Adulting
When are taxes due 2024? Answer with day of the week as well as month and date.
Mon, April 15, 2024
The Catholic Church celebrates sacraments, including large moments in the life of a Catholic. This could be receiving your Holy Orders or Matrimony. How many sacraments are there?
7
There are 24 of these sounds (21 in the English alphabet) made up by plosives, nasals, affricates, fricatives, and approximants. What is the word for a letter/sound like ‘t’?
Consonant
“Casting spells, fashioning voodoo dolls, wearing amulets, ingesting potions, and reading the stars are just some of the activities performed by individuals at every level of society…We will study astrological manuals that teach how to read the stars, curse tablets that bring harm on enemies, and spells that make people fall in love, heal the sick, lock up success in business, and more.”
Magicians, Healers, and Holy Men; Departments: Classics, History, Religious Studies
This ancient model of the universe placed the Earth at the center, with celestial bodies, including the Sun and planets, revolving around it.
Geocentric
This is a French technique of preparing foods where each food item is cut into long strips. Common foods that are prepared this way include carrots and onions.
Julienne
This movie received the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2016. It follows a team of journalists in Boston investigating abuse in the Boston Catholic Archdiocese. They start in Boston but ultimately, unravel a worldwide trend of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.
Spotlight
This term refers to the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences in language.
Semantic meaning
“This course is an opportunity to explore and experiment, to dwell in uncertainty and inquiry, and to entertain confusion before resolution. Whether your area of interest is the psychology of dreams, monsters, memory, desire, cognition and neuroscience, or the underbelly of the American Dream, you will find room to interrogate subjects, both real and imagined, as well as texts and theories that destabilize categories, embody possibility, and threaten established order.”
College Writing: Dreams and Nightmares; Department: CWP (College Writing Program)
On Earth, this astronomical event marks the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, typically occurring around December 21st.
Winter solstice
In the past, it was appropriate to change your oil every 3,000 miles, but now with modern lubricants, it is recommended to change your oil between this interval. Any number between this interval will be accepted. Assume that your car’s engine does not require full-synthetic motor oil. (I have no idea what that even means.)
5,000-7,500
In my middle school, our biggest performance was on Good Friday where we proceeded through a performance of this reenactment of the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ. Getting the role of Jesus Christ was every 8th grade boy’s dream. These stations included 14 steps, including Jesus Falls for the First Time, Jesus Falls for the Second Time, and Jesus Falls for the Third Time. He is just like me.
The Stations of the Cross
This system, used by linguists and language learners alike, provides a standardized way to transcribe the sounds of speech, including consonants, vowels, and tones, using a set of symbols. It includes places of articulation, manner of articulation, and whether the sound is voiced or voiceless.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)
“You will learn to collect forestry data, and to identify trees by leaf, bud, bark, fruit and crown…You will also contribute to the ongoing research in our arboretum and to the education of your peers and campus visitors by adding new trees to the arboretum collection and by monitoring the campus trees as you learn to collect data on growth and phenology.”
Woody Plants of Missouri; Department: Biology
This process, often observed in stars and planetary atmospheres, involves the transfer of heat through the movement of fluids, such as gases or liquids, due to differences in temperature and density.
Convection
How many FREE Habif therapy appointments per school year can you have before you have to start paying a copay?
9
These teachings begin with the utterance “Blessed are the/those…” and includes the poor in spirit, the pure in heart, and more. These teachings are introduced in the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew.
The Beatitudes
Besides consonants and vowels, some languages have non-pulmonic airstreams that produce sounds similar to a tsk-tsk in English. Trevor Noah is a speaker of Xhosa which incorporates these unique consonants.
Click consonants
“A successful marketing strategy must be built around an understanding of consumers, and this same understanding can help consumers make better choices. MKT 377 incorporates the latest research in psychology, marketing, and other social sciences to help students understand why consumers act as they do.”
Consumer Behavior; Department: Marketing
The lowest layer of Earth’s atmosphere, characterized by decreasing temperature with increasing altitude and where most weather phenomena occur, is known as this.
Troposphere
This form is a US form that tells you the employee’s filing status, multiple jobs adjustments, amount of credits, amount of other income, amount of deductions, and any additional amount to withhold from each paycheck to use to compute the amount of federal income tax to deduct and withhold from the employee’s pay. Essentially, this form determines how much money is withheld from each paycheck for federal taxes.
W-4
This man has served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis since 2020. Before he was an archbishop, he was previously an auxiliary bishop for Baltimore and the bishop of Springfield.
Mitchell T. Rozanski
This is the word for the smallest unit of sound. It can distinguish meaning in a language.
Phoneme
“This course presents a background in power and oppression, to help predict how new technological and societal systems might interact, and when they might confront or reinforce existing power systems...Multiple example sensing and classification systems which operate on people (e.g., optical, audio, and text sensors) are covered by implementing algorithms and quantifying inequitable outputs.”
Signals, Data, and Equity; Departments: Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Earth’s magnetic field, which extends into space and helps protect the planet from the solar wind, forms this protective region around the Earth.
Magnetosphere