Write a literature review on Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Veldt”

Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Veldt” is in many ways a cautionary tale about advances in modern technology and how these advances sometimes have unintended negative consequences. Can you think of any real-life examples in which technology has gone too far and might actually be damaging to society as a whole? Have advances in technology (especially in communications—cell phones, computers, etc.) somehow made us all a little less human?

What was (or was not) beneficial for your understanding within the NSTA articles you selected?

Read the following articles and watch the 4 videos (30 mins for all 4) and respond to the questions. Only about a sentence or two for each question.
First article – http://media.ride.ri.gov/eeie/Resources/articles/Understanding_Three_Dimensions_of_NGSS.pdf
Second article –
Lee, Miller article (located in the documents)
View the Teaching Channel video on NGSS and Three dimensional learning for additional explanation.
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/next-generation-science-standards-achieve
Watch Vision, Practices, CC, and DCI (a total of 4 videos at roughly 30 minutes total)
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The questions that need to be answered are:
Discuss how you make sense of these ideas.
What does this mean for your teaching practices?
Which of the articles what most helpful in your understanding?
Was there anything you found especially challenging?
What was (or was not) beneficial for your understanding within the NSTA articles you selected?
How do these standards for teaching science address diverse learners?

Based on the medical history and physical exam, what is the likely diagnosis? Include your differentials.

Scenario: A 54-year-old man with a history of hypertension, diabetes, environmental allergies, and colon polyps presents to the office with a complaint of persistent dry hacking cough that does not improve with over-the-counter treatment with antitussives and allergy medications. The man reports that he has had the cough for 3 months and is tired of the coughing spells he experiences. His medical history reveals that he started taking Lisinopril 6 months before this appointment, has taken an over-the-counter allergy medication for several years, had his last colon polyps removed 6 years ago, and his blood pressure today is 145/70. Other medications include metformin XR 500 mg daily, aspirin 81 mg once daily, and loratadine 10 mg daily. The physical exam is negative for any issues other than his mild neuropathy from long-term diabetes. The cough is noted to be dry and hacking as the patient has described. The man is not in acute distress.

What questions would have been asked as part of the medical history?
What physical aspects would have been completed as part of the physical exam?
Are there any tests that should be completed before producing a diagnosis? Why or why not?
Based on the medical history and physical exam, what is the likely diagnosis? Include your differentials.
What is the treatment for this patient, including education? Any medications should include full prescribing information.

In what ways does Eliot’s poetic technique in “Love Song” reflect Modernist poetry? What characteristics of Modernism in general do you find in this poem?

• Choose one of the questions below to answer for this assignment. Please remember to copy/paste the question with your response and analysis. You should choose a question that you find interesting and believe you can answer in an engaging manner. You will want to support your response not only with good logic and explanations on your part but also with pertinent passages (short quotations are best) from the texts that pertain to the question you have chosen.
• Your response should be in the form of a typical essay (probably four to six paragraphs), with a short introduction, thesis statement, and supporting paragraphs with a conclusion.
• Your essay should total at least 500 words.
LIST OF QUESTIONS
1. In what ways does Eliot’s poetic technique in “Love Song” reflect Modernist poetry? What characteristics of Modernism in general do you find in this poem?
2. Is Frost’s “Mending Wall” as Modern as Eliot’s “Love Song”? Explain. For example, are the Frost poems less fragmented or easier to follow than Eliot’s poem? Are they written in stream of consciousness? What other characteristics of Modernism do you find embedded or missing in Frost’s poems?
3. What advantage/disadvantage does Fitzgerald gain by using the third-person narrator in Winter Dreams,” rather than having Dexter tell the story in first person? In what ways is this
narrative technique similar/different to that used by Faulkner in “A Rose for Emily”?
4. Consider how and why Emily tries to control time and circumstance in “A Rose for Emily.” How does she resist change and why? Does Homer represent change? Consider his job.
Consider important symbols in the story, such as her watch. What do these say about her as a character? How has her life been influenced by certain actions and opinions of her father?
5. Some critics have pointed out that Hurston, as a folklorist, is re-rewriting the Garden of Eden story in “Sweat,” but from a feminist point of view. Do you agree? Why would she do
this? What is her purpose? If order is restored at the story’s end, how does that differ from the biblical version?
6. Langston Hughes’s “Harlem” critiques the American Dream, revealing this idea as an illusion for many in America. Why does Hughes do this in the poem and what techniques does he employ to get his message across? Also, why is it significant that Harlem is not mentioned in the poem? This poem was written many years after the Harlem Renaissance ended; why is this important to understanding the poem?
7. Like Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” “Dare’s Gift” is a Gothic story with images of female entrapment. Why would a modern writer like Glasgow
write a Gothic story? What other characteristics of Gothic literature do you find in the story and how does an examination of these characteristics help us understand the story’s meaning?
8. Consider the difference between “vision” and “seeing” in “Good Country People.” Whose vision or sight begins and ends the story? Who are the blind characters and who really sees
9. The center and one could say the heart of “Sonny’s Blues” is the flashback detailing the murder of the father’s brother. Why is this placed at the center of the story and, aside from
the basic plot, what is so significant about this event in the family history?
10. What is the significance of the fact that Morrison in “Recitatif” does not tell us the race of the two protagonists?
11. Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” is complex because it talks not only about the abuse the poet suffers as a result of her father, but because she says, “Every woman adores a Fascist, / The boot in the face, the brute / Brute heart of a brute like you.” In other words, the poet seems to indicate that there is a participation in the brutality she suffers. What do you make of this
and how does it not only describe the poet in particular, but extends to issues of women suffering at the hands of men more generally?
12. According to Susan Farrell, most readers do not feel sympathy with or identify with Dee in Walker’s “Everyday Use.” But Farrell explains that Dee’s point of view about her heritage
also has validity. Farrell states, “[Dee] offers a view of heritage and a strategy for contemporary African Americans to cope with an oppressive society.” Do you agree?
13. Consider the qualities of postmodernism provided in the definitions section and in the introduction to Unit 5. How is “The Balloon” exemplary of many of the qualities of postmodernism? What do you think is the significance of writing a story that embodies these qualities? That is, how does it reflect on the nature of living in late twentieth century
America?
14. The lovers in “Yellow Woman” are in an area where different territories or regions can be seen, yet they do not occupy any of them. Explain the significance of this borderline region, both in terms of the story’s potential meaning but also in terms of Silko’s position as a Native American writer?

Explain Howells’ definition of Realism using “Editha”. For example, explain how and why George and his mother present a realistic point of view while Editha presents a more Romantic concept of life.

1. Select one poem by Dickinson or Whitman (you may use only section of “Song of Myself” to discuss the Romantic movement. In other words, explain what makes your selected poem Romantic. How does this text illustrate the characteristics of Romanticism? Be specific.
2. How do Dickinson’s poems support or challenge what we think we know about gender roles in the nineteenth century?
3. Explain Howells’ definition of Realism using “Editha”. For example, explain how and why George and his mother present a realistic point of view while Editha presents a more Romantic concept of life.
4. In Chesnutt’s “The Passing of Grandison,” the title character is a trickster figure. Explain how he functions as a trickster figure and for what purpose. Include the definition of the trickster in your answer. You may also discuss any other tricksters in the story. For example, does Chesnutt as author function as a trickster with his audience.
5. Choose one of the female characters in the readings for Units 2 and 3 and discuss how that character has been shaped by the concepts in the Cult of True Womanhood.
6. In The Awakening, women play a prominent role. Women of this period are often described as essentially powerless in the wake of a patriarchal society, confined to the home and dominated by the Cult of Domesticity. Do you see powerlessness at work or displays of power in the women characters in these two works? Or possibly a combination of both?
7. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” what does the yellow wallpaper represent, both to the narrator and to the reader? Include in your answer the significance of the “woman trapped behind the wallpaper” – why does the narrator want to free her? What does the trapped woman signify and is she “free” at the end?
8. Explain how and why “The Open Boat” is a Naturalistic story. For example, fully explain the importance of nature’s indifference in the story. To answer this question, you may discuss the repetitive lines in the story – how do they change and why? How do these lines illustrate nature’s indifference?

Write about the two features of social change as described by Callahan et al. (2012) that interest you the most.

Write about the two features of social change as described by Callahan et al. (2012) that interest you the most. Be sure to explain how those features might support your efforts in creating social change within your field.
A past social change experience in your educational setting or community and what the web of eight features would look like for that experience. Be sure to explain why some features of social change would be higher or lower on the web.
Your vision for enacting positive educational change in your setting and the leadership strategies and practices you will need to support your vision.