1.ssay 1: Person I Admire
Purpose
This essay assignment is the culmination of all your previous work in this module. You have
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in this module. You have already engaged in the beginnings of the writing process of this essay. You have:
Brainstormed ideas (see Chapter 11 in SMG) about the essay in the Discussion Board.
Condensed your ideas down into manageable points around a working thesis.
Displayed knowledge of Description essays from Learning Activities
Drafted a Writing Activity (WA2) about this Description essay.
Consulted with a writing tutor to find areas of strength and areas of improvement.
Finally, you will now compose the final draft of a description essay that:
contains a clear thesis
identifies clear points to support your thesis
engages in critical thought about the subject chosen
uses 2-4 main ideas (points) that support your overall essay thesis
allows you to expand on your chosen topic
This essay assignment represents the first steps in writing any written essay for any academic course. The idea of thesis and support are the cornerstones of all essays. They represent the last part of the writing process. However, you may still revise your essay before final submission. This form of essay writing is the basis for all other academic writing pursuits. This skill translates to almost all careers that require critical thinking, critical reading, and responding in writing. Practicing "how to" write an essay carries over into any field's task of "what" you need to write. This skill will help with all formal writing.
Task
Write a 900-word essay, in MLA format, about a person or fictional character in whom you have an interest.
Select a subject (person or fictional character you admire)
Look to your Discussion (D1) and Writing Activity 2 (WA2) for your subject
The person may be current or historical
Some fictional characters have positive traits that can be identified.
Select several (2-4) traits about the person or character that you admire and write about these. These will be the essay's main ideas.
Biographical information should be used only to support claims.
Your essay should focus on the traits you admire. Do not write a biography or tell a story.
Example of what not to do: This person was born in 1979. They were born in middle Tennessee. They went to elementary school is 1985. They graduated in 1998.
Instead, follow this example: This person was born in middle Tennessee. Entering elementary in school in 1985 was hard for them. They never felt that they belonged in kindergarten. However, they persevered, learning that school was a place for them to grow and be themselves.
Focus on the "why" you admire them instead of a list of traits. In the above example, perseverance and learning to be themselves are the traits the writer of the essay admires.
Organize your main ideas to establish the essay's pattern of organization.
Your main ideas (traits you have chosen) need to be clearly organized.
Decide in what order you wish to discuss these main ideas (traits)
This organization needs to be presented in your introduction, preferably as the last sentence of your introduction in the thesis statement.
Note: your thesis is generally the last sentence in your introduction, but it not a requirement.
Follow this structure throughout the rest of the essay.
Always check to see if your main ideas/topic sentences, in each paragraph, relate back to your thesis statement.
Compose 5 well-developed paragraphs that support a clear thesis statement that is arguable.
5 paragraph minimum
introduction paragraph
introduces your essay and presents your thesis
three body paragraphs
Each paragraph contains one of your chosen admirable traits about your subject
expressed in a topic sentence in your paragraph
Each trait needs to transition to the next one in the next paragraph
look to your chosen pattern of development
conclusion paragraph
rephrases your traits into one last paragraph
reflects the earlier thesis, but with the knowledge of your traits expressed throughout the essay
This essay is a basic form of an argument essay. The essay should make an argument such as that the person or character selected is worthy of admiration because of the traits selected.
Criteria for Success
A successful essay:
Meets basic requirements of the assignment
Has been written by the student submitting the essay, for this class, and for this semester,
Does not contain plagiarism of any kind
Academic dishonesty is an offense of the NSCC Student Code of Conduct, punishable by a failing grade or zero
Has a clear thesis, main ideas, and pattern of organization
Has been carefully edited and proofread to minimize grammatical and other editing errors
These can be remedied by editing and with Writing Tutor visits and peer reviewing
Follows MLA style and guidelines (spacing, indent, margins, etc. )
The essay will be graded with the Grading Rubric for Essays. Please familiarize yourself with this rubric before you submit your essay. Here is the condensed version of the rubric:
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3.I just need someone to look over my paper for anatomy and to just let me know what I need
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t or add. I'll attach the questions, my rubric, as well as my answers I made. It would really help me out please.
The questions:
1.) Choose two somatosensory receptors. Please include a description of each receptor, what they sense, and which part of the brain processes the information from the receptor.
2.) Provide a discussion of the thyroid gland. Include the following:
Description of the thyroid gland's structure and location.
Description of the cells of the thyroid gland.
Description of the hormones secreted by the thyroid gland and their functions.
Description of how thyroid hormones are controlled by hormones secreted by the hypothalamus and anterior pituitary gland.
Description of how the feedback system works in the cases of high or low thyroid hormone levels.
3. Describe the cardiac cycle. Include descriptions of the 3 phases, the pressure changes in each of the heart's chambers, valves are open and closed, and blood flows during each step.
My answer: 1.) Exteroceptor - receives external stimuli from outside of the body. An example, the skin (Thermoreceptors) detects the temperature of the outside area of the body.
Interceptor - receives stimuli from inside of the body. An example would be blood pressure as well as blood oxygen levels.
2.) Thyroid Gland is located near the front lower part of the neck, beneath Adam's apple. Its structure includes Thyroid Epithelial that form follicles filled with colloid - a protein-rich reservoir of the materials needed for thyroid hormone production. The cells are responsible for releasing hormones that control metabolism (Energy levels). The thyroid gland releases triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4). These hormones regulate weight, energy levels, internal temperature, skin, and growth. When the hypothalamus and pituitary function well, they can detect when hormone levels are low, which causes them to produce more TRH and TSH, which stimulates the thyroid to produce hormones. When the hormone levels exceed their limit, they then have less TRH and TSH, which results in reduced hormone production by the thyroid. Feedback is when a product feeds back into its initial cycle. The Feedback includes both positive and negative feedback. Positive Feedback is when a product provides back to increase production: an example, milk production by a mother for her baby. As the baby suckles, nerve messages from the nipple cause the pituitary gland to secrete prolactin. Prolactin, in turn, stimulates the mammary glands to produce milk, so the baby suckles more. Which causes more prolactin to be secreted and more milk to is made. Negative Feedback is when a product feeds back decreases production; it brings down show if they increase past their limit. It also controls insulin secretion by the pancreas.
3.) The Cardiac Cycle takes place from the beginning of a heartbeat to the next. It contains two periods: One is when the heart muscle relaxes and refills with blood, called diastole, following a time when it begins contraction and pumping of blood, systole. Once emptied, the heart then relaxes and expands to receive another inrush of blood coming back from the lungs and other areas of the body. The atrioventricular valves remain open while the semilunar valves are closed. During the middle part of the diastole, a small amount of blood flows into the ventricles. The blood flows from the veins and passes the atria fills the ventricles. The pressure in both ventricles is close to zero as a result.
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6.MUST access/view this website link to help me solve this one big lab question:
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https://opengeology.org/historicalgeology/virtual-field-experiences-vfes/vfe-glaciers/#Continental_glaciation_in_LiDAR And go/view liDAR image map of Scandinavia below the heading “Continental glaciation in liDAR” to view the image portion of the Scandanivia map on that site. I need help for this one final question regarding this liDAR image of Scandinavia for this lab assignment I’m doing to “Identify one of each of the following geomorphic 5 features below each associated with continental glaciation (TAKE a screenshot on your PC of an example of each from this liDAR map image of Scandinavia, and send those 5 images, labeling key features of the image, and put all 5 screenshot images of these below features with their labeled annotated key features in a Word Doc or PDF to SEND to me). From accessing this website link and using the liDAR map image of Scandinavia take take these 5 key feature screenshots, HERE are there 5 required features BELOW required to screenshot with key features labeled/annotated to take one of each on your PC( press “Fn” + “PrtScr” to screenshot images on your Windows PC(don’t know how on Mac PC) or use/downloa snippet program to take computer screenshots of these 5 features):
glacial striations
terminal moraine
outwash delta
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kettles SEE attached photo file for same directions for this question as typed here, but for more better simpler clarity to read the same directions as typed here on this attached file. ALSO THIS Assignment is really due by 11:59 pm tonight 11/7, but I want it done at least by 7 or 8 pm today 11/7. Thanks, please try to help me ASAP, I’m struggling.
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7.Task 1
You are asked to carry out a study on behalf of a business analytics specialised consultancy on a subsample
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on a subsample of weekly data from Randall’s Supermarket, one of the biggest in the UK. Randall’s marketing management team wishes to identify trends and patterns in a sample of weekly data collected for a number of their loyalty cardholders during a 26-week period. The data includes information on the customers’ gender, age, shopping frequency per week and shopping basket price. Randall’s operates two different types of stores (convenient stores and superstores) but they also sell to customers via an online shopping platform. The collected data are from all three different types of stores. Finally, the data provides information on the consistency of the customer’s shopping basket regarding the type of products purchased. These can vary from value products, to brand as well as the supermarket’s own high-quality product series Randall’s Top. As a business analyst you are required to analyse those data, make any necessary modifications in order to determine whether for any single customer it is possible to predict the value of their shopping basket.
Randall’s marketing management team is only interested in identifying whether the spending of the potential customer will fall in one of three possible groups including:
• Low spender (shopping basket value of £25 or less)
• Medium Spender (shopping basket value between £25.01 and £70) and
• High spenders (shopping basket greater than £70)
For the purpose of your analysis you are provided with the data set Randall’s.xls. You have to decide, which method is appropriate to apply for the problem under consideration and undertake the necessary analysis. Once you have completed this analysis, write a report for the Randall’s marketing management team summarising your findings but also describing all necessary steps undertaken in the analysis. The manager is a competent business analyst himself/herself so the report can include technical terms, although you should not exceed five pages. Screenshots and supporting materials can be included in the appendix.
Requirements
After completing your analysis, you should submit a report that consists of two parts. Part A being a non-technical summary of your findings and Part B a detailed report of the analysis undertaken with more details.
Part A: A short report for the Head of Randall’s Marketing Management (20 per cent). This should briefly explain the aim of the project, a clear summary and justification of the methods considered as well as an overview of the results.
Although, the Head of Randall’s Marketing Management team who will receive this summary is a competent business analytics practitioner, the majority of the other team members have little knowledge of statistical modelling and want to know nothing about the technical and statistical underpinning of the techniques used in this analysis. This report should be no more than two sides of A4 including graphs, tables, etc. In this report you should include all the objectives of this analysis, summary of data and results as well as your recommendations (if any).
Part B: A technical report on the various stages of the analysis (80 per cent).
The analysis should be carried out using the range of analytics tools discussed:
• SPSS Statistics
Ensure that the exercise references:
• Binary and multinomial logistic regression
• Linear vs Logistic regression
• Logit Model with odds Ratio
• Co-efficients and Chi Squared
• MLR co-efficients
• Assessing usefulness of MLR model
• Interpreting a model
• Assessing over-all model fit with Psuedo R-Squared measures
• Classification accuracy (Hit Ratio)
• Wald Statistic
• Odd ratio exp(B)
• Ratio of the probability of an event happening vs not happening
• Ratio of the odds after a unit change in the predictor to the original odds
• Assumptions
• Residuals analysis
• Cook’s distance
• DfBeta
• Adequacy (with variance inflation factor VIF and tolerance statistic)
• Outliers and influential points cannot just be removed. We need to check them (typo? – unusual data?)
• Check for multicollinearity
• Parsimony
Write a short and concise report to explain the technical detail of what you have done for each step of the analysis.
The report should also cover the following information:
• Any type of analysis that might be useful and check whether the main assumptions behind the analyses do not hold or cannot be
• Give evidence of the understanding of the statistical tools that you are using. For example, comment on the model selection procedure and the coefficient interpretation, e.g. comment on the interpretation of the logistic regression coefficients if such a method is used and provide an example of
• Conclusions and explanation, in non-technical terms, of the main points
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9.I have an online math test coming up, and I am totally lost in the class. The way my test
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it will be assigned to me at 1pm on 4/10/20 (this Friday) and it will be due by 2pm. So I will need someone helping me from 1-2pm so I can complete it on time. To be quite frank I will need someone to just solve the questions for me so I can turn it in on time. I would like more sessions in the future to actually help me work through it. But for this test I need to just see the how the problem is work out. I have attached some files of example questions of what you can expect. But again, these are NOT the questions I need solved. I will not have those questions until the day of the test. So I need someone who can complete problems of this caliber quickly. Thank you.
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10.I have attached my homework... my answers are in red and the questions are highlighted in yellow. Scatter Plot,
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catter Plot, simple regression line re: the amount of tar having an effect on the amount of nicotine in cigarettes. Mainly.... the data set shows tar levels ranging from 1mg - 17mg, with an additional data point of 29..8mg - it remains on the regression line. My questions come from the 'appropriateness' questions..
My thoughts:
x=0, y intercept is 0.131mg - 0 mg is below the data set so inappropriate? OR Appropriate because still plausible that a cigarette with NO tar could still have 0.131 mg of nicotine.
Then...for the appropriateness of 25mg... if using the top level of the data set of 29.8mg then yes, it is appropriate as still within the parameters of the data set OR no, because 29.8mg is considered an outlier?
.... I have read the book, read our notes, etc (online class) and watched videos but nothing REALLY explains what is 'appropriate or not' and the example homework from our online book, they answers were always it wasn't appropriate.
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12.provide real world examples of 3 of the fallacies listed in the chapter on Logic. For example, the Appeal to
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ppeal to Nature- if one claims that anything that is natural, is good ( or better than something else) then they may be committing the fallacy of appeal to nature. An example of this is a show that used to be on the Discovery channel called "Naked and Afraid". On the show survivalists spend 21 days in remote locations without anything- including clothes. Few, even those participating on the show, would argue that using clothing (which is technically, unnatural) is inherently bad because it is not natural.
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13.For which value(s) of a does the curve y = x^2 + ax + 2
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1 ? (Without using differentiation rules)
For each statement, explain why it must be true, or use an example to show that it can be false.
a)If y = f ( x ) has a horizontal tangent line at x = 1 then y = g ( x ) , where g ( x ) = f ( x − 1 ) + 1 , has a horizontal tangent line at x = 2 .
b)A tangent line always has exactly one point in common with the graph of the function.
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14.I dont understad these questions:
For which value(s) of a does the curve y = x^2 +
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ave a horizontal tangent line at x = 1 ? (Without using differentiation rules)
For each statement, explain why it must be true, or use an example to show that it can be false.
a)If y = f ( x ) has a horizontal tangent line at x = 1 then y = g ( x ) , where g ( x ) = f ( x − 1 ) + 1 , has a horizontal tangent line at x = 2 .
b)A tangent line always has exactly one point in common with the graph of the function.
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15.Discussion Questions
“The Speech the Graduates Didn’t Hear” by Jacob Neusner
1. List four groups of people, besides the graduating seniors, that
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oups of people, besides the graduating seniors, that are the audience for this speech?
2. What is the name and position of the speaker of this speech?
3. Whom does the speaker claim to represent?
4. What is the speaker's attitude toward his audience?
5. What is the speaker’s attitude toward those whom he claims to represent?
6. Paraphrase the speaker's primary claim.
7. List two points that the speaker makes that support his primary claim.
8. Does the author use anecdotal, experimental, statistical, or testimonial evidence to support his primary claim Provide an example of his evidence.
9. The speaker is very quick to his conclusions. What logical fallacy might best serve as a counterargument to the speaker’s primary claim? Why?
10. Does Neusner use an inductive style of writing or a deductive style of writing? Explain the reasoning behind your answer.
Discussion Questions
Chapter Three and pages 383-385
1. In “Burn, Baby, Burn” by Jay Rubin, please quote his claim of value.
2. In “The Mistake of the Millennium” by Paul O’Brien, please quote his claim of fact.
3. In “We Make Money by Making You Feel Ugly” by Estelle Hartson, please quote her claim of policy.
4. On page 383, statement one is what type of claim? Why?
5. On page 383, statement two is what type of claim? Why?
6. On page 383, statement three is what type of claim? Why?
7. On page 383, statement four is what type of claim? Why?
8. On page 384, statement five is what type of claim? Why?
9. On page 384, statement six is what type of claim? Why?
10. On page 384, statement seven is what type of claim? Why?
11. On page 384, statement eight is what type of claim? Why?
12. On page 384, statement nine is what type of claim? Why?
13. On page 385, statement ten is what type of claim? Why? (Be careful.)
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16.Plagiarism is the presentation of the words, ideas, or opinions of someone else as your own. (2) You are guilty
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are guilty of plagiarism if you submit as your own the words, ideas, or arrangement of material found in sources, such as books, magazines, or pamphlets (including Cliff's Notes), without crediting the source. (3) The ideas and opinions of someone else, even though expressed in your own words, must be acknowledged in the text or in a footnote. (4) You are also guilty of cheating/plagiarism if you copy the work of a fellow student, friend, or relative who is no longer in school or an essay from an internet source and submit it as your own. (5) A student who allows such copying is also guilty of plagiarism.
(6) Penalties English classes for cheating/plagiarism include:
an F grade (0) for the work involved:
an automatic F in conduct;
oral and/or written reprimands and/or referrals that will become part of your permanent record.
(7) Colleges and universities don't play around with kids who plagiarize. (8) A student at the state university was accused of plagiarism last year. (9) The practice of obtaining essays from internet sources is increasing. (10) In order to protect the validity of a degree. (11) Colleges are taking serious measures to punish those students who "buy" papers. (12)Two common penalties are suspension and expulsion. (13) A guilty student may be suspended for a certain amount of time (a year or a semester). (14) If a student is expelled, he/she may never again return to that institution or to any accredited college or university in the nation.
Question:
Read this text to identify one example of plagiarism. Then identify one consequence of plagiarism at the college level. Be sure your response uses examples from the text.
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