Discuss the female identity in the context of patriarchal society in The Handmaid’s Tale.

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The Handmaid’s Tale

Discuss the female identity in the context of patriarchal society in The Handmaid’s Tale.

“In the Grove.” How does the author present this theme through the events and the characters of the story?

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Literary Analysis

Review the questions below and write a quality, thorough essay that includes reference to the Elements of Literary Analysis and story details. Responses should not be story summaries, but answers that directly address the questions

Akutagawa explores the nature of truth and the possibility of knowing truth objectively in his story “In the Grove.” How does the author present this theme through the events and the characters of the story?

Why were fantastic and gothic stories so popular in the Victorian Era? What was a woman question in Victorian Era? What does it mean that Shakespeare was an innovator of English Language? What was original about William Blake’s work?

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Short answers to questions

Why were fantastic and gothic stories so popular in the Victorian Era?

What was a woman question in Victorian Era?

What does it mean that Shakespeare was an innovator of English Language?

What was original about William Blake’s work?

What was so revolutionary about Thomas Moor’s Utopia?

Why is God described like a War-chief in Beowulf?

 

Write a substantive paragraph or two focusing on some aspect of Hyde’s essay.

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Hyde’s “The Necessity of De-Anglicizing Ireland

Write a substantive paragraph or two focusing on some aspect of Hyde’s essay. Also, read and perhaps include some aspect of Yeats’s response to the essay from YPDP pp. 261-262. Finally, respond to at least one of your peers in a few sentences or a short paragraph.

Hat did you find most compelling, shocking, surprising, or intriguing about his experiences? Did Douglass’s story enlighten you in any way, or did you learn anything about the American system of chattel slavery that you did not know before?

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Frederick Douglass – Narrative

In his famous autobiographical work Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the author describes his experiences as an enslaved person (who eventually finds his way to freedom). What did you find most compelling, shocking, surprising, or intriguing about his experiences? Did Douglass’s story enlighten you in any way, or did you learn anything about the American system of chattel slavery that you did not know before?

Choose any three symbols and show what each of these symbols represents for each character and that character’s dream.

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A Raisin in the Sun

Final Essay

Directions: While reading the novel A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, you will consider the following essay prompts.  You will annotate while you read and keep track of any character inferences or symbolism seen throughout the book on the google document provided. Because we only have two weeks to work on this paper, a five paragraph essay is ok for this one.

Essay Prompt: 

  • You will use the information from both the novel and outside sources to help you write your essay on the following topic:  
  1. Choose any three symbols and show what each of these symbols represents for each character and that character’s dream.  Consider the following symbols:  Mama’s plant, Beneatha’s African connections (her robe, name, haircut), Walter’s liquor store plans, and the Younger Family’s home in Clybourne Park.

Essay Requirements: 

  • This essay must be approximately  2 ½ pages long (double-spaced, 1 inch margins, 12 pt. Times New Roman font)
  • Paper must address the listed prompt and cover how this topic developed within the novel.
  • You must include at least 3 quotes from the book within your paper.
  • You will be graded on not only your topic, but also on your writing mechanics and style (spelling, grammar, punctuation, structure, etc.).
  • Paper will be due March 2.

What additional information might you require in order to provide Vancouver Library with further insights into their data? Are there any other tables that would be helpful?

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Canvas Assignments

PART 1: DATABASE
Q1.A) Vancouver Library has provided you with the files used to track their inventory. Use this data to design a normalized relational data model for this library. Normalize the data as necessary and list all tables using the following notations. Indicate Primary Keys as underlined and Foreign Keys as italic. (20 marks)

NOTE: missing normalized table file = -5 marks per each file

Q1.B) Use this data to design the structure of the database required for this case and visually represent this with the ER Diagram. Using any diagram tool, create an ERD with the required entities, attributes, and relationships. (20 marks)
Insert an image of your ER Diagram in the box below. Additionally, submit a high-resolution copy to Canvas as a PNG, GIF, or JPG image file.

NOTE: missing ERD file = -10 marks

Q1.C) What additional information might you require in order to provide Vancouver Library with further insights into their data? Are there any other tables that would be helpful? (5 marks)

PART 2: ETL
Q2.A) If the Publication Date has imported as a number, how might this cause a problem without analysis if we wanted to dig into the data by month, for example? (4 marks)

Q2.B) Examine the Price field. What are the benefits of this datatype being imported as a numeric field? What issues could arise if this was imported as a text field? (4 marks)

PART 3: ANALYSIS
Q3.A) Which Library name has the highest number of staff? Display your results in a tree map. (3 marks)

Q3.B) What are the top 10 Author ID’s with the highest average Price? Display your results in a bar graph. (3 marks)

Q3.C) Which Publisher ID had the highest average Price in the year 2180 (Hint: Use the Publication Date)? (1 mark)

Q3.D) Which two libraries do not have any Library Assistants? (1 mark)
Library Name #1:
Library Name #2:

Q3.E) Who is the oldest author? What year is this author born in? (2 marks)
Author’s Name:
Birthday Year:

Q3.F) Is there any correlation between the Print Run Size and the Price for a book? Please include a trend-line in your results. (2 marks)

Q3.G) In the year 2191, which month had the highest book price? Which month was it and what was the price? (2 marks)
Month:

Q3.H) There is one author who only uses the Mass Market Paperback as the format of their book. What is their Author ID? (2 marks)

Q3.I) Which book has the highest average number of pages? What is the Genre of this book? Create a bar graph and display the top 10 books by average number of pages. Use the following colour scheme to organize your data. (3 marks)

Book Title:
Genre:

Q3.J) Which Country of Residence has the lowest average Price? Display your results on a filled map, using the “Sunrise-Sunset Diverging” colour palette. (3 marks)
Country Name:
Average Price:

PART 4: DASHBOARD
Q4.A) Create a digital dashboard within Tableau with the following worksheets and filter your dashboard by the country, “United States”. (6 marks)
• Adjust the window of the dashboard to be customized (width: 1500px * height: 750px)
• Q3.A) Make sure your results are displayed in a tree map
• Q3.B) Make sure your results are displayed in a bar graph
• Q3.I) Make sure your results are displayed in a bar graph
• Q3.J) Make sure your results are displayed in a filled map

Q4.B) After completing the steps above, what additional data would you recommend that Vancouver Library analyze? What is another data visualization that would be helpful for Vancouver Library? (4 marks)

Q4.C) Upload your FINAL Tableau assignment file, in the twbx format via Canvas.

NOTE: missing or incorrect Tableau file = -10 marks

PART 5: VISUALIZATION
Q5.A) Review the dashboard provided below. List and briefly discuss at least 3 weaknesses of this visualization. For each weakness, please provide a suggestion for improvement. (6 marks)

Write an explanation about each quote. Othello the Moor of Venice and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Christopher

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Othello the Moor of Venice and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Christopher

Write an explanation about each quote. Othello the Moor of Venice and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Christopher

Explain and analyze how the author’s specific writing choices help fulfill the author’s purpose and connect with (or fail to connect with) the target audience.

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Im Yours by Jason Mraz

The Assignment
• Write an essay in which you analyze song lyrics
• Your paper should be a minimum length of four pages (double-spaced), plus a Works Cited page, and should be formatted in MLA style.
• To better understand the text you chose, you may need to research it to find out who the intended audience was, who the author is, where the text was published or when it was written, and any other important contextual information. If you use any information gained from this research in your paper, document it with in-text citations and on the Works Cited page.
• A successful rhetorical analysis essay will do the following:
o Describe the rhetorical situation (purpose and original target audience) surrounding the text

o Accurately (but briefly) summarize the text’s argument

o Include a clear and precise thesis statement (an analytical claim with reasons about how the text works or does not work), along with organizational cues and patterns to guide its readers

o Explain and analyze how the author’s specific writing choices help fulfill the author’s purpose and connect with (or fail to connect with) the target audience.

o Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of how rhetorical appeals are working in the text.

o Support its claims with quotations and/or paraphrases from the text.

Choose a subject from the book and write a standard essay arguing a point thesis with as many sources as needed to prove the thesis.

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Crime and Punishment

Choose a subject from the book and write a standard essay arguing a point thesis with as many sources as needed to prove the thesis. The sources can be directly from the novel as long as they help prove the well-established thesis, but they also can include outside sources too, but no number has been assigned. However, it should include a complete bibliography and be written in MLA-8.