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Suhani Shah & Emma Bekhet Purpose: To develop an efficient and accurate method of using torque to mass a meter stick – without using a triple beam balance or spring scale / force meter. Materials: One meter stick One fulcrum Three sliding Clips One 50 gram hanging mass Procedures: Setup fulcrum Attach a sliding clip at the 50 cm mark of the meter stick and place meter stick on a fulcrum. From that point, move the sliding clip left and right (based on which side of the meter stick is…

Pfaffinger “Research Paper Baby Steps” “Research Paper Baby Steps” describes a teacher’s method for scaffolding a research paper. She begins by explaining the common problems that students encounter: plagiarism, overwhelmed, to many notes. She then explains her method. Pfaffinger assigns two research papers: a short one where she controls every step and a longer one where the students develop their own topics and essays. Pfaffinger begins with plagiarism and then moves to lessons on…

My Reflection of this Semester Throughout this semester I was approached with several challenging objectives that caused me to think critically while writing. Writing has never been a strong point of mine. When I came to The University of Alabama, I was apprehensive that I did not acquire the necessary skills to take a college English class. Auspiciously, I feel that I have met the desirable course outcomes and expanded my knowledge on writing. Though I have not perfected all of these writing…

provided by catalogues and borrowing records. Heather Jackson, a pioneer in the history of reading, says that marginalia are “a contested goldmine.” They offer direct access to the readers mind and thoughts are usually noted spontaneously. These annotations show that the reader is actively engaging in the book. Deriving from the marginalia, a commonplace book was essentially a blank book where a reader would record their thoughts, remarks, and occurrences. Commonplace books existed primarily to…

Social science researchers need to consider how their presence may have an impact on the research being conducted. Additionally, to achieve ethical practices a selection of variables should be examined. Sieber (1993) has defined the term ‘ethics’ as “a set of moral principles and rules of conduct” and has stated that in research it can be applied to prevent harm or misconduct to participants. Furthermore, age and ethnicity are two important variables that should be recognised when social…

While the two radio stations have different genres and target audiences, there are similarities between them. For the hour of audio analysed from each radio station, the same time, midday to 1pm was sampled. Format wise both stations were similar, starting the hour off with a song, contrary to the norm, which is newsbreaks and/or weather report. The similarities in the formats continue, as after the song at the beginning hour, there is a voice breaks from the announcer, followed by a block of…

further advance my vocabulary and create more thought provoking arguments in my essays. To accomplish these goals, I plan to read more and look up words that can be useful when writing an essay. As for my argumentative essays, I plan to use my annotations of the text and spend time thinking of a more valid argument, rather than just use the surface of the work being used, to create a more intellectual argument. As for my long term goals, I not only hope to maintain a high average, but I aspire…

This is what we are able to understand through the novel Animal Farm written by George Orwell. Animal farm is an in-depth annotation about the French revolution that is expressed through the use of an extended metaphor- which is the animals in animal farm. Throughout the novel, there are pivotal points where we understand that the community (farm animals) plays a key role. "…

Flannery O’Connor’s unique southern gothic style defies expectations of a good story in her writing Good Country People, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Everything that Rises Must Converge. All three stories incorporate unexpected conclusions and intense conflicts. She not only met the usual expectation of an interesting plot, but skyrocketed above it. Ms. O’Connor utilized shocking endings for her stories in order to end her stories with the reader craving more. For example, in Good Country…

Thomas More was born in London in 1477 or 1488. Both his parents came from an upwardly mobile merchant 's class. His father, John, became a judge and chose the legal profession for his son. Very little is known of Thomas 's mother, Agnes, who died sometime before 1507. More began his education at St Anthony 's, a leading London school. Then he was sent to serve as a page at Lambeth Palace, the household of John Morton, the archbishop of Canterbury. Morton 's patronage enabled More to spend…