So I'm a second year BIO student taking a Critical Reading and Writing course as an elective. We are currently working on literary analysis essays for the book "Ducks: Two Years in The Oil Sands" and my prompt is:

"Explore what Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands suggests about the relationship between industrial development and the environment. Develop an interpretation of what the memoir reveals about the environmental consequences of resource extraction and the relationship between economic activity and environmental responsibility, and analyze how Beaton develops this idea through specific experiences, events, and details in the memoir."

Now I understand this probably isn't of much help since I doubt you've read the book, much less done thorough literary analysis of it, but I just really need some help here. My class is asynchronous, meaning there is NO class, just notes posted for us to read and discussions to do. But the notes aren't very thorough and do not adequately replace entire lectures whatsoever.

Now, my problem: everything I write apparently contains zero literary analysis of the book. I don't disbelieve my professor, but I'm starting to think I just don't grasp what literary analysis actually means. I've read the book twice now so it's not like I'm just making up the stuff I write. He refuses to tell me over email what exactly literary analysis is, just that my work contains none of it. What the notes contain is not enough for me to understand what literary analysis is and why my work isn't that.

I can supply the work I did which my professor said contained zero literary analysis if you ask, I'm just a bit nervous to since apparently it's so bad. It's just a draft paragraph, a secondary source, and thesis statement.

I had a surgery and missed a week of high school and need an explanation as to what the hell im looking at.

My understanding of the PPF is that the slope relative to the x-axis represents the opportunity cost (of the good on the x-axis), while the opportunity cost of the good on the y-axis is 1/slope.

For this question, as more albums are produced, we are moving from left to right along the x-axis, where the slope is decreasing in absolute magnitude. This would imply that the opportunity cost of the y-axis good is increasing. However, the answer key states the exact opposite.

i ask gemini, chatgbt and deepseek they all say the answer khan academy gave me is wrong. But I'm a only a beginner I just can't trust myself
Appreciate any advice thanks.

first time posting on here so sorry if i do something wrong lols

1st image is the problem. the directions just say to find the derivative of the function.

2nd image is my work (i missed the day where he taught lesson 2.6, so i really have no idea what i’m doing)

3rd image is the calc chat answer

i don’t understand what i did wrong. can anyone help? thanks!

Im trying to improve this and not make the it too clustered and not too minimal. How do i make it to where people see the castle first?

i thought it would be dead-end job but it doesn’t match with other letters??? am i stupid or what

Anyone knows how to find this limit ? I tried the squeeze method but it doesn't work

Hey! I am doing this assignment on spss and i have a few questions about the analysis i ran. Tell me someone here knows how spss works i am quite lost.

For this assignment i need to do at least one factor analysis, one multiple regression or hierarchical, and one between a t-test, one way ANOVA, mediation or moderation (these last two were not covered in class).
We had different data set already collected to choose from, so we haven’t collected them personally.

I did all the analysis yet i’m unsure whether i did them correctly.
Firstly, is it possible to do a factor analysis with variables that use different scales (5 and 7 likert, to be specific), because i did and it looked okay, significant and reliable, yet I don’t know if putting them all together is a problem. And in class I think we only said something about recoding if the values don’t align, which i did, so I am confused.

Secondly, i have to put descriptives and frequencies tables, and during the lecture we used them just to describe the sample? Do you think I have to run them with all the continuous and categorical variables?

Furthermore, i decided to do a mediation even though it wasn’t covered in class because I felt I fit better and I wanted to challenge myself a bit. However, I had a doubt between two different research questions for my second one and I decided to run moderation on PROCESS for both because I was curious. In one, there is no indirect effect: the effect between the IV and the moderator is significant, as well as the one between the moderator and the DV, yet no indirect effect is observed. And I feel like it’s okay, I just have to reject that hypothesis.
However, I was more leaning towards the other because it was a way to use this categorical value (i wanted to use it in the first RQ and do a hierarchical regression, but we haven’t covered dummy coding so i cannot) i was interested in. And i used it as IV in the moderation but it ended up not having effect on the moderator from the beginning so it’s definitely worse than the other one, for multiple reasons. Do you think I should try to run a moderation with these last variables? Because I feel like it’s pretty much similar to a hierarchical with a control variable, in this case i’d just add it as a moderator instead as the IV (it’s categorical, basically it asks the belonging to the lgbtq community). Would it be better/possible? Which of the three would you suggest?

It is kinda basic statistics, keep this in mind, I just want to challenge myself as much as possible so i’m doing analysis I am not really required to do.

Sorry for the confusion but i’m kinda lost i need some help😭

Hello friends! I’m doing an English project right now where we go into a community we are in or have been apart of and we are doing ethnographic research on it. I’m doing mine on the band community of my college and I’m going to do some observations of the classes over the next week.

The purpose of this research is to try and find out an issue or problem within the community cuz we will be later making an argumentative essay based on the research we do.

For me I feel like the best way for me to find an issue in the community would be through interviews. In band it’s hard to see an issue just by observing or mapping out the locations. I’m just having a problem trying to come up with questions that will naturally guide people towards telling me what they think.

Should I just straight up ask “What are your issues with the band community?” Or should I be more subtle and try to lead them to telling me on their own? I want the interviews to feel informal and lighthearted so I was thinking of having one of my questions be like “what’s one of your band hot takes?” Since it’s a familiar question for most people in college but I’m not sure lol. Any help is appreciated!

I am a senior in highschool and I graduate in late January. I need to plan and complete my capstone by then. I have NO idea what to do. I'm neurodivergent and struggle a lot with self directed projects, I hate not having a rubric and knowing what expectations I need to meet. I have a 92% avg but I cannot self direct to save my life.

Some stuff about me: I want to go to university for a BA in psych or criminology. I love animals. I love politics. I like essay writing.

Any ideas or examples of capstones you've done in the past? I don’t even know quite what TYPE of projects they want-PowerPoints? Essays? Posters? Whenever I ask, I’m simply told to do what I want to.

This is impossible, right? I'm not stupid?

i don’t understand any of this, can anyone give me some simple tips because I can’t understand the meaning my teacher wants me to be able to apply different endings and slurs to these questions but I don’t get it

sorrry about the ties part, it is actually different endings

My professor didn't give clear notes on examples like this and I dont know if I should need to add in a negative or not for these questions. I dont know if I expanded them correctly or not. The professor only gave one example and it's not even close to this T^T

The problem is:Take a limit of these sums as n approaches infinity to calculate the area under the curve over \[0,1\]
I get stuck on the Σ calculation…

Question: analyse how geologic processes and features are expressed in your area

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN what am I supposed to be even writing. So confused I'm sorry if this is a stupid question.

This is the answer key to a homework problem my teacher gave. I am very confused about how he got 224.427 for one of the general equations. I know the two solution formula for sin is arcsin+2pi*n and pi-arcsin+2pi*n, but how does that apply to this problem?

And I’m not very sure about when to use the general equations for sin, cos, and tan, and what the formulas even mean.

As I am approaching my first unit test, I was thinking of ways to study. I went to look for videos online, but many of them are sub 20 minutes, ai, low quality, and overall dont actually go over coursework, instead simply giving you a brief overview of the topics. So I have come to ask the experts, who did you watch as fledgling statisticians? I am starving for actually quality content, preferably 20 minutes or more, and actually goes over topics, applications, and examples. tysm!

1st year university student, I don't understand how the teacher constructed this matrix, and why Y4 and (Y2+Y5) and (Y2×E2) (in the third column at right) are negative?

I hope someone can explain this to me because I'm having difficulty understanding it.

0.201 or 0.154

My daughter said that her teacher told her that in the pictured question, 10+4+8 should not be selected. They are using the “compensation” strategy for addition. The teacher said in her opinion only 10+12 and 12+10 should be selected, because they show the compensation strategy. But from my perspective, the question says choose all that apply. 10+4+8 DOES equal 14+8…..? Am I missing something?

I’ve been working on this one question and can’t seem to get past step 1. Either I derived my equations wrong or I just don’t know how to find the zeros, or both. I keep getting to this weird quadratic formula thing with y as a constant and vice versa, not really knowing where to go from there. I also started finding the true derivative but sorta gave up on it since I didn’t have my critical points anyway…

I’d appreciate if someone walked me through finding the critical points, since even if I found the solutions to each partial derivative I’m not quite sure how to turn that into a coordinate. Additionally, I’m not super confident on the first part of the question, using level curves, which is why I skipped it. How would you make sketches of this graph? I feel like it’s too ugly for me to comprehensively turn into something I can work with. Anything is appreciated!

I need help understanding alpha decay, beta decay, positron emission, and electron capture. I'm confused on the math. I understand what the particles are and why they are released, I understand isotopes. I'm confused on the math and I struggle reading the charts