| | As in baseball and in sales in business, simply try to improve your percentages with these terms. If you know only 10%, try to improve that to 40%. If you know 50%, then try to improve that to 75%. If you know 70%, then strive for 90%. Just as a batter in baseball should not be discourage by failing 2 out of 3 times to bat, you should not be discouraged by low initial percentages on this key term list. Simply try to improve your percentages. With effort, you'll amaze yourself at how much better you can become. Your classmates will be working hard on this, and do not let them pass you up! | | As in baseball and in sales in business, simply try to improve your percentages with these terms. If you know only 10%, try to improve that to 40%. If you know 50%, then try to improve that to 75%. If you know 70%, then strive for 90%. Just as a batter in baseball should not be discourage by failing 2 out of 3 times to bat, you should not be discouraged by low initial percentages on this key term list. Simply try to improve your percentages. With effort, you'll amaze yourself at how much better you can become. Your classmates will be working hard on this, and do not let them pass you up! |
| | + | One approach to improving your knowledge of these key terms is simply to write out short descriptions of each one. There are only 321 terms. If you took 5 minutes for each one that you did not know, then it would take you only 1 hour for every 12 that did not know. In one day you could cover over one third of these terms, and you would not like forget them for a long, long time. Writing out the meaning of something in one's own words has the effect of really burning it into one's memory! |
| | Our first through sixth lectures should have covered all these terms, except they did miss the Newburgh Address (or Conspiracy). That was a plot among officers of the Continental Army (the Patriots fighting for the Americans in the Revolutionary War) to hold a military coup and establish martial law in order to obtain back pay that was owed to them for their military service. The plot came to a climax when they angrily met on March 15, 1783, and were surprised by an unexpected appearance by General George Washington. He gave a short speech, but the officers were still still angry, and lacking in the respect that they usually gave to their esteemed leader. Washington then pulled a letter from his pocket from a member of Second Continental Congress. But Washington was unable to read the letter without his reading glasses, and in a miraculous moment of sincere emotion, declared, "Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country." Many of the officers were suddenly moved to tears in the realization that Washington, like themselves, had sacrificed much for the country. The officers left satisfied. | | Our first through sixth lectures should have covered all these terms, except they did miss the Newburgh Address (or Conspiracy). That was a plot among officers of the Continental Army (the Patriots fighting for the Americans in the Revolutionary War) to hold a military coup and establish martial law in order to obtain back pay that was owed to them for their military service. The plot came to a climax when they angrily met on March 15, 1783, and were surprised by an unexpected appearance by General George Washington. He gave a short speech, but the officers were still still angry, and lacking in the respect that they usually gave to their esteemed leader. Washington then pulled a letter from his pocket from a member of Second Continental Congress. But Washington was unable to read the letter without his reading glasses, and in a miraculous moment of sincere emotion, declared, "Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country." Many of the officers were suddenly moved to tears in the realization that Washington, like themselves, had sacrificed much for the country. The officers left satisfied. |