...Into the Wild Discussion Questions Due Date: _____________ Directions: Answer each of the follow questions in a well-developed paragraph response. Don’t forget to restate the question in your answer. Responses are to be typed in MLA format. 1. In the author's note Jon Krakauer claims that Christopher McCandless “invented a new life for himself' searching a raw, transcendent experience.” Do you agree with the author's assessment? How did McCandless re-invent himself? How was his life “transcendent” after he graduated from college? 2. Krakauer titles his book Into the Wild which echoes Jack London’s work, The Call of the Wild. McCandless was obviously influenced by London, and Krakauer suggests that McCandless’ experience demonstrates the “grip wilderness has on the American imagination, the allure highrisk activities hold for young men of a certain mind...” How do you define “the call of the wild?” Does the call still exist in the same form it existed in previous periods in America’s history? How is the “wild” or the wilderness important to us as a people? 3. McCandless was also greatly influenced by Henry David Thoreau. What did he borrow from Thoreau’s interaction with nature? How did he differ from Thoreau? 4. Gordon Young, who reviewed Into the Wild, said that McCandless “did not die in vain, and that his life was enviable in many respects.” Young asserts that McCandless was “a profound American figure, uncompromising 'in his approach and thoroughly optimistic about the future...
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...hand in hand to reveal the story’s meaningfulness. Discussion questions: 1. Why are Floca’s extremely detailed paintings important to the story? 2. How does the second point of view influence the story? 3. Why is every person’s job important to make a successful trip? Book Review 2 Sendak, Maurice (Illustrator) Where the Wild Things Are New York: Harper Collins Publishing, 1963. A mother shows her unconditional love to her son, who misbehaves her. Appropriate Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten/Elementary Age (5-8 years) Evaluation Criteria: 1. Content The content is good for grades between first and third, and even older. The story has a total of 10 sentences all together and the language/dialogue is fairly simple to read. It can be an example to children about how to manage anger and how sometimes we take a turn to the “wild side” to find out what truly matters. 2. Illustrations With an unidentifiable creature on the cover of the book, it makes it a little harder to pick up, but at the same time, it gives a desire to pick it up to find out what it is. One of the appealing things about this story is the wordless series of illustrations. These pictures show us how the Wild Things and Max are getting along and how he is clearly their ruler. Sendak’s characters are so vivid, it almost feels as if you can feel the room shaking as they wrestle their way through the jungle! 3. Theme When a young, wild Max is sent to his room for disobeying his mother, his...
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...wiL1084x_fm_i-xxiv_1.indd Page i 1/10/11 7:53:00 PM user-f499 /Users/user-f499/Desktop/Temp Work/Don't Delete Job/MHBR231:Wild:203 Managerial Accounting John J. Wild University of Wisconsin at Madison Ken W. Shaw University of Missouri at Columbia 3 rd edition wiL1084x_fm_i-xxiv_1.indd Page ii 1/10/11 9:14:31 PM user-f499 /Users/user-f499/Desktop/Temp Work/Don't Delete Job/MHBR231:Wild:203 To my students and family, especially Kimberly, Jonathan, Stephanie, and Trevor. To my wife Linda and children, Erin, Emily, and Jacob. MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING Published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10020. Copyright 2012, 2010, 2007 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Some ancillaries, including electronic and print components, may not be available to customers outside the United States. This book is printed on acid-free paper. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 DOW/DOW 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 978-0-07-811084-9 MHID 0-07-811084-X Vice president and editor-in-chief: Brent Gordon Editorial director: Stewart Mattson Publisher: Tim...
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...Quarter three ELA assignments were longer and sometimes harder. However, I always get the job done and I feel like I learned new things with every assignment. Every time I do something, it is easier the next time I do it. There were some interesting stories, like “Wild Animals Aren’t Pets” by USA Today and “It Worked for Me” by Colin Powell. I learned how to effectively engage in a range of collaborative discussion, analyze the text, and how to determine the meaning of words and phrases. I learned how to effectively engage in a range of collaborative discussion in pairs, in groups, and as a class. When we read the articles “Wild Animals Aren’t Pets” by USA Today and “Let People Own Exotic Animals” by Zuzana Kukol, we discussed the...
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...Secret Of The Wild Child Graded Discussion You will participate in a graded 1x1 discussion that reflects your thoughts about the story of “Genie,” as portrayed in the documentary watched in class called “Secret Of The Wild Child.” You will be graded on both the ideas you present in discussion and the way you present them (discussion skills). The BIG IDEA of the discussion is as follows: · In the nature vs. nurture debate, where do intelligence and language acquisition fall? o Do humans have an innate ability to learn language? Or is language ability the product of the environment? o What is the “critical period” for language development? o Was Genie cognitively disabled at birth, or because of the environment in which she was raised? o Use examples from Genie’s case to support your ideas. Other ideas for discussion include: 1. Do you agree with the allegations of the lawsuit against the Genie team and Children’s Hospital that Genie was exploited for research and her privacy was violated to the detriment of her treatment? Was there an unavoidable conflict between the goals of research and Genie's need to receive treatment and care? Did harm come out of the researchers' good intentions? 2. What, if anything, could have been done differently so that both science and the stability and welfare of Genie could have been served? 3. Was it ethical for any of the members of the Genie team to become her foster parents? Why or why not? Do you...
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...Language and Composition December 16, 2012 Discussion Questions 1. In the author’s note Jon Krakauer claims that Christopher McCandless “invented a new life for himself’ searching a raw, transcendent experience.” Do you agree with the author’s assessment? How did McCandless re-invent himself? How was his life “transcendent” after he graduated from college? McCandless became his own individual and transformed himself. He started doing what he wanted to do, his own thing. Personality was different from who he once was he branched off. McCandless didn’t have the idle childhood, he wanted his own personal experiences. His parents were always busy, and he grew to be very stubborn and independent minded. He reinvented himself, he wanted the good life, completely letting go by changing and burning all of his money. Making a new beginning, took a chance on what he wanted to do. So he became something for himself, “McCandless walks south through the desert, arriving in the Topock, Arizona, where he buys a second hand canoe. 2. Krakauer titles his book Into The Wild which echoes Jack London’s work, The Call of the Wild. McCandless’s experience demonstrates the “grip wilderness has on the American imagination, the allure high-risk activities hold for young men of a certain mind…” How do you define “the call of the wild?” Does the call still exists in the same form it existed in previous periods in American history? How is the “wild” or the wilderness important to us as a people...
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...Creativity / The Creative Process Poetry (Neruda) Constantly Risking Absurdity (Ferlinghetti) You, Reader (Collins) Death and Impermanence Dog’s Death (Updike) I Used to Live Here Once (Rhys) A Father’s Story (Dubus) Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (Thomas) Nothing Gold Can Stay (Frost) In Memoriam (Tennyson) Because I Could Not Stop for Death (Dickinson) Nature Wild Geese (Oliver) Dover Beach (Arnold) The Oak (Tennyson) The Road Not Taken (Frost) Symbolism of the Journey The Road Not Taken (Frost) A Worn Path (Welty) I Used to Live Here Once (Rhys) APA samples and tutorials are available to you in the Ashford Writing Center, located in the left navigation bar. The Ashford Writing Center (AWC) has two kinds of tutoring available to you. Live Chat – If you have writing-related questions about a topic before you draft a discussion post or submit a written assignment, you will now be able to chat live with a tutor for a short (up to 20 minute) conversation. Live Chat will be available Monday through Friday from 10:00-11:00 am and 4:00-5:00 pm (PST). AWC Live Chat Email Paper Review – If you have a draft, partial draft, or even if you’re having trouble getting started, you can complete a submission form and email your paper to the AWC for review. Writing Tutors will do...
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...Fuller, “The Great Lawsuit,” pp. 736-747: Study Guide/Discussion Forum questions F 10/12: No classes: faculty/staff meetings. Read: Fuller, intro (736-39), and “The Great Lawsuit” (739-747). Write: response to questions on Angel Discussion Forum #2 [questions below on this sheet, too]. Original post (your own response) due: 4 p.m. Second post (response to a classmate’s points) due 8 a.m. Monday. Discussion forum is instead of SRQ for Friday; we will meet in class on Monday to discuss it. M 10/15: In class: wrap-up of Fuller; beginning Thoreau. Read: Henry David Thoreau, intro (825-29) and “Resistance to Civil Government” (a.k.a. “Civil Disobedience,” 829-44). Please complete your response on the Fuller discussion forum by 8 a.m. and also write an SRQ on Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” essay. Use the note-taking guide to help with Thoreau’s essay. Questions on Fuller: First, a caution: Fuller uses names of many people who were famous in her day to illustrate her ideas. Don’t worry if you have no idea who these people are. The footnotes in the text are helpful, but the main thing to do is see what Fuller finds admirable (or not so admirable) about the people she mentions. Look at the values she seems to want readers to focus on. For the discussion forum, focus on question #1; if you want to discuss questions 2 and 3 in addition, great, but not required. We’ll discuss them in class on Monday. Question #1: On pages 739-44, Fuller describes “four different...
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...From a cryptic diary found among his possessions, it appeared that McCandless had been dead for nineteen days. A driver’s license issued eight months before he perished indicated that he was twenty-four years old and weighed a hundred and forty pounds. After his body was flown out of the wilderness, an autopsy determined that it weighed sixty-seven pounds and lacked discernible subcutaneous fat. The probable cause of death, according to the coroner’s report, was starvation. In “Into the Wild,” the book I wrote about McCandless’s brief, confounding life, I came to a different conclusion. I speculated that he had inadvertently poisoned himself by eating seeds from a plant commonly called wild potato, known to botanists as Hedysarum alpinum. According to my hypothesis, a toxic alkaloid in the seeds weakened McCandless to such a degree that it became impossible for him to hike out to the highway or hunt effectively, leading to starvation. Because Hedysarum alpinum is described as a nontoxic species in both the scientific literature and in popular books about edible plants, my conjecture was met with no small amount of derision, especially in Alaska....
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...Discussion Questions 1. A great manager is someone who inspires their employees to be the best that they can be. They are positive and fair, they are willing to listen and try new ideas. If a manager can be open minded and willing to try new things to help their employees grow that is what will set them apart from all other managers. 2. The manager I work for now is a very ineffective manager, she gossips and shows extreme bias to employees she considers friends. She has created a hostile work environment and has employees who would rather call in sick with no pay than deal with her. She has made it so her employees are less productive and in a foul mood. 4. Collaboration across boundaries occurs when companies can bring together different departments so that they can communicate among themselves. Collaboration across boundaries can occur outside the company as well; they can motivate and capitalize on the ideas from other people. Companies must realize that the serve the customer drives everything else, without a customer they would not be in business. Companies can use social media to help bring customers together. 7. When I look at becoming or staying with a company I always look at the competitive advantages. For instance I use Sprint for my service provider for my cell phone. I recently changed from Verizon because of the competitive advantages. I had been a Verizon customer for 10 years and wanted to upgrade my phone and keep my unlimited service. Verizon would not...
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...organisms because they can answer simple questions about the development and behavior in several different organisms based on genetics. It is an excellent model organism for the fact that it is inexpensive, easy to grow on an agar with Escherichia coli, and has 800 cells. Generally the C.elegans are a millimeter in length. Their bodies are long and round Methods Before we could cross the nematodes we had to learn how to transfer the worms between agar plates that have E.coli on them. A sterile technique was used which involved closing the lids on the plates when we were not using them. The only object that could touch the agar was our sterilized wire tool. When we handled the worms, the wire pipette was passed through a flame to sterilize it. Once there was glue on our tool from the outside of the bacterial lawn, we could pick up the worm that we desired with the help of our microscope. This was done by scooping underneath and lifting them up or by attaching them to the glue. When the worm was on our tool, they were...
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...2002, Emshwiller was interviewed by Robert Freeman Wexler, a fellow American science fiction writer. During the interview, the discussion drifted to the possibility that the underlying theme of the novel was feminist in nature. Emshwiller stated this was not the intent of the story. She did express worry that that people would take The Mount to be about race relations and mounts would be thought of as blacks. She went on the tell Wexler that she wanted to try to undercut that idea as she wanted the mounts to stand for any oppressed group and for readers to look at oppression as broader that. As a reader of The Mount, I was unaware of these feeling she had about this perception. But, as I read the book, I repeatedly felt that the author had used the reflection of the period in United States history when the institution of slavery was a dominate part of life. Emshwiller's novel is fairly straightforward science fiction. In simplest terms, it tells of a revolution against alien invaders. These invaders, called "Hoots", are physically weak and small, but over generations they have bred humans to serve them as "Mounts". The humans, then, become essentially pets to the aliens, treated a great deal like horses are treated by present-day humans. Even though the novel appears to explore human/pet relationship, the master/slave relationships and the question of freedom versus comfort is very evident. As the novel opens, we are introduced to our protagonist, Charley, a runner for...
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...Econ 511: Managerial Microeconomics Spring 2010 Syllabus Department of Economics Business School HKUST Yuk-fai Fong (房育辉) Time and Venue: Section 1: 9:00 a.m. – 12:20 p.m., Saturday, April 9 – June 4 (except April 23) Section 2: 2:30 p.m. – 5:50 p.m., Saturday, April 9 – June 4 (except April 23) Venue: Room Rm 4219 (Lift 19) Instructor: Yuk-fai Fong Email: y-fong@kellogg.northwestern.edu Phone: 2358-7600 Office Location: Room 3434 Email is always a great way to reach me. Office Hours: By appointment Course Web Site: http://lmes2.ust.hk Course Description Businesses exist to create and capture economic value. A business creates value by combining inputs such as labor, materials, and capital to make products and services that consumers need and desire. And it survives and thrives by charging a price that equals or exceeds the cost of delivering the products and services that consumers value. In this course, students learn how businesses optimally create and capture value and how their abilities in doing so are impacted by various market forces and the strategic interaction among players in the industry. A good understanding of the 1 economic principles that govern the distribution of value in markets is critical to formation of a successful and sustainable business strategy. Learning Objectives: Understand and apply tools, concepts, and theories from microeconomics to perform industry and demand analyses. Apply demand and supply analyses in predicting...
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...I found myself holding back my initial responses to the patient statements and carefully choosing my replies. Strengths in my motivational interviewing skills include asking for permission to discuss the topic, asking primarily open ended questions, and using reflection to encourage the patient to elaborate on her statements. These techniques are basic skills in the motivational interviewing process and reflect the spirit of motivational interviewing as described by its founders (Miller & Rollnick, 2013). Improvements to my motivational interviewing technique may be made by including summary statements, focusing the conversation, and improving my ability to evoke. A summary statement toward the end of the conversation would have been a useful transition to the planning stages of change and a therapeutic way to reflect listening as well as the patient’s own change talk (Miller & Rollnick, 2013). I feel that we had an agreed focus for the topic, but I felt the conversation drifted at...
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...Book Club ISU Essay To respect one’s reputation or to be full of pride and ego is what differentiates between a righteous and respectable person and an arrogant one. The books, “Alias Grace”, “Call of the Wild”, “Wuthering Heights” and “Mayor of Casterbridge” all demonstrate that by protecting ones pride only leads to more destruction of it. “Alias Grace” written by Margaret Atwood, shows this with the possession of Grace’s body and with the accusations made towards Grace. “Call of Wild” by Jack Landon also demonstrates this theme with the killing of Curly, and the transformation of Buck. Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” illustrates this with the interference of class difference in love and the pride of two people coming in the way of their union. Finally, in “Mayor of Casterbridge” by Thomas Hardy, the main character’s stubbornness and pride of protecting his name leads to damaging his personal relationships, work and eventually his life. The first book, “Alias Grace” was shared by group member, Angel. She felt this book was “Interesting, with a hidden arrogance and pride laced within the characters." In the book it shows how after the truth of Mary possessing Grace’s body is disclosed, Mary wishes that Grace is kept oblivious to the truth so her image does not get lowered in the eyes of Grace. This shows Mary’s character valuing what her friend thinks of her rather than respecting her enough to tell the truth. This also shows how Mary would not object having her friend...
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