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Read this Excerpt from The Grapes Of Wrath...

The little farmers watched debt creep up on them like the tide. They sprayed the trees and sold no crop, they pruned and grafted and could not pick the crop. And the men of knowledge have worked, have considered, and the fruit is rotting on the ground, and the decaying mash in the wine vats is poisoning the air. And taste the wine—no grape flavor at all, just sulphur and tannic acid and alcohol.

This little orchard will be part of a great holding next year, for the debt will have choked the owner.

This vineyard will belong to the bank. Only the great owners will survive, for they won the canneries too. And four pears peeled and cut in half, cooked and canned, cost fifteen cents. And the canned pears do not spoil. They will last for years.

The decay spreads over the State, and the sweet smell is a great sorrow on the land. Men who can graft the trees and make the seed fertile and big can find no way to let the hungry people eat their produce. Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits can be eaten. And the failure hangs over the State like a great sorrow.

The works of the roots and the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing in all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. People come for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit—and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains.

And the smell of rot fills the country.

Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our successes. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill certificates—died of malnutrition—because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.

The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quicklime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Then, analyze the excerpt and an image by completing all three parts of this OPTIC graphic organizer.

Part I
Answer the following questions based on the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath.

1. The excerpt begins by narrating the plight of the farmer and ends by narrating the plight of the starving poor people. Which struggle, the farmer’s or the people’s, is more compelling to you? Explain why.

1. What is the tone of this excerpt? How does Steinbeck use rhetorical strategies to convey this tone?

1. Find an example of repetition and explain how it impacts this excerpt.

1. What is “the crime… that goes beyond denunciation”?

1. Explain the implications of Steinbeck’s powerful final metaphor, “In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
2. Copy and paste one image from the University of California’s website that you think could accompany this excerpt and explain your choice.

Part 2
Complete the five-step OPTIC analysis chart based on your chosen image.

Image Detail	Analysis Steps	Analysis for Selected Image
O = Overview	What is happening in the image? Summarize the “action” of the visual without analyzing its meaning yet.
P = Parts	Break the image down into sections. Describe the placement of objects on the image. Name everything that you see.
T = Title	What does the title, caption, or context tell you about the image? How much does it add to what you understand or do not understand about the image? Are there any words that are part of the image itself? If there is no title, make one up. Explain your choice.
I = Interrelationships	Analyze the relationships in the image. How do objects or people or relate to each other? What clues to the message or argument are these relationships giving you (notice expressions, clothing, etc.)? What seems to be the most important “relationship” in the image? Is one object oversized or undersized? Are objects strategically placed in the image?
C = Conclusion	Draw a conclusion regarding the meaning or message of the image by taking all of your observations into account.

Part 3
Synthesize the passage and the image. What new understanding do you gain about life at this time or life in general? In a complete paragraph of 7–10 sentences, explain how these two sources bring you to this conclusion.

In completing this assignment, follow the writing guidelines on p. 7 of the syllabus.

For each of the following two foreign exchange scenarios, one an international purchase and the other an international sale

a) show the value of the transaction today in US$

b) provide an example exchange rate for a potential depreciation of the US$ and show the effect of this depreciated US$ on the value of the transaction in US$

c) provide an example exchange rate for a potential appreciation of the US$ and show the effect of this appreciated US$ on the value of the transaction in US$

d) determine the effect of a forward contract on the value of the transaction in US$

e) determine the effect of asset-liability hedging on the value of the transaction in US$

f) make a recommendation of whether the company should use a forward contract or asset-liability hedging in order to protect itself from foreign exchange risk

SCENARIO 1

Tough Appliances in the United States has just made a major purchase of sheet steel from Good-Enough Steel of China. Tough Appliances will pay Good-Enough Steel 80,000,000 China Yuan (CY) in 6-months. Tough Appliances has experienced losses in the past on such purchases because of movements in the foreign exchange rate between the CY and the US$. The current exchange rate is US$0.1594/CY and a 6-month forward contract is US$0.1582/CY. The annual current deposit rate in Chinais 1.5% and the annual prime lending rate is 4.35%. Tough Appliance‘s cost of capital is 7.50% per annum.

SCENARIO 2

Tough Appliances in the United States has just sold Israel Shekel (ILS) 2,500,000 of its appliances to Save-Money Outlets of Tel Aviv, Israel. Tough Appliances will receive the payment for this sale in 3-months and would like to guard itself against movements in the foreign exchange rate between the US$ and the ILS. The current exchange rate is US$0.2861/ILS and a 3-month forward contract is US$0.2879/ILS. The annual current deposit rate in Israel is 0.525% and the annual prime lending rate is 0.1%. Tough Appliance‘s cost of capital is 7.50% per annum.

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It is time to practice analyzing political cartoons. Complete the following steps for your assignment:

1. Visit Five Decades of Herblock on The Washington Post web site.
2. Select 1956–1965, and then select 1966–1975. For both selections, read the essays and view the five political cartoons associated with each decade:
   
   • Determine the issue of the respective historical moments that each of these cartoons critiques.
   • Note which visual elements (the actual drawing, including the layout and design) and verbal elements (the text, including titles and captions) are combined to produce particular meanings and effects in each cartoon.
3. Select any five political cartoons from the Herblock collection. For each of the political cartoons you choose, write a paragraph analysis that does the following:
   
   • Identifies the vice, issue, or institution that the cartoon satirizes.
   • Analyzes the visual and verbal elements that combine to produce meaning and effect.
   • Identifies the elements of satire the creator uses. Refer to the list of elements above and those listed in the slideshow.
   • Evaluates the effectiveness of the satire. Are the cartoonist’s techniques effective? Why or why not?

Code breaking is the art of accessing information that someone else does not want you to have. This definition sounds simple, doesn’t it?

Here is one that is a little bit more involved. Code breaking is also referred to as cryptanalysis, which is the body of knowledge relating to studying cryptosystems, as well as taking encrypted data and decrypting it without a key.

Primary Task Response:

• Discuss three basic principles that we can use to break codes or systems.
• Select one of the puzzles from pages 165 – 168 of our text.
• Work the puzzle you selected to break the code.
• Present the solution and the steps you took to break the code.