Features to consider in all 4 texts: - plotline and structure - elements: earth/air/water/fire - animals - narrative perspective (and time) - sight and blindness (delayed decoding) - sound and silence - settings - character foils - women (i.e. roles - conventional vs. unconventional) -artifacts!!....? The Wars and Lispector - Animals Lispector and Findley use animals to develop the theme: by becoming civilized and raising social expectations we in turn degrade ourselves to things that
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Professor Mumford mumford@purdue.edu Econ 360 - Fall 2012 Problem Set 1 Answers True/False (30 points) 1. FALSE If (ai ‚ bi ) : i = 1‚ 2‚ . . . ‚ n and (xi ‚ yi ) : i = 1‚ 2‚ · · · ‚ n are sets of n pairs of numbers‚ then: n n n (ai xi + bi yi ) = i=1 i=1 ai x i + i=1 bi yi 2. FALSE If xi : i = 1‚ 2‚ . . . ‚ n is a set of n numbers‚ then: n n n n n (xi − x) = ¯ i=1 n i=1 2 x2 i − 2¯ x i=1 xi + i=1 x = ¯ i=1 2 x2 − n¯2 x i where x = ¯ 1 n i=1 xi 3. TRUE If xi : i = 1‚ 2‚ . .
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6/28/2012 Number Systems Chapt. 2 Common Number Systems System Base Symbols b l Used by humans? Used in computers? Decimal 10 0‚ 1‚ … 9 Yes No Binary 2 0‚ 1 No Yes Octal 8 0‚ 1‚ … 7 No No Hexadecimal 16 0‚ 1‚ … 9‚ ‚ ‚ ‚ A‚ B‚ … F No No 1 6/28/2012 Quantities/Counting (1 of 3) Decimal 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Binary 0 1 10 11 100 101 110 111 HexaOctal decimal 0 0 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4
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Works Cited Bey‚ Amani. "Methods." Personal interview. 28 Jan. 2013. I interview Amani because she is a teenager guided by mentorship. She revealed to me how being mentored by positive‚ loving‚ and caring people has changed who she is as a person. She said “I see a big change in myself. It’s like my whole life I’ve been so angry and upset‚ and it was all because I was being misguided and I didn’t have the chance to become who I am now.” This interview helped me because It kind of showed me what
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While this active competitiveness encourages organizations to learn and grow from each other’s successes as well as failures‚ the managers of these organizations need to keep the organizations efficient and effective. In order to achieve this goal‚ managers need good management skills‚ effective communication‚ conductive and safe working environment. The terms efficiency and effectiveness are often linked together but in reality the meaning of these terms are quite different. Efficiency can be
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Continuous change organizations Organizations that undergo continuous change are argued to have the “ability to change rapidly and continuously‚ especially by developing new products (core competence and culture driven)” (Brown and Eisenhardt‚ 1997‚ p. 1). The changes are “those that are ongoing‚ evolving and cumulative . . . small uninterrupted adjustments . . . ” (Pettigrew et al.‚ 2001‚ p. 704). These continuous change organizations have had limited treatment in the literature; the case-studies provided
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Effective Citizenship Article Summary & Report December 7‚ 2012 SUMMARY The article entitled “Who’s Responsible?” written by Tyrone Reid‚ a senior staff reporter‚ was published on October 14‚ 2012 in the Sunday Gleaner. It spoke of someone illegally taking our children to jail‚ and that children are being locked up by agencies which are set to protect them. Within the article‚ the writer stated that misleading documents had been issued about the Child Development Agency (CDA) officers
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An Effective "Virus" Are you addicted to shopping? According to John de Graaf‚ David Wann‚ and Thomas Naylor‚ just about everyone is. In the article‚ "The Addictive Virus"‚ the three writers succeed in supporting their claim that Americans are buying too much "stuff" and for the "wrong reasons". The article uses a casual tone and easy language to create an effect that is light and somewhat humorous at times. Along with its mainly easy-to-read content‚ the article keeps its integrity by including
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Explain how the SRRS was devised and evaluate the use of this technique. (8marks) Holmes and Rahe (1967) developed the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) which identifies 43 stressful life changes that can contribute to stress-related illness. Each one of the 43 stressful life events was awarded a Life Change Unit depending on how traumatic it was felt to be by a large sample of 400 participants. The highest Life Change Unit is 100‚ being death of a spouse. Participants calculate a total value
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How to do cost-effectiveness calculations in a nutshell: Noncompeting choice Noncompeting choice cost effectiveness is when you have many possible options to choose from that are NOT mutually exclusive. Noncompeting choice cost effectiveness uses the average cost effectiveness. This means you simply divide the cost of the intervention by the benefit of the intervention. For example: Intervention QALY Gained (~DALY eliminated) Net Cost A 50 $1000 B 3 $300 C 40 $1200 The average
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