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The Associate Director of Academic Success
Who is Ms. Katie?
the writer of Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, and Macbeth
Who is William Shakespeare?
bringing two or more numbers (or things) together to make a new total.
What is addition?
Who is Albert Einstein?
The 16th president of the United States
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is MasteryPrep?
a part of speech that tells you the relationship between the other words in a sentence (e.g. in, out, to, for, from)
What is a preposition?
An angle whose measure is more than 0o but less than 90°
What is an acute angle?
the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass.
What is gravity?
a severe worldwide economic depression between 1929 and 1939 that began after a major fall in stock prices in the United States.
What is the Great Depression?
An online free program that gives tutoring in math, science, and college counseling.
What is Upchieve?
a figurative language technique in which one attributes human characteristics to non-living objects.
What is personification?
the middle value in a set of data
What is median?
the most common element in the universe
What is hydrogen?
the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
An tutoring company from NY that offers free limited one-on-one tutoring for CYC students
What is Tutoring Associates?
born in North Carolina, this famous short story author wrote "The Gift of the Magi"
Who is O. Henry?
a theorem about the geometry of the sides of a right triangle, usually written: a2 + b2 = c2
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
the most popular scientific theory of how the universe began
What is the Big Bang theory?
the assassinator of John F. Kennedy
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
Online platform that helps boost writing/grammar skills
What is Quill?
What is Fahrenheit 451?
a number that cannot be written in the form of simple fractions
What is an irrational number?
the process by which a cell replicates its chromosomes and then segregates them, producing two identical nuclei in preparation for cell division.
What is mitosis?
a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation.
What is the Watergate Scandal?