A-team fares well at World Trivia contest, November 14, 2007

Our World Trivia team, the A-Team, brought home the bronze on Wednesday night. A-Team members were Quadri, Laura, Angie, and Brittany. Mr. Tesdell joined the team after teaching his night class. The World Trivia contest, held in CSU 253, featured some of the best informed students on campus competing for prizes. The questions came in four categories.
Initially the A-Team were told that they had not placed, but upon further checking, the quiz administrators noticed that the A-Team had in fact placed third. The team members were awarded coffee and coupons for meals at a local restaurant. Good job, A-Team!

Joleen and Jenna

1.Scholarly buttressing is making sure that Farmer knows what he is talking about, and that he has his facts straight.

2.Yes, Farmer isn't around for his family, which is not very good for his daughter.

3.I think he loves the other children more because he is choosing them over her all the time. So I think he needs to stop trying to love the other children so much and start actually loving his daughter. That is really mean to say, but he is supposed to be there for his own flesh and blood first.

1.If you have a lot it is easier to think that you are giving a lot, when really you don't.

2.Americans are lazy democrats because they don't actually give as much as they can.

Da Balla & Da Maneater aka Mario & Brittany

Chapter 22: 1. The information provided by Farmer needs to be checked that it came from an authoritative source.
2. Yes, he does and it is the fact that he spends more time working than he does with his own family.
3. It is so he can feel close and have a family feeling since he is always working. Also, so that the children feel more comfortable around him.

Chapter 23. 1.Because they have unlimited resources. Also they can go and do whatever they want. Farmer disapproves of this and considers those things as being priviledges.
2. A lazy democrat is a person who has loads of power to help those in need and yet chooses not to.

Chapters 22-23

Chapter 22
1. Scholarly buttressing is the need to verify everything Farmer said in a speech and/or paper to make sure he was quoting facts.
2. A lot of people think he has a "chink in his moral armor" when it comes to his family life (he doesn't spend a lot of time with them). However, a lot of people use this "flaw" so they feel better finding something in him that could actually be considered a "flaw".
3. We think that Farmer is put in a hard situation. In order to give Farmer's patients the care he wanted to give and thought they deserved, he had to love the children as much as his own daugther. At the same time though, it doesn't seem fair to his wife or his daughter to love other children the same, and even spend more time with his patients than with his own daughter. So, Farmer's put in a very hard situation.

Chapter 23
1. Farmer says that the rich can always call themselves democratic because they have the means and resources available to them in order to be democratic. However, we don't really understand what he means.
2. Americans are lazy democratics because in many cases they don't use the resources available to them to help those, like the poor and the sick, who don't have those resources. They use the resources to their own advantage many times.

By Quadri and Angie

Chapters 22-23

Chapter 22:
1) Every statement of fact Farmer made in a paper had to be verified as coming from some authoritative source.
2.) Yes, no one is perfect and they mentioned in the book that he forgives people if they don't measure up to the amount they should to help causes. He does so it will make them feel guilty but yet he gets criticized for not spending enough time with his family.
3.) Well we believe that the relationships are different. He truly loves his daughter but he also TRIES to love other children, but finds it's difficult. He more or less just empathizes with them.
Chapter 23:
1.) The rich have lots of resources and America in this case wants to call themselves a democracy.
2.) Someone who doesn't do something that could help others when they have the power to.
Deja and Yoon Beum

laura and Roxane

Scholarly buttressing is the fact to verify all the statements made by someone.Yes Farmer has some chinks in his moral amor because he does not spent enough time with his family, he devotes more time on his work. About the fact that farmer trying to love others children as much as his own daughter, we can say that it is way for him to have family's feeling since he is not always at home. It is a way for him to feel close to his family since he is always at work. We can also say that it is a way to keep all children at the same level and make children more open to him, more confident toward him.
Farmer said that the rich can always call themselves " democratics" because they have a lot of ressources, they can travel everywhere they want - but farmer does not agree with them and he called all those things privilleges. The lazy democratic is a democratic which privilege some people to the detriment of others. normally in democratic, people have the same rights, the same duties, the same opportunities etc... while in the lazy democratic, all those things are not the same, some people have more advantages than others.