...In Burning a Book, Stafford conveys in the poem a theme where taking the risks in our lives is what the best choice is. Stafford's proves that taking risks is the best choice in eliminating censorship. He does this by using literary device to emphasize a tone of disappointment towards it. Stafford uses many literary language which causes him to develop the meaning on what the meaning of books mean. The very first stanza helps with describing what books are like and what they represent and mean in our world. In the next stanza, Stafford uses a metaphor to emphasis the negative aspects in our society and how they are like the books being burned, “more disturbing than book ashes are whole libraries that no one got around to writing----desolate towns, miles of unthought in cities, and the terrorized countryside where wild dogs.” (Stafford) Additionally in the very last stanza, “so I’ve burned books....
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...Final Reflection Paper By Jessica Krick The first week I learned that children's books aren't as a genre an indication of readership. I enrolled in this class because it is required. According to my guidance counselor, it is to 'diversify my learning'. Now that I have finished the course, I couldn't agree more! I started this class thinking that children's books are simple and sort of primal. When in fact, there are a lot of literary elements involved; and the illustrations tell the story as much as the text. It has taught me to look deeper into everything, that nothing is simple. I plan on using this newly acquired skill in the future. Also during this week, I got to analyze and enjoy "The Giving Tree". It is such an exemplar picturebook, that I just had to buy it (along with "Wild Thing") to read again and again with my nephew. I typically favor the moral lessons provided in these books. With that said, I honestly didn't like the book "Millions of Cats", I guess it just rubbed me the wrong way, plus I'm a dog person! Being an artist myself, my favorite part of this class was the multitude of illustrations involved in my class work. Home work became fun. You always seem to provide extra handouts just to further our knowledge, like the 'handout of illustration styles' and I read quite a bit of the Grim folktales. Folklore revisits popular childhood folktales or how I have always known it as 'fairytales'. I found it interesting that they have survived centuries by......
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...* Traditional Costing * * Under Traditional Costing, all operating expenses are allocated by percent of sales. This causes the larger segments to carry more cost automatically. For Southlake, Textbooks generate the most income, however the gross profit percentage is only 26%. Clothing has one of the best gross profits and generates the 2nd most income. With traditional costing, computers are operating at a loss. Under Traditional Costing, all operating expenses are allocated by percent of sales. This causes the larger segments to carry more cost automatically. For Southlake, Textbooks generate the most income, however the gross profit percentage is only 26%. Clothing has one of the best gross profits and generates the 2nd most income. With traditional costing, computers are operating at a loss. ABC Costing * When allocating the operating costs based on cost driver rather than percentage of sales the segments performance differs. Depending on management’s choice of cost driver, results will vary. We allocated all costs to each product line but used different drivers. Under ABC costing, less cost is allocated to the biggest segment, textbooks. Textbooks still create the most income, but both supplies and computers are operating at a loss. When allocating the operating costs based on cost driver rather than percentage of sales the segments performance differs. Depending on management’s choice of cost driver, results will vary. We allocated all costs to......
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...its geographical area but focuses on customers who desire to purchase books/music at discount prices because they are seen either as near commodity items or, in the case of books, are not considered to be a long-term investment (i.e. they will trade them back). Because of this relatively low value placed upon our merchandise by potential customers, dymocks can still flourish in an upscale environment. This is especially true with people seeking to cut costs with the bad economy. Even though we service the entire book reading population in the surrounding area, we can divide our customers based on purchasing habits. • Casual Shoppers: These are customers who go to the bookstore with no set idea of what they want to purchase. They seek to spend a fair amount of time browsing the store and often are considered impulse buyers. Often they leave the store with small purchases or without buying anything. These customers are attracted to bookstores with low prices and large inventory. • "Hard to Find" Shoppers: These are customers with very specific needs. They are looking for a difficult to obtain item, usually a book that is out of print. If we can satisfy this customer, then we are able to build significant customer loyalty. These clients are generally price insensitive and are also drawn to stores that have large inventory. • Specific Category Shoppers: These customers are those types that generally buy books or music of one category, such as fiction or romance. These......
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...“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.” (Paterson). When a book is “challenged”, a single person--or an entire group--wishes for that particular piece of literature to be banned from the curriculum or the library as a whole. These drastic measures may be taken because of discussions about racism, violence, sex, witchcraft, controversial politics, incest, or rape that are not considered appropriate for schools ("Banned & Challenged Books"). Consequently, after a book successfully becomes banned, the access to that book becomes restricted in the library collection and course of study of a particular school. This was the case in Cromwell, Connecticut, where a pair of residents attempted to have the...
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...Censoring Literature High school books and literature should not be altered from the original text. It limits the opinion of the reader and the reader misunderstands the true meaning of the literature. Books should never be censored from adult reading or young adults to get the full experience from a book. The benefits to censoring books is that young adults wouldn’t get the idea that burning is a good thing or murder is ok. It takes the violence away from the text and replaces it with non-sensitive words that won’t influence young readers to do harmful things. The drawback to censoring books are that books make people think and ask questions. Students wouldn’t be able to have class discussions on what happened in chapter because censored books don’t have debating sides of the content. They wouldn’t be able to understand the full meaning of the piece of literature and would limit young readers’ opinion on the topic. Also, censored books suppress the new and different views of young adults and the creativity of authors because of the suppressed ideas. Young adults will start to question why...
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...the corresponding author, E-mail id, Phone no., Fax no., Abstract of not more than 150 words, Key-words of not more than five words. Consecutive pages: The title page should be followed by the page containing Title, Abstract, Key-words followed by Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion or Results and Discussion combined, Acknowledgements (if any) and References. All the tables/figures/histograms/ photographs should be consecutively numbered with a brief caption below and should be in separate files or on separate pages. The illustrations should be of good quality and will be published in black and white. However, coloured illustrations can be published on request on extra payment. All references cited in the text should be listed at the end of the manuscript alphabetically in the following style: For paper Tyagi, V.K., Subramaniyan,S., Kazmi, A. A. and Chopra, A.K. (2008). Microbial community in conventional and extended aeration activated sludge plants in India. Ecological Indicators, 8: 550-554. For book Chopra,A.K., Khanna,D.R., Prasad,G., Malik, D.S. and Bhutiani, R. (2007). Medicinal Plants:Conservation, cultivation and utilization. Daya Publishing House, Delhi. For book chapter Vinod Kumar and Chopra, A.K. (2008). Bioterrorism: A new threat to humanity and life supporting system. In: A.L.Bhatia (Ed.), Bioterrorism and Biological warfare (pp 329-337), Jaipur:Pointer Publisher. For online documentation:...
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...company and analyze how this company could use the Internet as an information and sales channel for products and services. The students in GRA2329 had chosen a wide variety of businesses and organizations. Dagfinn had been a member of a group working with Norsk Rikstoto, the company administering nationwide equestrian sports gambling. What interested Dag, however, was another aspect of the course: When GRA2329 was started, the required books had not been available in the bookstore, but had first started arriving several weeks into the course. Normally, in situation like this, the professor would have postponed the discussions over the delayed literature until later in the course. However, for GRA2329, things had been different. Several of the students had bought the course literature over the Internet, from a bookstore called Amazon.com, located in Seattle, Washington, USA. Some of the students had also tried Blackwell's, a bookstore web site in England, but had been less satisfied. Dagfinn found it impressive that these book shops could deliver American and English literature in as...
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...Study Best-Book-Buy Online Bookstore Requirements Specification Document (By Henrique Paques, Leo Mark and Shamkant B. Navathe) 1. Introduction The purpose of this case study is to present a data-intensive application for which a database can be designed. It is described with sufficient degree of detail so that the application can be implemented in languages like Java or C using ODBC or JDBC connectivity to the relational database. This case study is an illustration of the typical project we have been using to teach an undergraduate class in database design that covers essentially the first 16 chapters of the textbook at Georgia Tech. The user interface is defined in screen format – these screens can be implemented using Visual Basic or Java as needed, or a simpler version of the interface using simple text menus may be implemented. There are a few reports included in the application specification. They are for illustrative purposes and may be modified as well. The methodology to be followed uses conceptual design in the Entity Relationship Model (Chapter 3), followed by a mapping of the ER schema into the relational schema (Chapter 7). The application is broken into a number of tasks and the inputs and outputs are related to the tasks by means of an Information Flow Diagram. Students should use Chapter 12 to understand the overall process of database design used for design of large databases. A design methodology is developed during the discussion of this......
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...Although Summer Break is only a few days old, I’ve already begun the arduous task of reading and re-reading books as well as studying for my preliminary exams this fall. I’m going to try to post reviews of some of the books periodically. This week I’m trying to get through a few fun and interesting titles to ease into it and give myself the illusion that I’m doing some pleasure reading. I spent most of today reading Glenn Altschuler’s All Shook Up: How Rock ‘N’ Roll Changed America. It’s a book I saw on several of my colleagues’ reading lists and appeals to the popular bend of both my research and major field. What I enjoyed most about the book, besides it’s fascinating subject, was Altschuler’s ability to both complicate and add texture to the traditional rock ‘n’ roll narrative. The first half of the book focuses more on the music and musicians touching on subjects such as race and sexuality. The second half looks more at rock ‘n’ roll’s relationship to the music industry and economic forces driving cultural preferences among youth....
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...operates. It is very straightforward, anyone can come in and browse the library shelves or its catalogue but to borrow a book you have to register as a member of the library and be issued with membership card. Members can borrow up to five books for two weeks a time. A loan can be renewed and extended either at the desk or over the telephone. If a book is not available because it already out on loan a member can reserve a copy. If it is not in the collection, the librarian can acquire a copy for the library (if it is within budget) or arrange an inter-library loan. Every year the librarians trawl through the collection and weed out books that are out of date or in poor condition and buy new books. The membership lists, catalogue and loans are still done manually on index cards. When it started this was fine, but the library has expanded rapidly and during busy periods there can be quite a long queue at the desk of members wanting to return or borrow books. In the library you also talk to some members. They all found the library by word-of-mouth. They think it is great. It as it has a great range of interesting books with a warm and friendly atmosphere and really helpful staff but it could be even better if it had a tea shop with cakes and wifi. That would be great. One suggests that it might be nice if they could renew loans or find and reserve books online. They all agree that would be great. You interview the Director and you make the following......
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...The Catcher in the Rye should not be censored. It is a novel from which high school students can benefit. For one thing we have the freedom of speech which means if you try and censor this book you would be obstructing that right. This is a very inspirational and controversial book because of what is said in it. Discussion over this book can lead kids to more realization of the world that the would not have thought of from just reading the book themselves. First of all, the way the writer speaks in this book make things more realistic. Some may say that even if you censored the book it would have the same endeavor in making it realistic, however, that isn't the case. If censored it takes away how the character would really think of others and how he would interact and speak. If that happens you take away the realistic behaviors and just have a semi real character because you are not showing the full and real person. When you write a story you try and give the reader a real picture of the person that is speaking and what it would be like to know them in person, in you sensor all of that then you don't get to know the speaker as well as you should....
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...learning management system we will be using is called MyMathLab (MML). MyMathLab contains videos, worked-out examples, and numerous features to help you learn the material. The system accompanies our textbook. To use this system, you need to purchase an access code. Purchasing the book is optional because the book is available electronically in pdf form on the MyMathLab website. If you are comfortable with the electronic form of the book, there is no need to purchase a physical copy of it. Keep in mind however, that a future instructor for another module may require that you have the physical book. If you have previously taken and passed math module MTH 091 and used the latest and greatest 4th edition of the textbook, there is nothing additional to purchase. The MyMathLab access code used for MTH 091 will also work for MTH 092, MTH 093, and MTH 094. However, you will need to register for the MTH 092 MML class site. The process is explained in the syllabus on pages 8 and 9. If you need to purchase the MyMathLab access code, you have a few options: 1. Buy the book and access code bundled together at the Rock Valley College bookstore. This is the best value for your money. The book and access code can be used for the math modules MTH 091-094. 2. Buy only the access code for MyMathLab. You can buy it online when you register with the MyMathLab system, or you can buy it at the bookstore. Page 8 and 9 of the syllabus walks you through the steps necessary to...
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...the following items: • Research Paper—11/25 • Rough Draft • Research proposal/outline due 4/24 for class time • COPIES OF YOUR RESEARCH! • Your paper must be sent to on safe assignment PLEASE NOTE: NO PAPER WILL BE ACCEPTED WITHOUT COPIES OF YOUR RESEACH! The paper will receive an F. 3. Research Materials—Included on your “Works Consulted” page, you must have at least 5 professional journal articles or books. You can have more; the research really depends on your topic. Also the research papers I gave you count as a source and Loot. 4. The journal articles can come from the internet, but make sure the article is a professional article with a thesis/research, not a general informational page. All internet articles must be cited as an internet source. You can use the museum websites and YouTube. 5. For books and articles in books, you must copy the title page, copyright page, table of contents and the entire article or section from the book that you used. 6. Quotes—the paper must have at least 4 quotes or paraphrases from your research from different sources. You need to demonstrate to your reader that you have done the research on this subject. Each quote must be cited in MLA and the quote needs to be highlighted in your research materials. 7. You can also do original...
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...existing company and analyze how this company could use the Internet as an information and sales channel for products and services. The students in GRA2329 had chosen a wide variety of businesses and organizations. Dagfinn had been a member of a group working with Norsk Rikstoto, the company administering nationwide equestrian sports gambling. What interested Dag, however, was another aspect of the course: When GRA2329 was started, the required books had not been available in the bookstore, but had first started arriving several weeks into the course. Normally, in situation like this, the professor would have postponed the discussions over the delayed literature until later in the course. However, for GRA2329, things had been different. Several of the students had bought the course literature over the Internet, from a bookstore called Amazon.com, located in Seattle, Washington, USA. Some of the students had also tried Blackwell's, a bookstore web site in England, but had been less satisfied. Dagfinn found it impressive that these book shops could deliver American and English literature in as little as four days, at prices close to those of Juul Møller. One student had also tried to buy other products,...
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