The author creates a sense of urgency with very brutish words. Her method of writing is persuasive and simultaneously evokes sympathy. This passage is very clear in its stated goal and spends the entirety of the essay attempting to convince the reader; this was achieved through various methods beyond the preceding. Words like “need”‚ “Make”‚ “never”‚ and “must” all imply power and generally go together with forced obligations. For example‚ you MUST do the dishes or don’t MAKE me hurt you. These
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A group of enthusiastic cheerleaders perform their cheers just in front of the stands. The home crowd most often looks beyond the cheerleaders to the action on the field. Cheers from the crowd erupt as the favored team gets a touchdown. Even a first down is reason to celebrate. What is it that helps that cheerleader get their message of support across to the fans? A megaphone. This simple tool is used to take a message and amplify it so that it can be heard. Once the crowd can hear the cheers they
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Critical Theory Cheat Sheet Donald E. Hall. Literary and Cultural Theory: From Basic Principles to Advanced Applications. Houghton Mifflin‚ 2001. Theory Formalism /New Criticism 1920’s forward Reader Response Rhetorical Analysis Marxist/Materialist Analysis Psychoanalytic Analysis Key Ideas -analysis of literary structures (genre; character‚ plot‚ setting‚ etc.) -rejected literature’s historical and biographical contexts -intrinsic meaning of texts; literature expresses
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Ch. 51- FAP: sequence of behaviors that are usually carried through to completion. Habituation:loss of sensitivity to unimportant stimuli. Associative learning: associating one stimulus with another. Class. Conditioning: association of an irrelevant stimulus with a fixed physiological response. Cognition: animal’s ability to perceive‚ store‚ process‚ and use info. from its sensory receptors. Agonistic behavior: contest to determine which competitor gains access to a resource. Ch. 54- Nitrogen fixation:
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Cyber Stalking Stalking: series of actions that would cause a person to fear death or injury Spam (Bulk email marketing) Internet version of junk mail Where do they get email addys? - legitimate companies - Newsgroup Extractors - Websites Extractors Avoiding Spam - Use phoney address - Use anonymous remailer - Use “AT” in your email address instead of @. Internet Fraud / Identity Theft Credit Card Fraud: The unauthorized use of credit cards to obtain money or property Common ways
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90%= 1.645 95% = 1.96 98% = 2.33 99% = 2.575 Hypothesis Testing *A credit card company wondered whether giving frequent flyer miles for every purchase would increase card usage‚ which has a current mean of $2500 per year. They gave free flyer miles to a simple random sample of 25 card customers and found the sample mean to be $2542 and the standard deviation to be $109. n= 25 Ho (Claim) µ=2500 OR Ha µ > 2500 *Use t-table n .50 Ha
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Expectations‚ Variances & Covariances The Rules of Summation n å xi ¼ x1 þ x2 þ Á Á Á þ xn covðX; YÞ ¼ E½ðXÀE½XÞðYÀE½YÞ i¼1 n ¼ å å ½x À EðXÞ½ y À EðYÞ f ðx; yÞ å a ¼ na x y i¼1 n covðX;YÞ r ¼ pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi varðXÞvarðYÞ n å axi ¼ a å xi i¼1 n i¼1 n n i¼1 i¼1 E(c1X þ c2Y ) ¼ c1E(X ) þ c2E(Y ) E(X þ Y ) ¼ E(X ) þ E(Y ) å ðxi þ yi Þ ¼ å xi þ å yi i¼1 n n n i¼1 i¼1 å ðaxi þ byi Þ ¼ a å xi þ b å yi i¼1 n var(aX þ bY þ cZ ) ¼ a2var(X) þ b2var(Y ) þ c2var(Z
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squirting it through tiny nozzles in the print head and onto the paper. • The crispness of an ink jet printer’s image is usually rated in terms of Dots per Inch or DPI. Ink jets range from 150 to over 1400 dpi. • Ink jet printers feed single cut sheets of paper‚ from a feed tray‚ by clamping them between rollers and advancing them one print line at a time‚ from top to bottom‚ and then placing the newly printed paper into a tray‚ other than the feed tray. Laser • Laser printers are classified
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Notes Intention – SOCIAL OR DOMESTIC- do not intend to create legal relations. Balfour v Balfour (1912) Categories of rebuttal – The nature of the document (if drafted by solicitor) - Agreement may expressly state legal relations - Surrounding Circumstance may indicate intention Merritt v Merritt (1970) -Significant reliance on promise- consequences are sufficiently serious. Wakeling v Ripley (1951) - COMMERCIAL NATURE- do intend to create legal relations. Edwards v Skyways (1964)
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Chapter 3 Standard units tell you how many standard deviations above or below average a data value is standard units = (actual value – average)/SD actual value = average + (SD x standard units). Standard units are denoted by Z. Chapter 8 Complement rule: P(A) = 1 – P(A doesn ’t happen) Multiplication rule: P(A and B both happen) = P(A) x P(B given A happened) Q. 5 random components removed one at a time from box containing 5 defective and twenty working. What is chance of selecting all defective:
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