Respond to ONE of the below two prompts. Refer to the instru…

Respond to ONE of the below two prompts. Refer to the instructions portion of this assignment for guidelines on completing this in-class assignment.   Fun Home is filled with literary references, including references to myth, published texts, and authors themselves. Bechdel uses these texts not just as allusions, but as tools to help her interpret and cope with her own experiences. Write an essay analyzing how Fun Home uses literary allusions to reflect, shape, or challenge Alison’s understanding of her family. How do these references contribute to our understanding of her identity and her relationship with her father? Make a concrete argument and support it with specific examples from both the text and images. Bechdel’s graphic memoir is titled Fun Home, and her family house is at the center of this text. Write an essay analyzing how Bechdel uses the house and its visual details to explore central themes of her memoir. How does the depiction of the house contribute to our understanding of family dynamics and individual characters? Make a concrete argument and support it with specific examples from both the images and the text.

A researcher is interested in studying whether or not listen…

A researcher is interested in studying whether or not listening to music while jogging makes people run faster.  He thinks that listening to music will make people run faster.  Luckily, he knows that, for the population he interested in (runners in Washington, DC), the mean running speed (μ) is 6mph, and the standard error is 2mph.  He collects data from a sample of runners that only listen to music, and finds they have a mean running speed (M) of 9mph.  State the hypothesis  H0: H1:

A teacher is interested if students learning from a new edit…

A teacher is interested if students learning from a new edition of a math textbook have higher or lower scores on a math test.  She tests a sample of students, and finds the following scores (higher scores indicate better performance).  She doesn’t have scores for all of the students who used the old textbook, but she thinks that on average they score a “4”, and so she decides to compare performance to this value.  Here is the data she collects:  9 8 1 2 7 9 10 1 8 8 9 Calculate the test statistic (t-obtained) for this test (One-Sample t-Test)

A researcher is interested in studying if drinking coffee ma…

A researcher is interested in studying if drinking coffee makes people more or less impulsive (he doesn’t know which).  He collects two samples of subjects (100 subjects each) from the same population, one that drinks coffee (group 1) and one that does not (group 2).  He measures each on an impulsivity questionnaire, that ranges from 0 (not impulsive) to 100 (very impulsive).  He finds that coffee drinkers have an impulsivity of 75, whereas non-coffee drinkers have an impulsivity of 67.  He also calculates a standard error of the differences between groups (SEM1-M2) of 4.08. Calculate the test statistic (t-score) for this test (Two Independent Samples t-Test).