FIRST QUIZZ
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Ivan Belashov Number 7 Ethics of Engagement
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X-1. Doreen Baingana is the author of Caribbean Fish. True ----2. In the book Tropical Fish main characters are Christina, Rusty and Pete tells telling story of their life False (Christina, Rosa and Patti) ----3. Every character on the computer has a code known as AZ KEY (ASCII) and 65 is ASCII value of B. False (B - 66) ----4. Allegory of the Cave teaches you about discovering your race and how to be proud of your identity. False (Teaches to have a pig picture of the world and discovering more things in the world) ----5. According to Dr. Ebrahimi "TALKLESS" is a word True ----6. You can find the first chapter of Tropical Fish in border.com False ----7. You can get a FREE Geocities web hosting by getting a yahoo account. True --X--8. If you miss four or more ethics of engagement classes, still you have a chance of getting A True ----9. Student with Best journal will get an A- False (Will get an A not A-) -X--10. The book "college knowledge" gives you 101 tips on how to be successful in a career. True ----11. The third chapter of Tropical Fish is called First Kiss. True --X--12. Five words of the day were be patient, be righteous, be good, obey the rules, and apologize. False (Be righteous and ethical and don't have a fear and grief) ----13. The author of Tropical Fish was Shakespeare. False (Doreen Baingana) ----14. TRUE OR FALSE Confidence has been a word of the day? True (Mellsa said that one) ----15. TRUE OR FALSE Christine was a main character of Tropical Fish? True (Not only her though but two of her other sisters) ----16. Derek was the name of the main love interest of one of the girls in Tropical Fish? False ----17. In "Tropical Fish" Rosa, could have avoided the fatal disease? True ----18. Passion is the name of the chapters of Tropical Fish? True ----19. Shopping is the name of one of the chapters of Tropical Fish? False ----20. We use the website MYSPACE to make our WCMs? False -X--21. "No fear nor Grieve" by itself is one of the "Words of the Day" True ----22. A little boy once told Dr. Ebrahimi everyone should "talk it out" True ----23). Book on Tips has some hints for Commuter's students. True ----24. Students should learn how to get around town without a car True ----25. Allegory of the Cave was written by Dr. Ebrahimi False (by Plato) ----26. Plato's Cave is described as prisons facing the opposite direction of moving objects that are reflected by light onto a wall which gives off the appearance that the object itself is moving when it is actually someone else moving it. True ----27). Chris believes Native American Voices is a typical Native American story True ----28). "Accent" is the code for each individual character (i.e. the space bar) False (It is represented as a number of 32) 29). The author's, of Tropical Fish, last name is Ghana False (Baingana) 30). You can easily remember something by association TRUE 31. Doreen Baingana is from Egypt. False (Entebbe, I think the question is trivial) 32. Every day there is a new word of the day and you can have it in Gallery of the WCM False (There's no WOTD in Gallery) 33. W.C.M. stands for Web Class Management. True 34. Socrates is not the author of "Allegory of the Cave." True 35. Tropical Fish is about three girls living in Kenya, Uganda and Ghana. False (They all lived in Uganda) 36. Christine is the oldest sister in Tropical Fish. False (Rosa is) 37. In Tropical Fish Rosa will die as result of a close relationship. True 38. Every character on a computer keyboard has a code. True 39. Plato is a philosopher living 400 years AC. False (400 BC) 40. Dr. Ebrahimi once said "Programming is a skill." and you can do it. True 41.Prof. Ebrahimi wrote a book called " C++ Programming for Beginners." False (Easy Ways) 42. Prof. Ebrahimi was born in a island known as Abadan . True 43. You lose four points for every class you are late. False (If you miss a class) X 44. Prof. Ebrahimi didn't give us enough time for our Tropical Fish essay. False (I think the question is trivial) 45. The phrase 'When there is smoke, there is fire, when there is fire there is a smoke', is one of the tip in the book. False (Dr. Ebrahimi said that) 46. The phrase 'I can't change your mind but I can change your heart' is from the book "Ethics of Engagement." False (Words of Dr. Ebrahimi) 47. Programming is like basketball and requires practice. True 48. There are 3,000 important words in programming. The question is trivial 49. Native American Voices explains similarities between Native and White people and their cultures. False (explains differences) 50. In Europe according to the textbook people harshly have been prosecuted because of their race or belief. True (But which textbook?) 51. Allegory of the cave is a poem written by a Greek poet. False (by Plato) 52. Tropical fish was a place where you can go and eat. False (it's a book) 53. Front page is a software that you can type a document and save it as a web page. True 44. Geocites belongs to Yahoo and has a web hosting and we are using it in the course. True 55. If you have a yahoo account you can get a free gmail account. False 56. Tropical fish was written by Loreen Baingana False (Doreen Baingana) 57. Talkless was one of our words of the day True 58. The name of the book is tropical island fish False 59. The name of the class is "ethics off engagement" False X 60. The Computer lab is usually opens from 11:30 AM. True 7 Wrong ANSWERS
MIDTERM
Q2) In the story "Allegory of the cave" people inside the cave who can only see their shadows in the dark in front of them resemble real people in our life. Q2a) Write the connection between the people from the cave and real people who are like that. Q2b)Give examples. Q2c) Who do you think is the person who "saw the light" is in real life? What does the story teach about? I think the people who are in the dark of the cave resemble people who are afraid to do something different in their life and discover what their abilities really are. For example, there are many opportunities for students in their universities. Some activities are made especially for students to make their life happy and more entertaining. That could be doing sports, fraternities, etc. "People who only see shadows in front of them" might be those students who don't participate in anything, just go to school and go back home when their classes are over. They never discover their true personality. Those activities could help them in discovering the "big picture" in front of them. Perhaps if they participated in those activities they could understand that they have certain interests in something or maybe even talents of themselves. The "person who saw the light" is the one who wasn't afraid to share his time to be with society. He went to activities, realized who he is and is doing everything to make his life and lives around him happy. The story itself teaches us about not to resemble those people who are in the dark cave but be an open and broad minded person. Q8)All freshman students were required to read the novel "Tropical Fish". Qa) Briefy summarize the whole novel. The novel is about three girls: Christine, Rosa and Patti growing up in Entebbe, Africa. The novel talks about their life experience: what hard life they went through. The story starts when on of the girls, Patti, starts to talk about her family in Entebbe, including her Mama, Papa, and the maid. Then when the girls are still little her father dies, so their Mama has to take care of them. Then Rosa meets a guy which is the reason why she gets AIDS and then dies. Then one of the sisters comes to LA. She finds it very different from Africa. Qb) What did you like and/or dislike about the novel? I liked that even the life of the girls was generally bad: loosing a father, being sick with AIDS, being hungry for the whole time, they still find something to distract them from all those terrible things and live a happy life. It is mentioned when Patti finds herself on the Islands in her dreams with beautiful colors of diamonds, etc. I didn't like how the story turned out though. When Rosa became sick with AIDS and then died I felt pity for her. I wish she had avoided it somehow... Qc) How can you relate the novel to yourself? The life of the girl who lived in Entebbe and then came to US, LA is kind of similar to mine. I also lived in a third party country. I can say that my life was not easy. And then 3 months ago I came to US and found how different the life is in US. Qd) The novel teaches us many lesson, what is ONE lesson you've learned? The lesson that I learned was never give up, whatever happens. Think positively all the time. Q9) Quote one sentence from the Mismeasure of man that you like.
The most creative theories are often imaginative visions imposed upon facts; the source of imagination is also strongly cultural.
Q9a) What do you think it means?
Not all the theories made by scientists came out just like that out of their minds. Usually the scientists first observe a lot. And then I guess they just have a vision in their mind that turns out to be a good theory. I read that Enstein got his theory (MC square) in his dream. I also think that since theories are imposed from facts and history, culture should be involved as well. Since our history is our culture.
Q9b)Why did you choose this sentence?
Like I said above about Einstein's seeing his theory in his dream. I remembered that when I read this sentence from the story "The Mismeasurement of the Man". Also I am a future scientist myself. The sentence just caught my attention.
Q9c) We were assigned stories to read in class. From "Native American Voices" by
Chief Luther Standing Bear to "You're Short, Besides!" by Sucheng Chan. Pick
either your assigned story, or one that was spoken about in class and summerize
it. After you summerize the story of your choice explain the meaning of it, and
what you got out of the story personally.
I remember Angelica talk about the story that she read: "Survival in Auschwitz". The story was about the World War 2, when nazis put Jews in those terrible camps. The story goes on telling the readers about the nazis and what happened. The story has been told by on person from his own life experience, who was actually there in the story (in the camp) and was the only one who survived. From the story, it was almost imposiible for anybody to survive in those kind of camps and one person did. So that was my lesson: hope. There's always hope..
Q10) Ethics of Engagement
Q10a) What makes you who you are? I think things I like, things I do, things I eat and places I go make me who I am. Secondary how i look but that is secondary. I think the most important factor to consider who you are is not the physical appearance but the inside of a person. I think out of those billions of people on the planet none of them except me looks or behaves like me. I can have twins but they will still not be me. Because they might not listen to Hip-Hop, or they might not play soccer like I do. There's just so many things that make me me.. Q10b)Does society make you who you are? Not exactly, but it plays a big role. Maybe it can change couple of things or interests that the person will do in the society. But whatever the society is, the person will stay the same in heart. That is my point of view. Q10c)Has the class "Ethics of engagement" change your life in anyway.? Yes. If I didnt take this class I wouldnt have read all those stories that I did. After reading those stories, they made me think of life and things in general. So I learned couple things from this class and I think that changed my life. Q10d) Do you have any suggestions to better this class We had the last class outside. i just loved that. I wish we go out more often. I like to breathe fresh air and listen and look at the soccer field at the same time. 1. Why do you think the
story "This is what it means
to say Phoenix,
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