Reconcile the fact that people can lose control of their ability to gamble responsibly (gambling addictions) with the fact that the gaming entertainment business provides gambling services for profit.
Consult the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers see how to do text notes and works cited citations, and specific examples of different types of citations. Do not do a title page. Essays must be a minimum of six pages (5 whole pages of text and a works cited page), and they must cite at least five sources. Acceptable sources include web pages, books, recordings, periodicals, newspapers, CDs, downloads, relevant personal interviews, and films. Encyclopedias will not count as sources because they are common knowledge; however, specialized reference books will be acceptable. One of the sources must be a text and one should be a website and one should be the actual song or poem
Students need to pick a poem or a favorite song. Each student must pick a different lyricist or poet and sign up for him or her on the suggested author list. They should use the literary resources discussed during the library orientation (we will meet in the library on that day). Students will discuss their authors and works for a minimum of 5 minutes. They may use notes for the presentation, but I prefer that they not read the entire presentations (eye contact is encouraged). The presentations must touch upon the important aspects of the author’s life and how these events influenced his or her work. Students must also intelligently discuss and interpret their poem or song. They should also either steer students towards the online page that work is on or provide copies for the class. If a student is analyzing a song, he or she must discuss the literary elements in the song (such as metaphor, simile, foreshadowing, alliteration, rhyme scheme, hyperbole, and slant rhyme), and the song or at least a part of it should be played in class. Students will be graded on content, organization, and their ability to answer questions intelligently. In short, students should become experts on their authors and works: they should also be prepared to answer questions on their author and work. They must also turn in their symposium preparation handout sheets after they do their presentations. Oral presentations will begin on Friday, November 20. We will not get to everyone, but all students should be prepared on that day.
Whenever you use another person’s thoughts or ideas, make sure that you either paraphrase or use quotes. Always use MLA guidelines for documenting sources. Students must use parenthetical documentation (also known as textnotes) rather than footnotes, which are cumbersome and outdated.
Students need to apply some of the terms on the poetry definition sheet to the work.
Students should pick sophisticated and/or lengthy and challenging works to analyze. In addition, the prospectus should tell what the student is trying to do and in the paper, and it should summarize some of his or her thoughts on the poem (s) or song (s). It must also name two potential sources of information in MLA works cited format at the bottom of the page.
Each student must also complete a typed proposal or prospectus that tells which author and poem(s) or song(s) with poetic elements that the student is covering. No papers on short stories, novels, or plays will be accepted for this assignment.
You need to bring in the typed one-paragraph proposal on Tuesday, November 17. The proposal must tell which song or poem you are using, and it should state some basic info on the song or poem. It should also mention a few sources.
Rough drafts are due for peer editing on Tuesday, November 19. You need to bring the rough draft and the essay itself in a manila folder on Thursday December 3.
Oral Presentation/Speech assignment
Directions: Put together a short (5 minute minimum) speech that uses several reputable sources. You may use note cards during the speech, but no one should read the whole text to the class.
Your speech will be judged on the following criteria. Is the speech informative enough? Is it well supported? Is it communicated clearly? Is it meaningful and interesting to the audience?
Everyone will be evaluated on eye contact, body language, length, voice, enthusiasm, delivery, poise, use of language, grammar, and pronunciation.
5 guidelines to make your speech more effective
1.) Don’t underestimate or overestimate the audience.
2.) When possible, relate the material to the audience and personalize the speech with experiential or anecdotal examples.
3.) Explain or define terms that may be new to the audience.
4.) Avoid being overly pedantic or overly technical.
5.) Practice your speech beforehand in front of a mirror or on a recording so you can get an idea how you are doing.
Note: We will not get through all the speeches on the first day, but everyone is expected to be prepared on that day anyway. Students who missed the class must make up the speeches on the next class.
Poetry definitions (many can also be applied to songs)
Allusion-A reference to something outside the text (often it is literary or historical)
Theme-What the poem is about (usually it tends to be a bigger subject like love or death)
Narrator-The speaker of or in a poem
Persona-The identity that the poet assumes to “tell” the poem
Metaphor-An expressed relationship between two things often using “is”
Simile- An expressed relationship between two things often using “like” or “as”
Symbol-a word, image etc. that represents two things
Allegory-A work in which almost everything is symbolic including characters. An example would be “Young Goodman Brown” or The Truman Show.
Stanza-In poetry, groups of lines separated by space (prose generally has paragraphs instead of stanzas)
Enjambment- a situation in which the sense of one line or stanza runs over into the following line, or stanza
End-stopped line-a situation in which the sense of a line of poetry is logically, grammatically concluded,
often with end punctuation, such as a period, exclamation point, or question mark
Denotation-the dictionary definition of the word
Connotation-what words, through their use within culture, imply
Rhyme scheme-patterns of recurring sounds at the end of lines
Lyric-a short songlike poem, often about love
Lyre-A tortoise shell with strings that was used as an instrument. The ancient Greeks chanted or read
memorized poems while they played lyres.
Epic- A long poem, often telling a story
Alliteration –Repetition of initial consonant sounds within a poem
Assonance-Repetition of initial vowel sounds within a poem
Learning Objectives
At the completion of this lab, you will be able to
• Properly configure IP information for a SOHO router
• Properly configure DHCP for a SOHO network
• Activate the firewall features for a basic SOHO router
• Configure a basic ACL for a SOHO router
Lab Materials and Setup
The materials you’ll need for this lab are
• A Windows Vista or 7 PC with Internet access
• The Mike Meyers’ CompTIA Network+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting Networks textbook
• Pencil and paper
Instructions
SOHO routers are wonderful tools that make connecting a small network to the Internet an easy job. Nevertheless, you must know how to make a number of basic configurations to make the router work well. This Lab Exercise challenges you to use the knowledge you gained from multiple chapters in the textbook to make a safer, well-configured router.
Task 1: Go to http://ui.linksys.com and locate the WRT54GL router. Remember, this is only an emulator. Do not click Save Changes at any time as it will only reset the page to defaults.
Task 2: Using the IP addressing scheme you chose for your network, configure the router with the IP address and subnet mask you chose for its internal address.
Task 3: Configure the router’s DHCP server to work for your network. (Disable/Enable the DHCP server to get the DHCP settings to update.)
Task 4: Poke around the settings for this router for Firewall. Was the firewall turned on or off?
Task 5: Your friend has a son who likes to play certain games using the popular Steam client (www.steampowered.com). Provide a written or oral presentation on how to create an ACL on the router that will prevent him from using his Steam client after 10 P.M. on school nights.
Task 6: What else would you do on this router to lock it down? Make a list and prepare to defend it.
The evaluation between SQLserver and Neo4j is based upon a set of predefined queries. Graph databases are implemented using Neo4j . The database is queried with Cypher Query Language. Queries designed to analyze the performance difference between a relational database and a graph database.
Step 1:
implement Neo4j
create graph database nodes
create relationships between nodes
execute the queries
Step 2:
implement SQL Server
create database with same data of step 1
execute the same queries
Step 3:
Compare the results between step 1 and step 2 by measure the retrieval time for 100 objects, 500 objects, 1000 objects
note:
– add screen shots for the results
Hello,
Due to a very busy schedule, I need help with one of my research papers.
I am new to ‘outsourcing’ papers, so I’m contacting multiple essay writing companies with this same question, hoping to find the most qualified writer for an acceptable price.
I need to do a research about digital signal processing, in the pitch detection field. And how the Opus codec implemented different pitch detection alghorithms and if Opus wants to implement another pitch detection method, which will be the most suitable for them?
In short, I need a writer who is familiar with:
* DSP
* Pitch Detection
* MATLAB
* Opus codec (pre)
The level of the paper has to be B.Sc, grad year.
Do you have a writer who could help me out with this?
I would like to know the next things:
Credentials Years of experience with MATLAB How much do you know about the Opus codec? How known are you with various pitch detection methods?
Thank you.
Concepts in Community and Public Health
Community/Public Health Nursing
PART I:
Develop a community teaching proposal designed to address the needs of your community (northern California, diverse community which includes Asians, Philippinos, Hispanics)
Select one of the following as the focus for the teaching plan:
1. Primary Prevention/Health Promotion
2. Secondary Prevention/Screenings for a Vulnerable Population
3. Bioterrorism/Disaster
4. Environmental Issues
Complete the “Community Teaching Work Plan Proposal.” This will help you organize your plan and create an outline for the written assignment (see attached template)
1. After completing the teaching proposal, review the teaching plan with a community health and public health provider in your local community (virtual person ok for purposes of the assignment)
2. Request feedback (strengths and opportunities for improvement) from the provider.
3. Complete the “Community Teaching Experience” form (see attached form)
PART II:
Based on the feedback offered by the provider, identify the best approach for teaching. Prepare a presentation to accompany the teaching plan and present the information to your community. Select one of the following options for delivery of the presentation:
1. PowerPoint presentation – no more than 30 minutes
2. Pamphlet presentation – 1 to 2 pages
3. Poster presentation
(#2 or #3 may be easier and shorter, unless #1 works better for you)
Appropriate community settings include:
• Public health clinic
• Community health center
• Long-term care facility
• Transitional care facility
• Home health center
• University/School health center
• Church community
• Adult/Child care center
Before presenting information to the community, seek approval from an agency administrator or representative (doesn’t have to happen in actual sense)
Upon receiving approval from the agency, include the “Community Teaching Experience Form” as part of your assignment submission (I’ll do this part)
PART III:
In 1,500-2,000 words, describe the teaching experience and discuss your observations. The written portion of this assignment should include:
1. Summary of teaching plan
2. Epidemiological rationale for topic
3. Evaluation of teaching experience
4. Community response to teaching
5. Areas of strengths and areas of improvement
Right after AT&T’s divestiture on January 1, 1984, the Regional Bell operating companies, RBOCs (i.e., all the telephone companies that monopolized local telephone service) charged the then newly-formed Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) – which consisted of about half of the famed legendary Bell Labs – to develop a new TDM scheme for transmission and switching of optical signals. The result was SONET (synchronous optical network). SONET was so well conceived that it was quickly standardized by the ITU in the 1980’s, and renamed as the Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) standard. A SONET industry has thrived since, as virtually the entire core of the Internet is SONET/SDH. One of the goals of SONEt was to resolve the hidden signaling problems that the traditional digital signal hierarchy (T1, T2, T3, etc.) suffered from.
Research the ingeniously-designed SONET TDM scheme, in comparison to the T1-T3 scheme, and discuss the SONET advantages, and its implementation configurations in various types of networks.
Compare and contrast any ancient myth of your choice (except any Greek myth) with any contemporary one, particularly in terms of the structures and contents of both myths.
Ideally you should be using any of the myths described and analysed by Levis-Strauss in the Raw and the Cooked.
Please do not Plagiarize!!!!
Can I have this paper back before 11/25? Thank you!!
Instruction
First, please read the Assessment Outline carefully below.
Second, the Essay requirements that you must to follow it to do this essay and you can see it at the end of this paper
Assessment Outline:
Critically analyses 3 current issues or challenges that affect the Resort and Spa industry. In your essay, include discussion on each issue or challenge in detail and formulate a solution to and recommendation for each issue or challenge.
Analyses the effect you believe that 5 emerging trends within the Resort and Spa industry have on the future of the industry and provide justification for your perspective. Your concluding paragraphs should synthesis your main points.
Essay Requirement Structure
1. Introduction (100 words)
2. Critically analyses 3 current issues or challenges. (210 words)
3. Detailed discussion of each issue or challenge. (300 words)
4. Formulation of solutions and recommendations for each issue or challenge. (450 words)
5. Analysis of 5 emerging trends within the resort and spa industry. (450 words)
6. Justification of effects of trends on the future of the resort and spa industry. (340 words)
7. Conclusion (150 words
we should answer the questions from the book. the name of the book is: Tignor,et all , “Worlds Together, Worlds Apart” FOURTH EDITION
1. Write on the following (10 points) :
How did Alexander the Great’s conquests alter the political landscape of the Afro-Eurasian world? What types of political regimes emerged in the wake of Alexander?
2. Write on ONE (1) of the two questions below(10 points)
A) Compare the concepts of Pax Sinica and Pax Romana. In what similar and different ways did the Roman and Han Empires promote peace and stability along their borders?
B) How did Confucian ideas shape political and social structures in Han society