How is this writing connected to our current curriculum either in regards to writing as a craft and studying texts for our own writing, or in regards to the thematic ideas we’re discussing? How does this writing either contribute to or detract from discussions we’ve had regarding these ideas?

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Journal Response

In paragraph form in Times New Roman 12, discuss the assigned reading considering any or all of the following questions:

• What is the author’s main idea or argument? What details do they use to support this?

• Do you agree or disagree with this idea? Why do you feel this way?

• How is this writing connected to our current curriculum either in regards to writing as a craft and studying texts for our own writing, or in regards to the thematic ideas we’re discussing? How does this writing either contribute to or detract from discussions we’ve had regarding these ideas?

• What rhetorical choices does the author use to effectively convey their purpose in writing? How do these choices work to further the author’s ideas/argument? Include direct quotations with page number when appropriate.

Your response should be at minimum half of a page double spaced.

What is the effect of fairly precise household rules alternating with comments such as “on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming”? What do you think of the mother? What do you think of the daughter? What do your answers to these questions suggest about the nature of this mother-daughter relationship?

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Respond to each of the 6 stories with 350+ words each (including direct quotes). Make sure to label the story and author that you are answering questions about. You should not re-write the questions but rather just label the story you are responding put your response/paragraphs underneath the title of the story.

For each post you should incorporate textual evidence as well as analysis and explanation about why you have the interpretation of the story that you do.

Jamaica Kincaid “Girl”

  • What is the effect of fairly precise household rules alternating with comments such as “on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming”? What do you think of the mother? What do you think of the daughter? What do your answers to these questions suggest about the nature of this mother-daughter relationship?
  • What do you see as the central conflict in the story?
  • Consider gender. Is it possible to re-imagine the story as advice from father to son? What does this in turn suggest about expectations placed on women versus those placed on men?

Jean Rhys “I Used to Live Here Once”

  • Closely read Jean Rhys’s short story, “I Used to Live Here Once.” Reflect on the meaning of the last line of the story. What do you think that the girl “knew” for the “first time” at the end of the narrative? What evidence from the text leads you to think this?
  • Remember, be specific —the girl certainly has feelings of loneliness and senses being “out-of-place,” but what does she realize that makes her feel this way? What does she realize that makes her feel “out-of-place?”
  • Make an argument about what you believe that the girl “knew” for the “first time.” Be sure that you clearly enunciate a specific argument with a strong thesis and that you use appropriate evidence from the text to support your claims.

 

Kate Chopin “Story of an Hour”

  • “The Story of an Hour” is a very short story with little action or dialogue. do you see the length of this story as a strength or weakness? Explain.
  • Do you think Brently Mallard physically abused his wife? Did he love her? Did she love him? Exactly why was she so relieved to be rid of him? Can you answer any of these questions with certainty?
  • Was the story’s ending unexpected or were you prepared for it? What elements in the story foreshadow this ending?
  • What is the nature of the conflict in this story? Who, or what, do you see as Mrs. Mallard’s antagonist?

Toni Cade Bambara “The Lesson”

  • In what ways, specifically, is Miss Moore an outsider in her own community? Which of her beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors distance her from the children? From other adults in the community? Is she able to overcome these barriers to full communication with her students and with Sylvia in particular?
  • How, exactly, would you characterize Miss Moore? Can you identify attitudes and beliefs that connect her to African-American intellectual, political, or social movements of the late 1960s or early 1970s? (I realize that it may be difficult given that most of you were not born then, but you may have read about the period or seen movies about these decades, such as Selma.)
  • Why does Sylvia feel both anger and shame while looking at the F.A.O. Schwartz toy store on Fifth Avenue? What exactly is she angry about? Sylvia connects the shame that she feels upon entering the toy store to her feelings when she and Sugar “crashed” the Catholic church during a Mass. Why? How are these two events related and why does Bambara establish this connection?
  • Why, in your view, does Bambara choose to have Sylvia narrate the story instead of Miss Moore?
  • Why doesn’t Sylvia go with Sugar to spend the money at the end of the story? What exactly is she attempting to think through on her own?
  • Does her separation from her classmates and her desire to think things through alone indicate that she has learned or is beginning to learn the “lesson”? What is the lesson Bambara thinks she should learn?

William Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”

  • Emily is clearly the story’s protagonist. In the sense that he opposes her wishes, Homer is the antagonist. What other characters – or what larger forces – are in conflict with Emily?
  • Some critics have suggested that Miss Emily Grierson is a kind of symbol of the Old South, with its outdated ideas of chivalry, formal manners, and tradition. In what sense is she also a victim of those values?
  • The narrator of the story is an observer, not a participant. Who might this narrator be? Do you think the narrator is male or female? How do you suppose the narrator might know so much about Emily? Why do you think the narrator uses we instead of I?
  • This story takes place without a linear timeline – events are told out of order from the way they actually take place. Why do you suppose Faulkner presents these events out of their actual chronological order? And despite the story’s confusing sequence, many events are foreshadowed. How does foreshadowing enrich the story?

Shirley Jackson “The Lottery”

  • What associations does the word lottery have for you? Are they relevant to the story?
  • Tradition is very important to the townspeople in this story. Why do these people continue this tradition even though the consequences are deadly? Can you think of any traditions that also have a dangerous affect on people?
  • Were you surprised by the ending of the story? If not, at what point did you know what was going to happen? How does Jackson foreshadow the ending? Conversely, how does Jackson lull us into thinking that this is just an ordinary story with an ordinary town?
  • In what way does the setting affect the story? Does it make you more or less likely to anticipate the ending? What are some symbols in this story? Why is the “black box” battered, for example?
  • This story was published in 1948. Are there any cultural or historical events that Jackson might be commenting on here? Is this JUST a story about this particular time and place, or is she trying to say something important about human nature?

 

What data will be needed to realize the fully autonomous driving vision the company advertises? What kind of analytics are required to process this data and realize this vision? How will the data drive the implementation of this vision over time?

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Tesla Motors

Tesla, Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors), founded in 2003, is an American multinational corporation based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in electric vehicles, lithium-ion battery energy storage and solar panel manufacturing (through the subsidiary company SolarCity. As of June 2018, Tesla sells the Tesla Model S, Model X, Model 3, Powerwall and Powerpack batteries, solar panels, solar roof tiles, and related products. CEO Elon Musk said that he envisions Tesla as a technology company and independent automaker, aimed at eventually offering electric cars at prices affordable to the average consumer. The company was named for the electrical engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla by company founders Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Tesla uses a large number of sensors on the car to collect data about roads and drivers. The goal is to provide a fully autonomous car.

Think about the data that Tesla is collecting. What data will be needed to realize the fully autonomous driving vision the company advertises? What kind of analytics are required to process this data and realize this vision? How will the data drive the implementation of this vision over time?

In one paragraph summarize the dangers, discomforts and distress that Michael has countered in his life as a foreign correspondent.

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Summary of an article

In one paragraph summarize the dangers, discomforts and distress that Michael has countered in his life as a foreign correspondent. ( 100 words)

Write a monologue about this perhaps a monologue on immigrant rights might be the way to go.

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Perhaps a monologue on immigrant rights might be the way to go.

Write a monologue about this ” perhaps a monologue on immigrant rights might be the way to go”. A person started the monologue task for me so I will send what he did to me so that they can take issue two and include that idea in more detail.

” Write a monologue about this perhaps a monologue on immigrant rights might be the way to go”. It includes sensory imagery; literary devices; dramatic tension; grammar; and characterization. However, there should be something that the speaker wants and a conflict s/he is dealing with. develop specific things and moments that happened.

In your own words and in a fully developed paragraph, define what plagiarism is and share some very specific steps to avoid it.

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D1E

In your own words and in a fully developed paragraph, define what plagiarism is and share some very specific steps to avoid it.

What is Alexa? What is a photograph? What defines social justice warrior (SJW)? Select one of these situations, and then address it, using the strategies either of formal definitions or of operational ones.

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Center on definitional issues

This chapter opens with three rhetorical situations that center on definitional issues: What is Alexa? What is a photograph? What defines social justice warrior (SJW)? Select one of these situations, and then address it, using the strategies either of formal definitions or of operational ones. For example, might a formal definition help to explain what products like Alexa or Homekit are? (You may have to do some quick research.) Would an operational definition work to explain or defend what SJWs allegedly do or don’t do?

In your discussion of the formal or operational definition of the term you chose, do your best to consider the ideas and questions found in Chapter 9. Aim for roughly 500 words, or 2 pages, for this assignment.

 

What is remarkable about your life? What is admirable about your life? In what ways has your life been unique? What are some of the stories you could tell about your life? What good and bad decisions have you made? What human qualities have you developed through your experience?

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12.05 Graded Assignment: Biography

Assignment Choice I: Biography

In your insanely rushed world of school, work, and extracurricular activities, how often do you have the opportunity to simply sit and talk to someone about life? Long before technology came into our existence, we learned about life by listening to others who could share their experiences with us. We gained our understanding of the world from those who were “older and wiser.” Early literature, in fact, originated orally, as story tellers sat around the communal fire and related the tales of heroes and their adventures, through which the culture gained its identity. Without their knowledge and their stories, society would never have been able to pass on the traditions which have kept us alive, well and connected.

Technology, although it has the potential to connect us over time and space, also has a tendency to complete with this kind of one-on-one contact. Generations ago, children had little else to do in their spare time but play with neighborhood friends in the street. Today, television, video- games, and the Internet offer us the choice to stay inside, connected to the screen rather than to the people.

So, you are going to have the opportunity now to go back in time. You will engage in a process of listening to someone who is “older and wiser,” face to face, in order to gain new insight into the human condition. You will go through a process of interviewing a person and eventually writing a biographical story which highlights how that person’s life has been remarkable. Some people call this an oral history. The ultimate benefit of this process will be your gaining further insight into your own life. This process will take you about a week. Follow these steps in the process.

  1. Find an older person in your community with whom you can spend an hour or two. Good choices would be parents, grandparents or other relatives, teachers or school personnel, neighbors, or elderly people in local retirement homes. Naturally, you do not want to choose a stranger, or place yourself in any situation which could be unsafe, so be sure you talk about your plan with your parents.
  1. Interview the person. You’ll need to take some notes, but you’ll also need to actively listen. You might even tape record the interview, but you must ask the person’s permission first. Begin by just chatting comfortably about the person’s life. Listen to the language the person uses to describe his/her experience. Pay attention to the person’s attitudes, tone of voice, body language, and facial expressions. This will make you aware of the person’s voice. Remember, the topic of conversation is not you; it is the person you are interviewing. If you need to, you can use the following questions: So, tell me about your life:
  • What is remarkable about your life?
  • What is admirable about your life?
  • In what ways has your life been unique?
  • What are some of the stories you could tell about your life?
  • What good and bad decisions have you made?
  • What human qualities have you developed through your experience?
  • In what ways have you influenced your times or have your times influenced you?
  • What lessons have you learned about life?
  • What is your code of beliefs?
  • What is the most dramatic experience you ever had?
  • What was your most difficult moment? Your happiest? Your most tragic?
  • What were your greatest failures? Successes?
  • If you could go back in time, what would you have done differently?
  • What advice about life would you give to today’s teens?

You will notice as you conduct your interview, that even if your subject is not a famous celebrity, he/she will have fascinating life stories to tell! If you can get this person to focus on one particular story in detail, it will be especially helpful to you.

  1. Write! Begin your writing by thinking about what insight your subject’s life offers you. How Now, using everything you know about good ideas, strong organization, sentence fluency, conventions, voice and diction, write a biography of this person. As you organize, decide which details to omit, and which to highlight. Avoid just writing lists of facts about the person. You do not have to include every detail you heard about in the interview process. Remember, the purpose of this process is to write a compelling story which reveals insight about this person’s life.

Revise! Try this authentic revision process. Go back to the person you interviewed and read the story to him or her. Watch his/her body language and facial expressions to see where he/she reacts favorably or with confusion to your story. Ask if there are any areas where you should revise the story to make it truer to life. Show, Don’t Tell. Remember to show what happened, don’t tell what happened. If there is a lesson to be learned, we should see it for ourselves from your vivid description. In your biography, you may have to create dialogue you did not actually hear, and it will not be completely accurate. Is that all right to do? Go to Section 6 for a discussion.

 

Create several professional documents. Each time you must create a document written at the highest level of knowledge, grammar, spelling and capability. Pick two of the three following documents and create them.

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Communicating in Your Profession – Constructing Professional Documents

ASSIGNMENT

Throughout your career you will be asked to create several professional documents. Each time you must create a document written at the highest level of knowledge, grammar, spelling and capability.

For this assignment you are going to pick two of the three following documents and create them. Follow the specific instructions for each type of document that you choose.

Action Plan – your employer has asked you to create an action plan for your professional development for the next year. You need to include some of the following information; conferences you will attend, what you will do to educate yourself in your field and any trainings you need to attend.

  • Goal
  • Action Steps
  • Resources/Support
  • Deadline/Timing
  • Status

Resume/Cover Letter – obtain a job description that you will turn in with your resume and cover letter. Write the cover letter and resume, tailoring it to the job description you selected.

PowerPoint Problem Solution Plan – Pick a problem that is currently happening in your community, a school referendum, a city ordinance, a recent rise in crime, use your imagination in picking a topic. Create a PowerPoint Presentation that covers each of the following elements:

  • Introduction to the problem
  • Effect on the community
  • Possible Solution(s)
  • Conclusion/Action Steps

 

Discuss your first source article. Identify the article, and then Describe the perspective presented in the article.  Summarize the article’s findings on your identified topic.  Show how the article’s perspective contributes to your overall thesis.

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Research analysis paper

Introduction

Present a topic or issue relevant to your academic or professional field.
This will be presented in your introduction. Explain the overall background and background of this issue and include a well-constructed thesis statement that indicates your topic and the purpose you will develop.

Article 1

Discuss your first source article.
Identify the article, and then
Describe the perspective presented in the article.
Summarize the article’s findings on your identified topic.
Show how the article’s perspective contributes to your overall thesis.

Article 2

Discuss your second source article.
Identify the article, and then
Describe the perspective presented in the article.
Summarize the article’s findings on your identified topic.
Show how the article’s perspective contributes to your overall thesis.

Article 3

Discuss your third source article.
Identify the article, and then
Describe the perspective presented in the article.
Summarize the article’s findings on your identified topic.
Show how the article’s perspective contributes to your overall thesis.

Conclusion

Analyze the significance of the evidence cited and the connections you have made.
This will be presented in your conclusion. Connect the ideas presented to show why the topic is an important one, while highlighting your major takeaways from the articles and relating them to your thesis.