In a post of about 200-250 words, what are your feelings about the way the family turns from thinking about the boy to thinking about their own lives at the end of this poem? How does it make you feel? Do you have any sympathy for the way they behave? Is it part of living a tough life in a rural area around the turn of the century?

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‘Out, Out—’

BY ROBERT FROST

The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard

And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,

Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.

And from there those that lifted eyes could count

Five mountain ranges one behind the other

Under the sunset far into Vermont.

And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled,

As it ran light, or had to bear a load.

And nothing happened: day was all but done.

Call it a day, I wish they might have said

To please the boy by giving him the half hour

That a boy counts so much when saved from work.

His sister stood beside him in her apron

To tell them ‘Supper.’ At the word, the saw,

As if to prove saws knew what supper meant,

Leaped out at the boy’s hand, or seemed to leap—

He must have given the hand. However it was,

Neither refused the meeting. But the hand!

The boy’s first outcry was a rueful laugh,

As he swung toward them holding up the hand

Half in appeal, but half as if to keep

The life from spilling. Then the boy saw all—

Since he was old enough to know, big boy

Doing a man’s work, though a child at heart—

He saw all spoiled. ‘Don’t let him cut my hand off—

The doctor, when he comes. Don’t let him, sister!’

So. But the hand was gone already.

The doctor put him in the dark of ether.

He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath.

And then—the watcher at his pulse took fright.

No one believed. They listened at his heart.

Little—less—nothing!—and that ended it.

No more to build on there. And they, since they

Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.

In a post of about 200-250 words, what are your feelings about the way the family turns from thinking about the boy to thinking about their own lives at the end of this poem? How does it make you feel? Do you have any sympathy for the way they behave? Is it part of living a tough life in a rural area around the turn of the century?

 

 

What does it mean to be “lonely as a cloud”? Does this simile work for you? Why do you think this memory was so powerful for Wordsworth?

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

What does it mean to be “lonely as a cloud”? Does this simile work for you? Why do you think this memory was so powerful for Wordsworth?

Describe your career goals and plans for the future.

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Application Essay

Describe your career goals and plans for the future.

Write a FATT thesis statement that gives a clear argument. the prompt is- What roles do Clarisse, Faber, and Beatty as foil characters play in re-educating Guy Montag? how does each character influence Montag’s change? how do these characters question his beliefs? how does he answer their questions?

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Fahenheit 451

Write a FATT thesis statement that gives a clear argument. the prompt is- What roles do Clarisse, Faber, and Beatty as foil characters play in re-educating Guy Montag? how does each character influence Montag’s change? how do these characters question his beliefs? how does he answer their questions?

Write a 2-3 page essay that discusses the dilemma faced by the No-no boys. Discuss what the questionnaire was.

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Short essay

Watch the following video about the No-No boys, Japanese American resistance during WWII.

Then write a 2-3 page essay that discusses the dilemma faced by the No-no boys. Be sure to discuss what the questionnaire was,

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-japanese-american-no-no-boys-stood-up-for-justice-2834891

And what the implications of question 27 and 28 were, and what the consequences of answering no to both questions were. You should also address how you might have answered if you were in that situation yourself.

Identify the consequences of having dissatisfied employees and describe ways of applying the four theories of job satisfaction and how you would use them to boost job satisfaction. Discuss how intrinsic and extrinsic motivation factors affect job satisfaction.

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Application of Theory

After working through the Theoretical Foundations Powerpoint, select only one of the theories and discuss its usefulness in the context of managing organizations. Use online peer-reviewed journal research (case study research is best) to inform your writing, and to advance the theoretical discussion beyond what you encountered in the PowerPoint. You may select a theory that you will eventually use elsewhere in the course.

The Theory: Chaos Theory

Chaos Theory
●Chaos is more long-term than short-term
●Behavior in chaotic systems is aperiodic,
●May evolve in a way that appears to be smooth and ordered
●Chaos refers to the issue of whether or not it is possible to make accurate long-term predictions of any system if the initial conditions are known to an accurate degree.

Identify the consequences of having dissatisfied employees and describe ways of applying the four theories of job satisfaction and how you would use them to boost job satisfaction. Discuss how intrinsic and extrinsic motivation factors affect job satisfaction.

When answering consider how goals may help with job satisfaction and how to design jobs to enhance motivation.

What affect does ptsd have on veterans life after Military?

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Research Paper Essay

What affect does ptsd have on veterans life after Military?

What is hard to understand? Are you struggling to understand what you are reading? Who are your favorite and least favorite characters in The Canterbury Tales? Give reasons for your choices?

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Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

This week you should do the following:
1. Watch the educational video about Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales so you have some background before you start reading. It really helps! You could of course read the introduction in the textbook as well, but sometimes it’s nice to have a video.
2. Read the assignment, which is the first half of The Canterbury Tales selection in the Norton anthology.
3. Go to the discussion board and answer the questions asked. Then reply to your classmates in the discussion boards. There’s one question about what has confused you. If you can clear up anyone’s confusion, please do so.

questions to answer:

1- What is hard to understand?
COLLAPSE
Are you struggling to understand what you are reading? Ask questions here.

2-Who are your favorite and least favorite characters in The Canterbury Tales? Give reasons for your choices?

One of the governing questions in the novel is, “What is a patria?” After reading the novel, what is the connection (if any) between gender roles and developing a sense of “patria?”

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CASE STUDY

For each module, your small group will be assigned a series of questions (usually five) on a specific portion of the readings due that week. To receive full credit for the small group response assignment, you must post at least one response to each question. Your responses should be a minimum of 100 words per question, in the form of complete sentences and a thesis-based interpretive argument, and should make reference to specific passages in the assigned reading to support your comments. You will be graded more than anything else on the specificity of your responses, i.e., how well you support your comments with specific references to the assigned texts. Also relevant to the grading of small group discussion responses is how well you interact with other voices in the group. Please make sure to include the questions either in a group at the beginning of your response posting or before each response (e.g., Question 1 before Response 1). You will receive six small group response grades, worth 10 points each.

1. One of the governing questions in the novel is, “What is a patria?” After reading the novel, what is the connection (if any) between gender roles and developing a sense of “patria?”

2. Do women in the novel have a better grasp of “la patria” than men?

3. Do men see women as part of “la patria,” and if so, where/how do women fit into the men’s vision of “la patria”? Are you surprised to find a woman rising to the status of national poet given these attitudes?

4. What is the significance of Camila’s relationship with Marion? Can you connect it with anything in the previous generation?

5. Salome forsakes writing patriotic poetry in order to be a mother and a teacher. Does the novel seem to justify these choices or criticize them? Does this novel believe in romance? Does duty always triumph over desire?

Using Hegel’s and Michelet’s excerpts below, demonstrate the legal relevance of the latin expression « partes secanto » and its psycho-religious impact on either the character of Antonio or Shylock.

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Third Miniature Synthesis Essay (3/6) (Due Sunday, February 19th)

Due Sunday by 11:59pm Points 10 Submitting a file upload Available Jan 9 at 8am – May 8 at 11:59pm
Third Miniature Synthesis Essay.

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Assigned Readings: Primary Reading:
Shakespeare, William. “The Merchant of Venice!’ The Norton Shakespeare: The Essential Plays/Sonnets, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, 3rd Edition, W.W. Norton and Co., 2015.
Secondary Reading: Note: Please read only the page numbers indicated on the citation. You do not need to read the entire book. Lewalski, Barbara K. “Biblical Allusion and Allegory in The Merchant of Venice:’ Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 3, 1962, pp. 327-343. 4, a Berry, Phillipa. “Incising Venice:The Violence of Cultural Incorporation in The Merchant of Venice.” Renaissance Go-Betweens: Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe, De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 248-261. 4, Prompts After completing Module 7, please post your Third Miniature Synthesis Essay below by Sunday, Feb 19th at 11:59

Using Hegel’s and Michelet’s excerpts below, demonstrate the legal relevance of the latin expression « partes secanto » and its psycho-religious impact on either the character of Antonio or Shylock.

Take the horrible law, which permitted a creditor, after the lapse of a fixed term of respite, […] to cut pieces off the debtor […] with the proviso that if the creditor should cut off too much or too little, no action should be taken against him. It was this clause, it may be noticed, which stood Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice in such a good stead. (Hegel, Philosophy of Right)

The debt acknowledged, the case duly judged, let the law be put on him (the insolvent debtor), let him be brought before the judge. The tribunal closes with the going down of the sun. If he does not satisfy the judgement […] the creditor will lead him away and tie him up with belts or chains […].Let the creditor live on what he has. […] On the third day […] let (the creditor) cut up the debtor into several parts (in partes secanto). (Michelet, The Origins of Laws)

ANTONIO: Grieve not that I am fall’n to this for you, For herein Fortune shows herself more kind Than is her custom. It is still her use To let the wretched man outlive his wealth, To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow An age of poverty – from which lingering penance Of such misery doth she cut me off. Commend me to your honorable wife. Tell her the process of Antonio’s end. Say how I loved you. Speak me fair in death. And when the tale is told, bid her be judge Whether Bassanio had not once a love. Repent but you that you shall lose your friend, And he repents not that he pays your debt. For if the Jew do cut but deep enough, I’ll pay it presently with all my heart. (4.1.278-93)