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 that the Internet lists jobs in my health care field, phlebotomy. What is one job that I might apply for?  My position as phlebotomist must be in Florida !

• You are interested in the employee exchange program your company sponsors. You'd like to spend a year in Illinois, preferably in Chicago. Look at an online salary calculator, and find out how much money you'd have to make in Chicago in order to maintain the standard of living provided by 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 Chicago. Calculate the closest distance from city to city. Your car gets 17 miles per gallon. Gas costs $2.15 per gallon. How much will it cost to drive there?

• Use a Universal Currency converter 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 Peninsula long before the Spaniards arrived in the 1500s. One of the things they are noted for is their sophisticated counting system. It costs $520.00 to go visit the Mayan ruins, from Miami. Write the symbol for "520" using the math system provided by the Mayans.

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."