Nora • Took a loan without her husband’s consent or knowledge, which was unusual for the time • Committed fraud and forged a signature, but only so she could save her husband’s health • Desperate to keep Torvald from finding out about her secret • Feigns helplessness while taking control of situations at times • Recognizes the way the men in her life have seen her: “I have been performing tricks for you, Torvald. That’s how I’ve survived. You wanted it like that. You and Papa have done me a great wrong. It’s because of you I’ve made nothing of my life.” • Becomes independent at the end • Was disappointed by Torvald not offering to sacrifice his own honor when he found out about the loan
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Poetry project
Poetic devices are some of the most important factors in conveying meaning in poetry. Langston Hughes and Phillip Booth are authors that depicted parents giving advice to children in their poetry, and were careful to heavily include devices such as metaphors, imagery, and similes. They carefully chose their diction to convey a tender and caring mood in their poems. “Mother to Son” and “First Lesson” are two poems that give a similar message but do so in a different style. In “Mother to Son”, Hughes uses the crystal stair as a metaphor for an easy life. The narration is told from the perspective of a mother advising her son. The underlying theme of the poem is perseverance, and this is demonstrated time and again by the constant reminders from the narrator. The author makes use of dialect to create a more homely and realistic tone in the character. The style in which the reminder to never give up is what truly defines the poem. The contrast between images of luxury and poverty help to create a foil to reflect the nature of life’s struggles. Hughes heavily appeals to the sense of sight by describing in detail the thorny path of life as having “tacks,” “splinters,” and “places with no carpet on the floor.” Likewise, Philip Booth uses metaphors as well as to convey the message from his poem. From a purely literal reading of the text, one can see that it is tells a story of a father teaching his daughter to swim for the first time. However, this lesson on swimming can also been seen as a lesson on how to live life and wade through the obstacles and challenges it presents. The ebbing of the tide is symbolic of how the challenges in life come and go. The author makes use of soothing diction to create a tone of peacefulness and tenderness. Booth leaves behind a message to the reader that even when the parent is no longer there, the lessons they gave stay behind when they pass on. Both authors write from the perspective of parents speaking to their children. They both also break the fourth-wall by addressing the audience as “you.” By doing so, they make the narration more personal and give a deeper expression of the bond between parent and child. Both Hughes and Booth make excellent use of metaphors, imagery, and diction to deliver the message of perseverance.
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_____________________________________________________________________________ Remainder of Bluest Eye Essay _______________________________ Her very existence and position in society is a reaffirmation of the ideals that came about as a result of Shirley Temple. The fairness of her skin and beauty of her features make her the subject of everyone’s love. “A high-yellow dream child with long brown hair braided into two lynch ropes that hung down her back.” (Page 62). Her beauty only serves to highlight the difference between her and the others, making the distinction clear and solid. Shirley Temple exists as an ideal symbol of beauty and perfection. To be like her is to be pretty and beautiful. Failure to comply with the standards she has set result in the label of ugliness. In The Bluest Eye, it is an absolute rule that all the characters follow and adhere to. Mrs. Breedlove complied even when her own daughter was involved. When Pecola accidentally knocked down a pan, she was yelled at, while the white girl who’s home it was was consoler by Mrs. Breedlove. “As Pecola put the laundry bag in the wagon, we could hear Mrs. Breedlove hushing and soothing the tears of the little pink-and-yellow girl.” (Page 109). Rather than support her injured daughter, she slapped her and abused her. Once more, Morrison shows how even the black characters felt their race to be inferior to those of ligher-skin. To the characters of The Bluest Eye, Shirley Temple is an incredible influence. To Pecola, she is the constant reminder of her own ugliness and a source of both hope and despair. To Maureen, she is the affirmation of her superiority and the reason for which all others dote on her. The impact she has on the characters reaches incredibly deep levels and makes all the scenarios in the course of the novel possible.
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Formatting Output
File Deli.java contains a partial program that computes the cost of buying an item at the deli. Save the program to your directory and do the following:
1. Study the program to understand what it does.
2. Add the import statements to import the DecimalFormat and NumberFormat classes.
3. Add the statement to declare money to be a NumberFormat object as specified in the comment.
4. Add the statement to declare fmt to be a DecimalFormat object as specified in the comment.
5. Add the statements to print a label in the following format (the numbers in the example output are correct for input of $4.25 per pound and 41 ounces). Use the formatting object money to print the unit price and total price and the formatting object fmt to print the weight to 2 decimal places.
***** CS Deli *****
Unit Price: $4.25 per pound
Weight: 2.56 pounds
TOTAL: $10.89
// ******************************************************** // DeliFormat.java // // Computes the price of a deli item given the weight // (in ounces) and price per pound -- prints a label, // nicely formatted, for the item. // // ********************************************************
import ???????
public class Deli
{
// --------------------------------------------------- // main reads in the price per pound of a deli item // and number of ounces of a deli item then computes // the total price and prints a "label" for the item // --------------------------------------------------
public static void main (String[] args)
{
final double OUNCES_PER_POUND = 16.0;
double pricePerPound; // price per pound
double weightOunces; // weight in ounces
double weight; // weight in pounds
double totalPrice; // total price for the item
// Declare money as a NumberFormat object and use the
// getCurrencyInstance method to assign it a value
// Declare fmt as a DecimalFormat object and instantiate
// it to format numbers with at least one digit to the left of the
// decimal and the fractional part rounded to two digits.
// prompt the user and read in each input
System.out.println ("Welcome to the CS Deli!!\n ");
System.out.print ("Enter the price per pound of your item: ");
pricePerPound = scan.nextDouble();
System.out.print ("Enter the weight (ounces): ");
weightOunces = scan.nextDouble();
// Convert ounces to pounds and compute the total price
weight = weightOunces / OUNCES_PER_POUND;
totalPrice = pricePerPound * weight;
// Print the label using the formatting objects
// fmt for the weight in pounds and money for the prices
}
}
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/**
* Rolling Dice * * @Bilal Quadri * @2/19/10 */
import java.util.Random;
public class RandomDice {
public static void main (String[] args)
{
Random roll = new Random();
int die1, die2;
int sum;
die1 = roll.nextInt (6) + 1;
die2 = roll.nextInt (6) + 1;
sum = die1 + die2;
System.out.println ("This program simulates two dice rolls and prints out their\n"
+"individual values and their sum.");
System.out.println ();
System.out.println ("First roll: " +die1);
System.out.println ("Second roll:" +die2);
System.out.println ("Sum of rolls: " +sum);
}
}
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The Effect of Question Wording on Responses
Bilal Quadri Block 1 Statistics AP
Abstract:
Much research has been done on question wording and the effect that it can have on responses in a survey. Subtle differences in phrasing and the inclusion of different bits of information can severely alter the results. The slightest change in labels has been shown to yield a totally different response. The primary purpose of this research is to test whether the difference brought about by question wording results is significant at the alpha=0.05 level. After giving out two similar but differently worded surveys, the students of the Statistics AP class at John F. Kennedy Memorial High School recorded their results and proceeded to draw out their conclusions.
Introduction:
Reliable and accurate data is always the goal. However, question wording that favors one option may already result in a bias in the data. For years, this has been the source of many problems for social researchers (Johnson 1983). By this time, many have come to believe that alternative measures are needed in order to ensure that results from surveys accurately reflect the opinions of those who were polled.
Slight differences in question wording tend to bring about differing results. Previous studies help explain much of the changes found in these results. Labels that identify certain time frames, such as “generally speaking”, “usually”, and “as of today” would all yield different responses in front of the same question, given that the question was time sensitive enough (Abramson and Ostrom 1994).
Phrasing also tends to have a large impact on results. A past study shows that the addition of a positive verb before an item tends to result in a much larger support for it. When two similar surveys were administered on how to make use of money, the options with positive labels at the beginning had much more support. For instance, putting the money towards “advancing space exploration” had more votes than the plainly written “space exploration” did. Similarly, spending money on “improving the conditions of blacks” had more support than did “assistance to blacks”. In fact, the differences in the results were incredibly significant and had p-values less than 0.001 (Raniski 1989).
Procedure:
1.) The students of the Statistics AP class at John F. Kennedy Memorial High School created two versions of a seven question questionnaire. The questions on the two different forms (labeled “Form A” and “Form B”) were similar, but were purposely designed to draw different responses.
2.) Three randomly selected students from each homeroom were randomly assigned one of the two forms to complete.
3.) Once the surveys were all administered, data was collected and charts were made.
4.) Two-proportion Z tests were run in order to assess whether the difference in the proportion of “Yes” answers was significantly different between the two forms for each question.
Discussion:
Works Cited: Rasinski, Kenneth A.. "THE EFFECT OF QUESTION WORDING ON PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR GOVERNMENT SPENDING." Public Opinion Quarterly Vol. 53 Issue 3(1989) 388-394. Web.18 Jun 2009. <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=2&sid=e8c45f20-b44f-49e1-b89f-f051ac49d484%40sessionmgr7&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=bsh&AN=5414693>.
Abramson, Paul R. 'and' Ostrom, Charles W.. "Question wording and partisanship." Public Opinion Quarterly Vol. 58 Issue 1(1994) 21-48. Web.18 Jun 2009. <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=7&sid=398a8980-08d2-4a41-afdd-d5f7341f871f%40sessionmgr2&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=bsh&AN=9407014585>.
Johnson, J. David. "A CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARISON OF TWO ALTERNATIVE QUESTION WORDINGS." Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 120 Issue 1(1983) 3-4. Web.18 Jun 2009. <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=2&sid=9d914742-a23e-4255-965e-e8a4017e742e%40SRCSM2&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=bch&AN=5392865>.
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Usher’s Symptoms and Complaints of his Illness • Inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality o “The conditions of the sentience had been here, he imagined, fulfilled in the method of collocation of these stones -- in the order of their arrangement, as well as in that of the many fungi which overspread them, and of the decayed trees which stood around -- above all, in the long undisturbed endurance of this arrangement, and in its reduplication in the still waters of the tarn. Its evidence --the evidence of the sentience --was to be seen, he said, (and I here started as he spoke,) in the gradual yet certain condensation of an atmosphere of their own about the waters and the walls. The result was discoverable, he added, in that silent, yet importunate and terrible influence which for centuries had moulded the destinies of his family, and which made him what I now saw him -- what he was.” • Morbid acuteness of the senses o “He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses; the most insipid food was alone endurable; he could wear only garments of certain texture; the odours of all flowers were oppressive; his eyes were tortured by even a faint light; and there were but peculiar sounds, and these from stringed instruments, which did not inspire him with horror.” • Difficulty in eating all but the most insipid foods o “He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses; the most insipid food was alone endurable…” • Enchained by superstitious impressions o “He was enchained by certain superstitious impressions in regard to the dwelling which he tenanted, and whence, for many years, he had never ventured forth -- in regard to an influence whose supposititious force was conveyed in terms too shadowy here to be re-stated -- an influence which some peculiarities in the mere form and substance of his family mansion, had, by dint of long sufferance, he said, obtained over his spirit -- an effect which the physique of the gray walls and turrets, and of the dim tarn into which they all looked down, had, at length, brought about upon the morale of his existence.” • Depression due to his sister’s condition o “He admitted, however, although with hesitation, that much of the peculiar gloom which thus afflicted him could be traced to a more natural and far more palpable origin -- to the severe and long-continued illness -- indeed to the evidently approaching dissolution -- of a tenderly beloved sister -- his sole companion for long years -- his last and only relative on earth.” o “"Her decease," he said, with a bitterness which I can never forget, "would leave him (him the hopeless and the frail) the last of the ancient race of the Ushers."” • Paranoia o “To an anomalous species of terror I found him a bounden slave. "I shall perish," said he, "I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect -- in terror. In this unnerved -- in this pitiable condition --I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR."” o “In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence -- an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy -- an excessive nervous agitation.” • Cadaverousness of complexion (pale skin, untended hair, luster in his eyes) o “A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid, and luminous beyond comparison; lips somewhat thin and very pallid, but of a surpassingly beautiful curve; a nose of a delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a finely moulded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy; hair of a more than web-like softness and tenuity; these features, with an inordinate expansion above the regions of the temple, made up altogether a countenance not easily to be forgotten.” • Has difficulty speaking properly; has guttural and varying speech o “His voice varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision (when the animal spirits seemed utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic concision -- that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunciation -- that leaden, self-balanced and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his most intense excitement.” • Has a family with an incestuous history o “I had learned, too, the very remarkable fact, that the stem of the Usher race, all time-honoured as it was, had put forth, at no period, any enduring branch; in other words, that the entire family lay in the direct line of descent, and had always, with very trifling and very temporary variation, so lain.” • Displays a case of hypochondria o “For me at least -- in the circumstances then surrounding me -- there arose out of the pure abstractions which the hypochondriac contrived to throw upon his canvas, an intensity of intolerable awe, no shadow of which felt I ever yet in the contemplation of the certainly glowing yet too concrete reveries of Fuseli.”
Diagnosis The symptoms that Roderick Usher
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Science
Name of Element: Magnesium
Chemical Symbol: Mg
Location on Periodic Table: Group 2, Period 3, Block s
Atomic Number: 12
Atomic Mass: 24.3050
Physical Properties:
Chemical Properties: Flammable,
Who discovered the element: Joseph Black
Where and when it was discovered: 1755, Scotland
Common historical uses: Treating aches and sore throats, Refractory, Smelting, medicine.
Common modern uses: Building planes, fireproofing, sedative, etc…
Cost, pure: 3.7 $/100g
Metal: Alkaline-Earth Metal
Group: 2
Sources: "Magnesium." Wikipedia. 2002. Wikipedia. 12 Mar 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium>. "Magnesium." Facts On File, Inc. Science Online. <http://www.fofweb.com>. "Magnesium." ChemiCool. ChemiCool. <http://chemicool.com/elements/magnesium.html>.
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