifications... will make that up on Tue, promise. :(

Now, don't lynch me, people.

As requested....

Coral Sec Summary Points! :)

The period that the ice is firm is shorter

And so the hunting period has become shorter too

Sea ice used to be thicker (is thinner now) and

The temperature in Greenland has risen

And so huge ice sheets are melting/have melted

As ice and snow cover melt,

More heat is absorbed and sea levels rise

Inuit hunters have difficulty dogsledding safely over ice

They need sea ice to form around the coast

To travel out to hunt the animals/prey

Animals need the ice/coast too for resting and birthing

The warmer temperature makes hunting difficult

Because of thinner ice and the formation of polynas

Hunting season has become unsafe

Hunters cannot hunt during the winter/dark periods anymore.

Early snowmelt affects premature seals as they are attacked by prey earlier/their mortality rate increases

Hunters and polar bears are affected too

The earlier ice break shortens the best seal hunting season

Polar bears use this period to build on fat supplies and energy for their offspring

They cannot do this properly so survival rate is low

Especially since they depend on body fat for insulation

Uh, looks like my longest "poem" to date. :)

Feeling emo...

Like a lot of you guys (still) reading this, Miss Lan is capable of feeling *ahem* emo too.

Erm. Yea, in case you were wondering, yea, I AM a human too, and I AM capable of having feelings.

Sigh.

There are days when I look at all of you and waves of nostalgia really just wash over me, and I yearn so hard to be a student again, carefree and innocent.. seriously, guys, carpe diem - that means to "seize the day". Yea! Seize the day and enjoy it while you're still young enough. 

Trust me, I understand how tough the life of a student can be. There're piles of homework and myriads of tests to study for (and that's why I don't really give you guys assignments too - right? RIGHT!??!). But sometimes, even that is much better than the constant politic-king or grievances you have to face when you're in the workplace. :( Not all colleagues are like that, of course. Mostly you luck out, and are faced with bright beacons here and there, their very goodness shining out from them. But sometimes - just very sporadically, rarely in fact - negativity from others could weigh you down like a pile of stone and make you sink straight to the bottom. 

And added to that, my personal life isn't doing too well either. Some important things are in shambles, and although it's easy enough for everything to fall apart, sometimes it takes eons before one can gather enough courage and sheer motivation to stand back up and collect all the broken pieces back again.

I go to school to work, to keep myself busy, so that I don't think so much. I come back home to rest, to refresh myself, and to hide from the complaints and harshness of the outside world. And through it all, what keeps me going? My beloved BABY (that's my cat, kiddos..haha), my supportive parents, and - you guys. My lovely students. All of you who drive me crazy, drive me up the wall, make me scream and shout and develop mysterious, self-diagnosed swellings in my tonsils - yes, all of you lovely lovely kids.

Thanks for being part of those making my day, everyday. :)

Sob sob...

Sob... it does Miss Lan good...to know that she still has SOME followers.

Sob sob. <- Tears of gratitude.

I will try to update more, and more frequently too.

From my favourite website

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

Now my dears...what can you infer from this picture above?

It comes from my favourite website, by the way. Will show you guys more when we have more time in the next few lessons.

Ship of Theseus

Hey my dearies,

I just remembered this li'l puzzle from my Uni days and thought I'd share it with you guys. What're your thoughts?

The Ship of Theseus 

Theseus was the founder-king of Athens (a place in Greece). When he returned from a journey to Crete (another place in Greece), he and 30 other youths sailed in a ship made up of wooden planks. As they knew that strong winds and waves would be battling the ship, they decided to bring along enough planks to build a new ship, just in case a repair was needed. 

Along the way, wind conditions were much worse than expected. Theseus and his crew ended up having to replace each and every plank, one by one, at least once - with the conclusion that, at the end of the journey when they had returned to Athens, the ship was made up entirely of new and un-original planks. 

Is the ship at the end of the journey the same as the one at the start then? Is it still "THE Ship of Theseus" or is it another "Ship of Theseus"? What do YOU think?

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All right. Let's assume that you argue (with a good, logical justification) that the new ship is NOT the same as the original ship. It shouldn't be called THE Ship of Theseus. We'll examine the human body now.

Right now, as I'm typing this and you're reading this, millions of cells are being shed from my and your body. By the time one day has passed, hundreds of millions of these tiny cellular material would have vanished, gone forever from me or from you. In their places, new ones soon sprout. That's the miracle of the human body. 

Imagine the billions of trillions of such cells that would have been replaced by new ones, ever since someone were born. 

Now my question: Human bodies are made up of cells, in the same way that a ship is made of wooden planks.  So am I, or you, the same human being as the one that emerged from my or your mother's womb, many years ago?