September
15
Notable Projects
Today was another project work day. We did our root word:
-crat, -cracy, -cratic, -cratism, -cratically, -cracies +
(Greek: a suffix; to govern, to rule; government, strength, power, might, authority)
aristocrat
A member of an aristocracy; strictly, one of a ruling oligarchy; hence, one of a patrician order, a noble; occasionally, one who favors an aristocratic form of government as opposed to a democracy.
bureaucracy
1. Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with nonelected officials.
2. Departments and their officials as a group.
3. Management or administration marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures.
4. The administrative structure of a large or complex organization; such as, a midlevel manager in a corporate bureaucracy.
5. An administrative system in which the need or inclination to follow rigid or complex procedures impedes effective action; for example, innovative ideas that get bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy.
2. Departments and their officials as a group.
3. Management or administration marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures.
4. The administrative structure of a large or complex organization; such as, a midlevel manager in a corporate bureaucracy.
5. An administrative system in which the need or inclination to follow rigid or complex procedures impedes effective action; for example, innovative ideas that get bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy.
democracy
1. Government by the people; that form of government in which the sovereign power resides in the people as a whole, and is exercised either directly by them (as in the small republics of antiquity) or by officers elected by them.In modern usage, often more vaguely denoting a social state in which everyone has equal rights, without hereditary or arbitrary differences of rank or privilege.
2. A state or community in which the government is vested in the people as a whole.
3. The free and equal right of every person to participate in a system of government, often practiced by electing representatives of the people by the people.
4. A country with a government which has been elected freely and equally by all its citizens.
5. The control of an organization by its members, who have a free and equal right to participate in decision-making processes.
3. The free and equal right of every person to participate in a system of government, often practiced by electing representatives of the people by the people.
4. A country with a government which has been elected freely and equally by all its citizens.
5. The control of an organization by its members, who have a free and equal right to participate in decision-making processes.
Some notable final book projects have already been turned in. Remember – ALL final project for The Call of the Wild are due at the end of class tomorrow!