Who is this author and what are his/her credentials?
Questions For Secondary Source Analysis #1 (Please Choose Only One Article from those listed below, all are in the course pack)
- Kathleen Brown’s The Anxious World of the Slaveowning Patriarch (Section 1, p.37)
- Philip Morgan’s The Effects of Paternalism Among Whites and Blacks (Section 2, p. 73)
- Sylvia Frey’s The Impact of African American Resistance During the War (Section 3, p. 91)
- Edmund Morgan’s Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox (Section 4, p. 116)
Based on your reading of one of the four above articles (all are in the course pack), answer the following questions in detail, save as a .doc or .pdf, and place submit by the due date.
ANALYZING A SECONDARY SOURCE
1. Who is this author and what are his/her credentials? (you may have to do a little research here)
2. Who are the key people in this article?
3. What are the key events?
4. What are the key subjects?
5. Is this article based on primary sources or other secondary sources?
6. Name one primary source the historian uses.
7. What is the main argument or thesis?
8. How does the writer build her/his argument?
9. How would you critique or question this argument?
*Remember, you will be graded on the depth of your analysis and the detail of your answers.
Are prosecutors misleading the public when they claim a 90% conviction rate???
- Choose your argument:
- Prosecutors are abusing the use of plea bargains to bypass the Sixth Amendment’s right to confront witnesses, while inflating their conviction rates.
- Prosecutors are not abusing the use of plea bargains or violating the Sixth Amendment as a means of increasing their conviction rates.
- Support your position by (1) referencing scholarly sources (LexisNexis law review articles or academic scholarly articles from LIRN) and (2) referencing one current news event (less than five years old).
- Draft a response that adheres to this four-paragraph essay format:
- Introduction (brief introduction of your argument and support).
- Summary of scholarly articles and how its findings support your argument.
- Summary of current news event (less than three years old) and a thorough analysis on how it supports the arguments drafted in the previous paragraph.
- Conclusion (summarize findings to support argument).
GUIDELINES:
- Properly formatted citations are required through-out the essay.
- This essay must flow coherently, connecting the “dots” coherently and logically. Transitions between paragraphs are crucial in maintaining that flow.
- Draft your response in a doc file, preferably Google Docs to ensure that it does not get lost. Submit the doc file as an attachment.
- Review the materials used from sources. Did you copy the content? Is it paraphrased? Basically, this entire essay must come from sources. None of it can possibly come from your personal, first-hand, empirical study. Therefore, each paragraph will require several citations.
- Legal studies students follow Bluebook Practitioner Rules (fully embedded citations). All other students follow APA rules (embedded in-text cites linked to an alphabetical “references” list of all sources). Refer to the CITATION files in the Student Success Folder.
- Formatting: Double-space. One-inch margins: top, bottom, left, and right. Font: Times New Roman, black, size 12.
- Proofread before final submission. Refer to WRITING files in the Student Success Folder.
GRADING CRITERIA:
- Content (40%): Response must be thorough and original; the analysis must come from the sources researched in Week Three. If sources cited are not from the FNU Library or LexisNexis, or if no sources are provided at all, there will be a 20-point deduction from the “Content” grade.
- Sources (30%): All sources used must be primary authority or secondary scholarly from the FNU Library or LexisNexis. Sources obtained from any other search engine are unacceptable and will result in zero-points for the “Sources” grade.
- Citations (20%): All citations must be properly formatted to meet APA, Bluebook Practitioner Rules, or Bluebook Law Review Rules. Pay close attention to the in-text and References Page requirements of APA, or, the total embedding of citations within content when following Bluebook (remember, Bluebook does NOT allow for a “references” list to be submitted; they are not placed at the bottom of a response, at the bottom of a page, or at the end of the document).
- Grammar & Professionalism (10%): Response must be proofread and edited to meet college-level writing expectations. The overall presentation of your document must be professional (remove hyperlinks, change fonts to Times New Roman, 12, black font, create a cover page, format the entire file to one-inch margins all-around.
- Do not use I, you, we, or us.
- Do not use contractions.
- Do not submit a response without credible sources & properly formatted citations.
- The scholarly source for paragraph ii must come from LexisNexis or FNU’s LIRN Database. The current news event for paragraph iii must come from a reputable news website, for example, CNN, NBC, ABC.
Describe some of the major themes of both disability literature and the disability rights movement.
Describe some of the major themes of both disability literature and the disability rights movement.
The Schengen Agreement currently allows for the free movement across European borders – if this becomes curtailed, will this likely prevent terrorist attacks in the future (bearing in mind that Europe has been home to numerous terrorist organizations prior to the Schengen Agreement)?
The Schengen Agreement currently allows for the free movement across European borders – if this becomes curtailed, will this likely prevent terrorist attacks in the future (bearing in mind that Europe has been home to numerous terrorist organizations prior to the Schengen Agreement)?
Sorting and threading data sets
Part 1:
Description:
You will create processes, run processes in parallel, and pass information between processes. The data to be processed are “tuples” which are numbers and associated text strings, that is lines of CSV separated values, we wish to sort these.
1. Get the data set on Canvas
1a. Sort the data, that is each “record” (line, tuple) in ascending order by numeric value
2. Either: sort the data by hand (not a good idea), or write a two loop (bubble or insertion) sort program to sort the data.
(Do not use a “better” (faster) sorting method, the purpose is to use a “slow” sort method, but if you really want to, use much, much bigger data.)
3. “Instrument” your program (time it). Do not include time to load data or output results.
4. Create a program that will, in turn, run multiple processes “concurrently”
(at the same time, employing all of your CPUs and CPU Cores, using “fork( )” and “exec( )” (there are several variants of exec (execl, execv, etc.)
Please do not use “threads” (yet).
5. Do the sort, again, in parallel for 2 concurrent processes, then 4, and finally 10 processes.
6. Instrument those sorts (like above).
7. How will you pass data (parts of the array) to each process (IPC)? (Files, pipes, shared memory, message queues?)
8. You may (not required) to use a menu to select number of processes, size of data, etc.
Part 2:
Description:
You will create a process and threads, run in parallel, and pass information between threads.
You will use synchronization operations to avoid overwriting shared resources.
As in Assignment above:
1. Use the same data set, as previous part of assignment 2.
2. Sort, using the same methods from part 1, (write a two loop (bubble or insertion) sort program to sort the numbers in ascending order.
3. “Instrument” your program (time it).
4. Create a program that will, in turn, run multiple threads “concurrently” using a kernel level threading system.
(there are several options: Pthreads, Java, C/C++)
5. Do the sort, again, in parallel for 2 concurrent threads, then 4, and 10 threads.
6. Instrument those sorts (above).
7. How will you pass data (parts of the array) to each thread?
(How will you synchronize sharing resources such as memory?)
8. You may (not required) to use a menu to select number of threads, size of data, etc.
A car is traveling around a circular race track at 180 kmh?
A car is traveling around a circular race track at 180 kmh?1. If a single lap of the track is 2.4 km long, what is the angular velocity of the car (in rad s?1)?
What are your overall thoughts of Saba Safdar’s TED Talk?
Watch this video and then respond to the following prompts:
Everything you always wanted to know about culture | Saba Safdar | TEDxGuelphU (Links to an external site.)
Prompts (please respond writing a min. of 500 words in total):
(1) What are your overall thoughts of Saba Safdar’s TED Talk?
(2) Where do your views of culture come from? How do you know this? Think honestly and deeply about this question.
(3) What are a few of the reasons why foreigners view the culture of the United States differently than those born and raised within the United States?
For these next two questions, you will need to conduct additional research to find the answers. Be sure to cite your sources (include these references at the end of your document).
(4) What does individualism vs. collectivism mean? And, where does the United States rank on this cultural dimension?
(5) What are the pros and cons of individualism for the culture of the United States?
*Once you have posted to the discussion board please comment on at least 3 classmates’ posts. Since your classmates’ post will include responses to multiple questions you may choose which question you respond to. As always, please be respectful and open-minded with your responses.
Develop a research proposal which includes the research questions, methodology, and proposed statistical analysis.
By now, you should have a good idea of Chapter One, your research questions, and how you plan on collected data to answer the research questions. This week is your opportunity to submit your proposed questions and other information in an informal research proposal.
Objective:
- Develop a research proposal which includes the research questions, methodology, and proposed statisical analysis.
