AMATYC Student Mathematics League

I have some test questions from last semester of the AMATYC Student Mathematics League.
it totally has 20 questions. I did some but still feel confused by some questions.
one is :
The equation a^6+b^2+c^2=2009 has a solution in positive integers a, b, and c in which exactly two of a,b, and c are powers of 2. Find a+b+c.
The choicesfor this one is:
A.43. B.45. C.47 D. 49 E.51.
And another one is :
For all integers k>=0,P(k)=(2^2+2^1+1)(2^2-2^1+1)(2^4-2^2+1)...( 2^2^k+1-2^2^k+1)-1 is always the product of two integers n and n+1. Find the smallest value of k for which n+(n+1)>=10^1000
The choices for this one is:
A.9 B. 10 C.11 D.12 E.13

I really worked on these two hard, but I still feel very awkward to them...

Elementary Education

When I worked at OCC bookstore, I found that many many students came to buy textbooks for elementary algebra, the very basic class. I saw the OCC website, it says this kind of class is non-credit class and it's developing education like English 091 and 095. I don't why in America, the elementary subjects are so weak. May be people cared more about bringing up their personality when they were young. My friends, who are in Master degree at Yale University, told me that when they did the teacher assistants for physics and chemistry, they found a lot of sophomore students cannot do well in the basic classes. A few days ago, I saw the viking news that said this campus really need math assistant in classroom or peer tutor to help students pass the math elementary classes easily. I really worry about American's elementary Education. The only advantage is that people could open their mind really well.Many people say American students have the most ideas. Yes, I agree. I find in my english class, students can tosse around a number of ideas. That's very good. There is a example, one girl who was from HongKong, she said one day I didn't pay attention what professor said in class, so when the professor let her answer the question, she had to make up even she didn't know what she were talking about. After she was done, the professor said" good,very good,even though I don't know what you are saying..." Laugh...I mean it's good because professor give students more respect or encourage, but i do think in searching after truth,a scientific skepticism must be maintained

An internet fan.

Why I like to get on the internet, I think that's because it can compensate dissatisfaction with life besides looking for help and entertainment. There is a ghost in my heart,but this ghost is kept inside deeply and others cannot find it easily. Perhaps sometimes the real life is so boring and I'm not doing well and blah,blah,blah...Anyway,I can not only strike a balance between real life and and inside, but also find my Self in networking . In ordinary living, people always disguise themselves so hard, but in the subjunctive Cyberworld, we can unchain our hearts and get the rest of the spleen out of our system. I am the lord. I'm an omnipotent lord.I enjoy myself on my zone. I don't like TV a lot because TV is in reality rendering based on expanded 300% of real life. Maybe usually I am ignored too much, so someone can easily move me whenever he greets me from somewhere too far. Even though get simply cannot again simple greeting, it still move me.

Wensday---orange

Different colour repersents different mood.
Joy comes from deep within and we all need joy-the orange energy helps bring out this joy. The orange colour has the love from the red and the wisdom from yellow. It helps expand one's horizen and create new ideas. If our spleen chakra is in balance we are able to enjoy our existance-take life as it is without asking for more than we can handle. Children always have fine orange energy. They have the ability to enjoy themselves spontaneously and enjoy their play. If you have too much red in your orange, this may make you angry and inconsiderate. Too much yellow in your orange may make you querulous and impossible to live with. You may have a nervous stomach if you cannot control your feelings. But if there is an excess of orange, one is easily affected by what other people feel or mean. One forget to be oneself in a wish to satisfy other people.

Sunday-yellow
Monday-violet
Tuesday-red
Wednesday-orange
Thursday-blue
Friday-green
Saturaday-indigo

my faovrite quotation

1. The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out, Thomas bolington Macaulay, British historian.

2. It is a mistake to took too far ahead, Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. Winston Churchill.
3. Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of children tends towards the formation of character. ( Hosea Ballou British cducator)


And my favorite quotation is:

Time is a great judge, even in the fields of morals. ( H.L Mencken, American arts artic)

notes for biology

Cells convert nutrient molecules to a usable form, ATP. Energy conversions can occur in the cytoplasm or in specialized organelles. mitochondria: site of oxidative phosphorylation, where the cell makes most of its ATP. Anabolism: simpler substances are combined to form more complex substances. Amino acids assembled into protein. required for growth, development,repair and energy storage. Catabolism: complex substances broken down to form simplex substances starch to glucose. Energy release; Digestion. Cells use redox reactions to extract E from nutrients. Oxidation-reduction reactions: the transfer of electrons from are molecule to another. aerobic respiration: cells require oxygen to complete chemical reactions. anaerobic respiration: cells do not require oxygen to complete chemical reactions.

About Gato Barbieri

Born to a family of musicians, Barbieri began playing music after hearing Charlie Parker 's "Now's the Time." He played the clarinet,then the alto saxophone while performing with the Argentine pianist Lalo Staffroom in the late 1950s. By the early 1960s, while inRome, he was playing the tenor saxophone, and also worked with the trumpeter Don Cherry. By now influenced by John Coltrane's late recordings, as well as those from other ' Free jazz'' saxophonists such as Albert Ayler and Pharoah Sanders, the warm and gritty tone, which would become his trademark sound, began to develop. In the late 1960s, he was fusing musics from South America into his playing and contributed to multi-artist projects like C harlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra and Carla Bley's Escalator Over The Hill . His score for Bernardo Bertolucci's film Last Tango in Paris earned him a Grammy Award and led to a record deal with Impulse! Records.

By the late 1970s he was working for A&M Records and moved his music towards jazz-pop with albums like Caliente (with his best known song, Carlos Santana's Europa).

Though he continued to record and perform into the 1980s, the death of his wife Michelle led him to withdraw from the public arena. He returned to recording and performing in the late 1990s, playing music that would fall into the arena of smooth jazz.

Nancy Savoca and her husband, Rich Guay, are working on a documentary of Barbieri's life and work.

Learning English

today I learnt some combining forms:

Combining Forms Meanings
anni, annu, enni year
aut, auto self
bi two
bio life
graph someting written;machine
graphy writing;drawing;writing in or on a specified subject or field;
science
logy,ology the study of; the science of
ped, pod foot

Notes: a. bimonthly. Occurring once every two months;occurring twice a month. The theater group decided to stop giving bimonthly plays because two months did not give them enough time to rehearse.
b. Occurring once every two weeks;occurring twice a week. The biweekly newspaper is very large because it comes out only every two weeks.

I'm really interested doing this that seperate complex words and give the easerier way...

the pursuit of happyness————my faviorite movie

"How many roads must a man walk down,Before you call him a man?" The answer is NOT blowin' in the wind. The answer is just in the film "The Pursuit of Happyness".It is based on a true story of famous self-made millionaire Chris Gardner. Will Smith acted as Chris and did a fantastic job which really moved and inspired me. The story is touching and sometimes even painful. To say "I laughed, I cried" would be really lame. It is the truth, though.I recommend this film as a must see to everyone especially those who are struggling for families and happiness.I have been a fan of Will Smith for years and I have to say this may be his best film yet! "The Pursuit of Happiness" is just a wonderful (based on a true) story, full of adventure, hope, and pain.
Movies have beautiful actress with neither fancy clip nor exciting soundtrack...
But there is a good story that let me sit at the computer watch.

Inspiring stories about the theme of this model is -- -- -- -
In distress situation hard struggle of endless damned thing then appeared a chance...
Finally welcomed a dawn
This new film demanding exceptionally is of no significance
We will strive for the ultimate success but who encouraged
Just because we own hard to persist...
To carry more than 40 pounds of medical instrument selling running around
To always miss her 5-year-old son when his wife left home
Not all contributed to pay "practice" 4 months even not sure whether oneself can be employed
Have no obligation to pay the rent because of the white wall
At the police station to stay but no money into automobile ticket
By car to cast a shoe immediately after running up to go back to work
To embrace a son in the toilet overnight because nowhere to go
To get down from the queue for shelter. Into
...
After much "to"
Chris eventually get jobs in the moment was be great happiness
Chris beginning in film of lost in the street in every smiling face blankly stood
"Why does everyone happy, but I can't?".
Notice when Chris through trial for himself again came when you want happiness that involves applause to pursue
Happiness is forced out
People also

What are the essential characteristics of a good parent?

Thanks to professor Lauro for providing me the list of topic choice. When I run my eyes over the list, I found this topic"what are the essential characteristics of a good parent?" Actually, I do want to talk about it because one of my friend,Clark, is suffering from a very innormal family..grin...So let me talk about what's the best parents in my heart. I don't really like that parents who always control their children's brain and behavior. In children's world, they have something they think right. I think that children have the thing that oneself likes, just like you let children darw the sun, he may put the sun painted rectangular.It is because he has not formed in the consciousness of the sun's entity. Many things are been experienced gradually.I believe that after the child grows up, and he will know something hanging in the sky at daytime is the sun. At this time, if you let him draw the sun, he absolutely paints the sun in round. So I think good parents should follow children's interest and don't control them or tell them what's wrong or what's right. Good parents should encourage children to do much eough by themselves and let them figure out the best way. Actually, there is no wrong or right in the world, it's only easy way and hard way or it's stupid way or smart way.

my most fun from my English writing

This semester is my second semester as a full time student. Last semester, I took English 095 that gave me a lot of trouble at the beginning. I had many language problem even now, so writing assginment to me is really hard. I was afraid when every assginment came. But even though I hate it, I got most fun in my last paper. The last paper was a kind of primary reserach paper, and we spent half a month preparing that. Also, we debated in class that's my first debate since I came to America. The teacher put us into groups and let us work together and figure out who was the points of our topics. I did really like it. I still remember our topic is "Whose's policy is better on health care, Obama or Maccain?" I searched the internet and found a lot of relative articles. Then I wrote outlines and opening remarks and closing remarks. I really enjoyed it and I love to work with other people. I did try my best to do it and eventually the teacher gave me A-. Even though I felt so depressed at the beginning, it still deserved. I'm proud of it.

something I don't get

I've missed a lot of things so far. One example, I'm really interested with playing the violin. When I was six, my parents hired a teacher teaching me playing the violin. At that time,I was crazy about it. But my career of learning playing the violin was over when my parents divorced. I moved with my father and I definitely didn't see my violin teacher any more and I started my new life in another city. That's my best regret and I'm looking for a chance to restart it and continue my dream.
Aother thing is when I was in high school, I didn't get good grades in math subject because I was not interested with math. But I think I should do better because good grade can take me further, I mean may be I can go to a better university. I was so lazy when I was below 18 years old. Maybe it's not lazy but so young.
Lots of students dread English classes, yes, I'm one of them. Before I take the English class, many many people told me English class is the hardest class go get credits. I didn't believe it. But now I absolutely believe that. English class is so hard for me and it takes me a lot of time. I need read a lot and follow the rules of writing and bla bla bla...It's so hard. I mean actually I work hard but I don't know how to get A in English class. I won't feel relaxed freely until the end of this semester.

I'm mad

I don't know how to describe my mood now. Autually I'm not in mood talking about. I really value about the grades of all classes. I know I'm not a perfect person,but I do want to do the best I can. The biology test today made me crazy. I thought I had have already prepared for the test,but when I did the test everything mixed up. Almost all meaning of biology words I didn't know. Everything words looked like same. Biology is not the most difficult course and actually it's very interesting. But I don't know how to say, I'm still struggling with my language problem...I feel so bad today.

MY FAVORITE THING

What's my favorite thing? I've never thought about it. These years I've received a lot of gifts on birthday and christmas day, but I don't impress any. Oh, wait a minute...I open my mind. My friend Alex ever sent me a very special gift. That's a pair of shoes and you know what...My friend made them by hands and they are made of paper.
Those are really very special to me that I can remember clearly. When I opened the gift box, I I got freaked out. It was so beautiful that I couldn't believe. The most unbelieveable is that the shoes are the right size of me. The shoes are colored with white and a little bit sky blue. Also, there are some drawing on them and marked " princess". I love that so much.
I was so stupid when I moved to another place. I cleaned up the house and I thought the box was empty because the shoe are made of paper and they are no weight. I throw them away. I feel so sad now. ..

First point in English 151

Today I got the point 8 with my first in class essay. I feel so uncomfortable and I think I still have a long way to go on studying English. English to me is so different and it makes me crazy. I don't know if keeping jounal really can help me with writing, but I hope so. I want to insist on it and see the result.Tomorrow is accounting exam for chaper 11, and I may work to late tonight...May be some day I will go to see the advisor and talked with her about my majoy choice and the classes that I need to take.

weekends

The weekends are going to the end in one hour. This weekends I feel very relax. I almost slept a whole day on Saturday that make me feel comfortable. Then I still have a lot of homework. From tomorrow, I will have three exams. One of my friends said," Students in American college are the most hardest." I believe so. Especially for me, It's harder and harder. But I like it and I really value the chance in the college. Today is Chinese Mid-autumn Festival that means it's the day people get together to celebrate the good harvest. I can't join them, it's a pity. Tomorrow English first eassy will be handed out and I look forward to my first grade. I hope it's not too bad...

never stop

Sometimes I talk with my friend about life. Even though we have different ideas, we all think life is full of sun light. I design a new English language study plan for myself. I find the most helpful TV show is Friends. It has I don't know how many seasons...from 1995-2008 I guess.
It may help me with listening and speaking because it's a flow-of-film. After I come back home, I always watch 1-2 episodes to enjoy life. Happiness and study can exist at the same time. Next week, I will have three exams. That is boring but I'm marching toward brightness and progress.

poetry

valentine's day is coming. Today, I read some poetries of love.

　　 If you were a teardrop;In my eye,

　　For fear of losing you,I would never cry

　　And if the golden sun,Should cease to shine its light,

　　Just one smile from you,Would make my whole world bright

I have searched a thousand years,And I have cried a thousand tears.I found everything I need,You are everything to me. Barry Fitzpatrick

　　I just wish someday and somehow,We can be back together, Together we'll stay,Always and forever.

how do i say i love you? how do i tell you i care? how do i tell you i've missed you, and let you know i'm here?

　　For years I had been searching,For that perfect fantasy, But, I find it in my arms, right now,You are all to me.

　　you are my life.you're my one and only dream.i love you,and to you that i mean.together for always, i hope we will be.i'll love you always. Alison Cunningham

　　

something is in my heart

I really want to talk about my biology class today. I was very interested in biology when I was in high school, but I changed my biology class into history. Right now, I have another chance to continue biology knowledge that makes me very excited. But there is a problem, the words in biology book are unfamiliar to me. I read the book again and again but it's very hard to remember. This afternoon I came across a chinese math professor and we talked a little bit and discussed something about statistic. I'm still struggling with my first english in class essay.

sun shine

Today I sat in the libaray alone and the sun shone on me warmly. I opened my accounting book that made me very bored. I'm sure I don't really like numbers but I have to master it. These days I always go out for walking. I like spend a lot of time to think about my life.I feel I must change someting and creat a more meaningful life.I read the newspaper about Obama, I admire him very much. I really want to be a very outstanding person in the future.Yesterday I talked with my friend about the novel Lolita. I didn't know why a 13 years old girl could fall in love with an old man. But now I know, Loneliness can change a lot...

chill out

Today I learned a new phrase "chill out" that means relax and enjoy and whatever makes people feel comfortable. My father told me that's a kind of slang and most black people like to use it. I didn't hang out these days because I have a lot tasks to do. I just talked to my friends through Internet and phone. When I was callingto my grandmother, they were celebrating chinese new year. Sounds great. Later I talked to my classmate, he tought a phrase" hang out" I didn't know that before. He said it's a very important phrase, I must know it. ..grin..I think my english will be better and better.