Poems of Desire
After tsang chih Alice Notley
I was brought up in a small town in the Mohave Desert.
The boys wouldn’t touch me who was dying to be touched,
Because I was too quote
Smart. Which the truck-drivers didn’t think as they
Looked and waved
On their way through town, on the way to my World.
New Hampshire Marble Jack Gilbert
I called Sue the week I moved back from Rome.
She was getting married on Sunday she said,
but would drive over after lunch to say goodbye.
Later, in the tall grass between some homes,
we were searching around in the torn dirt,
frantic and laughing. Trying to find
the huge diamond engagement ring.
Our bodies flaring in the winter moonlight.
This close Dorianne Laux
In the room where we lie,
light stains the drawn shades yellow.
We sweat and pull at each other, climb
with our fingers the slippery ladders of rib.
Wherever our bodies touch, the flesh
comes alive. Head and need, like invisible
animals, gnaw at my breast, the soft
insides of your thighs. What I want
I simply reach out and take, no delicacy now,
the dark human bread I eat handful
by greedy handful. Eyes fingers, mouths,
sweet leeches of desire. Crazy woman,
her brain full of bees, see how her palms curl
into fists and beat the pillow senseless.
And when my body finally gives in to it
then pulls itself away, salt-laced
and arched with its final ache, I am
so grateful I would give you anything, anything.
If I loved you, being this close would kill me.
CAR CRASH WHILE HITCHHIKING
A salesman who shared his liquor and steered while sleeping... A Cherokee filled with bourbon... A VW no more than a bubble of hashish fumes, captained by a college student...
And a family from Marshalltown who head-onned and killed forever a man driving west out of Bethany, Missouri...
...I rose up sopping wet from sleeping under the pouring rain, and something less than conscious, thanks to the first three of the people I've already named—the salesman and the Indian and the student—all of whom had given me drugs. At the head of the entrance ramp I waited without hope of a ride. What was the point, even, of rolling up my sleeping bag when I was too wet to be let into anybody's car? I draped it around me like a cape. The downpour raked the asphalt and gurgled in the ruts. My thoughts zoomed pitifully. The travelling salesman had fed me pills that made the linings of my veins feel scraped out. My jaw ached. I knew every raindrop by its name. I sensed everything before it happened. I knew a certain Oldsmobile would stop for me even before it glowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside it I knew we'd have an accident in the storm.
I didn't care. They said they'd take me all the way.
The man and the wife put the little girl up front with them and left the baby in back with me and my dripping bedroll. "I'm not taking you anywhere very fast," the man said. "I've got my wife and babies here, that's why."
You are the ones, I thought. And ...
In a 250-300 word response, critically examine your personal level o.docxjoyjonna282
In a 250-300 word response, critically examine your personal level of intercultural communication competence. Is it important for you to achieve a certain level of intercultural communication competence? Would enhanced intercultural communication competence help you personally? Professionally? Academically? Include examples in your submission and use at least one resource to support your key points. Respond to at least two of your fellow students' posts.
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In a 10 –12 page paper, identify and analyze the benefits and challe.docxjoyjonna282
In a 10 –12 page paper, identify and analyze the benefits and challenges that are associated with biometric evidence in the criminal justice system. Include at least 3 techniques in your paper, and use at least 2 case studies to support your position. Consider the following questions when drafting your paper:
How do courts determine if evidence is reliable and valid before allowing it into testimony?
What is the role of the Frye standard or Daubert standard in determining whether or not the courts will accept biometric evidence?
What rules does your state use in this regard?
How reliable is fingerprint evidence? Consider examples of its use in criminal courts.
How do other biometrics compare to the reliability and validity of fingerprint evidence?
What are some of the challenges associated with lower forms of biometrics, such as facial recognition, and acceptance as evidence in court?
What is the role of the expert witness related to biometric evidence in court?
Be sure to provide in-text citation and references
.
In a 1-2 page Microsoft Word document, discuss the following case st.docxjoyjonna282
In a 1-2 page Microsoft Word document, discuss the following case study:
When Alexander and Deborah married, Alexander owned a duplex in a community property state. They lived in one side of the duplex. They saved their money and bought a lake lot as tenants by the entirety. Deborah failed to pay the loans she took out from Savings Bank prior to her marriage to pay for college. The bank claimed the duplex, the lake lot and their savings.
Discuss the likelihood of success on the bank's claims against the properties.
.
In a 16–20 slide PowerPoint presentation (excluding title and refere.docxjoyjonna282
In a 16–20 slide PowerPoint presentation (excluding title and reference slides) provide information as well as analyze the roles of the following areas in criminal justice leadership strategies and practices:
Organizational culture
Behavioral theory
Planning
Community relations
Your presentation should include, at a minimum, 4 slides, with speaker notes, for each topic.
.
In a 1-2 page Microsoft Word document, using APA, discuss the follow.docxjoyjonna282
In a 1-2 page Microsoft Word document, using APA, discuss the following case study:
When Alexander and Deborah married, Alexander owned a duplex in a community property state. They lived in one side of the duplex. They saved their money and bought a lake lot as tenants by the entirety. Deborah failed to pay the loans she took out from Savings Bank prior to her marriage to pay for college. The bank claimed the duplex, the lake lot and their savings.
Discuss the likelihood of success on the bank's claims against the properties.
.
In a 1-2 page paper, discuss how the government, the media, and the .docxjoyjonna282
In a 1-2 page paper, discuss how the government, the media, and the public affect a health care organization's integration of data. Give specific examples of all three entities influencing the integration of data.
Include at least two research sources in your paper and cite them in a References page at the end in APA format. As in all writing assignments, follow standard mechanics in writing, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Submit your completed assignment to the drop box below. Please check the
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for specific due dates.
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In 2010, plans were announced for the construction of an Islamic cul.docxjoyjonna282
In 2010, plans were announced for the construction of an Islamic cultural center, named Cordoba House, in lower Manhattan in the vicinity of where the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center occurred. This announcement stirred up a storm of activity by groups and individuals supporting and opposing the proposal, and in early 2011, a plea by the American Center for Law and Justice was entered in the New York State Supreme Court to stop the construction. In this Discussion Board please respond to the following questions:
In 5–6 paragraphs, address the following:
What are the complaints and concerns of those who oppose construction of this building in its proposed location?
Do you agree? Why, or why not?
What are the counter-claims being made by those who support construction of this building in its present location?
Do you agree? Why, or why not?
What is the specific issue in the court case?
What activities (protests, letters to the editor, blog posts, petitions, opinion polls, etc.) are underway related to this issue? Explain.
Do you think these activities are likely to have an impact on the Court’s decision? Why, or why not?
.
In 2011, John Jones, a middle school social science teacher began .docxjoyjonna282
In 2011, John Jones, a middle school social science teacher began a unit on the American election process. He began with an introduction of political parties from the revolution to present day. At the end of the politically-balanced unit, students participated in mock debates as candidates from each party and ultimately held a mock presidential election in his classroom.
After the votes were counted and a winner determined, one of his students asked Mr. Jones who he was planning to vote for in the “real” election. He answered the question in age-appropriate language and, when prompted, explained why. He reminded his students that voting was not only a reflection of personal beliefs, but a responsibility as a citizen of the United States.
When Janie Johnson got home from school that day, she noticed – for the first time – signs in her neighbor's front yards supporting one of the presidential candidates. At dinner she asked her parents who they planned to vote for. Their choice differed significantly from her teacher’s. Janie’s father was quite upset at Janie’s explanation of the other candidate. To him, it was not Mr. Jones’ job as her teacher her to “put those kinds of ideas in her head.” The next day he called the principal demanding that Mr. Jones be removed from the classroom.
You are the principal.
1. What do you tell the father? Why?
2. What, if anything, do you say to Mr. Jones, the teacher? Why?
You are Mr. Jones.
1. Have you done anything wrong?
2. What court case(s) would you cite in your behalf? Be specific. Cite the case name, court ruling, or law.
Answer the following questions:
1. Who was Pickering and why is he important?
2. A teacher speaks out at a rally against FCAT. This is not the first “FIRE FCAT” rally held in this community. Can her statement be protected by the First Amendment? Under what circumstances?
3. A student sees a picture of math teacher James Johnson in his KKK garb that Johnson posts on his facebook page. Can Johnson be fired because of his KKK membership? Why or why not?
4. After their honeymoon Jane Jones and her new husband Jason return to their teaching jobs at JFK Middle School. At lunch that day the principal informs them that one of them must transfer to a new school. Can the principal do this? Why or why not?
Chapter 10 covers several topics, chief among which is teachers’ rights. There are three main court cases which address free speech:
· Pickering v. Board of Education
· Connick v. Myers
· Garcetti v. Ceballos
In order to respond to the questions, you will have to do some research on your own.Ask yourself this question: “Is the employee speaking as a private citizen or as an employee?”
Question 1 : What is the main difference between the Pickering decisions and the Garcetti decision? Where does the Connick decision fit in?
Question 2: A special education teacher complains to his principal that the school is violating federal law in trying to meet the n.
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In 5-7 pages (double-spaced,) provide a narrative explaining the organization’s origins, ideology, goals & objectives. Include a discussion on the leadership, funding, and capabilities such as physical bases or operating/support location(s), personnel strengths, training programs, and communications methods. Lastly, it would be helpful to provide a description of known and suspected weapons/lethal agents and delivery methods, procedures used in prior attacks, propaganda, surveillance methods, and significant events/dates that may be used in attack planning
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In 2004 the Bush Administration enacted changes to the FLSA and the .docxjoyjonna282
In 2004 the Bush Administration enacted changes to the FLSA and the way overtime is paid. These changes are said to have impacted millions of working Americans. The Act addresses who and how overtime is paid. It is also felt that more changes are still needed.
Using an Internet search, find the enactment highlights of 2004 and future proposed changes. Who is impacted, positively or negatively? How do you feel this impacts you? Were these changes long overdue, or do you think this is just a way for workers to work more hours without the employer being responsible for premium pay?
.
In 200-250 wordsGiven the rate of technological chang.docxjoyjonna282
*****In 200-250 words****
Given the rate of technological change and global market pressures, there is considerable change and uncertainty in many organizations. Organizational value is determined more by knowledge (intellectual capital) rather than the traditional factors of productions (land, labor and capital).
1.
Review the concept of knowledge management and how human resources can create the conditions for the effective sharing of knowledge within and throughout the organization.
****Please use one reference which includes in-text citation****
.
in 200 words or more..1 do you use twitter if so , how often do.docxjoyjonna282
in 200 words or more..
1/ do you use twitter ?if so , how often do you tweet , and what do you tweet about ? if not , explain why you chose not to participate in this social medium
2/ when you post something online , do you think carefully about what you are about to post and how it might sound to others ? do you and react to your post ? or do you shoot from the hip , writeing whatever comes to mind ? explain
.
In 200 words or more, answer the following questionsAfter reading .docxjoyjonna282
In 200 words or more, answer the following questions
After reading David Mitchel's "Branding in Pop Culture" discuss how pop culture "brand" certain products. Do you find that you gravitate toward one product over another, similar one because of the pop culture branding associated with it? Explain.
.
In 2005, serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as BTK, was arrested.docxjoyjonna282
In 2005, serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as BTK, was arrested and convicted of murdering 10 people in Kansas between the years of 1974 and 1991. Further research this incident using quality and reputable resources.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
Explicate how digital forensics was used to identify Rader as a suspect and lead to more concrete physical evidence.
Describe in detail the digital evidence that was uncovered from the floppy disk obtained from Rader. Discuss why you believe it took so many years to find concrete evidence in order to build a case against Rader.
Explain how the acquisition of digital evidence aided the investigation and whether or not you believe Rader would’ve been a person of interest if the floppy disk evidence wasn’t sent.
Identify the software that was used by the authorities to uncover the evidence and summarize how this software can be used for digital forensics and evidence collection.
Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
.
In 2003, China sent a person into space. China became just the third.docxjoyjonna282
In 2003, China sent a person into space. China became just the third country to do so. It sent a spaceship to go around Earth 14 times. It took less than a day. It was very important. China had never tried this before. Most countries do not send people into space. It costs a lot of money. China wanted to show the world that it could do it. China was proud to send people into space.
The trip to space was _________ for them.
.
In a 250-300 word response, critically examine your personal level o.docxjoyjonna282
In a 250-300 word response, critically examine your personal level of intercultural communication competence. Is it important for you to achieve a certain level of intercultural communication competence? Would enhanced intercultural communication competence help you personally? Professionally? Academically? Include examples in your submission and use at least one resource to support your key points. Respond to at least two of your fellow students' posts.
.
In a 10 –12 page paper, identify and analyze the benefits and challe.docxjoyjonna282
In a 10 –12 page paper, identify and analyze the benefits and challenges that are associated with biometric evidence in the criminal justice system. Include at least 3 techniques in your paper, and use at least 2 case studies to support your position. Consider the following questions when drafting your paper:
How do courts determine if evidence is reliable and valid before allowing it into testimony?
What is the role of the Frye standard or Daubert standard in determining whether or not the courts will accept biometric evidence?
What rules does your state use in this regard?
How reliable is fingerprint evidence? Consider examples of its use in criminal courts.
How do other biometrics compare to the reliability and validity of fingerprint evidence?
What are some of the challenges associated with lower forms of biometrics, such as facial recognition, and acceptance as evidence in court?
What is the role of the expert witness related to biometric evidence in court?
Be sure to provide in-text citation and references
.
In a 1-2 page Microsoft Word document, discuss the following case st.docxjoyjonna282
In a 1-2 page Microsoft Word document, discuss the following case study:
When Alexander and Deborah married, Alexander owned a duplex in a community property state. They lived in one side of the duplex. They saved their money and bought a lake lot as tenants by the entirety. Deborah failed to pay the loans she took out from Savings Bank prior to her marriage to pay for college. The bank claimed the duplex, the lake lot and their savings.
Discuss the likelihood of success on the bank's claims against the properties.
.
In a 16–20 slide PowerPoint presentation (excluding title and refere.docxjoyjonna282
In a 16–20 slide PowerPoint presentation (excluding title and reference slides) provide information as well as analyze the roles of the following areas in criminal justice leadership strategies and practices:
Organizational culture
Behavioral theory
Planning
Community relations
Your presentation should include, at a minimum, 4 slides, with speaker notes, for each topic.
.
In a 1-2 page Microsoft Word document, using APA, discuss the follow.docxjoyjonna282
In a 1-2 page Microsoft Word document, using APA, discuss the following case study:
When Alexander and Deborah married, Alexander owned a duplex in a community property state. They lived in one side of the duplex. They saved their money and bought a lake lot as tenants by the entirety. Deborah failed to pay the loans she took out from Savings Bank prior to her marriage to pay for college. The bank claimed the duplex, the lake lot and their savings.
Discuss the likelihood of success on the bank's claims against the properties.
.
In a 1-2 page paper, discuss how the government, the media, and the .docxjoyjonna282
In a 1-2 page paper, discuss how the government, the media, and the public affect a health care organization's integration of data. Give specific examples of all three entities influencing the integration of data.
Include at least two research sources in your paper and cite them in a References page at the end in APA format. As in all writing assignments, follow standard mechanics in writing, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Submit your completed assignment to the drop box below. Please check the
Course Calendar
for specific due dates.
.
In 2010, plans were announced for the construction of an Islamic cul.docxjoyjonna282
In 2010, plans were announced for the construction of an Islamic cultural center, named Cordoba House, in lower Manhattan in the vicinity of where the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center occurred. This announcement stirred up a storm of activity by groups and individuals supporting and opposing the proposal, and in early 2011, a plea by the American Center for Law and Justice was entered in the New York State Supreme Court to stop the construction. In this Discussion Board please respond to the following questions:
In 5–6 paragraphs, address the following:
What are the complaints and concerns of those who oppose construction of this building in its proposed location?
Do you agree? Why, or why not?
What are the counter-claims being made by those who support construction of this building in its present location?
Do you agree? Why, or why not?
What is the specific issue in the court case?
What activities (protests, letters to the editor, blog posts, petitions, opinion polls, etc.) are underway related to this issue? Explain.
Do you think these activities are likely to have an impact on the Court’s decision? Why, or why not?
.
In 2011, John Jones, a middle school social science teacher began .docxjoyjonna282
In 2011, John Jones, a middle school social science teacher began a unit on the American election process. He began with an introduction of political parties from the revolution to present day. At the end of the politically-balanced unit, students participated in mock debates as candidates from each party and ultimately held a mock presidential election in his classroom.
After the votes were counted and a winner determined, one of his students asked Mr. Jones who he was planning to vote for in the “real” election. He answered the question in age-appropriate language and, when prompted, explained why. He reminded his students that voting was not only a reflection of personal beliefs, but a responsibility as a citizen of the United States.
When Janie Johnson got home from school that day, she noticed – for the first time – signs in her neighbor's front yards supporting one of the presidential candidates. At dinner she asked her parents who they planned to vote for. Their choice differed significantly from her teacher’s. Janie’s father was quite upset at Janie’s explanation of the other candidate. To him, it was not Mr. Jones’ job as her teacher her to “put those kinds of ideas in her head.” The next day he called the principal demanding that Mr. Jones be removed from the classroom.
You are the principal.
1. What do you tell the father? Why?
2. What, if anything, do you say to Mr. Jones, the teacher? Why?
You are Mr. Jones.
1. Have you done anything wrong?
2. What court case(s) would you cite in your behalf? Be specific. Cite the case name, court ruling, or law.
Answer the following questions:
1. Who was Pickering and why is he important?
2. A teacher speaks out at a rally against FCAT. This is not the first “FIRE FCAT” rally held in this community. Can her statement be protected by the First Amendment? Under what circumstances?
3. A student sees a picture of math teacher James Johnson in his KKK garb that Johnson posts on his facebook page. Can Johnson be fired because of his KKK membership? Why or why not?
4. After their honeymoon Jane Jones and her new husband Jason return to their teaching jobs at JFK Middle School. At lunch that day the principal informs them that one of them must transfer to a new school. Can the principal do this? Why or why not?
Chapter 10 covers several topics, chief among which is teachers’ rights. There are three main court cases which address free speech:
· Pickering v. Board of Education
· Connick v. Myers
· Garcetti v. Ceballos
In order to respond to the questions, you will have to do some research on your own.Ask yourself this question: “Is the employee speaking as a private citizen or as an employee?”
Question 1 : What is the main difference between the Pickering decisions and the Garcetti decision? Where does the Connick decision fit in?
Question 2: A special education teacher complains to his principal that the school is violating federal law in trying to meet the n.
In 5-7 pages (double-spaced,) provide a narrative explaining the org.docxjoyjonna282
In 5-7 pages (double-spaced,) provide a narrative explaining the organization’s origins, ideology, goals & objectives. Include a discussion on the leadership, funding, and capabilities such as physical bases or operating/support location(s), personnel strengths, training programs, and communications methods. Lastly, it would be helpful to provide a description of known and suspected weapons/lethal agents and delivery methods, procedures used in prior attacks, propaganda, surveillance methods, and significant events/dates that may be used in attack planning
.
In 2004 the Bush Administration enacted changes to the FLSA and the .docxjoyjonna282
In 2004 the Bush Administration enacted changes to the FLSA and the way overtime is paid. These changes are said to have impacted millions of working Americans. The Act addresses who and how overtime is paid. It is also felt that more changes are still needed.
Using an Internet search, find the enactment highlights of 2004 and future proposed changes. Who is impacted, positively or negatively? How do you feel this impacts you? Were these changes long overdue, or do you think this is just a way for workers to work more hours without the employer being responsible for premium pay?
.
In 200-250 wordsGiven the rate of technological chang.docxjoyjonna282
*****In 200-250 words****
Given the rate of technological change and global market pressures, there is considerable change and uncertainty in many organizations. Organizational value is determined more by knowledge (intellectual capital) rather than the traditional factors of productions (land, labor and capital).
1.
Review the concept of knowledge management and how human resources can create the conditions for the effective sharing of knowledge within and throughout the organization.
****Please use one reference which includes in-text citation****
.
in 200 words or more..1 do you use twitter if so , how often do.docxjoyjonna282
in 200 words or more..
1/ do you use twitter ?if so , how often do you tweet , and what do you tweet about ? if not , explain why you chose not to participate in this social medium
2/ when you post something online , do you think carefully about what you are about to post and how it might sound to others ? do you and react to your post ? or do you shoot from the hip , writeing whatever comes to mind ? explain
.
In 200 words or more, answer the following questionsAfter reading .docxjoyjonna282
In 200 words or more, answer the following questions
After reading David Mitchel's "Branding in Pop Culture" discuss how pop culture "brand" certain products. Do you find that you gravitate toward one product over another, similar one because of the pop culture branding associated with it? Explain.
.
In 2005, serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as BTK, was arrested.docxjoyjonna282
In 2005, serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as BTK, was arrested and convicted of murdering 10 people in Kansas between the years of 1974 and 1991. Further research this incident using quality and reputable resources.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
Explicate how digital forensics was used to identify Rader as a suspect and lead to more concrete physical evidence.
Describe in detail the digital evidence that was uncovered from the floppy disk obtained from Rader. Discuss why you believe it took so many years to find concrete evidence in order to build a case against Rader.
Explain how the acquisition of digital evidence aided the investigation and whether or not you believe Rader would’ve been a person of interest if the floppy disk evidence wasn’t sent.
Identify the software that was used by the authorities to uncover the evidence and summarize how this software can be used for digital forensics and evidence collection.
Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
.
In 2003, China sent a person into space. China became just the third.docxjoyjonna282
In 2003, China sent a person into space. China became just the third country to do so. It sent a spaceship to go around Earth 14 times. It took less than a day. It was very important. China had never tried this before. Most countries do not send people into space. It costs a lot of money. China wanted to show the world that it could do it. China was proud to send people into space.
The trip to space was _________ for them.
.
In 250 words briefly describe the adverse effects caused by exposure.docxjoyjonna282
In 250 words briefly describe the adverse effects caused by exposure to radiation. Include some specific exposure levels associated with these significant health effects. Lastly, give some examples of measured radiation levels associated with the Three Mile Island incident in the U.S. and in the Chernobyl incident in the Soviet Union. Provide your reference source(s). (Wikipedia is not an accepted reference source.)
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In 2.5 pages, compare and contrast health care reform in two differe.docxjoyjonna282
In 2.5 pages, compare and contrast health care reform in two different states. Your paper should include a minimum of three specific examples of similarities or differences in health care reform in the two states.
Example:
One possibility would be to compare Maine's health care reform in 2003 to Tennessee's 1994 health care reform known as "TennCare."
APA FORMAT
APA REFERENCES
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In 2014 Virginia scientist Eric Betzig won a Nobel Prize for his res.docxjoyjonna282
In 2014 Virginia scientist Eric Betzig won a Nobel Prize for his research in microscope technology. Since receiving the award, Betzig has improved the technology so that cell functions, growth and even movements can now be seen in real time while minimizing the damage caused by prior methods. This allows the direct study of living nerve cells forming synapses in the brain, cells undergoing mitosis and internal cell functions like protein translation and mitochondrial movements.
Your assignment is to write a Python program that
graphically
simulates viewing cellular organisms, as they might be observed using Betzig’s technology. These simulated cells will be shown in a graphics window (representing the field of view through Betzig’s microscope) and must be animated, exhibiting behaviors based on the
“Project Specifications” below
. The simulation will terminate based on user input (a mouse click) and will include two (2) types of cells,
Crete
and
Laelaps
, (
pronounced
KREET
and
LEE
-
laps
).
Crete
cells should be represented in this simulation as three (3) small green circles with a radius of 8 pixels. These cells move nonlinearly in steps of 1-4 graphics window pixels. This makes their movement appear jerky and random.
Crete
cells cannot move outside the microscope slide, (the ‘
field
’), so they may bump along the borders or even wander out into the middle of the field at times. These cells have the ability to pass “through” each other.
A single red circle with a radius of 16 pixels will represent a
Laelaps
cell in this simulation.
Laelaps
cells move across the field straight lines, appearing to ‘bounce’ off the field boundaries.
Laelaps
sometimes appear to pass through other cells, however this is an optical illusion as they are very thin and tend to slide over or under the other cells in the field of view.
Project Specifications: ====================
Graphics Window
500 x 500 pixel window
White background
0,0 (x,y) coordinate should be set to the lower left-hand corner
Crete
Cells
Three (3) green filled circles with radius of 8 pixels
Move in random increments between -4 and 4 pixels per step
Movements are not in straight lines, but appear wander aimlessly
Laelaps
Cells
One (1) red filled circle with a radius of 16 pixels
Move more quickly than Crete cells and in straight lines
The Laelaps cell should advance in either -10 or 10 pixels per step
TODO #1: Initialize the simulation environment ========================================
Import any libraries needed for the simulation
Display a welcome message in the Python Shell. Describe the program’s functionality
Create the 500 x 500 graphics window named “
Field
”
Set the
Field
window parameters as specified
TODO #2: Create the
Crete
cells –
makeCrete()
========================================
Write a function that creates three green circle objects (radius 8) and stores them in a list
Each entry of the list represents one
Crete
cell
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In 200-300 words - How is predation different from parasitism What.docxjoyjonna282
In 200-300 words - How is predation different from parasitism? What structures and behavior aid the predaceous insect to be successful? Please give an example.
In 200-300 words-
Why is an understanding of metamorphosis crucial to identifying adult insects? Provide examples where knowing development patterns can prevent incorrect identification.
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In 3 and half pages, including a title page and a reference page, di.docxjoyjonna282
In 3 and half pages, including a title page and a reference page, discuss various methods of establishing the identity of a murder victim.
In your discussion include an explanation of methods used to identify the dead when only teeth and bones of the victim are available for examination.
Use materials from the text and/or any outside resources to support your response.
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Poems of DesireAfter tsang chi.docx
1. Poems of Desire
After tsang chih Alice Notley
I was brought up in a small town in the Mohave Desert.
The boys wouldn’t touch me who was dying to be touched,
Because I was too quote
Smart. Which the truck-drivers didn’t think as they
Looked and waved
On their way through town, on the way to my World.
New Hampshire Marble Jack Gilbert
I called Sue the week I moved back from Rome.
She was getting married on Sunday she said,
but would drive over after lunch to say goodbye.
Later, in the tall grass between some homes,
we were searching around in the torn dirt,
frantic and laughing. Trying to find
the huge diamond engagement ring.
Our bodies flaring in the winter moonlight.
This close Dorianne Laux
In the room where we lie,
light stains the drawn shades yellow.
We sweat and pull at each other, climb
with our fingers the slippery ladders of rib.
Wherever our bodies touch, the flesh
comes alive. Head and need, like invisible
animals, gnaw at my breast, the soft
insides of your thighs. What I want
I simply reach out and take, no delicacy now,
2. the dark human bread I eat handful
by greedy handful. Eyes fingers, mouths,
sweet leeches of desire. Crazy woman,
her brain full of bees, see how her palms curl
into fists and beat the pillow senseless.
And when my body finally gives in to it
then pulls itself away, salt-laced
and arched with its final ache, I am
so grateful I would give you anything, anything.
If I loved you, being this close would kill me.
CAR CRASH WHILE HITCHHIKING
A salesman who shared his liquor and steered while sleeping...
A Cherokee filled with bourbon... A VW no more than a bubble
of hashish fumes, captained by a college student...
And a family from Marshalltown who head-onned and killed
forever a man driving west out of Bethany, Missouri...
...I rose up sopping wet from sleeping under the pouring rain,
and something less than con-scious, thanks to the first three of
the people I've already named—the salesman and the Indian and
the student—all of whom had given me drugs. At the head of
the entrance ramp I waited without hope of a ride. What was the
point, even, of rolling up my sleeping bag when I was too wet to
be let into anybody's car? I draped it around me like a cape. The
downpour raked the asphalt and gurgled in the ruts. My
thoughts zoomed pitifully. The travelling salesman had fed me
pills that made the linings of my veins feel scraped out. My jaw
ached. I knew every raindrop by its name. I sensed everything
before it happened. I knew a certain Oldsmobile would stop for
me even before it glowed, and by the sweet voices of the family
inside it I knew we'd have an accident in the storm.
3. I didn't care. They said they'd take me all the way.
The man and the wife put the little girl up front with them and
left the baby in back with me and my dripping bedroll. "I'm not
taking you any-where very fast," the man said. "I've got my
wife and babies here, that's why."
You are the ones, I thought. And I piled my sleeping bag
against the left-hand door and slept across it, not caring whether
I lived or died. The baby slept free on the seat beside me. He
was about nine months old.
...But before any of this, that afternoon, the salesman and I had
swept down into Kansas City in his luxury car. We'd developed
a dangerous cynical camaraderie beginning in Texas, where he'd
taken me on. We ate up his bottle of am-phetamines, and every
so often we pulled off the Interstate and bought another pint of
Canadian Club and a sack of ice. His car had cylindrical glass
holders attached to either door and a white, leathery interior. He
said he'd take me home to stay overnight with his family, but
first he wanted to stop and see a woman he knew.
Under Midwestern clouds like great grey brains we left the
superhighway with a drifting sensation and entered Kansas
City's rush hour with a sensation of running aground. As soon
as we slowed down, all the magic of travelling to-gether burned
away. He went on and on about his girlfriend. "I like this girl, I
think I love this girl—but I've got two kids and a wife, and
there's certain obligations there. And on top of every-thing else,
I love my wife. I'm gifted with love. I love my kids. I love all
my relatives." As he kept on, I felt jilted and sad: "I have a
boat, a little sixteen-footer. I have two cars. There's room in the
back yard for a swimming pool." He found his girlfriend at
work. She ran a furniture store, and I lost him there.
The clouds stayed the same until night. Then, in the dark, I
4. didn't see the storm gathering. The driver of the Volkswagen, a
college man, the one who stoked my head with all the hashish,
let me out beyond the city limits just as it began to rain. Never
mind the speed I'd been taking, I was too overcome to stand up.
I lay out in the grass off the exit ramp and woke in the middle
of a puddle that had filled up around me.
And later, as I've said, I slept in the back seat while the
Oldsmobile—the family from Mar-shalltown—splashed along
through the rain. And yet I dreamed I was looking right through
my eyelids, and my pulse marked off the seconds of time. The
Interstate through western Missouri was, in that era, nothing
more than a two-way road, most of it. When a semi truck came
toward us and passed going the other way, we were lost in a
blinding spray and a warfare of noises such as you get being
towed through an automatic car wash. The wipers stood up and
lay down across the windshield without much effect. I was
ex-hausted, and after an hour I slept more deeply.
I'd known all along exactly what was going to happen. But the
man and his wife woke me up later, denying it viciously.
"Oh—no!"
"NO!"
I was thrown against the back of their seat so hard that it broke.
I commenced bouncing back and forth. A liquid which I knew
right away was human blood flew around the car and rained
down on my head. When it was over I was in the back seat
again, just as I had been. I rose up and looked around. Our
headlights had gone out. The radiator was hissing steadily.
Beyond that, I didn't hear a thing. As far as I could tell, I was
the only one conscious. As my eyes adjusted I saw that the baby
was lying on its back beside me as if nothing had happened. Its
eyes were open and it was feeling its cheeks with its little
5. hands.
In a minute the driver, who'd been slumped over the wheel, sat
up and peered at us. His face was smashed and dark with blood.
It made my teeth hurt to look at him—but when he spoke, it
didn't sound as if any of his teeth were broken.
"What happened?"
"We had a wreck," he said.
"The baby's okay," I said, although I had no idea how the baby
was.
He turned to his wife.
"Janice," he said. "Janice, Janice!"
"Is she okay?"
"She's dead!" he said, shaking her angrily.
"No, she's not." I was ready to deny everything myself now.
Their little girl was alive, but knocked out. She whimpered in
her sleep. But the man went on shaking his wife.
"Janice!" he hollered.
His wife moaned.
"She's not dead," I said, clambering from the car and running
away.
"She won't wake up," I heard him say.
6. I was standing out here in the night, with the baby, for some
reason, in my arms. It must have still been raining, but I
remember nothing about the weather. We'd collided with
another car on what I now perceived was a two-lane bridge. The
water beneath us was invisible in the dark.
Moving toward the other car I began to hear rasping, metallic
snores. Somebody was flung halfway out the passenger door,
which was open, in the posture of one hanging from a trapeze
by his ankles. The car had been broadsided, smashed so flat that
no room was left inside it even for this person's legs, to say
nothing of a driver or any other passengers. I just walked right
on past.
Headlights were coming from far off. I made for the head of the
bridge, waving them to a stop with one arm and clutching the
baby to my shoul-der with the other.
It was a big semi, grinding its gears as it de-celerated. The
driver rolled down his window and I shouted up at him, "There's
a wreck. Go for help."
"I can't turn around here," he said.
He let me and the baby up on the passenger side, and we just sat
there in the cab, looking at the wreckage in his headlights.
"Is everybody dead?" he asked.
"I can't tell who is and who isn't," I admitted.
He poured himself a cup of coffee from a ther-mos and switched
off all but his parking lights.
"What time is it?"
7. "Oh, it's around quarter after three," he said.
By his manner he seemed to endorse the idea of not doing
anything about this. I was relieved and tearful. I'd thought
something was required of me, but I hadn't wanted to find out
what it was.
When another car showed coming in the op-posite direction, I
thought I should talk to them. "Can you keep the baby?" I asked
the truck driver.
"You'd better hang on to him," the driver said. "It's a boy, isn't
it?"
"Well, I think so," I said.
The man hanging out of the wrecked car was still alive as I
passed, and I stopped, grown a little more used to the idea now
of how really badly broken he was, and made sure there was
nothing I could do. He was snoring loudly and rudely. His blood
bubbled out of his mouth with every breath. He wouldn't be
taking many more. I knew that, but he didn't, and therefore I
looked down into the great pity of a person's life on this earth. I
don't mean that we all end up dead, that's not the great pity. I
mean that he couldn't tell me what he was dreaming, and I
couldn't tell him what was real.
Before too long there were cars backed up for a ways at either
end of the bridge, and headlights giving a night-game
atmosphere to the steaming rubble, and ambulances and cop cars
nudging through so that the air pulsed with color. I didn't talk to
anyone. My secret was that in this short while I had gone from
being the president of this tragedy to being a faceless onlooker
at a gory wreck. At some point an officer learned that I was one
of the passengers, and took my state-ment. I don't remember any
of this, except that he told me, "Put out your cigarette." We
8. paused in our conversation to watch the dying man being loaded
into the ambulance. He was still alive, still dreaming obscenely.
The blood ran off him in strings. His knees jerked and his head
rat-tled.
There was nothing wrong with me, and I hadn't seen anything,
but the policeman had to question me and take me to the
hospital anyway. The word came over his car radio that the man
was now dead, just as we came under the awning of the
emergency-room entrance.
I stood in a tiled corridor with my wet sleeping bag bunched
against the wall beside me, talking to a man from the local
funeral home.
The doctor stopped to tell me I'd better have an X-ray.
"No."
"Now would be the time. If something turns up later ..."
"There's nothing wrong with me."
Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She
didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's
what gave her such power over us. The doctor took her into a
room with a desk at the end of the hall, and from under the
closed door a slab of brilliance radiated as if, by some
stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated in there.
What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would
shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I've gone looking
for that feeling everywhere.
"There's nothing wrong with me"—I'm sur-prised I let those
words out. But it's always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as
if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.
9. Some years later, one time when I was admitted to the Detox at
Seattle General Hospital, I took the same tack.
"Are you hearing unusual sounds or voices?" the doctor asked.
"Help us, oh God, it hurts," the boxes of cot-ton screamed.
"Not exactly," I said.
"Not exactly," he said. "Now, what does that mean."
"I'm not ready to go into all that," I said. A yellow bird
fluttered close to my face, and my muscles grabbed. Now I was
flopping like a fish. When I squeezed shut my eyes, hot tears
ex-ploded from the sockets. When I opened them, I was on my
stomach.
"How did the room get so white?" I asked.
A beautiful nurse was touching my skin. "These are vitamins,"
she said, and drove the needle in.
It was raining. Gigantic ferns leaned over us. The forest drifted
down a hill. I could hear a creek rushing down among rocks.
And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.