Category: Literature

What does madness really look like? Does he perhaps just have a warped sense of reality?Is he a madman? Or, as some have suggested, is he merely bored?

Don Quixote

Explore the idea/theme of madness in the passages from the assigned Don Quixote readings. Is he a madman? Or, as some have suggested, is he merely bored? He reads, and reads, and reads his books. What does madness really look like? Does he perhaps just have a warped sense of reality?

Consider: “In many ways, Don Quixote is a novel about how Don Quixote perceives the world and about how other characters perceive Don Quixote. His tendency to transform everyday people and objects into more dramatic, epic, and fantastic versions of themselves forces those around him to choose between adapting to his imaginary world or opposing it

Opponents of social promotion believe that without the necessary skills, students will continue to be unsuccessful. Write an persuasive essay stating your opinion on this issue. Support your opinion with convincing reasons.

Social Promotion is the act of promoting a child to the next grade level despite the lack of skill mastery.

Social Promotion is the act of promoting a child to the next grade level despite the lack of skill mastery. Proponents of social promotion believe that it is beneficial and promotes self-esteem.

Opponents of social promotion believe that without the necessary skills, students will continue to be unsuccessful. Write an persuasive essay stating your opinion on this issue. Support your opinion with convincing reasons.

What do these two p.values tell us about our confidence regarding the proximity of the sample mean ransom to the population mean ransom?What is a substantive difference between the standard deviation of ransom requests and their standard error? Explain in plain English

Cyber Policy: Problem Set

Calculate the mean, standard deviation, and standard error for the ransom variable in d and store them in ransom.mean, ransom.sd, and ransom.se respectively.

What is a substantive difference between the standard deviation of ransom requests and their standard error? Explain in plain English:

What does the confidence interval tell us here? What does the 95% stand for?

What will happen to the confidence interval if we only use a subset of observations?

Compare, in plain English, these two confidence intervals. So, CI describes our uncertainty about something. About what?

How does this uncertainty change if instead of d we use only its subset (d.sample)?

What is the probability that an actual mean ransom in the population of companies is 9 or more? (Reminder: ransom is coded in millions of dollars, so 9 stands for 9 mln dollars) To answer this question calculate z.score and p.value. You might want to round the p.value to three digits at the end using round(p.value, digits = 3).

What is the probability that an actual mean ransom request in the population of companies is 8.3 or less?

What do these two p.values tell us about our confidence regarding the proximity of the sample mean ransom to the population mean ransom?

What does it stand for in the chunk above? You might want to go through the last example in Handout-1 to help you answer this question.

Finally, conduct the statistical test and figure out what is the chance that on average the hackers request the same amount of ransom across the small and medium-sized companies. Use t.test() function to calculate a p.value.

We conducted t-tests for each pair of groups. What conclusion about the differences in average ransom requests can we make based on these three p.values?

What does the constant stand for in this example?

Next, use internet_sales_share (X) to explain (or predict) ransom (Y). Using function lm(), regress ransom on internet_sales_share (no need to specify constant as 1 this time). Store the resulting model in linear.model

What does the coefficient for internet_sales_share stand for? Explain in plain English

What does the number inside the parenthesis stand for?

What do the three stars mean?

What do a constant stand for in this case?

Next, we conduct regression analysis with adjustment. Regress both internet_sales_share and critical_industry on ransom.

Store the results in model.with.critical.industry. Next, regress both internet_sales_share and size on ransom. Store the results in model.with.size.

Display the results of linear.model, model.with.critical.industry, and model.with.size in the same table by using stargazer(

Why do you think the coefficient for internet_sales_share in model.with.critical.industry is the same as in linear.model?

Why do you think the coefficient for internet_sales_share in model.with.size is different from the one in linear.model?

What does the coefficient for internet_sales_share stand for in model.with.size? Explain in plain English

Give a brief review of THE HATE U GIVE film, and compare it to the book.https://www.sparknotes.com/search?q=The%20Hate%20U%20Give

The Hate U Give

Give a brief review of THE HATE U GIVE film, and compare it to the book.

Have put the link to the spark notes for this book

https://www.sparknotes.com/search?q=The%20Hate%20U%20Give

Also have put a link to where you can see the film

https://www.bing.com/search?q=the+hate+u+give+full+movie+for+free+online&qs=RI&pq=the+hate+u+give+movie+for+fr&sk=AS1SC1RI1&sc=4-28&cvid=BAFA8BA2CD494574BB52483C15DC540F&FORM=QBRE&sp=4

What is the plot of the story? Include a breakdown of the sequence of events for the story. How does the plot influence the overall story?

The Last Temptation

After reading the short short stories in the unit, select one story to write an analysis of the
plot on. answer the following question about that short short story in one paragraph:

What is the plot of the story? Include a breakdown of the sequence of events for the story.
How does the plot influence the overall story?

Both “The Invisible String” and “Swan of the Gods” deal with the question of what connects
us to other people and to the universe? Be it strings we cannot see or stars that we each
look at throughout time, connections are one of the main things that drive human interactions
and help us navigate the world.

The poetry test is multiple choice. Know all of the listed terms below and be able to determine their definitions. Also, there will be some poems on the test for which you will identify examples of the below terms–all in multiple choice format.

Poetry Test Study Guide
The poetry test is multiple choice. Know all of the listed terms below and be able to determine their definitions. Also, there will be some poems on the test for which you will identify examples of the below terms–all in multiple choice format. You have 50 minutes to complete the test.
1. Persona
2. Speaker
3. Tone
4. Denotation
5. Connotation
6. Imagery
7. Metaphor
8. Simile
9. Hyperbole
10. Personification
11. Euphony
12. Cacophony
13. Onomatopoeia
14. Alliteration
15. Assonance
16. End Rhyme
17. Masculine Rhyme
18. Feminine Rhyme
19. Theme
20. Symbol

What type of Buddhist concepts are discussed (e.g. karma, nirvana, samsara) and with time whether there has been a change of interpreting or choosing these concepts.What is Buddhism commonly used in these works. (zen/Mahayana/Theravada)

Identities of transmission of Buddhism in to the west: Modernist Literature

1.The research investigates the above writers and the mentioned texts and, the period from 1900 onwards. will take each writer and analyse the representation of Buddhism in their work.

2.The study will also look at whether there is a transformation of the Buddhist identity across time.

3.What type of Buddhist concepts are discussed (e.g. karma, nirvana, samsara) and with time whether there has been a change of interpreting or choosing these concepts.

4. What is Buddhism commonly used in these works. (zen/Mahayana/Theravada)

4. Whether or how the social background has influenced to portray such Buddhist identity.

5. How the writer education or Buddhist background if there’s such has influenced the writing.

6. Whether or how the identity of Buddhism has been changing in these literary works over the period of given time.

Do you think he should have offered a solution? Why or why not? From what you’ve learned, is this positioning important to state in novels in general?How do these contrasting images play off one another? Did the conclusion leave you with a feeling of hope or despair? What language in the text left you with this feeling and why? be specific, again.

Theme

Each question should be clearly written above each of your answers in your paper. Again, organize your paper so it is easy for me to read. Watch your writing, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and more. It is important that you think critically about theme in this novel, and in the novel and fiction in general.

During an argument with Jack Jardine, Delaney makes the following statement: “Do you realize what you’re saying? Immigrants are the lifeblood of this country — and neither of us would be standing here today if it wasn’t.” In another instance, Jack says to Delaney,

“What do you expect, when all you bleeding hearts want to invite the whole world in here to feed at our trough without a thought as to who’s going to pay for it, as if the American taxpayer was like Jesus Christ with his loaves and fishes.”

How do these two sentiments play out in the novel and in the larger theme and issue of immigration? Be specific. Cite examples from the text of the novel, complete with page numbers,.

In an interview, the author stated that he feels it is a novelist’s job to inhabit people of other races and sexes, for his/her own understanding of an issue as well as for the reader’s.

Did The Tortilla Curtain help you to better understand the issue of immigration and the people involved? How? Again, be specific by pointing to textual material to bolster your claims.

Do you think he should have offered a solution? Why or why not? From what you’ve learned, is this positioning important to state in novels in general?

How do these contrasting images play off one another? Did the conclusion leave you with a feeling of hope or despair? What language in the text left you with this feeling and why? be specific, again.