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HoST
Fall 2011 Final
Exam: 12/14-12/15 |
Back to HoST Fall 2011 Syllabus Email me: host@mifami.org |
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Final Exam
Officially Opens December 14th
at 12:01 am, EST.
Officially terminates December
15th at 11:59 pm, EST.
"Sit"
Update
12/15/11 8:19 AM
Question #20 refers to Slide 9.
The time has finally come.
The official start of the HoST Fall 2011 Final Exam has begun.
I have assigned each of you a number. E.g., Liz is number 10.
These will be used when you determine which of the multiple choice questions you must answer.
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Student's |
Student's |
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Number |
Name |
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1 |
Berberoglu, Chris |
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2 |
Cahill, Michael |
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3 |
Dawkins, Anthonio |
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4 |
DiLiello, Michael |
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5 |
Evangelou, Tiffany |
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6 |
Everett, Zak |
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7 |
Gaugler, Richie |
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8 |
Gerlack, Ross |
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9 |
Hanein, Joshua |
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10 |
Lamb, Liz |
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11 |
Llamanzares, Amanda |
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12 |
MacIntosh, Kathleen |
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13 |
Moorhead, John |
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14 |
Pessolano, Tim |
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15 |
Ponella, Theresa |
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16 |
Sticco, Brianna |
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17 |
Stys, Jim |
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18 |
Tepox, Eliseo |
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19 |
Vianco, Bryan |
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20 |
Villavicentio, Jaime |
This is an
open-book, open-world exam. I only ask that you do it by yourself. If you have any questions, email me [host@mifami.org]
The
instructions in 7 parts:
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Download
the Answer Sheet PDF to your hard drive: AnswerSheet.pdf. This is a PDF form that you should be
able to fill out on your computer. [If you have any problems with this PDF, here is the .doc
format: AnswerSheet.doc.] |
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Follow
the directions on the Answer Sheet form. |
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Here are
the multiple choice questions: HoST-FinalExam-F11-MultiChoice-StudentCopy.pdf. |
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Here are
the slides that are needed for some of the questions: FinalExam-HoSTF11-ImageSet.pdf [2.1MB]. |
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The
First Final Exam Essay: These readings meander along and
touch upon many of the things we have discussed in this class. Draw upon various
things that we have studied throughout the term and use them to address some
of the issues and ideas and theories raised. Feel free to make this
into an illustrated project or an imagined dialogue or a comic book or write
an essay similar to Davy's, but in your voice, or another person's voiceÉ but
no matter what your approach to this essay, you must refer to past
readings and materials we have worked on. You need to use proper
citations with page numbers and all the regular tools for academic writing. Think of this essay as a really well
done "long essay" assignment. I encourage you to use
illustrations or similar alternate media if it helps your essay, but do not
use pictures just to beef up your page count. Use pictures if they have meaning and are discussed in
your essay. Prove to me that you read both of the Davy readings linked
below. Prove to me how much you now know about our previous
readings. Prove to me that you know how to think and reason and put
together a nice product. If you are having problems figuring out how to get
an essay from these readings, here are some questions that might help you
along: Question
Supplement-DavyEssayForExam.htm. Here are the things you need
to read. READ THIS: Davy_Excerpt-Consolations-692kb.pdf There is a little bit of
everything in this. Make sure you read the entire
PDF including all the introductory material. It may also be helpful to read
the Wiki-article on Humphry Davy. AND THEN READ THIS: Davy_SalmoniaPP76-80-ErasumsDarwin.pdf
[404 KB] I only included a short
excerpt from this one, but the implications are quite interesting. Read over the Preface and the
Table of Contents. These are of
interest too. Then read pp. 76-80. Hint: Notice that this was written
in 1828. You might find this fact worthy of a remark in relation to Darwin's
theory of evolution. Now write an essay, minimum of
1.5 pages, single spaced - not including title pages and bibliography. This essay should be a place
for you to tell me most anything that you have on your mind that relates to
this course. Use the Davy
readings as inspiration, as a spring-board to your own ideas and
observations, and for your stream-of-consciousness ramblings. You can take this essay in many
directions. It's up to you how
to approach it. Creative
approaches are good. Go for it.
Follow your intuition. |
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Write a
letter to the editor in response to this short reading by Jared Diamond: Diamond_Worst_Human_Mistake.pdf. Don't be surprised if this reading
makes you mad. Go with it. This essay only needs to be about
half of a page, single spaced. |
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Now send the 2 essays and the Answer Sheet back to me [host@mifami.org]. Please name your files starting with your last name. E.g.,
"Newsome-AnswerSheet.pdf" and
"Newsome-FinalEssays.xyz."
These are due on Thursday, the 15th of December at at 11:59 pm,
Eastern Standard Time. |
If your essays
are multi-media or unusual-media, please convert them to a PDF or some other
format that I can experience easily.
It's been a
great class and I very much appreciate how you all participated and made it
more fun.
I'll be sending
back graded essays and projects within a few days. Have a great vacation.
citations:
Davy, Humphry. Salmonia: Or;
Days of Fly Fishing. In a Series of Conversations; with Some Account of the Habits
of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo. Written in 1828. 1st American ed.
Philadelphia,: Carey and Lea, 1832.
Davy, Humphry, and John Davy. Consolations in
Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher. Transcribed by David Price,
Project Gutenberg Ebook, ed. Henry Morley. New York: Cassell & Company,
1889 (written 1829).
Diamond, Jared. "The Worst
Mistake in the History of the Human Race." Discover, May 1987, pp. 64-66.
Here are two
versions of an Excel file that will help you count. I provided two versions for those who might still be using
an old version of Excel.
Excel
- Formula-MultipleChoice.xlsx
Excel
- Formula-MultipleChoice.xls