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LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC

2016

In the winter of 1940, Raleigh and May are forced to share a seat on a crowded train headed east, only to discover a mutual attraction that will change their lives forever. The first part of Arlene Hutton’s Nibroc Trilogy was captured live by Cinevative at the Rubicon Theatre Company in California.

Directed by the award-winning Katharine Farmer, this poignant production follows the relationship between May and Raleigh in Kentucky at the height of the Second World War.

Directed by

Katharine Farmer

The Response Essay:

Remember your Performance Response 1 assignment? Remember how you made a list of observations about all the production elements: lights, sound, media, acting, costumes, directing, props, staging, set design? Keep that in mind when you watch your second performance. Take a notebook with you to the show and write down what you see. This will help you write the essay. PLEASE NOTE: This assignment is different from Performance Response 1. This assignment is an essay with a thesis, supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion.

The Golden Rule for these essays is to point out details over generalities.

Your response should use the observations you made and recall to support an argument (thesis). Your thesis is a one sentence statement that tells what you think the show was about. I am not interested in whether you liked the performance or not, or even whether you thought it was good or not — I want you to explore what you thought the production was trying to do and how it went about doing it.

You do not need to cover every aspect of the production; as you think and write, focus on those things that are most helpful in supporting your argument. Remember that it is not enough to say that, “the costumes helped define the characters.” You must be specific. “The use of a stiff, canvas fabric for the clergyman’s costume helped create him as a rigid and inflexible character. This is another example of how the production was trying to depict the church as insufferable and organized religion in general as a great evil in the world.”

So when you watch your play think about what the “message” of the play is. What is the production trying to say? For example: The Three Little Pigs is a story with which we are all familiar. What is the message of the story? Basically, hard work pays off. The first two pigs quickly build homes with inferior materials then go play, while the third pig labors in the construction of his house of bricks for a long time. In the end the third pig’s house is the only house that doesn’t get blown over by the wolf. So if you were watching a play about this story for your Performance Response, you would analyse and describe all the production elements and how they help in the telling of this message, “hard work pays off.”

Your examples of the production elements are your evidence. This evidence must support the thesis statement. It is not enough to have a thesis and then describe the different elements you see. What you choose to describe about the elements has to further the point you are making with your thesis. There must be a marriage of the evidence to the thesis.

Write your response with the class in mind as the audience — do not recount the story! In other words do not give a plot overview. We don’t need to know the story, we only need to know the message (which is your thesis statement) and how the production elements help tell that message. Also, don’t analyze characters or give character sketches. This paper is not about plot and story or character analysis. It is a response to the production. I want a thesis about the production and I want that thesis to be backed up with an analysis of the production elements. How do you do this well? Keep reading.

As soon after the performance as possible, you should make notes about what you saw, heard, and felt (that is, what decisions did the production make in the visual [what you saw], acoustic [what you heard], and kinetic [what you felt as movement] realms of the theatre.) What did the set look like? What did it “feel” like? What did the costumes look like? How did they help define the characters? What did the actors do (how did they move, sound, express themselves, and so on)? After you have recorded your first reflections, think about the idea or ideas behind the production. In other words, what is the play about? Love? Forgiveness? Hate destroying the protagonist like a cancer? What about the production conveyed this conceptual meaning? NOT what about the story conveyed the meaning, or what you learned about the characters, BUT what in the production (the elements) conveyed the meaning. In other words, if you see a production about a man whose hate for someone is controlling every part of his life, (he can’t sleep, he loses his job, he neglects his wife and children to the point of familial disaster) maybe your thesis statement would be, if you allow hate to control your life it will destroy you. So what is the lighting doing that conveys that? Does it grow darker? Does it flash when he’s wrestling with the hate? Does it shift showing separation between the man and everyone else? What about the costumes? Does the man’s white, button down shirt become torn at the sleeves and yellowed under the armpits? Does he lose his shirt? What about the staging? The set? The sound? How does the actor’s behavior change? Does he carry himself differently? Does he develop a limp?

Again the Golden Rule for these essays is to point out details over generalities.

Remember: you may end up writing (or re-writing) the introduction only after you have developed your argument (thesis), but whenever you actually write it, the introduction goes in the first paragraph and that paragraph should end with your thesis statement. Do not forget to write a concluding paragraph at the end of your paper. Remember, also, that paragraphs generally focus on one main idea– re-read what you write and add paragraphs where necessary. Finally, make sure that your sentences progress logically from one to another. Avoid sentences such as, “The play used costumes very well. The use of multiple levels in the set was exciting. I thought the red dress worked the best.” These sentences are too general and don’t convey enough meaning.

One last time, the Golden Rule for these essays is to point out details over generalities.

Writing is thinking on paper. It provides you an opportunity to decide whether you actually believe what you think you do. If you write something that, upon reading, strikes you as false, change it. Be prepared, in fact, to discover that your thoughts change as a result of your writing — and be prepared to change what you write as a consequence.

Each paragraph should be well-written, observing the standards of formal academic writing. Length should be around 700-900 words. You must include in the heading for the assignment the name of the production, where you saw it, the theatre name, and the date on which you saw it. Points will be taken off if you do not. You must submit your assignment online no later than 11:59pm on Friday, April 10th.

We are designing a rational agent that is going to be able to play the following game.

“1-2 steal marbles “.

Initially, there are 6 marbles on the board.

One of the players can choose to remove 1 or 2 marbles leaving 5 or 4, after that the other player can do the same, choosing to take again one or two marbles from the board. The process continue until there is only one marble in the board. The player who wins is the one the leaves the last marble on the board. (For example: If there are 3 marbles and it’s my turn , then I will choose to remove 2 to leave one in the board to win)

1. Formulate the problem

2. Describe the decision tree adding the maximizer and minimizer levels of the tree and assigning values to the objective function.

3 Write the algorithm in pseudocode(adapting it to this problem) or in a high-level language

4 Comment the results.

5. Can we use the same algorithm for 10000 marbles?. Explain the pros and cons of using this algorithm

Expanding Cultural Knowledge

Create a PowerPoint presentation that addresses each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point. Use clear headings that allow your professor to know which bullet you are addressing on the slides in your presentation. Support your content with at least three (3) sources using APA citations throughout your presentation. Make sure to cite the sources using the APA writing style for the presentation. Include a slide for your references at the end. Follow best practices for PowerPoint presentations related to text size, color, images, effects, wordiness, and multimedia enhancements. Review the rubric criteria for this assignment.

Pick a Hispanic cultural cultural group you commonly care for at work. Research the answers to the following…

• Health Beliefs and Practices
• Family patterns
• Communication style
• Space orientation and Time orientation
• Nutritional Patterns
• Pain Responses
• Childbirth and perinatal care
• Death and Dying
• Spirituality, religion, and faith (include holy days)
• Prayer and meditation
• What knowledge did you gain about this group that you were not aware of?
• How will this knowledge change the way you care for this cultural group?

1. Title Slide (1 slide)
2. Objective Slide (1 slide)
3. Health Beliefs and Practices (1-2 slide)
4. Family patterns (1-2 slide)
5. Communication style (1-2 slide)
6. Space orientation and Time orientation (1-2 slide)
7. Nutritional Patterns (1-2 slide)
8. Pain Responses (1-2 slide)
9. Childbirth and perinatal care (1-2 slide)
10. Death and Dying (1-2 slide)
11. Spirituality, religion, and faith (include holy days) (1-2 slide)
12. Prayer and meditation (1-2 slide)
13. What knowledge did you gain about this group that you were not aware of? (1-2 slide)
14. How will this knowledge change the way you care for this cultural group? (1-2 slide)
15. References (1 slide)

Assignment Expectations:

Length: 15 Slides

100-150 word of quality presentation notes per slide

Structure: Include a title slide, objective slide, content slides, reference slide in APA format.

References: Use appropriate APA style in-text citations and references for all resources utilized to answer the questions. A minimum of three (3) scholarly sources are required for this assignment.

Format: Save your assignment as a Microsoft PPT document (.pptx) or a PDF document (.pdf)

CYB 670 – Project 1

Step 7: Compare International Security Policies (4 pages)

Now that you and the team members have viewed the conference material submission from all the countries, add a column to the policy matrix for each country represented in the conference. In this column, you and the other members of your team will compare and contrast each of their policies to those of your country.

In your comparison, be sure to address the following policy aspects of their submissions:

• security and risk management
• asset security
• communications and network security
• security engineering policies
• identity and access management policy
• data acquisition, preservation, analysis, and transfer

If one or more of the countries do not have a specific policy addressing these issues, that should also be noted in your updated report.

In accordance with your team agreement, a designated team member should submit your policy matrix for feedback.

Step 9: Determine the Methodology and Create the Checklist (3pages)

In this step, your team will continue to develop the security checklist. You and your team members will detail the method used to develop the checklist. While developing your checklist, you should include (but you are not limited to) the following components:

• communications and data-sharing policies and the network devices that will be used to implement these policies
• firewalls and how the rule sets will be determined
• systems certification and accreditation demonstrations as required by network administrators who are hosting the summit
• secure communications protocols
  • digital authentication mechanisms—How will your nation team establish PKI systems and develop public/private key mechanisms as well as digital certificates? Will your nation team have a centralized key storage system? How else will you establish trust between the nations? You do not have to build an encrypted communications system for your nation team, but you should provide your plan for trusted communications in your Network Security Checklist.
  • SSL and IPSEC protocols
  • VPNs

As a team, complete the two- to three-page Network Security Checklist. Then, have a designated member of your team submit the checklist for feedback.