Ethnic Studies
This term, discussed in adrienne maree brown's work, refers to the community practice of addressing harm without relying on punitive systems.
What is transformative justice?
The title of the short story by Yiyun Li about Mr. Shi, his daughter, and Madam.
What is “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers”?
This theorem says that if and only if a triangle is a right triangle, then the sum of the squares of its legs is equal to the square of its hypotenuse.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
Named after French scientist Andre-Marie Ampere, this is the Standard International unit of electrical current.
What is an Amp?
This advisor can make a water drop sound with his mouth
Who is Mr. Joo?
According to Tara Yosso, this type of capital refers to the ability of marginalized groups to maintain hopes and dreams for the future, despite perceived barriers.
What is aspirational capital?
What does “quo-par-punc” stand for? In what context should one use use “quo-par-punc”?
What is quotation-parentheses-punctuation; when citing textual evidence?
This mnemonic device is used to remember the trigonometric ratios.
What is SOH CAH TOA?
A throttled motorcycle can produce over 100 of these: a unit of sound.
What is a decibel?
This advisor won their middle school English department award
Who is Dr. Brakeman?
This teacher and activist influenced the East LA Walkouts.
Who is Sal Castro?
The name of Vladek’s second wife in Maus.
Who is Mala?
This relationship says that the sum of any two sides of a triangle must be greater than the third side
What is the Triangle Inequality?
A solar flare recently created this latin term for the northern lights as far south as Mexico.
What is Aurora Borealis?
This teacher travels with a tango group during the summers
Who is Dr. Nyberg?
This historical event on April 30, 1975, is also known as Black April.
What is the Fall of Saigon?
What is connotation?
The ideas of meanings associated with a word or suggested by it.
This type of angle is exactly half of the measure in degrees as the arc which it intercepts.
What is an inscribed angle?
When surfacing too quickly from extreme depths in the ocean, a diver has to be careful not to change their pressure too fast or they might suffer from this fatal affliction.
What is "the bends"? (also acceptable: decompression sickness or barotrauma)
This teacher brought a house at 21 by themselves
Who is Ms. Tran?
This theoretical framework by John Bell aims to explain how systems and individuals interact with power and prejudice.
What are the four I’s of Oppression?
Which of the 5 C’s is missing from this list: character, climax, conflict, conclusion?
Change
This type of trapezoid cannot be inscribed in a circle.
What is an isosceles trapezoid?
You'll never break this: the speed limit of the universe (aka the speed of light)
What is 3 times 10 to the 8th meters per second? (also acceptable: 300 million meters per second, 186,000 miles per second)
This teacher drove across the country 7x in 2 years
Who is Dr. Kinney?