1. Suppose that the Chess Club must vote on a restaurant to celebrate its championship in the World College Chess Tournament. Being a logical group it first sets a particular voting agenda. According to the agenda, the members first vote on Restaurant A vs Restaurant B. The winner of that vote it then pitted against Restaurant C in a majority vote. Finally, that second round winner is pitted against Restaurant D. The winner of that last vote is the chosen celebration venue.(a) Show that if the same venue results from all possible agendas, then there is no voting cycle involving the chosen venue.(b) Suppose there is no voting cycle at all. Will the same venue result from all possible agendas? Prove or provide a counterexample.

I include a short four-page background note also written by Harris that you should use as a guide before reading both articles.  The background note describes four theoretical views on food, and it is titled, “Foodways.”

  For March 21: The reading is, “Holy Beef, U.S.A.”

(Again, before reading it, take a look at the four-page background, “Foodways.”)

Harris continued to study food and eating norms in many other countries, including the U.S.  In 1985, he wrote the book, Good to Eat.  In it he examined many interesting topics, such as cannibalism, insect eating and why Americans don’t eat horsemeat.  The reading for today is his materialist theory for why beef consumption grew in the U.S.  Here are the quiz questions:

  On page 129, Harris says,

 

America’s meat preference hierarchy—from horsemeat to beef

and chicken—have rapidly adapted to novel combinations of

nutritional, ecological, economic, and political conditions rather

than remaining fixed and unresponsive as an arbitrary heritage

passed on from the remote past.”    See questions on next page… Explain how he demonstrates the force of the nutritional, ecological, economic and political factors in our meat preference hierarchy.

  On what basis did Harris form his prediction that Americans would eat more chicken than beef by the 21st century?  (Do a simple search to see if his         prediction was correct.)

 

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Example (Illustration) Essay

It is natural to use examples to prove points. You do it all the time and probably did it last week in your narrative essay. In this essay, the heaviest part of your grade comes from how effectively you usethree examplesto prove a thesis. The criteria for a good example are specificity, relevance,andlogical infallibility.

Thethesis statementwill be argumentative. Moreover, it must be specific enough to defend in a very short paper. “Good parenting is important” is way too general. “Using positive reinforcement instead of spanking” is better. This paper can be about whatever you like, so long as it’s very specific and well supported by three examples.

Organization is important in this paper. Consider organizing your examples from most general to most specific, chronologically, by type, or in a logical sequence in which the examples build upon one another.

This paper must be at least 375 words and cannot exceed 750.

Example Paper Synopsis

Sonya’s thesis is that the death penalty is an inappropriate punishment for serious offences in a moral society. To prove her point, she uses examples of someone who was truly sorry for what he’d done, someone who shouted horrible things at his victim’s family right before being publicly executed, and of a man who was electrocuted and later proven innocent.

Sample Topics
A key element of good parenting
Educational reform
Why handguns should be illegal in the U.S./Why they shouldn’t

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Descriptive Narrative Essay

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Grading Rubric
(Use these criteria as a checklist)

10 pts

A riveting introduction which succeeds in getting the reader’s attention and leading the reader willingly into your paper

10 to -40

A strategically placed thesis, based on something you firmly believe, intended to make readers agree with you, and around which the entire essay is formed

5

Smooth, natural transitions that guide the reader through the paragraphs of your paper

15

3 Relevant examples

15

Specificity, relevance, and logical validity of three examples in body of paper—how they are argued.

0 to -10

The paper as a whole must be focused. Stay on track. If there are extraneous elements of the paper which do not work to promote your thesis or persuade the reader (however subtly), revise/remove them.

10

A conclusion which drives your point home, makes the reader feel something, or invites the reader to think about the topic of your paper more or in greater depth. The conclusion cannot be a simply restatement your thesis and main points. That is boring, and you are a better writer than that.

0 to -30

1 1/2 to 3 double spaced pages in MLA format (375-750 words)

10

Essay should be organized for optimum impact on reader. Consider using the following: a) general to specific b) chronological c)spatial d) some permutation of the above e) a logical structure intended to optimize your argument f) an organization of your own device, designed to hypnotize the reader through your own virtuosity, which you know is perfect from the very core of your being, despite any prescriptive tried and true programmatic methods of organizations such as the aforementioned.

15 to -25

Correct grammar. Check for apostrophe usage, capitalization of proper nouns, subject verb agreement, verb tense, correct prepositions, comma splices, commas before coordinating conjunctions, correctly used colons and semicolons (if used at all), correctly placed modifiers, and pronoun agreement.

0 to -15

No outside sources necessary. If you do use one or more outside sources, be sure to cite them in MLA format and include a works cited page.

5 to -5

Style. Avoid faulty parallelism. As a general rule, avoid passive voice unless you feel it is absolutely necessary. If even one sentence is slightly confusing to the reader or to you, it is probably too long, awkward, or convoluted. Aim for a lean, athletic style that takes no prisoners.

5

An interesting, appropriate title that gets the reader’s attention.

Sexual Harrassment Prevention Read Evaluating a Training Program (case study) on pages 160-166, and then answer the following questions: Create 2 more SMART goals for this training Explain what the mean for pre and post training means, why are these figures important? Using the Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model did the training achieve the desired results? Why or why not? Where any unexpected questions raised from this training? If so which questions? If not, why do you think the results were expected? Which levels of information were collected and used in the Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model? Explain why or why not each level was or was not used. The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted: Write between 750 – 1,250 words (approximately 3 – 5 pages)

The Eratosthenes sieve is a simple algorithm to find all prime numbers less than a given number. It proceeds as follow: make a collection of numbers between 2 and the given number (let's call it allNumbers) make an empty collection that will receive all the prime numbers (let's call it allPrimes) repeat until allNumbers is empty the following steps remove the first element of allNumbers, call it prime, and put it in allPrimes remove all multiple of prime from allNumbers print all numbers from allPrimes Implement this algorithm choosing appropriately what collections from the java.util package can be best for allNumbers and allPrimes. Explain your choices in your documentation. The deliverables are one Java class, allowing to run the sieve by passing the maximum number on the command line, the design document (no more than one page) explaining the choice of data structures, and a test document explaining how you check the correctness of your program. Grading rubrics: Design document: 20% clear explanation of the implementation choices (10% for each collection) Test document: 20% include 2 examples of runs with an explanation about how you checked the correctness of the results independently of the program. Do not include tests for incorrect input. Implementation: 20% (correct completion grade) Code structure: 20%.Use of proper Java constructs Presentation: 20% (see presentation rubric in week 1 assignment).