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Page 132: Primarily girls are told by advertisers that what is most important about them is their perfume. their clothing. their bodies. their beauty. Their “essence” is their underwear. “He says the first thing he noticed about you is your great personality.” says an ad featuring a very young woman in tight jeans. The copy continues. “He lies.” “if this is your idea of a great catch.” says an ad for a cosmetic kit from a teen magazine featuring a cute boy. “this is your tackle box.” Even very little girls are offered makeup and toys like Special Night Barbie. which shows them how to dress up for a night out. Girls of all ages get the message that they must be ?awlessly beautiful and. above all these days. they must be thin. – Even more destructively. they get the message that this is possible. that. with enough effort and self-sacri?ce. they can achieve this ideal. Thus many girls spend enormous amounts of time and energy attempting to achieve something that is not oniy trivial but also completely unattainable. The glossy images of ?awlessly beautiful and extremely thin women that surround us would not have the impact they do if we did not live in a culture that encourages us to believe we can and should remake our bodies into perfect commodities. These images play into the American belief of transformation and ever-new possibilities. no longer via hard work but via purchase of the right products. Kilbourne. Jean. {1999). ‘The more you subtract. the more you add’: Cutting girls down to size. In Can’t buy my love: How advertising changes the way we think and feel (pp. 128-154}. New York. NY: Simon 8; Schuster.

1. Why does Rosemary want to take the girl from the street home with her? Is it really just to offer her a cup of tea? Cite evidence from the text to support your answer.
2. Why does Rosemary like the enamel box she discovers at the antique shop? Cite evidence from the text to support your answer.
3. How does Rosemary react when Philip comments that the girl Rosemary brought home is “astonishingly pretty”? Why does she react this way? Cite evidence from the text to support your answer.
4. Which context clues helped you determine the meaning of the word discreet as it is used in the text? Write your definition of discreet here, and indicate which clues helped you figure out the meaning of the word.
5. The Latin word crudus means “raw or rough.” With this in mind, write your best definition of the word crude as it is used in the text. Indicate which context clues helped you determine the word’s meaning.

A Streetcar Named Desire Scenes 7 – 8
1. When Stanley says, “Soaking in a hot tub,” (scene 7) his tone is MOST LIKELY
Select one:
a.sincere   b.  sulking    c.   sarcastic   d.  sympathetic
2.The line “Some canary-bird, huh!” (Stanley:scene 7) is an example of
Select one:
a.simile   b.  metaphor  c.imagery  d.allusion
3.The many exclamation marks used in this play tell the reader that the characters
Select one:
a.are always yelling to be heard over city noise  b.  can only show their true emotion when they are yelling
c.feel that the only way to be noticed is to be dramatic   d. are passionate about whatever the current topic is
4.Blanche’s FINAL downfall in Laurel was when she
Select one:
a.became “out-of-bounds” at the army camp  b. had a relationship with one of her students
c.lost all of the family money and Belle Reve  d. had to return her room key at the Flamingo Hotel
5.Mitch is not going to come to Blanche’s birthday because
Select one:
a.Stanley told him about her reputation in Laurel
b.his mother is too sick and he has to look after her
c.he was given the opportunity to work a double shift
d.he feels too much pressure from Blanche to get married
6.The character that is MOST symbolized by the parrot (scene 8) is
Select one:
a.Blanche
b.Mitch
c.Stanley
d.Stella
7.In scene 8, Stanley is angry with Stella because
Select one:
a.she is working too hard while being pregnant
b.Blanche has overstayed her welcome and Stella has done nothing about it
c.she waits hand and foot on Blanche rather than on him
d.ever since Blanche arrived, she has become more disrespectful to him
8.The words HOITY-TOITY in “Hoity-toity, describing me as an ape” (Stanley: scene 8) means
Select one:
a.snobbishly
b.friendly
c.impolitely
d.rudely
9.Of the following, the sentence that BEST describes Stanley in scene 8 is that he is
Select one:
a.loyal to his friends
b.passionate towards his wife
c.down-to-earth and realistic
d.forceful in his opinion of Blanche
10.Stanley BEST shows that he is the man of the house by
Select one:
a.demonstrating how he completes kitchen chores
b.telling Mac that he is the bowling captain
c.buying a bus ticket behind Stella’s back
d.taking his wife to the hospital

PART A:
Write a paragraph of 200-250 words describing the mistakes discovered in the letter below. The description should focus on the attributes of good values and attitudes which are not displayed in the letter.
CableNet Berhad
No 1, Persiaran Kenanga
50050 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
30/11/2019
Ms. Reena Kaur,
Financial Controller Officer
Perdana Indah Sdn. Bhd.
20 Jalan Pandan,
Desa Square.
47100 Cyberjaya
Dear Mrs. Kaur,
The purpose of this is to convey to you my utmost sincere apologies for any inconvenience you may have experienced last month with respect to the installation of your Internet high speed service.
I just returned from vacation this week and found your file in my in-basket. As soon as I reviewed your case, it was clear that your May 20th request for a change in service might have somehow slipped through the cracks. The only possible explanation I can give is that we have recently had a number of key staff changes which might have resulted in your letter being overlooked. Consequently, I have directed our Installation Group to contact you by the end of this week to set up a time convenient to you when they could go to your house and install your new router and make the necessary adjustments to your software.
Because of this serious oversight, and as a testament to our appreciation of you being our customer, we are going to provide you with your first three months of high speed service free of charge. Therefore, your account will not be billed until October of this year.
Your case is definitely not typical of CableNet’s level of customer service. We continue to be committed to providing you and all of our valuable customers with the highest standards of service in the industry. We look forward in time to having your problem fixed.
If you have any concerns please don’t hesitate to contact me at 012-3456789.
Yours,
Meeza
Meeza Othman
Manager, Customer Service
PART B:
Rewrite the letter to display the attributes of good values and attitudes required in business correspondence. Use an appropriate format for your letter.

Article to be used, “The False Promise of Meritocracy,” by Marianne Cooper, The Atlantic, Dec. 2015,
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/12/meritocracy/418074/
Please help me with a summary of the following and questions.
Managers who believe themselves to be fair and objective judges of ability often overlook women and minorities who are deserving of job offers and pay increases.
Summary:
Americans are, compared with populations of other countries, particularly enthusiastic about the idea of meritocracy, a system that rewards merit (ability + effort) with success. Americans are more likely to believe that people are rewarded for their intelligence and skills and are less likely to believe that family wealth plays a key role in getting ahead. And Americans’ support for meritocratic principles has remained stable over the last two decades despite growing economic inequality, recessions, and the fact that there is less mobility in the United States than in most other industrialized countries.
Summary:
This strong commitment to meritocratic ideals can lead to suspicion of efforts that aim to support particular demographic groups. For example, initiatives designed to recruit or provide development opportunities to under-represented groups often come under attack as “reverse discrimination.” Some companies even justify not having diversity policies by highlighting their commitment to meritocracy. If a company evaluates people on their skills, abilities, and merit, without consideration of their gender, race, sexuality etc., and managers are objective in their assessments then there is no need for diversity policies, the thinking goes.
Summary:
But is this true? Do commitments to meritocracy and objectivity lead to more fair workplaces?
Summary:
Emilio J. Castilla, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, has explored how meritocratic ideals and HR practices like pay-for-performance play out in organizations, and he’s come to some unexpected conclusions.
Summary:
In one company study, Castilla examined almost 9,000 employees who worked as support-staff at a large service-sector company. The company was committed to diversity and had implemented a merit-driven compensation system intended to reward high-level performance and to reward all employees equitably.
Summary:
But Castilla’s analysis revealed some very non-meritocratic outcomes. Women, ethnic minorities, and non-U.S.-born employees received a smaller increase in compensation compared with white men, despite holding the same jobs, working in the same units, having the same supervisors, the same human capital, and importantly, receiving the same performance score. Despite stating that “performance is the primary bases for all salary increases,” the reality was that women, minorities, and those born outside the U.S. needed “to work harder and obtain higher performance scores in order to receive similar salary increases to white men.”
Summary:
These findings led Castilla to wonder if organizational cultures and practices designed to promote meritocracy actually accomplished the opposite. Could it be that the pursuit of meritocracy somehow triggered bias? Along with his colleague, the Indiana University sociology professor Stephen Bernard, they designed a series of lab experiments to find out. Each experiment had the same outcome. When a company’s core values emphasized meritocratic values, those in managerial positions awarded a larger monetary reward to the male employee than to an equally performing female employee. Castilla and Bernard termed their counter intuitive result “the paradox of meritocracy.”
Summary:
The paradox of meritocracy builds on other research showing that those who think they are the most objective can actually exhibit the most bias in their evaluations. When people think they are objective and unbiased then they don’t monitor and scrutinize their own behavior. They just assume that they are right and that their assessments are accurate. Yet, studies repeatedly show that stereotypes of all kinds (gender, ethnicity, age, disability etc.) are filters through which we evaluate others, often in ways that advantage dominant groups and disadvantage lower-status groups. For example, studies repeatedly find that the resumes of whites and men are evaluated more positively than are the identical resumes of minorities and women.
Summary:
This dynamic is precisely why meritocracy can exacerbate inequality—because being committed to meritocratic principles makes people think that they actually are making correct evaluations and behaving fairly. Organizations that emphasize meritocratic ideals serve to reinforce an employee’s belief that they are impartial, which creates the exact conditions under which implicit and explicit biases are unleashed.
Summary:
“The pursuit of meritocracy is more difficult than it appears,” Castilla said at a recent conference hosted by the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford, “but that doesn’t mean the pursuit is futile. My research provides a cautionary lesson that practices implemented to increase fairness and equity need to be carefully thought through so that potential opportunities for bias are addressed.” While companies may want to hire and promote the best and brightest, it’s easier said than done.
Summary:
GapJumpers, a Silicon Valley start-up, is focused on making meritocracy a reality by taking a skills-first approach to identifying the highest-performing talent. Modeled after research showing that blind auditions block biased evaluations, GapJumpers developed an online technology platform that enables hiring managers to hold blind audition challenges. In the challenges, job applicants are given mini assignments that are designed to assess the applicant for the specific skills required for the open position. All submissions are evaluated and ranked, and the top-performing submissions (minus any applicant identifiers) are then reviewed by the hiring manager who selects candidates to bring in to interview. The result: About 60 percent of the top talent identified through GapJumpers’ blind audition process come from underrepresented backgrounds.
Summary:
Hiring managers do not expect this outcome. “The high percentage of underrepresented applicants that make it through the skills-first screening process is often met with suspicion,” says Sharon Jank, a social psychologist and Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, who is conducting her doctoral research with GapJumpers.  In her work, Jank has observed that “hiring managers tend to be surprised that the top performing submissions they pick to advance very often come from applicants without an elite education, training, or experience.  This suggests blind performance auditions are a powerful tool to manage bias and address the pervasive and incorrect assumption that elite pedigree best predicts performance of on the job skills.”
Summary:
“Our biases lead to sub-optimal talent selection decisions when evaluating resumes,” says GapJumpers cofounder Kédar Iyer. “By scaling the successful and proven method of blind performance auditions, GapJumpers’ results show that real work performance trumps labels on a resume.”
Summary:
In addition to blind auditions, transparency and accountability also support more meritocratic outcomes. Recently, Castilla published the results from a longitudinal study he conducted with the same large service-sector company that he had studied years earlier. After learning from Castilla’s analysis that there were pay disparities in their organization (white men received more compensation than equally performing women, minorities, and non-U.S.-born individuals) the company asked Castilla to recommend practices to close the pay gap.
Summary:
Drawing on research showing that transparency and accountability reduce bias because, among other things, transparency provides the information needed to track inequity and accountability puts people on notice that their decisions will be monitored, Castilla counseled the company on actions they could take.
Summary:
The company then made many changes such as creating a performance-reward committee to monitor compensation increases and sharing information with top management about pay broken down by gender, race, and foreign nationality. When Castilla analyzed the data five years after these changes were introduced he found that the demographic pay gap had disappeared.
Summary:
American beliefs about the rightness of meritocratic ideals often leads to the belief that those ideals are what guides society. But research shows that a real commitment to meritocracy requires understanding that America hasn’t gotten there—at least not yet. It is this insight that leads to the adoption of practices that will ultimately result in a society where merit truly does equal ability + effort.
Summary:
MARIANNE COOPER is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, a sociologist at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, and an affiliate of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. She is the author of Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times and was the lead researcher for Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg.
Summary:
1.Cooper claims at the start that Americans are “particularly enthusiastic about the idea of meritocracy.” Do you believe this claim is true? Why or why not? Explain.
2.In your own words, explain what Cooper means by the phrase the “paradox of meritocracy” and then explain why she believes that “meritocracy can exacerbate inequality.”
3.According to the author, what are the benefits of using “blind auditions” and other transparency and accountability measures in hiring employees?
4.What is your response to this reading? What did the article add to your knowledge or understanding of this topic?

IPA #2 Translation At O Mark as done Due Jan 23 by 11:59pm Points 10 Submitting a text entry box or a file upload Available until Jan 23 at 11:59pm Take you time digesting this short unit. It can take up a lot of time grasping this if you are new to Fromkin. In this translation, you will translate the sentence below into the Fromkin System IPA. This is best submitted as a file upload. Most students find it easier to write their translation by hand, take a picture of it, and then upload it as a file. Be careful of the difference between the following; . a carrot (stressed) and a schwa ( unstressed any vowel sound) a vowel usually does not go before bird r the consonant blend of str has a -ch sound in it -WH sounds vs W sounds Note- When you translate into the IPA, do not isolate words and pronounce them individually because you will wind up writing them differently than they are actually pronounced in a sentence. It’s best to repeat the string or utterance several times aloud to listen to what you are really saying. Remember, that you probably have a California accent and we are focusing on getting away from words like “fur” instead of “for” and “prolly” instead of “probably.” Here is what you must translate: (THIS IS HAND-WRITTEN- not typed on a keyboard.) SOME PEOPLE SPEND THEIR SUNDAYS IN THE USA GOING TO CHURCH OR DOING AN ASSORTMENT OF OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AS A WAY TO DESTRESS. ( That last word means to get rid of stress; It is not distress, which means to be stressed)

– Evaluate how the debugging process can be used to help develop more secure, robust applications. e. Discuss how you can use the
debugging process to develop a more secure and robust application.

WorkSheet : Odyssey Books 17-24
Question #11) 11. What ruse does Odysseus tell Telemachus to carry out at the beginning of the book?
Question #1) 1. Why compare Penelope to “Artemis or golden Aphrodite” when she comes down the stairs? Hint: Book 19
Question #12) 12. What does the stranger ask Penelope not to ask him? Why? Does she ask him anyway?
Question #2) 2. What does Telemachus leave out of his “true” story when he talks to Penelope; what does he leave in? How does Theoclymenus contribute to the scene? Hint: Book 19
Question #13) 13. Where does Odysseus tell Penelope he is from? Does this story have anything in common with the story he tells Eumaeus? Be specific.
Question #3) 3. Where has Argos been lying in the absence of his master and what is Odysseus’s reaction to seeing him? Hint: Book 19
Question #14) 14. How does Penelope react to what she hears of Odysseus? How does Odysseus react to her reaction?
Question #4) 4. How does Odysseus handle his “humiliation”? Does he seem more at ease with it than Eumaeus and Telemachus? If so, why? Hint: Book 19
Question #15) 15. How did Odysseus obtain the scar that Eurycleia recognizes? What does he say to Eurycleia? Hint: Book 19
Question #5) 5. Who throws a footstool at Odysseus? Why do even the other suitors take exception to this? Hint: Book 19
Question #16) 16. What is the dream that Penelope describes to Odysseus?
Question #6) 6. Why does Penelope want to talk to the stranger? Hint: Book 19
Question #17) 17. How does the stranger affect Penelope? Why is she favorably disposed toward the stranger?
Question #7) 7. Why does Irus quarrel with “the stranger”?
Question #8) 8. What is Antinous’s reaction to the unfriendly words Irus speaks to Odysseus?
Question #18) 18. How does Penelope plan to test the suitors to see which one she will marry? Hint: Book 18
Question #9) 9. Has Telemachus fully reached manhood yet? Why is this important? What is the symbol of manhood? Hint: Book 20
Question #19) 19. What does Athena do in this book to boost Odysseus’s spirits? To test him?
Question #20) 20. Why are the stranger’s interactions with Melanthius and Philoetius placed one after the other? Hint: Book 18
Question #10) 10. What is the implication of the maids’ inappropriate behavior? Hint: Book 20
Question #21) 21. How is Odysseus insulted by Ctesippus? How does Odysseus react?
Hint: Book 20
Question #22) 22. What must the stringer of the bow do with his shot?
Question #34) 34. What or who does Penelope believe caused the death of the suitors? Hint: Book 21
Question #23) 23. In what way do Telemachus’s words after “giving up” show him to be a worthy son?
Question #35) 35. Where does Penelope order Eurycleia to make up the bed? How does Odysseus react to this and why? Hint: Book 21
Question #24) 24. What is Antinous’s reaction to the challenge?
Question #36) 36. What reason does Penelope give for not recognizing Odysseus earlier? Hint: Book 21
Question #25) 25. How does Odysseus prove his identity to the cowherd and swineherd?
Question #37) 37. What does Odysseus tell Penelope about his next journey? Hint: Book 21
Question #26) 26. Penelope’s taking the bow from its hiding place is one of the most moving moments in this part of the poem — why? Hint: Book 23
Question #38) 38. Where is Odysseus headed at the end of the book?
Question #39) 39. How does Odysseus test his father Laertes, now living a hard life, after the slaughter has been accomplished? What is the point of testing his father?
Question #27) 27. What is Antinous doing when Odysseus shoots him? Why is he the first victim? Hint: Book 24
Question #40) 40. What reasons does Eupithes give when encouraging revenge on Odysseus?
Question #28) 28. How do the other suitors appeal to Odysseus?
Question #29) 29. How much does Athena help Odysseus and how much is the victory his own?
Question #30) 30. Who tests the strength and courage of Odysseus and Telemachus?
Question #31) 31. The dead suitors are compared to what kind of creatures?
Question #32) 32. What do Penelope and Eurycleia argue about at the beginning of the book?
Question #33) 33. Why is Telemachus irritated at his mother?

Read two of the themes from The Great Gatsby. A core value of Americans is equality for all, but in reality, people treat each other differently based on social class. Through hard work and persistence anyone can achieve the American Dream. These themes develop throughout the novel. Explain how the two themes build on or interact with each other. Use evidence from the novel to support your answer. Respond to at least two of your peers’ posts by asking questions about others’ ideas, clarifying or challenging conclusions or evidence, and discussing any contradictory evidence or conclusions.

Please help me answer this question
Read the following passage:
“Which gets you cleaner, a bath or a shower? Most people have a strong preference for one or the other, but science says it’s basically a wash.
“Cleaning is the main point of bathing and showering. Bathers say showers are rushed and often careless, leading to a less than thorough cleansing. Shower takers say bathing is like marinating in dirty water. However, doctors report that both activities clean equally well, as long as showerers actively scrub their arms and legs rather than relying on soap and water runoff, and bathers rinse themselves before drying.
“Studies also show there are different but comparable health benefits to both practices. During a bath, heat and buoyancy reduce stress on muscles and joints and relieves pain. A long soak in a hot tub has also been shown to reduce anxiety and depression. In the shower, body movement combined with the force and warmth of pressurized water increase blood flow and heart rate and improve metabolism. A shower elevates mood and increases alertness, especially at the start of the day.”
What are the points of comparison used to compare baths and showers in this passage?
mental and physical effects
soaking and scrubbing
effectiveness and health benefits
personal preferences and scientific studies