Summary Robert Putnam’s basic thesis is that there is a decline in civic engagement in urban cities. He goes on to explore different probable factors that are causing the decline in civic engagement. First off‚ he dichotomizes civic engagement into two categories: machers and schmoozers. Machers and schmoozers are people who engage in formal kinds of civic engagement (following politics) and informal kinds of civic engagement (hanging out with friends) respectively. Civic engagement‚ overall‚ is
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“Holden is an angry‚ vulnerable child who can’t grow up.” Discuss Holden Caulfield‚ the protagonist from J.D Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye” is a character who has been thoroughly discussed ever since the novel’s publication. Holden’s obsession with thinking about people’s attitudes‚ especially towards him‚ causes him to be critical towards his teachers‚ school peers and even towards people he just met. Holden’s parents are determined to make their son grow up and be successful by persisting him to
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a plant grow better in a room painted blue or in a room painted green? Explain your answer. A plant would grow better in a room painted blue because chlorophylls
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Species Interaction * The relationships between two species in an ecosystem. * The interactions between two species need not be through direct contact. Species may affect each other through intermediaries such as shared resources or common enemies. Major factors in evolution and adaptation: * Predation * Competition for scarce resources Terminologies: * Habitat – the actual physical location where a species lives. * Conditions – physical or chemical attributes of the
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situations determine the p-value that goes along with Z. a. Z = 2.12‚ two-sided test b. Z = 4.55‚ two-sided test c. Z = -1.40‚ lower-tail test 2. Suppose Z = 1.92.Which has a smaller p-value‚ the upper-tail test or the two-sided test? From this‚ is it more likely to have a result that is significant at the 5% level using-a one-sided test or using a two-sided test? 3. Agricultural researchers at K-State sometimes study how diets affect the weight gain of animals. Suppose a standard diet gives
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to talk to the one I love‚ not able to hear his sweetly soothing voice. The few letters I received from him where like a glass of cool lemonade on a hot summer’s day when you can feel the essence of it soothing you with every sip. The uncertainty of how he was doing or what he was doing would eat away at my stomach with every thought of wonder. I would imagine that he was right there when I wrote to him every night‚ reading everything I was writing which comforted me until I fell soundly asleep. As
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Release date: 27 April 2014 Submission date: 9 May 2014 TUTORIAL ON HYPOTHESIS TESTING (1) Basic Concept 1. State the null and alternative hypothesis for each conjecture : a. A researcher thinks that if expectant mothers use vitamin pills‚ the birth weight of the babies will increase. The average birth weight of the population is 3.0kg. b. An engineer hypothesizes that the mean number of defects can be decreased in a manufacturing process of compact disks by using robots instead of humans
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Darkness “We Grow Accustomed to The Dark” and “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” are two poems written by Emily Dickinson conveying the concept of sight. Although these two poems share a common theme‚ their way of comprehending ideas about sight are very different. “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” is conveying a message to the audience of how the speaker is adapting to the darkness‚ while in “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” the speaker is trying to tell the audience how she would feel if she had
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good-genes and sexy-sons hypotheses focus on direct benefits associated with female choice. The good-genes hypothesis proposes that a female will choose to mate with males that they believe will produce better offspring. Typically this decision is based off a phenotypic trait that is an sign of higher genetic fitness‚ however sometimes these traits are not good indicators. The sexy-sons hypothesis is similar however it posits that females will choose the most attractive males to mate with so that those
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Ring Species: A Catalyst for Speciation After spending time on the Galapagos Islands studying the origin of various species‚ former divinest Charles R. Darwin proposed the evolutionary theory of natural selection‚ a mechanism by which advantageous variations in a population are preserved while unfavorable variations are lost (Berkeley‚ 2008). As a result of these variations‚ some individuals are better acclimated to their environment than others. This results in the better-suited individuals outcompeting
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