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Comment on the widespread use of wave and tidal power as a source of renewable energy. Does it seem reasonable? Can it be a significant part of our future energy budget?

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Extra Credit Assignment

This extra credit assignment is worth up to 10% of your final grade and can only be used to help your final game.

Consider and address any one (1) of the three (3) issues below. You may only choose one. You must argue in favor of a specific position. For example, if the issue were to consider the possibility of solar panels to generate a sufficiently large amount of electricity to reduce significantly our reliance on fossil fuels within two decades, then you could argue any of several positions. You could argue that it is not feasible to do so, you could argue that it is, or you could argue some intermediate position. You must con-struct a written argument that fills fewer than three (3) written pages in 12pt font. Your position must be stated clearly and unambiguously. Your argument must be based primarily upon evidence and theory and as little as possible upon anecdotes or opinions. Your argument must cite at least two reputable sources. In general, the vast majority of blog posts, you tube videos, and even a large number of newspapers are not reputable sources. You may ask me to suggest reputable sources if you are having trouble.

The Issues:
(1) Comment on the amount of energy used in two scenarios. In the first scenario, most Americans obtain most of their consumer goods and groceries from brick-and-mortar shops. In the second scenario, most Americans obtain their consumer goods and groceries from large on-line retailers such as Amazon.
(2) Comment on the widespread use of wave and tidal power as a source of renewable energy. Does it seem reasonable? Can it be a significant part of our future energy budget?
(3) Comment on expanding nuclear power as a source of energy that produces little greenhouse gas emissions. Is it reasonable? What are the risks and rewards?

Create a fact sheet for the general public of the United States about a biomass-based product.

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English Question

Introduction
You have learned a lot in this course about biorenewable resources and the products that we make from them. Hopefully, you have an understanding of how products derived from biomass typically have less of an environmental impact than those derived from mineral resources. In this assignment, your job will be to introduce a bioproduct to the public, and explain why they should care. You will need to carefully consider everything you have learned and how you would explain it to someone without a science/environmental background.

Assignment Overview
Your task is to create a fact sheet for the general public of the United States about a biomass-based product. A quick Google search on bioproducts or plant-based products should give you some ideas on what to do your fact sheet on. The diagram at the beginning of L18 may also help inspire ideas.

Explain how statistical anomaly detection and rule-based intrusion detection are used to detect different types of intruders.

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Network and Internet Security

Explain how statistical anomaly detection and rule-based intrusion detection are used to detect different types of intruders.

An example of a host-based intrusion detection tool is the tripwire program. This is a file integrity checking tool that scans files and directories on the system on a regular basis and notifies the administrator of any changes. It uses a protected database of cryptographic checksums for each file checked and compares this value with that recomputed on each file as it is scanned. It must be configured with a list of files and directories to check, and what changes, if any, are permissible to each. It can allow, for example, log files to have new entries appended, but not for existing entries to be changed. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using such a tool? Consider the problem of determining which files should only change rarely, which files may change more often and how, and which change frequently and hence cannot be checked. Hence consider the amount of work in both the configuration of the program and on the system, administrator monitoring the responses generated.

Review two Workshop presentations for a job-specific position and create a cover letter and resume for the position.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Review two Workshop presentations for a job-specific position and create a cover letter and resume for the position. Watch two workshops and apply these steps to my resume and cover letter.

Find an open position on a job search site (Indeed.com, Monster.com, etc.) Choose a different job than the position that you wrote a cover letter for last week, and update your cover letter to apply for it. Update your resume from week 4 for the position also. Pay attention to the key words and skills that the company is looking for. Save your job-specific cover letter and resume as one document, and submit them in the drop box. Paste the URL of the job advertisement in the text box. Due Sunday by 11:59pm.

How does the statement on page 169 “I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people” relate to Charlie’s life?

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Perks of Being a Wallflower Questions 6

Module 6 pages 167-182

1.How does the statement on page 169 “I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people” relate to Charlie’s life?

2.How has Charlie matured over the course of this book? Refer to his cognitive, social-emotional, moral, and personal development.

3.Why did Bill invite Charlie to his townhouse and tell him how smart he was? Was Charlie’s reaction characteristic of his personality?

Predict what Charlie’s next few years of high school will be like without his friends. Why did Charlie get along better with kids three years older than him? Why did Charlie write letters to a stranger?

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Perks of Being a Wallflower Questions 7

Module 7  pages 183-213

1.Predict what Charlie’s next few years of high school will be like without his friends. Why did Charlie get along better with kids three years older than him?

2.Why did Charlie write letters to a stranger?

3.What did Charlie realize about Aunt Helen and his childhood? How did this experience affect him as a person and who he is?

4.What impact did Charlie’s mom, dad, brother, and sister have on his life? What about Sam, Patrick, and Bill?

5.How might Charlie’s life been different if he hadn’t met Sam and Patrick?

How and why does Harriet Beecher Stowe use sentimentality in the excerpt of Uncle Tom’s Cabin to show the brutal effects of slavery?

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Literature Question

PURPOSE OF ASSIGNMENT

This assignment is designed to help you focus on a topic from the literature we have read in Units 4 and 5 and develop an argument about that topic based upon one of the questions provided for you below. You only have to choose one of the questions for this assignment, but you will want to read through all of them to determine which question fits your understanding and knowledge the best, as well as your personal interest in the material. These questions are designed to help you identify in writing the major objectives of Units 4 and 5 and the Content Knowledge associated with the Course Objectives.

SKILLS TO ACQUIRE

This assignment will help you master several important skills necessary to performing writing tasks in college and engaging with ideas and values that are foundational to a well-rounded university education.

• Identify literary genres, major writers, and important schools of thought in American literature from the pre-colonial era to the mid-19th century.

  • Summarize, interpret, and analyze literary texts in relation to a specific argumentative thesis.
  • Utilize and extend the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills developed in ENGL 1101 and ENGL 1102.
  • Identify the cultural factors that shaped American literature and define the common concerns and values of humanity as expressed through literature.

TASKS TO COMPLETE

  • Choose one of the questions below to answer for this assignment. Please remember to copy/paste the question with your response and analysis. You should choose a question that you find interesting and believe you can answer in an engaging manner. You will want to support your response not only with good logic and explanations on your part but also with pertinent passages (short quotations are best) from the texts that pertain to the question you have chosen. Keep your response focused on answering the question; avoid plot summary.
  • Your response should be in the form of a typical essay (probably four to six paragraphs), with a short introduction, thesis statement, and supporting paragraphs with a conclusion.
  • Your essay should total at least 500 words. Use current MLA format guidelines.
  • This assignment will count 12% of your total grade for the course.

QUESTION FOR RESPONSE:

  1. How and why does Harriet Beecher Stowe use sentimentality in the excerpt of Uncle Tom’s Cabin to show the brutal effects of slavery?

What is sample mean value of heavy users? What is the p-value for testing the null hypothesis (mean comparison of ‘deathpen’ between heavy users and light users)? What is mean difference between heavy and light?

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Analysis Assignment #3

• Use EXCEL for this Assignment.
• Two people for Assignment 3.
• Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the due date.
• Credit for late assignments will be reduced by 20% for each day that they are late.
• A hard copy of each assignment is requested, unbound, corner–stapled.

Name 1:________________
Name 2:________________

Use LifeStyle.sav data (under “Assignment 3” folder in the Canvas) for this assignment.
The sample data (named by “LifeStyle” in the BlackBoard) you will use is survey data from a questionnaire collected in 1998 by Prof. Putnam at Harvard. It contains information on internet usage, political sensitive topics, and demographics.
Suppose you are the marketing manager of your favorite political party and management asks you to investigate whether the party should redirect their PR and discussion of sensitive topics to the internet.

(Total 7 points + Bonus 1 point).
0.5+1.2+1.5+1.2+1.8+0.6+1.2=8

1. Build the frequency table with variable ‘gender‘ and ’emplmerg’ and find answers for the following questions (total 0.5 points).
(a) How many respondents make annual income between $70,000 – $89,999? (0.2 point)
(b) What percentage of the sample makes annual income less than $20,000? (0.3 point)?

2. Confidence Interval. (total 1.2 points)
(a) What is the mean age? Is it a population mean or sample mean? (0.3 point)
(b) What is the 95% confidence interval for the sample mean for Age? (0.3 point)

(c)What is your interpretation? (0.3 point)
(d) What is the 99% confidence interval for the sample mean for Age? (0.3 point)

3. Mean Comparison: Suppose null hypothesis that heavy and light internet users (let “heavy users”: 12 or more times a year vs. “light users” = less than 12 time a year in this problem) have the same opinion regarding the favor of death penalty? Note, please assume unequal variance between two samples (total 1.5 points)
(a) What is sample mean value of heavy users? (0.3 point)
(b) What is the p–value for testing the null hypothesis (mean comparison of ‘deathpen’ between heavy users and light users)? (0.3 point).
(c) Reject the Null hypothesis or not? Note, use 5% as critical value for your hypothesis testing. (0.3 point)
(d) What is your interpretation based on the test result of (c)? (0.3 point)
(e) What is mean difference between heavy and light? (0.3 point)

4. ANOVA: Suppose null hypothesis that there are the same opinions regarding the favor of death penalty regardless of employment status (Total: 1.2 Points).
(a) What are the sample mean of ‘retired’ group? (0.3 point)
(b) What is the p–value for ANOVA testing? (0.3 point)
(c) What is your statistical decision (e.g., Reject or Fail to reject)? For your hypothesis testing, use 5% as critical value. (0.3 point)

(d) What is your interpretation based on the test result of (c)? (0.3 point)

5. CrossTab [Run Crosstabs in Excel]: Please use CrossTab Analysis. Let’s examine whether Liberal (“Generally speaking, would you consider yourself to be…”) is independent of Employment Status of Respondent. (total 1.8 points)
a) (0.3 point) What is the observed count number for the cell of “Generally agree yourself to be liberal” and “Retired” in the Cross tab table [Do NOT report two frequency numbers separately]?
b) Do the hypothesis testing by checking Chi–square statistics. What is the null hypothesis? (0.3 point)
c) What is the expected value for the cell of “Generally agree yourself to be liberal” and “Retired” in the CrossTab table? (0.3 point)
d) What is χ2 test statistics value? (0.3 point)
e) What is your statistical decision (e.g., Reject or Fail to reject)? For your hypothesis testing, use 5% as critical value. (0.3 point)
f) What is your interpretation of your statistical decision? (0.3 point)

6. Correlation (Use Bivariate correlation): (total 0.6 point)
a) What is correlation between the question “I am in favor of the death penalty” and “respondent’s age”? (0.3 point)
b) Let’s examine the hypothesis testing for the correlation. What is your null hypothesis? (0.3 point)

7. Regression: Construct and analyze a simple regression model with a dependent variable of “I don’t have a clue what the internet is and what it can do for me” and independent variable of “Respondents Age”. (1.2 point)
a) What is R–square value? What is your interpretation of the R–square (one sentence)? (0.3 point)
b) What is the estimated coefficient of independent variable of “Respondents Age“? Is it significant by using α = 0.05? (0.3 point)
c) Based on Coefficients table, please build the estimated simple regression line equation (0.3 point)
d) Predict the scale value of “I don’t have a clue what the internet is and what it can do for me” with the age of “70“ based on your estimated regression model (0.3 point).

Although Buddhism is able to change, adapt, and be adopted by other cultures and lifestyles, with all these changes, do you think that the original meaning of Buddhism taught by the Buddha himself can be lost or even die? Does the original meaning even matter if it loses its relevancy?

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BUDDHISM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

Discuss the following prompt:

Although Buddhism is able to change, adapt, and be adopted by other cultures and lifestyles, with all these changes, do you think that the original meaning of Buddhism taught by the Buddha himself can be lost or even die? Does the original meaning even matter if it loses its relevancy?

Provide a research paper over a Person/Company/Genre/Style from the dance world that YOU find interesting and want to know more about, 3-5 pages.

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Writing Question

Provide a research paper over a Person/Company/Genre/Style from the dance world that YOU find interesting and want to know more about, 3-5 pages (no set style for paper, include sources either within paper or as a added Page).