Ethan Sartin Professor Lavelle English 1102-06 1 February 2015 David R. Slavitt’s “Titanic” and Thomas Hardy’s “Convergence of the Twain” Section 1: Poetry Terms Both of these poems are written in free verse. That is‚ they have no established poetic forms to them. “Titanic” is written in three tercets‚ one quatrain‚ and ends with a single line stanza. “Convergence of the Twain” is more structured; it is written evenly into eleven tercets. Both poems seem to have a good mix of enjambment and end
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BUS216 Exam #2 Review – Discrete Distributions 1. The number of calls coming into a PBX has a mean of 120 calls per hour. What is the probability of no calls in a one-minute interval? .1353 2. A school is sending 18 children to a camp. If 15% of the children in the school are first graders‚ and the 18 children are selected at random from among all 6 grades at the school‚ find the mean and variance of the number of first graders chosen? The mean is 2.7‚ and the variance is 2.3. n
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Exams! Exams! Exams! Exams are the dreaded word that plagues you during student life. As an adult who is done and dusted with this nightmare‚ you may look back more often than once wondering if all that stress and trauma was after all worth the while. For starters let’s take a step back and analyze what skills one is expected to acquire during the course of education. Well the skills that are used in everyday life‚ the skills that allow one to get a job and succeed in their field of choice are
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考研作文范文 （1） Directions: Write an essay of 160 - 200 words based on the following drawing. In your essay‚ you should: 1) describe the drawing briefly‚ 2) explain its intended meaning‚ and then 3) give your comments You should write neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. （2） Recently the issue of celebrities endorsing shoddy products has become the focus of public concern. As can be seen in the cartoon‚ a star is touting inferior products like a hand puppet. Behind the curtain is hiding an unethical
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Language Testing in Asia Volume one‚ Issue three October 2011 The Negative Influences of Exam-Oriented Education on Chinese High School Students: Backwash from Classroom to Child ROBERT KIRKPATRICK Shinawatra Internation University‚ Thailand YUEBING ZANG Thailand Bio Data: Robert Kirkpatrick has a Phd from Curtin University of Technology (Perth) and was an associate professor at Kumamoto Prefectural University for 9 years. He now lectures on the Master of Education program at
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FIN413 – Practice Midterm Exam Fall 2012 Boris Nikolov William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration University of Rochester Name ______________________________ Please do not open exam until instructed to do so Exam is 2 hours This is a closed book exam One page of personal notes allowed Please do not sit in adjacent seats Please write only in the space provided for each question You need a pocket calculator
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION AND DATA COLLECTION 1. The process of using sample statistics to draw conclusions about true population parameters is called a) statistical inference. b) the scientific method. c) sampling. d) descriptive statistics. ANSWER: a TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Easy KEYWORDS: inferential statistics 2. Those methods involving the collection‚ presentation‚ and characterization of a set of data in order to properly describe the various features of that set of data are called a) statistical
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Writing Effective Multiple-Choice Exams Accessible Version By Mike Atkinson‚ Faculty Associate Teaching Support Centre Reflections Newsletter Excerpt Instructors and students alike often express a certain "distaste" for multiple-choice (MC) exams. While MC exams have the advantage of being easy to grade‚ the items themselves are frequently described as tricky and unnecessarily difficult. Students may feel that the exam did not test their knowledge of the course material. Instructors complain
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Schoolhouse or Home School? What do George Washington and the Hanson brothers have in common? Do you give up? Well‚ the answer is that both of them were educated in their homes. Queen Elizabeth‚ Thomas Edison‚ and Theodore Roosevelt were also educated at home. According to the Home Education Research Institute‚ 1.5 million students are staying home for class today. This number is five times more than ten years ago (Kantrow and Wingert 66). This trend leads to many questions. Does home school education
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School Choice – An Educational Custom Fit Imagine if only one size of pants were sold in stores and government regulations wouldn’t allow any other size to be made available to consumers. This may sound crazy but it’s much like what’s happening with the education of our nation’s children. As Americans we enjoy a wide range of personal choice‚ and thankfully it includes our ability to select the pants that fit us best. But think for a moment about traditional public education. For decades
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