Category: Writing

QUESTION 1
1. Which of the following is the most reliable online source?
a. An article on an activist online magazine about how the media depicts the poor: www.everdayfeminism.com
b. The U.S. Census Bureau website showing national poverty statistics from 2015: www.census.gov
c. A social media post rating the top ten of pop culture’s poorest fictional characters: www.flavorwire.com
d. A writer’s blog about encountering poverty on the streets of Chicago: www.chicagopoor.com/blog
QUESTION 2
1. Which sentence below uses proper capitalization?
a. The planet Mars has two Moons.
b. The planet Mars has two moons.
c. The Planet Mars has two Moons.
d. The planet mars has two moons.
QUESTION 3
1. Which sentence below uses proper capitalization?
a. Frustrated, Bobby shouted to his Mom, “Ma, do you know where my warrior’s jersey is?”
b. Frustrated, Bobby shouted to his mom, “Ma, do you know where my Warrior’s jersey is?”
c. Frustrated, Bobby shouted to his Mom, “Ma, do you know where my Warrior’s jersey is?”
d. Frustrated, Bobby shouted to his mom, “ma, do you know where my Warrior’s jersey is?”
QUESTION 4
1. Which sentence below punctuates titles correctly?
a. Science Friday, on National Public Radio, is my favorite podcast; I’ve listened to all of their episodes about “squids” a million times!
b. “Science Friday,” on National Public Radio, is my favorite podcast; I’ve listened to all of their episodes about squids a million times!
c. Science Friday, on “National Public Radio,” is my favorite podcast; I’ve listened to all of their episodes about squids a million times!
d. Science Friday, on National Public Radio, is my favorite podcast; I’ve listened to all of their episodes about squids a million times!
QUESTION 5
1. Which of these sentences uses quotation marks and other punctuation correctly?
a. Whenever we were rude to other kids, our mom would remind us that “what goes around, comes around;” I didn’t understand it as a child, but now I know how true it is.
b. Whenever we were rude to other kids, our mom would remind us that “what goes around, comes around”; I didn’t understand it as a child, but now I know how true it is.
c. Whenever we were rude to other kids, our mom would remind us that “What goes around, comes around,” I didn’t understand it as a child but now I know how true it is.
d. Whenever we were rude to other kids, our mom would remind us that “what goes around, comes around” I didn’t understand it as a child, but now I know how true it is.
QUESTION 6
1. Read the following paragraph:
Some of these titles are works of noted literary merit. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was banned for its perceived racism. Beloved by Toni Morrison was banned for violence and sexual content. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger was banned for being immoral and negative. The children’s picture book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak was challenged for being dark and disturbing.
If the entire paragraph summarizes information from one source, how should this source be cited in APA style?
a. The paragraph should be indented.
b. An attributive phrase should be added to each sentence.
c. The author and year of publication of the source should be given in parentheses at the end of the paragraph.
d. Quotation marks should be placed around the information from the source.
QUESTION 7
1. Read the following paragraph:
The ocean is an important source of human food. According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, more than twenty percent of the global population gets the majority of its protein from seafood. But ocean pollution threatens to cripple this vital resource. Nowhere is this clearer than the fishing ports of southern Vietnam, where industrial runoff has filled local waters with toxins. Area fisherman say the few fish they can still catch look and smell too strange for buyers, and they can no longer make a living fishing.
What type of evidence is used to support the claim that “ocean pollution threatens to cripple this vital resource”?
a. facts and statistics
b. expert opinion
c. no evidence
d. anecdotal evidence
QUESTION 8
1. Read the following paragraph:
The best way to make chili is with a long, slow simmer to give the flavors time to deepen and blend. After roasting the peppers and browning the meat, put all the ingredients into a heavy pot and cook on medium-low heat for 3 hours.
What type of evidence is used to support the claim that “The best way to make chili is with a long, slow simmer to give the flavors time to deepen and blend”?
a. anecdotal evidence
b. facts and statistics
c. expert opinion
d. no evidence
QUESTION 9
1. Read the following thesis:
Hiring former prison inmates is good for business.
Which source below would be the most credible to support this claim?
a. A 2005 paper in a respected psychology journal describing proven strategies for integrating inmates into a workplace with non-inmates.
b. An interview with a businessman praising the dedication and loyalty of inmates he has hired.
c. A list of well-known corporations that have policies promoting the hiring of former inmates.
d. A 2014 Bureau of Labor Statistics report on the turnover rate and productivity of former inmates.
QUESTION 10
1. Which of the sources below would be the most credible one to use in an essay describing the experiences of immigrants who went through Ellis Island in the first half of the 1900s?
a. A book published in 1960 that contains transcripts of interviews with immigrants who went through Ellis Island.
b. A fiction story that is set in the early 1900s and traces an immigrant’s journey through Ellis Island.
c. A 2014 article describing the experiences of the author’s father

1. In Southern Kongo, a Bantu language spoken in Angola, the alveolar segments [t], [s], [z] are in complementary distribution with their postalveolar counterparts [tS], ], [3], as shown in the following words: tobola to bore a hole tfina to cut tanu five tfiba banana kesoka to be cut kofi lion kasu emaciatedn nselele termite kunezulu heaven azimola alms nzwetu our lolon 3i to wash house zevo then zenga to cut 3ima to stretch (a) State the distribution of each pair of segments. (Assume that the non-occurrence of [t] before [e] is an accidental gap.) The first one has been done for you as an example. Example: [t]-[tf]: [t] occurs before [o], [a] and [u]; [tf] occurs before [i] [s]-[S]: [z]-[3]: (b) Using considerations of simplicity, which symbol should be used as the underlying phoneme for each pair of non-palatal and palatal segments in Southern Kongo? (c) State in your own words the one phonological rule that will derive all the phonetic segments from the phonemes. Do not state a separate rule for each phoneme; a general rule can be stated that will apply to all three phonemes you listed in (b). Try to give a formal statement of your rule.

Identify how each of these words were created
Chillax
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Sonar
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Laser
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PNP
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Lifehack
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Confucianism
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Ship (as in to ship a package bought abroad)
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Smartwatch
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Activism
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Liaise
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Identify the parts of speech in the sentence. It is fill in the blank and not every word will be used and some might be used twice.
The options are:
a. gerund
b. 3rd person singular
c. common noun
d. infinitive
e. reflexive pronoun
f. adverb
g. conjunction
h. conjunctive adverb
i. preposition
j. adjective
k. subordinating conjunction
l. linking verb/past
m. possessive noun
n. proper noun
o. correlative conjunction
p. action verb/past
q. helping verb
r. article
s. 1st person singular
t. relative pronoun
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The Lamb BY WILLIAM BLAKE Little Lamb who made thee           Dost thou know who made thee  Gave thee life & bid thee feed.  By the stream & o’er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing wooly bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice!           Little Lamb who made thee           Dost thou know who made thee           Little Lamb I’ll tell thee,          Little Lamb I’ll tell thee! He is called by thy name, For he calls himself a Lamb:  He is meek & he is mild,  He became a little child:  I a child & thou a lamb,  We are called by his name.          Little Lamb God bless thee.           Little Lamb God bless thee. – – – – – The Tyger  BY WILLIAM BLAKE Tyger Tyger, burning bright,  In the forests of the night;  What immortal hand or eye,  Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies.  Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain,  In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp,  Dare its deadly terrors clasp!  When the stars threw down their spears  And water’d heaven with their tears:  Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? Tyger Tyger burning bright,  In the forests of the night:  What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
The Scarlet Letter: Chap. 7-8 Pearl: Lamb or Tiger? 1. Read William Blake’s poems The Lamb and The Tyger, and observe the
traits that Blake gives each animal. What distinction does he make between the two animals? List two traits and a quote from each
poem to support your answer. The Lamb Trait Quotation Explanation

Reference
https://medium.com/thrive-global/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3
What does Tristan Harris mean when he “technology is hijacking your mind?” Explain his theories as well as give at least 2 specific examples from your own personal experience with the online world.

Thesis Statement: Subject A: Traditional teenagers Point 1: Use of technological gadgets Subject B: Modern teenagers Subject A:
Traditional teenagers Point 2: Subject B: Modern teenagers Subject A: Traditional teenagers Point 3: Subject B: Modern teenagers
Subject A: Traditional teenagers Point 4: Subject B: Modern teenagers Conclusion:

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Excerpt from Bartolome de las Casas’
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
: CUBA
In 1511 the Spanish set foot on Cuba. This island, which, as we have said, stretched for a distance as great as that which separates Valladolid from Rome, was home to a great many people. The Spanish set about treating them all in the manner we have already described, only even more cruelly. A number of extraordinary incidents took place here. One of the leading local lords, a cacique who went by the name of Hatuey, had fled to the island from Hispaniola with many of his people in order to escape the miseries that arose from the inhuman treatment meted out to the natives of that island by the Spanish. When he heard that the Christians had now switched their attention to Cuba, he gathered most if not all his people about him and addressed them, saying: ‘You know that rumour has it that the Christians are coming to this island, and you already know what they have done to the lord so-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so. What they did on Haiti (which is another name for Hispaniola) they will do again here. Does any of you know why it is that they behave in this way?’ And when they answered him: ‘No, unless it be that they are innately cruel and evil’, he replied: ‘It is not simply that. They have a God whom they worship and adore, and it is in order to get that God from us so that they can worship Him that they conquer us and kill us.’ He had beside him, as he spoke, a basket filled with gold jewellery and he said:
‘Here is the God of the Christians. If you agree, we will do
areitos
(which is their word for certain kinds of traditional dance) in honour of this God and it may be that we shall please Him and He will order the Christians to leave us unharmed.’ They all shouted: ‘So be it, so be it.’ And after they had danced before this god until they were dropping from exhaustion, the lord Hatuey addressed them once again, saying: ‘Mark you: if we keep this God about us, they will kill us in order to get their hands on Him. Let us throw Him into this river.’ And they were all agreed, and so they threw the god into a great river nearby.
This same cacique and lord knew the Spaniards and their ways only too well and he fled from them once they arrived on the island of Cuba, only resorting to outright resistance when they actually tracked him down. But, eventually, he was captured and, although his only crime was that he had tried to escape the clutches of these cruel and iniquitous monsters because he knew only too well that they were out to kill him and that, if he did not defend himself, they would hound him and all his people to death, the Spaniards’ verdict was that he should be burned alive. Once he was tied to the stake, a Franciscan friar who was present, a saintly man, told him as much as he could in the short time permitted by his executioners about the Lord and about our Christian faith, all of which was new to him. The friar told him that, if he would only believe what he was now hearing, he would go to Heaven there to enjoy glory and eternal rest, but that, if he would not, he would be consigned to Hell, where he would endure everlasting pain and torment. The lord Hatuey thought for a short while and then asked the friar whether Christians went to Heaven. When the reply came that good ones do, he retorted, without need for further reflection, that, if that was the case, then he chose to go to Hell to ensure that he would never again have to clap eyes on those cruel brutes. This is just one example of the reputation and honour that our Lord and our Christian faith have earned as a result of the actions of those ‘Christians’ who have sailed to the Americas.
On one occasion, when the locals had come some ten leagues out from a large settlement in order to receive us and regale us with victuals and other gifts, and had given us loaves and fishes and any other foodstuffs they could provide, the Christians were suddenly inspired by the Devil and, without the slightest provocation, butchered, before my eyes, some three thousand souls – men, women and children – as they sat there in front of us. I saw that day atrocities more terrible than any living man has ever seen nor ever thought to see.
Only a few days later, with the whole island still reeling at news of this massacre and acting on assurances I obtained from our commander, I sent messages to all the nobles of Havana province, as they had all heard of me and knew I could be trusted, assuring them that there was no reason to be afraid and that no harm would befall them if they came to meet us. When we arrived in the province, twenty-one local lords and caciques did indeed make up a welcoming party. But the commander immediately seized them, thereby breaking the promise I had given, and was all for burning them alive the very next day, saying that there was nothing wrong with doing so because, given time, they were bound to do something that merited such punishment. I had a difficult job keeping them from the stake, but in the end they did all make good their escape.
Once all the inhabitants of this island found themselves in the same hopeless predicament as had those on Hispaniola – that is, they were either enslaved or foully murdered – some began to flee into the hills while others were in such despair that they took their own lives. Men and women hanged themselves and even strung up their own children. As a direct result of the barbarity of one Spaniard (a man I knew personally) more than two hundred locals committed suicide, countless thousands in all dying in this way.
There was one royal official on the island who, when he was allotted three hundred natives, worked them so hard that, at the end of three months, only thirty – that is to say, just one tenth of the original number – were still alive, the other two hundred and seventy having perished down the mines. Later, he received another consignment of much the same number, or even more, and he saw them off, too. The more he received, the more he killed, until eventually he himself died and the Devil took his soul.
During the three or four months I was there, more than seven thousand children died of hunger, after their parents had been shipped off to the mines, and I saw many other horrors also.
It was later decided to hunt down the natives who had fled into the mountains, and the subsequent hunting parties were responsible for carnage beyond belief. Thus it was that the whole of the island was devastated and depopulated, and it now affords, as we discovered on a recent visit, a moving and heartrending spectacle, transformed, as it has been, into one vast, barren wasteland.
QUESTIONS: (Short answers each)
What did the Taíno chief Hatuey say to the priest who spoke to him before he died?
What are some of the abuses that las Casas documents in this excerpt?
How does de las Casas feel about the Spaniards’ representation of Christianity?
According to Hatuey, who is the god of the Christians?

Ben Healy’s essay, ” Gossip is Good.”
Word on the street is that gossip is the worst. An Ann Landers advice column once characterized it as “the faceless demon that breaks hearts and ruins careers.” The Talmud describes it as a “three-pronged tongue” that kills three people: the teller, the listener, and the person being gossiped about. And Blaise Pascal observed, not unreasonably, that “if people really knew what others said about them, there would not be four friends left in the world.” Convincing as these indictments seem, however, a significant body of research suggests that gossip may in fact be healthy.
It’s a good thing, too, since gossip is pretty pervasive. Children tend to be seasoned gossips by the age of 5, [1] and gossip as most researchers understand it—talk between at least two people about absent others—accounts for about two-thirds of conversation. [2] In the 1980s, the journalist Blythe Holbrooke took a stab at bringing rigor to the subject, tongue firmly in cheek, by positing the Law of Inverse Accuracy:
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) to the power of its unverifiability (
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) minus the reluctance someone might feel about repeating it out of taste (
t
). [3]
Despite gossip’s dodgy reputation, a surprisingly small share of it—as little as 3 to 4 percent—is actually malicious. [4] And even that portion can bring people together. Researchers at the University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma found that if two people share negative feelings about a third person, they are likely to feel closer to each other than they would if they both felt positively about him or her. [5]
Gossip may even make us better people. A team of Dutch researchers reported that hearing gossip about others made research subjects more reflective; positive gossip inspired self-improvement efforts, and negative gossip made people prouder of themselves. [6] In another study, the worse participants felt upon hearing a piece of negative gossip, the more likely they were to say they had learned a lesson from it. [7] Negative gossip can also have a prosocial effect on those who are gossiped about. Researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley found that once people were ostracized from a group due to reputed selfishness, they reformed their ways in an attempt to regain the approval of the people they had alienated. [8]
By far the most positive assessment of gossip, though, comes courtesy of the anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar. Once upon a time, in Dunbar’s account, our primate ancestors bonded through grooming, their mutual back-scratching ensuring mutual self-defense in the event of attack by predators. But as hominids grew more intelligent and more social, their groups became too large to unite by grooming alone. That’s where language—and gossip, broadly defined—stepped in. [9] Dunbar argues that idle chatter with and about others gave early humans a sense of shared identity and helped them grow more aware of their environment, thus incubating the complex higher functioning that would ultimately yield such glories of civilization as the Talmud, Pascal, and Ann Landers.
So the next time you’re tempted to dish the dirt, fear not—you may actually be promoting cooperation, boosting others’ self-esteem, and performing the essential task of the human family. That is what I heard, anyway.
Please read the essay above and answer the following question.
1)   Does Healy have a THESIS? Where, if at all, does he state his main idea? What seems to be his OURPOSE in writing?
2)   What is the “Law of Inverse Accuracy (par.2)? Is it a real academic theory? why does Healy cite it?
3)   Although Healy offers details about most of the sources he cites, he mentions others- Ann Landers, the Talmud, Blaise Pascal- without explaining who or what they are. Why? What assumption does he make about his readers’ interests and knowledge? Must one be familiar with the particulars of the texts Healy reference to understand his point?