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Instructor Linda Rogers
English 130
RR+R2
25 March 2014
Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” 25 March 2014
One of the renowned authors named Nicholas Carr, who has authored many books around technology, has pulled out a very important piece titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” In this article he gives an interesting story of Dave, Bowman, who, being controlled by supercomputer HAL, was nearly “sent to a deeper space death by the malfunctioning machine.” At this critical moment, Dave started disconnecting the memory circuits of the supercomputer, which felt robbed of his brain. The supercomputer wanted to regain its brain. Therefore, I agree that Google is making us stupid. Imagine a situation like the one given by Nicholas Carr, in which technology is used to control robots, and then the technology doing the controlling fails to do its work. Most times, technology can fail due to technical issues. If this failure arises, it means that the brain of the robot will be distorted. When Dave realized that the supercomputer was almost killing him, he started disassembling it. However, surprisingly, the supercomputer started feeling that its brain was being stolen. In this case, the author tries to bring a point that the use of Internet can make our minds become erratic. The author in this book argues, “I get fidgety, lose the thread, [and] begin looking for something else to do,” he says. People nowadays access a lot of information. They are also consuming a lot of information from the Internet. That is why when people open their computers; they are propelled to different sites. The author quotes that “…hyperlinks don’t merely point to related works; they propel you toward them.” (Carr, 732). On other way, the communications technology effect on our life as general, especially how we communicate with others. Newly, the messages became a substitute for dial-up. It’s make us more and more lazy.
My argument therefore, is that the advancement in technology is making people do things that look stupid. Despite the fact that technology could bring a lot of good, in most cases, it makes people do things that are stupid. It is therefore, important for people to always think properly of what could be the likely consequences of exploring a given direction in technology.
Works Cited
Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains,”
Atlantic Monthly, web, July/August, 2008, http://
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-makingus-stupid/6868/
(accessed March 25, 2014).
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Ecological Footprint (def): “A measure of how much biologically productive land and water an individual, population or activity requires to produce all the resources it consumes and to absorb the waste it generates using prevailing technology and resource management practices. The Ecological Footprint is usually measured in global hectares. Because trade is global, an individual or country's Footprint includes land or sea from all over in the world. Ecological Footprint is often referred to in short form as Footprint (not footprint).”
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(NOTE: /cap = “per capita” or “per person”)
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(Source: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/glossary/ )
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- Heavily focused on traditional fuel products
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Write about how your life experiences and perspectives shaped what you
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Make a strong thesis statement, Use your participant observations,
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Important. you need to cite at least 2 more scholarly sources using google
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change the current participant observation examples and Provide 2 other
examples for the participant observation, use TikTok as your first participant
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and on their social media pages. Also, you can use examples from gaming
consoles chat rooms, like the game call of duty, asking kids if they are being
bullied in the chat rooms.
I will attach class readings that you will use to relate them to the topic in any way
possible.
Ethnographic Research
1500 words (double-spaced pages of written text plus an additional page for references)
In this assignment, you will build upon your prior library research paper by conducting
actual participant-observation research in field-sites associated with your first paper.
You are welcome to diverge from your original paper, or even start from scratch, though
the latter would be challenging, given that you’d have to re-do the library research
component of this paper.
Specifically, I want you to:
1. Conduct at least 2-3 hours of participant-observation research in a
field-site relevant to your study. The key here is to put yourself in a situation
where practices relevant to your study topic can be observed, and ideally where
you can participate in some way in activities related to the behaviors and
experiences of the community engaging in the activities. Bring a notebook. Take
notes. During those few hours, engage in informal discussions with culture
members too. Your participant-observation could unfold on the internet, in some
context relevant to your paper (e.g., Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, etc.).
There, you’d document.
The document discusses a study on the impact of information overload on decision making. The study found that as the amount of information given to bidders in a combinatorial auction increased, activity in the brain's decision-making center initially increased. However, after a certain point, activity in that center suddenly decreased, as if a "circuit breaker had popped," indicating cognitive overload. As a result, bidders started making more mistakes and bad decisions. They also experienced more frustration and anxiety as the emotion centers of the brain were no longer being regulated by the decision-making center. The conclusion was that too much information can cause people's decisions to make less and less sense.
This document provides guidance on developing a research topic and thesis statement for a social sciences paper. It discusses choosing a topic of interest from current events, personal experiences or classes. Tools for exploring topics like the library catalog and online resources are presented. The importance of a clear, focused thesis statement that makes an arguable claim is emphasized. Different types of theses for papers like argumentative, cause/effect, and comparative essays are covered. Developing a narrow, specific thesis that can be supported with evidence is advised.
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Argumentative Articles. The Case Against Free CollegeConnie Johnson
Online schools have been shown to have unsatisfactory results compared to traditional in-person schools, according to a recent study. While online schooling seems appealing due to flexibility and learning from home, the study found lower achievement in online schools, raising significant doubts about their value. The article discusses these insufficient results from online schools compared to traditional classrooms with teachers, citing evidence from the National Study of Online Charter Schools.
Creativity Over Coinage Why Making Money Has Never BeeNibadita Palmer
Here are the answers to the questions:
Unit 1, Q1. Dementia is a syndrome (a group of related symptoms) that is associated with an ongoing decline of the brain and its abilities. It affects memory, thinking, orientation, comprehension, calculation, learning capacity, language, and judgment.
Unit 1, Q2.
- Frontal lobe: Issues with reasoning, problem solving, emotions, behavior and personality.
- Parietal lobe: Problems with sensation, perception of stimuli, ability to recognize objects.
- Temporal lobe: Difficulties with memory formation and verbal memory.
- Occipital lobe: Vision problems like difficulty recognizing objects or faces.
- Cerebellum: Problems with coordination
The document provides instructions for students to request writing assistance on the HelpWriting.net website, outlining a 5-step process: students create an account, submit a request form with instructions and deadline, writers bid on the request and students select a writer, the writer completes the paper and students can request revisions if needed, and students can request assistance on multiple assignments while ensuring original and high-quality content.
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The document discusses the effects of designating a city as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, using Bath, UK as a case study. It led to a large increase in tourism, putting pressure on infrastructure and changing the character of the city. Local residents experienced overcrowding and a decline in quality of life. While tourism brought economic benefits, it also increased housing prices and the city became focused on visitors over residents. Proper management is needed to balance preservation and development.
Usability & the Connecticut State Library Web SiteStephanie Brown
The document discusses usability testing of various state library websites. It describes conducting usability tests with users to evaluate how easily users can complete common tasks on the sites. Testers struggled with some sites, finding them difficult to navigate or understand. The document advocates testing websites with users and redesigning sites based on usability test results to improve the user experience.
WLMA 14 Conference Keynote PPT - Paige Jaeger: Connecting Creatively with the CCPaige Jaeger
Washington Library Media Association Conference Keynote - It was my pleasure to share ways to challenge, reach and teach the Millennials at your conference! Carpe Diem! Let us think!
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Group Presentation Once during the quarter, each student will.docxgilbertkpeters11344
Group Presentation
: Once during the quarter, each student will prepare a brief presentation on a specific neighborhood, a racial or cultural group, or a historical event, migration or shift in the urban landscape,
related to the themes for that week
. Students will select preferred weeks in advance and be scheduled by Week 2 as best as your professor can allow. The presentation is open in form and format but should be 20 minutes in duration, consist mostly of your own original words and discussion, but involve some form of visual, quotes, or data, and represent some amount of additional research beyond the readings for that week, and include 5 or more questions for discussion to be presented to the class. Your group grade will reflect an average of 4 grades in content, delivery, relevance and engagement with the class in discussion.
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Group Presentation Outline
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Slide 1: Title slide
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This contains your topic title, your names, and the course.
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Slide 2: Introduction slide
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Remember that you are presenting this information to others. Acknowledge the audience, and mention the purpose of the
presentation.
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This slide should contain at least 50–100 words of speaker notes.
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Slides 3–10 (or more): Content slides
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Describe the topic and structure
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Outline and discuss the issues/components each separately
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Discuss theories, laws, policies, and other labor relations related topics
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Provide support for your perspective and analysis
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Lessons learned documented, what you have learned
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Conclusion
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The slides should each contain at least
50–100 words of speaker notes.
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Final slide(s): Reference slide(s)
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List your references according to the APA sty
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Group Portion
As a group, discuss and develop a paper of 10 pages that addresses the following questions. Work together to determine who will complete each section:
Who will comprise your planning committee? Explain.
Identify public- and private-sector partner agencies and elected officials (if any) that should serve on the planning committee.
What are the component parts of the plan (be specific and detailed)? Explain.
What participating agencies may be more or less involved in which parts of the plan development? Explain.
Are there subject matter experts (SMEs) or other entities that should be involved in any one specific area of the plan development? Explain.
Based upon the emergency management concept of incident management that includes the phases of preparedness and mitigation, response, and recovery, identify the actions that will need to be taken in each phase as they relate to the hazard you have selected.
Identify the major challenges that the community and responders will encounter when responding to the hazard.
What solutions exist (e.g., mutual aid, contract services) to overcome those challenges? Explain in detail.
What should be the short- and long-term recovery goals of the community following this event’s occurrence?
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
Please add your file.
Individual Portion
Develop a PowerPoint presentation of 6–7 slides that provides details about your plan.
Include speaker notes of 200–300 words that will be used when presenting the plan to your superiors.
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Group Behavior in OrganizationsAt an organizational level,.docxgilbertkpeters11344
Group Behavior in Organizations
At an organizational level, group behavior is necessary for continued functioning of the
organization. Within an organization, there are established rules, procedures, and processes
developed that define how an organization operates. In addition, there are systems in place
to reward behaviors of those who effectively participate in the organization's operations.
Besides, there are also systems that define consequences that can take place in case
individuals behave outside the accepted practices of the organization. What develops out of
this is an employee's attachment to the organization based on common beliefs, values, and
traditions. The shared attachment and even the commitment to common beliefs, values, and
traditions make up an organization's culture (Helms & Stern, 2001; Lok & Crawford, 2001).
What Is Organization Culture?
Sheard and Kakabadse (2002) explained organizational culture in terms of solidarity and
sociability. Solidarity, in this case, referred to a group's willingness to pursue and maintain
conformity in shared objectives, processes, and systems. Sociability referred to a group's
sense of belongingness by its members and level of camaraderie.
They also mentioned there might be differences between hierarchies or levels within an
organization's culture. Based on the solidarity and sociability of each, upper management
might differ from the decisions made by middle management and line staff. These differences
might also occur between functional departments and, in larger organizations, between
geographically distinct sections of the organization.
What Sheard and Kakabadse wanted to emphasize through this discussion was there might
be distinct subcultures within an organization's culture.
According to De Long and Fahey (2000), "Subcultures consist of distinct sets of values,
norms, and practices exhibited by specific groups or units in an organization." Subcultures
may be readily observed in larger, more bureaucratic organizations or organizations having
well-established departments with employees that have highly specialized or possessing
unique skills.
De Long, D., & Fahey, L. (2000). Diagnosing cultural barriers to knowledge management. The
Academy of Management Executive, 14(4), 113–127.
Helms, M., & Stern, R. (2001). Exploring the factors that influence employees 'perceptions of
their organization's culture. Journal of Management in Medicine, 15(6), 415–429.
Lok, P., & Crawford, J. (2001). Antecedents of organizational commitment and the mediating
role of job satisfaction. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 16(8), 594–613.
Sheard, A., & Kakabadse, A. (2002). Key roles of the leadership landscape. Journal of
Managerial Psychology, 17(1/2), 129–144.
3-17 Kenneth Brown is the principal owner of Brown Oil, Inc. After quitting his university teaching job,
Ken has been able to increase his annual salary by a factor of over 100. At the present time, Ken is
f.
Group assignment Only responsible for writing 275 words on the foll.docxgilbertkpeters11344
Group assignment: Only responsible for writing 275 words on the following
Explain immigration and how that is connected.
Identify current and future issues in serving diverse clients and legally protected classes.
GroupgrAssignment content:
Access
the
Prison Rape Elimination Act
website.
Write
a 1,000- to 1,400-word report for an audience of potential new employees in human services in a correctional setting in which you:
Summarize current and future civil rights issues that affect the criminal justice system.
Identify why PREA affects the future of corrections.
Explain immigration and how that is connected.
Identify current and future issues in serving diverse clients and legally protected classes.
Explain options for advocacy.
Identify
boundaries in advocacy for human service workers.
Format
your resources consistent with APA guidelines.
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Group 2 WG is a 41-year-old female brought herself into the ER la.docxgilbertkpeters11344
Group 2: WG is a 41-year-old female brought herself into the ER last night asking to "detox from vodka." She tells you she has a long-standing history of alcohol dependence with multiple relapses. She also reports that she has experienced alcohol withdrawal seizures before. Current CIWA-Ar is 17. She denies any past medical history but lab work indicates hepatic insufficiency (LFTs x3 ULN). All other lab work is normal. She denies taking any medications.
How will you manage this patient’s withdrawal syndrome?
Responses must be a minimum of 200 words, scholarly written, APA7 formatted, and referenced. A minimum of 2 references are required (other than your text). Plagiarism and grammatical errors free.
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Group 2: Discuss the limitations of treatment for borderline and histrionic PD and what can be done from a psychopharmacological perspective.
Post must be a minimum of 200 words, scholarly written, APA formatted, and referenced. A minimum of 2
scholarly
references are required
(other than your text
).
.
Group 3 Discuss the limitations of treatment for antisocial and.docxgilbertkpeters11344
Group 3: Discuss the limitations of treatment for antisocial and narcissistic PD and what can be done from a psychopharmacological perspective.
Post your initial response by Wednesday at midnight. Respond to at least one student
with a different assigned DB question
by Sunday at midnight. Both responses must be a minimum of 200 words, scholarly written, APA formatted, and referenced. A minimum of 2
scholarly
references are required
(other than your text
). attached lecture for the theme.
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Group 1: Describe the differences between Naloxone, Naltrexone, and Buprenorphine/Naloxone. Include the properties of each, their classification, mechanism of actions, onset, half-life, and formulations (routes of delivery). Please discuss the implications of differences in the clinical setting (including pre-hospital)
Responses must be a minimum of 200 words, scholarly written, APA7 formatted, and referenced. A minimum of 2 references is required (other than your text). Plagiarism and grammatical errors free.
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Grotius, HobbesDevelopment of INR – Week 3HobbesRelati.docxgilbertkpeters11344
Grotius, Hobbes
Development of INR – Week 3
Hobbes
Relationship between Natural Law and Law of Nations?
Mediated by the idea of the state of nature as the predicament of insecurity:
Natural right: self-preservation.
Natural law: the observation of promises and contracts.
For states: minimum observation of natural law in the form of consenting to agreements.
Written agreement: treaty-making
Unwritten agreements: customary law
Hobbes
State of Nature: the condition in which individuals find themselves in a perpetual condition of war.
Natural right to self-preservation:
We each have the right to judge what is in our interest for self-preservation.
Conflict occurs because of:
Competition
Diffidence
Glory
Different meanings for words in the State of Nature; no ability in the State of Nature to determine whose judgment is valid (Wolin).
Life in the state of nature: “Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”
Commonwealth
Commonwealth by institution:
Social contract: it is the collective agreement among all individuals in the state of nature to establish:
Sovereign power
Able to speak and act for a multiplicity of people (which becomes a unified group).
State
The unity of sovereign power and the unified people.
Sovereign is the man or assembly that carries the person of the State.
State is the Leviathan: the mortal God on earth.
Sovereigns come and go but the State remains.
Consequences
The implication: fear is displaced from the condition of the state of nature to the relation between individual and state.
What continues to bind the state is fear of a return to the State of Nature:
the relation between individual and state is one of protection in exchange for obedience.
Private vs. public conscious: does one need to truly believe (i.e. like a Christian) or does the appearance of belief suffice?
“belief and unbelief never follow men’s commands.”
Loyalty only to those that are in power?
Historical context: The Norman Yoke and the English Civil Wars
Stability should not sacrificed as a result of ‘injustice’.
The rise of the ‘mechanical’ centralized administrative state.
Grotius
Dutch legal theorist 16th century;
Along with Vitoria and Gentili laid the foundation for the Law of Nations (Public European Law) on Natural Law.
Moves away from a theological conceptualization of Natural Law to a secular one.
Develops the notion of Natural Rights which becomes key for understanding human morality and law.
Notion of natural right emerged out of the massacre of St. Bartholomew (25 August 1572).
Attempted to establish limitation on the Sovereign’s power:
notion of individual right that the state cannot transgress.
Grotius: “a RIGHT is a moral quality annexed to the person, justly entitling him to possess some privilege, or to perform some particular act”
Four Fundamental Rights
1) the right for others not to take my possessions.
2) the right of restoration of property in case of injury.
3) honoring promises.
4) punish wrongdoing.
Natural.
GROUP 1 Case 967-- A Teenage Female with an Ovarian MassCLI.docxgilbertkpeters11344
GROUP 1: Case 967-- A Teenage Female with an Ovarian Mass
CLINICAL HISTORY
A teenage female presented with secondary amenorrhea (https://www.healthline.com/health/secondary-amenorrhea#causes). The patient had 1 menstrual cycle 3 years ago and has had no menses since. Laboratory work-up was negative for pregnancy test, mildly increased calcium level (11.7 mg/dL, normal range: 8.5-10.2 mg/dL) and CA 125 (43 Units/ml, normal range: 0-20 Units/ml). Prolactin, TSH, AFP, Inhibin A, Inhibin B and CEA were normal. Imaging revealed a 13 x 11.8 x 8.6 cm, predominately cystic left pelvis mass, with multiple internal septations. Her past medical history was not contributory. Patient underwent left salpingo-oophorectomy (https://www.healthline.com/health/salpingo-oophorectomy), omentectomy (https://moffitt.org/cancers/ovarian-cancer/omentectomy/) and tumor debulking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debulking) with intraoperative frozen section consultation.
GROSS EXAMINATION
The 930.9 g tubo-ovarian complex consisted of a 20.0 x 16.0 x 8.0 cm large mass, with no recognizable normal ovarian parenchyma grossly and an unremarkable fallopian tube. The cut surface was gray, "fish-flesh", soft with foci of hemorrhage and necrosis.
MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION
Microscopically, the majority of main tumor was growing in large nests, sheets and cords with focal follicle-like structures and geographic areas of necrosis. It was predominantly composed of small cells with hyperchromatic nuclei, round to oval nucleus with irregular nuclear contour, inconspicuous to occasional conspicuous nucleoli and minimal cytoplasm. This component was variably admixed with a population of larger cells, which as the name implies composed of cells with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm, with central or eccentric round to oval nuclei, pale chromatin and prominent nuclei. Both, the small and large cell components demonstrated brisk mitotic activity. All staging biopsies and omentectomy were composed of large cell component.
An extensive panel of immunohistochemical stains was performed. Overall, the staining pattern was strong and diffuse in small cell component compared to patchy weak staining pattern in the large cell component.
FINAL DIAGNOSIS
Small cell carcinoma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-cell_carcinoma) of the ovary, hypercalcemic type (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939673/)
DISCUSSION
Small cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcemic type (SCCOHT) is an aggressive and highly malignant tumor affecting the women under 40. It was first described as a distinct entity by Dickersin et al in 1982 (1). Fewer than 500 cases have been described in the literature and it accounts for less than 1% of all ovarian cancer diagnoses. Due to the initial consideration of epithelial origin, the term of SCCOHT has been used to distinguish this entity from its mimicker, the neuroendocrine or pulmonary type (2). In fact epithelial origin of SCCOHT was recently challenged as new imm.
Greek Drama Further Readings and Short Report GuidelinesOur s.docxgilbertkpeters11344
Greek Drama: Further Readings and Short Report Guidelines
Our study of Greek drama will begin with an overview of Greek theater in general and focus on Aeschylus’ Agamemnon (Norton rental text, Vol. A). You will be completing a quiz/worksheet on Agamemnon (open book) and that play will be the focus of our class from March 26 through April 2. After that, each of you will have the opportunity to focus more intensively on one of three other Greek plays, Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Euripides’ Medea, or Aristophanes’ Lysistrata.
I will be asking you to submit a short report that focuses primarily on the play you chose to study in more depth. Your first task, though, is to choose which of the three plays you want to work on. Here are brief overviews of the three plays.
Sophocles’ Philoctetes(available in the Sophocles II purchase text). Philoctetes, an outstanding Greek warrior, was abandoned by Odysseus, Agamemnon and Menelaos on the way to fight in Troy because they could not bear the agonies of his suffering from a poisonous snake bite. The hero, an exceptional archer who wields the bow of Heracles, has been living in isolation on the wild island of Lemnos for nine years. Now the Greek forces have received a prophecy that they cannot conquer Troy without Philoctetes’ help. Odysseus, whom Philoctetes hates, and Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, are sent to lure Philoctetes back to the war, by persuasion, treachery or force.
Euripides’ Medea (available in Norton rental text, Vol. A. Medea, the sorceress who helped the hero Jason find the Golden Fleece and also helped save his life, is living with Jason in exile from her homeland with their two children. She has learned that, in order to advance his fortune and social standing, Jason wants to jilt Medea and marry a younger woman. Out of despair and rage, Medea contrives to take revenge against Jason in the most horrific way she can.
Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (available in Norton rental text, Vol. A). Fed up with the emotional and economic hardships caused by the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), the Athenian and Spartan women, under the leadership of Lysistrata, unite to undertake two group actions: first, to refuse to have sex with their men until the men agree to stop fighting and, second, to cut off funding for the war by occupying the Athenian treasury. Aristophanes’ comedy still raises questions today about who should wield political power and why, as well as about how much humans really value peace.
NOTE: While I am requiring you to focus on only one of the three plays, I strongly encourage you to read all three. I will be saying something about each of the three plays before the short report is due, after we spend some time with Aeschylus’ Agamemnon.
Guidelines for Short Report on Greek Drama
For the short report on Greek drama, please write complete, incisiveresponses to each of the following five topics or questions concerning the play—Philoctetes,Medea or Lysistrata—that you h.
Graph 4 (You must select a different graph than one that you hav.docxgilbertkpeters11344
Graph 4 (You must select a different graph than one that you have previously discussed)
Select a data presentation from chapter 6 of the text (Grey Section).
Answer the following:
What is the visual that you selected?
What is the purpose of the visual?
What kind of data should be compiled in the selected visual?
What kinds of data should not be compiled in the selected visual?
How can you avoid making the visual misleading?
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Graphs (Help! Really challenging assignment. Would appreciate any bit of help!)
Family tree's and genealogy software has become more and more prevalent in recent years. From the name you might expect that a family tree would be easily represented by a tree structure, but that is not the case! A more appropriate data structure to represent a family tree would be a type of graph. Using the description of the family that accompanies this assignment, you must represent this family using a graph structure. The graph needs to be a weighted graph. The weights will constitute the types of relationships, I recommend using some kind mapping between numbers and strings to represent the relationships. When adding family members to the graph, this can be done programmatically for the provided family members within the description file. Additionally, I also want there to be an interface in which a user can create a new family member and add them to the tree. This can be a simple CLI where the user provides a name, gender, and age to create a person. Then another simple CLI where they select which member of the family they want the original relationship to be with and what kind of relationship it should be. Finally, they can edit the family member using another CLI and selecting the family member they wish to edit, the operation they wish to perform (edit name, edit age, edit relationship), and then add new relationship between family members which can call a function that you create in order to add the original relationship. Remember the DRY philosophy, where code can be modularized or made into a function, it should be if you plan on using the logic again.
Finally, I want you to make data assertions within the
FamilyTree
class that enforce certain "rules" that exist in a typical human family. An example would be a person should not have any kind of relationship to itself (a person can not marry themselves, a person can not be their own brother, sister, father, mother, etc.). There should be at least 3 data assertions. These should exists as part of the family tree, not as part of the graph.
As a hint, for a successful design: I would recommend using layers of abstraction. Your graph class is the backing structure to the family tree class. Your family tree should implement methods that interface with the graph class, i.e. add_family_member() should call the constructor to create a node and then call a function within the graph class to add a node to the graph. Then using the relationships function parameter, you can add edges to the graph between the new nodes and the existing nodes. The family tree should be what enforces what relationships can exist through the data assertions, the graph does not care about what relationships are made between family members. Your functions that the user would interface with would be greatly reduced compared to the total number of methods within the classes themselves. The user should be able to add, remove, and modi.
Grandparenting can be highly rewarding. Many grandparents, though, u.docxgilbertkpeters11344
Grandparenting can be highly rewarding. Many grandparents, though, unexpectedly become guardians and raise small children. How might this responsibility affect their normal course of adult development? What components might require transitions? How would a professional counselor encourage these older guardians in their new roles? Just need 135 words (ASAP)!
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Great Marketing Moves The evolving art of getting noticed Ov.docxgilbertkpeters11344
Great Marketing Moves The evolving art of getting noticed
Over three decades,
Inc.
has seen entrepreneurs, often with little cash but lots of creativity)', produce clever marketing campaigns time and again. Here are 3U classic examples from the archives. —
Kelly Fairdoth
Make a article summary from 2-3 paragraphs.
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“GREAT MIGRATION”
Dr. G. J. Giddings
Characteristics
Human
Propelled – push-pull (E. Lee, 1966)
Impactful – consequential … cause/effect
Dynamic – leaderless …democratic …
Demographics
Demographics
1.2 million, 1915-’30
6.4 million, 1980
(Caribbean:
140,000,1899-1937)
Precursors
Post-Reconstruction, 1877-1914
Rural - Urban
Westward – “Black Exodus”
Henry Adams (LA)
89,000 migrants/interest
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton (TN)
“Advantage of Living in a Free State”
Thousands migrated
Emigration
Bishop Henry M. Turner,
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Precursors …
U.S. Empire
Berlin Conf.,1884
Philippines, 1898
Puerto Rico, Guam
Hawaii,
(Cuba)
Haiti, (1915-’34)
U.S. Virgin Isl.,1916
Guyana, 1941
Atkinson Airstrip
6
Great Migration
Caribbean
140,000,1899-1937
M. M. Garvey
C. Powel
DJ Kool Herc
S. Chisholm
G. J. Giddings
Great Migration
“PUSH”
-Boll weevil, 1915/6
-Mississippi flood, 1927
-Racist Terroism
-Racist laws: Jim Crow
Great Migration
“PULL”
E. World War I, 1914-1919
(367,000 AAs served)
European immigration desisted
Chicago Defender
“To die from the bite of frost is more glorious than by the hands of a lynch mob”
“Every Black man for the sake of his wife and daughter should lave even at a financial sacrifice every spot in the south where his worth is not appreciated enough to give him the standing of a man and a citizen in the community.”
Great Migration
IMPACT
Detroit, MI
611 % increase
Urban League, 1911
National League of Urban Conditions among Negroes, NY
Rep. Oscar DePriest (R)
Chicago Alderman, 1915; U.S. Rep, 1929-’35
1970s: Chicago had more Blacks than Mississippi!
Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1932
L. Hughes, “Negro Artist …”
Some pastors followed migrants.
Return Migration/RE-PATRIATION
Post-Industrial
“Reverse migration”
1980-present
Service economy
“Sun Belt” industrial service areas
Destinations
Atlanta, GA; Charlotte, NC, Houston, TX, …
(F&H, chap. 23)
GREAT MIGRATION
Franklin & Higginbotham (F&H)
1, (12),13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23 …
Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns, 2010
Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer laureate
National Book Critics Circle award
“best non-fiction ...” NY Times
1,200 interviews
I.M. Gladney
G. Starling
R. P. Foster
Wilkerson …
Ida Mae Gladney
1934
MS – Chicago, IL
Wilkerson …
George Starling
1945
Florida–New York
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Grand theory and Middle-range theoryHow are Nursing Theories c.docxgilbertkpeters11344
Grand theory and Middle-range theory
How are Nursing Theories classified?
What are the differences between grand theory and middle-range Theory?
Examples of grand Theory and Middle range Theory?
Write an Essay.
Use the APA style 7
Avoid plagiarism by submitting your work to SafeAssign.
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Grand Rounds Hi, and thanks for attending this case presen.docxgilbertkpeters11344
Grand Rounds
Hi, and thanks for attending this case presentation. My name is Dr. Stephen Brewer and I am a licensed
clinical psychologist in San Diego, California and Assistant Professor of Psychology and Applied
Behavioral Sciences at Ashford University. Today, I will be sharing with you the story of Bob.
Presenting problem
Bob Smith is a 36-year-old man who came to me approximately six months ago with concerns about his
career choice and life direction. He did not have any significant psychiatric symptoms, besides some
understandable existential anxiety regarding his future. Bob was cooperative, friendly, open, and
knowledgeable about psychology during our first few sessions together. I noticed that he seemed
guarded only when talking about his family and childhood experiences. To confirm his identity, I checked
his driver’s license to ensure his name was indeed Bob Smith and that he lived close by in a mobile home
in Spring Valley. Given his relatively mild symptoms, we decided to meet once a week for supportive
psychotherapy so he could work through his anxieties. I gave him a diagnosis of adjustment disorder
with anxiety.
History
Here’s some background on Bob to give you a sense of who he is.
Family
Bob grew up as an only child in Edmonton, Canada, in a low-income, conservative, and very religious
household.
He shared that his father was largely absent during his childhood, as he spent most of the week residing
north of Edmonton, where he worked as a mechanic in the oil fields near Fort McMurray. On weekends,
Bob’s father would return home and spend as much time as possible with his family. Bob described his
father as warm, caring, and a hard worker. His father reportedly died one year ago.
Bob’s mother was described as a strict, rule-based woman who had a short temper and was prone to
furious outbursts over trivial matters. She worked in Bob’s junior high as a janitor, which meant that Bob
often crossed paths with his mother at school, where she would often check up on him. During Bob’s
high school years, Bob’s mother got a new job as a high school librarian.
At 18, Bob moved to San Diego to study psychology at San Diego State University. He lived in the dorms
for his first few years, where he easily made friends and joined a fraternity. Bob maintained contact with
his parents, but ceased all contact when his mother suggested she would move to San Diego to be closer
to him. He graduated with a 3.2 GPA and began working for the county as a psychiatric technician. He
worked as a psych tech for 14 years and described it as “fun at first, but it got boring and predictable
after a while.”
Treatment
Bob shared that he has a medical doctor that he visits once every few years for his routine physical. He
denied having any significant medical problems. Additionally, he denied using any illicit substances and
reported drinking only on occasion with friends from his fratern.
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on
Dallas, Texas
Write a 900- to 1,050-word paper in which you analyze the criminal profile of Dallas, Texas.
Include the following information in your analysis:
-Characterization of the city in terms of social and intellectual context
-Identity of social factors that contribute to crime
-Linking of events or attitudes to a description of beliefs people living there would accept for explaining criminal behavior
-Consideration of changes in land use, property values, transportation, and retail as one moves away from the city center
-If there are changes, what distance do you estimate exist between these areas?
-How noticeable are the changes?
-Discussion of whether or not zones of transition apply to this city
-Identification of criminal hot spots
-Relevant data to support answers
-How your findings relate to the role of socioeconomic status and values in criminological theory
-Identification and rationale for the choice of one sociologic theory that best explains the crime in your chosen city
-Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines
.
-Provide at least 4 Academic / Scholarly references
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-100% Original Work. ZERO Plagiarism.
-Must Be Graduate Level Writing.
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3Instructor Linda RogersEnglish 130 RR+R225 March 2014.docx
1. 3
Instructor Linda Rogers
English 130
RR+R2
25 March 2014
Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” 25 March 2014
One of the renowned authors named Nicholas Carr, who has
authored many books around technology, has pulled out a very
important piece titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” In this
article he gives an interesting story of Dave, Bowman, who,
being controlled by supercomputer HAL, was nearly “sent to a
deeper space death by the malfunctioning machine.” At this
critical moment, Dave started disconnecting the memory circuits
of the supercomputer, which felt robbed of his brain. The
supercomputer wanted to regain its brain. Therefore, I agree
that Google is making us stupid. Imagine a situation like the
one given by Nicholas Carr, in which technology is used to
control robots, and then the technology doing the controlling
fails to do its work. Most times, technology can fail due to
technical issues. If this failure arises, it means that the brain of
the robot will be distorted. When Dave realized that the
supercomputer was almost killing him, he started disassembling
it. However, surprisingly, the supercomputer started feeling that
its brain was being stolen. In this case, the author tries to bring
a point that the use of Internet can make our minds become
erratic. The author in this book argues, “I get fidgety, lose the
thread, [and] begin looking for something else to do,” he says.
People nowadays access a lot of information. They are also
consuming a lot of information from the Internet. That is why
when people open their computers; they are propelled to
2. different sites. The author quotes that “…hyperlinks don’t
merely point to related works; they propel you toward them.”
(Carr, 732). On other way, the communications technology
effect on our life as general, especially how we communicate
with others. Newly, the messages became a substitute for dial-
up. It’s make us more and more lazy.
My argument therefore, is that the advancement in technology is
making people do things that look stupid. Despite the fact that
technology could bring a lot of good, in most cases, it makes
people do things that are stupid. It is therefore, important for
people to always think properly of what could be the likely
consequences of exploring a given direction in technology.
Works Cited
Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet
Is Doing to Our Brains,”
Atlantic Monthly, web, July/August, 2008, http://
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-
makingus-stupid/6868/
(accessed March 25, 2014).
What is Environmental
Engineering?
• We are concerned with the quality and
availability of environmental resources and
with the waste streams that impact them
• Science…improve our understanding of
natural processes
3. • Engineering…use this understanding to
develop and apply technologies that will
maintain or improve environmental quality
WATER QUALITY
Engineering
• Water treatment - take water from a
source and subject it to treatment
processes to make the water suitable
for its intended use
• Waste water treatment - after water is
used, it is collected and treated to make
it suitable to be returned to the
environment
Boulder, CO
Water Treatment Plants
World’s Largest: One Billion Gallons Per Day, 7 Hr Process
4. James W. Jardine Water
Purification Plant,
Chicago, IL
I-Clicker - Water delivered from a public supply in
western Michigan cost $0.45 per cubic meter.
A 0.5L bottle of water purchased from a gas
station costs $1.00. What is the cost of bottled
water on per cubic meter basis?
Note: 1000 L per 1 m3
• A: $5x104 per m3
• B: $2 per m3
• C: $2000 per m3
• D: $5x10-4 per m3
Answer:
$1/ 0.5 L x 1000 L / m3
= $2000 per m3
5. Seattle, WA
San Jose, CA
Boulder, CO
Portland, OR
Waste Water Treatment Plants
http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wtd/wtd/westpt/player1.htm
http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wtd/wtd/westpt/player1.htm
How the Waste Water
Treatment Plant Works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
-bjbW1-lXaU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bjbW1-
lXaU&feature=related
A few problems that we need to solve!
• RUN-OFF: Contamination of aquatic
environments by fertilizers and
pesticides in agricultural runoff
• GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION:
Contamination of groundwater
resources, especially by hazardous
wastes
6. • REUSE: Treating wastewater for reuse
Air Quality Engineering
• Apply science and technology to control
adverse effects of air pollution on human
health and welfare, on other organisms, on
materials, or on ecosystems
• Most efforts focus on emission sources since
once pollutants are emitted into the
atmosphere, there are no practical
engineering techniques for
removing them
Denver, CO
http://www.raqc.org/more/slides.htm
Clear Day
Hazy Day
7. Early
1900s,
NY City
Downtown Los Angeles, December 31, 1993
3 April 2002
This dust plume
passed over urban
areas in China,
Korea and Japan,
cruised over the
Pacific Ocean and
eventually made its
way to Alaska.
Pollution doesn’t have boundaries
WHY DO WE CARE??
8. Some air pollutants cause adverse health effects,
and we don’t like feeling bad or dying young.
Two examples of particle collectors in
southern California
www.aqmd.gov/news1/50th_photos.htm
HAZARDOUS WASTE
Management
• Creation, growth of the
chemical industry
during the 20th century
established need
• Hazardous
if…corrosive, ignitable,
reactive, toxic,
radioactive,
infectious…
9. Love Canal
• What needs to be done?
– Develop, apply methods for proper use, treatment
and disposal
– Identify and remediate contaminated waste sites
Global Warming
Carbon Dioxide Levels
• What needs to be done?
– Develop, apply methods for carbon sequestration
Ozone
Chlorofluorocarbons
• Residence time 55 years
10. for CFC-11 and 140 years
for CFC-12, CCl2F2
• HFC’s contribute to the
depletion of the
stratospheric ozone layer
• Strong UV radiation breaks
the CFC molecules apart,
releasing chlorine
• A single chlorine atom can
destroy over one hundred
thousand ozone molecules
• increase in cataracts and skin cancer, which is now one of the
fastest growing forms of cancer, and could weaken the immune
system. In the U.S., one person dies of skin cancer every hour
• changes in plant form, how nutrients are distributed within the
plant, timing of developmental phases and secondary
metabolism
11. • reduction in phytoplankton production, damage to early
developmental stages of fish, shrimp, crab, amphibians and
other
marine animals
Effects of Ozone Depletion
The HFC’s Reduction Efforts
• The Montreal Protocol in which all developed
countries agreed to phase out production of most
ozone depleting substances, including CFCs, by
the end of 1995
Homework Problems are
Available as Assignment 8 on
Blackboard.
Rogers 6
Engl 130
Rogers
Reader Response + Research
An important part of your academic writing experience is
developing your skills as a critical reader and researcher. A
12. critical reader isn’t someone who has a negative opinion about
everything; by “critical” we mean rigorously thoughtful—a
reader who engages each text with an open, curious mind. A
critical reader takes notes as she reads; she asks questions of
the text; she challenges the assertions made by an author; she
questions the source of any claim. In short, a critical reader
“tests” a text; the act of reading becomes a dialogue, or
exchange, between text and reader. A critical reader takes these
active learning skills with her to the desk when she writes, and
becomes a more thoughtful, engaged, and rigorous writer of
texts.
A critical researcher looks for current material with which to
further discuss, emphasize, and/or argue his assertion. This
self-directed inquiry is paramount to critical learning as
evidence in one’s writing.
For most class periods devoted to a reading (or readings) from
The Norton Field Guide to Writing, or the readings on
Blackboard,you are either required to typewrite an entry for
your Reader’s Journal, (RJE) or a Reader Response + Research
short paper. Each RR+R should be approximately 400-500
words long (about a full page and a half of typewritten, double-
spaced pages).
On RR+R days when two readings are assigned, select one
reading from those listed on the schedule for your response.
You are, of course, still required to read, and be able to discuss,
both assigned readings.
In each RR+R, record a thoughtful response to the essay,
addressing an issue of substance. This might have to do with the
particular rhetorical mode we are studying (e.g., narration and
description, definition, argument, and so on). Or it might be a
considered reflection on what you liked or disliked about the
text, what questions it raised, or what the text made you think
of, and why. Please, avoidmereplotsummary or simplistic
condensation. Select one or maybe two interesting elements of
the text in question and record your thoughts and responses.
13. Research a current (within the last two years for a pop culture
source, ten years for a scholarly article) issue that is relevant to
the essay at hand. Link this material critically to your journal
response.
Given the length of the entry, it is important to focus on a
specific, selected element of interest; don’t try to account for
the entire reading.
That having been said, your RR+R should reflect your own
reading and research practices; it is a space for you to express
your own personality and opinions. Feel free to use the first
person and to adopt a personal, perhaps slightly more informal
tone in your entries.
I will be looking for the following:
· A 400-500 word entry for each day of RR+R assigned reading;
read both essays but choose only one essay for your response.
· For each entry, include the author’s name, the title of the
work, and the date assigned for class. Also include full
citation information for additional sources. Use proper in-text
citations.
· A thoughtful reflection on your reading of the piece—evidence
that you have “engaged” the text.
· The avoidance of gratuitous plot summary or condensation.
· Research to support your reflection/argument.
· Each entry should be typewritten, double-spaced, and free
from excessive mechanical and technical errors. Follow MLA
2009 guidelines regarding format. Do not skip lines between
paragraphs. Include a running head which always includes the
page number.
Please also read the following material for further suggestions
and examples for writing reader responses:
http://trccwritingcenter.pbworks.com/w/page/9356011/Reader-
14. Response-Papers
http://www.ehow.com/info_8644592_rules-writing-reading-
response-essay.html
Pay close attention especially to the material in the CAUTION
box on this page:
http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/engl0310link/readerresp
onse.htm
Here is a link that shows you sample first sentences—some do’s
and don’ts:
http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/engl0310/Sample%20firs
t%20sentences.htm
The following is a sample Reader Response + Research paper,
which will be double-spaced, in Times New Roman, font size
12. Please note that no extra lines are skipped. No bold. Title
of reading is in quotes. The comma is inside the quote. The
date is in MLA 2009 format. There will be a running head.
(COPY the structure for your own RR+R. I have a shredder and
am not afraid to make bedding for the hamster cage out of any
RR+Rs that are not ready for me to assess.)
NOTE: Make sure your header has your last name, not mine,
and that it lists page 1 as page 1, etc…
Also: We are using a different textbook than the one included
here. Make sure that you use the NFG citation example for your
own RR+R, (double-spaced).
In-text citations (itc)
· When citing from our text, use the author’s name, not NFG.
· “Romance, not marriage, is the woman’s goal” in advertising
just a decade later, highlighting the author’s point that
emancipation has altered the emphasis in the marketing of
women’s toiletries (Lantry 44).
Works Cited (You will have at least two entries, one from the
original essay in our text and one from the source you find that
supports/counters the argument of the assigned essay.)
15. · When citing from our text, use the following format, inserting
the author’s name, essay title, and correct pages, (it will be
double-spaced in your paper).
· Noe, Denise. “Parallel Worlds: The Surprising Similarities
(and Differences) of Country-and-
Western and Rap.” Ed. Richard C. Bullock. Norton Field Guide
to Writing. 2nd ed. New
York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2010. 598-603. Print.
Lastname, Firstname. “Title of Essay.” Ed. Richard C. Bullock.
Norton Field Guide to Writing. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton
and Co., 2013. 598-603. Print.
Sample based on:
http://owl.cuny.edu:7778/portal/page/portal/oira/Assessment/Fa
culty%20Handbook%20CATW.pdf
Firstname Lastname
Instructor Linda Rogers
English 130
RR+R1
12 September 2013
Kalle Lasn, “Hype,” 13 September 2013
I was hooked from the opening sentence of Kalle Lasn’s,
“Hype,” and as I finished, I couldn’t resist a small internal
cheer. I believe most of us would agree with the author’s
sentiments, in that advertisements are truly the “most…toxic of
the mental pollutants” (217). Who doesn’t fly through the
channels when there is a break in the televised program to
escape this garbage; who wants to be clobbered with the endless
commercials or even infomercials?
The statistics that Lasn quotes are staggering: in North
16. America, we are exposed to more than two-, or some say, three-
thousand marketing ads/messages each day. It means that our
minds are continually bombarded with messages of
consumerism, courtesy of corporate America.
Our lives are saturated with ads occupying not only T.V., radio,
and online, but every square inch of viewing space. When I
flew home over break, I was not pleased when I flipped down
the seatback tray table on the airplane only to see an ad for
Yoplait yogurt. All I wanted was a clear space to set my
notebook while I jotted some thoughts. I ended up closing the
tray table and balancing the notebook on my knee because the
thought of strawberry yogurt kept infiltrating my mind. It is
enough to make one scream.
“The increase in commercial advertising,” according to Lasn,
“has happened so steadily and relentlessly that we haven’t quite
woken up to the absurdity of it all” (218). Yet I believe the tide
is turning. Journalist Gary Stroller writes in USA Today that
even though ads “add up for airlines,…some fliers say it’s too
much.” Deemed a captive audience by the airline industry,
passengers are growing more intolerant of the excessive
advertisements that seem to fill every available space and
flashing screen. Most travelers, whether flying for business or
pleasure, believe that the only suitable location for ads onboard
the airplane is the in-flight magazines—individuals can then
choose whether or not to peruse these commercial
advertisements. Frequent fliers may not be able to avoid this
new barrage of ads in-flight, but can certainly boycott the
offending companies. Marketing consultant Bruce Silverman, a
former creative director at three of the largest ad agencies
insists, “There is already too much advertising clutter in the
world.” Silverman “truly believe[s] advertisers who choose to
intrude on airline passengers are likely to lose — not gain —
17. customers” (qtd. in Stoller). More ads equal less patience on
the part of consumers.
Kalle Lasn fears that “there is nowhere to run. No one is exempt
and no one will be spared” (221). I flipped up that airplane tray
to avert my eyes and will do the same every time I cruise the
yogurt aisle at the supermarket. Please tell the powers-that-be
that I might not be able to avoid seeing their ads “in the
friendly skies” but I will let my wallet do the talking every time
I skip over the Yoplait.
Works Cited
Lasn, Halle. “Hype.” Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on
Popular Culture for Writers. Ed. Sonia Maasik and Jack
Solomon. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. 217-20.
Print.
Stoller, Gary. “Ads Add up for Airlines, but Some Fliers Say
It’s Too Much.” Usatoday.com. USA Today, 17 Oct. 2011. Web.
16 Jan. 2012.
AGAIN: Make sure that you use our actual textbook’s citation,
listing the essayist’s name as the author.
Make sure the pages are the pages for that particular essay. See
the beginning of this requirements document to see the NFG
citation.
MORE TIPS FOR A HYPOTHETICAL RR+R:
Let’s say that one of the two essays we read for the RR+Rs is an
article comparing country and western music with rap, saying
that the two types of music are more similar than they are
different. If you choose to write about that essay and not the
other essay (which you still must read), you could then choose
to:
1. agree with the author, (Denise Noe), that these two types of
music are indeed similar and then find another article or book
that supports this
18. or
2. disagree with the author and find another article or book that
counters this by saying that rap and country/western music are
not alike at all.
But know that she is not just talking about the music—her essay
touches on some deep social issues. You would read the essay
closely before you made your decision on supporting her claim
or countering her position. Then you’d go look for others to
assist you as experts/authorities to cite in your argument.
Look for reputable, reliable, and current sources, (we’ll cover
that in class). Introduce the author and his/her expertise in a
signal phrase. Remember to include how/why this person gets
to support/counter this argument. And always explain again in
your own words how it all ties in to the big picture. P.I.E.
Sample paragraph from a longer RR+R on this music topic.
This is just a small piece of a larger essay:
Acclaimed writer and journalist, Denise Noe believes that one
of the major reasons that causes mainstream U.S.A. to reject rap
is race. Whites expect angry messages when they listen to rap
music. They believe that years of oppression and inner-city life
will be reflected in artists’ rap (Noe 600). And many blacks
listen to the songs, hoping for an uplifting message but are also
discouraged when black artists glorify drugs, sex, and violence.
Unfortunately, as political blogger Jeff Mendelman so
accurately paraphrased rapper Mos Def for Policy-mic, “Rap
music will reflect and analyze wherever we’re at in America. If
we’re virtuous, so too will rap. If we remain a misogynistic,
19. malevolent, materialistic society, so too will rap.” Rap music
will continue to receive negative publicity as long as it reflects
the harsh realities of street life for a huge portion of this
country. When inner city life is no longer a fight for daily
survival, perhaps rap will evolve into something wholly
different than what it is now, a mirror we’re too afraid to
acknowledge that reflects our own image—black, white, or
other.
Works Cited
Mendelman, Jeff. “From Jay-Z to Kanye West: Does Rap Music
Promote Bad Values?” PolicyMic.com. N.p., 12 Feb. 2012.
Web. 13 Feb. 2013.
Noe, Denise. “Parallel Worlds: The Surprising Similarities (and
Differences) of Country-and-
Western and Rap.” Ed. Richard C. Bullock. Norton Field Guide
to Writing. 2nd ed. New
York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2010. 598-603. Print.
Use the actual page numbers of the essay..
Your last name, not
mine.
Again, do not use my opening line or sentiment. Get your own
hook.
21. (“Carter residence, Stephen speaking’) and how to set the table
(we were quizzed on
whether knife blades point in or out). And somehow nobody—
no children, no parents—
objected to what nowadays would surely be viewed as
indoctrination.
Today instruction of this sort is so rare that when a school tries
to teach manners to
children, it makes news. So when the magazine U.S. News &
World Report ran a story in
1996 about the decline of civility, it opened with what it must
have considered the man-
bites-dog vignette—an account of a classroom where young
people were taught to be
polite. Ironically, this newsworthy curriculum evidently teaches
a good deal less about
etiquette than we learned back at Margaret M. Amidon
Elementary School in the sixties,
but that is still a good deal more than children learn in most
places. Deportment classes
are long gone. Now and then the schools teach some norms of
conduct, but almost always
about sex, and never the most important ones: Do not engage in
harassment and Always
22. use a condom seem to be the outer limits of their moral
capacity. The idea that sex, as a
unique human activity, might require a unique morality,
different from the general moral
rules against physical harm to others and harm to the self, is not
one that public schools
are prepared to entertain.
Respect for rules of conduct has been lost in the deafening
and essentially empty rights-talk of our age. Following a rule
of good manners may mean doing something you do not want
to do, and the weird rhetoric of our self-indulgent age resists
the idea that we have such things as obligations to others. We
suffer from what James Q. Wilson has described as the
elevation of self-expression over
self-control. So when a black student at a Connecticut high
school was disciplined in
1996 for wearing pants that drooped (exposing his underwear),
not only did he claim a
right to wear what he liked, but some community leaders hinted
at racism, on the theory
that many young African American males dress this way. (The
fact that the style is
23. copied from prison garb, which lacks a belt, evidently makes no
impression on these
particular defenders of the race.)
When I was a child, had my school sought to discipline me, my
parents would have
assumed the school had good reason. And they probably would
have punished me further
at home. Unlike many of today’s parents, they would not have
begun by challenging the
“The illusion that all
desires are rights
continues its insidious
spread.”
teacher or principal who thought I had done wrong. To the
student of civility, the relevant
difference between that era and the present is the collapse of
trust, particularly trust in
strangers and in institutions. My parents would have trusted the
school’s judgment—and
thus trusted the school to punish me appropriately—but trust of
24. that kind has largely
dissolved. Trust (along with generosity) is at the heart of
civility. But cynicism has
replaced the healthier emotion of trust. Cynicism is the enemy
of civility: It suggests a
deep distrust of the motives of our fellow passengers, a distrust
that ruins any project that
rests, as civility does, on trusting others even when there is risk.
And so, because we no
longer trust each other, we place our trust in the vague and
conversation-stifling language
of “rights’ instead.
Consider again the boy with the droopy pants. To talk about
wearing a particular set of
clothes as a “right’ is demeaning to the bloody struggles for
such basic rights as the vote
and an unsegregated education. But the illusion that all desires
are rights continues its
insidious spread. At about the same time, a fired waitress at a
restaurant not far from Yale,
where I teach, announced a “right’ to pierce her face with as
many studs and rings as she
wishes. And, not long ago, a television program featured an
interview with a woman who
25. insisted on the “right’ to be as fat as she likes. Rights that are
purchased at relatively low
cost stand a fair chance of being abused, simply because there is
no history behind them,
and thus little pressure to use them responsibly—in short,
because nobody knows why the
right exists. But even a right that possesses a grimly instructive
history—a right like
freedom of speech—may fall subject to abuse when we forget
where it came from.
This proposition helps explain Cohen v. California, a 1971
decision in which the
Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a young man who
wore on his jacket the
benign legend F _ _ _ THE DRAFT. The case arose as the
public language grew vulgar.
The 19th and early 20th centuries offered a tradition of public
insults that were witty,
pointed, occasionally cruel, but not obscene or particularly
offensive. Politicians and
other public figures competed to demonstrate their cleverness in
repartee. (One of my
favorites is Benjamin Disraeli’s explanation of the difference
between a misfortune and a
26. calamity: “If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a
misfortune. And if anyone
pulled him out, that would be a calamity.’) Nowadays the
tradition of barbed wit has
given way to a witless barbarism, our lazier conversational
habit of reaching for the first
bit of profanity that comes to mind. The restraint and
forethought that are necessary to be
clever, even in insult, are what a sacrificial civility demands.
When we are lazy about our
words, we tell those at whom our vulgarity is directed that they
are so far beneath us that
they are not worth the effort of stopping to think how best to
insult them; we prefer,
animal-like, to make the first sound that comes to mind.
In Cohen v. California, the justices were unfortunately correct
that what the dissenters
called “Cohen’s absurd and immature antic’ was protected by
the freedom of speech. But
it is important to add that when the framers of the Constitution
envisioned the rough-and-
tumble world of public argument, they almost certainly
imagined heated disagreements
27. against a background of broadly shared values; certainly that
was the model offered by
John Locke, by then a kind of political folk hero. It is unlikely
that the framers imagined
a world in which I might feel (morally) free to say the first
thing that came into my head.
I do think Cohen was rightly decided, but the danger deserves
emphasis: When
offensiveness becomes a constitutional right, it is a right
without any tradition behind it,
and consequently we have no norms to govern its use.
Consider once more the fired waitress. I do not deny that the
piercing of one’s body
conveys, in many cultures, information of great significance.
But in America, we have no
tradition to serve as guide. No elder stands behind our young to
say, “Folks have fought
and died for your right to pierce your face, so do it right’; no
community exists that can
model for a young person the responsible use of the “right’; for
the right, even if called
self-expression, comes from no source other than desire. If we
fail to distinguish desire
28. from right, we will not understand that rights are sensible and
wise only within particular
contexts that give them meaning. The Constitution protects a
variety of rights, but our
moral norms provide the discipline in their exercise. Sometimes
what the moral norm of
civility demands is that we restrain our self-expression for the
sake of our community.
That is why Isaac Peebles in the nineteenth century thought it
wrong for people to sing
during a train ride; and why it is wrong to race our cars through
the streets, stereos
cranked high enough to be sure that everyone we pass has the
opportunity to enjoy the
music we happen to like; and why it was wrong for Cohen to
wear his jacket; and why it
is wrong for racists to burn crosses (another harmful act of self-
expression that the courts
have protected under the First Amendment). And it is why a
waitress who encounters the
dining public every day in her work must consider the interest
of that public as she mulls
the proper form of self-expression.
29. Consequently, our celebration of Howard Stern, Don Imus, and
other heroes of “shock
radio’ might be evidence of a certain loss of moral focus. The
proposition that all speech
must be protected should not be confused with the very
different proposition that all
speech must be celebrated. When radio station WABC in New
York dismissed a popular
talk show host, Bob Grant, who refused to stop making racist
remarks on the air, some of
his colleagues complained that he was being censored. Lost in
the brouhaha was the
simple fact that Grant’s comments and conduct were
reprehensible, and that his abuse of
our precious freedoms was nothing to be celebrated.
The point is not that we should rule the offensive illegal,
which is why the courts are correct to strike down efforts to
regulate speech that some people do not like, and even most
speech that hurts; the advantages of yielding to the
government so much power over what we say have never been
shown to outweigh the
dangers. Yet we should recognize the terrible damage that free
speech can do if people
30. are unwilling to adhere to the basic precept of civility, that we
must sometimes rein in our
own impulses—including our impulses to speak hurtful words—
for the sake of those who
are making the democratic journey with us. The Proverb tells
us, “Death and life are in
the power of the tongue’ (Proverbs 18:21). The implication is
that the choice of how to
use the tongue, for good or for evil, is ours.
Words are magic. We conjure with them. We send messages, we
paint images. With
words we report the news, profess undying love, and preserve
our religious traditions.
“How we treat one
another is what civility
is about.”
Words at their best are the tools of morality, of progress, of
hope. But words at their
worst can wound. And wounds fester. Consequently, the way we
use words matters. This
31. explains why many traditional rules of etiquette, from
Erasmus’s handbook in the
sixteenth century to the explosion of guides to good manners
during the Victorian era,
were designed to govern how words—those marvelous,
dangerous words—should be
used. Even the controversial limits on sexual harassment and
“hate speech’ that have
sprouted in our era, limits that often carry the force of law, are
really just more rules of
civility, more efforts, in a morally bereft age, to encourage us to
discipline our desires.
My point is not to tell us how to speak. My point is to argue
that how we speak is simply
one point on a continuum of right and wrong ways to treat one
another. And how we treat
one another is what civility is about.