Inflection

Reflecting on Saturday afternoon’s 2nd evaluation, I did not perform up to the standards Alpha Kappa Psi expected of me. Under the pressure of the panel, I did not think clearly before giving two names of ex-line brothers I felt were the best on the line. I started to list the rest of the line in order until eight other names were given and I was asked a different question. I should have listened to the PM team in a previous paneling where they explicitly told us there are no best or worst line…

I hope I’m not the only IDS student staring at a blank page wondering where to begin. Though I have learned much during this course, figuring out what words to type first was not one of them. I have never been the person who could easily translate ideas into beautifully crafted sentences. Thoughts tend to meander in my head while I struggle to find the words that express them eloquently, if not correctly. Eight weeks later, I am still tormented by my own form of writer’s block. Regardless, while…

The Women’s March was on January 21, 2017, around the United States of America. Millions of women united in Washington D.C. to protest the presidential election that insulted minorities. This march conveys how much power that women posses. Every so often you get a poet that is able to speak for a generation. Jasmine Mans is a poet that can be seen as a pressure point for many celebrities. She uses the lyrics of their own music to point out the irrational behavior and great influence they…

Candidate ID: gwf613 The Modeling of a Potential Smallpox Outbreak at my Local High School Introduction Up until 1980, the world lived in fear of a deadly, disfiguring disease. Smallpox, a highly infectious disease, produces symptoms such as fever, postulation, and rash, potentially leaving the victim scarred from scratching his or her blisters. It is transmitted through inhalation of fluid droplets produced by actions such as sneezing and coughing as well as contact with a skin legion of an…

“Bermudas.” These features create a song-like feel for the colonists to sing for their journey to better “[keep] the time” as they rowed along. But “Bermudas” has a strikingly regular rhyme scheme and meter. It is particularly orderly, and each inflection and lull in the poem is rhythmical, nondisruptive, and expected. This extreme regularity of rhyme and meter gives “Bermudas” a familiar, comforting pattern and stability, a welcome feeling despite its…

dutifully forgot it after the test; these new strategies never superseded my old rules. My writing was only weighed down further, as I adapted a style that seemed, at first, to be polished. Each sentence had a similar length, a similar syntax, a similar inflection. Every essay was monotonous, boring. My teachers had pity, I suppose, or perhaps they thought it was the best I could do. Every essay was marked with an A. Having been rewarded, content in my success, and still following those…

Forecasting GDP Now that we know the timely indicators to help us predict the GDP. We can look into forecasting the GDP and how it is done using the BMC. If we go back to the WEC and take a look at the relevance of each indicator. Here we can see that indicators like PMI which we discussed are highly recommended for investors to look at. Along with the survey column to see what analyst have forecasted for this specific indicator. If we take a look at PMI for example we can right click on the…

Authors may use other literary works as a backdrop to help show a message or theme of their own works. In the works “Musee des Beaux Arts,” “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus,” and “To A Friend Whose Work has Come to Triumph,” the authors use the myth of Icarus and Daedalus as this backdrop. Auden, Williams, and Sexton use the myth of Icarus as comparisons in their poems, but for different reasons. The authors, Auden, Williams, and Sexton, allude to this myth in their poems to either show…

commencement speeches. While positioned behind the podium, there was no walking around or leaning on the podium. She did, however, turn her head to face a section of the audience making good eye contact and used some small hand gestures. The inflections in her voice added to her speech, something that I need to work on, made it even more interesting. Unfortunately, there were some vocalized pauses in her speech where she used the words “um,” “and um.” Rather than vocalizing she should have…

characteristics, can be extremely versatile so use this to your advantage. DEE should be cynical yet friendly-ish. There isn’t going to be that much moving around, so pretty please sit in two chairs about arm's length apart and use facial expressions, inflection, and hand gestures in order to really make these characters dynamic.) MAIN: The first night you came into my life it was dark…(pause) you were dark. You held me in your arms fiercely and kept me safe from myself. You gave me the company…