AP Language Class Notes
You were a slim body today, period 2, as plenty of your comrades were off taking care of business. We quickly addressed the Gawande piece, as your colleagues in fifth period did Thursday, but since we had some time I mentioned and showed you on the expensive screen some images of naturally occuring patterns of the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio (phi). (The Thinkquest site I linked to is a neat summary of these mathematical phenomena, but the sequence was actually in use by north African and Indian mathematicians before it was introduced to Europe by Leonardo Fibonacci. For an in-depth discussion try this audio of a the BBC’s In Our Time on the topic.)
We also discussed the the demanding nature of humans to know causes which brought up conspriacy theories, particularly about the myths surrounding the September 11 attacks. Such wildly popular myths, as I mentioned, championed by such intellectuals as Rosie O’Donnell and Charlie Sheen have been addressed in a series by Popular Mechanics.
Finally, just for kicks, we took a look at some outrageous commerical rhetoric from decades past.
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