...B. Society’s Child – My Autobiography In 1965 the civil rights movement was still at its highest. It was 10 years ago since Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to at white man in the bus. A lot had changed since, but some people could not stand the black, while others began to accept them as being equal with the white people – people were divided. Some did not dare to speak up about acceptance of the black, because they were afraid of being killed. It was the circumstances at that time, but the 15 years old singer/songwriter Janis Ian, was not afraid – at first. She wrote a song about an interracial romance, and not everyone found it acceptable. Janis Ian got a lot of hate mail, threats and even got shouted of the stage, but this only became a turning point for her life and singing career. Janis Ian’s autobiography is written as an article and is divided into columns. The main purpose of a structure build like an article is to inform the readers, and so do this autobiography. It also makes it very easy to read, and her messages also seem clearer. The text contains flashbacks on page 2, column 2 to page 3, column 1 and on page 3, column 2 to page 3, column 1. She uses the flashbacks as an information to the readers about the former circumstances. This gives us a better understanding of the situation. It is very important for Janis Ian that the readers of her autobiography understand how she feels, and feel compassion with her. She is very afraid of going back on stage...
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...I bought a book from crossword; he packed the book and added two bookmarks into my pack. A thought came to my mind. Why do I need a bookmark? I can easily memorize the page number and the next time resume from the same page when I resume reading, or read them all over to reach to the point where I stopped reading. But not all have a blessed memory; moreover, there are better things to remember, my grandpa would rather bookmark and rely on it to help him resume reading. It’s a kind of simple index, isn’t it? This article focuses on how MS SQL Server uses indexes to read and write data. Data is arranged by SQL Server in the form of extents and pages. Each extent is of size 64 KB, having 8 pages of 8KB sizes. An extent may have data from multiple or same table, but each page holds data from a single table only. Logically, data is stored in record sets in the table. We have fields (columns) identifying the type of data contained in each of the record sets. A table is nothing but a collection of record sets; by default, rows are stored in the form of heaps unless a clustered index has been defined on the table, in which case, record sets are sorted and stored on the clustered index. The heaps structure is a simple arrangement where the inserted record is stored in the next available space on the table page. Heaps seem a great option when the motive is simply storing data, but when data retrieval steps in, this option back fires. An index acts as a fire fighter in this scenario. Indexes...
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...DEPARTMENT (DepartmentName, BudgetCode, OfficeNumber, Phone) Solution: CREATE TABLE DEPARTMENT( DepartmentName Char(35) NOT NULL, BudgetCode Char(30) NOT NULL, OfficeNumber Char(15) NOT NULL, Phone Char(12) NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT DepartmentPK PRIMARY KEY(DepartmentName) ); ========================================================================================== 7.5 Write a CREATE TABLE statement for the EMPLOYEE table. Email is required and is an alternate key, and the default value of Department is Human Resources. Cascade updates but not deletions from DEPARTMENT to EMPLOYEE. • EMPLOYEE (EmployeeNumber, FirstName, LastName, Department, Phone, Email) • Department in EMPLOYEE must exist in DepartmentName in DEPARTMENT • EmployeeNumber is a surrogate key that starts at 1 and increments by 1. Solution: CREATE TABLE EMPLOYEE( EmployeeNumber Int NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1), FirstName Char(25) NOT NULL, LastName Char(25) NOT NULL, Department Char(35) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘Human Resources’, Phone Char(12) NULL, Email Char(100) NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT EmployeePK PRIMARY KEY(EmployeeNumber), CONSTRAINT DepartmentFK FOREIGN KEY(Department) REFERENCES DEPARTMENT(DepartmentName) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE NO ACTION, CONSTRAINT EmployeeAK UNIQUE(Email) ); ========================================================================================= ...
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...Interview Questions for hiring an Oracle mid-level developer in an IT organization General Questions: • Please tell us a little about the organization that you work for and your role in it. • Do you see yourself as a nut and bold developer or more of team lead role within your organization • Do you have any issues with working on all phases of a project (such as Analysis, Design, Coding, Documentation and Implementation)? Under your current role, do you work in all these phases yourself or are you usually involved with one particular phase? General Oracle Database and PL/SQL Questions: • Do you have any experience with Autonomous Transactions in Oracle database? The purpose is to complete (commit/rollback) a transaction in a called procedure irrespective of the transaction state in the calling procedure. • Have you ever encountered a situation with Mutating Tables and what did you do to work around it? When a table is in state of transition it is said to be mutating. eg: If a row has been deleted then the table is said to be mutating and no operations can be done on the table except select. • What’s your experience with Oracle Forms and Reports. Where would you implement bulk of business rules so as to make your coding more modular in Oracle Forms? PLL’s (PL/SQL Libraries). • What is referential integrity? Rules governing the relationships between primary keys and foreign keys of tables within a relational database that determine data consistency. Referential ...
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...UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONAL DATABASES Student’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Name 03/05/2016 RELATIONAL DATABASES Being a data administrator is to handle and organize the bulk of data masses for easy and convenient retrieval of the information at any point of time. I generally believe that compiling a bulk of data is very difficult task for anyone who has the responsibility to manage the information. Therefore, here we go through and understand the concept of relational databases and use of tables designed to manage the data for the problem cases in our daily life. A relational database is a defined group of data items systematized and controlled as a set of formally defined tables from which the collected and unmanageable data can be reassembled or accessed in various different techniques deprived of having to restructure the pre-arranged database tables (Rouse, n.d.). According to Codd (1982), “Relational processing entails treating whole relationships as operands. Its primary purpose is loop-avoidance, an absolute requirement for end users to be productive at all, and a clear productivity booster for application programmers” (p.298). It comprises of designed data tables that are connected together in some important way. For instance, consider an organization that offers items to clients. The organization keeps up a database of the items it offers. Every item has a one of a kind code so it can be uniquely recognized. The item database comprises of a table, and each...
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...wont let her real fans - and everybody standing behind her - down. Janis Ian was born in 1951 and is an American folksinger and writer. She published her autobiography named after her song Society’s Child - My Autobiography in 2009. We get to know one of her complications in her early career as a fifteen-year-old folksinger. In this extract of Janis Ian’s autobiography we get to know one of her problems, which she goes through in Encino, California. She’s on a stage where she is half through her song Society’s Child, which is a song about her black lover “Face is clean and shining black as night”. But as she sings her song, some of her audience begins to yell at her “Nigger Lover! Nigger Lover” and because of this, she begins to cry and runs away from the scene. She then goes to the bathroom and cries even more. While she’s in there, she makes many thoughts about why she shouldn’t get back on the stage. “I can’t go back out there. I can’t. What if somebody takes a shot at me?” After that she gathers her courage to get back on the stage, because of her thoughts about how her family raised her. And realised that she has real fans. “I don’t want to disappoint the real fans out there. And there must be real fans out there!” She then gets back on the stage, and starts to sing her song Society’s Child and completes the song, and goes on to complete the show. This also shows that the story is written in a chronological order, as it starts from her getting off the stage because of...
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...B – Society’s Child The text, which is an excerpt from “Society’s Child- My Autobiography” deals with the themes of saying your opinion and to stay true to yourself even though it’s hard and the racial discrimination that still occurred during the 1960’s. I shall elaborate on both of the themes and the way they’re presented. The author of the text is the well-known musician, folksinger and writer Janis Ian who was born 1951. Janis Ian had her first hit single, “Society’s Child”, at the age of thirteen. The song is about an interracial romance forbidden by her mother and frowned upon by peers and teachers. The extract from her Autobiography shows her struggle at a concert, as she is fighting to keep on singing as some people at the concert repeatedly started chanting “Nigger lover” as she sang the song. She then runs of stage and into the restroom where she is crying and discussing with her promoter whether she should go back on stage or not. In the end she decides to stubbornly stick to her principles and walk up on stage and began to sing the song again from the top. She gathered the courage and stayed true to herself. The topic is of universal interest. Not only because racism is something that still exists today, but also because the text represents a person with a lot of courage who can stand up for themselves and their principles –even if they’re on their own. Even though it is published in 2009 and discusses the events of the 1960’s oppression of the Afro-American...
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...”Society’s child – My autobiography” – Is a book written in 2009 by Janis Ian, an American folksinger and songwriter, who, being 13 years old, sold a single that ignited rebellious behavior all over America. The reason for this was the racial problems it addressed in the lyrics of the song. The first thing you see in this text is the fact that the story is Janis Ian tells us in this book, is in fact a retro perspective on her life. This assertion is strengthened by the fact that she uses past tense in the entirety of the story. She takes us through the story with a first person perspective and makes the reader understand those emotions she gets through the story better. This can for example be seen in lines 34 and 62: “I felt like crying, but you can’t sing and cry at the same time so I tried to keep on going.” , “I could feel tears welling up in my eyes. What was wrong with these people? It was just a song, not a combat invitation!” These identifications make a strong bond between writer and reader, and through pathos used in a plethora of ways throughout the text, the reader is strongly affected by how the hardships Janis Ian has to go through. Another good point to bring up is the fact that she wrote her songs at a time where the black/white tension was at a breaking point. The song was written in 1964, which was just one year before the equal rights demonstrations – with Martin Luther King as the spearhead in this movement – began marching in the cities of America...
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...the perceptions of those behaviors. Think of the study of conflict as a view through a lens, like the lens of a camera, or through prescription glasses. The lens model of conflict specifies that each person has a view of (1) oneself, (2) the other person, and (3) the relationship. These perceptual pieces form the fundamental views of all conflicts, and combined together they form the mosaic of a particular conflict (Wilmot & Hocker 2010). There are also minimal features of all conflicts. They are: (1)the communicative acts or behaviors of each person, (2)the meanings or attributions attached to those acts by each person, which are each person’s view of self and each person’s views of the other, and (3)the meanings or attributions the two people ascribe to their relationship, which include past events, current events, and future projections. Each person also has a lens that gives that person a particular perspective, just as people use different types of glasses to see. There are multiple views of conflict, yet each looks real to the one seeing it (Wilmot & Hocker 2010). In a conflict, each person will have their own view of the situation at hand and react differently. As the old saying says, there are two sides to every story. For example, let’s say you have a couple that gets into an argument or should I say, a conflict, about their child spilling juice on the living room carpet. The mother may view it as being a simple mistake and can easily be cleaned, whereas the father...
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...2. IMAGE ANNOTATION 2.1. LABELLING IMAGE DATA Looking at the Data panel in the upper right corner of the (Fig. 2.3). Opening an image dataset folder by pressing the button Open Image Folder. Then selecting an image in the listbox underneath. We may now specify the Image source in the Current image panel. In case the popup menu does not offer a relevant option, we may specify an alternative source of the image by choosing the option ‘other’. After pressing the annotate button on the New Annotation panel the tool will switch to annotation mode where only image labelling using the mouse is allowed. Annotate by pressing the left mouse button and clicking in the image area. Pressing the right mouse button will finish the object labelling and will close the polygon. (See fig. 2.3). If we press the Annotate button now, the previous label will be erased and we may label the object again. Pressing the right mouse button without having labelled anything will just cancel the annotation mode. The zoom feature will ease the annotation of smaller objects. Figure 2: Annotating an image object from our database 2.2. OBJECT ANNOTATION Having labelled an image we may now specify its class, degree of its occlusion, representativeness...
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...Aloysius – Her dilemma was the challenge she faced when going against those in authority within the Catholic Faith. She knew that going up against Father Flynn with such an accusation would not be easily accepted by those in authority and it would be dismissed or “swept under the rug” so to speak. During the 1960’s the Catholic Church and its leaders were held in such high esteem, Nuns were not allowed to question the acts or views of their superiors. Therefore, she felt so strongly that Father Flynn was guilty and was determined to have him removed for the protection of the children and the church/school by any means necessary. She choose to pursue what she felt was the right thing to do, even if it meant doing wrong in the process. Sis James – Her dilemma was choosing between standing for what she believed in her heart to be right or allowing her judgment to be clouded by Sis Aloysius views. James also believed in establishing a relationship with her students in order to better understand their needs. Her worldview was an innocent and naive view of people. She chose to stand for her own convictions. Father Flynn – Flynn was faced with the dilemma of standing up against the accusations against Sis Aloysius accusations against him or bowing out. He knew there was no concrete evidence that she had against him, but did not want to take the chance of having this whole thing blow up in his face. He also had his reputation and the school’s reputation to consider, especially...
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...study guide before you attempt the quiz. Once you start the quiz, do not exit the quiz until the entire quiz is completed. Exiting out of the quiz before it is complete may result in a zero grade. Please type your answers below each question, except for the two matching questions. 1. List three analogies for worldview used in Chapter 1 of the textbook. Foundation of a Building, Lenses, Box top of a jigsaw puzzle. 2. List the various definitions and descriptions of worldview found in the textbook and lecture. Worldview is the parts of an overreaching vision of the world and for the world. Worldview is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the entirety of the individual or society’s knowledge and point of view. a worldview is a foundational set of assumptions to which one commits that serves as a framework for understanding and interpreting reality and deeply shapes one’s behavior. 3. Match the following worldview terms - Atheism, Pantheism, Theism, and Deism - with the correct description below. a. Belief in a personal and relational God who created and sustains all that exists: Theism b. Belief in a God who created all things but is not relational or involved in the world: Deism c. Belief that “all is god” and a strong sense of...
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...for accuracy, so take time to seek the correct answers for this study guide before you attempt the quiz. Once you start the quiz, do not exit the quiz until the entire quiz is completed. Exiting out of the quiz before it is complete may result in a zero grade. Please type your answers below each question, except for the two matching questions. 1. List three analogies for worldview used in Chapter 1 of the textbook. 2. List the various definitions and descriptions of worldview found in the textbook and lecture. Worldview is the parts of an overreaching vision of the world and for the world. Worldview is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the entirety of the individual or society’s knowledge and point of view. a worldview is a foundational set of assumptions to which one commits that serves as a framework for understanding and interpreting reality and deeply shapes one’s behavior. 3. Match the following worldview terms - Atheism, Pantheism, Theism, and Deism - with the correct description below. a. Belief in a personal and relational God who created and sustains all that exists: THEISM b. Belief in a God who created all things but is not relational or involved in the world: DEISM c. Belief that “all is god” and a strong sense of spiritualism but not in a personal God: PANTHEISM d. Belief based only on the...
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...4 Cinematography We are affected and defined by light. Light is the most important tool we have to work with, not only as cinematographers, but as people. —Laszlo Kovacs Courtesy Everett Collection Section 4.1 The “Look” of a Scene CHAPTER 4 Chapter Objectives After reading this chapter, students should: • Have a working knowledge of the cinematographer’s job • Understand the difference between cinematography and mise en scène and recognize the importance of each • Understand the importance of color and lighting and how they affect the tone and feel of a film • Be familiar with different methods of photographing a film, and with terms such as panning, tilting, tracking shots, deep focus, and aspect ratios • Understand how different focal length lenses affect the look of a shot • Recognize what special effects can do for a movie—and what they can’t do 4.1 The “Look” of a Scene W hen we are first introduced to Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather, played by Marlon Brando, the Mafia boss is sitting in the study of his home. Along with his consigliore, or adviser, Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall), Corleone is listening to a line of people requesting favors on the day of his daughter’s wedding. Corleone is immensely powerful, as we learn by the scope of the favors he is asked to grant, which in one case includes the desire of a singer to be cast in a film to revive his musical career, and Corleone’s ability to grant them. However, it is not just what...
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...From birth, toddler, child, through adolescence and into adulthood you grow and experience the world. You witness relationships, you catalogue, and you distinguish and start to take a broad view about what you perceive. These experiences, memories and learnt ideas are what form your concept of a worldview. My worldview is that we are all products of our environment. My beliefs and attitudes have resulted from the process through which my education and learning has been obtained. The beliefs and attitudes that I have grown up with, to do with my education and learning, has been because of my parents and how I was raised. My experience of being raised in a military environment, living and travelling all over Australia and overseas, has also very much shaped and broadened my worldview. Every person has a different way of seeing and understanding the world. Hobson (1996) defines a worldview as ‘the primary conceptual framework within which our beliefs, values, attitudes and assumptions about ourselves and others are held’. This interpretation and view can be constructed by many things, parents, close family and the culture, religion and community we live in. So then, a worldview can be personally internal, but be shaped by external manipulations? I relate this to education and learning in the school system where a teacher is the external manipulator who absolutely influences a person’s way of being educated and their learning, and therefore, their worldview. Only some of my educational...
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