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- 26911: Design of a Psychological Experiment
- ... Suppose you are a psychologist who is interested in the effects of caffeine on the eye-hand coordination of students enrolled at UMCP. Design an experiment to test the hypothesis that caffeine enhances a student's ability to hit a baseball. Describe your experiment by answering the following questions: 1) What are the independent and dependent variables? The independent variable would be the caffeine. The results of the students' hitting of ... the experimenter, the participants in your experiment, and any other people you might ask to help? The experimental conditions would be the same for all participants, probably in an indoor stadium so the weather won't affect the students. The task for the experimenter would be to make sure to have a control group, to have a wide variety and different types of participants, to make sure all participants use the ...
- 26912: Sympathy
- ... were denied the right to life, forced to work endlessly, and suffered abuse from their masters. However, slavery ended in 1865 and yet Africans are still suffering from the entrapment of society. Paul Laurence Dunbar’s "Sympathy", written in 1899 gives the reader a comparison between the life of a caged bird and the African Americans throughout history. Dunbar uses vivid language, repetition, and symbolism to relay his comparison throughout the ... Both the bird and the African Americans desire for freedom never died down, only grew stronger and more relentless. American slavery produced some fearless and implacable revolutionaries. From the first thousand slaves that created Gabriel’s Conspiracy in 1800 to Nat Turner in 1831 and many instances that still occur today, African American never stopped fighting or gave up hope. Dunbar’s "Sympathy" evokes compassion in the reader by comparing the image of a caged bird to the life of an African American. The reader finishes the poem feeling a sense of sympathy towards the delicate ...
- 26913: Cue For Treason
- Cue For Treason Cue for Treason is set in Shakespearean England during the 1590’s. It begins in the village of Cumberland, a village in the northern tip of England near the Scottish border. The story makes its way South to the city of London. Peter ran from Cumberland due ... his mind away from the troubles he has with Sir Philip Morton. The night before he had arrived in Penrith, Peter, his father, his brother Tom and his neighbors plan to throw down Sir Philip’s wall. They were angry at Sir Philip for his threat to repossess their land. During this siege, Peter was tolled to stand on guard. He fell asleep while he stood on guard and awoke only ... a conspiracy to assassinate the Queen of England. The poem says “meet at the Peel Tower.” The only peel tower that is abandoned in England is in the village of Cumberland. They join the Queen’s secret agents to investigate. One of the people behind the conspiracy is Sir Philip Morton. Peter and Tom, the secret agent, go to investigate the Peel Tower. Tom goes inside while Peter stands on ...
- 26914: Holocaust Museum
- ... Ever though he lost the election, Hindenburg on January 30, 1933 appointed Hitler Chancellor. 2. The next thing that caught my interest was a film on anti-Semitism. This film showed the roots for people's natural fear of the Jews from the times of Christianity through the middle ages and up to WWII. 3. The more traditional type of exhibit they had was about how the Germans tried to separate ... that I saw that day. 4. I thought that this was very neat. I watched the film on the Berlin Olympics, and it was very informative, and not boring. First Floor Hall of Witness/ Daniel's Story 1. The architecture of the building is brilliant. It joins together the modernism of today with the simplicity of the early 1900's with the horror and terror of the Holocaust. 2. Unlike other displays in this museum, this one is arranged and presented in such a way that a child can relate to it. Signs and ...
- 26915: Minstrels
- ... were also story tellers, jugglers, clowns, and tumblers. Often minstrels were an important part of prominent house holds providing entertainment for the upper class of society. Those minstrels who were not part of a noble's homestead, traveled from town to town providing entertainment not only to noble classes but also to common village folk as well. There were not many forms of entertainment, nor was there a means for people ... in the next village in which they performed. Each country in medieval Europe had their own type of minstrel. Each, while similar in their general role of entertainer, they were different in many ways. Troubadour's, French minstrels, flourished in from the 11th century through the 13th century. Troubadours were found in the southern part of France. The troubadours were among the first minstrels to use their native tongue rather than ... had their minstrels called bards. Bards were professional poets who sang about heroic accomplishments and national pride. They accompanied themselves with harps. Their chief form of expression was poetic alliteration or rhyme. By the 1700's the bards were no longer popular. A famous playwright, William Shakespeare, is often called the Bard of Avon (World Book Encyclopedia pp. 109.) Today bards are often seen and heard at folk festivals. The ...
- 26916: Government In The Usa
- ... of the majority of the electors in the Electoral College. The serious anomaly in the electoral college system is the rule that in each state the candidate who wins the biggest number of the people's votes receives the whole electoral college vote for the state, no matter how small the majority is. Congress The Congress is a bicameral instituion, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Its job ... relationship between the President and Congress is one of working together and checking on each other. The Senate The Senate embodies the federal nature of the Constitution, with two senators from each state. Each state’s two senators are elected at separate elections, for example, one in November 1984 to serve for 1985-91, the other in 1986 to serve for 1987-93; and each senator is elected by and for ... a whole state. House of Representatives The House of Representatives has a fixed number of seats (435), and each state has one seat for every 1/435 share that it has of the whole U.S. population. Every ten years, after each census, states with fast-growing populations, like Texas and Florida, are given extra seats at the expense of those with slow growth like New York. Six states have ...
- 26917: Flannery O’Conner and Grotesque Characters
- ... the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it will be called realistic.” In O’Conners “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” the villain is a one armed hobo named Tom T. Shiftlet. Using his gift of gab and the promise of “fixing the place up.” He manages to take up on the remote farm of an old woman named Lucynell Crater and her mentally retarded and ... sex with her. When she realizes this and resists, he steals her wooden leg and departs leaving her helpless. Flannery O’Conners “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” and “Good Country People” don’t seem to have much in common at first, but they actually have several common grotesque elements. Both make use of handicapped characters, Joy Hopewells wooden leg, Tom Shiftlets missing arm, and Lucynells deafness and mental retardation. Even the characters names in both stories tend to add to the image O’Conner was trying to create. Consider Joy (Hulga) Hopewell, who is joyless, hopeless, and unwell, and Tom T, Shiflet, which immediately brings shiftless to mind. Flannery O’Conner spent most of her adult life handicapped herself. In addition to her keen powers of observation, this was likely the source of her talent ...
- 26918: Lord of the Flies: Primal Instincts
- ... shows his desire and eagerness his wants of getting rescued. When the naval officer found the boys and saw Ralph, Ralph started to cry. He cried because of the "end of innocence", "darkness of man's heart", (p. 225), and the death of his friend Piggy. However, those were not all the reasons why he cried. He cried because his wish finally come true, he was getting rescued. Piggy was the ... fight Jack and take the glasses, nevertheless, Piggy went to visit Jack and his boys to tell him that Jack should give his specs back, not because he is stronger than he, but because "what's right's right." (p. 190). Lastly, Piggy was also the only and last one to believe in the power of the conch at the moment. Jack and his hunters did not listen to Piggy as usual, ...
- 26919: Mormons in Utah
- ... the case because shortly after their release, they were assassinated. The leadership of the Mormons fell onto the shoulders of a group of men known as the 12 Apostles. The 12 Apostles, knowing they couldn't stay in Illinois, decided they had to move. Brigham Young, who took over as prophet and president of the Mormon group, decided to move the Mormons in 1847. They moved from Illinois to Great Basin ... alone and their little city in Utah created thousands more cities like it. The contemporary Mormon church still has many problems, and while it is seen as a conservative Christian church, their ideas about God's nature and salvation greatly differ from other Christian religions. However, the Mormons have constantly proved they believe their religion is worth fighting for. In this report, I have proven the Mormons are an odd mixture ...
- 26920: Death Of a Salesman
- ... a standard of living unparalleled throughout history. For Willy Loman, however, mass society has created only tremendous grief and hardship, aggravated by the endless promise. For these reasons, his tragedy is due more to society's flaws than to the flaws in his own character. Willy Loman was host to many flaws and deficiencies ranging form suicidal tendencies to psychotic disorders. However, these shortcomings did not account for his tragic end ... compassion. This could be as a result of almost overwhelming greed, the main culprit being big business. "I'm always in a race with the junkyard! I just finished paying for the car and it's on it last legs. The refrigerator consumes belts like a god-dam maniac. They time those things."(Act 2, page 73, lines 16-19) Willy's belief in this statement drew him to believe that big business lacked compassion. It is because of this that he is abandoned by Biff and disowned by Happy, left babbling in a toilet. It ...
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