Category: Writing

After reading David Foster Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster” and Michael Pollan’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” what themes you think are relevant to the works read.
2) Which of those themes would like to explore more?
3) Construct a one- to two-sentence thesis based on that one theme.
4) Summarize one reading. Quote one sentence from it that connects to the one- o two-sentence thesis statement. Paraphrase that quote and explain how it connects to that thesis.

4. Why is Utterson uneasy about making this promise to Jekyll? Why does he agree to do so anyway? How does this link into the
Victorian context of the respectable gentleman?

Journal 4: The 18th Century and Satire
One of the conventions of a style emerging (or re-emerging) in the 18th Century during the Age of Reason was satire. In the module, you learned about satire.  However, in the 18th Century, satire was employed as a method of ridiculing the over-sensitivity of society and the lack of decorum of politicians.
After reading excerpts from
Gulliver’s Travels
, “The Rape of the Lock,” and “A Modest Proposal,” explain your understanding of 18th Century satire.  How does it relate to the modern definition of satire?  What is being satirized in the three texts of study?  Why is satire an effective method of persuasion in these cases?

1. What do you call a racquet sport that uses shuttlecock in playing the game? A. Arnis C. Basketball B. Badminton D. Football
2. What is the original or ancient name of badminton game? A. Badminton C. Piina B. Paana D. Poona
3. What will you used to hit the shuttlecock during the game? A. Court C. Post B. Net D. Racket
4. How many goose feathers are used in making a standard shuttlecock? A. 15 C. 17 B. 16 D. 18
5. What do you call the event played in badminton composed of a men and women? A. Men singles C. Men triple B. Men doubles D. Mixed doubles
6. What is the standard length of a badminton racket that you can use? A. 23.77 inches C. 25.77 inches B. 24.77 inches D. 26.77 inches
7. What is the term used when you hit the shuttlecock to start the game or play? A. Backhand C. Rally B. Forehand D. Service
8. What grip will you used, when your opponent returns the shuttle in your right side if you are a left-handed player? A. Backhand C. Rally

What is your favorite story? List at least three (3) reasons why you consider that story your favorite. Think of how you can persuade your classmates to read and, at the very least, like it as well. Retell as if you are the author him/herself. Let your imagination guide you in your retelling; unleash your inner bard and let your actions supplement the spoken word.

B.    Combine the following sentences using coordination or subordination.
1.    The guru rejected his dentist’s offer of novocaine. He could transcend dental medication.
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2.    John failed his literature test. John incorrectly identified Harper Lee as the author of the south-of-the-border classic Tequila Mockingbird.
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3.    Peggy Sue’s house burned. She tapped a “9.” She couldn’t find “11” on the phone keypad.
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4.    The police had only a few clues. They suspected Jean and David had strangled each other in a desperate struggle over control of the thermostat.
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5.    Ken’s favorite movie is Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988). A film critic called it “a pinhead chiller.”

Read the poem below and answer questions 8 to 14.
In Time of Silver Rain
In time of silver rain
The earth
Puts forth new life again,
Green grasses grow
And flowers lift their heads,
And over all the plain
The wonder spreads
Of life,
Of life,
Of life!
In time of silver rain
The butterflies
Lift silken wings
To catch a rainbow cry,
And trees put forth
New leaves to sing
In joy beneath the sky
As down the roadway
Passing boys and girls,
Go singing, too,
In time of silver rain
When spring
And life
Are new.
by Langston Hughes
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What is the mood of the poem?
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a.
anxious
b.
hostile
c.
amusing
d.
happy
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What is the main idea expressed through the speaker?
Select one:
a.
He wishes it would not rain so much.
b.
He likes the way the rain makes things silky.
c.
He does not like the boys and girls singing in the rain.
d.
He feels happy that spring has arrived.
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The line “And flowers lift their heads,” is personification figuratively describing what actual activity?
Select one:
a.
flowers looking at the sky
b.
flowers blooming
c.
flowers waking up
d.
flowers wilting
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What do the passing boys and girls share with the trees?
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a.
They are new
b.
They are catching rainbows
c.
They are singing
d.
They are passing down the roadway
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The words “put forth” in the line “The earth puts forth new life again” mean
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a.
forgives
b.
wants
c.
has
d.
produces
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The line “To catch a rainbow cry” is an example of
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a.
metaphor
b.
simile
c.
personification
d.
hyperbole
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The change that occurs from the beginning to the end of the poem is
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a.
sadness to happiness
b.
past to present
c.
land to life
d.
winter to spring

There’s 9 questions with multiple choices. It’s a Academic Integrity Quiz. I’ve attached the images below
The Academic Integrity Quiz {gm- Question 1: [1 mark] Course XYZ has many assignments and lab reports. Although students are encouraged to discuss ideas with their lab partners course work is to be completed independently. Student X was writing a lab report and was running short on time. She had been rewording some ideas from web materials and included this information in her report, however, she was rushed and didn’t save any of the URLs. Her lab partner had talked about the results and together they decided to alter their results just a little to ?t the pattern they were expecting. To make sure that their lab reports were consistent they worked together and submitted the exact same results section. Did student X demonstrate academic integrity? 1-0 No because she didn’t cite the web materials, changed the results, and submitted the same work as her partner. 2-0 No because she didn’t cite the web materials, changed the results, and did the work in a rush. 3-0 Yes because she had to get the right lab results to get full marks and when you are in a hurry it is better to submit something than nothing at all. Question 2: [1 mark] In order to include a direct quote from another source in your writing you must: 1-0 Cite its source, either by way of parenthetical documentation or by means of a footnote. 20 Cite its source and at the end of your work assemble a list of the works that you have cited in your paper. 3-0 Place quotation marks around the material that you are quoting, cite its source and include it in a list of works at the end of your paper.
Question 3: [1 mark] If you are not sure whether a particular course of action might result in academic misconduct the best thing to do is: 1-0 Go ahead with it as you are likely to be excused because you did not know what to do in the situation. 2-0 Talk to your professor, teaching assistant or a librarian to ?nd out how to be sure to avoid academic misconduct. 3-0 Go ahead with it because no one will notice because professors are very busy and have many papers to mark. Question 4: [1 mark] What are the key points of York’s Senate Policy on Academic Honesty? 1-0 States the general obligation for all members of the University to maintain the highest standards of academic honesty. Z-O De?nes the types of conduct that are regarded as academic offenses, including plagiarism, cheating, impersonation, and other forms of academic misconduct. 3-0 Outlines the procedures for dealing with students who are accused of academic dishonesty and the penalties that can be applied on those found guilty. 4-0 All of the above.
Question 5: [1 mark] Original Passage from Student Paper the Book The way in which men As individuals express their produce their means of life, so they are write Karl subsistence depends Marx and Friedrich Engels in ?rst of all on the nature The German Ideology (7″). While of the actual means many of us would agree with they ?nd in existence this statement as a matter of and have to reproduce. fact, we often do not make the This mode of association to speci?c modes production must not be of production. considered simply as being the reproduction of the physical existence of the individuals. Rather it is a de?nite form of activity of these individuals’ a de?nite form of expressing their life, a de?nite mode of fife on their part. As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production. Bibliographic Information: Bibliography: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The German Ideology. The German Ideology. International Publishers: New International Publishers: New York, 1947 (7). York, 1947. Did the student demonstrate academic integrity? 1.0No, because it quotes another person’s actual words and credits the source but does not use quotation marks. 2.0Yes, because it quotes another person’s actual words using quotation marks and credits the source. 3.0No, because the student has falsi?ed information or misrepresented the author’s original position, theory or ideas. 4.0Yes, because the author’s ideas, opinion or theory are used and put into the students’ words and are appropriately credited.
Question 6: [1 mark] Student X was writing a paper on topic Y. He decided to try to ?nd information on this topic and searched Google. The ?rst item that appeared in his list of results was an article from Wikipedia. While writing his paper Student X would directly cut and paste paragraphs from the Wikipedia article into his paper without using quotations. Did student X demonstrate academic integrity? 1.0Yes, because Wikipedia articles have no author, therefore, anyone can use them. 2.0Yes, because Wikipedia is like any other encyclopedia and contains only common knowledge so it is not necessary to quote or give credit to the source. 3.0No, because he plagiarized the material from Wikipedia and should have used quotation marks and cited the source. 4.0No, because he should have never used Wikipedia in the ?rst place because it is not a reliable source. Question 7: [1 mark] Which of the following (?ctitious) examples demonstrates plagiarism? 1.0According to Erin Lam (2001), ?sh swim much farther in clean water (28). 2.087% of students who graduated from a Canadian University in 2005 found a job after graduation. 3.0″Happiness and chocolate are interdependent” (Plat, 1956, p. 42). 4.0Dag Feruzal (1999) writes, “It’s only in spring that you ?nd the best snowdrops” (1 B7). 5.0The sun rises in the East and sets in the West. Question 8: [1 mark] It was a course requirement to attend and review a performance of X. Tickets were expensive so a group of 4 students got together and decided that one of them would attend the performance and then would report back to the group what they had seen through Facebook. Each member of the group then reworded the Facebook entry and submitted the reviews as their own work. Did these students demonstrate academic integrity? 1.0Yes, because they re-wrote the Facebook entry in their own words. 2.0Yes, because they worked as a group and professors encourage students to work together. 3.0No, because they used Facebook to work as a group and professors don I’t want students doing academic work in Facebook. 4.0No, because they colluded and fabricated a review of a performance
Question 6: [1 mark] Student X was writing a paper on topic Y. He decided to try to ?nd information on this topic and searched Google. The ?rst item that appeared in his list of results was an article from Wikipedia. While writing his paper Student X would directly cut and paste paragraphs from the Wikipedia article into his paper without using quotations. Did student X demonstrate academic integrity? 1.0Yes, because Wikipedia articles have no author, therefore, anyone can use them. 2.0Yes, because Wikipedia is like any other encyclopedia and contains only common knowledge so it is not necessary to quote or give credit to the source. 3.0No, because he plagiarized the material from Wikipedia and should have used quotation marks and cited the source. 4.0No, because he should have never used Wikipedia in the ?rst place because it is not a reliable source. Question ?: [1 mark] Which of the following (?ctitious) examples demonstrates plagiarism? 1.0According to Erin Lam (2001), ?sh swim much farther in clean water (28). 2.087% of students who graduated from a Canadian University in 2005 found a job after graduation. 3.0″Happiness and chocolate are interdependentll (Plat, 1956, p. 42). 4.0Dag Feruzal (1999) writes, “It’s only in spring that you ?nd the best snowdrops” (1 B7). 5.0The sun rises in the East and sets in the West. Question 3: [1 mark] It was a course requirement to attend and review a performance of X. Tickets were expensive so a group of 4 students got together and decided that one of them would attend the performance and then would report back to the group what they had seen through Facebook. Each member of the group then reworded the Facebook entry and submitted the reviews as their own work. Did these students demonstrate academic integrity? 1.0Yes, because they re-wrote the Facebook entry in their own words. 2.0Yes, because they worked as a group and professors encourage students to work together. 3.0No, because they used Facebook to work as a group and professors don I’t want students doing academic work in Facebook. 4.0No, because they colluded and fabricated a review of a performance they did not attend.
Question 9: [1 mark] After the professor notices that the reviews are surprisingly similar. Would the student who attended the performance and posted the review on Facebook be held responsible? 1.0Yes, because they had helped the other students in the group to violate academic integrity. 2.0No, because they had done the work requested by the professor and they are not responsible for what the other students in the group submitted. 3.0No, because anything written on Facebook is common knowledge and can, therefore, be shared or copied. Question 10: [1 mark] The purpose of documenting sources is to: 1.0Demonstrate that you have researched and incorporated your findings into your own argument. 2.05how respect for intellectual property. 3.0Enable the reader to locate the sources of information and pursue further reading or investigation on the topic. 4.0AII of the above.

Soundtrack Elements: Sound Effects
Raging Bull:
another amazing use of sound effects and hierarchy in one of Scorsese’s montages.
?      How many locations do you see in the clip—just list them.
?      Do the sound-levels [sound hierarchy] always correspond with different locations in this clip?
?      What do the blows [Foley] during the fight sequence sound like?
?      Finally, where/when do you hear subjective sound; i.e., sound that might be the inside of DeNiro’s head? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tYaznG6i_w

Short-response prompt (15 points)
Read the following excerpt from Act II, Scene 1 of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun:
Time: Later the same day. At rise: RUTH is ironing again. She has the radio going. Presently BENEATHA’S bedroom door opens and RUTH’S mouth falls and she puts down the iron in fascination.
RUTH What have we got on tonight!
BENEATHA (Emerging grandly from the doorway so that we can see her thoroughly robed in the costume Asagai brought) You are looking at what a well-dressed Nigerian woman wears — (She parades for RUTH, her hair completely hidden by the headdress; she is coquettishly fanning herself with an ornate oriental fan, mistakenly more like Butterfly than any Nigerian that ever was) Isn’t it beautiful? (She promenades to the radio and, with an arrogant flourish, turns off the good loud blues that is playing) Enough of this assimilationist junk! (RUTH follows her with her eyes as she goes to the phonograph and puts on a record and turns and waits ceremoniously for the music to come up. Then, with a shout —) OCOMOGOSIAY!
(RUTH jumps. The music comes up, a lovely Nigerian melody, BENEATHA listens, enraptured, her eyes far away — “back to the past.” She begins to dance. RUTH is dumbfounded)
Explain how stage directions add to the reader’s understanding of the characters in this excerpt. Be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.
2. Short-response prompt (15 points)
Read the following excerpt from the ending of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun:
WALTER (A beat. The tension hangs; thenWALTER steps back from it) Yeah. Well — what I mean is that we come from people who had a lot of pride. I mean — we are very proud people. And that’s my sister over there and she’s going to be a doctor — and we are very proud —
LINDNER Well — I am sure that is very nice, but —
WALTER What I am telling you is that we called you over here to tell you that we are very proud and that this — (Signaling toTRAVIS) Travis, come here. (TRAVIS crosses and WALTER draws him before him facing the man) This is my son, and he makes the sixth generation our family in this country. And we have all thought about your offer —
LINDNER Well, good . . . good —
WALTER And we have decided to move into our house because my father — my father — he earned it for us brick by brick. (MAMAhas her eyes closed and is rocking back and forth as though she were in church, with her head nodding the Amen yes) We don’t want to make no trouble for nobody or fight no causes, and we will try to be good neighbors. And that’s all we got to say about that. (He looks the man absolutely in the eyes) We don’t want your money. (He turns and walks away)
LINDNER (Looking around at all of them) I take it then — that you have decided to occupy . . .
BENEATHA That’s what the man said.
LINDNER (To MAMA in her reverie) Then I would like to appeal to you, Mrs. Younger. You are older and wiser and understand things better I am sure . . .
MAMA I am afraid you don’t understand. My son said we was going to move and there ain’t nothing left for me to say. (Briskly) You know how these young folks is nowadays, mister. Can’t do   a thing with ’em! (As he opens his mouth, she rises) Good-bye.
LINDNER (Folding up his materials) Well — if you are that final about it . . . there is nothing left for me to say. (He finishes, almost ignored by the family, who are concentrating on WALTER LEE. At the doorLINDNER halts and looks around) I sure hope you people know what you’re getting into.
Identify two themes that are clearly developed in this excerpt.How does the author develop the two themes over the course of this excerpt? Be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.
3. Short-response prompt (15 points)
Read the following excerpt from the ending of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun:
MAMA (Quietly, woman to woman) He finally come into his manhood today, didn’t he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain . . .
RUTH (Biting her lip lest her own pride explode in front of MAMA) Yes, Lena.
(WALTER’S voice calls for them raucously)
WALTER (Off stage) Y’all come on! These people charges by the hour, you know!
MAMA (Waving RUTH out vaguely) All right, honey — go on down. I be down directly.
(RUTH hesitates, then exits. MAMA stands, at last alone in the living room, her plant on the table before her as the lights start to come down. She looks around at all the walls and ceilings and suddenly, despite herself, while the children call below, a great heaving thing rises in her and she puts her fist to her mouth to stifle it, takes a final desperate look, pulls her coat about her, pats her hat and goes out. The lights dim down. The door opens and she comes back in, grabs her plant, and goes out for the last time) Curtain
How does this excerpt contribute to the theme of A Raisin in the Sun? What aesthetic impact did the author intend it to have on the reader? Be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer