Data: This project will use the Human Development data file provided with your text and available on StatCrunch. The file has data for 39 countries on six variables. (NOTE: The data appearing in this file is from several years ago, so these numbers do not reflect the current state of affairs.) The following two variables will be used in the project: • • internet = percentage of population that uses the Internet GDP = gross domestic product in trillions of dollars Using StatCrunch: Log on to MyStatLab and • • • • • select StatCrunch select data sets from your textbook select Human Development in the left hand column list of data sets select the Stat button in the toolbar and Regression > Simple Linear enter and select the appropriate values for each model indicated below. Assignment: Using the StatCrunch software, construct a linear regression model with GDP as explanatory variable (predictor) and internet as response variable. Your report should include: a) the equation for the regression line b) an interpretation in context for the y-intercept a, if it is meaningful. If not, explain why. c) an interpretation in context of the slope b d) interpretations of r and r^2 e) a scatterplot of the data with a plot of the regression line. Give a brief summary of what the plot explains. f) predictions of Internet use for a country with GDP 30 trillion dollars and for Japan, whose GDP is 25.13 trillion dollars. Your project report must be typed and double-spaced. Answers, summaries, and interpretations should, of course, be written in complete, grammatically-correct sentences. Be sure to turn your project in on time at the start of class, Monday, July 20.
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Topic: The Contemporary Short Story Assignment #2 Order Description Required Reading: Page 35 - 47 . !!Write an essay that addresses one of the following options. Indicate by the number, or by explanation, the item you have selected. The suggested length for your essay is from four to six typed, double-spaced pages. Use basic essay format, with an introduction, body of support, and concluding paragraph. Be sure to use examples or incidents and short quotations from the stories to illustrate key discussion points. 1. Based on what you have read in the five stories, examine the problems that appear to be prevalent in contemporary marriages. At the end of your discussion of the stories, be sure to include your own interpretation of what the endings imply for the marriages and for the individuals involved in them. 2. Citing examples from all five stories, comment on the authors’use of several elements of style. (See Pickering’s Reader’s Guide Unit 2 23 to the Short Story, pp. 3–31 and/or the “Elements of the Short Story” section of the introduction to this Course Guide.) 3. Assume the role of a marriage counselor of the troubled couples depicted in all five stories. Tell them what you perceive to be their central problems, and advise them accordingly. 4. Interpret the key messages or meanings in four of the stories and compare the authors’ insights regarding contemporary marriage. !!Selected Critical Resources for Unit 2 Alice Adams Waxman, Barbara Frey. From the Hearth to the Open Road: A Feminist Study of Aging in Contemporary Literature. New York, 1990, pp. 75–94. Kay Boyle Slady, Paul. “Astronomer’s Wife,” Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. by Noelle Watson. Detroit, 1994, p.626. Bel Kaufman Nelson, Robert J. “The Battlefield in Bel Kaufman’s ‘Sunday in the Park.’” English Language Notes XXX, No. 1 (1992): 61–68. John Updike Luscher, Robert M. John Updike: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York, 1993, pp. 117–18. Tobias Wolff Hornby, Nick. Contemporary American Fiction. London, 1992, pp.133–50.
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