Eglish Literature

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Typically, texts about romance that breaks social conventions present such love as objectionable and dangerous.

In light of this view, discuss how Shakespeare presents relationships in this extract and elsewhere in the play.                                                                                                                                                [25 marks]

IAGO

I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter
and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.

BRABANTIO

Thou art a villain.

IAGO

You are–a senator.

BRABANTIO

This thou shalt answer; I know thee, Roderigo.

RODERIGO

Sir, I will answer any thing. But, I beseech you,
If’t be your pleasure and most wise consent,
As partly I find it is, that your fair daughter,
At this odd-even and dull watch o’ the night,
Transported, with no worse nor better guard
But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier,
To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor–
If this be known to you and your allowance,
We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs;
But if you know not this, my manners tell me
We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe
That, from the sense of all civility,
I thus would play and trifle with your reverence:
Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,
I say again, hath made a gross revolt;
Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes
In an extravagant and wheeling stranger
Of here and every where. Straight satisfy yourself:
If she be in her chamber or your house,
Let loose on me the justice of the state
For thus deluding you.

BRABANTIO

Strike on the tinder, ho!
Give me a taper! call up all my people!
This accident is not unlike my dream:
Belief of it oppresses me already.
Light, I say! light!

Exit above

IAGO

Farewell; for I must leave you:
It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place,
To be produced–as, if I stay, I shall–
Against the Moor: for, I do know, the state,
However this may gall him with some cheque,
Cannot with safety cast him, for he’s embark’d
With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars,
Which even now stand in act, that, for their souls,
Another of his fathom they have none,
To lead their business: in which regard,
Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains.
Yet, for necessity of present life,
I must show out a flag and sign of love,
Which is indeed but sign. That you shall surely find him,
Lead to the Sagittary the raised search;
And there will I be with him. So, farewell.

Exit

Enter, below, BRABANTIO, and Servants with torches

BRABANTIO

It is too true an evil: gone she is;
And what’s to come of my despised time
Is nought but bitterness. Now, Roderigo,
Where didst thou see her? O unhappy girl!
With the Moor, say’st thou? Who would be a father!
How didst thou know ’twas she? O she deceives me
Past thought! What said she to you? Get more tapers:
Raise all my kindred. Are they married, think you?

RODERIGO

Truly, I think they are.

BRABANTIO

O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood!
Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds
By what you see them act. Is there not charms
By which the property of youth and maidhood
May be abused? Have you not read, Roderigo,
Of some such thing?

Sketching and Prototyping

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Step 1: Sketch a New Webpage Design
Read the personas and the website linked above. Sketch three different low-fidelity wireframe designs for a new webpage that could better serve needs of the target users. Include labels in your wireframe (like section headers) that indicate what types of content will go where. For each sketch, you will also write a brief (200-300 word) summary of the design and how it addresses one or more of the personas’ frustrations or needs.

Your sketches do not need to be polished, but they should be clear enough that we can understand what you are showing. We encourage you to sketch on paper. However, you will submit electronically. Please scan or take a decent photograph of your sketch and put it in your document. You will submit an electronic document that includes your three sketches with summaries (preferably PDF, otherwise Microsoft Word).

Step 2: Develop an Interactive Prototype in Axure
Next, choose one of your designs and convert it into a low-to-medium fidelity interactive prototype in Axure. This means your prototype does not need to have the final copy (that is, body text) or look and feel (that is, colors and fonts and graphics) completely worked out. The YouTube channel called Axure RP Prototyping: Noob to Master (Links to an external site.) is a very useful resource in learning the basics of the Axure tool. If you watch the first ~5-10 videos you will have a decent enough grasp of the interface to complete this assignment.

Your Axure prototype can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. It can have multiple pages, or just one page. It can simulate interaction on either a mobile or desktop platform. To make your prototype interactive, consider the features for buttons, links, slideshows and sliding content, dynamic panels, forms and other inputs, etc.  The purpose of this part of the assignment is simply to give you exposure to the tool. Those of you  who would like to build  your portfolio may want to put more effort into this part of the assignment than others. However, anyone who meets the basic requirements will receive full credit.

Information Systems for Decision-Making

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(REVIEW ADDITIONAL ESSAYS)
Congratulations. Your project has been staffed and you are about to meet with the team for the first time.
Initial impressions are important and youll need visuals for your presentation. Create a slide show (in
PowerPoint or similar software) in which you address the following, in this order:
1. Goals: What the project hopes to accomplish.
2. Critical Success Factors: Identify at least 4 different stakeholders; for each, list at least 2 things
that the stakeholder requires in order to deem the project successful.
3. Acquisition strategy: Should the system be built in-house, created by a contractor, purchased offthe-shelf and customized, or leased as a service? Explain your rationale.
4. Resources: For in-house development, what people/skills are required and what development
lifecycle do you recommend? Otherwise, identify 3 candidate organizations that can deliver the
system.
5. System functions: In a table format, summarize the types of users for the system; the business
reason(s) each would use the system; the ways that the system supports each of these needs;
and how this support differs from the current system.
6. Connectivity: Provide a diagram that shows how the system will connect to the other information
systems and what data flows among them.
7. Security: List the most serious cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities of the new system.
Suggest strategies to address them.
8. Mobility: Identify the systems capabilities for mobile use.
Include a title and summary slide. Use one slide for each of the 8 points above. Include speaker notes or audio narration that explains each slide more fully.

Bonus

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Choose two (2) statements below and examine the language problem.  Then indicate whether the statements are ambiguous, vague, lack of clarity, etc., and explain your answer in detail.

#1 Jane is emotionally disturbed. Emotionally disturbed people shouldn’t be allowed to own guns. Jane shouldn’t be allowed to own guns.

#2 The average height of women in the United States is 5’5″. Any woman over the average height for women in the United States is tall. Bianca is 5 feet 5 1/2 inches tall. Bianca is tall.

#3 Suicide, whether direct or indirect, should be strongly condemned.

#4 The war on poverty was no war.

#5 The accused argued that he should not be required to pay the parking ticket because the sign said, “fine for parking”.

#6 America did not become a democracy until the 1960s. Women could not vote until the 19th amendment was ratified in 1920, and it was only in 1965 the voting rights act was passed that did away with the property qualifications and literacy tests, and pave the way for the genuine participation of all people, regardless of race, creed, or national origin.

#7 The higher the profits, the better the company.

#8 School dress codes are limits put on inappropriate clothing to help keep the learning environment focused. It can be quite a distraction for students if a classmate has inappropriate clothing. The use of a dress code during school is not preventing freedom of expression. The dress code still allows for students to choose what they wear as long as it is not deemed inappropriate, unlike required uniform dress codes.

#9 We should treat drug use in the same way we treat speech and religion, as a fundamental right. No one has to ingest any drug he doesn’t want to, just as no one has to read a particular book. The only reason the state assumes control over such matters is to subjugate its citizens by shielding them from temptations as befits children.

#10 I see it with the executives within the studio area. The other day, I saw a woman producer who was really quite powerful; and she railroaded, walked all over this guy, who was far less successful and powerful than her. She just behaved as if this man wasnt there because her position was more powerful than his. And it was much more disconcerting because it was a woman doing it. It was unfeminine, you know?