“Why Cellphone Videos of Black People’s Deaths Should Be considered Sacred, Like Lynching Photographs”

Summary – All about the text: This paragraph will be a summary of the article, about 3/4th to a full page long. You will have to carefully consider the key points, selecting only the most significant ideas and examples. Remember to keep your summary purely objective, avoiding any response or analysis. Also, make sure that you key in on the most important ideas, leaving out unnecessary examples and details.

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How to Write Succinct Summaries (one paragraph)

by Kristie Sweet Updated 3/17/17 (adapted from)

College instructors often ask students to summarize readings to demonstrate their understanding of the material and get writing practice. Summaries condense information into shorter pieces, expressing the ideas of an article, essay or other writing in concise form. Writing a succinct summary requires clear understanding of the material, focus on the piece’s purpose and close attention to phrasing.

Prepare and Focus the Introduction You cannot properly convey the main points in original source material unless you understand them, so study the material closely to be sure you comprehend the message and its importance. Open your summary with background information about the reading. Give the title and author of the piece you will summarize so your reader knows what work you refer to. Follow that statement with a sentence explaining the overall point of the reading. You can use one or two sentences for this background. For example, a summary might open, “Sarah Jilley’s ‘Dyslexia’s Cousin’ explains how the learning disability dysgraphia affects students and gives teacher compensation strategies.”

Emphasize the Main Ideas Outline or highlight the major concepts in the reading. If the source material has headings and subheadings, these should alert you to main ideas. Rephrase these thoughts using your own words. For instance, the original might read, “Dysgraphia is a type of learning disability that causes problems with the ability to write. It affects both the physical process of writing and the information processing ability.” The summary could be: “The learning disability dysgraphia affects physiological and cognitive writing capability.”

Include Appropriate Support Develop the summary with just enough detail to explain the concept to the reader. The dysgraphia article would list all the difficulties students might encounter and give specific examples, but the article summary would condense those into a list, leaving out the details. A complete summary should include all the major points from the article, but it shouldn’t incorporate your own thoughts or opinions about the information. Use language — such as “he suggests” and “the article also expresses” — to stress that the information comes from the original piece.

Use Succinct Language After you have finished writing your summary, read through to condense your ideas into the most succinct language possible. Use active, vivid verbs rather than passive voice. For example, the passive voice in “It is expected by teachers that students will comply” should become “Teachers expect students will comply.” Find wordy phrases like “due to the fact that” and “has knowledge of” and replace with more concise wording such as “because” and “knows.” Replace prepositional phrases with adjectives where possible. For instance, “Many techniques for assessing a student with dysgraphia can be employed by teachers” is better as “Teachers can employ many dysgraphia assessment techniques.” https://penandthepad.com/write-succinct-summaries-…

Visual Basic Net Programming

1. Visual Basic Net Programming
2. I will provide the book link when it is accepted. Thank you

1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
2. Start with a new Visual Studio project. Write a Visual Basic program to address the requirements of Chapter 4’s section, “Programming Projects,” #5. Restaurant Menu.
   1. Create form as depicted in the exercise (Figure 4.70).
   2. Additionally, include the following:
      1. A label displaying the student name in italics
      2. A label displaying the workshop due date formatted as m/d/yyyy
      3. A button to exit or quit
      4. A button to clear the form, resetting all controls to the default:
         1. Checkboxes are not checked
         2. The menu group boxes are not visible
         3. The first radio button in each group is checked
         4. The cost of the meal is cleared
      5. Each button should establish a keyboard access key (see Chapter 2’s section, “A button Walkthrough”).
      6. The form properties should include the accept button and cancel button properties (see Appendix B’s section “Manage Visual Basic Controls”)
   3. Write the Visual Basic programming statements to accept input from the form as required then calculate and display the cost of the meal.
   4. Apply all standards as depicted in 1.5 Assignment, introduced in the textbook, and reinforced in discussion forums.
   5. Remember: do not flounder. Use the Collaboration Forum to pose questions and share learning.
3. Be sure to File>Save All your work (never use “Save As”). Close and exit Visual Studio.
4. Create submission zip archive.
   1. Make a new folder including student name – “WorkshopThree LastNameFirstName” as in “WorkshopThree LutherMartin”
   2. Copy exercise project folder to the submission folder.
   3. Create zip archive of the submission folder. In Windows Explorer, right click folder name, select “Send to” and “Compressed (zipped) folder.” Full details provided in 1.2 Assignment.
5. Once the assignment is complete, save a copy for yourself and submit zip archive created in Step 2 by the end of the workshop. Be sure to follow submission naming standards.

In 2013, Gallup conducted a poll and found a 95% confidence interval of the proportion of Americans who believe it is the government’s responsibility for health care. Give a statistical interpretation of this interval.

In 2013, Gallup conducted a poll and found a 95% confidence interval of the proportion of Americans who believe it is the government’s responsibility for health care.  Give a statistical interpretation of this interval.

Suppose you compute a confidence interval with a sample size of 100. What will happen to the confidence interval if the sample size decreases to 80?

Suppose you compute a confidence interval with a sample size of 100.  What will happen to the confidence interval if the sample size decreases to 80?

Maintaining your balance may get harder as you grow older. A study was conducted to see how steady the elderly is on their feet. They had the subjects stand on a force platform and have them react to a noise. The force platform then measured how much they swayed forward and backward, and the data is in the table below.

Maintaining your balance may get harder as you grow older.  A study was conducted to see how steady the elderly is on their feet.  They had the subjects stand on a force platform and have them react to a noise.  The force platform then measured how much they swayed forward and backward, and the data is in the table below.

Table: Forward/backward Sway (in mm) of Elderly Subjects

Set up and run a test of hypothesis to determine if the elderly sway more than the mean forward sway of younger people, which is 18.125 mm?  Use a level of significance of 5%. Specifically, do the following:

(i) Write down the null and alternative hypotheses.

(ii) Verify that the assumptions necessary to apply the test are satisfied.

(iii) What is the test statistic and what is the p-value?

(iv) State your conclusion.

The economic dynamism, which is the index of productive growth in dollars for countries that are designated by the World Bank as middle-income are in the table below. Countries that are considered high-income have a mean economic dynamism of 60.29.

Table: Economic Dynamism ($) of Middle Income Countries

(a) Set up and run a test of hypotheses to determine if the data show that the mean economic dynamism of middle-income countries is less than the mean for high-income countries? Use a level of significance of 5%. Specifically, do the following:

(i) Write down the null and alternative hypotheses.

(ii) Verify that the assumptions necessary to apply the test are satisfied.

(iii) What is the test statistic and what is the p-value?

(iv) State your conclusion.

(b) Using the data in the table which represents the index of productive growth in dollars for countries that are designated by the World Bank as middle-income, construct a 95% confidence interval for the true mean economic dynamism of middle-income countries. Make sure to check the assumptions necessary to construct the interval.  Interpret the interval.

Write down the null and alternative hypotheses.

In 2008, across the United States, 1 child in 88 is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

But in the state of Arizona alone, a sample of 32,601 children was taken and 507 were diagnosed with ASD.

(a) Set up and run a test of hypothesis to determine if there sufficient data to show that the incident of ASD is more in Arizona than nationally?  Use a level of significance of 1%. Specifically, do the following:

(i) Write down the null and alternative hypotheses.

(ii) Verify that the assumptions necessary to apply the test are satisfied.

(iii) What is the test statistic and what is the p-value?

(iv) State your conclusion(b) Using the sample data from Arizona, construct a 99% confidence interval for the true population proportion in Arizona of children diagnosed with ASD. Make sure to check the assumptions necessary to construct the interval.Interpret the interval.

According to the February 2008 Federal Trade Commission report on consumer fraud and identity theft, 23% of all complaints in 2007 were for identity theft. In that year, in the state of ALASKA alone, there were 321 complaints of identity theft out of 1,432 consumer complaints.

(a) What is the random variable?

(b) What is the population parameter?

(c) Set up and run a test of hypothesis to determine if the data from ALASKA provides enough evidence to show that ALASKA had a lower proportion of identity theft than 23%. Use a level of significance of 5%. Specifically, do the following:

(i) Write down the null and alternative hypotheses.

(ii) State the type I and type II errors in this case and state a consequences of each type of error in the context of this problem.

(iii) Verify that the assumptions necessary to apply the test are satisfied.

(iv) What is the test statistic and what is the p-value?

(v) State your conclusion.

The mean cholesterol levels of women age 45-59 in Kenya, Africa is 5.1 mmol/l and the standard deviation is 1.0 mmol/l. Assume that cholesterol levels are normally distributed.

(a) What is the random variable?

(b) Find the probability that a woman age 45-59 in Kenya has a cholesterol level above 6.2 mmol/l (considered a high level).

(c) Suppose doctors decide to test the woman’s cholesterol level again and average the two values.  Find the probability that this woman’s mean cholesterol level for the two tests is above 6.2 mmol/l.

(d) Suppose doctors being very conservative decide to test the woman’s cholesterol level a third time and average the three values.  Find the probability that this woman’s mean cholesterol level for the three tests is above 6.2 mmol/l.

(e) If the sample mean cholesterol level for this woman after three tests is above 6.2 mmol/l, what could you conclude?

A random variable is normally distributed. It has a mean of 245 and a standard deviation of 21.

A random variable is normally distributed.  It has a mean of 245 and a standard deviation of 21. 

(a) Suppose we take a random sample of size 10.

(i) What is the shape of the distribution of the sample means?  Why?

(ii) What is the mean of the sample means, and what is standard deviation of the sample means?

(iii) Find the probability that a sample mean is more than 241.

(b) Suppose we take a random sample of size 35.

(i) What is the shape of the distribution of the sample means?  Why?

(ii) What is the mean of the sample means, and what is standard deviation of the sample means?

(iii) Find the probability that a sample mean is more than 241.

(c) Compare your answers in (a)(iii) and (b)(iii).  Why is one smaller than the other?