...Language Critique Assignment “Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts” Education is not simply learning things; it is learning to learn things. In his classic essay “Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts” William G. Perry Jr. of Harvard University in 1963, using a mix of anecdote and analysis, humor and seriousness, considers the different kinds of answers students tend to give on exams and how they reflect on different kinds and ways of thinking. Perry Jr. categorizes, questions, and attacks the academic arrogance that surrounds the age-old learning style of curriculum based instruction that is used throughout school systems. He uses key terms such as bull and cow. Besides, he uses emotive language that makes the essay rich of knowledge. He discusses the problem of the theory of knowledge in terms of grading "bull" and what he names "cow." The incident that impelled him to write is interesting. Briefly, one Mr. Metzger (a pseudonym for a Harvard student, class of '47) rocketed to celebrity/notoriety after impulsively and for no apparent reason taking an exam under the name Smith in a social science course for which he was not registered and which he had never attended. Cheerfully, I gather, he wrote an essay discussing a book he had never read. The scandal resulted when, because a real Smith was absent, Metzger's essay was graded and returned-with an A - . It is relevant to the resultant controversy that a conscientious friend of Metzger who had taken the course received a C+...
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...faith. Stanza 1 I. Explain interpretation of the poem II. Explain the interpretations throughout Stanza 1 III. Demonstrate how T.S Eliot captures the senses of the reader Stanza 2 I. Explain the interpretations throughout Stanza 2 II. Explain how the folly is resembling T.S Eliot’s own battles with finding faith Stanza 3 I. Explain the interpretations throughout Stanza 3 II. Compare how the poem relates to the Christian faith Conclusion Thomas Stearns Eliot, also known as T.S. Eliot is one of the greatest poets in the 20th century. He was a poet, critic, and a dramatist during the modernism period. T.S Eliot was born in America but later moved to the United Kingdom where he settled and became a British subject. He attended Harvard University, Merton College, and Oxford. One of T.S Eliot’s most intriguing poems is the poem Journey of the Magi is a poem written about the story of the Magi, the three wise men who traveled to Bethlehem to see baby Jesus. T.S. Eliot’s poem is referring to the story that is told in Matthew 2:1-12. The poem, Journey of the Magi, has many different hidden meanings but all have a connection to the Christian faith. Journey of the Magi is written in a perspective form one of the Magi’s that traveled to Bethlehem to witness the birth of Jesus and to bring the new baby gifts. A common interpretation of this poem is that it is the journey that T.S. Elliot converting to the Christian faith. In the first section of the poem there are many physical...
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...Nguyễn Lê Việt Anh - 1314140007 Anh 28 – CTTTKT K52 December 21, 2014 CO150 College Composition 2014: Fall 2014, Instructor: Phuc Vu Project 3: Annotated bibliography Academic Actions, Academic Integrity Chace, William M. “A Question of Honor.” The American Scholar 81.2 (2012): 20-32. Academic Search Premier. Web. 22 Mar. 2013. Chace raises our awareness about many problems that American higher education is confronting such as the decreasing of quality and student integrity. At first, he pointed out the declining of academic quality. The tuition fee is raising, but the outcome is not. Then he tells us the biggest reason that causes the problem – it is academic dishonesty. Later, Chace highlights why students cheat and how college cheating damages academic integrity and harms collegiate institutions’ reputations. Finally, he strongly states “To do nothing is not an answer”; therefore, we must find some solutions. William Chase is both President and Professor of English Emeritus at Emory University as well as Honorary Professor of English Emeritus at Stanford University. The American Scholar, the publisher of this article is a very famous magazine in American, as they describes themselves in the website “The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won five National Magazine Awards, the industry’s highest...
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...MANAGEMENT REPORT BATNA Basics: Boost Your Power at the Bargaining Table www.pon.harvard.edu Negotiation Management Report #10 $50 (US) Negotiation Editorial Board Board members are leading negotiation faculty, researchers, and consultants affiliated with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Max H. Bazerman Harvard Business School Iris Bohnet K ennedy School of Government, Harvard University Robert C. Bordone Harvard Law School John S. Hammond John S. Hammond & Associates Deborah M. Kolb Simmons School of Management David Lax Lax Sebenius, LLC Robert Mnookin Harvard Law School Bruce Patton Vantage Partners, LLC Jeswald Salacuse T he Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University James Sebenius Harvard Business School Guhan Subramanian Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School Lawrence Susskind Massachusetts Institute of Technology About Negotiation The articles in this Special Report were previously published in Negotiation, a monthly newsletter for leaders and business professionals in every field. Negotiation is published by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, an interdisciplinary consortium that works to connect rigorous research and scholarship on negotiation and dispute resolution with a deep understanding of practice. For more information about the Program on Negotiation, our Executive Training programs, and the Negotiation newsletter, please visit www.pon.harvard...
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...Derek Bok Summary In the beginning of this article Derek Bok talks about how some colleges across the United States have problems with freedom of speech and racial tension. He begins to tell about how to students at Harvard University hung up two confederate flags on campus. Some students took that as offensive and racist. After that situation happened, a third student hung up a swastika to protest. A portion of the Harvard students urged to take the offensive symbols down, others wanted them to stay because they believed that it was free speech. Some universities came up with a code that makes these symbols banned because it hurts the feelings of others in the community. Bok claims that we should be able to tell the difference between what hurts our feelings and what is protected under the First Amendment. He says that even though speech is protected under the First Amendment does not mean it is right in any form or fashion. Bok says “I am sure that the vast majority of Harvard students believe that hanging a Confederate Flag in public view—or displaying a swastika—is insensitive and unwise”(p.70) Bok believes that these actions were insensitive. He thinks that just because we do not like a certain form of communication does not mean that we have the right to get rid of it. Cities do have the option to limit their amount of communication in the form of graffiti and too much noise, but confederate flags and swastikas are not under that category. Bok says “If we begin to...
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...What are the problems of Harvard housing problems in the case? Vacancies are few, student flow is high What are you feelings as you go through this survey? Yes it is too long. There are answers to some questions in section E that could be retrieved by using student ID. What are the strengths and weaknesses of this survey? Strength: survey is thorough; large number of response; replicable over years. Weaknesses: too long and boring; there are hard questions (trade-off questions); the questions are made out of simplistic assumptions such as locations and features instead of more sophisticated human factors. Recommendations: What can be added to the 2005 survey? More human factors: Entertainment habits, dinning preferences. Allston initiative: Questions that help Harvard build a more favorable community for students. (Facilities, with/without varied school composition, transportation). Faculty members could also be consider as a survey object as they are building Allston community. What can be removed from 2001 survey? Factual questions. What can be modified in the 2001 survey? Merge the trade-off questions into a table with five scales from least important to most important. Questions about transportations should also be changed – public transportation would be different in 4 years. Relate to ourselves --- what if we are to design a survey for our final project? How to design high quality surveys? Factors that we think are important when designing a survey: ...
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...including Nature and Science. In 2004, Hotamisligil was able to demonstrate that excess fat, by itself can cause stress signals and medical problems. In the field of metabolic health and disease it is clear that Hotamisligil has played an extremely important role in its development, with his numerous contributions and many publications in the field. Since starting his career back in the 80s he helped to shape the modern view of metabolic health and took important steps towards understanding underlying causes of Type 2 diabetes and metabolic disease. 2. The agreements between Syndexa and Harvard were complex because the agreements required exemptions to many of Harvard’s internal policies and issues on conflicts of interest. Although both Harvard and Syndexa recognized that a simultaneous execution of a license and sponsored research agreement was necessary. The negotiations between Syndexa and Harvard was not atypical,...
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...9-201-129 REV: OCTOBER 23, 2001 Harvard Management Company (2001) In February 2001, Jack Meyer gazed out of his fifteenth floor office window at a cold Boston Harbor and reflected on the set of issues facing Harvard Management Company (HMC). The HMC Board would soon be reviewing the Policy Portfolio – the long-term asset mix that was designed to balance Harvard’s aversion to risk against its needs for long-term endowment returns. The Policy Portfolio was the cornerstone of endowment management at Harvard, the “neutral” portfolio mix that anchored the central tendency of actual asset allocations over time, as well as the benchmark against which actual performance was measured and incentive compensation was calculated. The Board was also interested in a variety of related issues, including the complexity of the investment strategies employed, the effectiveness of their risk controls, and the design and administration of their compensation systems. The Role of the Endowment Harvard University had been founded in 1636, and from the beginning its endowment played an important role in the financial structure of the institution. As of June 2000, the endowment managed by HMC totaled approximately $18.2 billion. Each of the various schools within the University owned “units” in the endowment, much like an individual would own shares in a mutual fund. Spending from the endowment was distributed pro-rata to all schools on the basis of the units each school owned. The annual spending from...
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...Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. In his previous years he taught Latin in the high school. Phillips has released many collections of poems with his first, In the Blood, in 1992 and his most recent, in 2015, he released his 13th collection of poems, Reconnaissance, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Best Poetry and appeared on the Top Books list from Canada's Globe and Mail. E.E. Cummings was a 20th century poet and novelist known for his originalities in style and structure. Cummings was born in1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father was a minister and professor, while his mother taught him love of language and play. Cummings went on to earn both his Bachelors and Masters of the Arts from Harvard University, where his father taught, before going on to serve in World War I overseas as a volunteer for the ambulance corps. As a pacifist, Cummings was imprisoned for several months by French authorities for suspicion of treason due to letters he had written. He had one daughter,...
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... M Hall Stanton was the middle school I graduated from in 2010. Before and during my enrollment at Stanton, the students were able to win various academic achievement awards, granted by the city, state, and even the country. During my enrollment at Stanton they were granted the state assessment award for the majority of their students scoring proficient or higher on their state assessments five years consecutively. Even after all the success over the years, it still wasn't enough to keep the school open. Because of the school district of Philadelphia's low supply of money, they were forced to close some of the Philadelphia public schools and Stanton was one of them. Ever since Stanton been closed the visual warm atmosphere it gave to the community has been diminished as well. For example, when the Philadelphia School District closed Stanton they changed the way the doors and the windows looked. The windows had different color curtains for each floor. The colors represented the floors percentages of students with proficient or advance on their state assessments. The first floor curtains was the color green that represented the floor with the most students with proficient or advance; the fourth floor had the color red that represented the floor with the second most students with proficient or advance. As for the third and the second floor, they both had the color blue that represented the two floors with the fewer students with proficient and advance. The doors to enter the main...
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...John Adams John Adams was born on October 30, 1735 to a middle-class family in Massachusetts. Although Adams wanted to be a farmer, his father insisted that his education was crucial. He attended school where they focused largely on reading and writing skills. John achieved greatness in his studies and at just fifteen years of age, attended Harvard College. He then graduated in 1755 and became a teacher to earn money to study law. From, 1756 to 1758 he learned law thoroughly with local lawyer from Worcester. In 1758, Adams launched his career but he did not thrive right away. However, soon after, he did begin to succeed and his good name spread. Shortly after, he met Abigail Smith and in 1764, they got married. Together they had five children. Soon, John Adams became a renowned and prominent lawyer. One of his most famous cases was his choice to defend the British soldiers accused of murder in the Boston Massacre. He won the case, and none of the soldiers were sent to prison. Adams was very successful in his business...
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...that illustrate the satire you are analyzing. Explain the satire in terms of when the time the story was written (around 1922) and if the satire is still relevant today. THESIS: Fitzgerald, who attended Princeton University, satirizes Ivy League schools, Yale and Harvard universities, for their emphasis on maintaining a proper appearance and revered reputation, and the school rivalry between them, manifested by sports. I. Button is refused admittance to Yale after he had passed his exam because of his unacceptable appearance and how that could hurt the school’s reputation. A. The registrar is outraged at Button, who does not appear to an acceptable Yale freshman, and throws him out of the office and school. B. Fitzgerald further criticizes the school’s attitude by using irony when he named the registrar, Mr. Hart, who appears heartless, calling Button a lunatic. C. To show just how extreme the school revered its reputation, Fitzgerald has nearly everyone in the university, from freshman, the football team to professors’ wives, run him off the campus. 1. To illustrate the school rivalry, the angry mob shouts at him to go to Harvard, preferring to send the perceived “lunatic” to Harvard than accept him at Yale. Note that A, B, C, support I, and that I supports the thesis. With a well thought out sentence outline, most of your work is down when you write your essay, since you will be able to incorporate these or similar sentences into...
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...HISTORIA, MANEJO Y APLICACIONES DE LOS CONTROLADORES DIGITALES DE SEÑALES dsPIC. Cintya Carolina Pavón Castillo, Oscar Alejandro Cruz Arguello Facultad de Electrotecnia y Computación, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería Managua, Nicaragua. ABSTRACT: In this paper, we intend to present to the university community in particular and the professional world, a historical summary, key features, applications to and a comparison between families of the DSC (Digital Signal Controllers) easily. Although the marketing by the families of Microchip dsPIC devices is very recent forecasts are spectacular expansion and implementation by the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, by which is another reason for the study of these microcontrollers. 1. Introducción La empresa Microchip Technology Inc.® ocupa el primer puesto en el ranking mundial de microcontroladores de 8 bits desde el aiio 2003; sus modelos son conocidos popularmente con el nombre genérico de PIC®. Tras el exitoso lanzamiento de las familias de microcontroladores de 16 bits PIC24FXXX y PIC24HXXX, los usuarios necesitan nuevos dispositivos que soporten funciones de procesamiento digital de señales para atender las nuevas tendencias del mercado orientadas al aumento de la conectividad por Internet, las mejoras relacionadas con la imagen y el sonido, el control de motores, etc. Las aplicaciones modernas mezclan las funciones típicas MCU con las de procesamiento digital de señales (DSP). Esta situación ha...
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...First Part of an Effective Summary: Article, Publisher, and Author Article name: usually appears as the top of the page and can also include the publisher Example: “Semicolons: A Love Story” from the New York Times Author name: appears beneath the title and should include the author’s position/title and a brief description; for print resources, you can usually find this information at the bottom of the article, on the back or front cover of the book, or in the “about the author” in the front or back of the book; for online resources, you can usually find this information by clicking on the author’s name, scrolling to the bottom of the article, or checking the “about” section on the website Example: Ben Dolnick, an author of several books and articles including “Zoology,” “You Know Who You Are,” and “Shelf-Love.” - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - First part of ineffective summary: In this article, the author talks about semicolons. First part of effective summary: In the article, “Semicolons: A Love Story” from the New York Times, Ben Dolnick, an author of several books and articles, including “Zoology,” “You Know Who You Are,” and “Shelf-Love,” talks about his love affair with semicolons. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...
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...Every step that is taken in the research process begins with the information that is gathered, documented, and even published so deviations may be within the law but are considered to be unethical practices. It is through researchers that new developments are made and may lead to better insight in things that others have already shed light and gathered information on. It is not uncommon for some researchers to taster between what is ethical and what is considered unethical. A psychology professor and scientist from Harvard University by the name of Marc Hauser had crossed the line between what was ethical and what was not. In an article that the Harvard Crimson ran September 2012 it stated that after a two year federal investigation, the Office of Research Integrity found this former Harvard psychology professor had doctored results of his research and was accused of 6 counts of research misconduct, lying about his data, and misrepresenting research methods in his Harvard lab in research that the National Institute of Health supported. {Jain, Sept} Marc Hauser conducted research that involved and was...
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