One paragraph for each
1. Throughout weeks two, three, and four, a number of works have been read; throughout each piece, each author appealed to the reader in his/her own unique way. Identify a minimum of one but no more than three works read that had an influence on your selection of a topic for research paper. Briefly explain why the work(s) had an influence on you. (one paragraph)
2. Your task is to select one piece of literature from the reading list that you’d like to investigate further. In your email (one paragraph), you must indicate what particularly interests you about the piece. You may need to read ahead to find the piece that’s right for you. Your choice should meet the following criteria:
· You can summarize the topic for others fairly easily.
· You can identify its main argument and purpose.
· It’s intricate or detailed enough that different readers may have different perspectives.
· It’s a choice you enjoyed reading.
Nonfiction
The Train from Hate (1994)
John Hope Franklin
My pilgrimage from racial apprehension—read just plain confusion—to racial tolerance was early and brief. I was 7 years old, and we lived in the all-black town of Rentiesville, Oklahoma. My father had moved to Tulsa where he hoped to have a law practice that would make it possible for him to support his family. Meanwhile, my mother, sister, and I would occasionally make the journey to Checotah, six miles away, to shop for supplies.
One day, we went down, as usual, by railroad. My mother flagged the train and we boarded. It so happened that when the train stopped, the only place we could enter was the coach reserved for white people. We did not take notice of this, and as the train picked up speed, the conductor entered and told us that we would have to move to the “colored” coach. My mother explained that we were not responsible for where the coach stopped and we had no other alternative to climbing aboard and finding seats as soon as possible. She told him that she could not risk the possible injury of her and her children by going to the “colored” coach while the train was moving. The conductor seemed to agree and said that he would signal to the engineer to stop the train. When the train came to a halt, the conductor did not guide us to the coach for African Americans. Instead, he commanded us to leave the train. We had no alternative to stepping off the train into the woods and beginning the trek back to Rentiesville.
As we trudged along, I began to cry. Taking notice of my sadness, my mother sought to comfort me by saying that it was not all that far to Rentiesville. I assured her that I did not mind the walk, but that man, the conductor, was so mean. Why would he not permit us to ride the train to Checotah?
My mother then gave me my first lesson in race relations. She told me that the laws required racial separation, but that they did not, could not, make us inferior in any way. She assured me that the conductor was not superi.
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One paragraph for each 1. Throughout weeks two, three, and four,.docx
1. One paragraph for each
1. Throughout weeks two, three, and four, a number of works
have been read; throughout each piece, each author appealed to
the reader in his/her own unique way. Identify a minimum of
one but no more than three works read that had an influence on
your selection of a topic for research paper. Briefly explain why
the work(s) had an influence on you. (one paragraph)
2. Your task is to select one piece of literature from the reading
list that you’d like to investigate further. In your email (one
paragraph), you must indicate what particularly interests you
about the piece. You may need to read ahead to find the piece
that’s right for you. Your choice should meet the following
criteria:
· You can summarize the topic for others fairly easily.
· You can identify its main argument and purpose.
· It’s intricate or detailed enough that different readers may
have different perspectives.
· It’s a choice you enjoyed reading.
2. Nonfiction
The Train from Hate (1994)
John Hope Franklin
My pilgrimage from racial apprehension—read just plain
confusion—to racial tolerance was early and brief. I was 7 years
old, and we lived in the all-black town of Rentiesville,
Oklahoma. My father had moved to Tulsa where he hoped to
have a law practice that would make it possible for him to
support his family. Meanwhile, my mother, sister, and I would
occasionally make the journey to Checotah, six miles away, to
shop for supplies.
One day, we went down, as usual, by railroad. My mother
flagged the train and we boarded. It so happened that when the
train stopped, the only place we could enter was the coach
reserved for white people. We did not take notice of this, and as
the train picked up speed, the conductor entered and told us that
we would have to move to the “colored” coach. My mother
explained that we were not responsible for where the coach
stopped and we had no other alternative to climbing aboard and
finding seats as soon as possible. She told him that she could
not risk the possible injury of her and her children by going to
the “colored” coach while the train was moving. The conductor
seemed to agree and said that he would signal to the engineer to
stop the train. When the train came to a halt, the conductor did
not guide us to the coach for African Americans. Instead, he
commanded us to leave the train. We had no alternative to
stepping off the train into the woods and beginning the trek
back to Rentiesville.
As we trudged along, I began to cry. Taking notice of my
sadness, my mother sought to comfort me by saying that it was
not all that far to Rentiesville. I assured her that I did not mind
the walk, but that man, the conductor, was so mean. Why would
he not permit us to ride the train to Checotah?
My mother then gave me my first lesson in race relations. She
told me that the laws required racial separation, but that they
did not, could not, make us inferior in any way. She assured me
3. that the conductor was not superior because he was white, and I
was not inferior because I was black. I must always remember
that simple fact, she said. Then she made a statement that is as
vivid and clear to me today as the day she uttered it. Under no
circumstances, she said, should I be upset or distressed because
someone sought to demean me. It took too much energy to hate
or even to fight intolerance with one’s emotions. She smiled and
added that in going home we did not have far to walk.
5 It would be too much to claim that my mother’s calm talk
removed a burden from my shoulders. But it is not too much to
say that her observations provided a sound basis for my
attitudes and conduct from that day to this. At that early age, I
had made an important journey. In the future, I remembered that
I should not waste my time or energy lamenting the inability of
some members of society to take me as I was. Instead, I would
use my energies to make me a better person and to distance
myself from the perpetrators and purveyors of hate and
misunderstanding. I shall always be happy that my mother
taught me that the journey to understanding and tolerance was
more important than the journey to Checotah.
Critical Thinking Questions
1. Through his personal experience, Franklin argues for a claim
of policy. Can you articulate that claim?
2. What assumptions underlie the thinking of those who put the
mother and son off that train?
Writing Topic
1. Do you recall a time as a child when you witnessed an
injustice upon innocent people? In what ways did it change you
and/or your views of the world and others? What did you learn
from the experience? Was the lesson immediate, or did it take
years for you to understand it fully?
4. Nonfiction
Eco-Defense (1985)
Edward Abbey
If a stranger batters your door down with an axe, threatens your
family and yourself with deadly weapons, and proceeds to loot
your home of whatever he wants, he is committing what is
universally recognized—by law and in common morality—as a
crime. In such a situation the householder has both the right and
the obligation to defend himself, his family, and his property by
whatever means are necessary. This right and this obligation is
universally recognized, justified, and praised by all civilized
human communities. Self-defense against attack is one of the
basic laws not only of human society but of life itself, not only
of human life but of all life.
The American wilderness, what little remains, is now
undergoing exactly such an assault. With bulldozer, earth
mover, chainsaw, and dynamite the international timber,
mining, and beef industries are invading our public lands—
property of all Americans—bashing their way into our forests,
mountains, and rangelands and looting them for everything they
can get away with. This for the sake of short-term profits in the
corporate sector and multimillion-dollar annual salaries for the
5. three-piece-suited gangsters (MBA—Harvard, Yale, University
of Tokyo, et alia) who control and manage these bandit
enterprises. Cheered on, naturally, by Time, Newsweek, and
The Wall Street Journal, actively encouraged, inevitably, by
those jellyfish government agencies that are supposed to protect
the public lands, and as always aided and abetted in every way
possible by the compliant politicians of our Western states, such
as Babbitt, DeConcini, Goldwater, McCain, Hatch, Garn,
Simms, Hansen, Andrus, Wallop, Domenici and Co. Inc.—who
would sell the graves of their mothers if there’s a quick buck in
the deal, over or under the table, what do they care.
Representative government in the United States has broken
down. Our legislators do not represent the public, the voters, or
even those who voted for them but rather the commercial
industrial interests that finance their political campaigns and
control the organs of communication—the TV, the newspapers,
the billboards, the radio. Politics is a game for the rich only.
Representative government in the USA represents money, not
people, and therefore has forfeited our allegiance and moral
support. We owe it nothing but the taxation it extorts from us
under threats of seizure of property, imprisonment, or in some
cases already, when resisted, a violent death by gunfire.
Such is the nature and structure of the industrial megamachine
(in Lewis Mumford’s term) which is now attacking the
American wilderness. That wilderness is our ancestral home, the
primordial homeland of all living creatures including the
human, and the present final dwelling place of such noble
beings as the grizzly bear, the mountain lion, the eagle and the
condor, the moose and the elk and the pronghorn antelope, the
redwood tree, the yellow pine, the bristlecone pine, and yes,
why not say it?—the streams, waterfalls, rivers, the very
bedrock itself of our hills, canyons, deserts, mountains. For
many of us, perhaps for most of us, the wilderness is more our
home than the little stucco boxes, wallboard apartments,
plywood trailer-houses, and cinderblock condominiums in
which the majority are now confined by the poverty of an
6. overcrowded industrial culture.
5 And if the wilderness is our true home, and if it is threatened
with invasion, pillage, and destruction—as it certainly is—then
we have the right to defend that home, as we would our private
quarters, by whatever means are necessary. (An Englishman’s
home is his castle; the American’s home is his favorite forest,
river, fishing stream, her favorite mountain or desert canyon,
his favorite swamp or woods or lake.) We have the right to
resist and we have the obligation; not to defend that which we
love would be dishonorable. The majority of the American
people have demonstrated on every possible occasion that they
support the ideal of wilderness preservation; even our
politicians are forced by popular opinion to pretend to support
the idea; as they have learned, a vote against wilderness is a
vote against their own reelection. We are justified then in
defending our homes—our private home and our public home—
not only by common law and common morality but also by
common belief. We are the majority; they—the powerful—are in
the minority.
How best defend our homes? Well, that is a matter of the
strategy, tactics, and technique which eco-defense is all about.
What is eco-defense? Eco-defense means fighting back. Eco-
defense means sabotage. Eco-defense is risky but sporting;
unauthorized but fun; illegal but ethically imperative. Next time
you enter a public forest scheduled for chainsaw massacre by
some timber corporation and its flunkies in the US Forest
Service, carry a hammer and a few pounds of 60-penny nails in
your creel, saddlebag, game bag, backpack, or picnic basket.
Spike those trees; you won’t hurt them; they’ll be grateful for
the protection; and you may save the forest. Loggers hate nails.
My Aunt Emma back in West Virginia has been enjoying this
pleasant exercise for years. She swears by it. It’s good for the
trees, it’s good for the woods, and it’s good for the human soul.
Spread the word.
Critical Thinking Questions
1. Abbey sets up an enemy who threatens the environment:
7. “three-piece-suited gangsters,” he calls them. Compare his use
of this enemy with the enemy Montresor creates in his dramatic
monologue, “The Cask of Amontillado,” on page 243.
2. Abbey closes his essay with the example of “My Aunt
Emma.” What do you think is his purpose in closing with this
personal example, and how does it affect your overall viewpoint
on Abbey’s argument?
Writing Topic
1. Abbey openly calls for spiking trees, a practice that can lead
to serious bodily injury among loggers and is illegal. He asks
you, the reader, to willfully violate the law in an act of civil
disobedience. Similarly, a number of environmental
organizations today practice and sometimes advocate civil
disobedience. For example, Greenpeace boats illegally disrupt
whaling and fishing activities, PETA members block hunters,
Sea Shepherd followers sometimes intervene in the legal capture
of dolphins, and the Animal Liberation Front has burned
veterinary labs. Is there an environmental cause for which you
would consider breaking the law? Argue with evidence that this
particular cause would or would not justify civil disobedience.
Poetry
Hard Rock Returns to Prison (1986)
from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
Etheridge Knight
Hard Rock was “known not to take no shit
From nobody,” and he had the scars to prove it:
Split purple lips, lumped ears, welts above
His yellow eyes, and one long scar that cut
5 Across his temple and plowed through a thick Canopy of
kinky hair.
The WORD was that Hard Rock wasn’t a mean nigger
Anymore, that the doctors had bored a hole in his head,
Cut out part of his brain, and shot electricity
10 Through the rest. When they brought Hard Rock back,
Handcuffed and chained, he was turned loose,
Like a freshly gelded stallion, to try his new status.
8. And we all waited and watched, like indians at a corral,
To see if the WORD was true.
15 As we waited we wrapped ourselves in the cloak
Of his exploits: “Man, the last time, it took eight
Screws to put him in the Hole.” “Yeah, remember when he
Smacked the captain with his dinner tray?” “He set
The record for time in the Hole—67 straight days!”
20 “Ol Hard Rock! man, that’s one crazy nigger.”
And then the jewel of a myth that Hard Rock had once bit
A screw on the thumb and poisoned him with syphilitic spit.
The testing came, to see if Hard Rock was really tame.
A hillbilly called him a black son of a bitch
25 And didn’t lose his teeth, a screw who knew Hard Rock
From before shook him down and barked in his face.
And Hard Rock did nothing. Just grinned and looked silly,
His eyes empty like knot holes in a fence.
And even after we discovered that it took Hard Rock
30 Exactly 3 minutes to tell you his first name,
We told ourselves that he had just wised up,
Was being cool; but we could not fool ourselves for long,
And we turned away, our eyes on the ground. Crushed.
He had been our Destroyer, the doer of things
35 We dreamed of doing but could not bring ourselves to do,
The fears of years, like a biting whip,
Had cut grooves too deeply across our backs.
Critical Thinking Questions
1. How does the poem’s speaker use appeal to pathos?
2. Describe the speaker and assess his ethos.
3. How does this poem affect your attitude toward or feelings
about prisoners?
Writing Topic
1. The hospital procedure that Hard Rock was forced to undergo
is no longer allowed; however, solitary time is a form of
punishment still used in some prisons for misbehavior. Do some
research on high-security prisons and the treatment of
individuals for infractions of prison rules, particularly the use
9. of solitary confinement as punishment. Based on your research,
write a claim of policy argument on the use of solitary
confinement (or other punishments) as a correction method for
individual prisoners.
Search Illustration and exampleSearch Illustration and example
1. Use enters last name
2. User hits find button
3. MainJFrame captures push
button event
4 MainJframew extracts text fromEmployee getFirstName()
1
4. MainJframew extracts text from
employeelasname textfield
5. MainJFrame uses the
employeedirectory to find the
employee object that matches
the entered last name
6 The findEmpoyee Jpanel takes
Employee.getFirstName()
Employee.getLasName()
10. :
LastnameTextfield getText()
2
6. The findEmpoyee Jpanel takes
an employee object as input. In
the constructor we map the
attributes of the employee object
to the text fields of the jpanel. We
use setText() method on the text
fi ldLastnameTextfield.getText()
4
3 6
fields
employeedirectory.findByLastName( )5
This section of code is the actionperformed event in the
MainJFrame
:
Display employee data into
findEmployeejpanel screen
Found
employee
object
Returned employee object
findEmployeeByLastName Method
11. Add the following method to the EmployeeDirectory class
Public Employee findEmployeeByLastName( String ln ){
ArrayList employeelist; //define a new reference
variable to hold the list of employees
Employeelist = employeedirectory.getEmployeeList(); //
retrieve the list of employees from the direcoty
//now go through the list, one employee at the time to find the
object that has a last name that matches the input ln
//if there is a match on the last name attribute then return the
employee object with that attribute (last name in this//if there is
a match on the last name attribute then return the employee
object with that attribute (last name in this
//case
For (Employee currentemployee : employeelist){
If (currentemployee getLastName() equals(ln) ) return
currentemployee ;If (currentemployee
.getLastName().equals(ln) ) return currentemployee ;
} // keep going back while there is no match
Return null; // the program gets to this line if no mtach was
found which means return null;
5100Assignment1/build/built-jar.properties
#Sun, 21 Jan 2018 20:26:02 -0500
/Users/wengdi/NetBeansProjects/5100Assignment1=
17. private String certificateNumber;
private String linkedIn;
private String fullFacePhoto;
public void Person();
public String getName();
public void setName(String);
public String getDateOfBirth();
public void setDateOfBirth(String);
public String getTelephoneNumber();
public void setTelephoneNumber(String);
public String getFaxNumber();
public void setFaxNumber(String);
public String getEmailAddress();
public void setEmailAddress(String);
public String getSocialSecurityNumber();
public void setSocialSecurityNumber(String);
public String getBankAccountNumber();
public void setBankAccountNumber(String);
public String getCertificateNumber();
public void setCertificateNumber(String);
public String getLinkedIn();
public void setLinkedIn(String);
public String getFullFacePhoto();
public void setFullFacePhoto(String);
}
5100Assignment1/build.xml
Builds, tests, and runs the project 5100Assignment1.
5100Assignment1/dist/5100Assignment1.jar
22. private String telephoneNumber;
private String faxNumber;
private String emailAddress;
private String socialSecurityNumber;
private String bankAccountNumber;
private String certificateNumber;
private String linkedIn;
private String fullFacePhotos;
public void Person();
public String getName();
public void setName(String);
public String getDateOfBirth();
public void setDateOfBirth(String);
public String getTelephoneNumber();
public void setTelephoneNumber(String);
public String getFaxNumber();
public void setFaxNumber(String);
public String getEmailAddress();
public void setEmailAddress(String);
public String getSocialSecurityNumber();
public void setSocialSecurityNumber(String);
public String getBankAccountNumber();
public void setBankAccountNumber(String);
public String getCertificateNumber();
public void setCertificateNumber(String);
public String getLinkedIn();
public void setLinkedIn(String);
public String getFullFacePhotos();
public void setFullFacePhotos(String);
}
5100Assignment1/dist/README.TXT
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BUILD OUTPUT DESCRIPTION
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23. When you build an Java application project that has a main
class, the IDE
automatically copies all of the JAR
files on the projects classpath to your projects dist/lib folder.
The IDE
also adds each of the JAR files to the Class-Path element in the
application
JAR files manifest file (MANIFEST.MF).
To run the project from the command line, go to the dist folder
and
type the following:
java -jar "5100Assignment1.jar"
To distribute this project, zip up the dist folder (including the
lib folder)
and distribute the ZIP file.
Notes:
* If two JAR files on the project classpath have the same name,
only the first
JAR file is copied to the lib folder.
* Only JAR files are copied to the lib folder.
If the classpath contains other types of files or folders, these
files (folders)
are not copied.
* If a library on the projects classpath also has a Class-Path
element
specified in the manifest,the content of the Class-Path element
has to be on
the projects runtime path.
* To set a main class in a standard Java project, right-click the
project node
24. in the Projects window and choose Properties. Then click Run
and enter the
class name in the Main Class field. Alternatively, you can
manually type the
class name in the manifest Main-Class element.
5100Assignment1/manifest.mf
Manifest-Version: 1.0
X-COMMENT: Main-Class will be added automatically by build
5100Assignment1/nbproject/build-impl.xml
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30. Must set src.dir
Must set test.src.dir
Must set build.dir
Must set dist.dir
Must set build.classes.dir
Must set dist.javadoc.dir
Must set build.test.classes.dir
Must set build.test.results.dir
Must set build.classes.excludes
Must set dist.jar
51. To run this application from the command line without
Ant, try:
java -jar "${dist.jar.resolved}"
52. Must select one file in the IDE or set run.class
Must select one file in the IDE or set run.class
53. Must select one file in the IDE or set debug.class
Must select one file in the IDE or set debug.class
Must set fix.includes
This target only works when run from inside the NetBeans
IDE.
54. Must select one file in the IDE or set profile.class
This target only works when run from inside the NetBeans
IDE.
This target only works when run from inside the NetBeans
IDE.
This target only works when run from inside the NetBeans
IDE.
55. Must select one file in the IDE or set run.class
Must select some files in the IDE or set test.includes
56. Must select one file in the IDE or set run.class
Must select one file in the IDE or set applet.url
57.
58. Must select some files in the IDE or set javac.includes
Some tests failed; see details above.
Must select some files in the IDE or set test.includes
59. Some tests failed; see details above.
Must select some files in the IDE or set test.class
Must select some method in the IDE or set test.method
Some tests failed; see details above.
Must select one file in the IDE or set test.class
Must select one file in the IDE or set test.class
Must select some method in the IDE or set test.method
60. Must select one file in the IDE or set applet.url
Must select one file in the IDE or set applet.url
63. debug.test.classpath=
${run.test.classpath}
# Files in build.classes.dir which should be excluded from
distribution jar
dist.archive.excludes=
# This directory is removed when the project is cleaned:
dist.dir=dist
dist.jar=${dist.dir}/5100Assignment1.jar
dist.javadoc.dir=${dist.dir}/javadoc
excludes=
includes=**
jar.compress=false
javac.classpath=
# Space-separated list of extra javac options
javac.compilerargs=
javac.deprecation=false
javac.external.vm=true
javac.processorpath=
${javac.classpath}
javac.source=1.8
javac.target=1.8
javac.test.classpath=
${javac.classpath}:
${build.classes.dir}
javac.test.processorpath=
${javac.test.classpath}
javadoc.additionalparam=
javadoc.author=false
javadoc.encoding=${source.encoding}
javadoc.noindex=false
javadoc.nonavbar=false
javadoc.notree=false
javadoc.private=false
javadoc.splitindex=true
javadoc.use=true
javadoc.version=false
74. In addition, you are to learn how to convert user questions to
attributes on the classes, and real answers on the screen. Some
of the search functions require that you find multiple instances
that satisfy the search criteria. The matched elements must be
collected into temporary array lists to display on the screen in a
secondary table.
Write an application to manage a fleet of cars for Uber in a
certain geo-area. Your application should enable search to
answer to the following questions:
1. Find me the first available passenger car.
2. How many cars are currently available. How many are not.
3. List all cars that are made by Toyota, GM, etc.
4. List all cars that were manufactured in a given year, ‘x’.
5. Find an available car with a minimum of x seats but no more
than y seats.
6. Find a car with the given serial number. List the attributes of
the found car.
7. List all cars given the model number.
8. List all the car manufacturers used by the (this) Uber.
9. When was the last time the fleet catalog was updated.
10. List all cars that are available in a given city.
11. List all cars that have expired maintenance certificate.
Your application must enable the creation and update functions
for any of the attributes of concern. It will be okay to assume
each of these questions are buttons on the left/right side of the
screen depending on your design.
Also, through a configuration file enable the creation of
multiple instances of cars with various characteristics consistent
with the requirements above. This will save you from having to
retype the same thing multiple times. Make sure to create
enough variations to enable a good demo of your solution.
Checkboxes should be used to indicate yes or no answers to
75. certain attributes such as availability, etc. The ability to update
some of these attributes is required as well.
Bonus Points:
Define secondary filers on the found instances. In this case, you
will need a search function on the collected search results.
Two additional extensions to think about is how to model a ride
from a to b and determine current location of vehicles.