American Cultural History

• When did women begin to vote? What amendment allowed this?

Health

• I have heard about job openings listed on Internet. Someone told me the HealthCare Want-Ads might list jobs in my health care field. What is one job that I might apply for?

• You are interested in the employee exchange program your company sponsors. You'd like to spend a year in South Carolina, preferably in the mountains. Look at The Salary Calculator, and find a city in South Carolina where you can maintain the same standard of living as you have with the $50,000 you make here in Miami.

• You are planning a vacation. Use Mapquest, http://www.mapquest.com , to create a "Driving Directions" map from Miami to Denver. Calculate the closest distance from city to city. Your car gets 30 miles per gallon. Gas costs $1.15 per gallon. How much will it cost to drive each way?

• Use the Universal Currency converter at http://www.xe.net/currency/ to find out how many 'yen' you would have in exchange for $15.00 American.

• Visit the Ken White Coin Flipping page. Draw a conclusion from your average of flipping 15 coins 10 times.

• Find a list of names for polygons. What do you call an 13-sided polygon? A 20-sided polygon?

• The Maya (or Mayan) people formed an advanced civilization on Mexico's Yucatan Penisula long before the Spaniards arrived in the 1500s. One of the things they are noted for is their sophisticated counting system. Write the equation for 11 + 13 and the answer, using the Mayan counting system.

Shakespeare

• What was the name of Julius Caesar’s wife in the Shakespeare tragedy Julius Caesar?

• Which play is the following quotation from: "This was the noblest Roman of them all."