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The assignment requires you to go to a local open space area to make observations about the ecosystem and

the organisms that live there. You will use those observations to identify the organisms found in

the community, make a food web, and consider how changes to the climate could alter the

community of organisms that live there. To assess the work you have done, you will need to

write up a report and include all of the information you have gathered (including photos of the

identified organisms). The report must also include all answers for all of the assignment

questions.

All steps detailed below must completed to receive full credit. If you skip any steps you will only

receive credit for the work you have completed.

1) Pick a local open space preserve or county/state park. It needs to be a park that has wild

areas with native plants and animals around. Developed community parks with mowed lawns

and cultivated trees won’t work for this assignment. Identify the kind of ecosystem you are

visiting: Desert, chaparral, mountain forest, riparian.…etc

Some options are:

Mission Trails Regional Park

Rose Canyon Open Space Park

Otay Open Space Preserve

San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge (semi-aquatic/coastal ecosystem)

Torrey Pines State Reserve / La Jolla Shores (if you want to do an aquatic ecosystem!)

Point Loma/Cabrillo National Monument

Black Mountain Open Space Park

Anza Borrego State Park

Cuyamaca Rancho State Park

2) Once you get to the park, find a hike or short walk to go on. While on your walk, find 5

different plants/alga to identify & 5 different animals (10 things total).

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Take a picture or draw a detailed sketch of the plants/animals. Do your best to include a

good picture of both the leaves, stems and flowers (if they have any). You may need a

series of photos to accomplish this

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Take time to observe any animals that are interacting with the plants or near by in the

environment. If possible try to get a photo of these organisms too. The goal is to

observe 5 different animals on or near the plants too.

3) You need to identify the organisms you’ve found. If you are some place with a visitors center,

someone might be able to help you. Otherwise, try using an app like iNaturalist (this is a free

app).

https://www.inaturalist.org/

You can download this app to your phone and upload your photos to the app. It can help ID the

organisms you’ve found.

Another app that can help identify leaves (only) is: leafsnap (

http://leafsnap.com/

)

Once you have the organisms identified, you need to record both their scientific and common

names.

4) After identifying the organisms, create/illustrate a food web to show how these organisms fit

together in the ecosystem.

5) If you did not see any top level (3/tertiary consumers) come up with 3 more organisms that

could be found in the environment and include them in your food web too.

6) Lastly, imagine that over time the climate changes in this region, and it becomes warmer

with more unpredictable rain (could rain less in winter, more in summer or maybe rain very

infrequently, but when it does is torrential). How would a change in climate affect the food web

you created? What animals and plants would be negatively affected and which ones would be

positively affected?

Remember you need to answer all of the questions included in this assignment with complete

sentences. The more effort you put into the assignment, the better your score will be.

1. Read the following:
   

   • New Critical Analysis Essay about “My Papa’s Waltz”

2. Write a response to each of the following prompts about this essay, creating four separate sections:

• • Write the author’s argumentative thesis statement from this essay. What overall argument about the poem is the author making throughout this essay?
  • List the literary elements of a Close Reading that the author of the essay uses to support his thesis. If you need to review these, see the second link (“New Critical Approach”) in Step 3 of Assignment 3.4
  • Write the central “main idea” or “topic sentence” the author uses to support the thesis in each of the three paragraphs.
  • Copy and paste the sentence that you think is the conclusion.
  • MLA 8 Format: A Works Cited entry is not required for this assignment, and in the place of in text citations, refer to the origin of the quote as the “author.”
• Poem:
• Any interpretation of “My Papa’s Waltz” has to take into account the complexity of the
  speaker’s feelings that are brought about by his father’s waltz. A dance should bring two people
  closer together. The dance in this poem acts that way, yet the darker side of this waltz, which is a
  powerfully unsettling emotion under the surface of this poem, dominates the mood, and the love
  and intimacy of the dance do not make a strong impression on the reader.
  Theodore Roethke manipulates our emotional response to the poem through a number of
  literary conventions, some of which play on the conventions of a waltz. Waltzes are not
  technically difficult dances, and they are set to lighthearted, easily accessible music. It is a dance
  in which couples sway back and forth as they go round and round. Our emotions and sympathies
  do the same thing in this poem: The speaker carefully orders his images to juxtapose frightening
  images with comforting images. In the first stanza, for instance, the speaker begins with a
  frightening image: “The whiskey on your breath / Could make a small boy dizzy” (1–2). The
  second stanza begins with the words “We romped,” undercutting the serious tone of the first
  stanza, yet their romping has consequences that remind us again of the seriousness: Pans fall
  from the shelf, and the speaker’s mother frowns in disapproval. This pattern is repeated
  throughout the poem, and the waltz spins fast and out of control until we can only focus on a
  whirling sequence of disturbing emotions rather than a coherent overall feeling.
  Roethke uses meter and rhyme to underscore the fact that there is something “off” about
  this waltz. A waltz is a carefully ordered and technically precise musical form, and this poem
  mimics that form, but it also reveals moments of imperfection. Playing on the fact that a waltz is
  written in 3/4 time, Roethke gives each of his lines either six or seven syllables. Yet there is
  something lurching about the way he strings together these six and seven patterns: The pattern is
  not exact. Nor is the rhyme scheme exact: Slant rhymes like “dizzy”/”easy” (lines 2 and 4) and
  “pans”/”countenance” (5 and 7) demonstrate that something is out of place. The speaker makes
  note of “every step” his father “missed” (11), and we imagine that he wouldn’t make a good dance
  instructor, at least not when he has “whiskey on [his] breath” (1).
  We can only speculate as to whether the father in the poem would make a good worker,
  a good husband, or a good father. In the last case, the poem leads us subtly to a definite
  conclusion. While this is not a poem that screams, “I hate my papa; he was bad to me when I was
  young,” it is a poem that connotes physical control to the point of manipulation and even abuse
  on the father’s part. This waltz is dangerous, ultimately; its imagery contains a disapproving
  mother (lines 7 and 8), a battered knuckle (line 10), a buckle that repeatedly scrapes a young
  boy’s tender ear (12), and finally a dirt-caked hand that strikes the boy’s head repeatedly under
  the guise of keeping time for the waltz. The fact that the speaker says, “You beat time on my
  head” (14), instead of “kept time” reinforces this interpretation. The waltzing ritual is not about
  dancing; it is about a man who asserts and maintains physical control over his son even as he
  loses control over himself

Prior to 2012, compounding pharmacies were not required by law to follow current good manufacturing practices. Then, in October 2012 there was an outbreak of fungal meningitis reported. The Center for Disease Control traced the outbreak to fungal contamination in an injectable corticosteroid that was compounded by New England Compounding Center. Doses from the lots found to be contaminated had been shipped to 75 medical facilities in 23 states, and doses had been administered to about 14,000 patients.

Following this tragedy, the Drug Quality and Security Act was enacted, a bill that would modify the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and give more authority to regulate and monitor the manufacturing of compounded medication.

For this assignment, research the Drug Quality and Security Act, which was signed into law by President Obama in November 2013.

Answer key question such as:

• What are some of the changes that were a result of this Act being signed that effect the compounding industry
• Do you believe this tragedy would have been prevented had this bill already been in place? How?
• How could it prevent an outbreak like that which occurred in 2012 from happening again?
• What drawbacks do you see if any and in what ways could this law be improved?

Based on the analysis you have undertaken during the past several weeks:

• Restate your vision for the company and your implementation plan.
• What does the playing field look like? What are the current trends in your industry, and what has the competition been doing?
• What are your moats (competitive advantages) and barriers (competitive disadvantages), and how does your plan create a sustainable competitive advantage (market leadership) for your organization?
• How does analysis of the data and the competitive environment support your proposed plan?
• What are your initial estimates of your market opportunity (revenue and profit) for your plan? Defend your projections.