We naturally put millionaires and billionaires in the same general class of person, but the only reason to do that is because the words are similar. Since these aren’t numbers we can actually visualize, it’s important to understand what a billion of something is. To travel a million inches, you’d have to travel from the Southern-most tip of Manhattan and go to the Bronx. To travel a billion inches, you’d have to fly from New York to Shanghai twice. A million seconds is a little over 11 days. A billion seconds is nearly 32 years. A million ounces is about the weight of a train car. A billion ounces is 4.5 Eiffel Towers. Use these to conceptualize what the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is, and the absurd amount of wealth we’re talking about.
This is a list of MTV casting calls, which are, in my opinion, pretty hilarious. Let’s make this fun.
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i’m legit sooo pumped. i’m a college student in the education field, and for part of my curriculum, i have to observe at a local high school. anyways, the class i’m observing is starting Hamilton in two weeks, and gahhh this is my dream. i love that tenth graders are studying this in their english class. i honestly don’t know how i could contain my enthusiasm. i’ll keep y’all updated on how this goes
i remember one of my former teachers would always send his mother a bouquet of flowers and a box of chocolate on his birthday. Why on earth would he do this?
“she’s the one who had to go through nine months of discomfort” just so he could be born, plus the painful hours of labor. He was just thanking her for doing that for him.