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@@ -258,4 +258,4 @@ Dec 2: (Smith) Final 3: (Smith) Final (Rich) Final -4: +4: diff --git a/application/04_honors_orgs b/application/04_honors_orgs index 2136403..36f2ed7 100644 --- a/application/04_honors_orgs +++ b/application/04_honors_orgs @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ I am a member of OSMF after 42 days of edits, but that doesn't mean much 4 hours per week 5 weeks per year I don't intend to participate in a similar activity in college - Desc: Teacher-sponsored animal sciences and gene-sequencing research + Desc: Teacher-sponsored animal sciences and gene-sequencing research - Community Service (Various orgs: Furkids, INTERACT, McCallie Leadership/CLC) Type: Communite Service (Volunteer) diff --git a/application/05_personal_essay b/application/05_personal_essay index ea1d093..d4ab572 100644 --- a/application/05_personal_essay +++ b/application/05_personal_essay @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ you turn to when you want to learn more? "Grok: to understand intimately and completely." I live in pursuit of fundamental understanding in general and am more than willing to bang my head against a wall to achieve it. -This is somewhat a pedagogical trick---learning conflates understanding. +This is somewhat a pedagogical trick---learning conflates understanding. But deep understanding does have value. Mathematical reasoning, the formalistic kind, requires it to determine @@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ indescribably captivating, like code-breaking or inventing. This is, to be fair, reinventing the wheel, but that is often one of the best ways to understand it. I've worked on other levels of abstraction, from assembly language to -cloud environments, and it's always very interesting for me to +cloud environments, and it's always very interesting for me to Pragmatists would criticize me for reinventing the wheel, and although I -am, +am, Both math and programming I've touched on academically, math moreso, but I haven't reached out to the community locally. -I +I diff --git a/application/06_tech_essays b/application/06_tech_essays index 34d7519..de4e331 100644 --- a/application/06_tech_essays +++ b/application/06_tech_essays @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ class conference to help develop our focused combinatorics knowledge. The project and the conference let me dig deeper into a topic which I'm still very interested in---how cryptography works. The effort Tech professors give is very supportive. - + I've also been part of a few groupchats run by Tech students for specific classes and for this year's online-only situation, and I have seen one of the most supportive and honorable student groups I could diff --git a/houdre/01_foundations b/houdre/01_foundations index aedcdd2..b703fa3 100644 --- a/houdre/01_foundations +++ b/houdre/01_foundations @@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ Cardinality of empty set is 0. (why is this a convention and not a self-evident fact?) Card S = #S = cardinality of S - Flip a coin until first tail, and stop. Count # of flips. Omega = {1,2,3,...} = Natural numbers. (Sometimes also {0,1,2,...}) Card N = +\infty diff --git a/houdre/hw1.tex b/houdre/hw1.tex index c06f5fa..e49bd49 100644 --- a/houdre/hw1.tex +++ b/houdre/hw1.tex @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ $$\Pr(A\cup B) = \Pr(A\setminus B)+\Pr(B\setminus A)+\Pr(A\cap B)$$ $$= (\Pr(A\setminus B)+\Pr(A\cap B)) + (\Pr(B\setminus A)+\Pr(A\cap B)) - \Pr(A\cap B)$$ $$= \Pr(A) + \Pr(B) - \Pr(A\cap B) -= \sum_i \Pr(A_i) - \sum_{i<j} \Pr(A_i\cap A_j).$$ += \sum_i \Pr(A_i) - \sum_{i<j} \Pr(A_i\cap A_j).$$ Let the above be considered a base case, with the successive case $U_n = U_{n-1}\cup A_n.$ diff --git a/markley/02_hygeia b/markley/02_hygeia index 9d92196..d866dba 100644 --- a/markley/02_hygeia +++ b/markley/02_hygeia @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ middle class ability to manage their own health (because useful doctors charged exorbitantly). Beddoes criticizes the majority of the genre, but is itself a medical manual. Thesis: health is a social ideal of individual habits ("rules and -regulations") for preventive medicine. +regulations") for preventive medicine. Beddoes aligns with modern cultural pressure that health is a moral issue. diff --git a/markley/04_journal b/markley/04_journal index 9945e89..90e5b93 100644 --- a/markley/04_journal +++ b/markley/04_journal @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Assessment: - Sustained engagement - Writing prompts provided -- Relevance and quality +- Relevance and quality - Rhetorical strength and images - Relation to major class topics diff --git a/markley/06_quiz b/markley/06_quiz index 4071a8b..44d57aa 100644 --- a/markley/06_quiz +++ b/markley/06_quiz @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The door leads to the back of Dr Jekyll's house, Stevenson chooses this person? Mr. Utterson, a lawyer, is the protagonist. Stevenson uses this person -because he is curious +because he is curious 7. Define genre. diff --git a/markley/09_dr_moreau b/markley/09_dr_moreau index d5a5dc9..ef25923 100644 --- a/markley/09_dr_moreau +++ b/markley/09_dr_moreau @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ Degeneration - Corresponds with scientific racism, arguments that urbanization and modernization collapsed traditional morals, crime, disease. - Moreau: proto-eugenics -- Prendick's return to the city hints at sort of humanity's instability +- Prendick's return to the city hints at sort of humanity's instability Health - Uses social/cultural, apersonal definition. diff --git a/markley/16_hela b/markley/16_hela index ae60fcd..c44423e 100644 --- a/markley/16_hela +++ b/markley/16_hela @@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ Clover who don't want to "intermix" (confederate flag people). They won't admit they are related by blood to the black Lackses. Lillian, Henrietta's sister, moved out to NY and "converted to Puerto Rican" because she didn't want to be black anymore. -There were lynchings and the Klan into the 1980s, but people claimed -that race relations weren't bad. +There were lynchings and the Klan into the 1980s, but people claim +that race relations never were bad. Chapter 17 @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ He, without consent, tested Henrietta's cells on people w/ and then w/o cancer, believing that there was significant possibility of risk of them getting cancer, under the guise of testing "immune systems." He also tested prison populations. -This was 16 years after (1966) the Nuremberg trials and eventually outed +This was 16 years after the Nuremberg trials (1966) and eventually outed by Jewish doctors he asked to help him continue his "research." Informed consent was poorly established in the courts and in physician communities, but the Nuremberg Code had created a single ethical @@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ Jon Hopkins, however, was created as a charity for poor and colored people, which is why it was constructed in Baltimore. However, there were still many violations of black people's rights, such as willful lead poisoning, unconsented gene sampling, and Henrietta. +(Return to interview) Lawrence: "If our mother so important to science, why can't we get health insurance?" Sonny believes Hopkins didn't snatch black people but they did willfully @@ -170,3 +171,7 @@ Walter Nelson-Rees, for the National Cancer Institute, is publishing a J Douglas, a biologist at Brunei University, wants to find out He..La.'s true identity. +# Henrietta Lacks: science must right a historical wrong +https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02494-z + + diff --git a/markley/17_hela_quiz b/markley/17_hela_quiz index dac28b3..5a2154c 100644 --- a/markley/17_hela_quiz +++ b/markley/17_hela_quiz @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ the first to mass produce it. The author contrasts the widespread medical benefits and opportunities given by Henrietta's immortal cell line with the Lacks family's -condition. +condition. 8. What concepts or themes from other readings appear in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks? diff --git a/markley/blog/03_moreau b/markley/blog/03_moreau index 4d9a290..2fab77d 100644 --- a/markley/blog/03_moreau +++ b/markley/blog/03_moreau @@ -71,6 +71,6 @@ Sources: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ - "GMO Kill Gene" by altheadlines is licensed with CC BY-ND 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/ + https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/ - Images found by search.creativecommons.org NOT USED: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CRISPR diff --git a/rich/04_three_political_cultures b/rich/04_three_political_cultures index dbe8db1..20a72d2 100644 --- a/rich/04_three_political_cultures +++ b/rich/04_three_political_cultures @@ -71,4 +71,3 @@ Interactions: - traditionalistic order, while often damaging to opressed groups, helps create (when functioning properly) a benevolent elite for political power but has the same danger as oligarchy. - diff --git a/rich/07_federalist b/rich/07_federalist index a54f184..5a2917b 100644 --- a/rich/07_federalist +++ b/rich/07_federalist @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ social level and the judicial system at an organizational level. The *federal principle* maintains the *republican cause* 1) According to Hamilton in Federalist #15, why is a strong central -government needed? Please explain your answer. +government needed? Please explain your answer. Hamilton argues that the Confederacy's national government has so little power as to make an international mockery of itself. Hamilton expects diff --git a/rich/08_aoc_constitution b/rich/08_aoc_constitution index 0ae794c..6eb4ff6 100644 --- a/rich/08_aoc_constitution +++ b/rich/08_aoc_constitution @@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ Articles of Confederation - Couldn't coin money - No common currency, so its value was based on states' values, and people wouldn't accept specific currencies - The Constitution - Approved Sep 17, 1787 - Madison Model's 5 Principles diff --git a/rich/14_federalism b/rich/14_federalism index e84e579..6dc4b1f 100644 --- a/rich/14_federalism +++ b/rich/14_federalism @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Legislature 2) How many chambers? - Bicameral or Unicameral Unicameral = legislation is fast - Bicameral = legislation is slow + Bicameral = legislation is slow Bicameral = responsibility for laws is less clear - Confounding of power - Senate is more powerful, but not perceived as such diff --git a/rich/18_legislation b/rich/18_legislation index 188a96e..4e26e6f 100644 --- a/rich/18_legislation +++ b/rich/18_legislation @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Senate side of process (often introduced concurrently, sometimes multiple bills on either side correspond on one issue, sometimes consecutive) - Introduction: senate resolution number - - President pro temp (maybe multiple) refers to standing committees, + - President pro temp (maybe multiple) refers to standing committees, - Committee Stage: passes through the subcommittee, full committee landmines; often longer timeframes in the Senate - NO Rules Committee @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ consecutive) - No time limit - Allows filibusters - Originally 60 votes "Vote of Closure" stops - - Now simple majority (50) + - Now simple majority (50) - No sitting down, leaning on podium - But multi-person filibusters - Amendment vote (incl house amendments) and vote on finalized diff --git a/rich/20_president b/rich/20_president index bea5c94..9f34036 100644 --- a/rich/20_president +++ b/rich/20_president @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Presidential Power - Article II Section 1 - 35 yrs old - Natural born - - Common characteristics that help + - Common characteristics that help - Previous success in business, politics, law - Protestant, white, male - Most presidents didn't have Ph.Ds diff --git a/smith/02_color_line b/smith/02_color_line index ac84991..5955bfa 100644 --- a/smith/02_color_line +++ b/smith/02_color_line @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ employed? - "Freedmen's Bureau" (1865-1870) helped connect family members and developed black freedmen's schools and work. - Government authorized giving/renting confiscated land to - freedmen, but many officials corrupt. + freedmen, but many officials corrupt. - So whites used contracts with freedmen to maintain their own power. - Southern whites pressured Congress into shuttering Freedmen's @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ employed? Amendments ratified by all states (including by Southern states, which were required to ratify on condition of admission into the union): -13th Amendment (1865) +13th Amendment (1865) - Abolished slavery 14th Amendment (1868) - Guaranteed citizenship to natural US citizens, except Natives @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Jim Crow laws 1896: LA passes separate cars act, requiring equal but separate - racial segregation + racial segregation "Necessary to prevent danger of friction of interaction between races" diff --git a/smith/03_gilded_age b/smith/03_gilded_age index d61e2d1..2ba9741 100644 --- a/smith/03_gilded_age +++ b/smith/03_gilded_age @@ -134,5 +134,3 @@ for modern life (like Coney Island) Escape from tenements and factory life Contrasts with slow, bucolic Central Park Phase transition in urban life - - |