Week 3 Example Reading Response The response starts on the next page. Model Reading Response   Is Google Making Us Stupid? Sample Student ENG/100   6/26/2020 Instructor Smith   Reading Response   Now even the sounds are gone. No more clicking of computer keys, or the whirl of an old dial up modem, surfing the net has gone silent. Our minds might just be next! Author Nicholas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid” reflected on these notions when he discussed reading online, and how the internet is impacting the way people think and process details. Alarmingly, it might even bleed into the kind of information we may be able to read in the future. The author is right, the internet and mindlessness are connected, and have been confirmed by recent brain research. Primarily, the issue is not whether or not the internet is making people stupid, but that neurological study is showing that human beings are changing. Research from the University College London found that how the brain reads has been altered, “It is clear that users are…

              Environment   Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Professor’s Name Course Date       Environmental issues are the damaging effects on the biophysical environment. Human activities mainly cause these issues. Environmental issues include genetic modification of plants whereby the chemical compounds in these crops are leaked into the soil through the roots, probably affecting microorganisms. Excessive production of waste ends up in landfills, generating huge amounts of methane. Rapid population growth comes with several problems such as species extension, overuse of natural resources, habitat loss for wild animals, and lack of fresh water.  Deforestation increases the production of greenhouse gas emissions, causing global warming. Urban sprawling also contributes to deforestation, forest fragmentation, water, and air pollution. Overfishing by humans leaves marine life with less food, causes misbalance of ocean life, and affects the natural ecosystems. Acid rain is also an issue caused by air pollution. The issue of the nitrogen cycle is often forgettable as people pay much attention to the carbon cycle. Production of fertilizers for agriculture contributes to the fixation of nitrogen…

Student’s name Institutional affiliation Course Professor’s name Date Intellectual Developments In Europe Between 1500 And 1800 There were many transformations in Europe between 1500 and 1800, which influenced intellectual developments. The transformations had a vast influence on the people’s culture that originated in some of the Italian cities. The era saw a resurgence in interest in writing, reading, philosophy, and architecture. Wealthy families and the catholic church were the biggest supporters of renaissance.trade, which was stimulated by crusaders, was a great contributor to intellectual developments. It also led to the development of wealthy cities such as Florence, Genoa, and Venice. Renaissance characterized an endeavor to resuscitate the ideals of the classical civilizations of Rome, Greece, and the Mediterranean. Though most of the chief renaissance figures did not vigorously disregard the church, they underscored various facets of life than the religion. European renaissance went yonder art and literature as it exhilarated people to think differently before, which was an anticipated quality that Europe needed as it ventured in technology and science. The scientific revolution stimulated developments in science and math. An…

Tyler Baxby 0793160 AGR4450 April 30 2019     University of Guelph         Glyphosate resistance in wild parsnip     Experimental design presented by Tyler Baxby     For AGR4450: Research project I     To: Professor Francois Tardif Date: April 30th 2019 Recognizing how human activity changes biodiversity is becoming increasingly important, more than ever (Potts et al. 2010). Bill 64 is a legislated provincial act banning the use of Cosmetic Pesticides across the Province of Ontario. It was created with the prospect of superseding all the municipal by-laws, into one easily understandable document. However, the creation of the policy has been found to be based off of the same misinformation which had been used in the creation of municipal by-laws across Ontario. I have witnessed many municipalities (including my own city of Kingston, Ontario) proceed through the process of banning the use of horticultural (lawn care) pesticides within their municipal regions; these processes have been based solely on the basis of public opinion where they are dangerous for both the environment and humans alike. Bill 64…

        Analysis of Business Models of Facebook and Alphabet MAF 702 Assignment                 Student’s Name: Chih-Lin, Hsu Student ID: 220055055           Table of Content Executive Summary———————————————————————– 2 Introduction——————————————————————————— 3 Background———————————————————————————- 4 SWOT Analysis- Alphabet—————————————————————– 6 SWOT Analysis-Facebook—————————————————————– 9 Conclusion———————————————————————————— 14 Reference————————————————————————————- 15                                     Executive Summary The report involved an analysis of the Google and Facebook Companies. The analysis revolved around the dissection of the earnings and revenues of the Google and Facebook companies. Besides, performing an analytical comparison for the earnings the specific years was also a primary goal of the report. Initially, individual companies were described based on their history and foundation. The revenue-generating activities of the companies were also expounded where advertising activities were identified as the major sources of earnings for both companies and revenue contributors. Following the analysis and interpretation of the performance trends of both companies, the underlying reasons contributing to the differences in…

Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date How Chesapeake become a “slave society” rather than a merely “society of slaves.” Chesapeake, a region in Maryland and Virginia, was the populous tobacco plantation region in the seventeenth century. It was a region with racial diversity; thus, Africans were necessary for the plantation’s labor source. Due to fluctuation in economic development in Chesapeake, there were limited advancement opportunities for the indentured servants. The compelled law by Chesapeake colonies that defined slavery as a lifelong and inheritable made the settlers rage and, as a result, formed the Bacon’s rebellion. Bacon’s rebellion led the planters to look for an alternative. As a result, African slaves were seen the most advantageous compared to indentured servants. In the late sixteenth century, Virginia was running out of the land, since Africans labor service did not expire after 5-7 years like the indentured servants, and the transatlantic slave trade anchored the emergence of African slavery (Wright, 2017). Chesapeake becomes more of slavery to Africans since they could not claim protection from the English common law and they developed resistance to…

      Students Name Institution Course number: course name Name of instructor Assignment due date Human Rights Civil Rights in the USA with the UN Declaration of Human Rights have some rights in common such as; Freedom of religion, speech, and press, from discrimination, association and assembly, from unlawful search and seizure, from arbitrary arrest, from cruel and unusual punishment or torture, from slavery, from an illegal seizure of property and the rights to due process, to vote and to a fair trial. However, the US government has the following rights that the UN does not have; Freedom from housing troops, the Right to bear arm, and Right to a jury trial (Sikkink ,2018).On the other hand, the UN Declaration of Human Rights has the following rights that the US government does not have; Right to rest, to participate in culture, to be innocent until proven guilty, to remedy, to a nationality, adequate living standards, and food, to desirable work and trade unions, to free movement, to asylum, to social security, to education (Baileys 2016) The US government is more expansive, and it protects both…

            Racial Oppression   Student Names Institutional Affiliation Course Name Professor’s Name Date                 In summary, Jessica understands Spanish but cannot speak Spanish fluently. On the other hand, her fellow Hispanic classmates are outstandingly fluent in both English and Spanish. In their group discussions and social circles, they use Spanish so frequently that it becomes a challenge for Jessica to co-exist with them. This is because she can neither communicate nor contribute effectively to their academic discussions. It is because of these challenges that Jessica seeks advice. Discrimination and biasness have occurred in the case of Jessica. They occur due to the unmanaged desire to adapt to different assumptions and expectations. Jessica feels frustrated that she cannot fit in the group because she cannot speak Spanish fluently. This makes her think that she is unfit for the group, and she feels like she is different from her group member. There was a misunderstanding between the group and Jessica since Jessica thinks that the group is supposed to speak…

                                Inside A Russian Billionaire’s Mega Yacht Russia is one country you will find hundreds, if not thousands of filthy rich billionaires. As much as Russians are known to be stern people who don’t condone betrayal, it is essential to note that they spend as much money as they make. The latest mega yacht was commissioned for Oleg Tinkov, a Russian billionaire with vast interests in the banking industry. Let’s dive into the over-the-sea multi-million life of the Russian billionaire. Several Russian oligarchs are known to spend their billions in awe-inspiring ways, among them the fun-loving Roman Abramovich and Alisher Usmanov, both who own over-the-top sea monsters. But the latest arrival commissioned for banker Oleg Tinkov, boldly named La Datcha Expedition Yacht 77, is a superyacht built to explore some of the most remote areas of the globe. Stretching to a breathtaking 252-foot, the ice-breaking vessel will be available for charter, apart from serving its owner anytime its need arises. But don’t get it twisted, chartering La Datcha will cost any willing client a whopping 846,000 dollars a week! The amount…

Lab Manual You are provided a dataset from 116 students. In this dataset participants were asked to indicate how long they play videogames (by hours) and their midterm grade of statistics course (from 0 to 100). Your job is to conduct the appropriate analysis to answer the following questions: What is the relationship between playing videogames and midterm grade of statistics? What percent of grade is explained by playing video games? Present the scatterplot of playing videogames and grade. To conduct the analysis: First of all, you need to convert your data from excel to SPSS. You will do that by using what you learned from the first week. Your variable view should look like that:             Your data view should look like that:   Now you are ready to run the analysis. To do that you need to go to “Analyze” -> “Correlate” -> “Bivariate”.   Then a new window will open to ask which variables you want to see the relationship. You will select the variables and send them to the Variables list…